Changelogs

Get an overview of the current development status of Simply Static Pro. Here you find all the latest releases in chronological order. If you are looking for the changelogs of the free Simply Static plugin instead, take a look here.

  • Version:

    2.6.5 – 2.6.11

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • Prevent incomplete Static Studio exports from deleting live pages before a replacement deployment succeeds
    • Preserve newly generated files when processing stale deletion records and purge the CDN after cleanup
    • Fix mapped-language homepage detection when the destination root resolves to WordPress’s default language
    • Publish translated static front pages at the root of mapped language domains when the language home redirects to a nested page
    • Always queue the translated static front page for mapped-language exports, even when the optional multilingual crawler is disabled
    • Preserve the mapped language scope when Static Studio starts an export asynchronously through WordPress cron
    • Ensure the multilingual crawler runs with the environment’s selected language in the background worker

    Improvements

    • Apply configured custom string replacements to the completed static archive before every deployment, including 404-only exports
    • Process replacements in safe, deterministic batches while skipping binary files and unsafe paths
    • Preserve chronological activity-log ordering for custom string replacements
    • Hide form submission links, CSV exports, and unread counts in the Command Center when entry storage is disabled
    • Enumerate every published WPML URL in the selected language context so mapped exports cannot omit translated pages
    • Match regional environment locales such as de-DE to provider language codes such as de
    • Always discover the complete selected-language URL set during language-scoped exports, even when the optional multilingual crawler setting is disabled
  • Version:

    2.6.4

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • Fixed cleanup for trashed pages and multisite form configuration paths.
    • Fixed Forminator file uploads on static sites.

    Improvements

    • Added configurable JavaScript delay exclusions for URLs, element IDs, inline content, and individual scripts.
    • Completed and reviewed the German translation across the plugin.
    • Added support for public custom post statuses and refreshing affected feeds during Single Push exports.
    • Improved multilingual exports for TranslatePress and Polylang.
    • Added a warning for unsupported WPML query-parameter URLs.
  • Version:

    2.6.1 – 2.6.3

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • Fixed preservation and saving of nested form connection settings during Static Studio deployment recovery

    Improvements

    • Improved SFTP performance, diagnostics, timeouts, and host-key verification
    • Added password-protected operations mode for client-facing publishing workflows
    • Organized form settings into collapsible sections
    • Improved access to form configurations from the Command Center
    • Automatically import and verify reCAPTCHA and Turnstile credentials from supported form plugins

    Features

    • Added native FTP deployments with WP-CLI support
    • Added form reply-to settings and preserved consent fields
    • Added reCAPTCHA v2 support for Elementor forms
  • Version:

    2.6.0

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • Stop retrying unavailable optimization archives
    • Fix WebP images missing from the first export
    • Fix Windows deployment paths
    • Prevent stale static page deletions

    Improvements

    • Preserved CSS cascade boundaries during asset aggregation.
    • Limited Single Push taxonomy and author archive updates to affected content.

    Features

    • Added CSV exports and improved filtering and bulk management for form submissions.
    • Added form reply-to settings and preserved consent fields
  • Version:

    2.5.5-2.5.16

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • Add secure file upload support to queued form submissions
    • Scope tracked page deletions to build exports and prevent failed deletions from stalling export queues
    • Fix Fuse index integrity, filesystem concurrency, and search redirects
    • Fix GitHub deployment retries and duplicate Pages builds
    • Fixed ShortPixel download queues getting stuck when optimized-file counts change
    • Keep global wp-includes assets at the unlocalized WordPress origin during WPML directory exports
    • Fixed Complianz config requests on static sites
    • Fixed Fuse index integrity, filesystem concurrency, and search redirects
    • Fixed GitHub deployment retries and duplicate Pages builds
    • Prevented stale export scopes from carrying over into WP-CLI exports
    • Added support for newer Complianz cookie-banner CSS URL placeholders

    Improvements

    • Update JavaScript dependencies and production dependency audits
    • Honor Elementor Form IDs and avoid duplicate auto-detected connections
    • Use Elementor recipients and custom notification templates for stored form entries
    • Serialize forms configuration deployments and retry superseded or failed writes
    • Serialize Search index state and writes across overlapping workers
    • Added secure file uploads to queued form submissions.
    • Scoped tracked page deletions to build exports and prevented failed deletions from stalling queues.
    • Updated JavaScript dependencies and production dependency audits.
    • Added managed owner notifications, visitor confirmations, and private conditional webhooks
    • Added secure attachment links and provider-neutral submitted-field tables
    • Made Form Connection saves atomic and hardened CAPTCHA, upload, and retry handling
    • Included newly generated CSS and JavaScript aggregate bundles in Single Export deployments
    • Fixed GitHub export retry loops, oversized-file skipping, and deployment throttling
    • Added redirects from Safe Redirect Manager and Page Links To
    • Improved legacy form configuration and browser validation compatibility
    • Refreshed form settings and added CC recipients for managed notifications
    • Improved expanded form-entry field alignment
  • Version:

    2.5.4

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • Stop retrying unavailable optimization archives
    • Fix WebP images missing from the first export
    • Fix Windows deployment paths
    • Prevent stale static page deletions

    Improvements

    • Speed up Markdown exports
  • Version:

    2.5.0 – 2.5.3

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • Fix directory replacement retry loops and core compatibility notices
    • Skip oversized files during GitHub deployments
    • Fix destination URL rendering in the Command Center activity log
    • Fix form entries CORS whitelisting
    • Fix inline background process continuation

    Improvements

    • Improve security, reliability, performance, and integration failure handling
    • Add comprehensive automated test coverage
    • Update the Freemius SDK and JavaScript audit workflow

    Feature

    • Added a Static Studio download fallback when the required Simply Static update is not yet available from WordPress.org
  • Version:

    2.4.9

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • Fix form entry settings and UAM routes
    • Fix WPML directory exports and localized 404s
    • Fix SFTP bulk deploy client handling

    Improvements

    • Handle WPML default language directories
    • Update npm dependencies
  • Version:

    2.4.8

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • Fix Fluent Forms redirects and static submissions
    • Fix SFTP bulk deploy client handling

    Improvements

    • Add a form entry email suppression filter
    • Update npm dependencies
  • Version:

    2.4.7

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • Fix static config URL normalization
    • Preserve WPML language directory + redirect exports

    Improvements

    • Add form entry created hook
    • Track stale URLs for renamed slugs
  • Version:

    2.4.6

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • Fixed webhook form redirects (Gravity Forms)
    • Fixed WPML default language directory URLs

    Improvements

    • Respect the search results setting for the native search URL
    • Improved “optimize” resource handling
    • Added Algolia hits per page filter

    Features

    • Auto-map environments to WPML languages for multi-domain handling
  • Version:

    2.4.5

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • Fix WPML language export URLs

    Improvements

    • Improve update change counts for attachments
    • Freemius SDK upgrade
  • Version:

    2.4.4

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • Fix theme style path handling
    • Fix markdown export URLs
  • Version:

    2.4.3

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • more hardening related to embedded forms
    • Fix update export change queue scope

    Improvements

    • Language selection support in the command center
    • Harden non-public post deletion fallback
  • Version:

    2.4.2

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • Fix Divi update assets

    Improvements

    • Prevent recursive embedded form iframes
    • Preserve custom Fuse search fields
  • Version:

    2.4.1

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • handle unnamed input fields in CF7

    Improvements

    • Add a build link to the command center
    • export per language (selectable)
    • forms: auto-fill based on URL params support
    • multilingual in update exports
  • Version:

    2.4.0

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • simplified form markup checkup

    Improvements

    • defer assets by group (aggregation)
    • handle font swapping (aggregation)
    • Improved change detection push
  • Version:

    2.3.9

    Release Date:


    Bugfixes

    • fixed missing options caller (WP-CLI)
    • improved error handling (forms – frontend)

    Improvements

    • SFTP bulk deploy (zip/unzip)
    • exclusion improvements for aggregation
    • Improved change detection push
  • Version:

    2.3.8

    Release Date:


    Improvements

    • more aggregation improvements
    • better source map handling
  • Version:

    2.3.7

    Release Date:


    Improvements

    • Improved Delay/Defer handler

    Features

    • CSS/JS aggregation