GPL Wordfence Premium: The global leader in WordPress security V8.0.3

8.0.3 – 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 repo
• 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

Wordfence Premium Changelog version 8.0.2 – 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

Wordfence Premium Release 8.0.1 – November 14, 2024

• Improvement: Updated GeoIP database
• Change: Revised some help text related to the audit log to be more clear
• 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

Wordfence Premium Release Note v8.0.0 - 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