Version 8.0.3 – (Released on January 15, 2025)
Improvement: Added support for hosts relocating the WAF’s auto-prepend file via the constant/envvar WORDFENCE_WAF_PREPEND_DIRECTORY.
Improvement: Added detection for non-repo plugins and themes to avoid the scanner reporting changes when the same slug + version exists within the WordPress.org repository.
Improvement: Messaging for Central disconnections now better reflects the user making the change.
Improvement: Scan errors due to unreachable Wordfence servers will now provide a link to our status page to check for outages.
Improvement: Reduced the number of network calls created to sync scan issues when updates are performed in bulk.
Change: Reworked setting caching to avoid issues with some object caches.
Change: Reworked cURL check to avoid using WP_Http_Curl, which has been deprecated.
Fix: Normalized all Wordfence.com links to be HTTPS.
Fix: Fixed a rare error that could occur on the diagnostics page when displaying a list of error logs.
Fix: Removed the “back to top” button and related script block from emailed diagnostics.
Fix: Fixed some UI coloring that did not correctly reflect the license type in use.
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Version 8.0.2 – (Released on January 2, 2025)
Improvement: General compatibility improvements and better error handling for PHP 8+.
Improvement: Added audit log status to the plugin dashboard.
Change: Increased width of diagnostics text export for better legibility.
Fix: Addressed an error with mail hooks and the audit log when third-party plugins send unexpected value types.
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Version 8.0.1 – (Released on November 14, 2024)
Improvement: Updated GeoIP database.
Change: Revised some help text related to the audit log to be clearer.
Fix: Improved audit log compatibility with some plugins that would cause excessive noise due to their behaviors around setting up user roles and capabilities.
Fix: Fixed a log notice that could occur when deactivating Wordfence with audit log events still pending and a broken Wordfence Central link.
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Version 8.0.0 – (Released on November 4, 2024)
Improvement: Introduced the Wordfence Audit Log, a new premium feature to monitor all changes and actions in security-sensitive areas of the site with remote tamper-proof data storage via Wordfence Central.
Change: Increased the minimum supported WordPress version to 4.7.
Change: Increased the minimum supported PHP version to 7.0.