UpdraftPlus 1.11.23 (free version) / 2.11.23 (paid versions) Release

A release of UpdraftPlus has been made, and should be showing in your WordPress updates dashboard shortly, if not already.

This release concentrates on internal improvements, and bug-fixes. The main unifying theme of the release is improving some of the innards, to enable future improvements – for news of which, keep your eyes on this blog (hopefully something very exciting to announce in the next couple of weeks…).

As always, it is a recommended update for all.

• Fix: When migrating a sub-folder based multisite into a non-root install with different relative path to the source multisite (I can’t think of any good reasons to do this), the search/replace could leave sub-sites unreachable without manual correction
• Fix: Logic errors in the advanced backup retention options could lead to the oldest backups being deleted prematurely, and some backups not being deleted when they were overdue for deletion
• Fix: Amazon S3 bucket creation wizard (in the S3 enhanced add-on) was not honoring the chosen region for new buckets
• Fix: Upon restoration over an existing site, inactive plugins could remain post-restore (bug introduced in 1.11.20)
• Tweak: Various internal re-organizations, to improve modularity/re-use of the code
• Tweak: Internal CSS re-organisation to make future layout changes easier
• Tweak: The “stop” link in the backup progress indicator now halts the backup asap, instead of at the next scheduled resumption
• Tweak: Clarify the course of action needed if you attempt a Dropbox backup without Curl
• Tweak: Add support for the new Asia Pacific (Seoul) region to Amazon S3
• Tweak: Make the automatic backup option box appear on the updates page for users who can update plugins or themes (not just core – previously it was assumed that these would always go together in the real world, but some managed hosts are now removing the core update capability from the default admin user, whilst leaving the others)
• Tweak: Change default zip split size to 400Mb on new installs
• Tweak: Clean up use of composer, to conform to proper usage standards, and update to current version (to avoid causing a problem for plugins using PSR-4 autoloaders)
• Tweak: Provide direct links to cart when choosing UpdraftPlus Vault storage
• Tweak: Add debug.log to the default exclusions in wp-content (when people leave debug logging on and forget, it can get huge)
• Tweak: On multisite, make sure that the site/blogs tables are placed early in the backup (assists with quickly scanning backup info)
• Tweak: Update to phpseclib 1.0.1
• Tweak: Prevent a PHP notice when using SCP
• Tweak: Add new termmeta table to the default list of core tables (which is usually automatically detected)