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W3 Total Cache

Improve site performance and user experience via caching: browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery network support.

Download Version 0.9.2.4

0.9.2.4

  • Added support for Microsoft SQL Server
  • Added API support for MediaTemple ProCDN (EdgeCast)
  • Added set_time_limit to self test
  • Fixed LiteSpeed web server support
  • Fixed native hostname 301 redirect
  • Fixed redundant object origin push export
  • Fixed WSOD (white screen of death) caused by minify in some hosting configurations
  • Fixed text encoding in feeds
  • Fixed incorrect mime-type in feeds (which caused feedburner anomalies)
  • Fixed array to string notices
  • Fixed expires header support for AWS
  • Fixed minification of font-family
  • Fixed object cache write issue in WP Admin
  • Improved (reduced) memory utilization by up to 70%
  • Improved disk enhanced page caching performance
  • Improved object caching performance
  • Improved activation reliability
  • Improved reliability of minify auto mode
  • Improved security (added nonces, no directory indexing, prevent direct file access)
  • Improved compatibility with network based file systems

0.9.2.3

  • Added additional CloudFlare IP range
  • Fixed html tidy encoding
  • Fixed NetDNA / MaxCDN purging
  • Improved handling of markers in .htaccess files - easier upgrades
  • Improved cache busting logic
  • Improved numerous notifications and user interface behaviors
  • Improved AWS S3 and Cloudfront reliability
  • Improved reliability of minify auto mode

0.9.2.2

  • Fixed minify directives, e.g.: "File param is missing," causing minify caching to fail
  • Fixed document root detection for IIS server
  • Fixed HTTP compression when using CloudFlare
  • Fixed HTML validation with JavaScript embed tags
  • Fixed fancy permalinks, sites with or without trailing slashes can now cache pages using disk enhanced
  • Fixed appending WP_CACHE define into wp-config.php for some users
  • Fixed path to JSON.php
  • Fixed listing of buckets error with AWS S3
  • Improved compatibility with WordPress SEO by Yoast, 404 error exception list sitemap value changed to: sitemap(_index|[0-9]+)?.xml(.gz)?

0.9.2.1

  • Fixed existing installation upgrades: set minify to manual mode by default
  • Fixed unsuccessful transfer queue button
  • Fixed background in lightbox
  • Fixed handling of local http requests being blocked on some hosts
  • Disabled CDN for minify files when auto mode is selected and the CDN method is origin push

0.9.2

  • Added support for nginx web server
  • Added support for CloudFlare
  • Added origin pull support for Amazon Cloudfront
  • Added Microsoft Azure Storage support for CDN
  • Added WinCache opcode cache support
  • Added additional minifier engines for HTML, CSS and JS including: HTMLtidy, CSStidy, Closure Compiler, YUI Compressor
  • Added Google Page Speed integration
  • Added support for @import processing
  • Added controls for page cache purging policy
  • Added auto mode for minify (not compatible with CDN)
  • Added support for set cookie domain setting
  • Added reliability improvements for Amazon Web Services
  • Added referrer group management for uniquely caching these cases
  • Added Amazon S3 bucket location selection control
  • Added support CNAMEs confguration support for Amazon Cloudfront
  • Added purge tool
  • Added support of custom wp-config.php location
  • Added cache busting support
  • Improved object caching performance when no plugins are active
  • Improved non-blocking JS embedding implementation
  • Improved reliability of CDN export operations
  • Improved implementation of headers for all cache engines
  • Improved minify help (recommendations) tool
  • Improved handling of .htaccess directive changes
  • Improved support of IIS web server
  • Improved varnish support
  • Fixed bugs with API changes with Rackspace Cloudfiles
  • Fixed bugs with origin push content delivery network methods
  • Fixed HTML encoding
  • Fixed emptying cache for various cache keys
  • Fixed rejected CDN file support
  • Fixed HTTPS mode in WP Admin
  • Fixed relative document root for disk enhanced page cache
  • Fixed trailing slash for disk enhanced page cache
  • Fixed minify template group settings being lost upon upgrade
  • Fixed division by zero error
  • Fixed object cache clones
  • Moved browser cache rules to site root instead of document root

0.9.1.3

  • Improved error messages with AWS S3 CDN
  • Added SSL support for CDN
  • Added control for CDN queue upload interval
  • Added option for 404 file exceptions list in browser cache
  • Added exception for NextGen Gallery flash image rotator to CDN settings
  • Fixed external file imports
  • Fixed document root detection for CDN
  • Fixed minify file search
  • Fixed bugs with AWS CloudFront distribution creation and saving
  • Fixed Rackspace Cloud Files API

0.9.1.2

  • Improved media library import compatibility
  • Improved various notifications
  • Changed expires implementation to last accessed instead of last modified
  • Resolved Apache 1.3 compatibility issue
  • Fixed issues with document root detection on some servers
  • Fixed an issue with minification of script tags with HTML comments inside
  • Fixed minify gzip compression
  • Fixed cache-control headers
  • Fixed empty fatal error notification on network activation
  • Fixed minify when https is active
  • Fixed fatal error upon activation when uploads path does not exist

0.9.1.1

  • Added an additional notification to help users identify incomplete installations upon activation
  • Reverted previous Cloud Files workaround
  • Fixed preview mode buttons
  • Fixed duplicate entries appearing when using minify help tool more than once
  • Fixed browser cache rules generation for media files

0.9.1

  • Improved Rackspace Cloud Files implementation
  • Improved frequently asked questions implementation to support incomplete PHP distributions
  • Fixed 500 Internal Server Error when upgrading with Disk enhanced mode enabled
  • Fixed notification issues with preview mode
  • Fixed an issue with fatal errors with minify and memcache(d) caching engine

0.9

  • Added preview feature so all cache settings can be reviewed prior to deployment
  • Added minify configuration wizard (help button on minify tab)
  • Added "never cache the following pages" to database and object cache
  • Added minify option to JavaScript embed after <body>
  • Added minify error notifications
  • Added drag and drop dependency resolution for minify CSS / JavaScript groups
  • Added object caching
  • Added option to automatically page cache prime (preload) with or without XML sitemap
  • Added support for multiple CNAMEs to CDN
  • Added support for minifcation of any respective theme installed a single site
  • Added support for page caching of multiple themes for various user agent groups
  • Added support for theme switching / redirection based on groups of user agents
  • Added compatibility with WP Super Cache fragment caching method (disk basic mode only)
  • Added HTTP compression and headers for AWS S3
  • Added ignored comment stems field, with Google AdSense default value to HTML minify
  • Added support for varnish purging
  • Added Rackspace Cloud Files support
  • Added native NetDNA / MaxCDN integration
  • Added option to cache 404 pages
  • Added changed files auto-upload to CDN
  • Added option to handle 404 errors for static objects directly with the web server
  • Added support for gravity forms to database cache default settings
  • Added changed file auto-upload to CDN
  • Database connection errors now return internal server (500) error response and are thus not cached
  • Incomplete plugin installation / removal no longer generates public errors
  • Unterminated string errors no longer display publicly
  • Support tab improvements
  • Install tab improvements
  • Resolved conflicts with disk enhanced .htaccess directives insertion
  • Improved compatibility with all mobile plugins
  • Improved AWS reliability
  • Improved browser caching support and management
  • Improved directory management for disk caching methods for increased performance
  • Improved handling of missing minify files
  • Improved Media Library import
  • Improved Multi Site support
  • Improved SSL interoperability

0.8.5.2

  • Added support for Bad Behavior plugin
  • Added support for eAccelerator 0.9.5.3 and XCache opcode caches
  • Added support for rewriting href attribute of anchors for images that use the CDN
  • Added deflate http compression support to minify
  • Added setting of file modification time after FTP upload
  • Added check of file modification time and file size before FTP upload
  • Added check of file hash before uploading to Amazon S3
  • Added option to force replacement of uploaded attachments on CDN
  • Added option to toggle feed minification
  • Added combine only option for CSS minification to overcome invalid CSS files
  • Added configuration file import / export
  • Database caching now disabled by default to improve compatibility with some shared hosting environments
  • Default page caching method now disk enhanced
  • Improved HTTP Compression inter-operability
  • Improved compatibility with Multi Site Manager
  • Improved apache compatibility
  • Improved .htaccess directives
  • Improved header management for posts / pages
  • Improved notifications
  • Improved minify handling of external files
  • Improved minify memory limit to avoid blank pages when document size is large
  • Improved minify reliability by reducing comment removal options
  • Improved Media Library Import versatility
  • Improved reliability of plugin activation in WordPress MU
  • Improved security handling for some operations
  • Improved reliability of handling file names containing spaces in CDN functionality
  • Improved non-blocking embedding reliability
  • Improved memcached detection by supporting only PECL memcache
  • Fixed disk enhanced method of page cache in WordPress MU
  • Fixed false match of page cache files in disk enhanced method of page cache
  • Fixed cron anomalies caused by caching of wp_options table
  • Fixed missing trailing slash issue when using disk enhanced page caching
  • Fixed auto-embed bug CSS and JS when already manually embedded

0.8.5.1

  • Added option to CDN Settings to skip specified directories
  • Added option to allow for full control of HTTP compression options for page cache (some WordPress installations have issues with deflate)
  • Added sql_calc_found_rows to default auto reject SQL list
  • Added more notification cases identified and configured
  • Added new mobile user agents for Japanese market
  • Page cache performance improvements for disk enhanced mode
  • Improved FAQ and option descriptions
  • Improved apache directives for minify headers
  • Improved handling of redirects
  • Improved name space to avoid issues with other plugins
  • Improved handling of incomplete installations, caching runs with default options if custom settings file does not exist
  • Fixed anomalies with memcached-client.php in some environments
  • Fixed another interface bug with management of minify files
  • Fixed minor bug with table column length for some MySQL versions
  • Fixed minify bug with CRLF
  • Fixed minify bug with handling of zlib compression enabled
  • Fixed handling of pages with CDN Media Library import

0.8.5

  • Added "enhanced" disk caching mode for page cache, a 160% performance improvement over basic mode
  • Added disk caching as an option for Database Cache
  • Added CDN support for Amazon S3 and CloudFront
  • Added mobile user agent rejection and redirect fields to page cache for handling mobile user agents
  • Added Submit Bug Report tab
  • Added support for detection of custom templates for minify groups
  • Added separate controls expiration time field for minify and page cache settings
  • Added PHP4 Support Notification to handle fatal errors on activation
  • Improved database caching by 45%
  • Improved handling of cache-control HTML headers
  • Improved handing of 3rd Party CSS file minification
  • Improved media library import reliability
  • Improved handling of DOCUMENT_ROOT on some servers
  • Improved garbage collection routine
  • Improved handling of <pre> and <textarea> minification
  • Improved handling of regular expressions in custom file list in CDN settings
  • Improved handling of media library attachments in RSS feeds
  • Improved handing of subdomains for CDN settings
  • Improved various notifications and error messages
  • Improved optional .htaccess directives (located in /ini/_htaccess)
  • Fixed JS minifcation saving group settings
  • Fixed false positives for duplicate CSS or JS in minify settings
  • Fixed bug causing settings to be lost on upgrade
  • Fixed attachment URI when CDN mode enabled
  • Fixed small bug with FTP upload when CDN Method is Mirror (Origin Pull)
  • Fixed the URI for wlwmanfiest.xml when CDN enabled
  • Fixed handling of HTTPS objects according to options
  • Fixed emptying disk cache under various obscure permutations
  • Fixed handling of obscure open_basedir restrictions
  • Fixed various bugs with emptying cache under various obscure permutations
  • Fixed installations deeper than document root

0.8

  • Added disk as method for page caching
  • Added support for mirror (origin pull) content delivery networks
  • Added options to specify minify group policies per template
  • Added options for toggling inline CSS and JS minification to improve minify reliability
  • Added option to update Media Library attachment hostnames (when migrating domains etc)
  • Added "Empty Cache" buttons to respective tabs
  • Added additional file download fallback methods for minify
  • Improved cookie handling
  • Improved header handling
  • Improved reliability of Media Library import
  • "Don't cache pages for logged in users" is now the default page cache setting
  • Fixed minify bug with RSS feeds
  • Fixed minify bug with rewriting of url() URI in CSS
  • Addressed more page cache invalidity cases
  • Addressed rare occurrence of PHP fatal errors when saving post or comments
  • Addressed CSS bug on wp-login.php
  • Addressed rare MySQL error when uploading attachments to Media Library
  • Modified plugin file/directory structure
  • Confirmed compatibility with varnish and squid

0.7.5.2

  • Added warning dialog to minify tab about removal of query strings locally hosted object URIs
  • Added empty (memcached) cache button to each tab
  • Improved reliability of memcache flush
  • Minified files now (optionally) upload automatically according to update interval (expiry time)
  • Changed directory of minify working files to wp-content/w3tc-cache/
  • Fixed parsing memcached server strings
  • Fixed minify sometimes not creating files as it should
  • Addressed WordPress network activation/deactivation issues
  • Provided memcache.ini directives updated to improve network throughput

0.7.5.1

  • Added memcached test button for convenience
  • Added option to concatenate any script to header or footer with non-blocking options for scripts that cannot be minified (e.g. obfuscated scripts)
  • Added options to concatenate JS files only in header or footer (for use with obfuscated scripts)
  • Improved notification handling
  • Improved compatibility with suPHP
  • Improved reliability of Media Library Export
  • Fixed database cache that caused comment counts to become out of date
  • Fixed minor issue with URI with CDN functionality enabled
  • Removed unnecessary minify options
  • Minification error dialogs now disabled when JS or CSS minify settings disabled
  • Normalized line endings with /n as per minify author's direction
  • Resolved bug in the minify library preventing proper permission notification messages

0.7.5

  • Added handling for magic_quotes set to on
  • Fixed issue with auto-download/upgrade and additional error checking
  • Fixed bug preventing minify working properly if either CSS or JS minification was disabled
  • Improved handling of inline comments and JavaScript in HTML documents
  • Improved handing of @import CSS embedding
  • Addressed privilege control issue
  • Resolved warnings thrown in various versions of WordPress
  • Memcached engine logic modified to better support clustering and multiple memcached instances
  • Eliminated false negatives in a number of gzip / deflate compression analysis tools
  • Total plugin file size reduced

0.7

  • Added minify support for URIs starting with /
  • WordPress network mode support bug fixes
  • Minor CDN uploader fixes
  • Minor error message improvements

0.6

  • Added "Debug Mode" listing all settings and queries with statistics
  • Improved error message notifications
  • Improved cache stability for large objects
  • FAQ and installation instructions corrections/adjustments
  • Support for multiple wordpress installations added
  • Resolved bug in minification of feeds

0.5

  • Initial release

Requires: 2.8 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.2.1
Last Updated: 2011-8-26 Downloads: 971,020

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