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 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