(.0)NEW: Brand New Shield Dashboard
With the help of some feedback from clients, we've made significant enhancements to the Shield UI. A brand-new Shield dashboard centralises everything related to Shield giving you a consistent, clean launchpad to perform security tasks.
(.0)NEW: MainWP Integration/Extension
You can now manage your Shield Security plugin directly from within your MainWP WordPress management control panel. The Shield Security Extension page will highlight all sites with any scan issues that need your attention. For now, the functionality is limited to installing, activating and deactivating the Shield plugin.
(.0)NEW: IP Analyse Tool Enhancements
Based on customer feedback we've added links to the IP Analyse tool to let you quickly perform blocks or bypass on an IP. The identification of a 'known' IP address now also draws information from the IP Bypass labels.
(.0)IMPROVED: Enhanced Plugin Badge
Based on customer feedback we've added the ability to customize the plugin badge based on Whitelabel settings. You'll may also use a WordPress filter to make fine adjustments to settings and styles of the badge.
(.0)IMPROVED: Huge Codebase Refactor
With our earlier move to PHP 7.0, we're continuing with our codebase cleanup and optimisations.
(.0)IMPROVED: Shield Overview Styles
With some feedback and suggestions provided by clients, we've improved our Shield Overview design.
(.1)FIXED: iControlWP Whitelist
Fix to ensure iControlWP is properly whitelisted.
(.0)NEW: Enhanced Dashboard Overview UI
The new Dashboard Overview provides a simplified display of all security items on your site. You can quickly discover where your site is doing well, and what areas need immediate attention or improvements. Responsive filters let you filter by individual Shield modules and the current status of each item.
(.0)NEW: SureSend Email Delivery
Most WordPress sites aren't properly configured to send emails, so sometimes they don't arrive. This is a critical issue when 2-Factor Authentication emails don't go where they should. SureSend uses the ShieldNET API to deliver 2FA emails so that you always get them.
(.0)NEW: IP Analysis Tool
Discover all the ways an IP address is interacting with your site, in 1 place. Rather than jump around looking at different tables and filtering by IP address, you can see all information in the IP Analyse tool.
(.0)NEW: Force Shield Locale
An option has been added that lets you force Shield to always display in certain locale. Setting this option will override user's profile locale for anything relating to Shield. This setting doesn't affect the locale for any other part of a WordPress site.
(.0)NEW: Huawei (Petal) Bot Detection
Added support for detection of Huawei search engine bot/spider.
(.3)NEW: Shield plugin badge URL may be replaced using White Label settings
The URL used in the Shield plugin badge may be replaced using the Home URL provided in White Label settings.
(.0)IMPROVED: PHP 7+ Only
PHP 7.0+ is required to run Shield v10. This change in minimum requirements lets us optimise Shield code for PHP 7 and better prepare for PHP 8.
(.0)IMPROVED: More reliable 2FA email codes
2FA codes generated for email 2FA are more reliable.
(.0)CHANGED: U2F two-factor authentication can now be standalone
Due to the experimental nature of the U2F implementation, you needed at least one other 2FA factor active on your profile before you could enable U2F.
(.0)FIXED: Server Public IPv6 Detection
Detection of your WordPress server's public IPv6 address has been fixed.
(.0)FIXED: HTTP loopback tests would timeout
HTTP loopback request now has a longer timeout to be more reliable for slow sites.
(.0)FIXED: Link Cheese requests could be missed
Detection of requests to link cheese is improved.
(.0)FIXED: Potential PHP error
A PHP error has been fixed which would occur in some cases.
(.1)FIXED: Database creation may delete existing tables
In some cases during plugin upgrade, some table may get inadvertently deleted.
(.2)FIXED: Fatal error when IP address isn't detected