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Author · Version history

Author changelog and version history

Latest version: 1.58; Oct 27, 2026 (13 days ago)
Releases: 68; since 2015
In the last year: 2; about one every 121 days
Requires: –; PHP 5.6.40 or later

Releases each year

201522 releases
201612 releases
20174 releases
20188 releases
20193 releases
20203 releases
20212 releases
20225 releases
20232 releases
20243 releases
20252 releases
20262 releases

20262 releases

Author 1.58Latest
Oct 27, 2026
Author 1.57
Jun 28, 2026

20252 releases

Author 1.56
Jun 25, 2025
Author 1.55
Jun 9, 2025

20243 releases

Author 1.54
Dec 2, 2024
Author 1.53
Jul 3, 2024
Author 1.52
Mar 6, 2024

20232 releases

Author 1.51
Aug 28, 2023
Author 1.50
Aug 7, 2023

20225 releases

Author 1.49
Nov 22, 2022
Author 1.48
Nov 9, 2022
Author 1.47
Jul 11, 2022
Author 1.46
Jun 7, 2022
Author 1.45
Apr 20, 2022

20212 releases

Author 1.44
Feb 26, 2021
Author 1.43
Jan 6, 2021

20203 releases

Author 1.42
Dec 23, 2020
Author 1.41
Aug 14, 2020
Author 1.40
Jul 15, 2020

20193 releases

Author 1.39
Nov 19, 2019
Author 1.38
Feb 24, 2019
Author 1.37
Jan 7, 2019

20188 releases

Author 1.36
Dec 4, 2018
Author 1.35
Nov 19, 2018
Author 1.34
Nov 5, 2018
Author 1.33
Nov 1, 2018
Author 1.32
Sep 14, 2018
Author 1.31
Jul 24, 2018
Author 1.30
Jul 4, 2018
Author 1.29
Feb 22, 2018

20174 releases

Author 1.28
Aug 15, 2017
Author 1.27
Jun 7, 2017
Author 1.26
Mar 21, 2017
Author 1.25
Feb 10, 2017

201612 releases

Author 1.24
Dec 5, 2016
Author 1.23
Nov 2, 2016
Author 1.22
Sep 13, 2016
Author 1.21
Sep 11, 2016
Author 1.20.1
Jul 7, 2016
Author 1.20
Jun 30, 2016
Author 1.19.2
Apr 7, 2016
Author 1.19.1
Apr 7, 2016
Author 1.19
Apr 7, 2016
Author 1.18
Mar 5, 2016
Author 1.17
Feb 9, 2016
Author 1.16
Jan 21, 2016

201522 releases

Author 1.15
Dec 22, 2015
Author 1.14
Dec 2, 2015
Author 1.13
Oct 27, 2015
Author 1.12
Oct 14, 2015
Author 1.11
Sep 21, 2015
Author 1.10
Sep 14, 2015
Author 1.09
Aug 19, 2015
Author 1.08.1
Jul 27, 2015
Author 1.08
Jul 21, 2015
Author 1.07.5
May 20, 2015
Author 1.07.4
May 19, 2015
Author 1.07.3
May 19, 2015
Author 1.07.2
May 19, 2015
Author 1.07.1
May 13, 2015
Author 1.07
May 12, 2015
Author 1.06
Apr 1, 2015
Author 1.05
Mar 31, 2015
Author 1.04
Mar 15, 2015
Author 1.03
Mar 13, 2015
Author 1.02
Mar 12, 2015
Author 1.01
Mar 8, 2015
Author 1.0
Feb 19, 2015

Questions about Author’s releases

What is the latest version of Author?

1.58, released on Oct 27, 2026 (1 week ago).

How often is Author updated?

2 releases in the last year, about one every 121 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from February 2015.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Author’s WordPress.org SVN repository.