Changelog do WP Synchro PRO

Melhoria

• Add an onboarding guide to help newcomers understand the terminology
• Add a wizard to help create simple migrations
• Make database backups available in the free version
• Make the migrations run in a modal popup instead of its own page
• Bump supported WordPress version to 7.1
• Bump minimum PHP version to 7.4

Melhoria

• Give warning when the source database contains tables that are not prefixed with the site's prefix
• Add button in "Logs" to remove any temporary tables that WP Synchro have left behind in a failing migration
• Bump supported WP up to 7.0

Melhoria

• Bump supported WP up to 6.9

Melhoria

• Extend cron scheduling system, so migrations can be run at intervals automatically without user intervention and without WP CLI
• Prevent unwanted background update from PRO version to FREE version for some users
• Make it possible to only delete a single log from the "Logs" menu, instead of all or nothing
• Make it possible to download the database backup from a pull migration in "Logs" menu

Melhoria

• Bump minimum PHP requirement to 7.2 from 7.0
• Bump minimum WP requirement to 5.8 from 5.2
• Bump minimum MySQL requirement to 5.7 from 5.5
• Bump supported WP version to 6.5

Melhoria

• Change all service URLs from wpsynchro.com to daev.tech, as we have moved the plugin there

Melhoria

• Added more safety against timeout issues in serialized data, so it wont happen again

Melhoria

• Improve the error reporting when database server gives errors

Melhoria

• Improve licensing code to use database option instead of transient, to prevent license server from being overrun by requests

Melhoria

• Support for WP 6.3
• Bump PHP support to minimum 7.0, instead of 5.6. Like WP core did at long last.
• Support for PHP 8.2 without deprecation notices
• Bump MariaDB version support to minimum 10.0, from 5.5
• Added WordPress nonces to all actions for added security
• Handle when remote site redirects to another location, such as WPML redirecting to a specific language subdir
• Handle when migrating database from MySQL 8 with collation utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci to an older version MySQL server
• Improve search/replace in very large serialized data, to prevent out of memory errors and vastly improved performance
• Optimize the way database migration was done to better handle large datasets in rows

Melhoria

• Bump support for WP 6.2
• API now flushes data before returning

Melhoria

• Ensure WP 6.1 and PHP 8.1 compatibility
• Improve the warning message when different versions of WP is used
• Add search/replaces for db for cases where the protocol part of the url is wrong in db
• Add check for MU plugin enabled on the target site, when file migration is done, to ensure performance and result
• Add "resume" button when migrations fail, which can used to attempt resume, in such cases where a simple timeout is the problem

Melhoria

• License information is now included with log files

Melhoria

• REST services are no longer used for migrations - Version 1.8.0 will be released to FREE users before PRO users, to make sure everything still works.
• Make it possible to preserve custom keys in the options table (normally wp_options)
• Deactivate modal added, to give feedback to developer as to why users deactivate WP Synchro
• Support for generated columns in database tables
• Add changelog as a menu, instead of hiding it as a file nobody will ever look at
• Use "migration" everywhere, instead of using "Installation" or "Synchronization". "Migration" is a better term and better understood.
• Better handling of database table constraints
• Check for different WP versions when doing migrations, just as a warning
• Always show connection options when add/editing migrations, so people dont overlook it
• Warn when user is trying to migrate site without a table prefix

Melhoria

• Basic authentication username/password is now auto-detected on the site where migration is running
• Add .DS_Store and .git files to standard exclude for files
• Improve licensing page to make it more obvious which state the license is in
• Make it easier to copy access key on 'Setup' page, by adding a "copy to clipboard" button
• Prevent duplicate and identical search/replaces

Melhoria

• Clear all transients after migration, to prevent wrong data in transients on partial migrations

Melhoria

• When doing file migration, make it an option to show a confirmation dialog to the user before continuing, so the user can verify the which files will be added/changed and deleted In this release, it is not turned on by default, since it is a new feature. But it can enabled by setting preconfigured migration to custom migration and enabling it under 'File migration' It is expected to be enabled by default on the preconfigured migrations in one of the next releases
• License key for PRO version can now be saved in code, as a PHP constant. Define the constant WPSYNCHRO_LICENSE_KEY in wp-config.php or the likes, which will override database value Example in wp-config.php: define('WPSYNCHRO_LICENSE_KEY', "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX")
• Ask users for acceptance to send data to wpsynchro.com about the usage of features - No personal data ofc. The data sent can always be seen in migration logs, for full transparency.
• Database views can now be migrated, in the same way as normal tables
• Improved health check and added a few more checks to it. Also check if using LocalWP on Windows, which has some bugs, that WP Synchro does not like
• Slow hosting setting in Setup menu now also reduces file chunk size per request
• Improved handling of some special characters in filenames for file migration
• Make sure browsers do not autocomplete fields when setting up a sync
• Handle when max_allowed_packet is set to a wrong value
• The table used and created by the plugin is now using more optimized collation
• Added better help to the add migration page, to help users understand what the fields are for and where to get the data needed

Melhoria

• Performance improvement by pushing CURL a bit more
• Clean up for PHP 8.x, so no more warnings and deprecated messages
• Vanity: Format numbers by WP locale, so thousand separator and decimal character will be less confusing for some

Melhoria

• Added better logging to file population REST service, to better support cases when it is hanging or not progressing

Melhoria

• Better support HTTPS to HTTP migrations, where it previously were dependent on browser. It no longer is
• Remove IP validation, as it was causing too much troubles with only minimal value
• Better support for slow hosting or slow connection speed. Can be enabled in "Setup"
• Better uninstall hook that cleans up the database and files like a good little plugin
• Only keep 20 database backups and logs at any point, to prevent it taking up space
• Support for basic authentication (.htaccess protected sites) on both ends (PRO version)
• Add hooks for successful and failed migrations, for devs to hook into (wpsynchro_migration_completed / wpsynchro_migration_failure)
• Tries to clean cache for popular cache solutions after a successful migration (WP Rocket/WP Super Cache/W3 Total cache/Comet Cache)
• Better handles charset and unknown collations - Will now change charset and collation to recommended for WP (utf8mb4)
• Configure email to send email to on successful/failed migration (PRO version)
• Remove option to set debug logging and just make it the default
• Add logo to all headers on all pages
• Massively improved database finalize, doing it chunked instead of in one go, that could create problems on sites with many tables
• Rewrote the file population algorithm, to make it much faster and safer to run (PRO version)
• Added new default database search/replace with urlencoded urls, that is used by some page builder plugins
• Bump minimum supported WP to 4.9 from 4.7

Melhoria

• Change JSON debug information to also include file paths and remove the general debug data

Melhoria

• General: Overall improvement of stability and many big and small improvements
• Support for replacing url's inside json data, such as Elementor templates (wp.org issue)
• Finally full support for all MySQL datatypes
• Support for subdirectory sites
• Search/replaces are not editable and removable, even the default ones
• General improvement of error messages given to the user
• Support for WordPress 5.3, which is just around the corner
• Proper message when doing migration from HTTPS site to HTTP site, which Chrome no longer allows
• Proper warning to user on migration creation, if one of the two sites have overlapping paths
• Add check to make sure database user can create tables in the database
• Implement PSR4 autoloading with composer
• More intelligent support for WordPress in its own directory - Such as Roots Bedrock
• Logs are now rotated and will have max 20 logs at any point - older will be deleted
• Added a button on "Logs" page to remove all the logs
• Making it more clear when a "migration" is new or being edited
• Better deactivation, that now removes the database tables

Melhoria

• Highlight: Maintenance release with bugfixes
• When REST service calls fail, make sure to log more debug logging for easier troubleshooting

Melhoria

• Highlight: Big improvement to the compatibility with different hosting setups - Everything now runs chunked in 30 seconds or less, which prevents timeouts on some hosting

Melhoria

• Make database table prefix migration a option instead of forced - Warning will be issued if it is disabled and prefixes are different
• Database table prefix migration will now also change prefix in data in the usermeta and options table
• Added timeout check to healthcheck, to tell people when they have a misconfiguration in their hosting setup

Melhoria

• Highlight: WP CLI command to run migrations via cron or other external trigger (see submenu "Schedule" on migration in overview screen)
• Highlight: Support migration between migrations using different table prefixes - Will automatically change it
• Highlight: Major improvement to the data transport - All data will now be compressed and encrypted, regardless of using HTTPS or not
• Handling all the timing in a central way, to optimize timers and decrease risk of hitting PHP max_execution_time limits
• Adding a "Duplicate" option to the overview, so its quick and easy so setup new migrations
• Downloading log files is not downloaded as zip file, because logs can get big
• Better handling of problems with uppercase database table names, that is not supported on all databases

Melhoria

• Highlight: Major rewrite of files migration and many improvements in database migration
• Highlight: Implementing preconfigured migration setups, to make it simple for those just wanting to move everything
• Highlight: Database backup before database migration (PRO version only)
• Improve selective migration of files - Much faster and safer
• Support for PHP's open_basedir configurations
• Search/replaces on domain and web root are now locked, but still possible to add custom
• Implemented retries for all requests if one of the servers has temporary problems
• Improvement of security by using sha256 instead of sha1 for token
• Support for migration of database tables close to the 65 char limit
• No more data store in temp file on disk - Moved to database table instead
• Makes finalize more likely to complete with success
• Less aggressive "Buy PRO" ad. Moved to the side instead of being a bit too annoying
• General UI improvements, with better text and icons
• Support for database tables with uppercase letters
• Support for MariaDB 5.5
• Support for sites using upload_path and upload_url_path
• Removed option to preserve WP Synchro data - It is now forced to prevent troubles

Melhoria

• Highlight: Massive performance improvement for all migrations - Now using MU plugin to skip plugins/themes loading for WP Synchro requests
• Highlight: Self healthcheck that will self-diagnose known troubles on each site
• Make frontend JS more tolerant of intermittent host timeouts
• Support for self-signed certificates