WordPress 3.8.1 Maintenance Upgrade

WordPress 3.8.1 was released Thursday and is a maintenance update. For those sites that are current with 3.8 you have probably already started receiving emails letting you know that such-an-such domain has been auto updated :), or that the auto-update failed :crying: -- if it failed, put in a ticket with your web host and ask them to fix the permissions!

Anyone happen to know off hand if the auto update feature is a permanent thing from 3.8 and up, I think I saw something that said it wasn't ...??