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Fast Velocity Minify · Version history

Fast Velocity Minify changelog and version history

Latest version
3.5.8
Oct 28, 2026 (12 days ago)
Releases
24
since 2020
In the last year
4
about one every 52 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.2 or later

Releases each year

  • 20201 release
  • 20228 releases
  • 20234 releases
  • 20257 releases
  • 20264 releases

20264 releases

  1. Fast Velocity Minify 3.5.8Latest

    • Security: fixed a stored cross-site scripting issue in the bundled HTML parser. Text in visitor content can no longer imitate the parser’s internal placeholders, and attribute values changed by the plugin are escaped. Reported by Alpaslan Fatih Sözer through Patchstack.
    • Security: the HTML minifier’s internal placeholders can no longer be imitated by page content
    • Fixed pages that could hang when their content contained text resembling a parser placeholder
    • Fixed attribute quotes when the plugin removes an attribute or a tag repeats one, which could break markup
    • Fixed pages being cut short when an HTML comment marker appeared inside an attribute value
    • Fixed a fatal error on settings save when Redis requires a password; the object cache is now flushed through the active object cache drop-in only
    • Fixed the object cache label in the purge message
    • Fixed the “Clear Everything” notice, which was saved under the wrong key and never shown
    • Fixed settings that contain quotes or backslashes gaining an extra backslash on every save
    • Fixed a database error logged when the plugin is reactivated, caused by two indexes sharing one line in the cache table definition
    • Plugin Check: escaped all admin output, used the plugin’s text domain everywhere, moved file operations to WordPress functions and fully prepared every database query
    • Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4

  2. Fast Velocity Minify 3.5.7

    • Fixed “outside allowed directory” errors on symlinked WordPress installs.
    • Tested up to WordPress 7.0.2

  3. Fast Velocity Minify 3.5.6

    • Fixed the release package by including the bundled PHP Minify exception file required by version 1.3.75

  4. Fast Velocity Minify 3.5.5

    • Updated compatibility for WordPress 7.0
    • Preserved third-party SEO/meta head blocks by avoiding broad head metadata relocation
    • Improved cache purging on deactivation/uninstall and supported third-party cache plugins
    • Fixed PHP 8.5 compatibility notices in the bundled Simple HTML DOM parser
    • Updated the bundled PHP Minify library to 1.3.75

20257 releases

  1. Fast Velocity Minify 3.5.4

    • Removed the unecessary SSRF checks for external requests that were blocking sites behind NAT or intranet deployments

  2. Fast Velocity Minify 3.5.3

    • Introduces a new ‘Cache External Fonts locally’ setting in the admin layout
    • Refactors and improves CSS URL handling for better URL normalization and updates font-face simplification logic.

  3. Fast Velocity Minify 3.5.2

    • SECURITY: Fixed Stored XSS vulnerability in CDN domain input validation (CVE-2025-12034)
    • SECURITY: Fixed Path Traversal vulnerability allowing arbitrary local file disclosure
    • SECURITY: Enabled TLS certificate verification for external resource downloads
    • SECURITY: Added AJAX nonce validation for log retrieval endpoint (CSRF protection)
    • SECURITY: Added URL protocol whitelist and SSRF prevention for external requests
    • SECURITY: Added sensitive file protection blocking access to wp-config.php, .htaccess, .env files
    • SECURITY: Added output escaping for all admin textarea fields
    • Fixed transient checker operator precedence bug causing unnecessary database checks
    • Fixed AJAX nonce implementation to properly pass security token from JavaScript

  4. Fast Velocity Minify 3.5.1

    • Plugin and Author URL update

  5. Fast Velocity Minify 3.5.0

    • Fixed UTF-8 encoding issues with CSS minification that caused icon fonts to display incorrectly
    • Added @charset “UTF-8” declaration to all minified CSS files for proper encoding
    • Fixed undefined variable warnings for $enable_css_minification
    • Improved encoding detection to prevent double-encoding of valid UTF-8 content
    • Enhanced compatibility with icon fonts using literal Unicode characters
    • Added support for CLP Varnish Cache (cloudpanel.io) integration for automatic cache purging

  6. Fast Velocity Minify 3.4.2

    • Quick PHP deprecation fixes and WP version compatibility update

  7. Fast Velocity Minify 3.4.3

    • bugfix

20234 releases

  1. Fast Velocity Minify 3.4.1

    • removed integrity attributes on minified files

  2. Fast Velocity Minify 3.3.8

    • fixed a typo

  3. Fast Velocity Minify 3.4.0

    • better third party cache plugins detection

  4. Fast Velocity Minify 3.3.9

    • fixed a bug with PHP 8.1 detected encodings and a few notices

20228 releases

  1. Fast Velocity Minify 3.3.7

    • fixed a bug with the Allowed Query Strings setting

  2. Fast Velocity Minify 3.3.6

    • buffer compatibility improvements with WP-Super-Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache and Cache Enabler

  3. Fast Velocity Minify 3.3.5

    • fixed a notice with php cli

  4. Fast Velocity Minify 3.3.4

  5. Fast Velocity Minify 3.3.3

    • buffer bug fix
    • custom cache directory fixes
    • upgraded matthiasmullie’s PHP Minify to 1.3.70
    • move the viewport meta tag up, before preloading tags

  6. Fast Velocity Minify 3.3.1

    • bug fix

  7. Fast Velocity Minify 3.3.0

    • fixed minification error on html pre tags
    • fixed an error notice
    • bumped minimum requirements to PHP 7 and WP 5

  8. Fast Velocity Minify 3.2.9

    • legacy code removal and other bugfixes

20201 release

  1. Fast Velocity Minify 2.8.9

    • new filter for wp hide compatibility

Questions about Fast Velocity Minify’s releases

What is the latest version of Fast Velocity Minify?

3.5.8, released on Oct 28, 2026 (1 week ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.2 or later.

How often is Fast Velocity Minify updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 52 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from June 2020.

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