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Backup Migration · Version history

Backup Migration changelog and version history

Latest version
2.1.8.1
Nov 5, 2026 (3 days ago)
Releases
35
since 2023
In the last year
12
about one every 25 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.6 or later

Releases each year

  • 202311 releases
  • 20247 releases
  • 20255 releases
  • 202612 releases

202612 releases

  1. Backup Migration 2.1.8.1Latest

    • Tested with WordPress 7.1.4
    • [FEATURE] Added optional backup subfolders for Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3, and Wasabi.
    • [ENHANCEMENT] Added pagination and transient caching for external storage file listings.
    • [ENHANCEMENT] Validated and created configured external storage directories before use.
    • [ENHANCEMENT] Added configuration failure diagnostics to troubleshooting reports.
    • [ENHANCEMENT] Improved global log writing with file-open checks and exclusive locking.
    • [ENHANCEMENT] Added missing defaults for external storage, database exclusions, and the new database export engine.
    • [ENHANCEMENT] Added intermediate progress logging for database export batches.
    • [FIX] Restored PHP 5.6 compatibility across backup, restore, hashing, external storage, and archive workflows.
    • [FIX] Added compatible authentication-token generation for environments without random_bytes().
    • [FIX] Prevented encrypted backups from being used when ZipArchive AES encryption is unavailable.
    • [FIX] Improved exception handling and WordPress compatibility during restoration.
    • [FIX] Recovered corrupted or incomplete plugin configurations from a verified last-known-good copy.
    • [FIX] Validated and verified configuration writes to prevent silent settings loss.
    • [FIX] Prevented PHP warnings and type errors caused by malformed file-filter settings and requests.
    • [FIX] Removed redundant closing div tag in optout template.
    • [FIX] Prevented unintentional backup deletion by resetting the deletion target on single backup removal.
    • [FIX] Automatically deleted broken backups when manifest extraction fails.
    • [FIX] Prevented post-backup cleanup errors from marking successfully created backups as failed.
    • [FIX] Ensured post-processing errors remain eligible for centralized error handling.
    • [FIX] Preserved PHP’s unlimited memory-limit value during archive memory calculations.
    • [FIX] Corrected the Dropbox content-type request header.
    • [FIX] Included Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program link.
    • [SECURITY] Prevented unsafe PclZip archive entries from escaping the target restore directory during backup extraction.
    • [REFACTOR] Optimized backup list rendering with in-memory state, incremental pagination, debounced search, scoped tooltip initialization, and deduplicated upload-status updates.
  2. Backup Migration 2.1.8

  3. Backup Migration 2.1.7

  4. Backup Migration 2.1.6

  5. Backup Migration 2.1.5.2

  6. Backup Migration 2.1.5.1

  7. Backup Migration 2.1.5

  8. Backup Migration 2.1.4

  9. Backup Migration 2.1.3

  10. Backup Migration 2.1.2

  11. Backup Migration 2.1.1

  12. Backup Migration 2.1.0

20255 releases

  1. Backup Migration 2.0.0

  2. Backup Migration 1.4.9.1

  3. Backup Migration 1.4.9

  4. Backup Migration 1.4.8

  5. Backup Migration 1.4.7

20247 releases

  1. Backup Migration 1.4.6.1

  2. Backup Migration 1.4.6

  3. Backup Migration 1.4.5

  4. Backup Migration 1.4.4

  5. Backup Migration 1.4.3

  6. Backup Migration 1.4.2

  7. Backup Migration 1.4.1

202311 releases

  1. Backup Migration 1.4.0

  2. Backup Migration 1.3.9

  3. Backup Migration 1.3.8

  4. Backup Migration 1.3.7

  5. Backup Migration 1.3.6

  6. Backup Migration 1.3.5

  7. Backup Migration 1.3.4

  8. Backup Migration 1.3.3

  9. Backup Migration 1.3.2

  10. Backup Migration 1.3.1

  11. Backup Migration 1.3.0

Questions about Backup Migration’s releases

What is the latest version of Backup Migration?

2.1.8.1, released on Nov 5, 2026 (3 days ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.6 or later.

How often is Backup Migration updated?

12 releases in the last year, about one every 25 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from September 2023.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Backup Migration’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.