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Geolocation IP Detection · Version history

Geolocation IP Detection changelog and version history

Latest version
5.6.4
Jun 3, 2026 (5 months ago)
Releases
54
since 2014
In the last year
3
about one every 10 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.0.8
PHP 7.2.5 or later

Releases each year

  • 20141 release
  • 20152 releases
  • 20163 releases
  • 20172 releases
  • 20184 releases
  • 20197 releases
  • 202011 releases
  • 20217 releases
  • 20223 releases
  • 20236 releases
  • 20242 releases
  • 20253 releases
  • 20263 releases

20263 releases

  1. Geolocation IP Detection 5.6.4Latest

    • FIX: Lookup / Settings pages do not say “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page” anymore (Regression of 5.6.3)
    • FIX: Automatic update works again (Regression of 5.6.2)

  2. Geolocation IP Detection 5.6.3

    • FIX: Compatibility with WordPress 7.0 (Command Palette)

  3. Geolocation IP Detection 5.6.2

    • UI: Showing dates now respect the wordpress timezone setting
    • Library updates

20253 releases

  1. Geolocation IP Detection 5.6.1

    • FIX [!]: Remove deprecated shortcode [geoip_detect] (Security – CVE-2025-57993). If you are still using it, use [geoip_detect2 …] instead, you might have to change the property name.
    • FIX: Compatibility with WordPress 6.7 (Textdomain loading)
    • Library updates
    • (5.6.0 was not released)

  2. Geolocation IP Detection 5.6.0

  3. Geolocation IP Detection 5.5.0

    • FIX [!]: In the datasource “hostip.info”, the region code (i.e. CA) is now correctly moved to the property mostSpecificSubdivision (previously, it was part of the property city)
    • Library updates

20242 releases

  1. Geolocation IP Detection 5.4.1

    • NEW: JS now emit events ‘geoip-detect-shortcodes-done’ and ‘geoip-detect-body-classes-done’, see https://github.com/yellowtree/geoip-detect/wiki/API:-AJAX#events
    • FIX: Remove Fatal Error in check_requirements (“Undefined constand GEOIP_DETECT_DEBUG”)

  2. Geolocation IP Detection 5.4.0

    • NEW: Infos can be added to a mail sent by WPForms (with Smart Tag {geoip_detect2_user_info})
    • FIX: Remove Fatal Error on uninstall (“Undefined constand GEOIP_DETECT_DEBUG”)
    • Library updates

20236 releases

  1. Geolocation IP Detection 5.3.2

    • FIX: Some country codes such as “PT” were missing in the (deprecated) legacy API mapping.
    • FIX: Maxmind compatibility does not show a notice anymore when the plugin folder is non-standard (e.g. due to symlinks) or the Filename ends with Reader.php
    • Library updates

  2. Geolocation IP Detection 5.3.1

    • FIX: Respect JS file variant
    • UI: Show selected file variant in backend options
    • Library updates

  3. Geolocation IP Detection 5.3.0

    • NEW: You can now specify to use a JS file variant if you are only using a subset of the features (see https://github.com/yellowtree/geoip-detect/wiki/API:-AJAX#js-variants)
    • Note[!]: frontend.js has now been renamed to frontend_full.js
    • Library updates

  4. Geolocation IP Detection 5.2.2

    • FIX: The format for new Maxmind licence keys has changed. (Existing licence keys will continue to work.) (5.2.1 was a broken release)

  5. Geolocation IP Detection 5.2.1

  6. Geolocation IP Detection 5.2.0

    • NEW: The list of reverse proxies of AWS CloudFront or CloudFlare can now be added as “known proxy”
    • FIX [!]: AWS Cloudfront header name changed to HTTP_CLOUDFRONT_VIEWER_COUNTRY
    • Reduced JS size (AJAX mode)
    • Library updates

20223 releases

  1. Geolocation IP Detection 5.1.1

    • NEW: For the reverse proxy configuration, internal adresses (such as 10.0.0.0/8) are now whitelisted by default. You can override this behaviour by using the wordpress filter geoip_detect2_client_ip_whitelist_internal_ips.
    • NEW: Body classes now include the city name in English (e.g. geoip-city-Munich)
    • FIX: Some server configurations showed this warning: Use of undefined constant CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2_0

  2. Geolocation IP Detection 5.1.0

    • New Datasource: Fastah Web API (beta), see https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-k5gjowexrefl2
    • AJAX mode: * NEW: The JS function geoip_detect.set_override_with_merge can modify the override record in one property, merging it with the currently saved property
    • Other minor changes: * FIX: In non-AJAX mode, properties such as “extra.original.zip” can be accessed again * FIX: Automatic download of Maxmind database now also works when the temp folder is group/world writeable (as in AWS configurations) * If you want to enable more Warnings (e.g. while debuggi…

  3. Geolocation IP Detection 5.0.0

    • In this release, there a small breaking changes marked by [!].
    • AJAX mode: * FIX [!]: Empty attribute values such as [geoip_detect2_show_if country=""]Country was not detected[/geoip_detect2_show_if] are now working (they were ignored before) * FIX [!]: Shortcodes that have an invalid value for the property ajax (e.g. [geoip_detect2_text_input ajax="invalid"])…
    • Other changes: * NEW: Drastically improving performance if the lookup is performed for the current IP more than once (e.g. because of shortcodes without AJAX mode) * UI: Showing the time for the subsequent lookup on the Test Lookup page * FIX: Maxmind Datasource: Check if the database file is reall…
    • Other minor changes: * Update the list of available APIs for getting the external IP (as whatismyip went down) * Minimum WordPress version is 5.4 now. * Update some internal libraries & dev tools * Checked compatibility with PHP 8.1
    • The code of the plugin has not changed much, I have named this version 3.0 to indicate the major change on Maxmind’s side of things. They explain it in this blog post: https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/
    • Older changelog

20217 releases

  1. Geolocation IP Detection 4.2.3

  2. Geolocation IP Detection 4.2.2

  3. Geolocation IP Detection 4.2.1

  4. Geolocation IP Detection 4.2.0

  5. Geolocation IP Detection 4.1.0

  6. Geolocation IP Detection 4.0.1

  7. Geolocation IP Detection 4.0.0

202011 releases

  1. Geolocation IP Detection 3.3.0

  2. Geolocation IP Detection 3.2.1

  3. Geolocation IP Detection 3.2.0

  4. Geolocation IP Detection 3.1.2

  5. Geolocation IP Detection 3.1.1

  6. Geolocation IP Detection 3.1.0

  7. Geolocation IP Detection 3.0.4

  8. Geolocation IP Detection 3.0.3.1

  9. Geolocation IP Detection 3.0.3

  10. Geolocation IP Detection 3.0.2

  11. Geolocation IP Detection 3.0.1

20197 releases

  1. Geolocation IP Detection 3.0

  2. Geolocation IP Detection 2.13.0

  3. Geolocation IP Detection 2.12.1

  4. Geolocation IP Detection 2.12.0

  5. Geolocation IP Detection 2.11.1

  6. Geolocation IP Detection 2.11.0

  7. Geolocation IP Detection 2.10.0

20184 releases

  1. Geolocation IP Detection 2.9.2

  2. Geolocation IP Detection 2.9.1

  3. Geolocation IP Detection 2.9.0

  4. Geolocation IP Detection 2.8.2

20172 releases

  1. Geolocation IP Detection 2.8.0

  2. Geolocation IP Detection 2.7.0

20163 releases

  1. Geolocation IP Detection 2.6.0

  2. Geolocation IP Detection 2.5.7

  3. Geolocation IP Detection 2.5.6

20152 releases

  1. Geolocation IP Detection 2.5.4

  2. Geolocation IP Detection 2.5.3

20141 release

  1. Geolocation IP Detection 1.8

Questions about Geolocation IP Detection’s releases

What is the latest version of Geolocation IP Detection?

5.6.4, released on Jun 3, 2026 (5 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.0.8 and needs PHP 7.2.5 or later.

How often is Geolocation IP Detection updated?

3 releases in the last year, about one every 10 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from December 2014.

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