Notice about Microsoft Edge “Sleeping Tabs” feature. Microsoft Edge introduced a new feature called “Sleeping Tabs” which deactivates the JavaScript timers of background tabs after 5' to several hours (default: 2 hours). This may cause long backups running in background tabs to halt and never complete. We now warn you to either stay on the active tab or disable this feature — either globally or just for your own sites. This feature will appear with more aggressive time settings on Chrome very soon and is under consideration on Firefox.
Improved CHANGELOG layout in the Control Panel page. Astonishingly, the CHANGELOG rendering in the Control Panel page hadn't changed for the better part of a decade. It was still using a bitmap image and CSS to display different areas of it to render its iconography. We replaced it with labels rendered with simple CSS, making it easier on your browser's renderer.
Bugfix. Import from S3: you cannot select .jps files. Apparently few people use JPS archives and even fewer use Import from S3. It appears that you could never select JPS files stored in Amazon S3 using the Import from S3 feature. This isn't so much of a bug as a necesary feature never implemented. Oops.
Darker Dark Mode. Our Dark Mode was intentionally designed to be somewhat bright. This had two side-effects. On one hand it was brighter than the dark templates most people would use. Moreover, the contrast between the background and the text was inadequate for people with vision-related disabilities. Considering that Dark Mode is (also) an accessibility feature we addressed this concern.
Removed the recommended PHP version. This has been a source of confusion. The recommended PHP version was placed in the code manually when a new version was finalised, which would typically be two to three weeks before it's released. The previous version released in early January was finalised between around December 3rd, before PHP 7.3 entered its final ‘security fixes only’ support phase. This led to the discrepancy of our software warning you that PHP 7.3 is getting old in the tooth and needs to be upgraded but also saying that the recommended version if 7.3. Since the PHP version warning is time-based, using the official PHP supported versions timeline dates, we decided to remove the recommended versions altogether from these messages and replace them with a note in our Compatibility page that you should always use the latest version of a currently supported PHP branch which is marked as being in ‘active development’.
Bug fixes and minor improvements. Please take a look at the CHANGELOG below.
Please consult our Compatibility page to see which PHP and CMS versions are supported by each version of our software. This page is generated from the metadata attached to each version as it is released on our site.