All notable changes to Device Detector are documented in this changelog.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and Device Detector adheres to Semantic Versioning.
- Compatibility with WordPress 6.7.
- Upgraded UDD from version 6.3.2 to version 6.4.1: dozens of added and improved detections.
- Ability to self-update from Github.
- The plugin user agent is now more consistent and "standard".
- There's a WordPress core "feature" which causes some PII to leak (to wp.org) during plugin and theme updates. This is no more the case for this plugin.
- In some cases, a WordPress notice can be triggered concerning the loading sequence of translations.
- Test site launching from wordpress.org plugin page.
- All Databeam hooks and libraries, as the Databeam project is abandoned.
- Dependency on wp.org for updates.
- Compatibility with WordPress 6.6.
- [BC] To enable installation on more heterogeneous platforms, the plugin now adapts its internal logging mode to already loaded libraries.
- Updated DecaLog SDK from version 4.1.0 to version 5.0.0.
- Upgraded UDD from version 6.3.1 to version 6.3.2: dozens of added and improved detections.
- PHP error with some plugins like Woocommerce Paypal Payments.
- The plugin now adapts its requirements to the PSR-3 loaded version.
- PHP error when DecaLog is not installed.
- Updated DecaLog SDK from version 3.0.0 to version 4.1.0.
- Upgraded UDD from version 6.3.0 to version 6.3.1: dozens of added and improved detections.
- Some icons for brands, browsers or os have been updated.
- Minimal required WordPress version is now 6.2.
- Compatibility with WordPress 6.5.
- Upgraded UDD from version 6.1.6 to version 6.3.0: dozens of added and improved detections.
- Minimal required WordPress version is now 6.1.
- Minimal required PHP version is now 8.1.
- There's a typo in Morpheus project URL.
- Compatibility with WordPress 6.4.
- Upgraded UDD from version 6.1.3 to version 6.1.6: dozens of added and improved detections.
- With PHP 8.2, in some edge cases, deprecation warnings may be triggered when viewing analytics.
- Compatibility with WordPress 6.3.
- Upgraded UDD from version 6.1.0 to version 6.1.3: dozens of added and improved detections.
- The color for
shmop
test in Site Health is now gray to not worry to much about it (was previously orange).
- [SEC004] CSRF vulnerability / CVE-2023-27444 (thanks to Mika from Patchstack).
The developments of PerfOps One suite, of which this plugin is a part, is now sponsored by Hosterra.
Hosterra is a web hosting company I founded in late 2022 whose purpose is to propose web services operating in a European data center that is water and energy efficient and ensures a first step towards GDPR compliance.
This sponsoring is a way to keep PerfOps One plugins suite free, open source and independent.
- Compatibility with WordPress 6.2.
- Upgraded UDD from version 6.0.3 to version 6.1.0: dozens of added and improved detections.
- Improved loading by removing unneeded jQuery references in public rendering (thanks to Kishorchand).
- In some edge-cases, detecting IP may produce PHP deprecation warnings (thanks to YR Chen).
- Compatibility with WordPress 6.1.
- [WPCLI] The results of
wp device
commands are now logged in DecaLog.
- Improved ephemeral cache in analytics.
- Upgraded UDD from version 6.0.0 to version 6.0.3: dozens of added and improved detections.
- [WPCLI] The results of
wp device
commands are now prefixed by the product name.
- [SEC003] Moment.js library updated to 2.29.4 / Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS).
- Compatibility with WordPress 6.0.
- Site Health page now presents a much more realistic test about object caching.
- Upgraded UDD from version 5.0.2 to version 6.0.0: dozens of added and improved detections.
- Improved favicon handling for new Google API specifications.
- Updated DecaLog SDK from version 2.0.2 to version 3.0.0.
- [SEC002] Moment.js library updated to 2.29.2 / CVE-2022-24785.
- The Site Health page may launch deprecated tests.
- Compatibility with PHP 8.1.
- Upgraded UDD from version 5.0.0 to version 5.0.2: dozens of added and improved detections.
- Updated DecaLog SDK from version 2.0.1 to version 2.0.2.
- Updated PerfOps One library from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2.
- Refactored cache mechanisms to fully support Redis and Memcached.
- Improved bubbles display when width is less than 500px (thanks to Pat Ol).
- The tables headers have now a better contrast (thanks to Paul Bonaldi).
- Object caching method may be wrongly detected in Site Health status (thanks to freshuk).
- There may be name collisions with internal APCu cache.
- An innocuous Mysql error may be triggered at plugin activation.
- The DecaLog SDK may produce errors (thanks to Jhonny Oliveira).
- Updated DecaLog SDK from version 2.0.0 to version 2.0.1.
- The console menu may display an empty screen (thanks to Renaud Pacouil).
- The tool menu does not work if IP Locator is not installed (thanks to Jhonny Oliveira).
- Compatibility with WordPress 5.9.
- 3 new devices types can be detected: smart speakers, wearables and peripherals (projectors, etc.).
- New API properties:
device_is_smart_speaker
,device_is_wearable
anddevice_is_peripheral
. - New button in settings to install recommended plugins.
- New icons for brands.
- The available hooks (filters and actions) are now described in
HOOKS.md
file.
- Improved detection for iOS and iPadOS.
- Improved update process on high-traffic sites to avoid concurrent resources accesses.
- Better publishing frequency for metrics.
- Updated icons for brands, browsers and oses.
- X axis for graphs have been redesigned and are more accurate.
- Upgraded UDD from version 4.3.0 to version 5.0.0: dozens of added and improved detections.
- [BC] Device Detector API version is now v3.
- Updated labels and links in plugins page.
- Updated the
README.md
file.
- Country translation with i18n module may be wrong.
- There's typos in
CHANGELOG.md
.
- It's now possible to hide the main PerfOps One menu via the
poo_hide_main_menu
filter or each submenu via thepoo_hide_analytics_menu
,poo_hide_consoles_menu
,poo_hide_insights_menu
,poo_hide_tools_menu
,poo_hide_records_menu
andpoo_hide_settings_menu
filters (thanks to Jan Thiel).
- Updated DecaLog SDK from version 1.2.0 to version 2.0.0.
- There may be name collisions for some functions if version of WordPress is lower than 5.6.
- The main PerfOps One menu is not hidden when it doesn't contain any items (thanks to Jan Thiel).
- In some very special conditions, the plugin may be in the default site language rather than the user's language.
- The PerfOps One menu builder is not compatible with Admin Menu Editor plugin (thanks to dvokoun).
- Upgraded UDD from version 4.2.3 to version 4.3.0: dozens of added and improved detections.
- New redesigned UI for PerfOps One plugins management and menus (thanks to Loïc Antignac, Paul Bonaldi, Axel Ducoron, Laurent Millet, Samy Rabih and Raphaël Riehl for their invaluable help).
- In some conditions, the plugin may be in the default site language rather than the user's language.
- Bot detection may trigger a PHP notice.
- Compatibility with WordPress 5.8.
- Integration with DecaLog SDK.
- Traces publication.
- Upgraded UDD from version 4.2.0 to version 4.2.3: dozens of added and improved detections.
- Upgraded UDD from version 4.1.0 to version 4.2.0: dozens of added and improved detections.
- Compatibility with WordPress 5.7.
- Consistent reset for settings.
- Improved translation loading.
- Many icons for brands, browsers and OSes have been updated or added.
- [WP_CLI]
device
command have now a definition and all synopsis are up to date. - Upgraded UDD from version 4.0.1 to version 4.1.0.
- In Site Health section, Opcache status may be wrong (or generates PHP warnings) if OPcache API usage is restricted.
- WP-CLI and ajax calls are definitely excluded from analytics.
- With some command line tools, Device Detector may trigger a false-warning.
- Compatibility with WordPress 5.6.
- Support for data feeds - reserved for future use.
- Improvement in the way roles are detected.
- [MultiSite] Improved default site detection.
- Upgraded UDD from version 3.13.0 to version 4.0.1.
- [SEC001] User may be wrongly detected in XML-RPC or Rest API calls.
- [WP-CLI] Generating statistics may produce PHP warnings.
- When site is in english and a user choose another language for herself/himself, menu may be stuck in english.
- [WP-CLI] Improved documentation.
- The analytics dashboard now displays a warning if analytics features are not activated.
- Prepares PerfOps menus to future 5.6 version of WordPress.
- The remote IP can be wrongly detected when behind some types of reverse-proxies.
- In admin dashboard, the statistics link is visible even if analytics features are not activated.
- [WP-CLI] Typos in documentation.
- New tool (in PerfOps Tools menu) to analyze a user-agent string with the Device Detector engine.
- [WP-CLI] New command to get a device detail: see
wp help device describe
for details. - [WP-CLI] New command to display Device Detector status: see
wp help device status
for details. - [WP-CLI] New command to toggle on/off main settings: see
wp help device settings
for details. - [WP-CLI] New command to describe engine capacities: see
wp help device engine
for details. - [WP-CLI] New command to display devices statistics: see
wp help device analytics
for details. - New Site Health "info" section about shared memory.
- [API] New
/wp-json/device-detector/v1/describe
endpoint to analyze a user-agent string. Available to all authenticated users.
- The positions of PerfOps menus are pushed lower to avoid collision with other plugins (thanks to Loïc Antignac).
- Improved layout for language indicator.
- Admin notices are now set to "don't display" by default.
- Improved changelog readability.
- Improved IP detection (thanks to Ludovic Riaudel).
- The integrated markdown parser is now Markdown from Carsten Brandt.
- Some bots icons may be not displayed when it should be.
- With Firefox, some links are unclickable in the Control Center (thanks to Emil1).
- Parsedown as integrated markdown parser.
- Compatibility with WordPress 5.5.
- Updating the plugin now deletes the cache pool.
- Detection sequence has been improved.
- Many icons for brands, browsers ans os have been added.
- Upgraded UDD from version 3.12.6 to version 3.13.0.
- Full compatibility with PHP 7.4.
- Automatic switching between memory and transient when a cache plugin is installed without a properly configured Redis / Memcached.
- Updated UDD from version 3.12.4 to version 3.12.6.
- When used for the first time, settings checkboxes may remain checked after being unchecked.
- The lists for classes, device types and client types display now the translated name (it was previously the identifier).
- There's an error while activating the plugin when the server is Microsoft IIS with Windows 10.
- With Microsoft Edge, some layouts may be ugly.
- Namespaces collisions.
- Compatibility with DecaLog early loading feature.
- The settings page have now the standard WordPress style.
- Better styling in "PerfOps Settings" page.
- In site health "info" tab, the boolean are now clearly displayed.
- [API] Improves the way bot producers are rendered.
- [API] Improves the way bot categories are rendered.
- Updated UDD from version 3.12.3 to version 3.12.4.
- Some strings are not translatable.
- [MultiSite] New box in summary displaying all sites to network admins.
- [MultiSite] There's now a way to navigate between sites sub-reports.
- Better styling in "PerfOps Settings" page.
- Unneeded tool links in settings page.
- Full integration with PerfOps One suite.
- Compatibility with WordPress 5.4.
- New menus (in the left admin bar) for accessing features: "PerfOps Analytics" and "PerfOps Settings".
- Compatibility with WordPress versions prior to 5.2.
- Old menus entries, due to PerfOps integration.
- The name of the the menu item is now "Devices Analytics".
- Displayed version is not the good one.
- Full compatibility with APCu Manager.
- Full compatibility with DecaLog.
- The position of the "options" tab (in settings screen) is now consistent with other PO plugins.
- Name collision with some non-maintained plugins.
Initial release