* Improvement: Updated the bundled geoip database.
* Note: Verified compatibility with WordPress 6.9

* Fix: Compatibility fixes for WordPress 6.8

* Improvement: Improved error handling and messaging for some responses from our servers.
* Improvement: Added messaging when a site may be using the same free license shared among multiple sites because it can cause the sites to use the same scan schedule rather than spreading out the load.
* Improvement: Updated the readme content and formatting.

* Improvement: Added support for hosts relocating the WAF’s auto-prepend file via the constant/envvar WORDFENCE_WAF_PREPEND_DIRECTORY.
* Improvement: Added detection for non-repo plugins and themes to avoid the scanner reporting changes when the same slug + version exists within the wordpress.org repository.
* Improvement: Messaging for Central disconnections now better reflects the user making the change.
* Improvement: Scan errors due to unreachable Wordfence servers will now provide a link to our status page to check for outages.
* Improvement: Reduced the number of network calls created to sync scan issues when updates are performed in bulk.
* Change: Reworked setting caching to avoid issues with some object caches.
* Change: Reworked cURL check to avoid using WP_Http_Curl, which has been deprecated.
* Fix: Normalized all [wordfence.com](http://wordfence.com) links to be https.
* Fix: Fixed a rare error that could occur on the diagnostics page when displaying a list of error logs.
* Fix: Removed the “back to top” button and related script block from emailed diagnostics.
* Fix: Fixed some UI coloring that did not correctly reflect the license type in use.

* Improvement: General compatibility improvements and better error handling for PHP 8+
* Improvement: Added audit log status to the plugin dashboard.
* Change: Increased width of diagnostics text export for better legibility.
* Fix: Addressed an error with mail hooks and the audit log when third party plugins send unexpected value types.

* Improvement: Updated GeoIP database.
* Change: Revised some help text related to the audit log to be more clear.
* Fix: Improved audit log compatibility with some plugins that would cause excessive noise due to their behaviors around setting up user roles and capabilities.
* Fix: Fixed a log notice that could occur when deactivating Wordfence with audit log events still pending and a broken Wordfence Central link.

* Improvement: Optimized scan performance by reducing database queries by approximately 38% along with CPU usage.
* Fix: Added translation support for “Page not found” string when viewing recent traffic.

IMPROVEMENT - Revised the strong password requirements notice to be more readable.
IMPROVEMENT - Removed unnecessary calls for the plugin and theme vulnerability checks.
IMPROVEMENT - Reduced the frequency of calls to Wordfence Central during some operations where the values do not need to be synced.
IMPROVEMENT - Refactored some queries to avoid the automatic SHOW FULL COLUMNS queries that WordPress performs to verify database encodings.
IMPROVEMENT - Infrequently-used config values are no longer automatically loaded into memory and instead loaded only on demand.
FIX - Fixed an issue where multisite installations using the WAF mysqli storage engine could repeatedly attempt to update WAF rules when not in optimized mode.
IMPROVEMENT - Updated the bundled GeoIP database.
CHANGE - Revised the formatting of TOTP app URLs to prioritize the site’s own URL for better sorting and display.
FIX - Fixed the last captcha column in the users page so it no longer displays “(not required)” on 2FA users since that no longer applies.
FIX - Added a check in wflogs/rules.php to only run when within the WAF’s bootstrap stage when hosted behind nginx.

FIX - Revised the behavior of the reCAPTCHA verification to use the documented expiration period of the token and response to avoid sending verification requests too frequently, which could artificially lower scores in some circumstances.
FIX - Addressed PHP 8 deprecation notices in the file differ used by file changed scan results.
FIX - Reduced the frequency of Wordfence Central status update callbacks in sections of the scan that occur quickly in sequence.