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pCloud WP Backup · Version history

pCloud WP Backup changelog and version history

Latest version
2.0.12
Nov 5, 2026 (3 days ago)
Releases
18
since 2022
In the last year
11
about one every 18 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 8.0 or later

Releases each year

  • 20224 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20242 releases
  • 202611 releases

202611 releases

  1. pCloud WP Backup 2.0.12Latest

    • New: optional retention. Tick “Delete old backups from pCloud automatically” at the bottom of the settings page and choose how many of this site’s backups to keep; older ones are removed after each successful backup. Off by default; nothing changes unless you turn it on.
    • New: email notifications when a backup fails and/or completes, sent to the site admin address or one you choose. Off by default.
    • New: restoring now shows a clear warning and lets you choose files only, database only, or both. A database-only restore downloads just the database archive.
    • New: the backup list shows the size of each backup.
    • Fix: the Download button now gives direct download links for the selected backup’s archives (with their sizes) instead of opening the pCloud web app, which lost the selection on login and sent EU accounts to the US site.
    • Fix: a restore request that found no archives no longer starts an empty restore.
    • Fix: a scheduled backup that fails while preparing the archives is now reported and does not immediately start over on the next scheduler run.
    • Fix: an upload that keeps timing out on one pCloud upload session no longer retries that session for days; the plugin now checks what pCloud already received, resumes after it, or restarts the archive on a fresh session.
    • Fix: a restore no longer skips a backup file silently when pCloud fails to answer a download-link request; the request is retried and, if it still fails, the restore is refused with a clear message instead of restoring an incomplete set. The log now also says when the database was not restored beca…

  2. pCloud WP Backup 2.0.11

    • Fix: automatic backups never ran when the “start between” hours crossed midnight (for example from 22:00 to 06:00). Such windows now work as expected.
    • Fix: the settings page always said “There are no scheduled backups”. It now shows when the next automatic backup is due.
    • Improved: the plugin’s messages are now fully translated in all 12 languages, including the backup exclusion settings.
    • Removed an unused internal schedule.

  3. pCloud WP Backup 2.0.10

    • Fix: a backup whose archive was still being written could be mistaken for a stopped one and reset after 20 minutes on slow servers.
    • Improved: the debug log now reports progress while each archive is written to disk, so an interrupted backup shows exactly how far it got.
    • Improved: when the server stops a backup on a LiteSpeed or PHP-FPM server, the message now tells you which setting to ask your hosting provider to change.

  4. pCloud WP Backup 2.0.9

    • New: exclude files and folders from the backup. Browse your site and pick them from the settings page, or add patterns such as *.log.
    • New: exclude database tables from the backup.
    • Fix: an upload interrupted part-way could get stuck retrying the same point indefinitely. The plugin now resumes from where pCloud actually is, or restarts the file on a fresh upload session.
    • Fix: two overlapping progress requests could upload the same piece of an archive twice. Progress updates are now serialised.
    • Fix: the settings page did not load on sites where another plugin’s script defined the same global name (“Identifier ‘__’ has already been declared”).
    • Fix: browsers could keep using the plugin’s previous script and stylesheet after an update.

  5. pCloud WP Backup 2.0.8

    • Security: improved protection of the plugin’s temporary working directory. Updating is recommended.
    • Fix: pCloud requests no longer wait longer than many servers allow a request to run, so a slow response is now reported and retried instead of ending the process without a message.
    • Fix: the plugin’s extended network timeout now applies only to its own pCloud requests, instead of every request made by WordPress, your theme and other plugins.

  6. pCloud WP Backup 2.0.7

    • Fix: backups on larger sites no longer stop silently while archives are being created. The plugin again splits the backup into several archives instead of building one very large one, which could exceed the server’s memory or time limits with no error shown.
    • Fix: a backup interrupted by the server is now detected and reported, instead of leaving the progress screen running indefinitely.
    • Improved: the progress log now reports compression progress as it happens, plus server limits and disk space, so a failing backup can be diagnosed from the log alone.

  7. pCloud WP Backup 2.0.6

    • Security: hardened the pCloud account-connection flow against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). Fixes CVE-2026-57757. Updating is recommended.
    • Fix: database restore now connects correctly on hosts whose DB_HOST includes a port or socket (e.g. localhost:3306).

  8. pCloud WP Backup 2.0.5

    • Fix: the database backup now connects correctly on hosts whose DB_HOST includes a port or socket (for example localhost:3306). Previously such hosts failed with “Unknown MySQL server host” and the backup silently continued without the database.
    • Fix: when the database dump cannot run, the backup no longer ships a file-only archive that looks complete — the failure is now clearly reported on the plugin page and in the log.

  9. pCloud WP Backup 2.0.4

    • Security: fixed a missing authorization check on the plugin’s AJAX handler. Backup and account actions now require administrator capability and a valid nonce, closing a flaw where a logged-in lower-privileged user could trigger a backup or disconnect the pCloud account (CVE-2026-14503).
    • Security: the temporary directories that briefly hold backup/restore archives are now hardened against direct web access (index.php, .htaccess, and web.config guard files), so archives cannot be listed or downloaded over HTTP.

  10. pCloud WP Backup 2.0.3

    • Maintenance release; no functional changes.

  11. pCloud WP Backup 2.0.2

    • Security: removed an unsafe TLS verification bypass on upload; the plugin no longer exposes the OAuth access token to page JavaScript or to the debug error log.
    • Reliability: fixed a chunk byte-accounting bug that could leave uploads or downloads short or duplicated when a network hiccup split a chunk.
    • Reliability: the database restore now streams the SQL file and parses statements with quote-aware splitting, which fixes restoring content containing semicolon+newline sequences and stops the large-site OOM during restore.
    • Performance: archive extraction on restore is now a single-pass operation. Large archives restore dramatically faster.
    • Performance: operational options (logs, operation state, async queue, notifications) are no longer autoloaded on every WordPress request.
    • Fix: deactivating the plugin no longer wipes your OAuth token and schedule. Only full uninstall removes configuration.
    • Fix: the “Next scheduled backup” display now shows the correct time.
    • Fix: a transient lock prevents concurrent admin-page polls from racing and doubling up chunk uploads.
    • Fix: failed chunk uploads and downloads now surface clear errors instead of hanging forever.
    • Fix: database dump no longer falls back to writing backup.sql into the web-accessible WordPress root on hosts without a usable tmp dir; it now fails closed.
    • Fix: transients are always cleared after a database restore, not only when user sessions were preserved.
    • Added: unobtrusive rating prompt after two successful backups — a centered modal on the plugin page with two-touch flow (dismissible, only asked once).
    • Fix: automatic backups now show progress in the admin UI — previously the progress bar was deliberately hidden for scheduled backups, making them appear frozen.
    • Fix: when the admin page is open during an automatic backup, chunks upload at the same speed as manual backups instead of only advancing once per 2-minute cron tick.
    • Fix: in-progress automatic backups are no longer silently aborted when the cron’s schedule gate rejects (e.g. hour window closing mid-upload).
    • Fix: added a version-gated upgrade routine so cron events and new options are correctly registered on plugin update (WordPress does not fire the activation hook on updates).
    • Fix: the plugin now self-heals if its scheduled cron event has been cleared between version bumps (deactivate/reactivate of another plugin, cron-management tools, etc.) — the next admin pageview re-registers it instead of silently never running again.
    • Tested against WordPress 6.9 (including 6.9.4).

20242 releases

  1. pCloud WP Backup 2.0.1

    • Hotfix for cURL http headers issue.

  2. pCloud WP Backup 2.0.0

    • Dropped support for PHP lower than 8.0.
    • WordPress higher version support.
    • Fixes related to failures in ZIP process and better error handling.
    • Files larger than 3.6 Gb will not be backed up.
    • Plugin with handle much better situation where we have low memory limit on the server.
    • Added an option to choose whether to include a database snapshot in the backup archive or not.
    • Added an option to choose in what time interval the plugin will try to make a backup.

20231 release

  1. pCloud WP Backup 1.4.0

    • WordPress higher version support.
    • Fix for multiple unsuccesful upload attempts in single upload mode.

20224 releases

  1. pCloud WP Backup 1.0.4

    • Increased number of failures for blogs with higher number of assets.
    • The plugin will retry more than once in case of bad response from the pCloud server.

  2. pCloud WP Backup 1.0.3

    • Added an option to choose whether to include a database snapshot in the backup archive or not.
    • Much more debugging is added in order to determine the Zipping process issues.

  3. pCloud WP Backup 1.0.2

    • First public release, tested and confirmed to be stable enough.

  4. pCloud WP Backup 1.0.1

Questions about pCloud WP Backup’s releases

What is the latest version of pCloud WP Backup?

2.0.12, released on Nov 5, 2026 (3 days ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 8.0 or later.

How often is pCloud WP Backup updated?

11 releases in the last year, about one every 18 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from May 2022.

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