Change: Upgraded the GeoIP Library to the latest version.
1.2.21
Fix: Minor update to support PHP 8.x better
1.2.20
Change: Added Ahrefs as service
Change: If no other IP address is detected the override is set to REMOTE_ADDR by default for security reasons.
1.2.19
Fix: Small security issue fixed
Fix: Redirect to page fixed
1.2.18
Fix: Small errors
1.2.17
Fix: Other small error
1.2.16
Fix: DBVERSION error
1.2.15
Change: A lot of internal code changes to make it more in line of WordPress Best Practices
Change: Added Privacy Policy of GeoIP API / Admin API Key
Change: Added Terms of Use / Privacy Policy Of MaxMind
1.2.14
Unreleased version
1.2.13
Change: Altered import/export function to make it more secure
New: Added “Reset Counters” button to reset your total number of frontend / backend blocks.
1.2.12
Change: Added/Changed some services.
Bugfix: Security issue fixed which could only be abused by people with administrator rights.
1.2.11
Change: Minor UI fix
Change: Added some more checking if the visitors IP is an actual IPv4 or IPv6 address
Change: Updated README
1.2.10
Change: Changed whitelist/blacklist to allow list / block list.
Change: Removed Paris as GeoIP location
Change: Added website server address to allow list of the backend to ensure certain WordPress functions keep working if you block the country your website is hosted from the backend.
1.2.9
Change: Some codefixes applied
1.2.8
Bugfix: Checking the IP address on the tools tab gave wrong information about countries being blocked if the “block countries below” function was used. This had no effect on the actual denying of visitors.
New: Added GeoIP API usage (not realtime) of the current month to the tools tab as beta function.
1.2.7
Change: Typo in San Francisco (Thanks to Shizart)
New: Added France as GeoIP location
Change: Update to text description due to MaxMind update to Geo2Lite database policy
Bugfix: No empty location anymore (Thanks to Stonehenge Creations)
1.2.6
Change: Added better support to detect if mbstring is available for usage.
1.2.5
New: Mediapartners-Google service added
Change: Changed webserver ip detection a bit
New: You can unblock feed pages on the frontend configuration tab for the people who want to block visitors but want to allow access to the (RSS) feeds
1.2.4
Change: Changed webserver ip detection a bit
1.2.3
Change: Changed inverse option to that you have to select between ‘Block countries selected below’ or ‘Block all countries except those selected below’ as inverse option caused some confusion.
New: Added ‘inverse’ function to the pages selection as well. So you can now select the pages you want to block or select the pages you do not want to have blocked and block all other pages.
New: Added override function for IP detection.
Change: Cutoff for long urls on the statistics page.
1.2.2
New: Added MOZ as service.
New: Added SEMrush as service.
New: Added SEOkicks as service.
New: Added EU2 and EU3 servers for GeoIP API
New: Added support for WPS Hide Login
Change: Deleted Asia server due to bad performance
Change: Altered behavior of flushing the buffer
1.2.1
New: Added Link Checker (https://validator.w3.org/checklink) as service.
New: Added Dead Link Checker as a service.
New: Added Broken Link Check as a service.
New: Added Pingdom as a service
Change: Adjusted loading chosen library (Credits to Uzzal)
Change: Display error when only the legacy GeoIP database exists and not the new GeoIP2 version
