RocketGeek

Home of WP-Members, The Original WordPress Membership Plugin

Home » Archives for Release Announcements

Release Announcements

WP-Members 2.9 Alpha Available For Testing

· ·

This article is provided free. Find out how you can get full access to premium content, including how-to articles and support forums, as well as priority email support and member exclusive plugin extensions..

 

If you would like to try out the bleeding edge version of the plugin, I am making the 2.9 alpha versions available.

The components that I expected to update for 2.9 are now completed and I am expecting that at this point we will not be adding new features beyond what is currently included.  It should be noted that I have said that before, and that usually means that something will come up that I will want to add, so consider that the caveat.

Stability testing will now begin in earnest and I hope to move the project forward to beta release soon.  I would like to have 2.9 ready for production by the end of January, but that is only a target.  It could go faster or slower than that.  Continue Reading →

WP-Members 2.8.10 released

· ·

This article is provided free. Find out how you can get full access to premium content, including how-to articles and support forums, as well as priority email support and member exclusive plugin extensions..

 

WP-Members 2.8.10 was released today.  This was an unexpected, but important security update.

Some of you may have noticed that for a period of time today, WP-Members was unavailable in the wordpress.org repository.  This was because there was a security vulnerability discovered in the plugin.  It is the policy of wordpress.org to remove any plugin that has a vulnerability until that issue is resolved.

I was notified of this issue at approximately 10:40 central time today.  By 12:30, I had created a patch which was tested and loaded to the repository by 2:00.  The plugin team at wordpress.org tested this new version and restored the plugin to the repository by 8:00.

I appreciate the prompt communication from the wordpress.org team.  We all take security seriously and their prompt contact with me allowed for a very quick turnaround in getting this fix out the door.

You might be wondering if you are affected by the vulnerability.  The issue actually only affects those users that use the WP-Members custom fields on the WordPress default backend registration (wp-login.php?action=register) instead of the plugin’s default frontside registration.  Since this is a feature that was only recently added specifically for users who did not read the plugin’s installation instructions, I suspect that this is only used by a small number of users (especially since the plugin’s default installation gives you a message to turn this off).

Regardless, I still recommend the update.

If you have any questions, please contact me.

WP-Members 2.8.9 release

· ·

This article is provided free. Find out how you can get full access to premium content, including how-to articles and support forums, as well as priority email support and member exclusive plugin extensions..

 

I had initially expected that 2.8.8 would wrap up 2.8.x and the next release would be begin 2.9.  But it looks like we need one more update to get through the period before 2.9 will be ready.

2.8.9 contains a couple of fixes, some updates to deal with the new Twenty Fourteen theme, and some updates that will help users transition to 2.9 (which will be rebuilding the form building functions).  Continue Reading →

Ready to get started?

Join Today!