This release introduces full compatibility between UpdraftClonePHP 8.4, allowing you to test your WordPress site with the latest version of PHP before upgrading it on your live site.

In addition, there are two important multisite fixes and a number of tweaks to improve overall user experience.

UpdraftClone now supports PHP 8.4

Quickly spin up a clone of your WordPress website to run on PHP 8.4 and check for any compatibility issues, before updating on live.  It takes just a few clicks. Spin it up directly from UpdraftPlus and shut the clone down when you’re done.

How to test your WordPress site with PHP 8.4

1. Buy UpdraftClone tokens from our website.
2. Visit the UpdraftPlus >> Migrate / Clone tab on your website.
3. Click the Create a temporary clone on our servers (UpdraftClone) button.
4. Login to your account.
5. Select PHP version 8.4.
6. Choose the nearest clone region to your location.
7. Click the Create clone button.

UpdraftClone is great for experimenting with upgrades, new themes, plugins and so on. Learn more about UpdraftClone or contact us if you have any questions.

Other improvements

• Multisite to single site migrations now have improved reliability after an important fix which ensures UpdraftPlus remains active after the restoration has completed.
• This release also fixes an issue that caused the UpdraftPlus plugin page to become inaccessible.  It generated a page access error if the WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE constant was not declared in the wp-config.php file.

For a full list of changes, please review our changelog below.

Changelog

• Fix: Implement code to enable automatic activation of the UpdraftPlus plugin during the migration process from a multisite setup to a standalone site.
• Fix: In a multisite environment, ensure that users can access the UpdraftPlus plugin page even in the absence of the WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE constant.
• Tweak: Prevent a potential PHP deprecation notice when zip creation fails.
• Tweak: Add customised unserialize method into the UpdraftPlus class which can handle the use of the “options” argument or its absence when running across different PHP versions.
• Tweak: Add the UPDRAFTPLUS_SEND_UNWRITABLE_BACKUP_DIRECTORY_EMAIL constant to disable the sending of unwritable backup directory emails to users.
• Tweak: During the resumption of OneDrive’s chunk uploads, the authorisation header and bearer token should not be included as it may lead to an unauthenticated error due to a different upload URL.
• Tweak: Clearer notifications to users regarding unconfigured remote storage settings and/or the selection of remote storage that are not part of their UpdraftPlus version.
• Tweak: The update functionalities in the WordPress plugin information box (6.5 and later) have been adjusted to stop updates from taking place in the same window, ensuring that the “auto-backup before update” dialog appears as intended.