= 1.11.4 =
* Change: Bump minimum PHP requirement to 7.2 from 7.0
* Change: Bump minimum WP requirement to 5.8 from 5.2
* Change: Bump minimum MySQL requirement to 5.7 from 5.5
* Change: Bump supported WP version to 6.5
* Bugfix: Fix some issues causing menu to generate PHP deprecation issues, even though it just triggered it in WP core functions
= 1.11.3 =
* Change: Change all service urls from wpsynchro.com to daev.tech, as we have moved the plugin there
* Bugfix: Fixed a minor csrf issue reported by Patchstack - Not a risk to be worried about.
= 1.11.2 =
* Bugfix: Fix PHP timeout issue caused by serialized data, kinda like 1.11.1 hotfix, but caused by another data.
* Improvement: Added more safety against timeout issues in serialized data, so it wont happen again
= 1.11.1 =
* Bugfix: Fix PHP timeout issue caused by serialized string search/replace handler, that goes into endless loop for defective serialized strings
* Bugfix: Fix issue with some tables not being migrated when source database is MariaDB and when table does not have a primary key
* Improvement: Improve the error reporting when database server gives errors
= 1.11.0 =
* Bugfix: No longer have problems with migration of WordFence database tables
* Bugfix: Make it possible to resume migrations again, as it was disabled as a mistake
* Bugfix: No longer block connections to remote sites that do redirects, but instead just give a warning
* Bugfix: Fix health check where PHP function get_headers() was being blocked by ModSecurity on some sites
* Bugfix: Give error when trying to migrate "json" data type to MySQL before version 5.7, where it is not supported
* Bugfix: Fix licensing code, that was giving PHP notices on PHP 8.2
* Bugfix: Improve database migration, so timeouts should be much less likely to happen
* Improvement: Improve licensing code to use database option instead of transient, to prevent license server from being overrun by requests
= 1.10.0 =
* Improvement: Support for WP 6.3
* Improvement: Bump PHP support to minimum 7.0, instead of 5.6. Like WP core did at long last.
* Improvement: Support for PHP 8.2 without deprecation notices
* Improvement: Bump MariaDB version support to minimum 10.0, from 5.5
* Improvement: Added WordPress nonces to all actions for added security
* Improvement: Support for restrictive CSP header (Content Security Policy)
* Improvement: Handle when remote site redirects to another location, such as WPML redirecting to a specific language subdir
* Improvement: Handle when migrating database from MySQL 8 with collation utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci to an older version MySQL server
* Improvement: Improve search/replace in very large serialized data, to prevent out of memory errors and vastly improved performance
* Improvement: Optimize the way database migration was done to better handle large datasets in rows
= 1.9.1 =
* Bump support for WP 6.2
* Improvement: API now flushes data before returning
= 1.9.0 =
* Bugfix: Fix issue where MU plugin did not load properly
* Improvement: Ensure WP 6.1 and PHP 8.1 compatibility
* Improvement: Improve the warning message when different versions of WP is used
* Improvement: Add search/replaces for db for cases where the protocol part of the url is wrong in db
* Improvement: Add check for MU plugin enabled on the target site, when file migration is done, to ensure performance and result
* Improvement: Add "resume" button when migrations fail, which can used to attempt resume, in such cases where a simple timeout is the problem
= 1.8.4 =
* Hotfix: (Only released for FREE version) Fix php warning because of files only present in PRO version.
= 1.8.3 =
* Hotfix: Fix issue when running one of the sites in a subdir, like http://domain.test/mysite1/. Error was like this: "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'dbtables')"
= 1.8.2 =
* Bugfix: In some cases no search/replaces were done, when using the preconfigured migrations (the affected migrations will be deleted when updating to this version)
* Bugfix: Certain MySQL version in 8.0.x range gave problems when migrating to MariaDB, which is now fixed by WP Synchro
* Bugfix: Table prefix re-write failed, when there was already data in table with that prefix
* Improvement: License information is now included with log files
= 1.8.1 =
* Hotfix: Fix case sensitive path introduced in v.1.8.0
= 1.8.0 =
* Major change: REST services are no longer used for migrations - Version 1.8.0 will be released to FREE users before PRO users, to make sure everything still works.
* Improvement: Make it possible to preserve custom keys in the options table (normally wp_options)
* Improvement: Deactivate modal added, to give feedback to developer as to why users deactivate WP Synchro
* Improvement: Support for generated columns in database tables
* Improvement: Add changelog as a menu, instead of hiding it as a file nobody will ever look at
* Improvement: Use "migration" everywhere, instead of using "Installation" or "Synchronization". "Migration" is a better term and better understood.
* Improvement: Better handling of database table constraints
* Improvement: Check for different WP versions when doing migrations, just as a warning
* Improvement: Always show connection options when add/editing migrations, so people dont overlook it
* Improvement: Warn when user is trying to migrate site without a table prefix
* Bugfix: Fix issue with updater conflicting with other plugins
= 1.7.3 =
* Bugfix: Fix issue with self-signed certificates for file finalize actions
= 1.7.2 =
* Improvement: Basic authentication username/password is now auto-detected on the site where migration is running
* Improvement: Add .DS_Store and .git files to standard exclude for files
* Improvement: Improve licensing page to make it more obvious which state the license is in
* Improvement: Make it easier to copy access key on 'Setup' page, by adding a "copy to clipboard" button
* Improvement: Prevent duplicate and identical search/replaces
* Bugfix: Fix migration stage text when i18n numbers format are using space as separator, such as "1 500 000"
* Bugfix: Fix problem where both source and target site was protected by basic authentication
= 1.7.1 =
* Improvement: Clear all transients after migration, to prevent wrong data in transients on partial migrations
* Bugfix: Health check showing connection errors on sites with basic authentication enabled
* Bugfix: Some users had issues with checkboxes ('Migrate files', 'Migrate database') on the add/edit migration being reset when saving the migration
= 1.7.0 =
* Improvement: When doing file migration, make it an option to show a confirmation dialog to the user before continuing, so the user can verify the which files will be added/changed and deleted
In this release, it is not turned on by default, since it is a new feature. But it can enabled by setting preconfigured migration to custom migration and enabling it under 'File migration'
It is expected to be enabled by default on the preconfigured migrations in one of the next releases
* Improvement: License key for PRO version can now be saved in code, as a PHP constant. Define the constant WPSYNCHRO_LICENSE_KEY in wp-config.php or the likes, which will override database value
Example in wp-config.php: define('WPSYNCHRO_LICENSE_KEY', "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX");
* Improvement: Ask users for acceptance to send data to wpsynchro.com about the usage of features - No personal data ofc.
The data sent can always be seen in migration logs, for full transparency.
* Improvement: Database views can now be migrated, in the same way as normal tables
* Improvement: Improved health check and added a few more checks to it. Also check if using LocalWP on Windows, which has some bugs, that WP Synchro does not like
* Improvement: Slow hosting setting in Setup menu now also reduces file chunk size per request
* Improvement: Improved handling of some special characters in filenames for file migration
* Improvement: Make sure browsers do not autocomplete fields when setting up a sync
* Improvement: Handle when max_allowed_packet is set to a wrong value
* Improvement: The table used and created by the plugin is now using more optimized collation
* Improvement: Added better help to the add migration page, to help users understand what the fields are for and where to get the data needed
* Bug: When syncing mu-plugins, make sure to do the mu-plugin files last, to make sure dependencies are there
* Bug: Make sure to migrate user.ini and .htaccess files at the very end, to prevent dependency errors, like loading WAF files etc.
* Bug: When populating files, do a file_exists just before getting data on it, to prevent problems with files that are created when indexing, but removed when we collect data on it
= 1.6.4 =
* Bugfix: Improve handling of database table charsets/collation and improve error messages, as it was causing problems for some users
= 1.6.3 =
* Improvement: Performance improvement by pushing CURL a bit more
* Improvement: Clean up for PHP 8.x, so no more warnings and deprecated messages
* Bugfix: Site url's are now no longer switched wrongly around on the success/error emails
* Bugfix: Fix problem with migration in WP CLI taking way longer than it should
* Bugfix: Files migration no longer goes into endless loop for certain version of MySQL 8.0.x
* Bugfix: Fix issue where xmlrpc.php was not synchronized from Yoast SEO plugin, giving fatal error from that plugin
* Bugfix: Improve error messages when getting SQL errors during database migration, such as too long key errors
* Bugfix: Better handle composite keys in database tables, as it did not move all rows correctly for these tables
* Bugfix: Show better error messages when license server say no to a migration
* Vanity: Format numbers by WP locale, so thousand separator and decimal character will be less confusing for some
= 1.6.2 =
* Bugfix: Updating REST service definition that is causing PHP notice on WP 5.5
= 1.6.1 =
* Improvement: Added better logging to file population REST service, to better support cases when it is hanging or not progressing
* Bugfix: Success notification email were sent many times, when using it with WP CLI runs
* Bugfix: Handle edge case when doing data compression, where some hosting adds header to compressed data, causing error on decompression
= 1.6.0 =
* Improvement: Better support HTTPS to HTTP migrations, where it previously were dependent on browser. It no longer is
* Improvement: Remove IP validation, as it was causing too much troubles with only minimal value
* Improvement: Better support for slow hosting or slow connection speed. Can be enabled in "Setup"
* Improvement: Better uninstall hook that cleans up the database and files like a good little plugin
* Improvement: Only keep 20 database backups and logs at any point, to prevent it taking up space
* Improvement: Support for basic authentication (.htaccess protected sites) on both ends (PRO version)
* Improvement: Add hooks for successful and failed migrations, for devs to hook into (wpsynchro_migration_completed / wpsynchro_migration_failure)
* Improvement: Tries to clean cache for popular cache solutions after a successful migration (WP Rocket/WP Super Cache/W3 Total cache/Comet Cache)
* Improvement: Better handles charset and unknown collations - Will now change charset and collation to recommended for WP (utf8mb4)
* Improvement: Configure email to send email to on successful/failed migration (PRO version)
* Improvement: Remove option to set debug logging and just make it the default
* Improvement: Add logo to all headers on all pages
* Improvement: Massively improved database finalize, doing it chunked instead of in one go, that could create problems on sites with many tables
* Improvement: Rewrote the file population algorithm, to make it much faster and safer to run (PRO version)
* Improvement: Added new default database search/replace with urlencoded urls, that is used by some page builder plugins
* Bugfix: Fix problem when it sometimes try to load a file that does not exist in the free version
* Other: Bump minimum supported WP to 4.9 from 4.7
= 1.5.2 =
* Bugfix: File population can in certain cases generate REST errors
= 1.5.1 =
* Bugfix: Make multisite error a warning instead, to prevent blocking users that want to use it anyway
* Bugfix: Make "WP in own dir" error a warning instead of error, improve the path detection and give a more detailed warning message
* Improvement: Change JSON debug information to also include file paths and remove the general debug data
= 1.5.0 =
* General: Overall improvement of stability and many big and small improvements
* Improvement: Support for replacing url's inside json data, such as Elementor templates (wp.org issue)
* Improvement: Finally full support for all MySQL datatypes
* Improvement: Support for subdirectory sites
* Improvement: Search/replaces are not editable and removable, even the default ones
* Improvement: General improvement of error messages given to the user
* Improvement: Support for WordPress 5.3, which is just around the corner
* Improvement: Proper message when doing migration from HTTPS site to HTTP site, which Chrome no longer allows
* Improvement: Added option in "setup" menu to disable IP security check - Can be needed if requests pass multiple server
* Improvement: Proper warning to user on migration creation, if one of the two sites have overlapping paths
* Improvement: Add check to make sure database user can create tables in the database
* Improvement: Implement PSR4 autoloading with composer
* Improvement: More intelligent support for WordPress in its own directory - Such as Roots Bedrock
* Improvement: Logs are now rotated and will have max 20 logs at any point - older will be deleted
* Improvement: Added a button on "Logs" page to remove all the logs
* Improvement: Making it more clear when a "migration" is new or being edited
* Improvement: Better deactivation, that now removes the database tables
* Bugfix: Try to prevent REST service call periodic timeouts, which we have seen some users having trouble with
= 1.4.1 =
* Highlight: Maintenance release with bugfixes
* Improvement: When REST service calls fail, make sure to log more debug logging for easier troubleshooting
* Bugfix: Proper error is not thrown when failing file reads because of permissions
* Bugfix: Improvement of IP detection function, that in some cases did not return correct IP
* Bugfix: In some cases, an endless loop happened when file was remove mid-migration
* Bugfix: WP CLI had its time limit removed, as it is not relevant in CLI environment
= 1.4.0 =
* Highlight: Big improvement to the compatibility with different hosting setups - Everything now runs chunked in 30 seconds or less, which prevents timeouts on some hosting
* Bugfix: SAVEQUERIES constant now properly detected
* Bugfix: Proper handling of unlimited memory limit and max execution time in PHP
* Bugfix: Prevent security token timeout on slow systems
* Bugfix: Database backup mistakenly went into endless loop, when having no tables to backup
= 1.3.2 =
* Improvement: Make database table prefix migration a option instead of forced - Warning will be issued if it is disabled and prefixes are different
* Improvement: Database table prefix migration will now also change prefix in data in the usermeta and options table
* Improvement: Added timeout check to healthcheck, to tell people when they have a misconfiguration in their hosting setup
= 1.3.1 =
* Hotfix: Error in frontend timer causing error in migration even if migration running fine
= 1.3.0 =
* Highlight: WP CLI command to run migrations via cron or other external trigger (see submenu "Schedule" on migration in overview screen)
* Highlight: Support migration between migrations using different table prefixes - Will automatically change it
* Highlight: Major improvement to the data transport - All data will now be compressed and encrypted, regardless of using HTTPS or not
* Improvement: Handling all the timing in a central way, to optimize timers and decrease risk of hitting PHP max_execution_time limits
* Improvement: Adding a "Duplicate" option to the overview, so its quick and easy so setup new migrations
* Improvement: Downloading log files is not downloaded as zip file, because logs can get big
* Improvement: Better handling of problems with uppercase database table names, that is not supported on all databases
* Bugfix: Trying to write a filename with a unsupported filename will now generate warning instead of error
= 1.2.0 =
* Highlight: Major rewrite of files migration and many improvements in database migration
* Highlight: Implementing preconfigured migration setups, to make it simple for those just wanting to move everything
* Highlight: Database backup before database migration (PRO version only)
* Improvement: Improve selective migration of files - Much faster and safer
* Improvement: Support for PHP's open_basedir configurations
* Improvement: Search/replaces on domain and web root are now locked, but still possible to add custom
* Improvement: Implemented retries for all requests if one of the servers has temporary problems
* Improvement: Improvement of security by using sha256 instead of sha1 for token
* Improvement: Support for migration of database tables close to the 65 char limit
* Improvement: No more data store in temp file on disk - Moved to database table instead
* Improvement: Makes finalize more likely to complete with success
* Improvement: Less aggressive "Buy PRO" ad. Moved to the side instead of being a bit too annoying
* Improvement: General UI improvements, with better text and icons
* Improvement: Support for database tables with uppercase letters
* Improvement: Support for MariaDB 5.5
* Improvement: Support for sites using upload_path and upload_url_path
* Improvement: Removed option to preserve WP Synchro data - It is now forced to prevent troubles
* Bugfix: Pull/push filtering on overview now works again
* Bugfix: Handle properly when max_post_size is set to 0
* Bugfix: Fixed database search/replace in serialization with special case
= 1.1.0 =
* Highlight: Massive performance improvement for all migrations - Now using MU plugin to skip plugins/themes loading for WP Synchro requests
* Highlight: Self healthcheck that will self-diagnose known troubles on each site
* Improvement: Make frontend JS more tolerant of intermittent host timeouts
* Improvement: Support for self-signed certificates
* Bugfix: Fixed a lot of smaller bugs on database sync
* Bugfix: Fixed bugs when syncing files with special characters, such as the Danish æøå
= 1.0.5 =
* WordPress 5.0 compatibility
* PHP 7.3 compatibility
* Bugfix: Fixed compatibility with some WordFence plugin tables, that use binary columns for some obscure reason
* Feature: Add index.php to uploads folder for security
* Feature: Add buffering to logger, to increase performance
* Feature: Add timer to run sync window, so elapsed time can be seen
* Feature: Make is possible to rearrange search/replaces in migration configuration
* Feature: Create section in Support menu, to make is possible to clean the database and disk for WP Synchro artifacts
* Feature: Hide license key on the frontend
* Feature: For large file transfer, take the partial progress into account in global progress indicator
* Feature: Introduce Log menu, where migration logs can be viewed and downloaded
* Feature: Better error messages when access key is wrong
= 1.0.4 =
* Bugfix: Fixed typo in REST services require that broke migration on *nix hosts
= 1.0.3 =
* First release of PRO version with file migration! Check out wpsynchro.com
* Added debug page
* Added .pot file for translation
* Added localization for js
* Added details to progress indicators (with data amount and ex. rows for database sync)
* Added verification that both ends of migration is same version to prevent crazy stuff
* Added database version, so we can handle that going forward
* Added http warning in add/edit screen
* Changed so first search/replace will be there as default on new
* Simplified readme.txt
* Cleaned up code around migration
= 1.0.2 =
* Bugfixing
= 1.0.1 =
* Added MySQL 5.5 support
= 1.0.0 =
* First official release
* Such cool, much wow
