The latest and greatest UpdraftPlus is on its way to your WP ‘Updates’ screen. This includes a number of bug-fixes, tweaks and internal improvements. It adds the ability for PHP 5.2 users to use more Amazon S3 regions, plus adds another internal building block towards a future much-awaited ‘Incremental backups’ feature.

One bug in particular could, in a particular unlikely but seen-in-the-wild situation, cause Backblaze B2 backups to falsely report as being successful when they were not. As such, whilst it’s a recommended update for everybody, we particularly recommend Backblaze users to prioritise updating.

Have you yet seen our flagship product, UpdraftPlus Premium? It’s the product that bundles every add-on, free Vault storage, and Premium support in an all-in-one package – please do take a look if you haven’t already got it!

Changelog

• Feature: Now supports AWS v4 signatures (allowing use of new AWS regions) with old S3 SDK (which is used on PHP 5.2)
• Fix: WebDAV options filter was not correctly saving any human-chosen description
• Fix: Regression: Rackspace ‘New user’ wizard was not functioning
• Fix: For chunked storage APIs that require a method to finally re-assemble chunks, if the first attempt failed, then a subsequent failed attempt could be incorrectly marked as having succeeded
• Fix: First instance of each remote storage object was not using its internal default options
• Tweak: Added the ability to restore incremental backup sets (N.B. currently you cannot create incremental backup sets; this is part of our development of that feature)
• Tweak: Edit welcome banner
• Tweak: If ‘Lock admin’ functionality (Premium) has been disabled by the site administrator, then include a line to that effect in the relevant section.
• Tweak: Allow UpdraftCentral classes to have boiler-plate pre and post-call methods
• Tweak: Do a bit more logging for Backblaze B2 uploads
• Tweak: Add a sanity check to prevent some PHP debug notices being logged in an upgrade situation
• Tweak: Resolved unwanted WebDAV remote storage JavaScript console message