Release Notes

Please find listed below the updates that we make for WordPress core and the plugins/themes that we manage as part of our Quality Assurance program.

For future dates shown, the changes listed are planned and are available for testing on sites using our ‘beta’ branch. Please contact support for information on access to the beta branch.

The past dates shown indicate the date the change was merged in production during your local change management window.

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  • Updates on March 3, 2026

    Plugin Updates:

    • Reports & Batch Edits: Improve – Individual Theme/Plugin usage reports.
    • Simple Google Search: Improve – Block Theme/FSE compatibility.
    • Accessibility(WP Accessibility): Upgrade – Version 2.3.2.
    • User Widget and Profiles: Improve – Security & Accessibility.

    Theme Updates:

    • CampusPress Flex: Improve – Reduce motion support.
    • Parabola: Upgrade – Version 2.4.2.

    General Updates:

    • Improved multisite site matching to correctly resolve domains with or without www.
  • Updates on February 24, 2026

    WordPress Updates:

    • WordPress Upgrade: Version 6.9.1.

    Plugin Updates:

    • Avatar: Improve – Performance.
    • Posts & Pages Restriction: Improve – Security & Accessibility.
    • Toggle Admin Bar Visibility: Improve – Security & Accessibility.

    Plugin Deprecation:

    • Lightbox for images

  • Updates on February 10, 2026

    Plugin Updates:

    • Category Posts in Custom Menu: Upgrade – Version 3.0.5.
    • Cool Timeline: Upgrade – Version 3.2.1.
    • Post Types Order: Upgrade – Version 2.4.3.

    Theme Updates:

    • Hemingway(hemingway-2014): Improve – WordPress 6.9 compatibility.
  • Updates on February 3, 2026

    Plugin Updates:

    • Google Calendar(Simple Calendar): Upgrade – Version 3.6.2.
    • Bulk Media Downloader: Improve – Security & Accessibility.

  • Updates on January 27, 2026

    Plugin Updates:

    • Advanced Custom Fields Pro: Upgrade – Version 6.7.0.2.
    • Akismet: Upgrade – Version 5.6.
    • Metaslider: Upgrade – Version 3.104.0.
    • Crowdsignal Polls & Ratings: Upgrade – Version 3.1.4.
    • Reports & Batch Edits: Improve – Security & Accessibility.
    • Advanced Settings: Improve – Security & Accessibility.
    • CP SmartCrawl: Improve – Security & Accessibility.
    • Replace Media: Improve – Security & Accessibility.

    Theme Updates:

    • GeneratePress: Upgrade – Version 3.6.1.

  • Updates on January 20, 2026

    WordPress Updates:

    • WordPress 6.9 Upgrade: Shared clusters completed.
    • WordPress 6.9 Upgrade: Dedicated clusters in progress.

    New plugins:

    New plugins are added as Super Admin only by default. Refer to managing plugins documentation on how to enable plugins for all users.

    • Replace Media: Swap out old media with a new version while keeping the same file URL. This makes it simple to refresh documents, images, or PDFs without breaking links or embedded references.

    Plugin Updates:

    • S3 Uploads: Upgrade – Version 3.0.11.
    • LMS Integration: Improve – Google Analytics compatibility.
    • Slide-In: Improve – Accessibility.
    • My Sites Dashboard Extension: Improve – Security & Accessibility.

    Theme Updates:

    • Frost: Initial upload – Version 1.0.10.
    • CampusPress Flex: Improve – Reduce motion support.
  • Updates on December 23, 2025

    Plugin Updates:

    • PublishPress Future: Upgrade – Version 4.9.4.

    Theme Updates:

    • Dyad: Upgrade – Version 1.0.10.
    • Dynamic News Lite: Upgrade – Version 1.6.8.
  • Updates on December 16, 2025

    Plugin Updates:

    • Custom Post Type UI: Upgrade – Version 1.18.2.
    • Reader: Fix – PHP warnings.

    Theme Updates:

    • Diginews: Upgrade – Version 1.6.
    • Doo: Upgrade – Version 1.0.52.
  • Updates on December 9, 2025

    Plugin Updates:

    • My Sites Dashboard Extension: New – cp-my-sites parameter support for scenarios where user has no sites.
    • CoBlocks: Fix – Block editor performance issue.
    • Reader: Fix – UI issue where the Show Widgets section was overlapping the Help tab.

  • Updates on December 2, 2025

    Plugin Updates:

    • Google Calendar(Simple Calendar): Upgrade – Version 3.5.9.
    • Reader: Improve – Post/Comments indexing.

    Theme Deprecation (to be removed on March 3, 2026):

    • Snapshot

    General Updates:

    • Added performance improvements for file operations.