Geolocation IP Detection

5.6.4

• FIX: Lookup / Settings pages do not say “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page” anymore (Regression of 5.6.3)
• FIX: Automatic update works again (Regression of 5.6.2)

5.6.3

• FIX: Compatibility with WordPress 7.0 (Command Palette)

5.6.2

• UI: Showing dates now respect the wordpress timezone setting
• Library updates

5.6.1

• FIX [!]: Remove deprecated shortcode [geoip_detect] (Security – CVE-2025-57993). If you are still using it, use [geoip_detect2 …] instead, you might have to change the property name.
• FIX: Compatibility with WordPress 6.7 (Textdomain loading)
• Library updates

(5.6.0 was not released)

5.5.0

• FIX [!]: In the datasource “hostip.info”, the region code (i.e. CA) is now correctly moved to the property mostSpecificSubdivision (previously, it was part of the property city)
• Library updates

5.4.1

• NEW: JS now emit events ‘geoip-detect-shortcodes-done’ and ‘geoip-detect-body-classes-done’, see https://github.com/yellowtree/geoip-detect/wiki/API:-AJAX#events
• FIX: Remove Fatal Error in check_requirements (“Undefined constand GEOIP_DETECT_DEBUG”)

5.4.0

• NEW: Infos can be added to a mail sent by WPForms (with Smart Tag {geoip_detect2_user_info})
• FIX: Remove Fatal Error on uninstall (“Undefined constand GEOIP_DETECT_DEBUG”)
• Library updates

5.3.2

• FIX: Some country codes such as “PT” were missing in the (deprecated) legacy API mapping.
• FIX: Maxmind compatibility does not show a notice anymore when the plugin folder is non-standard (e.g. due to symlinks) or the Filename ends with Reader.php
• Library updates

5.3.1

• FIX: Respect JS file variant
• UI: Show selected file variant in backend options
• Library updates

5.3.0

• NEW: You can now specify to use a JS file variant if you are only using a subset of the features (see https://github.com/yellowtree/geoip-detect/wiki/API:-AJAX#js-variants)
• Note[!]: frontend.js has now been renamed to frontend_full.js
• Library updates

5.2.2

• FIX: The format for new Maxmind licence keys has changed. (Existing licence keys will continue to work.)
  (5.2.1 was a broken release)

5.2.0

• NEW: The list of reverse proxies of AWS CloudFront or CloudFlare can now be added as “known proxy”
• FIX [!]: AWS Cloudfront header name changed to HTTP_CLOUDFRONT_VIEWER_COUNTRY
• Reduced JS size (AJAX mode)
• Library updates

5.1.1

• NEW: For the reverse proxy configuration, internal adresses (such as 10.0.0.0/8) are now whitelisted by default. You can override this behaviour by using the wordpress filter geoip_detect2_client_ip_whitelist_internal_ips.
• NEW: Body classes now include the city name in English (e.g. geoip-city-Munich)
• FIX: Some server configurations showed this warning: Use of undefined constant CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2_0

5.1.0

New Datasource: Fastah Web API (beta), see https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-k5gjowexrefl2

AJAX mode:
* NEW: The JS function geoip_detect.set_override_with_merge can modify the override record in one property, merging it with the currently saved property

Other minor changes:
* FIX: In non-AJAX mode, properties such as “extra.original.zip” can be accessed again
* FIX: Automatic download of Maxmind database now also works when the temp folder is group/world writeable (as in AWS configurations)
* If you want to enable more Warnings (e.g. while debugging), you can add define(‘GEOIP_DETECT_DEBUG’, true) to your wp-config.php or so.
* Library updates

5.0.0

In this release, there a small breaking changes marked by [!].

AJAX mode:
* FIX [!]: Empty attribute values such as [geoip_detect2_show_if country=””]Country was not detected[/geoip_detect2_show_if] are now working (they were ignored before)
* FIX [!]: Shortcodes that have an invalid value for the property ajax (e.g. [geoip_detect2_text_input ajax=”invalid”]) are now using the AJAX option instead of always disabling AJAX
* FIX: In CF7, the country selector can now be used in AJAX mode
* FIX: In AJAX mode, the shortcode [geoip_detect2_show_if] renders as a <div> if it detects that the containing content has HTML block level elements
* NEW (Beta): In AJAX mode, the new property autosave saves the user input as local override for this browser. [geoip_detect2_countries mycountry autosave] and [geoip_detect2_text_input city property:city autosave]. (Please give feedback if this works as expected!)
* FIX: In AJAX mode, calling the method set_override(record, duration_in_days) now refreshes the AJAX shortcodes and CSS body classes.
-> Thus, it is now possible to quickly implement different content for different countries with an autodetected default country, see https://github.com/yellowtree/geoip-detect/wiki/API-Usage-Examples#country-selector-that-can-be-overridden-by-the-user

Other changes:
* NEW: Drastically improving performance if the lookup is performed for the current IP more than once (e.g. because of shortcodes without AJAX mode)
* UI: Showing the time for the subsequent lookup on the Test Lookup page
* FIX: Maxmind Datasource: Check if the database file is really a file, not a directory
* NEW: Header Datasource: Now a custom HTTP header can be used via the wordpress filter geoip_detect2_source_header_http_key

Other minor changes:
* Update the list of available APIs for getting the external IP (as whatismyip went down)
* Minimum WordPress version is 5.4 now.
* Update some internal libraries & dev tools
* Checked compatibility with PHP 8.1

The code of the plugin has not changed much, I have named this version 3.0 to indicate the major change on Maxmind’s side of things. They explain it in this blog post:
https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/

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