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0.5

• blocking access to wp-comments-post.php only
• error document gives a short explanation why access was denied, links to http://ten-fingers-and-a-brain.com/top-spammers.html
• admin page moved to the Comments section of the admin menu
• IPv6 compatibility
• Notice errors fixed
• automatic updates of .htaccess (when writable)

0.4.3

• links to whois (ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, LACNIC, AfriNIC)
• can't blacklist an IP that has comments pending moderation (likely ham because Akismet hasn't caught them)
• links to ham or moderation queue for IP addresses with ham or comments pending moderation
• layout improvements

0.4.2

• link from Block Top Spammers page to edit-comments.php to display the spam comments from a certain IP
• better support for WP 2.9 and newer: when deleting comments the commentmeta table gets purged, too

0.4.1

• plugin now officially licensed under GPLv3
• list of top spammers can be ordered by IP address
• show no. of different (unique) spammers' IP addresses
• admins can't lock themselves out, i.e. their own client IP can't be blacklisted
• can't blacklist an IP that also has approved comments (ham)

0.4

• separated the code into three .php files
  • top-spammers.php the main plugin file, always loaded, contains minimal code to reduce loading time
  • top-spammers-wp.php the plugin class file, contains all the original plugin code, only loaded in backend
  • top-spammers-template.php the admin-page template file, contains just the admin-page html code, only loaded when admin-page is displayed
• blacklist not autoloaded to reduce loading time
• i18n
• l10n for: de_DE (language file by Martin Lormes)

0.3

• initial public release