VaultPress

• Release date: August 7, 2020

** Opcache Conflict **

• General: Revert autoloader version to prior 1.7.0 version, to resolve an intermittent issue during the upgrade process for some users.

• Release date: August 6, 2020

** Compatibility **

• General: Handle new user meta actions.
• General: Implement the spread operator for our IXR class methods to match WordPress Core behavior in 5.5.
• General: Update some miscellaneous dependencies.

• Release date: August 4, 2020

** Compatibility **

• General: Implement the spread operator for our IXR class methods to match WordPress Core behavior in 5.5.
• General: Update some miscellaneous dependencies.

• Release date: December 9, 2019

Compatibility

• General: avoid PHP deprecation notices when using a newer version of the Jetpack plugin.
• Admin Page: do not display a dashboard link if not registered.
• Admin Page: update reset settings card wording.
• Connect button: update link to current VaultPress page.
• Notices: only display notices in specific locations.
• Notices: update wording for the VaultPress connection notice

See the previous changelogs here.

• Release date: July 12, 2019

Bug Fixes

• Security Scanner: ensure the Security Scanner can be triggered at all times.

• Release date: July 9, 2019

Enhancements

• Dashboard: redesign the main VaultPress dashboard.

Compatibility

• General: VaultPress now requires PHP 5.3.2, and will display a notice if your site uses an older version of PHP.

• 4 April 2019 =
• Bugfix: Fix a PHP fatal error caused by passing an object to the current() function.

• 28 March 2019 =
• PHP 7.2.0 compatibility fix.
• Adding button to delete all VaultPress settings

• 7 February 2019 =
• Limit the size of vp_ai_ping% entries when a site gets disconnected from VaultPress.com

• 11 December 2018 =
• Update firewall IP detection rules to autodetect various reverse proxy setups

• 17 August 2018
• Limit vp_ai_ping% entries to improve stability when a site gets disconnected from VaultPress.com

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• 2 February 2018
• Removing activation notice

• 15 November 2017
• Error handling improvements in the scanner

• 9 November 2017
• Compatibility update
• Send a better user-agent string to VaultPress servers

• 6 July 2017 =
• Compatibility update

• 29 June 2017 =
• Security improvement: use hash_equals to compare signatures

• 5 June 2017 =
• Bugfix: Check return value from openssl_verify()

• 8 May 2017 =
• Remove outdated free trial link

• 6 March 2017 =
• Security fix for https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8745

• 26 January 2016 =
• Compatibility updates
• Security hotfixes
• Improved performance for security scanner
• Misc small bugfixes

• 7 August 2016 =
• Delete plugin option when plugin is deleted via admin area.
• Fix horizontal scroll bar on the fresh installation settings page at high resolutions.

• 21 July 2016 =
• Compatibility updates for Jetpack 4.1

• 26 May 2016 =
• Security: Hotfix for certain versions of Jetpack

• 11 May 2016 =
• Workaround for some versions of mod_security.

• 29 Mar 2016 =
• Improved support for WooCommerce live backups.
• Bugfix: Avoid cloning the 'vaultpress' option between Multisite instances.

• 7 Mar 2016 =
• Add support for an upcoming ability to have the Jetpack plugin manage registering the VaultPress plugin and entering the required API key. Gone will be the days of needing to copy/paste it!

• 24 Feb 2016 =
• PHP 7 support. Drop support for PHP 4 and versions of WordPress older than 3.2.
• Silence PHP errors when attempting to change the execution time limit when PHP is running in safe mode.
• Prevent database update pings from being stored when not connected to a paid VaultPress account.

• 15 Oct 2015 =
• Security: Hotfix for Akismet < 3.1.5.

• 15 Sep 2015 =
• Security: Add a new security hotfix.

• 14 Aug 2015 =
• Improved support for multisite installs with custom domains
• Improved live-backup support for WooCommerce
• Tested against WordPress 4.3

• 11 Jun 2015 =
• Security: Add a new security hotfix.

• 28 Apr 2015 =
• Bugfix: Don't allow openssl signing unless the public key exists.

• 27 Apr 2015 =
• Security: Add a new security hotfix.

• 20 Apr 2015 =
• Hotfix: Protect against a core security issue.
• Bugfix: Don't allow direct access to plugin files
• Bugfix: Ensure that the firewall rule option is not autoloaded.
• Bugfix: More careful path tidy-up when inspecting directory contents. Fixes an edge case where some sites were having backup problems.

• 25 Mar 2015 =
• Added support for openssl signing.

• 9 Jan 2015 =
• Added an option to disable calls to php_uname, as some hosts don't allow them.

• 12 Dec 2014 =
• Bugfix: Fall back on HTTP when updating firewall via HTTPS fails. Still warn the user about the security implications.

• 1 Dec 2014 =
• Security: More efficient format for internal firewall IPs.

• 14 Nov 2014 =
• Security: Fetch service IP updates via HTTPS.
• Feature: Don't send backup notifications while mass-deleting spam.

• 4 Sep 2014 =
• Security: Hotfix for the Slider Revolution plugin.

• Bumping the "Tested up to" tag to 4.0

• Bugfix: Make sure existing empty key and secret options are always strings. This fixes an error when run with HHVM.
• Bugfix: Detect if the plugin has been installed on localhost and show an error.
• CSS Fix: Stop the "Register" button from bouncing around when clicked.

• Bugfix: Make sure the key and secret options are always strings. This fixes an error when run with HHVM.
• Feature: Instantly register for a VaultPress trial via Jetpack.

• Security: Add a new security hotfix.

• Bugfix: Better handling for Multisite table prefixes.
• Bugfix: Do not use the deprecated wpdb::escape() method.

• Feature: If available, use command line md5sum and sha1sum to get checksums for large files.

• Security: Add a new security hotfix.

• Bugfix: Avoid PHP 5.4 warnings due to invalid constructor names.
• Security: Add a new security hotfix.

• Bugfix: Some servers with restrictive security filters make database restores fail.
• Feature: Add a new restore method to VaultPress_Database.

• Bugfix: Adding less greedy patterns for cache directories.

• Feature: Adding file exclusion patterns to avoid backing up cache and backup directories.

• Bugfix: Don't show admin notices on the about page.

• Bugfix: Clean up PHP5 strict warnings.

• Feature: Include styles and images with the plugin instead of loading them externally.

• Bugfix: Some servers have SSL configuration problems, which breaks the plugin when SSL verification is enforced.

• Bugfix: PHP 5.4 notices
• Feature: Add the possibility to ignore frequent updates on some postmeta keys.

• Bugfix: Validate IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses in the internal firewall.
• Bugfix: Fix hooks not being properly added under certain circumstances.

• Feature: Request decoding (base64/rot13)
• Feature: Response encoding (base64/rot13)