Changelog

Historical information about previous Wordfence plugin versions.

= 8.0.2 – January 2, 2025 =

* Improvement: General compatibility improvements and better error handling for PHP 8+
* Improvement: Added audit log status to the plugin dashboard.
* Change: Increased width of diagnostics text export for better legibility.
* Fix: Addressed an error with mail hooks and the audit log when third party plugins send unexpected value types.

= 8.0.1 – November 14, 2024 =

* Improvement: Updated GeoIP database.
* Change: Revised some help text related to the audit log to be more clear.
* Fix: Improved audit log compatibility with some plugins that would cause excessive noise due to their behaviors around setting up user roles and capabilities.
* Fix: Fixed a log notice that could occur when deactivating Wordfence with audit log events still pending and a broken Wordfence Central link.

= 8.0.0 – November 4, 2024 =

* Improvement: Introduced the Wordfence Audit Log, a new premium feature to monitor all changes and actions in security-sensitive areas of the site with remote tamper-proof data storage via Wordfence Central.
* Change: Increased the minimum supported WordPress version to 4.7
* Change: Increased the minimum supported PHP version to 7.0

= 7.11.7 – July 29, 2024 =

* Improvement: Optimized scan performance by reducing database queries by approximately 38% along with CPU usage.
* Fix: Added translation support for “Page not found” string when viewing recent traffic.

= 7.11.6 – June 6, 2024 =

* Improvement: Revised the strong password requirements notice to be more readable.
* Improvement: Removed unnecessary calls for the plugin and theme vulnerability checks.
* Improvement: Reduced the frequency of calls to Wordfence Central during some operations where the values do not need to be synced.
* Improvement: Refactored some queries to avoid the automatic SHOW FULL COLUMNS queries that WordPress performs to verify database encodings.
* Improvement: Infrequently-used config values are no longer automatically loaded into memory and instead loaded only on demand.
* Fix: Fixed an issue where multisite installations using the WAF mysqli storage engine could repeatedly attempt to update WAF rules when not in optimized mode.
* Improvement: Updated the bundled GeoIP database.
* Change: Revised the formatting of TOTP app URLs to prioritize the site’s own URL for better sorting and display.
* Fix: Fixed the last captcha column in the users page so it no longer displays “(not required)” on 2FA users since that no longer applies.
* Fix: Added a check in wflogs/rules.php to only run when within the WAF’s bootstrap stage when hosted behind nginx.

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