Snopix

Changelog

0.2.0 – 2026-06-14

  • Added: “Search by image” is now available throughout the wp-admin media flow – a panel on the Upload New Media screen, a toolbar button in the Media Library list and grid views, and a dedicated tab in the media modal.
  • Changed: colour fingerprints now use HSV histograms instead of RGB averages, improving tolerance to lighting and exposure differences.
  • Changed: edge fingerprints expanded to orientation histograms for finer structural matching.
  • Changed: perceptual hash now uses the low-frequency AC block of the DCT (DC components excluded), so uniform brightness shifts no longer dominate the hash.
  • Changed: histogram comparison switched from cosine to Bhattacharyya similarity for more accurate distribution matching.
  • Changed: images that fail fingerprinting are now marked unprocessable instead of receiving an all-zero hash, preventing failed images from clustering as false duplicates.
  • Added: upgrade routine that migrates the database schema and automatically rebuilds the image index when fingerprint formats change between versions.
  • Changed: per-IP search rate limiting now uses advisory locks to avoid double-counting under concurrent requests.

0.1.4 – 2026-06-04

  • Changed: search visibility default changed from “Anyone” to “Logged-in users only” for stricter access out of the box.
  • Changed: “Drop data on uninstall” now defaults to disabled – your index is preserved on plugin removal unless you opt in.
  • Changed: slider values in Settings are now click-to-edit – click any numeric label to type a value directly.
  • Changed: indexing panel shows “Last run completed” once a reindex job finishes, rather than staying silent.
  • Changed: admin UI terminology standardised from “attachments” to “images” throughout.

0.1.3 – 2026-06-03

  • Fixed: bulk indexer no longer aborts the entire queue when a later batch encounters only unreadable images; the stall guard now fires only on the first batch, so isolated file failures are skipped rather than stranding all remaining attachments.
  • Changed: inter-batch delay reduced from 60 s to 15 s, keeping the reindex progress UI responsive during a full library scan.
  • Fixed: third-party admin notices are now suppressed on the Snopix dashboard to prevent them from breaking the full-bleed layout.
  • Changed: admin script now declares wp-i18n as a dependency; build artefacts reorganised to assets/ subdirectories.
  • Fixed: uninstall cleanup now removes all plugin data – index table, all options, transients, scheduled cron events, and per-user meta – when the “Remove all plugin data on uninstall” setting is enabled.

0.1.2 – 2026-06-02

  • Fixed: removed readonly properties that broke activation on PHP 8.0 (the declared minimum version).
  • Changed: per-IP search rate limiting now uses an atomic counter when a persistent object cache is present, and fails closed when the client IP cannot be resolved.
  • Fixed: bulk indexing no longer stalls when a run of unsupported image types (SVG/AVIF/TIFF/HEIC) is queued – they are skipped at enqueue time.
  • Fixed: the daily duplicate scan no longer restarts an in-progress scan, and a failed scan tick recovers instead of appearing to run forever.
  • Fixed: deleting a non-existent index row now returns 404; plus minor admin-UI memory and dead-code cleanups.
  • Changed: the dashboard “Indexed” count is now shown in green, with status colours centralised as reusable design tokens.

0.1.1 – 2026-05-30

  • Fixed: certain extreme aspect-ratio images could trigger a fatal error during indexing; working dimensions are now clamped.
  • Changed: index vector columns now use LONGTEXT instead of JSON for compatibility with older MySQL / MariaDB.
  • Fixed: capitalised indexed-image status labels and corrected spacing on the duplicate “Keep” badge.
  • Removed: the non-functional Plugins-screen delete-confirmation modal and its “require confirmation” setting. The keep / drop-on-uninstall setting is unchanged.

0.1.0 – 2026-05-30

  • Initial release.
  • Perceptual hash + colour histogram + edge histogram fingerprinting.
  • Reverse-image search via admin dropzone and [snopix_search] shortcode.
  • Block-editor panel for inserting and configuring the search shortcode.
  • Duplicate detection with per-group keep selection.
  • WP-Cron bulk indexing, rate-limited public search endpoint.
  • Configurable thresholds, rate limit, and batch size, plus a keep or drop-on-uninstall choice.
  • WordPress.org compatibility: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, BMP.

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Author
Shalin Shah
Version:
0.2.0
Last Updated
June 14, 2026
Requires
WordPress 6.0
Tested Up To
WordPress 7.0
Requires PHP
8.0

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