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WP Fastest Cache · Version history

WP Fastest Cache changelog and version history

Latest version
1.5.5
Nov 5, 2026 (3 days ago)
Releases
118
since 2017
In the last year
14
about one every 27 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4

Releases each year

  • 201710 releases
  • 201814 releases
  • 201912 releases
  • 202012 releases
  • 202112 releases
  • 202212 releases
  • 202313 releases
  • 202411 releases
  • 202511 releases
  • 202611 releases

202611 releases

  1. WP Fastest Cache 1.5.5Latest

    • Added path validation to singleDeleteCache() and delete_next_prev_cache() to prevent directory traversal through percent-encoded URLs before cache paths are deleted
    • Fixed: Google Analytics campaign parameters (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_term, and utm_content) not being served from the main page cache via .htaccess
    • Fixed: The Google Analytics exclusion rule not being added to the Start WPFC Exclude section in .htaccess
    • Added Google Ads query parameter support for cache serving and page exclusion
    • Fixed: XML cache files are now served directly via .htaccess instead of being served through PHP
    • Fixed: Exclude Pages “Contains” rule not matching query string parameters in URLs
    • Refactored cache purge handling to reduce duplicated Varnish and Cloudflare logic
    • Refactored cache deletion logic by centralizing desktop and mobile cache path cleanup
    • Improved WooCommerce product cache clearing for WPML translations
    • Reverted: Prevent caching responses that include private or non-cacheable HTTP headers, including Cache-Control: no-store, private, no-cache, expired Expires, and Set-Cookie

  2. WP Fastest Cache 1.5.4

    • Fixed: The plugin language selector now works independently of the WordPress site language
    • to update the translations
    • Removed unused static assets
    • Preserve the Security tab when navigating its links by keeping #wpfc-security in the URL
    • [FEATURE] Added the WPFC_CACHE_QUERYSTRING_PARAMS constant to cache allowlisted query-string URLs separately [Details]
    • Fixed: Prevented sitemap preload from saving an empty sitemap list when no child sitemaps could be extracted
    • Fixed: Incorrect term totals for custom taxonomies in preload
    • [FEATURE] Preloading for paginated home, category, tag and custom taxonomy archive pages
    • Test CDN connectivity using the active theme’s style.css URL instead of the CDN URL alone
    • Security Tool: Added detection and blocking for ICEcoder terminal command injection attempts
    • Security Tool: Added detection and blocking for React2Shell
    • Security Tool: Added detection and blocking for Oversized POST Parameter Attacks
    • Fixed: Deleting an IP from Security Center now removes all associated child log entries along with the parent record, preventing orphaned security logs
    • Fixed: Prevented unnecessary cache clearing when Flamingo saves contact form submissions as posts
    • Prevent caching of WordPress activation pages (wp-activate.php) by excluding activation requests based on both the request URL and WordPress’s current page context
    • Skip cache generation during WordPress installation and for requests carrying activation-related cookies (wp-activate-*)
    • Prevent caching responses that include private or non-cacheable HTTP headers, including Cache-Control: no-store, private, no-cache, expired Expires, and Set-Cookie

  3. WP Fastest Cache 1.5.3

    • [FEATURE] Added an Exclude Pages rule to exclude URLs containing Facebook Click ID (fbclid) parameters from cache
    • Updated Yandex parameter handling to include etext, alongside yclid, yadclid, ymclid, ysclid, yzclid, yqrid, and ybaip
    • [FEATURE] Added the Security tool to help protect your site from malicious scans, brute-force attacks, SQL injection attempts, XSS, path traversal attacks and other suspicious activity [Details]
    • Fixed: The active settings tab now stays selected after a page refresh, and its change handlers run when restored
    • Updated the .htaccess admin cookie exclusion rules only when the affected user is an administrator
    • Added handling for deleted administrator accounts so their exclusion rules are refreshed after deletion.
    • Added locking and safer file replacement when updating .htaccess, and skip writes when the file cannot be read, the marker is missing, or the content is unchanged

  4. WP Fastest Cache 1.5.2

    • Security Enhancements
    • Allow Author role and above for the Auto Cache feature
    • [FEATURE] Added support for clearing the cache by URL [Details]
    • Fixed: Incorrect cache expiration header configuration
    • Added manage_options capability checks to Varnish cache AJAX actions, preventing unauthorized users from modifying, pausing, resuming, removing, or purging Varnish cache settings
    • Added administrator-only access checks for specific page cache actions, preventing unauthorized users from viewing, adding, or removing cache-clearing rules

  5. WP Fastest Cache 1.5.1

    • [Improvement] Validates Polylang domain mappings against an allowlist to prevent security risks
    • [Improvement] Added protection against feed cache poisoning via query string parameters
    • Prevent caching URLs that contain query strings

  6. WP Fastest Cache 1.5.0

    • Fixed: Replaced the non-standard text/js MIME type with a valid JavaScript content type for missing minified JS file responses
    • Fixed: Resolved an issue where the preload tool could fail while processing the sitemap.

  7. WP Fastest Cache 1.4.9

    • Tested and confirmed full compatibility with WordPress 7.0 to ensure smooth and reliable plugin performance

  8. WP Fastest Cache 1.4.8

    • to fix PHP Warning: unlink(), scandir(), rmdir() No such file or directory in wpFastestCache.php on lines 2285, 2291, 2294
    • Added regex support to the cookie exclude feature
    • Added protection to block null byte injection attempt

  9. WP Fastest Cache 1.4.7

    • to fix E_WARNING: scandir(): No such file or directory in wpFastestCache.php on line 2208 and 2227
    • [Improvement] Enhanced exclude rules processing with safe regex support, added protection against regex injection, proper HTML entity decoding, and more precise matching in generated .htaccess rules

  10. WP Fastest Cache 1.4.6

    • [Improvement] Elementor element cache and CSS Print Method detection logic [Details]

  11. WP Fastest Cache 1.4.5

    • Sanitized the cache file path by trimming whitespace
    • [Improvement] Elementor element cache and CSS Print Method detection logic [Details]

202511 releases

  1. WP Fastest Cache 1.4.4

    • Updated caching behavior to serve URLs with Google Ads Click & Conversion Parameters query strings (e.g., /?gbraid) from the cache, improving performance

  2. WP Fastest Cache 1.4.3

    • Tested and confirmed full compatibility with WordPress 6.9 to ensure smooth and reliable plugin performance

  3. WP Fastest Cache 1.4.2

    • [Improvement] Updated the function modifying for url() paths in CSS
    • [Improvement] Enhanced the <pre> tag replacement logic for more accurate matching and reliable content updates

  4. WP Fastest Cache 1.4.1

    • Added display of orphaned post meta, comment meta, user meta, term meta, and term relationship counts
    • Added nonce verification and capability checks to the wpfc_db_fix AJAX action to prevent unauthorized database cleanup requests
    • Added a validation to ensure Elementor’s CSS Print Method is set to “Internal Embedding,” displaying an error with a help link if misconfigured [Details]

  5. WP Fastest Cache 1.4.0

    • Fixed: support both old (elementor_experiment-e_element_cache) and new (elementor_element_cache_ttl) Elementor cache options for compatibility

  6. WP Fastest Cache 1.3.9

    • [Improvement] Replaced manual <script> output in print_my_inline_script() with wp_print_inline_script_tag() for better compatibility and cleaner code
    • Fixed: RewriteCond syntax to correctly detect HTTPS connections

  7. WP Fastest Cache 1.3.8

    • Added a condition to exclude <script type=”module”> tags from js combining
    • Fixed: Issue where the cache was not being cleared when a page was deleted
    • Fixed: PHP fatal error caused by an undefined function current_datetime() in cache.php on line 1130
    • Added support for fetching and processing multiple pages of Cloudflare zones to ensure all potential matches are considered

  8. WP Fastest Cache 1.3.7

    • [Improvement] Serve cached content via .htaccess rules instead of PHP when URLs include the fbclid query string
    • [FEATURE] Added support for Spanish (Chile) and Ukrainian languages
    • to update translation files
    • to fix PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: method_exists(): Argument #1 ($object_or_class) must be of type object|string, array given in cdn.php:383
    • [Improvement] Added specific handling for BunnyCDN 403 errors

  9. WP Fastest Cache 1.3.6

    • Prevented unnecessary cache deletion for pending comments marked as spam or moved to trash
    • Updated caching behavior to serve URLs with Google Merchant Center query strings (e.g., /?srsltid) from the cache, improving performance

  10. WP Fastest Cache 1.3.5

    • Updated cache creation time display to follow WordPress date and time format settings
    • Removed the ‘Static CSS File Generation’ warning when using the Divi theme.

  11. WP Fastest Cache 1.3.4

    • to fix PHP Fatal error: Class “VarnishWPFC” not found in preload.php
    • to fix Undefined property: stdClass::$total in preload.php on line 753

202411 releases

  1. WP Fastest Cache 1.3.3

    • [Improvement] Toolbar style adjusted to align with WordPress standard for better consistency and user experience
    • to change the cache path for the Polylang-Pro plugin
    • [Improvement] Modified the toolbar menu of WP Fastest Cache plugin to improve usability and navigation
    • [FEATURE] Added a filter that allows users to easily remove the WP Fastest Cache menu from the admin toolbar [Details]

  2. WP Fastest Cache 1.3.2

    • [Improvement] Added a new action to handle the addition of keyword items in the Preload Wizard
    • Corrected typos in the Cloudflare CDN integration wizard and in the DB tab
    • [FEATURE] Added a filter to define the token for preload functionality [Details]

  3. WP Fastest Cache 1.3.1

    • [FEATURE] Added a filter that allows users to easily remove the cache creation comment from the footer [Details]
    • [Improvement] Added a warning notification to alert users if the “Element Caching” option in the Elementor plugin is not inactive [Details]
    • Refactored remove_url_parameters() for improved efficiency
    • Fix issue: Logic to determine the $number variable based on the WPFC_PRELOAD_NUMBER constant for preload when a sitemap is used

  4. WP Fastest Cache 1.3.0

  5. WP Fastest Cache 1.2.9

  6. WP Fastest Cache 1.2.8

  7. WP Fastest Cache 1.2.7

  8. WP Fastest Cache 1.2.6

  9. WP Fastest Cache 1.2.5

  10. WP Fastest Cache 1.2.4

  11. WP Fastest Cache 1.2.3

202313 releases

  1. WP Fastest Cache 1.2.2

  2. WP Fastest Cache 1.2.1

  3. WP Fastest Cache 1.2.0

  4. WP Fastest Cache 1.1.9

  5. WP Fastest Cache 1.1.8

  6. WP Fastest Cache 1.1.7

  7. WP Fastest Cache 1.1.6

  8. WP Fastest Cache 1.1.5

  9. WP Fastest Cache 1.1.4

  10. WP Fastest Cache 1.1.3

  11. WP Fastest Cache 1.1.2

  12. WP Fastest Cache 1.1.1

  13. WP Fastest Cache 1.1.0

202212 releases

  1. WP Fastest Cache 1.0.9

  2. WP Fastest Cache 1.0.8

  3. WP Fastest Cache 1.0.7

  4. WP Fastest Cache 1.0.6

  5. WP Fastest Cache 1.0.5

  6. WP Fastest Cache 1.0.4

  7. WP Fastest Cache 1.0.3

  8. WP Fastest Cache 1.0.2

  9. WP Fastest Cache 1.0.1

  10. WP Fastest Cache 1.0.0

  11. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.9

  12. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.8

202112 releases

  1. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.7

  2. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.6

  3. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.5

  4. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.4

  5. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.3

  6. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.2

  7. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.9

  8. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.8

  9. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.7

  10. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.6

  11. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.5

  12. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.4

202012 releases

  1. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.3

  2. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.2

  3. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.1

  4. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.0

  5. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.9

  6. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.8

  7. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.7

  8. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.6

  9. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.5

  10. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.4

  11. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.3

  12. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.2

201912 releases

  1. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.1

  2. WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.0

  3. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.9.9

  4. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.9.8

  5. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.9.7

  6. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.9.6

  7. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.9.5

  8. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.9.4

  9. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.9.3

  10. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.9.2

  11. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.9.1

  12. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.9.0

201814 releases

  1. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.8.9

  2. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.8.8

  3. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.8.7

  4. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.8.6

  5. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.8.5

  6. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.8.4

  7. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.8.3

  8. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.8.2

  9. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.8.1

  10. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.8.0

  11. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.7.9

  12. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.7.8

  13. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.7.7

  14. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.7.6

201710 releases

  1. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.7.5

  2. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.7.4

  3. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.7.3

  4. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.7.2

  5. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.7.1

  6. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.7.0

  7. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.6.9

  8. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.6.8

  9. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.6.7

  10. WP Fastest Cache 0.8.6.6

Questions about WP Fastest Cache’s releases

What is the latest version of WP Fastest Cache?

1.5.5, released on Nov 5, 2026 (3 days ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4.

How often is WP Fastest Cache updated?

14 releases in the last year, about one every 27 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from February 2017.

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