v.2.2.1

This bugfix release improve synchronization of warm up queue state with cache state. The synchronization is now only done in WP-CLI and backend contexts - never on frontend #76.

v.2.2.0

This release has been tested with WordPress 5.9.

Important: it is recommended to clear the cache when updating to this version as some internal data structures have changed.

Added

• WP-CLI command bc-cache warm-up to run cache warm up from command line #71.
• Cache warm up now works on any website with XML sitemap(s) #73.
• Cache Viewer now displays warm up progress as well #74.
• Warm up can be immediately started from Cache Viewer #66.

Changed

• The bc-cache/filter:cache-warm-up-enable filter has been removed - use BC_CACHE_WARM_UP_ENABLED constant to disable cache warm up #75.
• The bc-cache/filter:disable-cache-locking filter has been removed - use BC_CACHE_FILE_LOCKING_ENABLED constant to disable file locking instead #75.

v.2.1.1

Re-activate warm up crawler after single cache entries are deleted either via WP-CLI command or Cache Viewer #72.

v.2.1.0

Improve cache warm up feature and include some further improvements and tweaks.

Added

• Plugin should be compatible with PHP 8.1 #67.
• Plugin deactivates itself automatically if pretty permalink structure is not activated #69.
• Cache warm up works on websites with XML sitemaps output by The SEO Framework plugin #58. Note: version 4.2.0 or newer of The SEO Framework is required for the integration to work.
• Cache warm up works on websites with XML sitemaps output by Yoast SEO plugin #57. Note: version 17.0 or newer of Yoast SEO is required for the integration to work.
• Cache warm up works on Polylang-powered multilanguage websites #59.
• When a cache entry is deleted via WP-CLI or Cache Viewer, all variants of related URL are added to cache warm up queue automatically #60.
• Introduce bc-cache/filter:cache-warm-up-initial-url-list filter.

Changed

• Change name of following cache warm up related filter: bc-cache/filter:cache-warm-url-list is now bc-cache/filter:cache-warm-up-final-url-list.

Fixed

• WP-CLI delete and remove commands do actually work now #61.

Removed

• Plugin no longer officially supports PHP 7.2, PHP 7.3 or newer is required.

v.2.0.2

This is a hotfix release:

• Output buffer handling has been optimized to improve integration with other plugins #63

v.2.0.1

This is a hotfix release:

• Avoid falling into infinite loop when server starts having problems with loopback requests [#62]

v.2.0.0

WordPress 5.5 or newer is required.

This release brings major new feature: cache warm up #15. See README for more information.

This release also contains some breaking changes:

• Use of add_theme_support has been refactored #48.
• Cache directory structure has been flattened #45. As a nice side-effect of this change, the .htaccess rules are now compatible with 7G firewall.

Other notable changes in this release:

• The _gl query string tracking parameter does not interfere with caching #53. Note that .htaccess file should be updated accordingly to make full use of this feature.
• On WordPress 5.8 and newer the plugin cannot be accidentally overriden from WordPress.org Plugins Directory #51.

Some bugs have been fixed too:

• Sortable columns in Cache Viewer can be used for sorting again #54.

v.1.9.2

This bugfix release properly excludes XML sitemap stylesheet from caching [#47].

v.1.9.1

• test with WordPress 5.7
• prefix Disallow directive in robots.txt with User-Agent rule [#52]

v.1.9.0

WordPress 5.3 is now required.

• fix/improve internal handling of timestamps [#40]
• automatically flush the cache when a term is created/deleted/edited [#44] or site widgets configuration changes [#46]
• do not cache default WordPress sitemap introduced in WP 5.5 [#47]