Coming Soon In WPCloudDeploy 5.3

WPCloudDeploy 5.3 is primarily an infrastructure related update. It does contain a couple of minor new features and a few important fixes. But, most of the new features are going to be invisible to you.

It is an important update because it makes it easier for developers to access, use and customize GIT and MULTI-TENANT features that would otherwise require a custom version of WPCD to be deployed.

It also deprecates a couple of older features.

New: Terminal Output Colors

You can now set the color for the ‘terminal’ when using features that require long-running commands. This can be useful for folks who might need certain accessibility related accommodations.

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New: Git Foundation Support

This is one of the two major new ‘invisible’ features targeted at professional developers.

WPCD now includes a large number of pre-built git functions that developers can expose and use in GIT custom user interfaces and workflows.

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New: Multi-tenant Foundation Support

This is the second major new ‘invisible’ feature targeted at professional developers. We’ve provided a large number of pre-built multi-tenant functions that developers can expose and use in multi-tenant related custom user interfaces and workflows. It is closely integrated with the GIT Foundation support mentioned above.

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New: WooCommerce Multi-Tenant Services Integration

We’ve updated the WPCD WooCommerce Module to be aware of the new developer-focused multi-tenant workflows.

Additionally, you can now deploy new sites on the same server where your template sites are located. This can make site deployment faster after a user has completed the checkout process.

New: Delete Server Record

You can now delete a server record without deleting the server at the cloud provider.

This is similar to the site delete / trash option that allows for a site record to be deleted without removing the site files from the server.

Only WPCD admins will be able to delete a server record.

New: PHP 8.2 Support For Sites

PHP 8.2 will be an option for sites on new servers. It will also be an option for the default version for the server level PHP cli.

Note that WPCD itself will not be certified to run under PHP 8.2 until WordPress itself officially supports it along with the PHP API libraries for the various Cloud Server Providers.

Tweak: Email Gateway TLS Options

By default, the Email Gateway enables TLS. But, there are some deployment use-cases where this is not desired. So we now allow you to disable TLS if so desired.

Tweak: Better Post States Styling

This change is better illustrated with an image:

If you don’t use these labels or never noticed them in the past then you’re not going to be affected by this change (which is all eye-candy so-to-speak).

Tweak: Retention Days

When disabling AUTOMATIC BACKUPS on a server, we now keep the original specified retention days value in the UI instead of reverting back to the system default value of 7.

This prevents users from thinking that the retention days feature is not working or that the value is not being respected.

Tweak: Callbacks

Callbacks have been updated to better handle unexpected return values from apt-get. This should resolve an issue that appeared recently on certain DigitalOcean deployments.

Deprecated & Removed Features

• The 6G Firewall tab is no longer shown on new servers.
• Ubuntu 18.04 is no longer an option when creating new servers.

Miscellaneous Changes and Fixes

• Tweak: Use the latest version of the 7G firewall (version 1.6).
• Fix: HTTP2 could not be enabled
• Fix: A 500 error / hard php error was thrown when using the SELECT2 filter for owners in the app screen (the select2 filter only shows if the number of users is greater than 25.)
• Fix: Certain filters in the server and site list were not working when the language was set to something other than English.
• Fix: Disabling/Enabling browser cache tweak was not working for OLS.
• Fix: OLS Auto-restart cron when .htaccess file changes was not working as intended.
• Fix: Missing variable value when installing memcached. Harmless – just threw a php warning.
• Fix: Remove nginx related sections in the fail2ban tab when the web server is an OLS server.
• Fix: Handle an SSH message related to Multisite wildcard ssl – when ssl was already disabled we weren’t flipping the appropriate metas.
• Fix: Special code to handle update count issue with DigitalOcean servers.
• Dev: Preliminary foundation set for moving SERVER PROVIDER and DNS data into custom tables.
• Dev: Use global function to reset site permissions (refactor).
• Dev: Add option for executing local post-processing scripts after a site is cloned.

Other

Existing OpenLiteSpeed servers will require an upgrade step. And, if you still have Ubuntu 18.04 servers deployed you will need to toggle on an option in your settings area.