Videopack · Version history
Videopack changelog and version history
- Latest version
- 4.10.7
- Oct 12, 2026 (28 days ago)
- Releases
- 119
- since 2011
- In the last year
- 3
- about one every 131 days
- Tested up to
- WordPress 7.1.4
- PHP 7.2 or later
Releases each year
- 20119 releases
- 20128 releases
- 201325 releases
- 20148 releases
- 20157 releases
- 201613 releases
- 20178 releases
- 20181 release
- 20194 releases
- 20201 release
- 20216 releases
- 20222 releases
- 202312 releases
- 202410 releases
- 20252 releases
- 20263 releases
20263 releases
Videopack 4.10.7Latest
- Updated Freemius SDK and Symfony
Videopack 4.10.6
- Security fix: restricted the kgvid_count_play AJAX handler to a play-counter allowlist to prevent unauthenticated overwriting of attachment metadata.
- Security fix: added missing and stricter capability checks across admin AJAX handlers to prevent lower-privileged or unauthorized users from triggering encoding, thumbnail generation, post reparenting, deletion, or other users’ encode jobs.
- Security hardening: added direct file access protection to several plugin files.
- Fixed incorrect plugin license header and a few missing/mismatched translation text domains.
- Fixed bug that appended an unstable “?id=” query string to video source URLs, which could cause the same video to be indexed by search engines multiple times.
- Fixed bug that hid the thumbnail generation controls in the Media Library for Authors and other non-Editor roles viewing their own uploaded videos.
- Fixed bug that could show incorrect users in the error notification email dropdown on the settings page.
- Fixed bug that caused a fatal error when video posts are duplicated.
- Fixed bug that triggered _load_textdomain_just_in_time (again).
- Added ‘videopack_save_thumb_location’ filter to set thumbnails to save to a custom location.
- Updated dependencies Video.js, Freemius SDK, and Symfony/Process
Videopack 4.10.5
- Fixed bug that caused 404 errors when WordPress Default Player is selected.
- Fixed bug that incorrectly formatted thumbnails when set to display when video ends.
- Fixed bug that prevented disabling “Show Download Link” on the settings page.
- Fixed bug that triggered _load_textdomain_just_in_time too early.
- Updated dependencies Video.js, Freemius SDK, and Symfony/Process.
20252 releases
Videopack 4.10.4
- Security update to fix XSS vulnerability in popup video gallery.
- Updated Freemius SDK to v2.12.1 and symfony/polyfill-php80 to v1.32.0
Videopack 4.10.3
- Fixed bug that left FFMPEG settings enabled when FFMPEG is not present on server.
- Fixed bug that limited the list of users to email encoding errors to.
- Updated Video.js to v8.20.0, Freemius SDK to v2.11.0, and Symfony/Process to v5.4.47
202410 releases
Videopack 4.10.2
- Fixed bug that prevented disabling the “Set all videos to expand to 100% of their containers” setting.
- Better resizing for the settings page sample video.
Videopack 4.10.1
- Switched custom database query for looking up attachment IDs via URLs to the WordPress function attachment_url_to_postid() which could result in some video URLs no longer returning attachment IDs when the video player code is generated. That would prevent features like video play recording in the W…
- Revised thumbnail generation to work with PNG as a fallback when GD is not configured to support JPG.
- Fixed “replace original” encoding when newly-encoded files are a different format from the original. Original formats are now deleted after the replacement encode format is complete.
- Added extra check that attachment files are deleted when deleting encoded video formats.
- Fixed bug that always enabled the custom format encode setting.
- Fixed typo in FFMPEG rotation test filename.
- Made sample video on the Videopack settings page responsive.
- Added WordPress Playground Blueprint for easy plugin previews.
- Added a VIDEOPACK_FREEMIUS_ENABLED constant to disable loading Freemius.
- Confirmed compatibility with FFMPEG v7.0
- Updated Freemius SDK to v2.7.0
Videopack 4.10
- Changed browser-thumbnail upload process to use blobs instead of data URLs and switched to wp_handle_upload instead of custom process for enhanced security.
- Removed Video.js v7
- Restored Freemius SDK after accidentally disabling it in 4.9.6.
- Changed audio codec for VP8/VP9 encoding from libvorbis to libopus.
- Updated FFMPEG status checking to account for log output changes in FFMPEG version 6.1
- Fixed errors when FFMPEG “Encode quality control method” was set to Average Bit Rate.
- Added custom hooks related to thumbnail generation.
- Updated Video.js to v8.10.0 and Symfony/Process to v5.4.36
Videopack 4.9.6
- Fixed uninstall routine for more complete cleanup when deleting the plugin.
- Disabled Chromecast overlay button on videos used to make thumbnails.
- Removed comma after final parameter in function call that caused errors in PHP versions earlier than 7.3.
Videopack 4.9.5
- Fixed bug that failed to save some Videopack settings when they were disabled.
- Fixed thumbnail rotation bug for vertical videos when using FFMPEG versions earlier than 6.0.
- Fixed bug that set the “FFMPEG Exists” option to an invalid value when upgrading to Videopack v4.8. If no settings that triggered a check for FFMPEG were changed in the year since then, FFMPEG would not execute.
- Improved options validation and FFMPEG test encode process.
- Removed “Insert title above video” option when inserting videos into posts.
Videopack 4.9.4
- Fixed bugs that interfered with Media Library functions that don’t involve videos, including image gallery editing.
- Improved text track (subtitle/caption) box.
Videopack 4.9.3
- Multiple fixes for in-browser thumbnail generation to make the process more stable.
- Restored inline “autoplay” attribute to Video.js video elements.
- Enabled default Video.js keyboard controls.
- Prevented page scrolling while pop-up video gallery is open.
- Replaced WordPress Default player elements with Videopack-generated ones for compatibility with URLs that contain query strings.
- Updated method for determining the location of FFMPEG on the server to allow automatic discovery in the system PATH.
- Updated Video.js to v8.9.0, Freemius SDK to v2.6.2 and Symfony/Process to v5.4.34.
Videopack 4.9.2
- Fixed unpausable audio on autoplayed Video.js players (including Video Galleries).
- Fixed WordPress Default player initialization.
- Fixed unnecessary override of some canonical redirect filters.
- Improved saving thumbnails generated by FFMPEG.
- Improved manual selection of thumbnails from the Media Library.
- Improved saving plugin settings.
- Added filters for customizing video source URLs, and removed unnecessary query strings.
- Removed unnecessary browser console debugging messages.
Videopack 4.9.1
- Improved in-browser thumbnail generating process.
- Improved animated GIF detection.
- Added option to change default behavior when inserting videos into a post.
- Added check for Videopack embed URLs to maintain embedding functionality after attachment pages were disabled in new WordPress 6.4 installations.
- Updated Video.js to v8.6.1 and Freemius SDK to v2.6.0.
Videopack 4.9
- Removed Video.js v5.
- Removed support for FFMPEG versions older than approximately 10 years.
- Added options for skip forward/backward buttons in Video.js v8 players.
- Fixed bug that rotated vertical videos incorrectly when encoding video formats.
- Restored video thumbnail watermark previews on the settings page.
- Improved methods for determining the mime type of URLs and animated GIF detection.
- Revised FFMPEG scaling method to use the “scale” video filter instead of -s
- Removed width setting from custom video encoding formats. Width will be calculated automatically to match the aspect ratio of the original video.
- Added new sample video to plugin settings page.
- Updated Video.js to v8.5.2 and v7.21.5
- Updated Freemius SDK to 2.5.12
- Updated Symfony/Process to v5.4.28
- See the full changelog on the Videopack website.
202312 releases
Videopack 4.8.11
Videopack 4.8.10
Videopack 4.8.8
Videopack 4.8.9
Videopack 4.8.7
Videopack 4.8.6
Videopack 4.8.5
Videopack 4.8.4
Videopack 4.8.3
Videopack 4.8.2
Videopack 4.8.1
Videopack 4.8
20222 releases
Videopack 4.7.5
Videopack 4.7.4
20216 releases
Videopack 4.7.3
Videopack 4.7.2
Videopack 4.7.1
Videopack 4.7
Videopack 4.6.28
Videopack 4.6.27
20201 release
Videopack 4.6.26
20194 releases
Videopack 4.6.25
Videopack 4.6.24
Videopack 4.6.23
Videopack 4.6.22
20181 release
Videopack 4.6.21
20178 releases
Videopack 4.6.20
Videopack 4.6.19
Videopack 4.6.18
Videopack 4.6.17
Videopack 4.6.16
Videopack 4.6.15
Videopack 4.6.14
Videopack 4.6.13
201613 releases
Videopack 4.6.12
Videopack 4.6.11
Videopack 4.6.10
Videopack 4.6.9
Videopack 4.6.8
Videopack 4.6.7
Videopack 4.6.6
Videopack 4.6.5
Videopack 4.6.4
Videopack 4.6.3
Videopack 4.6.2
Videopack 4.6.1
Videopack 4.6
20157 releases
Videopack 4.5.5
Videopack 4.5.4
Videopack 4.5.3
Videopack 4.5.2
Videopack 4.5.1
Videopack 4.5
Videopack 4.4.2
20148 releases
Videopack 4.4.1
Videopack 4.4
Videopack 4.3.5
Videopack 4.3.4
Videopack 4.3.3
Videopack 4.3.2
Videopack 4.3.1
Videopack 4.3
201325 releases
Videopack 4.2.9
Videopack 4.2.8
Videopack 4.2.7
Videopack 4.2.6
Videopack 4.2.5
Videopack 4.2.4
Videopack 4.2.3
Videopack 4.2.2
Videopack 4.2.1
Videopack 4.2
Videopack 4.1.5
Videopack 4.1.4
Videopack 4.1.3
Videopack 4.1.2
Videopack 4.1.1
Videopack 4.1
Videopack 4.0.3
Videopack 4.0.2
Videopack 4.0.1
Videopack 3.1.1
Videopack 3.1
Videopack 3.0.3
Videopack 3.0.2
Videopack 3.0.1
Videopack 3.0
20128 releases
Videopack 2.0.6
Videopack 2.0.5
Videopack 2.0.4
Videopack 2.0.3
Videopack 2.0.2
Videopack 2.0.1
Videopack 2.0
Videopack 1.1
20119 releases
Videopack 1.0.6
Videopack 1.0.5
Videopack 1.0.4
Videopack 1.0.3
Videopack 1.0.2
Videopack 1.0.1
Videopack 1.0
Videopack 0.2.1
Videopack 0.2
Questions about Videopack’s releases
What is the latest version of Videopack?
4.10.7, released on Oct 12, 2026 (4 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.2 or later.
How often is Videopack updated?
3 releases in the last year, about one every 131 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from October 2011.
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