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5.0.6 Release September 29, 2023

Fix: There could be a fatal error after plugin activation on multisites if a plugin uses the filter site_option_active_sitewide_plugins. #2785
Fix: Theme Twenty Twenty Three has a bug that leads to corrupt staging sites. The transient _transient_wp_core_block_css_files breaks the css after migrating or creating a new staging site. This transient will be deleted on a freshly created staging site. Related: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-block-styles-not-loading-in-frontend/ #2778
Dev: Add make command to check class method return type hints #2769

5.0.5 Release September 25, 2023

New: Compatible up to WordPress 6.3.1
New: Add support for Wordfence 2FA authentication in the WP Staging login form. #2253
New: Add two new filters to allow updating active plugins on staging site after cloning and on live site after pushing. wpstg.cloning.update_active_plugins and wpstg_pushing_update_active_plugins. #2409
Enh: Added real time elapsed time counter and restructured new staging process modals. Fixes an issue where log files are mixed up in the log window after canceling a staging process. #2651
Enh: Enable “Email Error Report Sending” as default in WP STAGING | PRO during initial plugin installation #2722
Enh: Wrap WP Staging hooks in custom methods to make WP Staging plugin(s) less exploitable. #2748
Fix: Php error ‘cross-device link’ can lead to backup restoring failing on Microsoft Azure servers. #2548
Fix: Drop-in plugins like object-cache.php and advanced-cache.php were not excluded by default during cloning. #2746
Fix: Exclude wp-content/wp-staging-sites directory during CLONING and BACKUP and also keep this directory during Backup Restore #2765
Fix: The delete confirmation modal shows a wrong staging site name when there is more than one staging site. #2741
Fix: Exclude All in One Security Plugin (AIOS) from being disabled by wp staging optimizer during staging or backup operations when AIOS has the post prefix option enabled as this will make wp staging unusable. #2672
Fix: After backup creation and backup restoring, the log entries in the success modal get purged and are not visible anymore. #2719
Fix: Make the batch renaming process for tables (in both RESTORE and PUSH) more robust and less error prone. #2772
Dev: Fix inverse usage of TaskResponseDto::isRunning #2643

5.0.4 Release September 7, 2023

New: Allow the usage of wildcards characters in the push filter ‘wpstg_preserved_options’. #2546
New: Exclude multiple database values from copying to a staging site table through the ‘wpstg.cloning.database.queryRows’ filter. #2545
New: You can add the new constant WPSTAGING_DEV_SITE into wp-config.php that determines if site is a staging/dev site or regular one. #2556
Fix: Cannot upload single backup files larger than 25GB on SFTP Storage. #2539
Enh: Removed console logs and clean up code. #2561
Enh: Rename logfile to wpstg-bundled-logs.txt while downloading and sending report to support team. #2593
Enh: Improve admin notice if cron jobs do not work. #2723
Fix: Fatal error due to foreign key constraints on tmp or bak tables when cleaning WP Staging tmp and bak tables before Pushing a staging site to live. #2728
Fix: Fatal error during backup restore if site has a drop in plugin like db.php or object-cache.php due to incorrect checking the checksum of the drop in plugin file. #2715
Fix: Add new constant WPSTG_MEMORY_EXHAUST_FIX, that can prevent memory exhausted errors during backup creation. #2551
Fix: A custom UPLOADS folder outside wp-content was not pre-selected and copied during cloning process and tustom UPLOADS folder was not copied during pushing a staging site as well. #2736
Fix: Improve admin notice when a pro backup is restored with the free version on another domain, host or server. #2697
Tweak: Adjust the requirements for restoring backup by making it dependant on backup structure instead of plugin version. #2717
Dev: Bump AWS PHP SDK package to latest version #2295
Dev: Remove PHP 5.6 compatibility code #2714
Dev: Reduce file size of the free plugin by removing unused backup cloud storages libraries from vendor packages. #2710
Dev: Add e2e tests for admin notices for backup and staging #2652
Dev: Delete tests output dir content while running make reset and ./wpstg build:webdriver-rebuild-dist #2726

5.0.3 Release August 28, 2023

New: Add dropbox cloud storage backup provider. #1881
New: Add support for custom domain based multisites. Network sites will be created in a subdomain. E.g.If the main site is “example.com” and the staging site destination url is “staging.example.com” then the live network site example.org will be cloned to staging.example.org and the network site example.net will be cloned to staging.example.net automatically. #2600
New: Add more options to wp cli backup backup-create command #2468
New: Add new contact us modal for free version to be able to provide better support to free users. #2246
New: Create staging site as default into ‘example.com/wp-content/wp-staging-sites/staging-site- name’ if root folder is not writable. #2438
Enh: Revise warnings in the symlink modal tooltip and improve the HTML syntax structure #2668
Enh: Transform the ‘click here’ hyperlink into a button on the staging site to enable staging site cloning #2664
Enh: Show admin notice on staging site if symlink option has been used to create it #2667
Enh: Added target URL when transferring staging site to live site #2362
Fix: Show admin notice on all pages on live or staging site if current site uses wpstgtmp_ or wpstgbak_ table prefixes as live table. #2666
Fix: Canceling the New CLONING process would delete all tables of production site if advanced settings were used to provide custom prefix for staging site with same database and host as production site. #2665
Fix: WP Staging backup folder gets deleted during restore on Windows OS. This can lead to an interuption and fatal error of the backup restore. #2690
Fix: Improve condition whether a table belongs to current site table during PUSH when cleaning temporary tables. #2686
Fix: If database tables prefix contains underscore like wp_12345, the sql backup part in multiparts backup is detected as separate backup. #2656
Fix: Having residual tables with wpstgbak_ prefix can leads to unsuccessful PUSH and backup RESTORE. Unless the current site prefix is wpstgbak_, these tables are now removed before starting RESTORE and PUSH #2576
Fix: Added style enhancement of changing the cursor to a pointer when interacting with the ‘Contact Us’ button #2662
Fix: Copied generated login link contains inline css style. #2654

5.0.2 Release August 17, 2023

New: Add more options to wp cli backup-create command #2668
Enh: Increase log file storing time to 14 days. #2625
Enh: Add admin notice to explain the new backup feature in free version #2524
Enh: Enhance free version backup modal UI #2608
Enh: Don’t allow saving empty table prefix for a staging site when using the edit button #2572
Fix: Use DTO instead of separate file for managing index sizes while creating backup to avoid filesystem lock. #2640
Fix: Backup creation fails on PHP 8 because unable to get primary key for table. #2629
Fix: Stop backup restore if no sql query is found to be executed but the backup contains a database to be restored #2560
Fix: Show admin notice if there is no WordPress table prefix in the database #2586
Dev: Add changelog entries in dedicated files #2623
Dev: No changelog needed on release branches #2763

5.0.1 Release August 8, 2023

New: Compatible up to WordPress 6.3
New: Make UI more consistent and use same success and processing modals for staging site creation as for backup creation #2221
Fix: Rating banner can not be dismissed #2632
Fix: Multipart backup scheduled to be sent to google drive does not send all parts #2516
Fix: Could not backup tables that contain multiple primary keys (composite keys) #2616
Fix: Stop backup restore and add better logging if sql file is not readable during backup restore #2560
Fix: New delete modal does not show all tables on sites with many db tables due to CSS issue #2221
Fix: Resolved conflict with plugin “Admin and Site Enhancements” #2513
Fix: Prevent UI issue and word wrapping on line that says: “No staging site found” on MacOS on Chrome #2552
Fix: The feedback form on plugin deactivation does not send any data. #2638
Dev: Undefined method interfaceDatabaseClient::fetchAll() in phpstan #2622
Dev: e2e tests fail on multi sites #2631

5.0.0 Release July 25, 2023

New: Drop support for php 5.6. Minimum php version is 7.0 #2579
New: Flywheel hosting compatibility. Create staging sites and create backups on hosting providers where the WordPress core is located outside the public dir. #2372
New: Add system info to backup log file #2309
Enh: Check if sftp backup directory path is writeable while testing remote connection #2506
Enh: Add a tooltip to inform that backups will be created only for the current site and do not contain other sites, like staging websites #2483
Enh: Allow the user to click on “Copy” to copy the generated login link #2443
Enh: Improved code to be compatible with PHPstan level 3 rules #2461
Enh: Changed the order of login link expiry to day, min, sec #2380
Enh: Update back button color to make clear it is an active button #2512
Enh: Display the size of backup index parts in the list of backups #1678
Enh: Show the “Push Changes” button always in WP STAGING PRO and disable it until the license is activated #2466
Fix: WP CLI command wp wpstg backup-status did not work as expected #2467
Fix: Unselect folders starting with wp-admin* and wp-includes* when creating a new staging site #2340
Fix: Show the “primary key” warning only on WP STAGING admin page #2477
Fix: Multisite related constants missing during network clone when the original wp-config.php is not valid defaul multisite configuration file #2504
Fix: Restoring a backup fails because redis/memcache not configured on the destination site. This disables object cache if object-cache.php is not identical on backup and restoring site #2517
Fix: Php error ‘Undefined constant DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’ #2512
Fix: Microsoft IIS 7.5 with php 8.1.9 produces unexpected time format when using microtime() resulting in fatal error “division by zero” while creating a backup #2571
Fix: www prefix is set in domain property of subsite would result into repeating www prefix during network clone #2544
Fix: Don’t escape MySQL binary and blob data during cloning as this results into invalid data #2565
Tweak: Small visual glitches on tooltip in upload backup modal #2496
Dev: Improved usage of $status variable in backup and cloning #2332
Dev: This PR does a comprehensive pass on the codebase to verify that authorization checks are being done on callbacks that takes user input. #2531

4.10.1 Release June 19, 2023

New: Bring the premium high-performance pro backup feature into the basic version to allow creating a periodic backup of the WordPress website including backup restoring. #1979 #2487
Enh: Display Google Drive account info permanently on the settings page. Remove the option to customize the Google drive redirect uri. #2399
Enh: New styled back button #2444
Fix: Database tables renaming is now done in multiple requests instead of a single request for both PUSH and RESTORE. This allow easily rename hugh number of tables on slow server without worrying about increasing PHP Script timeout limit #2392
Fix: On backup restore keep or remove the staging site mode depending upon the current site state. E.g. Restoring a backup of a staging site on a live site will remove the staging site mode #2392
Fix: Small JS errors related to the backup sidebar menu when clicking tabs on the main navigation #1979
Fix: Backup restore can fail if backup has different access token than current site #2481
Fix: Several php 8.x warnings on staging site push operation in wpstg debug log #2472
Fix: When cloning into external database NULLs were converted to empty strings in the staging site #2448
Fix: Backup created with free version can show a warning if it is restored with pro version #2497
Dev: Update google webdriver driver test credentials #2450

4.9.0 Release May 25, 2023

New: Compatible up to WordPress 6.2.2
New: Feature to disable WP Cron jobs on the staging site #2314
New: Button to unselect all staging site tables before cloning #2355
New: Add two-way encryption for backup storage credentials stored in the database. Read https://wp-staging.com/docs/wp-staging-encryption-setup/ #2310
New: Show selected plugins and themes count before cloning #2339
Enh: Beautify backup and staging log file format #2393
Enh: Append debug log to download system information #2441
Enh: Improved code to be compatible with PHPstan level 1 rules #2348
Enh: Improved code to be compatible with PHPstan level 2 rules #2419 #2459
Enh: Check if the option_name field contains the primary key before cloning #2386
Enh: Display the staging site name on generate login link screen #2432
Fix: Inaccurate performance values “queries per second” for backup restore #2327
Fix: Backup download URLs now support mixed http/https scheme #2376
Fix: Deprecation notice on PHP 8.2 / 8.1 #2389
Fix: Write the correct version number in wpstg.js when creating a free dist package #2431
Fix: Correct use of printf and gettext #2313
Fix: On backup creation MySQL Error 1118 row size too large error can appear #2422
Fix: Fix line-break issue during files-index validation when validating a backup on Windows OS that was created on Linux OS and vice versa #2402
Fix: Add Query Compatibility fix when restoring a database backup created on MariaDB with PAGE_COMPRESSED=`ON` on MySQL database #2401
Fix: PHP 8.1 warnings on backup creation due to using null value on wp_normalize_path #2453
Fix: Added method to handle sending email in free version with attachments #2417
Dev: Check if the Issue or PR Number exist in the changelog #2394

4.8.1 Release May 9, 2023

Fix: Remove custom global exception handler to avoid conflicts with other plugins #2424

4.8.0 Release May 5, 2023

New: Pro feature to allow generation of magic login links to staging site. Go to “Actions > Share Login Link”. This requires updating WP Staging Pro plugin on staging site #2204
New: Pro feature to sync active admin account. Go to “Actions > Sync User Account” to synchronize active admin user account with staging site #2183
New: Support SSL connection to external databases #2264
New: Allow WP-CLI to work on the staging site #2280
Enh: Refresh UI and add new animated loader icon to show backup progress #2292 #2349
Enh: Refresh UI and format system information page #2333
Enh: Refresh UI an add button to open staging site after updating staging site #2358
Enh: Refresh UI. Show more clear cron message and take into account that WP_CRON could be disabled if external backup cron is used #2378
Enh: Improve backup email error report and show more clear messages when a backup fail #2383
Enh: Display a message when the backup or restore process stops due to lack of server memory #2210
Enh: Combine wp staging logs and system info logs #2224
Enh: Show admin notice when optimizer mu-plugin is disabled to improve reliability of backup creation #2301
Enh: Run backup validation checks again after deleting a backup #2286
Enh: Toggle triangle icon on multi part backup click #2308
Enh: Make more clear where to enter the license key #2404
Enh: Allow uploads directory outside ABSPATH by using the filter `wpstg.backup.directory` #2359
Fix: Selecting a child folder automatically selects the parent folder. #2317
Fix: Toggle correctly the side bar navigation depending if staging or backup tab is active #2261
Fix: Excluding sub-directories on backup did not work with using the filter ‘wpstg.backup.exclude.directories’ #2291
Fix: Database permission warning did not disappear due to escaped database name #2234
Fix: Remove sanitize_url() deprecated notice #2306
Fix: Could not download system info #2323
Fix: Catch runtime exception when checking for valid backups during invalid file index notice #2312
Fix: Use correct html element id to fix js console error #2344
Fix: Last backup duration was always 0 min, 0 sec. It is now fixed #2383
Fix: Retry adding the backup file index up to 3 times if adding the backup file index fails #2383
Fix: Login redirect loop on wp-admin #2385
Fix: Add custom exception handler #2346
Dev: DRY webdriver tests #2276
Dev: Decouple PRO feature from WPStaging\Backup namespace and move them into WPStaging\Pro\Backup namespace #2296 #2336 #2356
Dev: Fix issues running basic webdriver tests on Github CI #2319
Dev: Add timeout to Github actions #2324
Dev: Write wp staging debug logs into global debug.log #2346

4.7.2 Release March 31, 2023

New: Compatible up to WordPress 6.2
Enh: Improves the look of the update notice #2294
Fix: Remove double www prefix if network is cloned to a www prefixed hostname but subsite already has www prefix #2284
Dev: Add more unit tests to increase reliability of the backup plugin #2273
Dev: Refactor backup terms Export to Backup and Import to Restore for consistency #2265
Dev: Move src/Pro/Backup to src/Backup as a first step to allow basic Backup feature to be added in Free version of WP Staging #2287 #2297

4.7.1 Release March 24, 2023

New: Add filter wpstg.restore.tmp_database_prefix to use custom temporary database prefix used during backup restore. Using this filter is useful in cases when (1) there are already tables with default WP Staging temp prefix (wpstgtmp_), or (2) restore fails because of 64 characters table name length limit for database identifiers #2217
New: Add filter wpstg.backup.directory to save backups in a custom location #2247
Enh: Improve message if there is not enough free disk space while creating a backup #2193
Enh: Add better logging for backup creation #2257
Enh: Improve the error message on the front-end when the backup directory is not available #2130
Enh: Show in knowledgebase block only articles of plugins that are actually installed on users website #2176
Enh: Show specific error message on backup listing page if backup is corrupted
Enh: Refactoring of admin notice for better performance #1573
Fix: Improper use of the Translation function #2259 #2260
Fix: Prevent fatal errors on rare edge cases where a file lock can not be released #2254
Fix: Clear wpstg_* scheduled hooks on plugin deactivation #2256
Fix: Images URLs are now correctly formed when a backup is restored from http to https and vice versa #2111
Fix: Allow + character in PuTTY SFTP key format, fixing the issue where PuTTY generated keys are not working #2155
Fix: Improper use of the translation function #2260
Fix: Sometimes a warning can appear indicating the backup file would be broken and contains a broken backup file index although the backup file is 100% intact #2269

4.7.0 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
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
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 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 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 files could not be deleted #2222
Fix: Prevents a rare edge case where scheduled backups are continuous started over by implementing a better clean up routing #2231
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: Revert all usage of isWritable and isExecutable #2232
Dev: Broken test _04PushCest after implementing #2199 #2216 #2238

4.6.1 Release February 9, 2023

Enh: Database recovery 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
Fix: Prevent fatal error on setting page due to using double semicolon(‘::’) to call static method from variable. Affects old php versions only. #2166

4.6.0 Release January 31, 2023

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: 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 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
Fix: Old automated local backups were not deleted and thus no new automated backups 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
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
Dev: Write the version of the plugin into the header of wpstg.js when creating the dist package with make dev_dist #2095

4.5.0 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

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