UpdraftPlus and UpdraftCentral – (version 1.14.9 / 2.14.9) Release

UpdraftCentral is our highly efficient service to manage, update and backup multiple websites from one place.

Today we launched a new version of UpdraftPlus which makes connecting a site to UpdraftCentral seamless. Just enter your UpdraftPlus.com login details in settings and press a button, and you’ve connected the site!

With many new features in recent months including managing users, comments, analytics and speed optimization, there’s never been a better time to try UpdraftCentral.

• Feature: Make it more seamless to sign up to UpdraftCentral Cloud
• Feature: Microsoft Azure storage (Premium) compatibility with Azure Germany
• Feature: Added the ability to create migration keys from WP-CLI (Premium)
• Fix: A backup icon/storage shows for a storage type even if all instances were disabled
• Fix: A PHP fatal error was occurring when a user tries to restore an encrypted DB when defining the UPDRAFTPLUS_DECRYPTION_ENGINE constant
• Fix: WP CLI Updraftplus command was not running on few environments like the Windows command line
• REFACTOR: Completed factoring for tabs of the settings page.
• Tweak: Some refactoring and tidying of the restoration code for easier maintenance
• Tweak: Add a longer timeout on SFTP logins to cope with a ‘Long delay, but then worked’ situation seen in the wild
• Tweak: An ‘Incremental backups’ extension was displayed in the Premium / Extensions tab, causing confusion since it is not yet finished/launched
• Tweak: Displays a Byte Order Mark (BOM) warning by giving the file names along with the path in the ‘Existing Backups’ tab, if a BOM is detected at the start of common files that people tend to edit
• Tweak: A WP CLI Existing backup command didn’t display a date time in the job_identifier column
• Tweak: Add links to the relevant app privacy policies within the settings sections for storage methods using OAuth authorization apps
• Tweak: Log user and group IDs of process and file/folder, when permissions for an operation is denied
• Tweak: Prevent a potential PHP debugging notice when showing the ‘Upload’ button
• Tweak: Update an out-of-date ‘Wrong password’ link
• Tweak: Added the ‘Web-server disk space in use by UpdraftPlus’ information to ‘Site information’ section in the ‘Advanced Tools’ tab; it won’t show in the ‘Existing Backups’ tab if you are using less than 100MB.
• Tweak: When a Google Cloud token was invalid, a PHP Fatal could result instead of catching the error and informing/logging nicely
• Tweak: If php-xml (SimpleXMLElement) is not installed, then show an appropriate warning in the Azure configuration section
• Tweak: If the user tries to install another version of UpdraftPlus, then tweak the default error message that they are shown by WP, which is too obscure/cryptic for many users
• Tweak: When a WP user is deleted, make sure that their data is deleted from the UpdraftCentral database table
• Tweak: Displayed ‘Web-server disk space in use by UpdraftPlus’ information in the Site information section for the advanced tools