Ads.txt Manager

1.4.6 – 2025-07-14

• Changed: Replace dirname( __FILE__ ) calls with __DIR__ magic constant (props @Soean, @peterwilsoncc via #187).
• Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.8 (props @jeffpaul, @godleman via #183, #184, #194, #195).
• Changed: Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.6 (props @jeffpaul, @godleman via #183, #184, #194, #195).
• Fixed: Add missing text domain and fix wrong text domain (props @mehrazmorshed, @dkotter via #182).
• Fixed: Remove unnecessary echo statement (props @Soean, @dkotter via #186).
• Fixed: Improve performance of the clean_orphaned_posts function (props @dilipbheda, @dkotter via #192).
• Security: Bump serialize-javascript from 6.0.0 to 6.0.2 and mocha from 10.2.0 to 11.1.0 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #185).

1.4.5 – 2024-09-26

• Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.6 (props @ankitguptaindia, @jeffpaul, @sudip-md via #172, #173).
• Changed: Bump WordPress minimum supported version from 6.3 to 6.4 (props @ankitguptaindia, @jeffpaul, @sudip-md via #172, #173).
• Security: Bump braces from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 (props @dependabot, @iamdharmesh via #168).

1.4.4 – 2024-06-26

• Added: Placeholder record can be added with no authorized sellers or buyers (props @ankitrox, @peterwilsoncc via #129).
• Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.5 (props @zamanq, @QAharshalkadu, @jeffpaul, @qasumitbagthariya, @sudip-md via #152, #156, #162).
• Fixed: Better error handling for environments that don’t match our minimum PHP version (props @dkotter, @rahulsprajapati, @peterwilsoncc, @frankiebordone, @vikrampm1 via #149).
• Security: Bump semver from 7.3.5 to 7.5.3 (props @dependabot, @peterwilsoncc via #147).

1.4.3 – 2023-06-21

• Added: ads.txt file exists check from the backend (props @sksaju, @peterwilsoncc, @mmcachran, @dinhtungdu, @helen, @jeffpaul via #131).
• Added: Check for and delete orphan (app-)ads.txt posts not referenced in the option (props @sksaju, @peterwilsoncc via #138).
• Added: Mochawesome reporter added for Cypress test report (props @jayedul, @peterwilsoncc via #141).
• Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.2 (props @peterwilsoncc, @faisal-alvi via #135).
• Changed: Run E2E tests on the zip generated by the “Build Release ZIP” GitHub Action (props @jayedul, @peterwilsoncc via #137).
• Changed: Update the Dependency Review GitHub Action (props @jeffpaul, @Sidsector9 via #142).
• Fixed: Remove PHP matrix from PHP8 Compatibility action (props @Sidsector9, @peterwilsoncc via #127).
• Fixed: Corrected names for PHP Unit test suite runs (props @peterwilsoncc, @jeffpaul via #133).
• Fixed: Fatal error if the role `administrator“ does not exist (props @peterwilsoncc, @Sidsector9 via #140).
• Security: Bump simple-git from 3.15.0 to 3.16.0 (props @dependabot, @peterwilsoncc via #128).
• Security: Bump http-cache-semantics from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 (props @dependabot, @peterwilsoncc via #130).

1.4.2 – 2023-01-16

• Changed: Update Support Level from Active to Stable (props @jeffpaul, @peterwilsoncc via #123).
• Changed: Update Cypress integration to use v11 (props @jayedul, @peterwilsoncc via #116).
• Fixed: Display ads.txt files for crawlers using a cache busting query string (props @peterwilsoncc, @cadic via #118).

1.4.1 – 2022-12-14

• Added: Support for OWNERDOMAIN & MANAGERDOMAIN per version 1.1 of the spec (props @SoftCreatR, @tott, @jeffpaul, @peterwilsoncc via #108)
• Added: Unit tests (props @jeffpaul, @cadic, @faisal-alvi, @peterwilsoncc via #87)
• Added: Dependency security scanning (props @jeffpaul, @peterwilsoncc via #97)
• Changed: Bump WordPress tested up to to 6.1 (props @jayedul, @dkotter, @jeffpaul, @peterwilsoncc via #113)
• Changed: Minimum WP and PHP version requirement bumped to 5.7 and 7.4 respectively (props @jayedul, @dkotter, @peterwilsoncc, @cadic via #103, #117)
• Fixed: Base URL corrected for E2E test suite. (props @peterwilsoncc, @cadic, @dkotter via #112)
• Security: Bump got and @wordpress/env (props @jeffpaul, @peterwilsoncc, @dependabot, @dkotter via #104)
• Security: Bump simple-git and @wordpress/env (props @jeffpaul, @peterwilsoncc via #105)

1.4.0 – 2022-04-13

• Added: Support for the INVENTORYPARTNERDOMAIN variable (props @dkotter, @faisal-alvi)
• Added: End to end tests with Cypress (props @cadic, @dinhtungdu, @darylldoyle, @Sidsector9)
• Changed: Update dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer from 0.5.x to 0.7.1 (props @evokelektrique, @peterwilsoncc)
• Changed: Update minimist from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6
• Changed: Bump WordPress tested up to to 6.0 (props @mohitwp, @cadic, @peterwilsoncc via #85, #90)
• Changed: Automated testing code compatibility against PHP versions from 5.3 to 8.1 (props @cadic)
• Fixed: Allow admins to access revisions (props @PypWalters, @dinhtungdu)
• Fixed: Coding standards violations (props @peterwilsoncc)

1.3.0 – 2020-05-01

• Added: Support for app-ads.txt filetype (props @helen, @westi, @p0mmy)
• Removed: Stop attempting to show an error notice about an existing ads.txt file due to too many false positives. We will bring this back later in a better way.
• Changed: Bump WordPress version support to 5.4 (props @tmoorewp, @jeffpaul)
• Changed: Switched to using GitHub Actions instead of Travis for Continuous Integration (props @helen)
• Changed: Updated plugin screenshots and FAQs (props @jeffpaul, @helen)
• Fixed: Update capability check when saving ads.txt (props @eclev91)

Further changelog entries can be found in the CHANGELOG.md file.