WP Rocket⁠ — Wordpress Best Caching Plugin v3.17.3

v3.17.3 November 19th, 2024
Staggered release, version available for 15% of our customers.
Enhancement: Automatically update dynamic lists after the update (#6920)
Enhancement: Remove the “RUCSS” acronym from the button (#7080)
Enhancement: Update the documentation link related to firewall recommendation (#6684)
Enhancement: Upload INP tutorial video into WP Rocket’s Tutorial tab (#6997)
Enhancement: Update RocketCDN URL to the new CNAME (#7027)
Enhancement: Update the code to display the correct license name (#7096)
Bugfix: Fix “Argument 2 ($url) passed to exclude_rocket_from_wp_updates() must be of the type string” error (#7042)
Bugfix: Load translations later in the code to be compatible with WordPress 6.7 (#7102)
Bugfix: Fix a problem when taxonomy pages were not cached when using non-latin characters (#7106)

v3.17.2.1 - November 6th, 2024
Bugfix: Fix a problem with displaying the pagination pages in specific conditions (#7088)

v3.17.2 - October 30th, 2024
Bugfix: Fix a problem with slow query for servers with a lot of databases set up (#7049)
Bugfix: Fix “Undefined property: stdClass::$table_name” PHP Notice (#7028)
Bugfix: Fix “Attempt to read property "id" on bool” PHP Warning (#6892)
Enhancement: Introduce a new About Us tab (#6877)
Enhancement: Exclude “background-images” elements that are not real images from the Optimize Critical Images feature (#6728)
Enhancement: Make sure not to include beacon script when “DONOTROCKETOPTIMIZE” constant is set (#6972)
Enhancement: Exclude elements targeted by "SVG use” from Automatic Lazy Rendering feature (#6978)
Enhancement: Fix a problem when Optimize Critical Images feature was picking wrong image if the scroll happened before launching the script (#7018)
3rd-party compatibility: Exclude “Trust Index Google Widget” CSS files from the LazyLoad for CSS Background Images (#6957)
3rd-party compatibility: Improve compatibility between Imagify plugin and Optimize Critical Images feature (#7011)
New Feature: Use meta generator to display applied optimizations on specific URLs (#6879)

v3.17.1 - October 14th, 2024
Staggered release, version available for 70% of our customers.
Bugfix: Fix a problem with Automatic Lazy Rendering feature which caused broken layouts in specific markups (#6959)
Bugfix: Fix “Argument #3 ($code) must be of type int, string given” fatal error (#6714)
Bugfix: Fix 404 error in console for Safari browser when LazyLoad for CSS Background Images is used (#6453)
Bugfix: Fix “null passed to delete_by_url() when string expected” fatal error (#6887)
Enhancement: Slightly improve performance and reduce CPU usage of the plugin (#6413)
Enhancement: Optimize lookups of the tables in the database by stopping the usage of “SHOW TABLES LIKE” queries (#6460)
Enhancement: Reduce the resources usage for Automatic Lazy Rendering and Optimize Critical Images features (#6964)
Enhancement: Update BerlinDB package inside the plugin (#6986)

v3.17.0.2 - September 26th, 2024
Enhancement: Introduce “rocket_lrc_exclusions” filter to exclude elements from the Automatic Lazy Rendering feature (#6987)(documentation)

v3.16.4 - August 14th, 2024
Enhancement: Refactor of the Optimize Critical Images codebase (#6831)
Bugfix: Fix PHP undefined property warning when using Optimize Critical Images feature (#6814)
Bugfix: Fix rocket_min_rucss_size filter, it was not working in specific circumstances (#6819)
Enhancement: Allow the usage of more than 10 seconds timeout for the rocket_lcp_delay filter (#6741)
Enhancement: Make sure to remove loading=”lazy” attribute when automatically excluding from the lazy load above the fold images (#6657)
Enhancement: Add span element to the list of possible LCP elements when using Optimize Critical Images feature (#6821)
Enhancement: Add data-rocket-defer attribute to the scripts deferred by WP Rocket (#6091)
Enhancement: Allow the removal of <noscript> element generated for the lazyload markup (#5723)

v3.16.3 - July 30th, 2024
Enhancement: Move JavaScript Minification argument exclusions to the backend (#6273)
Enhancement: Remove “My Status” section and reorder dashboard view (#6721)
Enhancement: Remove warnings related to JavaScript and CSS Minification features (#4966)
Enhancement: Improve the way how beacon script is generated (#6771)
Bugfix: Guard against “PHP Warning: strpos(): Empty needle” log entries (#6758)
3rd-party compatibility: Prevent from overwriting the .htaccess file even if it’s empty, compatibility enhancement with Cloudlinux hosting (#6723)
3rd-party compatibility: Remove Auto Minify from the Cloudflare Optimal Settings (#6705)
3rd-party compatibility: Fix detection of the WooCommerce Multilingual standalone version

v3.16.2.1 July 6th, 2024
Bugfix: Guard ‘rocket_preload_delay_between_requests’ filter against unexpected values that might cause fatal errors

v3.16.2 July 4th, 2024

• Enhancement: Automatically slow down the preload for websites which are overloaded (#6396)
• Enhancement: Introduce retry strategy when calling WP Rocket’s website to avoid negative impact on websites during the downtime (#6715)
• Enhancement: Guard beacon script against saving not expected values into the Optimize Critical Images table (#6599)
• Enhancement: Prevent from adding not public post types into the cache table (#5952)
• Enhancement: Truncate the cache table after the domain migration (#5549)
• Enhancement: Add data-rocket-preload argument to the preload elements added by WP Rocket (#6672)
• Bugfix: Make sure to send mobile and desktop URLs to the pre-warmup of Optimize Critical Images feature (#6697, #6752)
• 3rd-party compatibility: Prevent from occasional fatal error when using WP Rocket together with RankMath SEO (#4830)

v3.16.1.1 June 20, 2024
Bugfix: Clear data related to Optimize Critical Images feature upon the update to make sure PHP warning is not logged