WP STAGING Changelog • WP STAGING

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2.13.0 Release March 13, 2023

New: Major change of the User Interface #2197 #2208
New: Add an option to send an email error report. You can enable this option in the settings and use a separate email to receive error reports #2205
New: Button to edit backup schedules #2042 #2135
New: Show Google Drive backup account information on the plugin’s Google Drive backup settings page #2091
New: Add a cancel button to stop the pushing process #2101
Enh: Show a notice if site contains backup(s) with invalid files-index #2205
Enh: Add a retry mechanism to backup restore if a backup restore fails due to 404, 429 or 503 errors #2094
Enh: Clean up log files and don’t show necessary information #2124
Enh: Show notice how to enable permalinks depending on whether the server is Apache or another. #2143
Enh: Explain what to enter in the ‘version’ field of Generic S3 provider #2172
Enh: Show notice how to fix cron issue when using Litespeed server #2170 #2226
Enh: Better notification message when there are no files to backup #2175
Enh: Take sub folder into account when testing location for Google Drive Storage #2197
Enh: Include the current date and time in the database filename when the backup is a “Multipart Backup” #2126
Enh: Database restore enhancement to increase the execution time for executing an ajax triggered SQL query when query execution fails for a certain number of retries on weak servers #2117
Enh: Hide license key for privacy reasons, for instance when plugin is used by agencies on client websites #2118
Enh: Add filter wpstg_login_form_logo to allow custom change of the logo image on login page to staging site #2076
Enh: Clarification that the maximum retention period for backup in the “Create backup” modal only applies to locally hosted backup files #2085
Enh: If issue is reported via using the REPORT ISSUE button, send the license key with the submitted message #2087
Enh: Change some words in UI to be more consistent #2099
Enh: Show link to docs article in warning if license key can not be activated #2100
Enh: Cleanup and remove backend/views/notices/poll.php and all related code #2107
Enh: Clean up backend/views/notices/poll.php and all related unused code #2107
Fix: Staging site database tables can not be pushed if staging site settings contain different table prefixes #2151
Fix: Support adding “+” sign in the name of the backup folder by FTP, the name of backup and in the name of clone #2160
Fix: Check if WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE is already defined before adding it to wp-config.php. (Solve conflict with local flywheel). #2165
Fix: Oldest multipart backups were not deleted during remote upload #2129
Fix: Prevent fatal error on push when there is no theme installed on production site #2185
Fix: Continue database backup restore by using shorter name for identifiers name exceeding maximum allowed characters #2114
Fix: Add a check to prevent warning undefined variable: jobId #2196
Fix: Better error handling if folder or file is not writeable #2190
Fix: Handle errors for PHP 8.x during Database backup restore Task when max_packet_size is bigger than the actual sql result #2125
Fix: Convert utf8mb4 to utf8 when restoring database in MySQL < 5.7 to prevent MySQL Error 1071 because MySQL < 5.7 has max key length of 767 bytes. By converting utfmb4 to utf8 it reduces the size by 1/4 and allows restoring a backup. #2203
Fix: Restore of backup blocked due to incorrect permission check #2228
Fix: WP Staging log backup files could not be deleted #2222
Fix: Prevents a rare edge case where scheduled backup are continuous started over by implementing a better clean up routing #2231
Fix: Prevent fatal error on setting page due to using double semicolon(‘::’) to call static method from variable. Affects old php versions only. #2166
Fix: Old automated local backup were not deleted and thus no new automated backup were created #2141
Fix: Improve detection if WordPress is installed in subdirectory. If home URL and site URL are different the cloned staging site URLs are sometimes incorrect. #2068
Fix: Ensure that functions in wp-staging-optimizer.php are declared only one time #2079
Fix: Remove some php’s deprecation warnings for php 8.x #2078
Fix: Remove error in search & replace of serialized data due to strict types during staging PUSH on PHP 8.1 and higher version. #2065
Fix: Remove warning “Undefined index: networkClone in single-overview.php line: 54” #2097
Fix: Attach log files to report mail #2156
Dev: Revert all usage of isWritable and isExecutable #2232
Fix: Unable to upload backup files to more than one remote storage in single backup job #2245
Fix: Fetch google drive backup files in ascending order by time to fix a backup retention issue for google drive #2245
Dev: Broken test _04PushCest after implementing #2199 #2216
Dev: Write the version of the plugin into the header of wpstg.js when creating the dist package with make dev_dist #2095
Dev: Downgrade phpcs library to fix xss tests #2105
Dev: Show upload_path in system info #2024 #2147

2.13.0 Release January 31, 2023

New: Button to edit backup schedules #2042
Enh: Add filter `wpstg_login_form_logo` to change logo image on login page for staging site #2076
Enh: Clarify that maximum backup retention limit on the create backup modal is only for local hosted backup files #2085
Enh: If issue is reported via email using the REPORT ISSUE button, send the license key #2087
Enh: Show Google Drive backup account information on the plugin’s Google Drive backup settings page #2091
Enh: Change some words to be more consistent #2099
Enh: Add link to docs article into error message if license key can not be activated #2100
Enh: Cleanup and remove backend/views/notices/poll.php and all related code #2107
Enh: Remove backend/views/notices/poll.php and all related code #2107
Enh: Hide license key for privacy reasons when plugin is used by agencies on client websites #2118
Enh: Add a cancel button to stop the pushing process #2101
Fix: Ensure that functions in wp-staging-optimizer.php are declared only one time #2079
Fix: Remove some php’s deprecation warnings for php 8.x #2078
Fix: Added upload_path in system info #2024
Fix: Improve detection if WordPress is installed in subdirectory. If home URL and site URL are different the cloned staging site URLs are sometimes incorrect. #2068
Fix: Remove error in search & replace of serialized data due to strict types during staging PUSH on PHP 8.1 and higher version. #2065
Fix: Remove warning “Undefined index: networkClone in single-overview.php line: 54” #2097
Dev: Downgrade phpcs composer modules to fix xss tests #2105
Dev: Write the version of the plugin into the header of wpstg.js when creating the dist package with make dev_dist #2095

2.12.0 Release January 05, 2023

New: Optional feature to split backup files by type (plugins, media, themes) and maximum file size. Use filter `wpstg.backup.isMultipartBackup` to activate this option. Use `wpstg.backup.maxMultipartBackupSize` filter to adjust maximum file size for split backup, default is 2GB #1804
New: Add filter `wpstg.remoteStorages.chunkSize` (in bytes) to change chunk size of backups upload to remote storages #2047
New: Add filter `wpstg.remoteStorages.delayBetweenRequests` (in milliseconds) to add delay between requests to upload chunks to remote storages #1997
New: Add filter `wpstg.backup.tables.non-prefixed` to allow backup and restore of non WordPress prefixed tables #2018
New: Add option to download backup log files via ACTIONS > Log File #2025
New: Send mail report if unable to upload backup to remote storage(s) during automated backup #2025
Enh: Dont show recommendation message on using the same MySQL/MariaDB version while restoring if already the same MySQL/MariaDB version #1997
Enh: Preserve remote storages options during clone update. #2004
Fix: Store taskQueue in jobDataDto instead of a separate file #1997
Fix: Added upload_path in system info #2024
Fix: BINARY and NULL were not correctly search replaced if restoring the backup on the same site #2043
Fix: Correct database server type and MySQL/MariaDB version in System Info Tab #2043
Fix: Exclude filters in the UI for the staging site now allow adding dot `.` for extension, file and folder exclusion rules #2053
Fix: Issue during cleaning of other files in wp-content directory when actual uploads directory is not direct child of wp-content directory #2041
Fix: UPLOAD path was not correctly search replaced if source and destination site had a different relative upload path #2041
Fix: Importing a multisite backup with domains as network sites created wrong URLs for network sites if backup is restored into a multisite where network sites are subdirectories #2038
Fix: Allow database creation during push if multisite and mainsite #2032
Fix: Preserve scheduled backup plans during push #2032
Fix: Stop uploading backup to remote storage(s) after failure on certain amount of retries #2025
Fix: Dont copy google drive option during new or reset clone. This will make sure both sites will have different Refresh token. So revoking refresh token on one site doesn’t break uploading process for the other #2004
Fix: Fix php warning when null is passed as argument to trim function #2059
Fix: Improve admin notice when JETPACK_STAGING_MODE is active on staging site #2014
Dev: Bump minimatch from 3.0.4 to 3.0.8 in /src/assets #2007
Dev: Make extra_hosts section in docker DRY #2070
Dev: Split webdriver tests to speed up running and allow parallel execution of them #2057
Dev: Improve login page authentication message #2058 #2072

2.11.0 Release November 11, 2022

New: Compatible up to WordPress 6.1.1
New: Add support for uploading backups to DigitalOcean Spaces, Wasabi and other S3 compatible storages #1966
Enh: Allow backup upload to Amazon S3 when bucket has Lock Object and retention enabled #1973
Enh: Show warning if test connection to backup storage provider fails during save settings #1965
Enh: Show warning if there are more than 4 overdue backup cron jobs #1986
Enh: Show message if unable to pre-scan directories before cloning #1993
Fix: Under rare circumstances a fatal error is thrown during backup if scheduled time is NULL
Fix: `SSL` and `Passive` checkboxes were not considered during FTP backup storage test connection #1965
Fix: Fatal error when set_time_limit() has been disabled by the hosting provider #1977
Fix: Preserve backup cloud storage provider settings when pushing and improve Google Drive backup authentication #1999
Dev: Deprecated heredoc syntax for variables. Fix unit tests for php 8.2RC #1975

2.10.0 Release October 29, 2022

New: Compatible up to WordPress 6.0.3
New: Show loader icon while saving settings or testing backup remote storages connections #1925
New: Show settings last saved time for backup remote storages SFTP, Amazon S3 and Google Drive #1925
New: Show last update and install date for WP STAGING|PRO plugin in System Info #1928
New: Show selected themes and plugins for UPDATE and RESET clone jobs #1926
New: Support restore and conversion of domain based subsite to subdirectory based subsite #1872
New: Option to disable local storage space and upload backup(s) only to remote storage spaces #1935
Enh: Huge improve of backup restoring performance by factor 2-3. #1951
Enh: Huge improve of backup creating performance on slow database servers. #1951
Enh: Add extra search & replace rule for elementor generated data #1902
Enh: Add dropdown to select bucket region for S3 backups instead of typing it in manually. #1943
Enh: Skip search & replace if restoring a backup on the same site #1949
Enh: Add extra search & replace rule for elementor generated data #1949
Enh: Add option to not ask for license key activation on local development sites #1913
Enh: Add better log messages for non working cron jobs #1907
Fix: Fix issues when restoring multisites backup if network subsites have different domains. #1872
Enh: Add search replace filter for database backup restore #1872
Enh: Allow access of staging site by using user email addresses beside usernames #1928
Fix: Prevent a rare situation where the database is copied slowly with only one row per request #1951
Fix: Adjusted multiple SplFileObject methods (due to unconsistent behaviour of these methods across multiple PHP versions) to support PHP 8.0 > 8.0.19, PHP 8.1 > 8.1.6 and upcoming PHP 8.2 #1903
Fix: Deleting the oldest remote backup from SFTP, Amazon S3 and Google Drive fails sometimes #1890
Fix: No update notification visible in wp staging user interface when there is a new pro version available #1894
Fix: Clean up code #1871
Fix: Unable to create backup if there are files in WP STAGING cache folder that can not be deleted like .nfs* files. #1859
Fix: Analytics reporting does not contain the list of installed plugins #1896
Fix: If an Amazon S3 api key contained + character, it turned into space character when saving in database #1912
Fix: Always store the names of installed plugins, mu-plugins and themes in backup metadata #1906
Fix: When restoring database with large amount of tables on PHP > 8.0.1 some tables doesn’t get created due unconsistent behaviour of FileObject library across PHP versions. #1872
Fix: Undefined var message in the log files if SSL connection could not be established due to outdated TLS on client server #1913
Fix: While creating a single staging site out of a network site, the folders (uploads/sites/ID) from other network sites weren’t excluded and contained in the staging site #1922
Fix: Selecting parent folder does not automatically select its subfolders for UPDATE and RESET clone jobs. #1926
Fix: Amazon S3 only supports a maximum of 10,000 chunks for uploading a single backup file. With previous 5MB chunk size, backup uploads to S3 failed if they are bigger than 50 GB. Now backup chunk size is adjusted according to the size of the backup file by making sure total chunks are less than 10,000 #1924
Fix: Table selection ignored when creating a new staging site #1946
Fix: Could not properly restore network sites when a multisite backup was restored on a new WordPress that had a different table prefix than the source website #1948
Dev: Add testing suite to run unit tests against multiple PHP versions #1903
Dev: Add sass/scss support for compiling css #1925
Dev: Add Xdebug support for PHP 8.1, use custom php.ini in PHP 8.0 and PHP 8.1 #1928
Dev: Update DI52 version to 3.0 for performance gain #1934

2.9.20 Release September 15, 2022

Fix: Prevent internal error when clicking on Test Connection link on SFTP remote storage backup settings page. #1869
Fix: Properly catch runtime Exception during Backup Create and Backup Restore #1833
Fix: Connection to external database is broken if the password has special characters #1862
Fix: Can not login to staging site if special characters are used in password due to improper sanitization #1877
Tweak: Improve visual design of the upgrade screen
Tweak: Better error logging if backup could not be uploaded to sftp and if path does not exist on SFTP remote server. #1869
Dev: XDebug support for docker PHP image v.8.x #1867

2.9.19 Release September 08, 2022

New: Compatible up to WordPres 6.0.2
Security: Further improve sanitization and escaping of variables to prevent potential XSS attacks with high privileges #1836
Enh: Show better response from remote when license can not be activated #1818
Fix: Fatal error Uncaught TypeError on google drive backup upload settings page under rare circumstances when site is translated #1849
Fix: Fatal error on Windows OS when pushing a staging site and activating the backup option. It deletes the WP Staging content directory including its cache files file during files copying process, resulting in a failed push #1851

2.9.18 Release August 16, 2022

Fix: Does not sanitise and escape some of its backup settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks (XSS) even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup) #1825

2.9.17 Release July 31, 2022

Fix: Important update! Deselecting all tables does not lead to exclusion of tables as expected, but leads to selection of all tables. Thus all tables are copied and possibly overwritten instead of deselected. Applies to new cloning, UPDATE and RESET of a staging page. That can lead to data loss in the staging site. An update is strongly recommended! The problem appeared for the first time in version 4.2.8. #1814
Fix: Can not upload backup file to google drive if the google api returns incorrect value for available storage size (negative value). This sometimes happens for Google workspace accounts and does not affect all users. #1799
Fix: Plugin wps-hide-login could not be excluded during cloning process, preventing users from log in to the staging site #1812

2.9.16 Release July 28, 2022

Enh: Some shared hosting servers like DreamHost doesn’t allow sending large data through URL which resulted in interval server error 500 when fetching the backup list. We changed the way of sending data now through request body which allow listing backups on such shared hosting servers #1788
Enh: Improve workflow to support tables with long name exceeding the 64 characters MySQL limit when a tmp prefix during restore is added. Those tables are now temporarily renamed to temporary short names during the restore process and after successful restore renamed back to their original names #1784
Fix: On some servers, autoloader tries to load Composer\InstalledVersions although this doesn’t exist. We fix this by only loading classes that exist #1801
Fix: Restoring a backup, site language is not properly imported, resulting in switching the imported site back to site default language. Reason: Language files are imported before importing other files during backup restore. This led to cleaning the restored language files while cleaning other files. Now language directory is skipped during the cleaning of existing “other” files #1794
Fix: Check/Uncheck of the plugins and themes checkbox in the PUSH UI didn’t affect the children checkboxes. This issue is fixed and children checkboxes are properly toggled #1797
Fix: If all tables were excluded during PUSH, it was treated as if all tables were selected. Now tables selection is properly handled during the PUSH #1797

2.9.15 Release July 14, 2022

New: Add sFTP support to upload backup files automatically via (s)FTP to a remote server or NAS system #1677
Enh: Cloning/Push stops if folder name contains backslash character (\) on Linux OS #1744
Enh: Don’t copy or update wp-config.php if staging site is updated by using the UPDATE button #1747
Enh: Restoring a backup from a staging site that uses the meta tag noindex, causes the imported site to also not be indexed. In the worst case, this can result in a production site not being indexable after restoring a backup. This update ensures that the index meta value of the imported site is preserved when a backup is restored. #1777
Enh: If Jetpack plugin is active, use the special Jetpack Staging Mode by adding the constant JETPACK_STAGING_MODE to wp-config.php of the staging site #1780
Fix: On some servers, autoloader tries to load Composer\InstalledVersions although this doesn’t exist. We fix this by only loading classes that exist #1801
Fix: Fatal error if php curl() module is missing and backup is uploaded to Google Drive or Amazon S3 #1769
Fix: Fatal error on cloning due to strict standard issue in DbRowsGeneratorTrait when user has E_STRICT or E_DEPRECATED constants active in PHP #1772
Fix: Fatal error on plugin activation if there is no write permission on the backup files. Happens only on updating from a very old version to latest one and the backup metadata update routine is fired #1776
Dev: Add automated test for scheduled backup plans #1764

2.9.14 Release June 13, 2022

Fix: Certain default plugins like wps-hide are not excluded anymore during cloning #1742
Fix: Scheduled backup not always executed #1754
Fix: Backup folder is deleted during backup restore on Windows OS #1737
Fix: On backup restore retry deleting an item again in next request instead of re adding it at the end of queue, if item isn’t completely deleted in current request #1758
Enh: Refactor normalizePath() #1751
Enh: Optimize table selection to reduce POST characters. Send either selected tables or excluded tables whichever is smaller along to reduce the POST size for cloning and pushing #1727
Enh: Allow automatic update of WP STAGING | PRO on the staging site. It can still be disabled using the filter wpstg.notices.disable.plugin-update-notice #1749
Enh: Add filter wpstg.backup.restore.extended-search-replace. The extended search replace allow properly replacing to destination URL for some plugins like rev-sliders in backup restore #1741

2.9.13 Release June 1, 2022

New: Support up to WordPress 6.0
Fix: Don’t load mbstring polyfill file at all if iconv extension isn’t loaded #1734
Enh: Increasing Backup Filescanner Performance. Lower backup directory and file scanner request time #1714
Enh: Rename cancel button of backup schedules modal make it more responsive #1714

4.9.12 Release May 20, 2022

Fix: If there is a damaged backup in backup folder, automated backup does not work any longer #1707
Fix: Support UNC paths like //servername/path Unix or \\servername\path DOS/Windows #1698
Fix: Remove prefixed vendor namespace from the Normalizer class in the idn-intl polyfill #1720
Fix: Handle SSL related errors and catch other exceptions while making remote request to refresh Google token #1718
Fix: Backup does not restore theme if theme does not have a style.css #1719
Fix: Missing exception in Backup Extractor.php #1724
Enh: List damaged backup files in the UI and mark them #1710
Enh: Remove message “backup metadata not found” in debug log #1710
Enh: Clean up debug messages #1722
Enh: Add missing escaping of POST output #1705

2.9.11 Release May 12, 2022

New: Add Amazon S3 as backup cloud storage option for backup upload #1665
Fix: Fatal error due to missing BackupScheduler class in Free version #1688
Fix: Can not recursive scan file system if there is a symlink in root directory linking to the root directory itself. #1688
Fix: Can not download backup files. Incorrect backup download link if wp-content folder is symlinked to another folder outside the wp root folder #1697
Fix: Error on downloading backup in IIS due to section in parent web.config that overwrites the WP STAGING generated web.config in backup folder #1699
Fix: PHP Fatal error while cloning if php iconv extension is not active. Continue cloning even if punycode related code doesn’t work due to missing extensions #1702
Enh: Remove duplicated mbstring class #1702

2.9.10 Release May 04, 2022

Fix: Fatal error on missing Backup Scheduler class in Free version #1688
Fix: Fix recursive scanning if there is symlink in root directory linking to root directory itself #1688

2.9.9 Release May 03, 2022

New: Support up to WordPress 5.9.3
New: Added upgrade routine for backup created with version 4.1.9 and 4.2.0 to fix backup metadata info #1647
New: Add multiple filters to keep existing media files, plugins, themes and mu-plugins after backup restore #1617
New: Clean existing files during backup restore which are not in backup #1617
Fix: Backup creation is blocked by mod_security if access tokens contain 0x string #1651
Fix: Unable to upload backup created with version 4.1.9 and 4.2.0 using WP Staging Backup Uploader #1647
Fix: Unable to import multisite backup when restoring backup into domain other than it was created on #1644
Fix: If there is an mysql error on copying a single row, it can lead to a interrupt of the whole clone job due to a browser memory exhaust error because whole sql query is written into html log element. #1654
Fix: Cloning does not work if php mb module is not installed #1669
Fix: Catch fatal error happening on backup upgrade routine #1663
Fix: Only process one queue action at a time. This make sure another action doesn’t conflict with the action in process. Also fix the wpstg_queue backup table growing problem #1652
Enh: Save log file name instead of complete task response in wp_wpstg_queue table. This reduces the size of backup queue table #1623
Enh: Stop the backup job on critical errors during scheduled backup #1623
Dev: Test for cleaning up files before backup restore fails on second run #1681

2.9.8 Release March 31, 2022

Fix: Fatal error if another plugin uses the same google library as WP STAGING uses for the backup storage provider #1641

2.9.7 Release March 30, 2022

New: Support up to WordPress 5.9.2
New: Feature to upload backups to Google Drive (PRO) #1453
New: Add filter wpstg.frontend.showLoginForm to force disable login form for the staging / backup site access #1577
New: Option to schedule a backup without creating one (PRO) #1588
Enh: Improve backup schedules error reporting by showing cron related notice on backups page and sending schedules error report mails (PRO) #1588
Enh: Improve subdirectory WordPress install detection by adding support for idn(internationalized domain names) #1564
Enh: Change backup lock process mechanism from using database to file based lock #1561
Enh: Make files & folders exclude filters work on WordPress root directory #1606
Enh: Remove old database only backup before PUSH process (PRO) #1608
Enh: Exclude .htaccess from root directory only during cloning process #1616
Enh: Don’t backup table wp_wpstg_queue table (PRO Version) #1624
Update: Bump minimist from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 in /tests/js #1627
Update: Bump postcss from 8.2.10 to 8.2.13 in /src/assets #1547
Update: Bump mustache/mustache from 2.13.0 to 2.14.1 #1543
Update: Bump nanoid from 3.1.22 to 3.3.1 in /src/assets #1626
Fix: Correctly set multisite subsites urls with www prefix when cloning and restoring a backup (PRO) #1567
Fix: Backup error “OutOfRangeException” was never caught when insert query exceeds max allowed packet size (PRO) #1570
Fix: Add backup logic to check extended query string size against max allowed packet size which otherwise leads to a fatal error (PRO) #1570
Fix: Handle critical error if WP STAGINGS settings get corrupted. Give option to restore default settings #1602
Fix: Recreate cron jobs of existing backup plans when adding a new backup schedules (PRO) #1588
Fix: Enqueue a failed task/item again and set the queue’s offset to the end of file #1609
Fix: Stop cloning if destination directory/clone name already exists #1607
Fix: Continue cloning process even if copying a table failed #1578
Fix: Don’t remove freemius options if entire multisite is cloned. Prevents a fatal error. (PRO) #1629

2.9.6 Release March 1, 2022
* New: Support up to WordPress 5.9.1
* New: Add filter wpstg.frontend.showLoginForm to allow third party plugin disabling login form for the staging site #1577
* New: Add labels to distinguish between network and single site clones on multisite
* Fix: Handle issue when showing staging sites in System Info #1560
* Fix: Fix Rows Generator for zero or negative values for Primary Key Index #1584
* Fix: Set option “Keep permalinks” on the staging site when updating a staging site if “keep permalinks” is active on the production site initially #1562
* Fix: Updating an existing multisite clone converted the clone to a single site #1565 #1589

2.9.5
* New: Create backups and restore of multisites (PRO) #1458
* Fix: Force AnalyticsSender to convert wpstg_settings to array before usage #1559
* Fix: Cloning backup Search & Replace does not work with new primary key conditional query #1556
* Fix: Fix labels on backup sites #1551
* Fix: Backup restore can not unserialize escaped serialized strings #1554

2.9.4
* New: Add filter to change the cache folder for creating & restoring backups #1528
* New: Huge performance improvement for search & replace in cloning / pushing / backup process #1522
* Fix: Call to undefined function human_readable_duration() on backup creation if WP is older than 5.1 #1527 #1525 #1535
* Dev: Add unit tests for Times class that is used in backup listing view
* Dev: Update db_version in SQL dumps to match WordPress 5.9 db version #1539
* Dev: Add command to get db_version from database

2.9.3 Release January 12th 2020
* New: Add support for WordPress 5.8.3
* New: Add filter for excluding files during cloning / backup #1494
* New: Add filter for overwriting max execution for database backup restore #1512
* New: Add filter to allow overwriting of the maximum allowed request time to make sure backup restore works for huge files. (19.000.000M database rows) #1510
* Fix: If cloning a multisite subsite into external database, it does not clone / backup wp_users and wp_usermeta #1515
* Fix: Skip tmp single file plugin during backup PUSH copy process #1491
* Fix: Preserve table selection during PUSH and UPDATE even when all backup tables unselected #1488
* Fix: Make sure maximum memory consumption during cloning or backup is never higher than 256MB #1502
* Fix: Use custom implementation of wp_timezone() for backward compatibility to WordPress older than 5.3 #1505
* Fix: Override FileObject::fgets to make them behave exactly from SplFileObject of PHP < 8.0.1 #1506
* Tweak: Show custom uploads folder in tooltip description and explain better that changing a symlink image will also change the image on the production site. #1495

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