2.4.0

Requires PHP 5.6 and WordPress 4.7 or above

• New: introduce Redis (also KeyDB and Valkey) support using the phpredis module (#253), (#252, props @newtovaux)
• New: add cachify_modify_output filter
• New: add cachify_create_gzip_files to disable creation of static GZip files (#262, props @angcl)
• New: add hooks cachify_removed_cache_by_url and cachify_flushed_total_cache for additional actions after clearing (#294, props @ouun)
• Removed: APC support (#304)
• Enhance: adjust styling for setup instructions (#215, props @timse201)
• Enhance: update hooks for Multisite initialization in WordPress 5.1 and above (#246, props @ouun)
• Enhance: rework flush hooks and add some third-party triggers for Autoptimize and WooCommerce (#225, props @timse201)
• Enhance: clean up some internal error suppressions (#256)
• Enhance: inform user on cache clear in admin bar (#257, props @angcl)
• Enhance: do not flush the cache for post revisions (#261, props @angcl)
• Enhance: prevent unnecessary cache clearing in some cases (#223) (#224, props @timse201)
• Enhance: remove empty directories when clearing the HDD cache (#289)
• Enhance: introduce common interface for caching backends (#298, props @lloc)
• Enhance: enhance examples for .htaccess and nginx configuration (#302)
• Enhance: show admin notice instead of silent fallback to DB cache, if selected backend is unavailable (#305)
• Enhance: disable gzip creation of required PHP extension is missing (#308)
• Enhance: various internal code clean ups
• Fix: invalidate cache when permalink changes (#285, #286, props @raffaelj)
• Fix: remove empty directories when pruning the HDD cache (#289)
• Fix: correctly add user-agent to robots.txt (#282) (#283)
• Fix: exclude sitemap.xml from caching (#242) (#254)
• Fix: prevent cache generation of non-GET requests (#200) (#258)
• Fix: prevent cache generation of requests with status different from 200 OK (#266) (#267, props @karlkowald)
• Fix: prevent cache generation of non-HTML responses when using content negotiation (#265) (#273, props @Ancocodet)
• Fix: fix styling for various dark mode plugins (#264) (#278)
• Fix: fix SVG markup for icons in dashboard widget (#269, props @Latz)
• Fix: added missing .gz suffix in htaccess (#287) (#291, props @raffaelj)
• Fix: fix some brand names and unify spelling (#297, props @pedro-mendonca)
• Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 6.6