Antispam Bee

2.11.7

• Tweak: Use SCRIPT_NAME instead of REQUEST_URI to check path
• Fix: Remove add_reasons_to_defaults() from general initialization for better WordPress 6.7 compatibility
• Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 6.7

2.11.6

• Fix: Delete missed out option on uninstall (Thanks @okvee!)
• Tweak: Minor i18n improvements (Thanks Pedro!)
• Tweak: Minor code changes and housekeeping
• Tweak: Updated dependencies

2.11.5

IMPORTANT: If you use the country check and are behind a proxy or similar, you need to use the antispam_bee_trusted_ip filter to get the correct IP from a header like HTTP_X_FORWARDED (don’t return an empty value here, otherwise all comments are marked as spam).

• Fix: Usage of core filter pre_comment_user_ip breaks ASB if the IP address is removed for GDPR compliance

2.11.4

IMPORTANT: If you use the country check and are behind a proxy or similar, you need to use the pre_comment_user_ip filter to get the correct IP from a header like HTTP_X_FORWARDED.

• Fix: Read client IP for country check from REMOTE_ADDR only (filterable via pre_comment_user_ip)
• Fix: No spam reason in spam notification email, and related PHP warning
• Fix: Remove outdated info from readme
• Enhancement: Show upgrade notice on plugin overview page
• Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 6.3

2.11.3

• Fix: Multiselect for “Delete comments by spam reasons” was not saving values
• Fix: Fix broken link for ISO country codes
• Maintenance: Added test for PHP 8.2
• Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 6.2

2.11.2

• Tweak: remove superfluous translations
• Tweak: make FAQ link an anchor link
• Fix: spam counter no longer raises a warning with PHP 8.1 if no spam is present yet
• Fix: spam reasons are now localized correctly
• Fix: Translations were loaded twice on some admin pages
• Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 6.1

2.11.1

• Tweak: remove superfluous type attribute from inline script tag
• Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 6.0

2.11.0

• Fix: Allow empty comments if allow_empty_comment is set to true
• Fix: Add aria-label to work around bug in a11y testing tools
• Fix: Change priority for comment_form_field_comment from 10 to 99
• Tweak: Updated some FAQ entries
• Tweak: Updated build tooling

2.10.0

• Fix: Switch from ip2country.info to iplocate.io for country check
• Enhancement: Use filter to add the honeypot field instead of output buffering for new installations and added option to switch between the both ways
• Tweak: Added comment user agent to regex pattern check
• Tweak: Make the ping detection filterable to support new comment types
• Tweak: Updated internal documentation links
• Tweak: Several updates and optimizations in the testing process
• Tweak: Adjust color palette to recent WP version
• Tweak: Adjust wording in variables and option names
• Readme: Add new contributor and clean up unused code

2.9.4

• Enhancement: Add filter to allow ajax calls
• Tweak: Better wording for BBCode feature in plugin description
• Tweak: Better screenshots in the plugin directory
• Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 5.7

2.9.3

• Fixed: Compatibility with WordPress 5.5
• Fixed: Undefined index on spam list page
• Tweak: Better wording on settings page
• Tweak: AMP compatibility
• Tweak: Protect CSS from overwrite through bad themes

2.9.2

• Fix: Delete comment meta for deleted old spam. For the cleanup of older orphaned comment meta we suggest the usage of WP Sweep
• Fix: Statistic in dashboard showed wrong value
• Tweak: Change autocomplete attribute to “new-password”
• Tweak: Autoptimize compatibility improved
• Tweak: Renamed blacklist/whitelist to a better phrase
• Tweak: Added new pattern
• Tweak: UI and text optimizations
• Tweak: Better compatibility with some server configurations
• Tweak: Make spam reason sortable and filterable
• Tweak: Add spam reason for manually marked spam
• Maintenance: Deleted unused code
• Maintenance: Removed Fake IP check (unreliable and producing false positives)
• Maintenance: Fix some coding standard issues
• Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 5.4
• Maintenance: Tested up to PHP 7.4

2.9.1

• Improved backend accessibility
• Prefilled comment textareas do now work with the honeypot
• Compatible with the AMP plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/amp/)
• Improved dashboard tooltips
• Improvements for the language detection API
• Scalable IP look up for local spam database

2.9.0

• Introduction of coding standards.
• Switch to franc language detection API for the language check.
• Do not longer overwrite the IP address WordPress saves with the comment by using pre_comment_user_ip.
• Do not show “Trust commenters with a Gravatar” if the “Show Gravatar” option is not set.
• Skip the checks, when I ping myself.
• Fixes some wrong usages of the translation functions.
• Use the regular expressions check also for trackbacks.
• Add option to delete Antispam Bee related data when plugin gets deleted via the admin interface.
• Save a hashed + salted IP for every comment
• New check for incoming trackbacks.
• Introduction of behat tests.
• Updates the used JavaScript library for the statistics widget.
• Bugfix in the “Comment form used outside of posts” option.

2.8.1

• PHP 5.3 compatibility
• Bugfix where a spam trackback produced a fatal error
• For more details see https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/antispam-bee/milestone/8?closed=1

2.8.0

• Removed stopforumspam.com to avoid potential GDPR violation
• Improves IP handling to comply with GDPR
• Improves PHP7.2 compatibility
• Fixes small bug on mobile views
• Allow more than one language in language check
• Minor interface improvements
• Remove old russian and Dutch translation files
• For more details see https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/antispam-bee/milestone/4?closed=1

2.7.1

• Fixes an incompatibility with Chrome autofill
• Fixes some incompatibilities with other plugins/themes where the comment field was left empty
• Support for RTL
• Solve some translation/language issues
• A new filter to add languages to the language check
• For more details see https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/antispam-bee/milestone/6?closed=1

2.7.0

• Country check is back again (thanks to Sergej Müller for his amazing work and the service page)
• Improved Honeypot
• Language check through Google Translate API is back again (thanks to Simon Kraft of https://moenus.net/ for offering to cover the costs)
• More default Regexes
• Unit Test Framework
• Accessibility and GUI improvements
• An english documentation is now available, too. Some corrections in the german documentation.
• Some bugfixes – Among other things for WPML compatibility
• For more details see https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/antispam-bee/milestone/3?closed=1

2.6.9

• Updates donation links throughout the plugin
• Fixes an error were JavaScript on the dashboard was erroneously being enqueued
• Ensures compatibility with the latest WordPress version

2.6.8

• added a POT file
• updated German translation, added formal version
• updated plugin text domain to include a dash instead of an underscore
• updated, translated + formatted README.md
• updated expired link URLs in plugin and languages files
• updated plugin authors

2.6.7

• Removal of functions Block comments from specific countries and Allow comments only in certain language for financial reasons – more information

2.6.6

• Switch to the official Google Translation API
• Release time investment (Development & QA): 2.5 h

2.6.5

• Fix: Return parameters on dashboard_glance_items callback / thx @toscho
• New function: Trust commenters with a Gravatar / thx @glueckpress
• Additional plausibility checks and filters
• Release time investment (Development & QA): 12 h

2.6.4

• Consideration of the comment time (Spam if a comment was written in less than 5 seconds) – more information
• Release time investment (Development & QA): 6.25 h

2.6.3

• Sorting for the Antispam Bee column in the spam comments overview
• Code refactoring around the use of REQUEST_URI
• Release time investment (Development & QA): 2.75 h

2.6.2

• Improving detection of fake IPs
• Release time investment (Development & QA): 11 h

2.6.1

• Code refactoring of options management
• Support for HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR header
• Release time investment (Development & QA): 8.5 h

2.6.0

• Optimizations for WordPress 3.8
• Clear invalid UTF-8 characters in comment fields
• Spam reason as a column in the table with spam comments

For the complete changelog, check out our GitHub repository.