GPL Defender Pro - Advanced threat detection, prevention & multilayered security V5.3.0

= 5.3.0 ( 2025-06-11 ) =​

• New: AntiBot Mode
• Enhance: Improve Session Protection when loading an image
• Enhance: Add session widget on the Dashboard page
• Enhance: Rename slug for Expert Services
• Enhance: Update wp.org screenshots
• Enhance: Update Session Protection Tracking event
• Enhance: Change "Central IP List" label to "Custom IP List"
• Enhance: Change OTP page styling to match the default WordPress login
• Enhance: Generate strong passwords that meet all verification requirements
• Enhance: Update malware signatures to detect additional infected files
• Enhance: Log custom IP Block events
• Enhance: Log Unblocking event from Unlock Me option
• Fix: MaxMind key field appears empty on the Local Blocklist page if the MaxMind key is removed from the database
• Fix: No session logs appear when the Interim login screen is shown
• Fix: Scan can't detect modifications in the Debug Log Manager plugin
• Fix: Warning in PHP 8.4
• Fix: File existence and readability checks in Malware_Result and Plugin_Integrity classes

= 5.2.0 ( 2025-04-07 ) =​

• New: Session Protection
• Enhance: Compatibility with WordPress 6.8
• Enhance: Add a toggle to block popular spam/malicious User Agents
• Enhance: Remove Semrush and Ahrefs from the default User Agent blocklist
• Enhance: Improve the wpdef_sec_key_gen cron process on multisite
• Enhance: Update Malware Signatures to detect suspicious code
• Enhance: Improve the Quarantine flow during upgrade from free to pro plugin version
• Enhance: Improve the class representing the vulnerability result
• Enhance: Improve Trusted IP popup flow
• Fix: Masked Login URL bypassed by using encoded characters
• Fix: Audit Logging showing wrong time

= 5.1.1 ( 2025-03-03 ) =

• Enhance: Improve cron events for AntiBot Global Firewall on multisite
• Enhance: Remove manual "All headers" option and migrate to Automatic IP detection for improved compatibility and security
• Enhance: Update User Agent logic with AntiBot service to better detect potential threats

= v5.1.0 ( 2025-02-26 ) =

• New: Enforce strong password
• Enhance: Manage all password-related settings in one place
• Enhance: Improve lockout mechanism
• Enhance: Upgrade plugin packages
• Enhance: Support Unit server
• Enhance: Translation improvements
• Enhance: Improve IP Lockout redirect when user adds IP to Allowlist
• Enhance: Create a new cookie to avoid Lockout caching in Hummingbird plugin
• Enhance: Update minimum supported WordPress version
• Enhance: Enable Plugin & Suspicious code scan by default on fresh installations
• Enhance: Improve Malware_Result class
• Enhance: Minor code improvements
• Fix: Defender does not detect themes with vulnerabilities
• Fix: Error while pfsockopen function is disabled
• Fix: NaN is showing on AntiBot page when language is changed to German in the Dashboard plugin
• Fix: Form does not submit if Google reCAPTCHA is enabled in both Defender and Forminator plugins
• Fix: Malware Scanner highlights WordPress core files on IIS server
• Fix: Database error related to AntiBot feature
• Fix: Salt keys appear before open php tag
• Fix: Google reCAPTCHA compact style is not working

= v5.0.2 ( 2025-02-14 ) =

• Improvement: Update 404 logic with AntiBot service to better detect and mitigate potential threats
• Improvement: Enhancing IP Detection in Defender to prevent blocking of server IPs

= 5.0.1 ( 2025-01-31 ) =

• Fix: AntiBot service sync issue
• Fix: AntiBot toggle behavior is inconsistent when managed on the Hub
• Fix: Usage Tracking improvements

= 5.0.0 ( 2025-01-27 ) =

• New: AntiBot Global Firewall
• Enhance: Global IP Blocker renamed to Central IP List and located under Local Firewall
• Enhance: Prevent execution of CREATE TABLE query on every page load
• Enhance: Scan lines about suspicious code are displayed even after deleting files
• Enhance: Update WPMU DEV IP management
• Enhance: Show Vulnerability details for Pro plugin version
• Enhance: Usage Tracking improvements
• Fix: Error while uninstalling Defender
• Fix: Wrong usage of WPMU DEV Dashboard settings function
• Fix: SUI Alert appears when trying to make any action to files detected by Malware Scanning
• Fix: PHP notices appear in logs when running a malware scan

Defender Pro version 4.12.0 ( 2024-12-09 )

• Enhance: Ability to scan malicious code in files in the site's root
• Enhance: Optimize WAF traffic management
• Enhance: Optimize XML-RPC traffic management
• Enhance: Remove strict declarations for default WP filters
• Fix: Notice for _load_textdomain_just_in_time called incorrectly
• Fix: Update malware signature to avoid false positives
• Fix: Undefined array key warning when creating a new subsite on multisite if Audit logging is enabled

Defender Pro Release Note 4.11.0 ( 2024-11-04 )

• Enhance: Compatibility with WordPress 6.7
• Enhance: Malware signatures update
• Enhance: Update SUI to the latest version
• Fix: Optimize security recommendations flow
• Fix: Malware Scanning can't detect the suspicious code
• Fix: Max included file size in Malware Scanning isn't working
• Fix: Detecting changes in files whose names match default folders
• Fix: SEOPress plugin files are being falsely flagged as suspicious