Redirection

Journal

A x.1 version increase introduces new or updated features and can be considered to contain ‘breaking’ changes. A x.x.1 increase is purely a bug fix and introduces no new features, and can be considered as containing no breaking changes.

5.3.10 – 2nd April 2023

• Fix associated redirect setting not saving properly

5.3.9 – 25th January 2023

• Fix incorrect sanitization applied to target URLs

5.3.8 – 22nd January 2023

• Fix app rendering twice causing problems with upgrades
• Fix CSV header being detected as an error

5.3.7 – 8th January 2023

• Fix problem with locales in certain directories
• Fix incorrect import of empty CSV lines
• Don’t encode regex for Nginx

5.3.6 – 12th November 2022

• Fix for sites with a version of +OK
• Another fix for CZ locale

5.3.5 – 6th November 2022

• Fix crash on options page for Czech language

5.3.4 – 14th September 2022

• Fix query parameter name with a + not matching

5.3.3 – 7th September 2022

• Fix default HTTP header not being set when first used
• Fix incorrect column heading in CSV
• Fix passing of mixed case parameters

5.3.2 – 6th August 2022

• Fix missing props error
• Fix missing value for .htaccess location display

5.3.1 – 29th July 2022

• Fix crash caused by bad translations in locale files
• Fix query match not working when it contained mixed case
• Fix missing flag in .htaccess export

5.3.0 – 21st July 2022

• Improve installation process
• Improve permalink migration so it works with more permalinks
• Prevent ordering columns by HTTP code
• Better encode URLs in Nginx export
• Allow escaped characters to work in the redirect checker
• Reduce CSV import time

5.2.3 – 6th February 2022

• Fix error when grouping by URL, adding redirect, and then adding another redirect
• Add a warning for unescaped ? regex

5.2.2 – 22nd January 2022

• Further improve URL checker response to clarify responsibility
• Fix WordPress and pagetype match preventing the logging of 404s
• Fix title field being inactive
• Fix CSV export having duplicate column

5.2.1 – 16th January 2022

• Include path with inline URL checker

5.2 – 15th January 2022

• Improve URL checker and show more details
• Retain query parameter case when passing to target URL
• Remove unnecessary database stage option check
• PHP 8.1 compatibility

5.1.3 – 24th July 2021

• Fix geo IP on log pages showing an API redirected error
• Fix crash when changing match type in edit dialog

5.1.2 – 17th July 2021

• Fix random redirect not working
• Fix [userid] shortcode returning 1

5.1.1 – 11th April 2021

• Revert the permalink migration improvement from 5.1 as it’s causing problems on some sites

5.1 – 10th April 2021

• Add importer for PrettyLinks
• Fix crash converting a ‘do nothing’ to ‘redirect to URL’
• Improve warning messages
• Improve permalink migration when is_404 is not set
• Fix ‘delete log entries’ returning blank data
• Fix missing .htaccess location
• Fix hits & date not imported with JSON format

5.0.1 – 26th Jan 2021

• Fix incorrect warning when creating a regular expression with captured data
• Fix JS error when upgrading a database with a broken REST API
• Increase regular expression redirect limit
• PHP8 support

5.0 – 16th Jan 2021

• Add caching support
• Add support for migrated permalink structures
• Add dynamic URL variables
• Add fully automatic database upgrade option
• Add a new version release information prompt
• Improve performance when many redirects have the same path
• Move bulk all action to a separate button after selecting all
• Fix error in display with restricted capabilities
• Avoid problems with 7G Firewall
• Improve handling of invalid encoded characters

4.9.2 – 30th October

• Fix warning with PHP 5.6
• Improve display of long URLs

4.9.1 – 26th October 2020

• Restore missing time and referrer URL from log pages
• Restaurer les informations client manquantes à partir des rapports de débogage
• Fix order by count when grouping by URL
• Rechercher les colonnes en double dans la mise à niveau de la base de données

4.9 – 24th October 2020

• Expand log information to capture HTTP headers, domain, HTTP code, and HTTP method
• Autoriser la journalisation des redirections sans redirection – permet le suivi de toutes les redirections sur un site
• Développez le journal et 404 pages avec des filtres grandement améliorés
• Supprimer en bloc les journaux et les 404 par filtre sélectionné
• La journalisation est désormais facultative par règle de redirection
• Fix random action on a site with non-root URL
• Correction du groupe et de la recherche en cours de réinitialisation lors de la recherche
• Fix canonical alias not using request server name

4.8 – 23rd May 2020

• Add importer for Quick Post/Page Redirects plugin
• Add plugin imports to WP CLI
• Fix install wizard using wrong relative API
• Fix sub menu outputting invalid HTML

4.7.2 – 8th May 2020

• Fix PHP warning decoding an encoded question mark
• Fix site adding an extra period in a domain name
• Fix protocol appearing in .htaccess file server redirect

4.7.1 – 14th March 2020

• Fix HTTP header over-sanitizing the value
• Fix inability to remove .htaccess location
• Fix 404 group by ‘delete all’
• Fix import of empty ‘old slugs’

4.7 – 15th February 2020

• Relocate entire site to another domain, with exceptions
• Alias ​​de site pour mapper un autre site sur le site actuel
• Canonical settings for www/no-www
• Change content-type for API requests to help with mod_security

4.6.2 – 6th January 2020

• Fix 404 log export button
• Fix HTTPS option not appearing enabled
• Fix another PHP compat issue

4.6.1 – 30th December 2019

• Back-compatibility fix for old PHP versions

4.6 – 27th December 2019

• Add fine-grained permissions allowing greater customisation of the plugin, and removal of functionality
• Add an import step to the install wizard
• Remove overriding of default WordPress ‘old slugs’

4.5.1 – 23rd November 2019

• Fix broken canonical redirects

4.5 – 23rd November 2019

• Add HTTP header feature, with x-robots-tag support
• Move HTTPS setting to new Site page
• Add filter to disable redirect hits
• Add ‘Disable Redirection’ option to stop Redirection, in case you break your site
• Fill out API documentation
• Fix style with WordPress 5.4
• Fix encoding of # in .htaccess

4.4.2 – 29th September 2019

• Fix missing options for monitor group
• Fix check redirect not appearing if position column not shown

4.4.1 – 28th September 2019

• Fix search highlighter causing problems with regex characters
• Fix ‘show all’ link not working
• Fix ‘Request URI Too Long’ error when switching pages after creating redirects

4.4 – 22nd September 2019

• Add ‘URL and language’ match
• Add page display type for configurable information
• Add ‘search by’ to search by different information
• Add filter dropdown to filter data
• Add warning about relative absolute URLs
• Add 451, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504 error codes
• Fix multiple ‘URL and page type’ redirects
• Improve invalid nonce warning
• Encode replaced values in regular expression targets

4.3.3 – 8th August 2019

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* Add back compatibility fix for URL sanitization

4.3.2 – 4th August 2019

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* Fix problem with UTF8 characters in a regex URL
* Fix invalid characters causing an error message
* Fix regex not disabled when removed

4.3.1 – 8th June 2019

• Fix + character being removed from source URL

4.3 – 2nd June 2019

• Add support for UTF8 URLs without manual encoding
• Add manual database install option
• Add check for pipe character in target URL
• Add warning when problems saving .htaccess file
• Switch from ‘x-redirect-agent’ to ‘x-redirect-by’, for WP 5+
• Improve handling of invalid query parameters
• Fix query param name is a number
• Fix redirect with blank target and auto target settings
• Fix monitor trash option applying when deleting a draft
• Fix case insensitivity not applying to query params
• Disable IP grouping when IP option is disabled
• Allow multisite database updates to run when more than 100 sites

4.2.3 – 16th Apr 2019

• Fix bug with old API routes breaking test

4.2.2 – 13th Apr 2019

• Improve API checking logic
• Fix ‘1’ being logged for pass-through redirects

4.2.1 – 8th Apr 2019

• Fix incorrect CSV download link

4.2 – 6th Apr 2019

• Add auto-complete for target URLs
• Add manual database upgrade
• Add support for semi-colon separated import files
• Add user agent to 404 export
• Add workaround for qTranslate breaking REST API
• Improve API problem detection
• Fix JSON import ignoring group status

4.1.1 – 23rd Mar 2019

• Remove deprecated PHP
• Fix REST API warning
• Improve WP CLI database output

4.1 – 16th Mar 2019

• Move 404 export option to import/export page
• Add additional redirect suggestions
• Add import from Rank Math
• Fix ‘force https’ causing WP to redirect to admin URL when accessing www subdomain
• Fix .htaccess import adding ^ to the source
• Fix handling of double-slashed URLs
• Fix WP CLI on single site
• Add DB upgrade to catch URLs with double-slash URLs
• Remove unnecessary escaped slashes from JSON output

4.0.1 – 2nd Mar 2019

• Improve styling of query flags
• Match DB upgrade for new match_url to creation script
• Fix upgrade on some hosts where plugin is auto-updated
• Fix pagination button style in WP 5.1
• Fix IP match when action is ‘error’
• Fix database upgrade on multisite WP CLI

4.0 – 23rd Feb 2019

• Add option for case insensitive redirects
• Add option to ignore trailing slashes
• Add option to copy query parameters to target URL
• Add option to ignore query parameters
• Add option to set defaults for case, trailing, and query settings
• Improve upgrade for sites with missing tables

3.7.3 – 2nd Feb 2019

• Add PHP < 5.4 message on plugins page
• Prevent upgrade message being hidden by other plugins
• Fix warning with regex and no leading slash
• Fix missing display of disabled redirects with a title
• Improve upgrade for sites with a missing IP column
• Improve API detection with plugins that use sessions
• Improve compatibility with ModSecurity
• Improve compatibility with custom API prefix
• Detect site where Redirection was once installed and has settings but no database tables

3.7.2 – 16th Jan 2019

• Add further partial upgrade detection
• Add fallback for sites with no REST API value

3.7.1 – 13th Jan 2019

• Clarify database upgrade text
• Fix Firefox problem with multiple URLs
• Fix 3.7 built against wrong dropzone module
• Add DB upgrade detection for people with partial 2.4 sites

3.7 – 12th Jan 2019

• Add redirect warning for known problem redirects
• Add new database install and upgrade process
• Add database functions to WP CLI
• Add introduction message when first installed
• Drop PHP < 5.4 support. Please use version 3.6.3 if your PHP is too old
• Improve export filename
• Fix IPs appearing for bulk redirect
• Fix disabled redirects appearing in htaccess

3.6.3 – 14th November 2018

• Remove potential CSRF

3.6.2 – 10th November 2018

• Add another PHP < 5.4 compat fix
• Fix ‘delete all from 404 log’ when ungrouped deleting all 404s
• Fix IDs shown in bulk add redirect

3.6.1 – 3rd November 2018

• Add another PHP < 5.4 fix. Sigh

3.6 – 3rd November 2018

• Ajout d’une option pour ignorer les 404
• Ajout d’une option pour bloquer les 404 par IP
• Add grouping of 404s by IP and URL
• Add bulk block or redirect a group of 404s
• Add option to redirect on a 404
• Better page navigation change monitoring
• Add URL & IP match
• Add 303 and 304 redirect codes
• Add 400, 403, and 418 (I’m a teapot!) error codes
• Fix server match not supporting regex properly
• Deprecated file pass through removed
• ‘Do nothing’ now stops processing further rules

3.5 – 23rd September 2018

• Add redirect checker on redirects page
• Correction des traductions manquantes
• Restore 4.7 backwards compatibility
• Fix unable to delete server name in server match
• Fix error shown when source URL is blank

3.4.1 – 9th September 2018

• Fix import of WordPress redirects
• Fix incorrect parsing of URLs with ‘http’ in the path
• Fix ‘force ssl’ not including path

3.4 – 17th July 2018

• Add a redirect checker
• Fix incorrect host parsing with server match
• Fix PHP warning with CSV import
• Fix old capability check that was missed from 3.0

3.3.1 – 24th June 2018

• Add a minimum PHP check for people < 5.4

3.3 – 24th June 2018

• Add user role/capability match
• Add fix for IP blocking plugins
• Add server match to redirect other domains (beta)
• Add a force http to https option (beta)
• Use users locale setting, not site
• Check for mismatched site/home URLs
• Fix WP CLI not clearing logs
• Fix old capability check
• Detect BOM marker in response
• Improve detection of servers that block content-type json
• Fix incorrect encoding of entities in some locale files
• Fix table navigation parameters not affecting subsequent pages
• Fix .htaccess saving after WordPress redirects
• Correction de l’erreur get_plugin_data
• Fix canonical redirect problem caused by change in WordPress
• Fix situation that prevented rules cascading

3.2 – 11th February 2018

• Add cookie match – redirect based on a cookie
• Add HTTP header match – redirect based on an HTTP header
• Add custom filter match – redirect based on a custom WordPress filter
• Add detection of REST API redirect, causing ‘fetch error’ on some sites
• Update table responsiveness
• Allow redirects for canonical WordPress URLs
• Fix double include error on some sites
• Fix delete action on some sites
• Fix trailing slash redirect of API on some sites

3.1.1 – 29th January 2018

• Fix problem fetching data on sites without https

3.1 – 27th January 2018

• Add alternative REST API routes to help servers that block the API
• Move DELETE API calls to POST, to help servers that block DELETE
• Move API nonce to query param, to help servers that don’t pass HTTP headers
• Improve error messaging
• Preload support page so it can be used when REST API isn’t working
• Fix bug editing Nginx redirects
• Fix import from JSON not setting status

3.0.1 – 21st Jan 2018

• Don’t show warning if per page setting is greater than max
• Don’t allow WP REST API to be redirected

3.0 – 20th Jan 2018

• Ajout de la prise en charge d’IPv6
• Add support for disabling or anonymising IP collection
• Add support for monitoring custom post types
• Add support for monitoring from quick edit mode
• Default to last group used when editing
• Permissions changed from ‘administrator’ role to ‘manage_options’ capability
• Swap to WP REST API
• Add new IP map service
• Add new useragent service
• Add ‘add new’ button to redirect page
• Increase ‘title’ length
• Fix position not saving on creation
• Fix log pages not remembering table settings
• Fix incorrect column used for HTTP code when importing CSV
• Add support links from inside the plugin

2.10.1 – 26th November 2017

• Fix incorrect HTTP code reported in errors
• Improve management page hook usage

2.10 – 18th November 2017

• Add support for WordPress multisite
• Add new Redirection documentation
• Add extra actions when creating redirects
• Fix user agent dropdown not setting agent

2.9.2 – 11th November 2017

• Fix regex breaking .htaccess export
• Fix error when saving Error or No action
• Restore sortable table headers

2.9.1 – 4th November 2017

• Fix const issues with PHP 5

2.9 – 4th November 2017

• Add option to set redirect cache expiry, default 1 hour
• Add a check for unsupported versions of WordPress
• Add check for database tables before starting the plugin
• Improve JSON import memory usage
• Add importers for: Simple 301 Redirects, SEO Redirection, Safe Redirect Manager, and WordPress old post slugs
• Add responsive admin UI

2.8.1 – 22nd October 2017

• Fix redirect edit not closing after save
• Fix user agent dropdown not auto-selecting regex
• Fix focus to bottom of page on load
• Improve error message when failing to start
• Fix associated redirect appearing at start of URL, not end

2.8 – 18th October 2017

• Add a fixer to the support page
• Ignore case for imported files
• Fixes for Safari
• Fix WP CLI importing CSV
• Fix monitor not setting HTTP code
• Improve error, random, and pass-through actions
• Fix bug when saving long title
• Add user agent dropdown to user agent match
• Add pages and trashed posts to monitoring
• Add ‘associated redirect’ option to monitoring, for AMP
• Retrait des 404 après l’ajout
• Allow search term to apply to deleting logs and 404s
• Deprecate file pass-through, needs to be enabled with REDIRECTION_SUPPORT_PASS_FILE and will be replaced with WP actions
• Further sanitize match data against bad serialization

2.7.3 – 26th August 2017

• Fix an import regression bug

2.7.2 – 25th August 2017

• Meilleur prise en charge d’IE11
• Correction de l’importation Apache
• Show more detailed error messages
• Refactor match code and fix a problem saving referrer & user agent matches
• Fix save button not enabling for certain redirect types

2.7.1 – 14th August 2017

• Amélioration de l’affichage des erreurs
• Amélioration de la prise en charge du CSV
• Reset tables when changing menus
• Change how the page is displayed to reduce change of interference from other plugins

2.7 – 6th August 2017

• Finish conversion to React
• Ajout de la prise en charge de WP CLI pour l’import/export
• Add a JSON import/export that exports all data
• Edit redirect position
• Apache config moved to options page
• Fix 410 error code
• Correction des limites de page
• Correction de problèmes avec IE/Safari

2.6.6

• Use React on redirects page
• Use translate.wordpress.org for language files

2.6.5

• Use React on groups page

2.6.4

• Add a limit to per page screen options
• Fix warning in referrer match when referrer doesn’t exist
• Fix 404 page showing options
• Fix RSS token not regenerating
• 404 and log filters can now avoid logging
• Use React on modules page

2.6.3

• Use React on log and 404 pages
• Fix log option not saving ‘never’
• Additional check for auto-redirect from root
• Fix delete plugin button
• Improve IP detection for Cloudflare

2.6.2

• Set auto_detect_line_endings when importing CSV
• Replace options page with a fancy React version that looks exactly the same

2.6.1

• Fix CSV export merging everything into one line
• Fix bug with HTTP codes not being imported from CSV
• Add filters for source and target URLs
• Add filters for log and 404s
• Add filters for request data
• Add filter for monitoring post permalinks
• Fix export of 404 and logs

2.6

• Afficher un CSV type
• Autorise les regex et les codes de redirection à être mis en place dans les imports
• Corrige un tas de problèmes d’installation en base de données

2.5

• Corrige l’absence de création de groupe à l’installation
• Corrige l’erreur clé manquante à l’installation
• Ajoute un code d’erreur 309, merci à radenui
• Corrige le réglage de regex des URL importées, merci à alpipego
• Corrige le tri des URL, merci à JordanReiter
• Ne pas mettre en cache les 307, merci à rmarchant
• Annule la redirection de sortie si aucune redirection n’arrive, merci à junc

2.4.5

• Vérification du lancement du nettoyage de code même si l’extension a été mise à jour
• Sanitisation supplémentaire des fichiers Apache et Nginx, merci à Ed Shirey
• Corrige un bug de regex, merci à romulodl
• Corrige un bug lorsqu’un groupe correct ne s’affiche pas dans la liste déroulante

2.4.4

• Corrige la grande icône des réglages avancés
• Ajout du text domain au fichier de l’extension, merci à Bernhard Kau
• Meilleure compatibilité PHP7, merci à Ohad Raz
• Meilleure compatibilité avec Polylang, merci à imrehg

2.4.3

• Passage de la version minimale de WP à 4.0.0
• Mise à niveau de la traduction en Allemand, merci à Konrad Tadesse
• Vérification complémentaire lors de la création de redirections dans les cas de mauvaises données

2.4.2

• Ajout d’une tâche Gulp pour générer le fichier POT
• Fix a problem with duplicate positions in the redirect table, props to Jon Jensen
• Corrige le moniteur d’URL qui ne se lance pas
• Corrige l’export CSV

2.4.1

• Fix error for people with an unknown module in a group

2.4

• Reworked modules now no longer stored in database
• Module Nginx (expérimental)
• Voir .htaccess/Nginx en ligne
• Début des tests unitaires !
• Fix DB creation on activation, props syntax53
• Updated Japanese locale, props to Naoko
• Remove deprecated like escaping

2.3.16

• Fix export options not showing for some people

2.3.15

• Correction d’une erreur sur la page d’administration pour WP 4.2

2.3.14

• Remove error_log statements
• Fix incorrect table name when exporting 404 errors, props to brazenest/synchronos-t

2.3.13

• Split admin and front-end code out to streamline the loading a bit
• Fix bad groups link when viewing redirects in a group, props to Patrick Fabre
• Improved plugin activation/deactivation and cleanup
• Improved log clearing

2.3.12

• Persian translation by Danial Hatami
• Fix saving a redirection with login status, referrer, and user agent
• Fix problem where deleting your last group would cause Redirection to only show an error
• Add limits to referrer and destination in the logs
• Redirect title now shows in the main list again. The field is hidden when editing until toggled
• Fix ‘bad nonce’ error, props to Jonathan Harrell
• Remove old WP code

2.3.11

• Fix log cleanup options
• More space when editing redirects
• Better detection of regex when importing
• Restore export options
• Fix unnecessary protected

2.3.10

• Another compatibility fix for PHP < 5.3
• Fix incorrect module ID used when creating a group
• Fix .htaccess duplication, props to Jörg Liwa

2.3.9

• Compatibility fix for PHP < 5.3

2.3.8

• Fix plugin activation error
• Fix fatal error in table nav, props to spacedmonkey

2.3.7

• New redirect page to match WP style
• New module page to match WP style
• Configurable permissions via redirection_role filter, props to RodGer-GR
• Fix saving 2 month log period
• Fix importer
• Fix DB creation to check for existing tables

2.3.6

• Updated Italian translation, props to Raffaello Tesi
• Updated Romanian translation, props to Flo Bejgu
• Simplifie les options de journal
• Fix log deletion by search term
• Export logs and 404s to CSV

2.3.5

• Default log settings to 7 days, props to Maura
• Updated Danish translation thanks to Mikael Rieck
• Add per-page screen option for log pages
• Remove all the corners

2.3.4

• Fix escaping of URL in admin page

2.3.3

• Fix PHP strict, props to Juliette Folmer
• Fix RSS entry date, props to Juliette
• Corrige la pagination

2.3.2

• Compatibilité WP 3.5
• Fix export

2.3.0 and earlier

• Remove 404 module and move 404 logs into a separate option
• Clean up log code, using WP_List_Table to power it
• Fix some broken links in admin pages
• Fix order of redirects, thanks to Nicolas Hatier
• Fix XSS in admin menu & referrers log
• Meilleure compatibilité entre bases de données
• Remove warning from VaultPress
• Remove debug from htaccess module
• Fix encoding of JS strings
• Use fgetcsv for CSV importer – better handling
• Allow http as URL parameter
• Props to Ben Noordhuis for a patch
• WordPress 2.9+ only – cleaned up all the old cruft
• Better new-install process
• Upgrades from 1.0 of Redirection no longer supported
• Optimized DB tables
• Change to jQuery
• Nonce protection
• Disable category monitor in 2.7
• Refix log delete
• get_home_path seems not be available for some people
• Update plugin.php to better handle odd directories
• Correct DB install
• Install defaults when no existing redirection setup
• Fix problem with custom post types auto-redirecting (click on ‘groups’ and then ‘modified posts’ and clear any entries for ‘/’ from your list)
• Database optimization
• Add patch to disable logs (thanks to Simon Wheatley!)
• Fix for some users with problems deleting redirections
• Fix group edit and log add entry
• Disable category monitoring
• Fix ‘you do not permissions’ error on some non-English sites
• Fix category change ‘quick edit’
• RSS feed token