Support for outbound proxy configuration in WordPress. WordPress allows you to set up an outbound proxy configuration for your site by setting up constants in wp-config.php. We are using our own network transport libraries throughout the plugin since we need more control over the request and response handling when interfacing with third party API, e.g. when we are sending a backup archive to remote storage in Akeeba Backup Professional. This would cause the entire plugin to fail, possibly not even allowing the admin panel to load. We have changed our network transport libraries to now take into account WordPress' proxy configuration and automatically apply it whenever we need to retrieve or send information outside of your site e.g. checking for updates, checking the security settings of your backup output directory or sending the backup archive to a remote storage service. Due to PHP limitations this feature is not supported with FTP or SFTP (DirectFTP/DirectSFTP or Upload to Remote FTP/SFTP server) unless you use the cURL variants, i.e. "DirectFTP over cURL", "DirectSFTP over cURL", "Upload to Remote FTP server using cURL" or "Upload to Remote SFTP server using cURL".
Support for outbound proxy configuration (Akeeba Solo). Akeeba Solo allows you to set up an outbound proxy configuration in the System Configuration page. The reason is the same as noted above.
Remove dash from automatically generated random values for archive naming. Some of our clients parse the filenames of generated backup archives for reporting or internal business reasons, on the assumption that dashes are used as information field separators in the filenames. Removing the dashes from the [RANDOM] field makes this process less complicated without affecting the security of the solution.
Increase the maximum Size Quota limit to 1Pb. The old limit of 4Gb dates back to 15 years ago. Back then sites and available server disk space were much smaller. 4Gb was a reasonable limit. Fast forward to 2021 and we see hosting accounts with 20Gb to 1Tb of disk space as the norm, big sites backing up to hundreds of Mb or a few Gb and this limit was just too low to be practical. This limit has been increased a few million times ensuring it will remain practical in the foreseeable future.
Could not restore on PHP 8 if Two Factor Authentication is enabled in any user account (only applies to Akeeba Solo restoring Joomla sites). This is actually a two–pronged issue stemming from a bug in Joomla itself. We have applied a workaround in our restoration script (ANGIE). Joomla will probably include a fix for it in Joomla 4.1 or 4.2, pending a decision from production leadership. Also note that Joomla 3.6.4 and later will fail logging in a user which has enabled Two Factor Authentication in their account using Joomla 3.2.0 to 3.6.3 inclusive and has not changed it using Joomla 3.6.4 or later if your server is upgraded to PHP 8 or later. This cannot be worked around in Joomla itself. The same problem that prevents you from logging in will also prevent you from editing the affected user account. However, if you backup up and restore your site with Akeeba Backup (using the Full Site backup mode!) you will be able to log in with or edit the affected user since the restoration will upgrade the way the Two Factor Authentication settings are stored to make them compatible with newer Joomla and PHP versions. We only ever found TWO (2) people who were affected by this bug but we decided to provide a solution anyway; debugging Joomla's code to understand why this happened was already doing 99% of the work to providing a workaround so what's the point of not spending the extra tiny amount of time to provide a workaround to a really weird if not extremely uncommon issue?
Bug fixes and minor improvements. Please take a look at the CHANGELOG below.
Please consult our Compatibility page. It explains our version support policy and lists which versions of our software are compatible with which versions of the supported CMS and PHP.