Changelog

Historical information about previous Wordfence plugin versions.

= 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.

= 7.11.5 – April 3, 2024 =

* Fix: Revised the behavior of the reCAPTCHA verification to use the documented expiration period of the token and response to avoid sending verification requests too frequently, which could artificially lower scores in some circumstances.
* Fix: Addressed PHP 8 deprecation notices in the file differ used by file changed scan results.
* Fix: Reduced the frequency of Wordfence Central status update callbacks in sections of the scan that occur quickly in sequence.

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