W3 Total Cache was updated to version 0.9.2.6, from version 0.9.2.5. Changelog:
- Added support for grouping cache entries for easier flushing
- Added more options for placing minified files on pages. Custom placements using HTML comments.
- Added CSS inclusion for auto / manual minify. If present its used:
- Added JS inclusion for minify auto mode. If present its used: ,
- Added JS inclusion for minify manual mode. If present they are used when selecting correspong location in placement dropdown: , ,
- Added new minification inclusion options, async, defer, extsrc and asyncsrc
- Added flushing sitemaps
- Added flushing custom pages
- Added flush the current blog when flushing in MultiSite
- Added flushing home page and/or post page if static
- Added flushing older pages (page/2, page/3) on purge requests
- Added flushing a limited amount of pagenumbers
- Added purging caches for deleted blogs in WordPress MultiSite
- Added uninstall process to the plugin for easier cleanup
- Added upgrade support that cleans up and removes old cache folders
- Added message when disk enhanced page caching is not working properly
- Added custom wp-content name and locations
- Added CDN feature “Dont use CDN for specific roles”
- Added “Purge from cache” link on edit post/page pages
- Added permalink suffixes (.html, .htm etc)
- Added uploading blogs.dir files when using MultiSite and CDN
- Added notification about IAM when using Amazon services (SNS, CloudFront, S3 etc)
- Added ‘Don’t minify JS files’ ‘Don’t minify CSS files’ options for minify
- Added Access-Control-Allow-Origin support for CDNs
- Added hooks clean_post_cache and menu changes
- Added caching JSON mime-type. Other mime-types can be added using array filter ‘w3tc_is_cacheable_content_type’
- Added automatic reloading of config files when APC apc.stat is disabled
- Added request reload of APC file over HTTP
- Added priming of post on publish
- Added single config file (by default) when using WordPress MultiSite
- Added switch_to_blog() support
- Added wp_cache_decr, wp_cache_incr support
- Added wp_cache_switch_to_blog support
- Added fragment caching functionality that extends the transient caching methods in WordPress core
- Added network activation and network policy management
- Added control for comment cookie lifetime
- Added Go Daddy SUBDOMAIN_DOCUMENT_ROOT directive support
- Added JSON to mod_deflate configuration
- Added JavaScript mime-type variations to mod_deflate configuration
- Added WP-CLI support for purging cache, purging pull CDNs, reloading APC files, clearing APC, deleting pgcache files, and updating browser query string
- Added .htc mime type
- Added Rackspace CloudFiles container location selection
- Added rejected terms in database cache, to allow for deeper database caching capability
- Added Akamai CDN origin pull support
- Added system cache purge when apc.stat is disabled
- Added origin rel canonical support for CDNs
- Added AT&T origin pull CDN
- Added full-page mirroring and purging for origin pull CDNs
- Added compatibility mode improve disk enhanced page caching performance ~20% for users that don’t care about interoperability
- Added nginx example files
- Added varnish example files
- Added basic application monitoring support using New Relic
- Added application monitoring widget using New Relic
- Added plugin dashboard page to display widgets etc
- Added purge from cache link to admin bar dropdown while browser posts/pages on front-end
- Added purge CDN completely link to admin bar dropdown
- Added CDN SSL checkbox “Disable CDN on SSL page”
- Added pull CDN support to MultiSite
- Fixed caching of the “Front Page” and added an option for the same
- Fixed w3_url_format function was not included error
- Fixed security vulnerability with file cache: disk basic page caching, database or object caching to disk. CVEs: CVE-2012-6077, CVE-2012-6078, CVE-2012-6079
- Fixed issue with concurrent writes to single config file
- Fixed Preview mode and deploy button
- Fixed varnish purging (See varnish config example file in ini folder)
- Fixed false positive notification on Page Cache: Disc Enhanced
- Fixed broken images for feedburner in dashboard on HTTPS sites
- Fixed minify ID generation causing notices
- Fixed false positive on minification related to group configuration among other
- Fixed default wp-content path and CDN uploads when WordPress is installed in directory
- Fixed pages not flushing when making changes in WordPress Admin
- Fixed mod_filter being used on unsupported Apache versions
- Fixed WordPress upgrade issue caused by W3TC remaining active
- Fixed minify path when using WordPress MultiSite and blogs in sub-directories
- Fixed user interface for “Dont cache specific roles”
- Fixed CDN and minify to file for storage
- Fixed feed_link filters interferring with feed purging
- Fixed false positive with minify rewrite test and WordPress MultiSite sub-directory mode
- Fixed WordPress Multisite in sub-directory mode and minify paths
- Fixed caching posts page when using static home page
- Fixed object cache not being initialised before getting options
- Fixed locating document root for minify in certain environments
- Fixed saving settings if permalinks are turned off
- Fixed “Install” page displaying rules that is not required
- Fixed minify cache being empty while page is cached so no minified files are generated, minified files auto generation no longer depend on pages not being cached
- Fixed unnecessary flushing with SSL, user agents and referrer not being activated
- Fixed “Purge from Page Cache” not purging varnish or CDN when enabled
- Fixed CSS minification and relative paths in external files
- Fixed login / logout and compability with BuddyPress
- Fixed flushing same posts many times if status is trashed or restored
- Fixed handling of .html fancy permalinks with nginx
- Fixed handling of missing xcache opcode cache
- Fixed Amazon S3 allowing LIST permissions to everyone
- Fixed handling of .xml mime type
- Fixed numerous object cache compatibility issues
- Fixed memcached port support issue
- Fixed HTTP_HOST not defined warning issue
- Fixed xdebug not configured halt issue
- Fixed minified files not being mirrored by push CDNs
- Fixed uploading to CDNs multiple times even if force overwrite is disabled
- Improved CloudFlare support: purging, dev mode, minification options, automatic IP range updates, rocket loader feature, security levels
- Improved support for the Bad Behavior plugin
- Improved object cache and MultiSite compability
- Improved flushing behavior with better post and pages detection. To change behavior hook into filter ‘w3tc_flushable_post’
- Improved XML user interface when using Page Cache Disc: Enhanced
- Improved minify filename path generation
- Improved minify custom placement usage
- Improved PHP 5 compability by removing deprecated functionality
- Improved WP 3.4 and 3.5 compability by removing deprecated functions usage
- Improved plugin by removing unnecessary ob_starts
- Improved minify usage by returning old minify files while generating new
- Improved update procedure by removing need to manually deactivate and reactivate plugin
- Improved CDN paths and URL generation using both single and multisite installs
- Improved Admin Bar menu with more flushing actions
- Improved minify auto by adding support for downloading and combining external files
- Improved descriptions for various “Do not cache …” textareas
- Improved header settings so plugin header settings override WordPress default header where appropriate
- Improved debug logging by adding a debug folder constant: W3TC_DEBUG_DIR
- Improved support for WPTouch plugin
- Improved custom post type support and flushing
- Improved cache key format and handling
- Improved minify support on Windows
- Improved purging functionality for CDN providers
- Improved compatibility wp-fb-autoconnect plugin
- Improved support of WordPress installed when in a sub-directory
- Improved support of non-default WordPress folder setups
- Improved use of HTTP API and FileSystem API in WordPress. HTTP API usage improves minify and CDN functionality. FileSystem API integration improves activation, deactivation and configuration changes
- Improved execution time across all caching engines
- Improved cache miss performance for page caching
- Improved notification handling
- Improved cache priming algorithm
- Improved minify error reporting
- Improved varnish purging capability
- Improved memory caching logic and purging speed
- Improved support for auto minify in more hosting environments
- Improved support for use of sockets in memcached
- Improved handling of old settings upon update
- Improved detection of document root on additional hosting providers
- Improved handling of eTags
- Improved browser cache policy options
- Improved bug submission form implementation
- Improved NetDNA / MaxCDN support by using their new API
- Disabled minify if CloudFlare is active
- Removed PHP 4 support
- Removed cookie used for user agent groups unless the feature is used
- Removed cookie used for referrer unless the feature is used
- Removed duplicate inclusion of JSON library