Wordfence Beta Release: 5.0.9 Beta 1 is available for testing.

If you’re one of our Beta testers, we’ve just released Wordfence 5.0.9 Beta which which you can find here:

http://wordfence.com/betas/wordfence-5.0.9-beta1.zip

If you’d like to try out this Beta release (which is not production ready until we say it is), disable your current Wordfence, uninstall it, then upload this ZIP using the WordPress plugin upload mechanism and activate. All your settings should be preserved and you should be running 5.0.9. As always please email beta@wordfence.com with your feedback.

The changes are:

* Feature: (Premium) Advanced Comment Spam Filter. Checks comment source IP, author URL and hosts and IP’s in body against additional spam lists.

* Feature: (Premium) Check if your site is being Spamvertised i.e. your domain is being included in spam emails. Usually indicates you’ve been hacked.

* Feature: (Premium) Check if your website IP is generating spam. Checks against spam lists if your IP is a known source of spam.

* Improvement: Cache clearing errors are nown shown with clear explanations.

* Improvement: Added lightweight stats logging internally in preparation for displaying them on the admin UI in the next release.

* Fix: If a non-existent user tries to sign in it is not logged in the live logins tab. Fixed.

* Fix: Removed warning “Trying to get property of non-object” that would occur under certain conditions.

* Fix: Removed call to is_404() which was not having any effect and would issue a warning if debug mode is enabled.

* Fix: Check if CURL is installed as part of connectivity test.