coreSecurity Pro version 3.0 is a big update that updates system requirements, includes a lot of updates to Antispam, HTACCESS and IP banning handling. Includes new shared library, improved core code and has many bugs fixed.
Plugin now requires PHP 8.0 or newer, and old (unsupported and insecure) PHP 7.x versions are no longer supported. If you attempt to run on PHP 7.x, you will most likely end up with fatal errors. The PHP requirements will allow us to modernize the code base, improve security by design and use more great PHP features.
coreSecurity Pro has switched to use new API endpoints to get some security related data from Dev4Press website. HTACCESS options have been expanded with additional control for adding banned IPs. All the antispam features have been greatly improved with new optional regex detection rules, massive optimizations for speed and accuracy, improved DNS checker for email domains and more. And, the tools to ban IPs are expanded to allow banning IP CIDR ranges, and plugin also includes set of optional CIDR ranges of known bot networks. IP detection is vastly improved to better process what IP is real and what is spoofed, it will stop banning IPs from private/local ranges and will always try to skip those address if multiple IPs are detected from request.
Dictionary values are expanded for various antispam types of detection, regular expressions are optimized and cleaned, with new rules added to combat recent types of spam affecting WordPress comments and forms. New coreSecrurity Pro version 3.0, fixes several bugs: some PHP 8.3+ related warnings, issues with styling on some panels, translations loading warning, some layout issues and more.
coreSecurity Pro 3.0
10 Antispam Features
27 More Security Features
11 Security Headers
3 Inspector Tools
To see the list of all the changes in this version, please check out the changelog. If you find any issues with the new version, please, report them in the support forums.
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