WP Cache Autopilot

Cache Invalidator Changelog

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11.1.1 – 2026-04-30

• Fix: Bare single site-editor template no longer targets pages; pages resolve through page/singular per WordPress hierarchy. Use the ekesto_ci_single_template_post_types filter to opt back in.

11.1.0 – 2026-04-29

• New: Timed invalidation now includes a “Use post type settings” mode for replaying configured host targets.
• Enhancement: Timed rules can now include post type archives and public taxonomy archives from selected host settings.
• Enhancement: Timed invalidation now logs clearer target counts for configured host replay runs.
• Fix: Uninstall now removes the plugin’s remaining settings and temporary cache data for a cleaner database.
• Fix: Uninstall now also removes support debug log files created by the plugin.

11.0.7 – 2026-04-27

• Fix: WooCommerce variation changes now refresh the parent product page.
• Fix: Deterministic relationship targets now keep trusted URL status in sync emissions, so valid grouped-parent targets are no longer dropped downstream.
• Fix: Relationship trust scope remains strict to internally resolved post IDs mapped to permalinks; archive and extension-added URLs stay untrusted.

11.0.6 – 2026-04-24

• Fix: Pick up non-Elementor editor saves.

11.0.5 – 2026-04-24

• Fix: Restore venue host resolution.

11.0.4 – 2026-04-23

• Enhancement: Async invalidation now uses one global switch with reliable sync fallback, so cache updates are always reflected.
• Fix: Elementor template saves now keep their previous condition state persistently, so invalidation remains reliable even after long idle periods.

11.0.3 – 2026-04-22

• Fix: Elementor presentation template condition changes now invalidate both previous and current page targets in one deterministic pass.
• Enhancement: Elementor condition-change diagnostics now focus on final-state transition and effective target signals with reduced debug noise.

11.0.2 – 2026-04-21

• Fix: Support debug log view works again in a new browser tab without breaking token-based security checks.
• Fix: Administrators now always see Access Control settings again.

11.0.0 – 2026-04-21

• Breaking: Access control is now binary; users can either have full manage access or no access.
• Enhancement: Roles now use a simplified None/Manage model and user overrides are managed as an explicit selected-users list.
• Fix: Settings and access control now save through one flow with a unified dirty-state signal.

10.3.6 – 2026-04-20

• Fix: Settings JavaScript and styles now always include a version hash to prevent stale browser cache after plugin updates.
• Enhancement: Asset version resolution is now hardened with per-file metadata and deterministic fallback behavior.

10.3.5 – 2026-04-20

• Enhancement: Manual single-target cache clear detection is now stricter and only accepts validated one-page targets.
• Fix: Targeted signal dedupe now includes the source hook, preventing accidental same-request suppression across different purge paths.
• Fix: Unsupported Breeze runtime URL hooks were removed from signal ingestion to avoid false targeted invalidation.
• Enhancement: Breeze now supports intent-based single-page invalidation from the admin “Clear cache” action with nonce and permission validation.

10.3.4 – 2026-04-19

• New: Added tokenized support debug view endpoints (POST /support-debug/view-token, GET /support-debug/view) for refresh-safe in-browser log viewing.
• Security: Support debug view tokens are short-lived, user-bound, and HMAC-signed; the view route validates token claims plus logged-in cookie identity and required capability.
• Fix: Support debug View no longer depends on _wpnonce URL auth, eliminating intermittent rest_cookie_invalid_nonce failures in wp-admin.
• Fix: Support debug tokenized view responses now enforce strict no-cache headers and timestamped open URLs to avoid stale cached content on reload.
• Fix: Trigger registry debug logs (option_triggers_registered, global_triggers_registered) now emit only for real admin UI requests (excluding cron, REST, AJAX, and favicon noise).
• Enhancement: EmissionHelper is now the single emission boundary for ekesto_ci_invalidation_urls; all emissions are canonicalized and always include context.urls.
• Fix: Canonical emission rules now enforce GLOBAL_INVALIDATION payloads with urls=[] and explicit skip logs for empty targeted payloads (eci_emission_skipped_empty_targeted).
• Enhancement: Added centralized adapter signal recursion/dedupe protection (AdapterSignalGuard) with request-local ingestion/suppression logging.
• New: Added SystemInvalidationListener for lifecycle/system ownership (upgrader_process_complete, plugin activate/deactivate, manual full refresh), with plugin lifecycle unified under global_invalidation.plugin_update.
• Enhancement: Adapter operational authority is now centralized in AdapterManager::hasOperationalAdapter() with fail-closed filter bridge ekesto_ci_has_operational_adapter.

10.3.3 – 2026-04-17

• Fix: NON_STRUCTURAL elementor_library saves now use neutral global fallback identity (non_structural_change) instead of Elementor template fallback attribution.
• Breaking: Replaced global option lifecycle listeners with explicit option-trigger registration only (ekesto_ci_option_triggers).
• New: Added selector-driven option execution filter (ekesto_ci_option_selectors) with strict explicit behavior (empty selectors are logged and skipped; no implicit global fallback).
• Breaking: Renamed extension global bypass filter to ekesto_ci_global_triggers (direct global invalidation path, no selector resolution).
• Enhancement: Internal option triggers now run through shared selector normalization/expansion for deterministic targeted-or-global execution.
• Enhancement: Added shared cache-plugin full-clear emission helper (EmitsFullInvalidationFromCacheClear) and wired adapter full-clear hooks across LiteSpeed, Breeze, Cache Enabler, FlyingPress, and WP Rocket.
• Enhancement: Added deterministic cache-plugin URL purge signal emission (cache_plugin_url_purged) for WP Rocket and FlyingPress from native URL-batch hooks.
• Fix: Adapter-initiated purge calls now suppress self-hook re-emission in WP Rocket and FlyingPress to prevent feedback-loop invalidation signals.

10.3.2 – 2026-04-16

• Fix: Namespaced Cache Enabler static purge calls (\Cache_Enabler) to guarantee global class resolution in adapter runtime checks.

10.3.1 – 2026-04-16

• New: Added Cache Enabler and Breeze cache adapters with deterministic URL-level purge support.
• Enhancement: Adapter registry now prioritizes deterministic URL-purge adapters only (LiteSpeed, WP Rocket, FlyingPress, Cache Enabler, Breeze).
• Fix: Hardened Cache Enabler static purge calls with callable checks to avoid runtime fatals when APIs are unavailable.

10.3.0 – 2026-04-16

• New: Added zero-config WooCommerce baseline invalidation for published product updates.
• Enhancement: WooCommerce baseline targets now include the product, Shop page, and core Woo pages through the existing multilingual purge pipeline.
• Fix: Product saves no longer fall through to single-product warmup when no product post type configuration is enabled.

10.2.2 – 2026-04-15

• Fix: Structural trigger routing now deduplicates before dispatch across WordPress and Elementor entrypoints.
• Fix: Elementor library and structural entity saves no longer fall back into content invalidation paths.

10.2.1 – 2026-04-15

• Enhancement: Simplified Post Type Tabs and Content Relationships visibility with a shared single-toggle model (Show non-public post types).
• Fix: Removed show_disabled_post_types from settings persistence and REST/UI payloads; only include_non_public_post_types now controls non-public expansion.
• Fix: Selected non-public post types now remain visible in both Post Type Tabs and Content Relationships, even when non-public expansion is off.
• Fix: Empty-state Post Type Tabs notice now switches to a success notice after the first unsaved enable action and clears after Save.

10.2.0 – 2026-04-14

• New: Added per-post-type tags_enabled support with an Include tags (post_tag) toggle in Additional Invalidation Rules.
• Fix: Enforced dual-layer post_tag gating in taxonomy listeners and archive resolution so tag-driven invalidation and tag archive URLs are excluded when disabled.
• Enhancement: Documented async queue behavior: tag setting changes affect future events, while already queued taxonomy jobs may still run until drained.
• Fix: Post Type Tabs and the unconfigured post type notice now exclude internal/structural/admin post types through a settings UI-only exclusion policy, without changing runtime invalidation behavior.
• Enhancement: Split Post Type Tabs visibility into independent Show disabled post types and Include non-public post types toggles.
• Fix: Configured post types now remain visible in Post Type Tabs regardless of both visibility toggles.
• Fix: Removed legacy show_non_public_post_types; settings now use only include_non_public_post_types with strict partial REST update persistence.

10.1.1 – 2026-04-13

• Fix: Release metadata now stays in sync across the plugin header, runtime version, and npm package files.
• Fix: Retained the Post Type Tabs and unconfigured notice refinements from 10.1.0 while correcting the release version mismatch.

10.1.0 – 2026-04-13

• Enhancement: Post Type Tabs now default to enabled tabs only and can reveal disabled eligible post types on demand.
• Fix: Unconfigured post type notice now tracks eligible post types, including non-public types, and matches the new tab model.
• Fix: Settings UI now keeps configured non-public tabs visible while hiding non-applicable panels and preserving save safety.

10.0.1 – 2026-04-12

• Fix: Restored all public post types in Content Relationships so related trigger types can be selected without enabling additional post type tabs.
• Fix: Kept Additional Post Type Targets selectors constrained to configured post types in both Post Type and Timed contexts.
• Fix: Removed React-only post-type discovery notice path and now show the classic dismissible wp-admin notice on all admin screens, including ECI settings.

10.0.0 – 2026-04-12

• New: Broke legacy/global archive settings and moved archive behavior to explicit per-post-type configuration only.
• Enhancement: Post Type Tabs management now lists all public post types while runtime remains configured-post-types-only.
• Enhancement: Added passive unconfigured post type detection with dismissible notices in both wp-admin and ECI settings.
• Fix: Dismissed unconfigured post type notices now persist per user and reappear only when a genuinely new post type is detected.
• Fix: Removed timed-rule taxonomy-archive toggle and aligned timed archive behavior to post-type archive configuration.
• Fix: Configure notice action now only opens the ECI Settings tab and no longer auto-enables post types.
• Fix: Structural target emissions (synced patterns, Elementor conditions, forms) now correctly set trusted URLs so downstream warmup no longer skips deterministic targets.
• Fix: wp_template edits now use resolver-first structural resolution instead of unconditional full-site flush.
• Fix: Widget-triggered targeted invalidation now receives trust from the executor safety net instead of hardcoded empty trust.

9.2.1 – 2026-04-11

• New: Timed invalidation rules now support additive additional_post_types targets so selected/all page targets can include singular URLs from selected post types.
• Enhancement: Added shared PostTypeExpansionResolver so post-trigger and timed expansion paths use one flat expansion implementation.
• Enhancement: Additional Post Type Targets panels now auto-open on load in both Post Type tabs and Timed rules when saved selected post types still exist.
• Fix: Timed selected rules are now schedulable when page_ids is empty but valid additional_post_types targets are configured.

9.2.0 – 2026-04-10

• New: Added per-post-type expand_post_types flat target expansion so post-trigger resolution can append singular targets from selected post types in the same pass.
• Enhancement: Post type expansion now uses deterministic incremental ID batching (ID > last_id, ORDER BY ID ASC) for large datasets.
• Fix: Flat post type expansion now hard-skips when any matched enabled host post type uses target_mode=full_flush.
• Enhancement: Added a collapsed Post Type Expansion settings panel at the bottom of each Post Type tab, reusing the existing post-type checkbox selector UI.
• Fix: Expansion debug logs now include per-post-type target counts plus running totals (post type expansion: {post_type} -> {count} targets (total: {total})).
• Fix: Support debug log timestamps now include explicit UTC and WordPress local time (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS UTC (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS local)) to remove timezone ambiguity during timed invalidation diagnostics.
• Enhancement: Timed selected/all invalidation now classifies deterministic targeted emission as intent=content with resolution=CONTENT_DIRECT.
• Fix: Timed trust flags are now applied only when final emitted URLs exactly match scheduler-derived deterministic targets; filter-extended URL sets remain untrusted.
• Enhancement: Timed trust diagnostics now log trusted plus trust_decision_reason (deterministic_match or extended_by_filter) for faster support tracing.
• Enhancement: Renamed widget-template mapping extension hook to ekesto_ci_widget_template_mappings for explicit widget trigger context.
• Fix: Developer reference now documents widget sidebar IDs ($changedElements) and classic template mapping use cases with clearer widget-focused guidance.
• Fix: Canonical precise URL resolution now rejects posts that are not publicly viewable before emission.
• Fix: Unpublished draft query URLs (for example ?page_id=<id>) are no longer emitted as warmup targets.
• Fix: Timed invalidation now preserves Purge all cache (full_flush) target mode after settings save/reload.
• Enhancement: Timed target mode normalization is now aligned across sanitize/read/runtime paths (selected|all|full_flush).
• New: Gutenberg wp_template_part updates now resolve deterministically through wp_template assignments (_wp_page_template == template post_name) to publicly viewable posts for precise GLOBAL_TARGETED invalidation.
• Fix: Template-part resolver-targeted emissions now preserve intent=GLOBAL_TARGETED and resolution=GLOBAL_TARGETED, restoring downstream targeted purge/warmup execution.
• Fix: Template-part updates with no deterministic assigned publicly viewable targets now fallback to global invalidation with fallback_reason=unresolved_template_usage.

9.1.0 – 2026-04-07

• New: Elementor Component (elementor_component) edits via the Atomic editor now trigger structural invalidation through the elementor/document/after_save Document lifecycle hook.
• New: Elementor condition-based targeted resolution for presentation templates (_elementor_conditions) with deterministic GLOBAL_TARGETED execution.
• Enhancement: Elementor structural classifier now prioritizes STRUCTURAL_CONTAINER over PRESENTATION_TEMPLATE in runtime evaluation order.
• Enhancement: Elementor structural fallback types expanded with loop-item and component template types.
• Enhancement: Template reference parser now detects Loop Grid widgets (loop-grid) and Global widgets (global/templateID) alongside legacy template widgets.
• Enhancement: Component reference SQL prefilters now support both Atomic schema ($$type wrapper) and legacy schema (value only).
• Enhancement: Library structural provider SQL prefilters now include Global widget templateID needles alongside legacy template_id.
• Enhancement: Global executor now includes a defensive catch-all that auto-fixes and logs GLOBAL_TARGETED non-fallback emissions missing the confirmed_resolution_target trust flag.
• Enhancement: Structural entity resolved references now explicitly set confirmed_resolution_target trust flag.
• Fix: Elementor library update handler now deduplicates within a request to prevent double processing from multiple save hooks.

9.0.1 – 2026-04-06

• Enhancement: Reorganized runtime integration domains under src/Integrations/* (Builders, Caching, Forms, Multilingual, RelationshipProviders, Structural) with aligned Ekesto\\CacheInvalidator\\Integrations\\* namespaces.
• Fix: Updated core and resolver consumers to the new Structural integration namespace (Integrations\\Structural\\*) without changing invalidation behavior.
• Enhancement: Added ArchiveDefaultsProvider as the central optional archive-taxonomy defaults provider used by archive resolution paths.
• Fix: Synced version references across plugin header, runtime constant, and package manifests.

9.0.0 – 2026-04-05

• New: Added SelectorResolver as the shared selector contract layer for ekesto_ci_post_selectors, ekesto_ci_archive_selectors, and ekesto_ci_widget_selectors.
• Enhancement: Selector outcomes now aggregate across post/archive/widget surfaces before execution, with strict GLOBAL precedence and single global execution.
• Enhancement: Emission context now treats deterministic post-ID-only targets as confirmed resolution targets via confirmed_resolution_target and mirrored resolver_confirmed_target.
• Enhancement: Normalized trust-flag migration bridge annotations (resolver_confirmed_target -> confirmed_resolution_target) with explicit ECI/ECW version gates.
• Enhancement: Global executor outcome logs now include final_outcome and render resolution=GLOBAL_INVALIDATION (fallback: <reason>) when a meaningful fallback reason exists.
• Enhancement: Renamed graph internals to relationship terminology (RelationshipGraphResolver, resolveRelationshipEdges, MAX_RELATIONSHIP_GRAPH_DEPTH) while preserving runtime behavior.
• Enhancement: Switched post-type relationship settings contract key from dependencies to relationships across resolver, settings, and settings UI state payloads.
• Fix: Selector-targeted outcomes that resolve empty now escalate to GLOBAL_FALLBACK only when valid selectors were provided (has_selectors=true).
• Fix: Selector-targeted and deterministic meta-change emissions now mark confirmed resolver targets (including URL-only deterministic meta targets) while excluding fallback/global outcomes, so downstream warmup intake does not drop deterministic URLs when sitemap membership cache is cold.
• Fix: Replaced trust-bridge migration placeholders with concrete remove-after majors (ECI >= 10.0, ECW >= 4.0) without changing runtime behavior.
• Fix: Removed legacy wildcard/map selector semantics from developer docs and aligned extension guidance to strict selector-only behavior.
• Fix: Widget selector GLOBAL intent no longer gets skipped by mapped_ids=0 fallback=off guards in widget option and sidebar update paths.
• Fix: Removed temporary DependencyGraphResolver alias bridge after full resolver/callsite migration to RelationshipGraphResolver.

8.0.0 – 2026-04-03

• New: Replaced legacy Group/Scope invalidation with a Post Type relationship graph model and PT-centric settings storage (post_types).
• New: Added DependencyGraphResolver and removed legacy GroupResolver / Groups runtime classes.
• Enhancement: Refactored async deep invalidation to re-resolve propagation edges per job and dedupe discovered entities by post_type:post_id.
• Enhancement: Rebuilt settings UI around Post Type tabs with Content Dependencies and Additional Invalidation Rules panels.
• Fix: Added unsaved-changes leave guard in settings UI to prevent accidental navigation loss before Save All.

7.3.30 – 2026-04-02

• Enhancement: Added resolver_confirmed_target to resolver-first invalidation emission context for clearer downstream diagnostics.
• Enhancement: Updated .wp-standards submodule reference to latest standards snapshot.
• Fix: Synced version references across plugin header, runtime constant, and package manifests.

7.3.29 – 2026-04-02

• Enhancement: Added a shared Upgrade Safety Doctrine to internal handover guidance across WP Cache Autopilot plugins.
• Enhancement: Updated settings UI/docs content alignment and rebuilt admin settings assets for the latest release snapshot.
• Fix: Synced version references across plugin header, runtime constant, and package manifests.

7.3.28 – 2026-04-01

• Enhancement: Final test release restores changelog sync as a dedicated workflow triggered after successful Build Release runs or by manual dispatch.
• Enhancement: Release workflow now supports manual workflow_dispatch runs with an explicit tag input for rebuild/debug scenarios.
• Fix: Changelog source headings are normalized to ### so exported docs can prepend their own page title cleanly.

7.3.27 – 2026-04-01

• Enhancement: Moved changelog publishing fully into the release workflow and removed the legacy manual sync-changelog.yml fallback.
• Fix: Release sync_changelog export now recreates output/ before writing generated changelog markdown, keeping the final test run green.

7.3.26 – 2026-04-01

• Fix: Manual changelog sync now strips everything before the changelog heading with sed, avoiding heading-detection edge cases during export.

7.3.25 – 2026-04-01

• Enhancement: Manual changelog sync now publishes to docs/changelog/<plugin>/index.md in the public docs repo for cleaner page paths.
• Fix: Manual changelog sync now preserves markdown changelog headings from readme.txt instead of rewriting them during export.
• Fix: Manual changelog sync now retries rebased pushes to reduce public-repo update failures during concurrent doc updates.

7.3.24 – 2026-03-31

• Fix: Forms resolver now discovers builder-backed form containers through the shared builder bridge before confirmation.
• Fix: Forms matching now normalizes escaped builder-stored shortcode text before adapter extraction.
• Fix: Contact Form 7 alias expansion now accepts modern 64-character _hash values and 7-character prefixes.
• Enhancement: Structural visibility and resolver dispatch now use request-local memoization to avoid repeated registry and post-type rebuilds in hot paths.
• Enhancement: Navigation, template part, and synced pattern invalidation now share a resolver-first precise targeting path with consistent fallback handling.
• Fix: Post update_published invalidation now skips duplicate same-request save cycles before resolution work begins.
• New: Added internal structural-container providers and shared traversal for core structural entities plus Elementor templates/components.
• Fix: Elementor library/component traversal now classifies runtime document families conservatively so presentation and unknown templates escalate to uncertainty instead of traversal.
• Fix: Structural invalidation now suppresses partial precise emission whenever unresolved structural uncertainty remains.
• Enhancement: Structural post-type classification now comes from the provider registry so builder scan hints stay candidate-only and structural entities remain non-emittable.
• Fix: Purged structural post IDs no longer emit their own permalinks into downstream warmup URLs.

7.3.23 – 2026-03-30

• Fix: Global template/style invalidation now resolves full-site targets using publicly viewable post types so built-in pages are emitted.
• Enhancement: Removed dead duplicate public-content helper methods from legacy listeners to prevent query-semantics drift.
• Enhancement: Added internal multilingual sibling-ID expansion for numeric ref discovery.
• Fix: Synced pattern and navigation resolvers now match translated object siblings before purge fanout runs.
• Enhancement: Builder usage adapters now declare normalized deterministic scan hints instead of ad-hoc resolver inputs.
• Fix: Builder container discovery now stays inside resolver scan scope and marks adapter lookup failures as scan-gap uncertainty only.
• Fix: Builder container matching now expands translated siblings before confirmation; builder template containers remain structural-only.
• Cleanup: Removed legacy backward-compatible Multilingual\WpmlLanguageResolver shim class; all internal paths already use Multilingual\Resolvers\WpmlLanguageResolver.

7.3.22 – 2026-03-30

• Enhancement: Added GlobalInvalidationExecutor as the canonical terminal execution path for global invalidation.
• Fix: Rerouted non-content trigger global paths away from group resolution and enforced safe global escalation for fallback scenarios.
• Fix: Added request-terminal short-circuiting to stop duplicate purge/emission/resolver work after GLOBAL_INVALIDATION.
• Enhancement: Added emission metadata fields (intent, resolution, fallback, fallback_reason) while preserving compatibility trigger fields.
• Fix: Added forms metadata normalization so precise/fallback/terminal-skip outcomes emit consistent intent/resolution/fallback fields.
• Fix: Added excluded post-type direct-path metadata with normalized resolution=CONTENT_DIRECT for content-trigger consistency.
• Enhancement: Reduced noisy updated_option terminal-skip logs to invalidation-relevant option keys.

7.3.21 – 2026-03-29

• Fix: Updated Freemius SDK initialization to use direct associative-array parameters for deployment validation compatibility.

7.3.20 – 2026-03-29

• Enhancement: Moved Freemius SDK updates to a Composer-managed vendor/freemius/wordpress-sdk workflow.
• Enhancement: Switched runtime class loading to Composer PSR-4 only (vendor/autoload.php) and removed legacy src/autoload.php.
• Fix: Added gated Freemius bootstrap wrappers with Git Updater-aware auto-disable and explicit update-system separation.
• Fix: Release packaging now installs Composer dependencies before building the -dist.zip artifact.
• Fix: Release verification now enforces lifecycle uninstall wiring and fails if legacy root uninstall.php is present.

7.3.19 – 2026-03-29

• Fix: Improved Freemius deployment workflow.
• Fix: Moved uninstall cleanup to a lifecycle uninstall hook for Freemius compatibility.

7.3.18 – 2026-03-29

• Fix: Improved Freemius deployment workflow.

7.3.17 – 2026-03-29

• Fix: Improved Freemius deployment workflow.

7.3.16 – 2026-03-29

• Fix: Improved Freemius deployment workflow.

7.3.15 – 2026-03-29

• Fix: Improved Freemius deployment workflow.

7.3.14 – 2026-03-29

• Fix: Release publishing now uses GitHub CLI (gh release create/upload) instead of the Node 20-based softprops/action-gh-release action.
• Fix: Removed remaining Node 20 deprecation warnings from the release pipeline while preserving deterministic -dist.zip upload behavior.

7.3.13 – 2026-03-29

• Enhancement: Release workflow now syncs changelog docs to the public repo as a dependent job after successful tag builds.
• Fix: Updated sync workflows to actions/checkout@v5 to align with GitHub Actions Node.js 24 migration requirements.
• Fix: Added .gitmodules to .distignore so VCS submodule metadata is excluded from distribution archives.

7.3.12 – 2026-03-29

• Fix: Corrected release CI version extraction escaping so plugin header parsing no longer returns an empty value in GitHub Actions.
• Fix: Restored reliable tag/version validation by parsing * Version: x.y.z header lines correctly during release builds.

7.3.11 – 2026-03-29

• Fix: Release CI now parses plugin header Version: values correctly from root PHP files, preventing false tag/version mismatch failures.
• Fix: Tag verification now compares against the extracted semantic version (for example 7.3.11) instead of the literal Version: token.

7.3.10 – 2026-03-29

• Fix: Release CI now installs WP-CLI from the stable gh-pages PHAR URL, avoiding curl HTTP failures (exit 22) on tag builds.
• Fix: Pinned wp-cli/dist-archive-command to v3.1.0, which is compatible with runner WP-CLI 2.12.x.

7.3.9 – 2026-03-29

• Fix: Release CI now installs a deterministic WP-CLI 2.13.0 PHAR before wp-cli/dist-archive-command installation, preventing the WP-CLI dependency mismatch (^2.13).
• Fix: Added an explicit WP-CLI version guard in release CI so incompatible runner versions fail early with a clear error.

7.3.8 – 2026-03-29

• Fix: Release CI now force-updates WP-CLI before installing wp-cli/dist-archive-command, resolving the wp-cli/wp-cli ^2.13 dependency error.
• Enhancement: Updated checkout action to actions/checkout@v5 to align with GitHub Actions Node.js 24 migration warnings.

7.3.7 – 2026-03-29

• Fix: Added explicit GitHub Actions contents: write permission so release creation succeeds on tag-triggered runs.
• Fix: Keeps automated distribution publishing on Releases functional for the -dist.zip artifact.

7.3.6 – 2026-03-29

• Fix: Restored dist/ exclusion in .distignore to keep local/CI packaging artifacts out of release ZIPs.
• Fix: Release ZIP hygiene validation now allows required runtime build/ assets while still blocking development-only paths.

7.3.5 – 2026-03-29

• Fix: Release CI now installs the WP-CLI dist-archive package before building distribution archives.
• Enhancement: Release packaging now fails fast when .distignore is missing and publishes a single deterministic -dist.zip asset.
• Fix: Added release ZIP hygiene validation to fail builds if development files are detected in the distribution artifact.

7.3.4 – 2026-03-28

• Enhancement: Refined admin settings SCSS to use shared semantic color tokens for more consistent panel, modal, table, and plugin-meta styling.
• Enhancement: Reworked public docs structure, cross-links, and scenario guidance for clearer invalidation and warmup documentation.
• New: Added legal-page source documents for Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Imprint / Legal Notice under legal/.
• Enhancement: Added a GitHub workflow to sync the readme.txt changelog into the public documentation repo on main updates.
• Enhancement: Setup changelog workflow.

7.3.3 – 2026-03-25

• Enhancement: Added shared wp_cache_autopilot_capability capability filter support (default manage_options) across settings and protected REST actions.
• Enhancement: Refined settings labels/help text for clearer invalidation terminology across global, group, timed, and support-debug controls.
• Enhancement: Updated group and timed-rule action controls to compact icon actions, with settings panel z-index/panel spacing polish for improved admin UI usability.
• Enhancement: Refined public docs wording/section labels and requirements linking for terminology consistency.
• Enhancement: Forms invalidation now writes one compact forms_change summary debug line per event outcome with key counters and uncertainty flags.
• Fix: Moved forms manager boot and forms adapter hook-registration traces to verbose-only logging to reduce support debug noise.
• Enhancement: Added request-local dedupe for verbose debug traces to suppress exact duplicate lines.

7.3.2 – 2026-03-24

• Enhancement: Support debug View now opens an authenticated inline log URL so browser refresh always loads the latest log content.
• Fix: Added explicit REST root/nonce boot config for support debug View authentication stability in wp-admin.
• Fix: Removed false popup-warning notice from support debug View when browsers return a null window handle despite opening the tab.

7.3.1 – 2026-03-24

• Fix: Support debug mode now writes DEBUG entries to the shared support log when support mode is enabled.
• Enhancement: Support debug log filenames now default to .txt while keeping legacy .log filenames readable.
• Enhancement: Support debug panel now includes compact reload/view/delete icon actions, with View opening the current log file URL in a new tab.
• Fix: Updated cache invalidator docs wording/anchors for support-debug behavior and terminology consistency.

7.3.0 – 2026-03-23

• New: Added group target mode Purge all cache (full_flush) for post/CPT-triggered invalidation.
• Enhancement: Post/CPT triggers now run adapter purgeAll() and emit broad URL coverage when any matched enabled group uses full_flush.
• Fix: Relationship propagation controls are now disabled with a warning when group target mode is Purge all cache, while saved propagation values remain preserved.
• Enhancement: Standardized public extension hook names under the compact ekesto_ci_* namespace.
• Fix: Renamed invalidation emission action to ekesto_ci_invalidation_urls and updated all plugin docs/examples accordingly.

7.2.1 – 2026-03-19

• Fix: Forms invalidation now resolves Contact Form 7 hash-based identifiers and legacy numeric IDs as equivalent references for match, purge, and emission flows.
• Fix: Ninja Forms invalidation now listens to both legacy nf_* and current ninja_forms_* admin form lifecycle hooks, with request-local dedupe to prevent duplicate dispatch.
• Fix: Selected-pages target IDs are now normalized and deduplicated in the settings UI, preventing mixed-type duplicate IDs (for example 123 and "123").
• Fix: In selected-pages mode, saving with a complete selector list now removes stale/deleted target page IDs so ghost selections no longer inflate summary counts.
• Fix: Selected-pages summary now shows a warning notice when saved IDs cannot be previewed from the loaded selector dataset (deleted targets or truncated list).
• Fix: Select pages modal height is now locked per open session to prevent search/filter layout jumps, and the lock is released on window resize to restore responsive sizing.

7.2.0 – 2026-03-18

• New: Added built-in WooCommerce relationship defaults for variation parents, linked products (_upsell_ids, _crosssell_ids, _children), and option-backed core pages (shop, cart, checkout, my account, terms).
• Enhancement: Added internal RelationshipDefaultsProvider and kept default assembly order stable (ACF defaults, Woo defaults, filter extensions).
• Enhancement: Added definition-level dedupe so overlapping built-in and custom relationship definitions do not execute duplicate lookups.
• Enhancement: Kept ekesto_ci_relationship_meta_keys as the extension/override layer after built-in defaults.
• Fix: Updated relationship and WooCommerce docs wording to describe baseline Woo propagation as built-in behavior.

7.1.2 – 2026-03-17

• Enhancement: Added fuzzy search for page target selection in the settings modal (title and URL slug matching).
• Enhancement: Added inline highlight rendering for matched title and URL slug fragments in selector rows.
• Fix: Kept select-all, row toggle, and filtered-selection behavior unchanged while search metadata is propagated through the table.
• Enhancement: Clarified ekesto_ci_widget_selectors docs to describe post-ID targeting and added a custom-post-type (book) mapping example.
• Fix: Removed legacy relationship-definition compatibility (meta_key/multiple) from runtime normalization and docs; strategy-based kind definitions are now required.
• New: Added project-level multilingual fanout policy toggles in Global Invalidation settings: multilingual_fanout_post_triggers_enabled and multilingual_fanout_non_post_triggers_enabled.
• Enhancement: Unified multilingual fanout execution across post, async, taxonomy, presentation, forms, comments, metadata, timed invalidation, and full-flush emitted URL paths.
• New: Added ekesto_ci_multilingual_fanout_mode filter to override computed fanout mode per trigger context.
• Enhancement: Extended multilingual context reporting with fanout_mode and fanout_languages in purge/emission metadata for downstream observability.
• Fix: Corrected async multilingual fanout isolation per queued job and added Polylang URL-model fanout mapping for URL-target expansion.

7.1.1 – 2026-03-15

• New: Added v1 documentation landing/overview content with cross-linked docs entry points and deep section links.
• Enhancement: Clarified invalidation terminology in settings/help text (e.g. Async deep invalidation, timed invalidation target modes).
• Enhancement: Refined plugin readme wording around cache invalidation decision-engine responsibilities and best-effort cache purge behavior.

7.1.0 – 2026-03-13

• New: Added ekesto_ci_post_selectors support for non-public trigger post types without scope/group membership (mapped target IDs purge directly).
• Enhancement: Added a practical, fully commented ekesto_ci_post_selectors usage example and consolidated filter docs into one canonical section.
• Fix: Preserved GUI/group-managed behavior for public trigger post types with no matched scope/group (no mapping-only bypass).

7.0.1 – 2026-03-12

• Fix: Prevented WP Super Cache full-cache purge fatals on single-site installs by avoiding multisite-only purge arguments when get_blog_option() is unavailable.
• Fix: Preserved WP Super Cache multisite purge behavior by continuing to pass the current blog ID when multisite blog APIs are loaded.

7.0.0 – 2026-03-12

• New: Added first-party multilingual resolvers for WPML, Polylang, and TranslatePress.
• Enhancement: Introduced deterministic multilingual resolver detection order (WPML -> Polylang -> TranslatePress) with ekesto_ci_language_resolver remaining the final override.
• Enhancement: Target-page invalidation from post/CPT triggers now applies resolver-model language fanout for object-model and URL-model integrations.
• Enhancement: Emitted multilingual context now reports resolver-aware metadata (resolver, resolver_model, languages) instead of hardcoded WPML values.
• Fix: Added migration-safe backward-compatible WPML resolver handover class while moving built-ins under Multilingual/Resolvers.
• Fix: Generalized multilingual resolver contracts for dual translation models (object and URL), which requires custom resolver implementations to update for this release.

6.1.0 – 2026-03-12

• New: Added cache adapters for WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, and FlyingPress.
• Enhancement: Added URL-level purge support for the new adapters via their native APIs/actions.
• Enhancement: Extended adapter manager fallback chain to include the new adapters after existing priority entries.

6.0.0 – 2026-03-10

• New: Strategy-based relationship definitions in ekesto_ci_relationship_meta_keys (meta_exact, meta_serialized, post_parent, option_id, callback).
• Enhancement: Native ACF auto-discovery now feeds the same normalized relationship-definition pipeline used by custom integrations.
• Enhancement: Relationship resolver now supports serialized integer matching and framework-agnostic documentation examples for WooCommerce, Meta Box, and The Events Calendar.

5.0.4 – 2026-03-09

• Enhancement: Unified plugin lifecycle flow under Lifecycle with explicit activation, deactivation, and guarded upgrade reconciliation.
• Fix: Moved timed-sync version state handling out of runtime bootstrap and into lifecycle upgrade handling for safer updates.
• Fix: Text domain loading now runs at init priority 0 to reduce early translation-load notice risk.
• Fix: Uninstall cleanup now removes lifecycle lock/sync state options and transient.

5.0.3 – 2026-03-06

• Fix: Bootstrap now preflights boot-critical classes and fails closed on incomplete plugin packages.
• Fix: Timed schedule reconciliation now defers heavy sync work away from sensitive update requests.
• Enhancement: Added local release verification for runtime files, build artifacts, metadata versions, and optional zip contents.

5.0.2 – 2026-03-05

• Fix: Standardized settings modal CSS class namespace across modal markup and styles.
• Enhancement: Synced built settings assets with modal class-name updates.

5.0.1 – 2026-03-05

• Fix: Removed all-hook based full-flush trigger interception that could cause excessive hook recursion and memory exhaustion.
• Fix: Restored direct extension full-flush hook registration flow for stable runtime behavior.

5.0.0 – 2026-03-05

• New: Added centralized invalidation emission helper with ekesto_ci_additional_urls, comment invalidation listener, and meta-change invalidation listener.
• New: Added extensibility filters for language resolver, runtime full-flush triggers, option-change trigger mapping, and post-type meta-change mapping.
• Enhancement: Added new global toggles for comment changes and theme switch changes in settings.
• Fix: Full-flush extension trigger map is now evaluated at runtime so late-registered filters are honored.
• Fix: ekesto_ci_additional_urls now uses the canonical callback contract (array $urls, array $context): array.

4.4.0 – 2026-03-04

• New: Page target mode support (Selected pages / All pages) for group settings and timed invalidation rules
• Enhancement: Modal-first page target selection UX with compact selected-page summaries (count + preview rows)
• Enhancement: Group create/edit now uses native WordPress modal flow
• Fix: Unified modal layout classes across settings modals to prevent footer/background inconsistencies

4.3.0 – 2026-03-04

• New: Timed invalidation rules in Settings tab with daily time + selected page ID targets (site timezone)
• New: Cron-backed timed invalidation scheduler with per-rule scheduling, cleanup, and emitted timed trigger context
• Enhancement: Settings REST payload now includes timed_invalidation and site_timezone
• Enhancement: Scheduled publish transitions (future -> publish) now emit a distinct scheduled_publish reason key

4.2.0 – 2026-03-02

• New: Forms invalidation module with adapter coverage for Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, and Ninja Forms
• New: Builder-aware reference scanning with centralized builder adapters and confidence-based scan profiles
• Enhancement: Global settings now include forms_enabled and forms_global_fallback_enabled toggles
• Enhancement: Cache adapter architecture moved to src/Caching with concrete adapters under src/Caching/Adapters
• Fix: Forms fallback path now limits broad invalidation to configured post/page cache targets only

4.1.3 – 2026-03-01

• Fix: Refreshed packaged admin build assets for the settings UI
• Enhancement: Normalized build artifact set in plugin distribution

4.1.2 – 2026-03-01

• Enhancement: Added explicit trigger metadata in emitted invalidation context (trigger_class, trigger_event)
• Enhancement: Async invalidation context now includes aggregated trigger details (trigger_kinds, trigger_reasons)

4.1.1 – 2026-03-01

• New: Global master switch to pause/resume all invalidation paths (post, taxonomy, presentation, and async)
• Enhancement: Clarified settings/admin wording for engine-wide pause behavior
• Fix: Global paused admin notice no longer appears on the plugin’s own settings screen
• Fix: Async queue enqueuing/scheduling/processing now hard-stops when master switch is off

4.1.0 – 2026-03-01

• New: Presentation-layer invalidation triggers for menus, customizer saves, widget updates, reading settings, and permalink settings
• New: Block-entity coverage expanded with wp_navigation trigger handling
• New: Synced pattern invalidation with best-effort reference scan and global fallback
• New: Archive URL invalidation support for post type archives and publicly queryable taxonomy archives
• New: Adapter URL-purge capability path with emitted URL fallback when direct URL purge is unavailable
• New: Filter ekesto_ci_widget_selectors for mapping widget changes to explicit post IDs
• New: Filter ekesto_ci_archive_urls for archive URL target customization
• New: Filter ekesto_ci_presentation_trigger_enabled for runtime trigger gating
• New: Filter ekesto_ci_should_fallback_global for synced-pattern fallback control

4.0.0 – 2026-02-28

• Enhancement: Simplified propagation model to one source of truth using groups[*].propagation in both simple and advanced modes (breaking change)
• Fix: Simple mode propagation toggles now persist independently per post type/group tab
• Enhancement: Settings-tab async controls now bulk-apply async propagation values across all groups
• Fix: Removed legacy simple_propagation handling from REST payloads and option sanitization

3.0.0 – 2026-02-28

• Breaking: Refactored Settings architecture to DI-based services and removed public static behavior methods from Settings
• New: Settings is now a constants-only compatibility boundary (option key, route/path slugs, handles, defaults, exclusions)
• New: Settings internals split into focused services (repository, sanitizer, payload builder, REST controller, admin page)
• New: PHP is now the single source of truth for settings app config (config + initial passed to JS boot object)
• Fix: GroupResolver::getWatchedPostTypesForScope() advanced-mode path no longer references undefined variable
• Internal: Runtime consumers now resolve settings through plugin-managed services instead of Settings::* static methods

2.0.1 – 2026-02-19

• Improved: UI
• Fix: Multilingual related issues in page list.
• New: Excluded post types (page, attachment) bypass scope/group system — editing these post types purges the post itself directly without requiring group configuration
• New: Centralized exclusion constant Settings::EXCLUDED_POST_TYPES for consistent post type filtering across codebase

2.0.0 – 2026-02-19

• New: Relationship propagation — when a related post (e.g. collaborator) changes, affected host posts (e.g. events) are automatically purged via ACF relationship field auto-discovery
• New: Taxonomy propagation — term edits, deletions, and reassignments trigger targeted invalidation of affected posts and group target pages, scoped to watched post types only
• New: Async deep invalidation — background processing via WP-Cron with configurable delay, deterministic deduplication keys, safe queue drain, and 200-item size cap
• New: Single-emission policy — async mode defers URL emission to the processor; sync mode emits at end of processing
• New: Request-level dedup — prevents double emission when save_post and set_object_terms fire for the same post in one request
• New: PropagationPanel UI per group tab with toggles for relationships, taxonomies, and background processing
• New: GroupResolver class for mode-aware scope resolution with getWatchedPostTypes() helper for taxonomy scoping
• New: Filter ekesto_ci_relationship_meta_keys for extending relationship field discovery
• New: Settings::isAsyncAvailable() enforces DISABLE_WP_CRON at runtime — async scheduling is hard-blocked when cron is disabled
• New: ACF relationship map transient is multisite-aware (keyed per blog_id)
• New: Async processor re-resolves host posts from trigger info for deterministic results
• Fix: Advanced mode group resolution — editing a member post type (e.g. collaborator in an “event” group) now correctly resolves and purges the group’s target pages
• Fix: DISABLE_WP_CRON logic — corrected operator precedence bug that could schedule cron when it shouldn’t

1.2.11 – 2026-02-18

• Improved: UX

1.2.10 – 2026-02-18

• Improved: UX

1.2.9 – 2026-02-17

• Fix: Only register LiteSpeed Cache REST no-cache filter when LSC is active — prevents fatal error when switching to another cache plugin
• Enhancement: Dedicated CSS class variants for group list and page selection tables
• Enhancement: Renamed _footer.scss to _adapter-info.scss with scoped .eci-adapter-info styles

1.2.8 – 2026-02-15

• Added: Search functionality with keyboard shortcut (Shift+F) to filter pages in group settings
• Added: Click-to-toggle page selection — click anywhere on a table row to select/deselect
• Added: Visual feedback for selected pages in the table
• Added: Indeterminate checkbox state when some (but not all) pages are selected
• Added: NextControls wrapper components for standardized WordPress UI controls
• Improved: Page selection table UI with better styling and visual hierarchy
• Improved: Overall settings page styling with new SCSS partials for search and text

1.2.7 – 2026-02-14

• Added: Settings link on plugin page

1.2.6 – 2026-02-14

• Fix: Make preventLscCaching method public for filter callback

1.2.5 – 2026-02-14

• Fix: Prevent LiteSpeed Cache from caching plugin REST API responses — uses rest_pre_dispatch filter for reliable cache suppression

1.2.4 – 2026-02-14

• Fix: Prevent LiteSpeed Cache from caching REST API responses

1.2.3 – 2026-02-12

• Fixed: Options weren’t saved correctly on production server

1.2.2 – 2026-02-12

• Missing build folder added.

1.2.1 – 2026-02-12

• UI improvements

1.2.0 – 2026-02-12

• New feature: Simple/Advanced group management modes — toggle post type visibility or create custom groups with multiple post types
• New components: ModeToggle, SimpleModePanel, AdvancedModePanel, GroupEditor, GroupList, CustomSection, ValidationErrors, SettingsTab
• REST API now supports mode, simple_mode_visibility, and custom_groups parameters
• Server-side validation for custom groups (unique labels, exclusive post type assignment)
• UI improvements: reusable panel layout (CustomSection), group key immutability hint and visual deactivation in edit mode

1.1.0 – 2026-02-07

• New feature: Settings page goes REACT!

1.0.4 – 2026-02-04

• Treat Site Editor template, template part, and global styles updates as full-site invalidations (purges target pages across all enabled groups).

1.0.3 – 2026-02-03

• Now only publish pages are shown
• Improved documentation

1.0.2 – 2026-02-02

• Github repo added

1.0.1 – 2026-02-02

• Improved documentation with real-world customization examples

1.0.0 – 2026-02-02

• Initial release with unified cache invalidation and trigger abstraction