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Cookie Notice & Consent · Version history

Cookie Notice & Consent changelog and version history

Latest version
1.6.6
Oct 6, 2025 (1 year ago)
Releases
22
since 2021
In the last year
0
Tested up to
WordPress 6.8.12
PHP 7.2 or later

Releases each year

  • 202111 releases
  • 20224 releases
  • 20232 releases
  • 20242 releases
  • 20253 releases

20253 releases

  1. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.6.6Latest

    • Fixed: XSS vulnerability (non-sanitized consent log data; disclosed by Wordfence)

  2. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.6.5

    • Fixed: XSS vulnerability (non-sanitized consent log data; disclosed by Patchstack)
    • Changed: Minimum PHP version to 7.2
    • Tested up to PHP 8.4

  3. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.6.4

    • Fixed: Essential category code was not output after consent was saved
    • Fixed: Compatibility issue when other plugins mess with the $pagenow global variable
    • Fixed: Changed embed unblock script to prevent global variable errors
    • Tested up to 6.8

20242 releases

  1. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.6.3

    • Fixed: Translation loading (_load_textdomain_just_in_time error)
    • Removed: Privacy Signal logic, since browser support is now pretty much dead
    • Tested up to 6.7

  2. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.6.2

    • Fixed: Deprecation notices when using PHP 8.2+
    • Tested up to 6.5
    • Tested up to PHP 8.3

20232 releases

  1. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.6.1

    • Fixed: XSS vulnerability (non-escaped settings field values; only Administrator affected; disclosed by Patchstack)
    • Tested up to 6.3

  2. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.6.0

    • Note: If you run your own design, please note that this release adds a new element to the notice banner
    • Added: Reject button
    • Improved: Buttons will now be hidden if their label is empty
    • Tested up to 6.2

20224 releases

  1. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.5.3

    • Tested up to 6.1

  2. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.5.2

    • Added: Filter cookie_notice_consent_cookie_expiration to change the consent cookie expiration time in days (default: 30)
    • Improved: Cookie notice visibility management when a cache plugin is active
    • Fixed: WPML not filtering frontend strings because of wrong hook priority
    • Fixed: DivisionByZeroError on the statistics admin screen if no logs are present

  3. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.5.1

    • Hotfix: Missing plugin files

  4. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.5.0

    • Tested up to 5.9
    • Added: WPML / Polylang support
    • Added: Info dialog when revoking consent
    • Added: Options for automatically respecting ‘Do not track’ (DNT) and ‘Global Privacy Control’ (GPC) privacy signals
    • Added: Numerous action hooks in the notice output
    • Added: (BETA) Experimental embed blocking (proof of concept, only for editor embeds)

202111 releases

  1. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.4.1

    • Added: Option to set the Revoke Consent button label
    • Added: Filter cookie_notice_consent_print_$category_code_in_head to output category code in the head (true) rather than footer (false, default)
    • Added: Filter cookie_notice_consent_print_plugin_script_in_head to output the plugin base script in the head (true) rather than footer (false, default)
    • Changed: Renamed filter cookie_notice_consent_output_script_$category to cookie_notice_consent_$category_code to better reflect its purpose

  2. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.4.0

    • Tested up to 5.8
    • Added: Proper cache recognition and handling (via WP_CACHE constant)
    • Improved: Consent banner is additionally shown and hidden via JS (better behaviour if caching is in use)
    • Improved: Consent UUID is generated by the frontend script if caching is in use
    • Improved: Nonce check for logging is skipped if caching is in use
    • Fixed: Don’t append cache buster URL argument when revoking cookies
    • Fixed: Prevent double cache buster URL argument when accepting cookies

  3. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.3.0

    • Added: New ‘Low-key’ theme, an unobtrusive option that doesn’t interrupt users
    • Fixed: Number formatting in consent statistics

  4. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.2.2

    • Tested up to 5.7
    • Added: Option to automatically purge all cookies site-wide on consent revoke (on by default)
    • Improved: Template function is_cookie_category_set doesn’t expect category_ prefix anymore
    • Improved: Register admin-ajax hooks only when necessary (if consent logging is on)
    • Improved: Better UX for slow connections by keeping the loading spinner visible while waiting for reload
    • Improved: Code commenting

  5. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.2.1

    • Fixed: Missing style in admin area (single consent view)
    • Improved: Theme styles and sizing on smaller screens

  6. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.2.0

    • Added: Themes! Two ready-made cookie notice themes to choose from
    • Added: Option to enable/disable consent logging (on by default)
    • Added: Option to enable/disable consent log IP anonymization (on by default)
    • Added: Option for automatic consent log purging
    • Changed: Moved ‘Show category description’ option to design settings (tiny breaking change, sorry)
    • Changed: Show Cookie Consents menu item and Consent Statistics tab only if logging is on
    • Changed: Optimized frontend script to reflect optional logging
    • Improved: More consistent rendering of default theme/style
    • Improved: Markup structure, classes and naming

  7. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.1.0

    • Added: Cookie consent logging via custom post type
    • Added: Basic consent statistics per cookie category
    • Added: Loading indicator when interacting with the consent banner (helpful for slow connections)
    • Changed: Minifying of frontend scripts and styles, added version parameter
    • Improved: Code and function formatting and structure

  8. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.0.3

    • Fixed: Additional client-side cookie check to prevent cache issues

  9. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.0.2

    • Fixed: Invalid code output due to sanitizing

  10. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.0.1

    • Fixed: Allow basic HTML in banner text

  11. Cookie Notice & Consent 1.0.0

    • Initial release

Questions about Cookie Notice & Consent’s releases

What is the latest version of Cookie Notice & Consent?

1.6.6, released on Oct 6, 2025 (1 year ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 6.8.12 and needs PHP 7.2 or later.

How often is Cookie Notice & Consent updated?

It had no release in the last year; the latest came out 1 year ago. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from February 2021.

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