UpdraftPlus 1.11.12 (free versions) / 2.11.12 (paid versions) is in the process of being released – look for it in your WP dashboard’s ‘Updates’ page in the next day or so. Thank you for making UpdraftPlus to be WordPress’s #1-most installed backup/restore plugin!

New features and tweaks include…

• A way to quickly delete multiple or all backup sets
• More sophisticated options for backup retention (UpdraftPlus Premium)
• The ability to exclude files with specific extensions from your backup
• Slightly prettier ways to choose your remote storage options
• Tested and supported on the forthcoming PHP 7.0

Not yet upgraded to our flagship product, UpdraftPlus Premium? Take a look here!

Changelog

The full changelog follows below. It’s a recommended update for all.

• Feature: More sophisticated rules for retention/deletion (UpdraftPlus Premium)
• Feature: Delete multiple backups at once
• Feature: When choosing a monthly backup, you can now choose the starting date (e.g. choose 17th, not just choose the next week-day, e.g. next Monday)
• Feature: You can exclude files with any particular extension by using the constant UPDRAFTPLUS_EXCLUDE_EXTENSIONS (comma-separate different extensions), or by inputting (for example) ext:.zip,ext:.mp4 in your exclusion settings.
• Feature: Tested and supported on the forthcoming PHP 7.0
• Fix: SFTP uploads could hang after finishing, if more than one attempt was needed to upload the file
• Fix: Stop causing JavaScript errors on WordPress 3.2 on the plugins page
• Tweak: UI improvement when choosing multiple storage options
• Tweak: The storage selection drop-down (free version) now has icons to make it easier on the eye
• Tweak: Use UpdraftPlus Vault logo
• Tweak: Replace target=”_new” with target=”_blank” when opening new browser ports, to be more standards-compliant
• Tweak: Tweak the auto-split algorithm again to catch another case where it would have been better to split in a low-resource situation
• Tweak: When checking the backup integrity, allow for a multisite to not have a root options table; check sitemeta instead (unlikely, but theoretically possible)
• Tweak: Raise default Google Drive network timeout from 15 seconds – it’s too possible to hit this on a slow uplink (e.g. congested ADSL)
• Tweak: Upgrade the bundled Google SDK to the most recent release (1.1.4)
• Tweak: Add previously-untranslated string
• Tweak: Suppress a PHP notice relating to a constant that needed quoting
• Tweak: Turn off reporting of PHP deprecation conditions if using phpseclib on PHP 7 (can break communications – phpseclib uses PHP4-style constructors)
• Translations: Various updated translations