Fix: Core tables altered to have compound primary keys are now properly handled during search and replace
Fix: SQL injection vulnerability on multibyte charsets (GBK, Big5) has been resolved by replacing charset-unaware string escaping with $wpdb->prepare() (props to jonghan via Intigriti)
Fix: Improved security and stability
1.4.10 – January 14, 2025
Fix: Improved security and stability
1.4.9 – October 4, 2024
Security: The plugin now uses its own update mechanism from WP Engine servers
New: Dependencies have been updated
1.4.8 – September 3, 2024
No changes as this was a pro-only release for Better Search Replace Pro
1.4.7 – May 30, 2024
Fix: The case-insensitive setting once again allows case-insensitive strings to be matched within serialized data, fixing a regression introduced in version 1.4.6
1.4.6 – April 17, 2024
Changed: Serialized text strings are now only deserialized when containing a match, resulting in faster performance
Security: Table names are now escaped when displaying search results
1.4.5 – January 18, 2024
Security: Unserializing an object during search and replace operations now passes ‘allowed_classes’ => false to avoid instantiating the object and potentially running malicious code stored in the database (thanks to Wordfence for responsible disclosure on December 18, 2023 followed by development and testing of the fix by WP Engine)
Fix: A regression in version 1.4.4 which caused some search results to be skipped has been fixed to ensure only numeric keyed objects are skipped
1.4.4 – December 14, 2023
Fix: Objects with numerical properties are now skipped to avoid causing errors
1.4.3 – September 5, 2023
New: Links to plugin documentation, support, feedback, and changelog are now available in the footer of WP Admin
Improvement: PHP 8.2 and Better Search Replace are now compatible
1.4.2 – January 11, 2023
Security: Arbitrary tab templates in the templates directory can no longer be loaded using a query parameter.
1.4.1 – July 25, 2022
Security: Selected tables are now confirmed to exist before processing the request
1.4 – April 7, 2022
New: Better Search Replace has a brand new user interface
Improvement: Default capability required to use the plugin has changed from “install_plugins” to “manage_options” for compatibility with DISALLOW_FILE_MODS
1.3.4 – December 7, 2020
Improvement: WordPress 5.6 and PHP 8 compatible
Fix: Strings that have been serialized twice showing up as false-positives
1.3.3 – February 26, 2019
Fix: Some special characters interfering with search/replace
Security: Pass template filenames through sanitize_file_name()
Security: Verify nonce when downloading diagnostic info
1.3.2 – January 3, 2018
Fix: Only one table searched on some environments (props @Ov3rfly)
Tweak: Update text in sidebar
1.3.1 – September 14, 2017
Security: Check if data is serialized before unserializing it
Improvement: Increased size of table select
1.3 – November 10, 2016
Improvement: Updated sidebar and added pro version discount
Fix: Outdated links to old website
Fix: Prevent requests to invalid tabs
1.2.10 – June 2, 2016
Fix: CSS not loaded on details page
1.2.9 – December 8, 2015
Fix: Bug with case-insensitive searches in serialized objects
Fix: Bug with early skip due to lack of primary key
1.2.8 – November 25, 2015
Fix: Bug with report details
1.2.7 – November 24, 2015
Fix: Untranslateable string
Tweak: Check BSR_PATH instead of ABSPATH to be consistent
Tested with 4.4
1.2.6
Removed unused code/small cleanup
1.2.5
Improved progress bar info and styles
Small cleanup
1.2.4
Added “Settings saved” notice when saving settings
Fixed bug with wp_magic_quotes interfering with some search strings
1.2.3
Fixed bug with searching for backslashes
Fixed potential bug with getting tables in large multisites
Fixed potential notice in append_report
Improved handling of missing primary keys
1.2.2
Fixed AJAX conflict with WooCommerce
Fixed a few issues with translations
Tweaked “System Info” to use get_locale() instead of WP_LANG constant
Updated German translation (props @Linus Ziegenhagen)
1.2.1
Fixed minor issue with display of progress bar
Updated translation file
1.2
Switched to AJAX bulk processing for search/replaces
Decreased minimum “Max Page Size” to 1000
Added “Help” tab with system info for easier troubleshooting
1.1.1
Added ability to change max page size
Decreased default page size to prevent white screen issue on some environments
1.1
Added ability to change capability required to use plugin
Small bugfixes and translation fixes
1.0.6
Added table sizes to the database table listing
Added French translation (props @Jean Philippe)
1.0.5
Added support for case-insensitive searches
Added German translation (props @Linus Ziegenhagen)
1.0.4
Potential security fixes
1.0.3
Fixed issue with searching for special characters like ‘’
Fixed bug with replacing some objects
1.0.2
Fixed untranslateable strings on submit button and submenu page.
1.0.1
Fixed issue with loading translations and added Spanish translation (props Eduardo Larequi)
Fixed bug with reporting timing
Updated to use “Dry Run” as default
Added support for WordPress Multisite (see FAQs for more info)
