* New: Add option to create a new admin user account for your staging site during it's creation. #3087
* New: Add option to use non-blocking process for uploading to FTP storage when using FTP extension to upload. #3103
* New: Add advanced excludes option at WP CLI backup-create command. #3114
* New: Add 'Delete Settings' button within the storage provider interface to facilitate the removal of the cloud provider configuration. #3108
* New: Add support for Search Replace of urls in content of network subsites. #2960
* New: Add option on edit staging site page for testing database connection. #3106
* New: If uploads folder is symlinked exclude it from disk space calculation before creating a staging site. #3092
* Enh: Update look and feel of backup scheduling modal. #3090
* Enh: Add page loader for each page of the user interface. #3142
* Enh: Add new upgrade buttons to header and license page. #3135
* Enh: Add more information like database name to system information. #3125
* Enh: Avoid scanning of excluded directories during the push process. #3049
* Fix: Fatal error on old WordPress 4.4.32 due to using of get_current_network_id(). #3174
* Fix: Base prefix wrongly replaced for users and usermeta tables in views when creating backup of views in multisite subsite. #3128
* Fix: Prevent error while directory listing protection due to open_basedir restriction. #3180
* Fix: Update free version plugin meta description to "Required by WP Staging Pro". #3171
* Fix: Remove redundant admin notices for invalid license keys during activation. #3139
* Security: Fix a potential security error and add better sanitizing for backup title. #3152
* Fix: Make sure EDD license checks are triggered only once. #3179
* Fix: Google drive authentication not working properly under all circumstances. #3156
* Fix: Selected custom tables on a staging site that had a different prefix than the prefix in the wp-config.php could not be pushed anymore. #3170
* Fix: Prefix for user capabilities was not replaced when creating a backup of network subsite. #3129
* Fix: The "Prefix" field was empty for listed staging sites if they were created in an external database and the prefix was not specified. #3166
* Fix: The optimizer setting was shown as disabled, even if it was still active. #3151
* Fix: Add loading icon beside 'Refresh License Status' button and adjusted loading bars on licensing page. #3185
* Fix: Super (network) admins were not able to login with when network subsite backup was restored on a single site. #3191
* Fix: Reference Error `wpstgPro is not defined` during staging site creation on FREE version. #3136
* Fix: Make sure that backup plugin notice doesn't overlap Create Staging Site button in UI. #3148
* Fix: List of active plugins in system info is misleading. #2996
* Fix: Make sure that mail setting page looks good on all screen resolutions. #3094
* Fix: Incorrect process modal title for preserving data task. #3130
* Fix: DRY properties in BackupMetadata and remove error message "trying to hydrate dto errors BackupMetadata::setCurrentNetworkId()" #3199
* Dev: Update DI52 library to latest version for small performance gain. #3146
* Dev: Fix missing adminer host on wpstg command. #3120
* Dev: Load Basic or Pro service provider once other dependencies are loaded. #3160
* Dev: Populate dev hosts from env variables to add to hosts file. #3122
* Dev: Add adminer to dev tools for database management. #3112
* Dev: Fast test fails on GitHub due to the missing of 'wpstgBackupHeader.txt' file, checksum needed to be updated each time. #3110
* Dev: Update Github actions to latest version that uses Node 20 to avoid deprecation message Github CI. #3200
* New: Support for WordPress 6.4.3
* New: Add filter `wpstg.push_excluded_directories` to exclude specific folders during push. #3050
* New: Add 'Do review link' to backup success modal after staging site and backup creation. #3085
* Enh: Reduce number of API calls to wp-staging.com for version number checking. #3091
* Enh: Add option to use APPEND Mode for uploading backup using FTP from settings UI. #3044
* Enh: Add loading icon during activation of the free version. #3041
* Enh: Improve the message when backup has been created with older version of WP Staging. #3033
* Enh: Make sure the checkbox icon appears at centre on all system. #2920
* Enh: Make sure that font size and view layout is consistent in staging and reset modal. #3104
* Fix: Can not update email address for sending error reports. #3109
* Fix: Deprecation message about dynamic properties thrown by Google Drive Api Model class. Show exact error message when unable to get resume URI for Google Drive backup upload. #3076
* Fix: Make sure to not check external DB credentials in free version while creating staging site. #3054
* Fix: Editing the backup schedule sometime re-creates the schedule cron at a wrong time. #3101
* Fix: Add filter to hide primary key changes message and include primary key details in the system information. #2972
* Fix: Not all files are sometimes pushed under certain situation. #3082
* Fix: Scheduled Backups unable to run when a manually created backup exists. #3089
* Fix: The backup retention number of Google Drive backups isn't honored. #3063
* Fix: Handle issues when unable to fetch information for external database during cloning requirements. #3029
* Fix: Show correct version of WP Staging in backup and staging log files. #3010
* Fix: Type error when passing multiple parameters using hooks methods. #3064
* Fix: Reduce height of the delete staging site modal. #3058
* Tweak: Keep only wp-staging* plugins active during database renaming process on backup restore to avoid conflict. #3095
* Tweak: Deprecate Filter 'wpstg.ftpclient.forceUseFtpExtension' as we already provide alternate option in FTP settings UI. #3053
* Tweak: Improve success message after push about clearing site and theme cache, which may be required if the front page appears different than expected. #3003
* Dev: Add initial level logic to support Backup Compression and Restore of Compressed Backups. #2555
* Dev: Reduce number of manual e2e dispatch call by adding wp cli and cloud storages e2e in full PRO e2e suite and run them in parallel. #3073
* Fix: Catch type errors on properties hydration for Backup Metadata and other backup related tasks. #3072
* Fix: Handle warnings when unable to unserialize serialized data during cloning. #3004
* Fix: Don't logout when restoring backup wp.com site on last step when database was not restored. #3031
* Fix: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError when using Litespeed server. #3060
* New: Support up to WordPress 6.4.2
* New: Adding feature to create backup of individual network site in multisite installations. #2795
* New: Add backup settings in backup logs. #2969
* Fix: Automatic backup repair if the backup file index is corrupted. #2861
* Fix: Saves remote storage backup in the database for use when calculating the number of backup to keep on remote storage. #2856
* Fix: Prevent accessing the content of backup cache files created during cloning and pushing jobs. #2984
* New: Add smart exclusion options for backup creation and allow exclusion of cache files, post revisions, spam comments, unused plugins and themes and deactivated plugins with a single click. #2758
* New: Add 'Refresh License Status' button beside 'Activate License' and 'Deactivate License' button. #2809
* New: Show modal in free version when there are performance issues after creating backup. #2721
* New: Add option to upload already created backup to a cloud storage. This feature will be disabled by default. But can be enabled by defining WPSTG_ALLOW_REMOTE_UPLOAD constant to true. #2610
* Enh: Formatting and cleaning up legacy backup related core/utils code. #2910
* Enh: Improve the admin notice about the required free version during plugin installation to make it more visually striking. #2885
* Enh: Add placeholders for pipe and colon characters in file and path names so that they can easily be extracted from backup file index. #2575
* Enh: Disable the 'start backup' button when no storage is selected. #2921
* Enh: Formatting and clean up for WPStaging PHPCS Sniff code. #2851
* Fix: Page loading wrapper was overlapping elements on staging page. Add a loading bar below the header menu when switching between staging and backup main tabs. Adjust the delete modal! #2952 #2938
* Fix: Exclude unused themes filter doesn't work properly for entire multisite backup. #2927
* Fix: Urls containing port i.e. example.com:8080 were not correctly replaced during using backup for site migration if destination site has different port. #2919
* Fix: Due to presence of www prefix in constant DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE on the destination site during backup restore, both source and destination weren't considered same site for updating subsites related URLs. #2954
* Fix: Remove Type strictness from custom wp_mail function used in staging site when mail sending is blocked to avoid "Uncaught TypeError". #2932
* Fix: Unable to create directory with correct permissions in ABSPATH when ABSPATH has wrong or custom permission i.e. 0170 but ABSPATH is writeable during staging site creation. #2925
* Fix: Upsell welcome page shows up when pro is installed and free activated. #2939
* Tweak: Show a proper message on FREE version why the backup cannot be restored if backup has same site url with a different url scheme. #2841
* Dev: Some e2e tests were still using old checksum file for comparing plugin dist package, which leads to plugin not being latest for those tests. #2916
* Dev: Add PHPCS rule improvements for return type hint. #2899
* Dev: Moved backup cloud storage related e2e tests to separate suite and DRY workflows generation for e2e tests. #2951
* Dev: Don't run storage related tests on basic e2e backup tests. #2930
* Dev: Add digitalocean backup dev credentials into dev doc. #2963
* Fix: There was a potential security vulnerability due to which a malicious user could eventually exploit and access the wp staging cache folder. This issue is now fixed. The security issue was found by Thanks to Dmitrii Ignatyev from cleantalk.org. #2908
* Fix: Siteground related issue: file_put_contents() doesn't free up resource automatically immediately, which caused error 500 during backup extraction on SiteGround hosting (due to limited resources). #2868
* Fix: For domain based subsites during backup restore, home and site_url were not adjusted properly automatically. #2857
* New: Compatible up to WordPress 6.3.2
* New: Exclude GoDaddy mu-plugin by default when creating a staging site. #2744
* New: Add modal to opt-in for diagnostic monitoring after first installation. #2391
* New: An active installation of the free core plugin will be mandatory for pro version 5.1.0 and later. #2612
* Enh: Added information into system info logs to indicate whether the site is a single site or a multi-site. #2790
* Enh: Show notice that permalinks won't work on WP Engine sites. #2142
* Enh: Add Contact Us button to the main menu bar. #2763
* Enh: Update license updater and fix a small error that can lead to broken API requests. #2817
* Enh: Remove type strictness from optimizer plugin functions which are used with wp hooks to avoid conflict with other plugins. #2830
* Fix: Backup uploading to FTP fails if ftpclient is used and ssl enabled. #2750
* Fix: Staging login doesn't work if Wordfence Activated option exists in the database but there is no Wordfence plugin active. #2812
* Fix: Magic login link does not work if only the free version is active on the staging site. This requires updating WP Staging Free and Pro plugin on staging site. #2781
* Fix: Custom WP content paths inside ABSPATH were not correctly cloned for newly created staging site. This could led to missing images and languages. #2740
* Fix: When editing staging sites database connection, don't make live sites database prefix mandatory when staging site uses an external database. #2768
* Fix: Deprecated warning in login form can prevent login to staging site. #2804
* Fix: Upgrade routine was not working for wpstg_queue table for adding response field in the table for FREE version. #2828
* Fix: During the file extraction of backup restore, `file_put_contents` is more consistent and faster than `touch`. Can prevent a site from being broken after backup restore due to possible bug in php 8.1.22. #2807
* Dev: Add setup for e2e testing of wordpress.com support. #2739
- 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
- 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