UpdraftPlus 1.10.3 (free) / 2.10.3 (paid) is in process of being released.

The biggest new feature, for UpdraftPlus Premium users, is the ability to directly send a backup set to a remote site. With a few clicks, for example, you can send a copy of the theme on your staging site over to your live site, ready to deploy. This is much more efficient than downloading a backup archive on one site and then uploading it on the other (and more efficient than the other alternative, of configuring both sites to use the same remote storage location, e.g. same Dropbox).

Beyond that, there is the usual collection of tweaks to improve efficiency, usability, to fix bugs, and to work-around corner-cases of weird webserver setups to make sure UD works everywhere it possibly can. Thanks also again to the translators who continue to make UpdraftPlus available in so many languages (13 have >90% available; a further 8 have at least two-thirds. There’s plenty room for more, if you’re interesting in helping translate our plugins).

As ever, we recommend updating once you see the update available in your WP dashboard – it’s our best UpdraftPlus yet!

Changelog

• Feature: Migration component can now send backup data directly from one WP site to another.
• Feature: Support active mode FTP servers (extremely rare)
• Fix: The error message when choosing no components to restore was empty
• Fix: Restore ability to run on WordPress 3.5 (actually fixed in downloads of 1.10.1 after 2015-05-13)
• Fix: Some automatic pre-upgrade backups were not marked internally as such, leading UD to delete the oldest scheduled backup prematurely backups prematurely
• Tweak: Reduce HTTP round-trips when checking presence + downloading backup archives in a restore/migrate operation
• Tweak: Alert the user earlier if they’re trying to use a database with a character set not supported by MySQL
• Tweak: Use separate internal jobs for separate downloads, and thus avoid race conditions when updating job data (symptom: download widgets that don’t show current information)
• Tweak: Add constant UPDRAFTPLUS_SFTP_TIMEOUT allowing users to over-ride (via wp-config.php) the default SFTP timeout (default now: 15 seconds).
• Tweak: Make Copy.Com filter out non-backups from remote file listings at an earlier stage
• Tweak: Log more information when a curl error occurs when getting a OneDrive access token
• Tweak: Code re-arrangement in OneDrive library to deal with sites using the obsolete PHP safe_mode
• Tweak: Clearer message for users whose access to paid plugin updates has expired (paid versions)
• Tweak: Improve detection of started pre-upgrade automatic backups in case of webserver misbehaviour
• Tweak: Fix untranslated message when confirming the wiping of settings
• Tweak: Replace more non-SSL links to updraftplus.com with SSL links
• Tweak: Use a ‘POST’ instead of a ‘GET’ during one of the restore sub-stages (avoids a false positive on some mod_security setups)
• Tweak: Improve backup-file-naming routine to reduce the times when no ASCII name can be found (ASCII is preferred as not all cloud storage methods will accept arbitrary characters in filenames)
• Tweak: Don’t keep a log file (unless debug mode is on) for scheduled tasks that result in the result that nothing needs backing up
• Tweak: Remove cache files from Cherry Framework child themes upon migration (framework misbehaves if cache files are present after URL change)