A new UpdraftPlus release was made a couple of days ago. This had the usual small tweaks and optimisations; plus one big addition that we’ve been working on for a long time – UpdraftCentral.
UpdraftCentral is our new remote-control dashboard, allowing you to manage backups from multiple websites, from one place. With it, you can start backups, delete, download and restore existing backups, change your settings, and have a one-click login to the WordPress dashboards of your managed sites, from a single dashboard. Both free and paid versions of UpdraftPlus can be controlled.
What’s more, everyone can manage 5 sites, for free. To get going, just choose UpdraftCentral from the account menu at the top of updraftplus.com – or go directly, via this link. To learn more about UpdraftCentral and its state-of-the art technology (encryption of all communications, single-page and mobile-friendly/responsive JavaScript application), and pricing for additional sites, go here. You’ll have opportunity to hear plenty more about UpdraftCentral in the coming days and weeks.
To use UpdraftCentral, you will need to be running this latest release of UpdraftPlus (or any we make in future!).
Here’s the complete UpdraftPlus changelog.
- Feature: Compatible with the UpdraftCentral remote control panel
- Compatibility: Tested + supported on the upcoming WordPress 4.5
- Fix: On some setups, if no remote storage was configured (not recommended), then old backups were not being pruned
- Fix: Make FTP active mode (very rarely seen) work correctly again
- Tweak: Added a hint to FTP users who appear to be firewalled on only the data channel when attempting to use encrypted FTP
- Tweak: Improve detection of the WordPress scheduler duplicating periodic events when the server is overloaded
- Tweak: Simplify main tab layout upon first use
- Tweak: Add some previously unbundled licence files
- Tweak: Prevent a couple of PHP notices being logged when running a manual search/replace
- Tweak: Add a filter to allow more over-riding of pruning
- Tweak: When testing Amazon S3 bucket accessibility, slightly improve one of the corner-case checks
- Tweak: When creating an encryption key for direct Migration, or UpdraftCentral, allow the user to choose their key size (this helps with PHP installs lacking both OpenSSL and GMP, in which case key creation can be really slow)
- Tweak: Detect another case and deal with an HTTP 413 response when sending chunked data on a direct site-to-site migration
David Anderson (lead developer, UpdraftPlus)
