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WP Offload SES Lite · Version history

WP Offload SES Lite changelog and version history

Latest version
1.8.3
Oct 20, 2026 (20 days ago)
Releases
33
since 2011
In the last year
5
about one every 80 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 8.1 or later

Releases each year

  • 20112 releases
  • 20171 release
  • 20196 releases
  • 20206 releases
  • 20211 release
  • 20221 release
  • 20237 releases
  • 20243 releases
  • 20252 releases
  • 20264 releases

20264 releases

  1. WP Offload SES Lite 1.8.3Latest

    • New: A wp_mail() call rejected for having no valid recipient now names the file and line that made it in the debug log, when WP_DEBUG is on
    • Improvement: PHP and JS dependencies have been updated
    • Bug fix: Inline images passed to wp_mail() via the $embeds parameter are now sent to SES instead of being dropped
    • Bug fix: A wp_mail() call with no valid recipient is now rejected and reported as failed, instead of being logged, queued and retried as a blank email
    • Bug fix: A wp_mail() call with a null subject no longer causes a fatal error

  2. WP Offload SES Lite 1.8.2

    • Improvement: PHP and JS dependencies have been updated
    • Bug fix: An email that PHPMailer cannot build, such as one with a rejected From address, is now reported as failed instead of being sent empty
    • Bug fix: Email addresses are now validated with WordPress’s is_email(), so WP Offload SES accepts exactly the addresses WordPress accepts
    • Bug Fix: Email attachments are now stored with a higher-entropy directory name, a hashed file name, and directory-listing protection to prevent sensitive information disclosure, thanks 0nlymohammed via the Intigriti Bug Bounty program

  3. WP Offload SES Lite 1.8.1

    • Improvement: PHP and JS dependencies have been updated
    • Bug fix: The On/Off entries in Diagnostic Info now work as expected
    • Bug fix: An unlimited PHP memory limit no longer prevents queued emails from being sent

  4. WP Offload SES Lite 1.8.0

    • New: AWS PHP SDK has been updated to v3.369.22
    • New: PHP 8.4 compatible
    • New: PHP 8.5 compatible
    • New: Requires PHP 8.1+
    • New: WordPress 7.0 compatible
    • New: Requires WordPress 5.9+
    • New: Amazon SES regions Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Zurich) and Middle East (UAE) are now selectable
    • New: Email Sending Health Report subject line now includes failure count when failures are present
    • New: PHP and JS dependencies have been updated
    • Improvement: Setup wizard step order and AWS sandbox instructions updated to match current AWS process
    • Improvement: Activity and Reports admin table filters/search controls now align correctly and use WordPress admin theme colors for improved WordPress 7.0 compatibility
    • Bug fix: Add New Verified Senders button is now visible when there are no verified senders
    • Bug fix: Purge Logs tool is no longer displayed on the final step of the setup wizard

20252 releases

  1. WP Offload SES Lite 1.7.2

    • Bug fix: Detecting whether running as a must-use plugin is now more robust
    • Bug fix: Clash with WP Offload SES (Pro) avoided if both are installed as must-use plugins
    • Bug fix: AWS SES account rate limit exceeded failures no longer occur for high volume bulk sends

  2. WP Offload SES Lite 1.7.1

    • Security: The plugin can now serve updates from WP Engine servers, however this update mechanism is not included when installed directly from WordPress.org
    • New: Amazon SES regions Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), and Israel (Tel Aviv) are now selectable
    • New: AWS PHP SDK has been updated to v3.319.4
    • New: PHP and JS dependencies have been updated

20243 releases

  1. WP Offload SES Lite 1.7.0

    • New: Logs of successfully sent emails can now be instantly removed
    • New: Logs can now be bulk deleted via new “Purge Logs” functionality
    • New: Emails can now be enqueued in the local database without being sent to Amazon SES via the new “Enqueue Only” mode
    • New: “Enqueue Only” mode can now be programmatically configured via the enqueue-only key in WPOSES_SETTINGS
    • New: PHP 7.4 or later is now required
    • New: AWS PHP SDK has been updated to v3.308.6
    • Bug fix: Accessing the settings page is now much faster when there are millions of logged emails
    • Bug fix: URLs with encoded parameters generated by third parties are now compatible with click tracking
    • Bug fix: “Cron not running” emails are no longer sent for every subsite during a multisite network upgrade
    • Bug fix: The admin notice regarding failed emails now links to the correct network settings page when multisite is enabled and subsite settings are disabled

  2. WP Offload SES Lite 1.6.8

    • Bug fix: Using the WPOSES_SETTINGS define no longer causes a fatal error

  3. WP Offload SES Lite 1.6.7

    • Security: Unserializing an object related to plugin settings now passes 'allowed_classes' => false to avoid instantiating the complete object and potentially running malicious code
    • Security: Processing of the email queue now restricts the type of data allowed to ensure stored queue items meet requirements

20237 releases

  1. WP Offload SES Lite 1.6.6

    • New: WordPress 6.3 compatible
    • New: PHP 8.2 compatible
    • New: AWS PHP SDK has been updated to v3.279.0
    • New: Links to plugin documentation, support, feedback, and changelog are now available in the footer of WP Admin
    • New: Returning an empty array from the ‘wp_mail’ filter will stop the email from being queued and sent
    • New: Delete from logs after 1 day and 3 days options added
    • Bug fix: “Warning: is_readable(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(~/.aws/config) is not within the allowed path(s)” is no longer logged to debug.log
    • Bug fix: Settings sub-menu in a multisite subsite no longer wraps incorrectly
    • Bug fix: Settings tooltips are now displayed in their correct position

  2. WP Offload SES Lite 1.6.5

    • Bug fix: Apostrophes in email addresses no longer prevent sending
    • Bug fix: More than 25 Verified Senders can now be managed

  3. WP Offload SES Lite 1.6.4

    • Bug fix: WP Offload SES now works with PHP 8.2
    • Security: Updated AWS SDK to address a vulnerability in guzzlehttp/psr7 as reported in CVE-2023-29197

  4. WP Offload SES Lite 1.6.3

    • Bug fix: WP Offload SES is once again compatible with sites using PHP 7 and WordPress 5.3–5.8

  5. WP Offload SES Lite 1.6.2

    • Improvement: Instructions for creating an IAM user on AWS are now up to date

  6. WP Offload SES Lite 1.6.1

    • Bug fix: Emails sent from a verified domain no longer result in an unverified email address notice

  7. WP Offload SES Lite 1.6.0

    • Release Summary Blog Post
    • New: Maximum message size has been increased from 10 MB to 40 MB
    • New: Amazon SES API has been updated from v1 to v2
    • New: PHP 7.2 or later required
    • New: WordPress 5.3 or later required
    • New: WordPress 6.1 compatible
    • New: WP_Queue has been updated to v2.0
    • New: AWS PHP SDK has been updated to v3.258.3
    • Bug fix: Spelling corrected
    • Bug fix: Invalid Content-Type headers no longer stop emails from being sent

20221 release

  1. WP Offload SES Lite 1.4.6

    • New: Added Milan and Cape Town as available regions
    • New: Added wposes_ses_regions filter for adding regions manually
    • Bug fix: Undefined constant DeliciousBrains\WP_Offload_SES\Aws3\GuzzleHttp\IDNA_DEFAULT

20211 release

  1. WP Offload SES Lite 1.4.5

    • Bug fix: Some fields of the Activity tab are not properly escaped which is an XSS risk
    • Bug fix: Emails occasionally failing due to “WorkerAttemptsExceededException”
    • Bug fix: Passing CC/BCC in CSV format not working correctly
    • Bug fix: Upgrade routines can be run more than once during an upgrade

20206 releases

  1. WP Offload SES Lite 1.4.4

    • New: WordPress 5.6 and PHP 8 compatible
    • New: Added North California, Paris, Stockholm, and Bahrain as available regions

  2. WP Offload SES Lite 1.4.3

    • New: Added Ohio, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo as available regions
    • New: Compatibility with WordPress 5.5
    • Bug fix: Queue not running when PHP memory limit is over 1G
    • Bug fix: Fatal error when deleting a job that no longer exists

  3. WP Offload SES Lite 1.4.2

    • Improvement: Health Report no longer includes the Health Report in email summaries
    • Bug fix: Email queue getting stuck if there is a fatal error while processing an email
    • Bug fix: Missing mbstring module causes fatal error

  4. WP Offload SES Lite 1.4.1

    • New: Added London, central Canada, and São Paulo as available regions
    • New: Added 7 day log duration
    • New: Added wposes_send_cron_error_email filter for disabling cron error emails
    • Improvement: Reduce interval between cron health checks to reduce false-positives
    • Bug fix: Cron health check not working properly on multisite installs
    • Bug fix: Cron health check email being sent twice in some situations
    • Bug fix: Cron health check still runs when sending via SES is disabled

  5. WP Offload SES Lite 1.4

    • New: Added email queue to handle bulk email sending
    • New: Store a copy of attachments to prevent conflicts with other plugins
    • Improvement: Health report no longer center aligned
    • Bug fix: Health report not being sent in some situations
    • Bug fix: Invalid headers causing email to fail
    • Bug fix: Index on email log table too large for some MySQL servers
    • Bug fix: Filter for infinite log duration no longer working
    • Bug fix: Open tracking image missing alt attribute
    • Bug fix: Activity tab UI controls not aligned since WordPress 5.3
    • Bug fix: “From name” wrapped in quotes in some situations

  6. WP Offload SES Lite 1.3

    • Release Summary Blog Post
    • New: Weekly/monthly health report in your inbox gives you confidence your emails are sending
    • New: Added Frankfurt, Mumbai, and Sydney as available regions
    • Bug fix: Click tracking improperly encodes anchor links

20196 releases

  1. WP Offload SES Lite 1.2.2

    • Bug fix: Broken link to plugin settings page if subsite settings are disabled
    • Bug fix: Undefined index SERVER_NAME in some environments

  2. WP Offload SES Lite 1.2.1

  3. WP Offload SES Lite 1.2

  4. WP Offload SES Lite 1.1

  5. WP Offload SES Lite 1.0

  6. WP Offload SES Lite 0.8.2

20171 release

  1. WP Offload SES Lite 0.7.2.1

20112 releases

  1. WP Offload SES Lite 0.2.1

  2. WP Offload SES Lite 0.1.2

Questions about WP Offload SES Lite’s releases

What is the latest version of WP Offload SES Lite?

1.8.3, released on Oct 20, 2026 (2 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 8.1 or later.

How often is WP Offload SES Lite updated?

5 releases in the last year, about one every 80 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from February 2011.

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