UpdraftPlus 1.11.12 (free versions) / 2.11.12 (paid versions) is in the process of being released – look for it in your WP dashboard’s “Updates” page in the next day or so. Thank you for making UpdraftPlus to be WordPress’s #1-most installed backup/restore plugin!
New features and tweaks include…
- A way to quickly delete multiple or all backup sets
- More sophisticated options for backup retention (UpdraftPlus Premium)
- The ability to exclude files with specific extensions from your backup
- Slightly prettier ways to choose your remote storage options
- Tested and supported on the forthcoming PHP 7.0
The full changelog follows below. It’s a recommended update for all.
Not yet upgraded to our flagship product, UpdraftPlus Premium? Take a look here!
- Feature: More sophisticated rules for retention/deletion (UpdraftPlus Premium) – https://updraftplus.com/more-sophisticated-backup-retention/
- Feature: Delete multiple backups at once – https://updraftplus.com/deleting-multiple-backups/
- Feature: When choosing a monthly backup, you can now choose the starting date (e.g. choose 17th, not just choose the next week-day, e.g. next Monday)
- Feature: You can exclude files with any particular extension by using the constant UPDRAFTPLUS_EXCLUDE_EXTENSIONS (comma-separate different extensions), or by inputting (for example) ext:.zip,ext:.mp4 in your exclusion settings.
- Feature: Tested and supported on the forthcoming PHP 7.0
- Fix: SFTP uploads could hang after finishing, if more than one attempt was needed to upload the file
- Fix: Stop causing JavaScript errors on WordPress 3.2 on the plugins page
- Tweak: UI improvement when choosing multiple storage options – https://updraftplus.com/a-prettier-way-to-choose-remote-storage-options/
- Tweak: The storage selection drop-down (free version) now has icons to make it easier on the eye
- Tweak: Use UpdraftPlus Vault logo
- Tweak: Replace target=”_new” with target=”_blank” when opening new browser ports, to be more standards-compliant
- Tweak: Tweak the auto-split algorithm again to catch another case where it would have been better to split in a low-resource situation
- Tweak: When checking the backup integrity, allow for a multisite to not have a root options table; check sitemeta instead (unlikely, but theoretically possible)
- Tweak: Raise default Google Drive network timeout from 15 seconds – it’s too possible to hit this on a slow uplink (e.g. congested ADSL)
- Tweak: Upgrade the bundled Google SDK to the most recent release (1.1.4)
- Tweak: Add previously-untranslated string
- Tweak: Suppress a PHP notice relating to a constant that needed quoting
- Tweak: Turn off reporting of PHP deprecation conditions if using phpseclib on PHP 7 (can break communications – phpseclib uses PHP4-style constructors)
- Translations: Various updated translations
David Anderson (founder, lead developer, UpdraftPlus)
