BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin

Changelog

5.5 Release date: September 16, 2025

*New Feature: Archive format per backup
*New Feature: Archive name per backup

5.4.1 Release date: September 2, 2025

• Fix: Additional Guzzle Dependency conflicts causing errors.

5.4 Release date: August 20, 2025

• New feature: Add extra files or folders for backups
• Fix: Sending unwanted warning email because of .donotbackup file.
• FIx: Showing cursor pointer on non-clickable elements.
• FIx: Backup downloads are not working for FTP storage.
• Fix: Guzzle Dependency conflict causing errors in backups.
• Fix: The Encrypt archive option is disabled after the update.
• Fix: The backup now icon is closer to the date of scheduled backups.
• Fix: No backup is created for any storage when OneDrive is selected during onboarding.

5.3.2

Release date: August 12, 2025

• Bugfix: Log notification emails were not sent for successful backup
• Removed: Remove unused/deprecated codes
• Enhancement: Refactor the plugin admin notice code
• Bugfix: Save button is not clickable on low browsers window height
• Bugfix: Google Drive & OneDrive API fields not fully visible
• Bugfix: Encryption “Save” button not visible below Asymmetric Key
• Bugfix: Decryption key needed for free plugin
• Enhancement: Storage deselect ux issues

5.3.1

Release date: July 22, 2025

• Bugfix: Default archive format resets to Tar format after update to 5.3
• Bugfix: Updating to 5.3 causes Fatal error due to corrupted data
• Bugfix: License activation fails due to service provider issue
• Bugfix: Upload to FTP backup limit issue on 5.3

5.3.0

Release date: July 14, 2025

• New feature: Backup File & Database together in a single job
• Bugfix: New jobs ignore the global archive format and default to .Tar
• Bugfix: SugarSync error message after authenticating
• Bugfix: Google Drive not working correctly during onboarding
• Enhancement: Show only successful backup entries in the backup history
• Enhancement: Long job title spills outside the pop-up
• Enhancement: Configure backup data settings without selecting it
• Enhancement: Fixed Schedule backup title is too long issue
• Enhancement: Added tooltips for schedule backup icons
• Enhancement: Add new backup UI ux issues
• Enhancement: Improvement of cloud storage code

5.2.3

Release date: May 22, 2025

• Bugfix: Fixed fatal error when both Free and Pro versions are activated together.

5.2.2

Release date: May 20, 2025

• New feature: Deselect Website Server as a default storage destination
• Enhancement: Reduce overall plugin size
• Bugfix: Google Drive does not remain selected
• Bugfix: Plugin interface becomes non-functional & not clickable
• Bugfix: Error during backup for Dropbox storage
• Bugfix: Dropbox authentication error

5.2.1

Release date: April 30, 2025

• Bugfix: Fixed fatal error caused by cal_days_in_month() function on 5.2 for unsupported servers.

5.2.0

Release date: April 29, 2025

• New feature: Add “Backup Now” button to each scheduled job
• Enhancement: Monthly frequency to allow users to select the exact day
• Enhancement: Show the Toast messages on specific actions instead of every actions

5.1.3

Release date: April 23,2025

• Added: Filter to show legacy/disabled jobs
• Added: Notice for legacy disabled jobs
• Enhancement: Replaced Files icon (currently WP logo) with a new file icon
• Enhancement: Adding new jobs moves the existing job placement in the interface
• Enhancement: Increased the default timeout for toast messages
• Bugfix: Old jobs auto disabled for users from v5.0.9 & v5.1.0 to v5.1
• Bugfix: Legacy jobs link not triggering the job
• Bugfix: Clicking “Save & Continue” before the page fully loads skips onboarding
• Bugfix: Added WP default admin styles in the Legacy jobs page
• Bugfix: WordPress timezone changes mess up the frequency feature
• Bugfix: The “Backup Now” error when there’s no job available
• Bugfix: Fix a problem with the encryption Save button doing nothing
• Bugfix: Long load time on clicking Data after adding File job exclusion
• Bugfix: Backup job pencil icon grows smaller with long titles
• Bugfix: Conflict with MainWP child plugin

5.1.2

Release date: April 15,2025

• Enhancement: Display the warning message for customers affected by the bug in 5.1 version of the plugin

5.1.1

• Fixed: Backups created before v5 are no longer deactivated when updating the plugin

5.1.0

Release date: April 07,2025

• New feature: Introduce possibility to add more than two backup jobs
• New feature: Add possibility to set a title for each job
• Enhancement: Rework of the ‘Backup Now’ feature
• Enhancemnet: Make ‘Local Storage’ more descriptive
• Enhancement: Rework of the notices inside the plugin
• Enhancement: Introduce cache busting strategy for static assets inside the plugin
• Enhancement: Make sure not to display the non-existing buckets inside the Amazon S3 storage panel
• Enhancement: Update the phrasing for the restore process page to make it easier to understand
• Bugfix: Fix Dropbox authentication bug
• Bugfix: Fix a problem when excluded files were still included in the backup
• Bugfix: Fix a problem with ‘FTP passive mode’

5.0.9

Release date: March 21, 2025

• Fixed: Huge package size
• Fixed: Files and DB jobs are not separated in certain scenario

5.0.8

Release date: March 20, 2025

• New Feature: Allow to choose storage for specific backup job
• Enhancement: Security enhancements related to unserialize function
• Enhancement: Remove unnecessary strings in the scheduled backup jobs blocks
• Enhancement: Improve welcome banner’s UI
• Bugfix: Make sure not to display backups which were removed using UI in the backup history list

5.0.7

Release date: March 13, 2025

• Added: Hourly frequency for backups
• Added: WPM Apply filters library for better code maintainability
• Fixed: PHP Warning & auto reset advanced settings issue
• Fixed: Closing banner cancels the onboarding issue
• Fixed: Correct the title of Next Schedule Backup
• Changed: Onboarding backup success page notice & redirection
• Changed: “Restore Full Backup” string to “Restore Backup”

5.0.6

Release date: March 10, 2025

• Fixed: Archive file format Tar generation code to handle long file names
• Fixed: Clicking on actions should close other opened sections in Backup History

5.0.5

Release date: March 03, 2025

• Added: Dropdown to allow users to select the Backup file format (zip, tar, tar.gz)
• Added: Show different in-app notices to new & existing users
• Fixed: BackWPUp Menu Visible to All User Roles, Including Subscribers
• Fixed: Database & File backup does not remain selected, automatically becomes off

5.0.4

Release date: feb 13, 2025

• Fixed: Layout issue with theme customizer
• Fixed: API error when the number of backups is equal to 0
• Fixed: Php 8.x deprecated notices
• Removed : “Add new” job button from Job listing
• Fixed: Tooltip text cut off
• Removed: Hover style on disabled elements
• Added: Hover tooltip on storage icons

5.0.3

Release date: feb 07, 2025

• Fixed: Backup is running constantly & can’t be stopped.
• Fixed: Authentication issue for Dropbox, FTP & Azure.
• Added: Custom scheduling option.
• Added: Display history of all backups.
• Added: Custom filter to allow zip and tar.gz compression
• Changed: Changed plugin noticed Message.

5.0.2

Release date: feb 04,2025

• Fixed : Error due to unrecognized cron expression

5.0.1

Release date: feb 04, 2025

• Fixed : Css issues with the new UI

Version 5.0

Release date: Feb 04, 2025

• Complete revamp of the plugin UI
• Changed: Updated dependencies
• Moved Jobs, Logs, Network, license & settings under Advance Settings
• Removed: Jobs, Logs, Backups, Add new job, Settings, Restore & About from the plugin menu

4.1.7

Release date: nov 25, 2024
* Changed : Update dependencies :
** guzzlehttp/guzzle to 7.0
** onedrive-php-sdk to 3.2.0
** microsoft-graph to 1.7.0

4.1.6

Release date: oct 15, 2024

• Changed : Show the Restore feature information notice only for free version users
• Changed : The default format is now .tar
• Fixed : Warnings on the backup script on PHP 8.x when tar format is used

4.1.5

Release date: sept 27, 2024

• Added : Restore feature information notice
• Changed : Upgraded WordPress minimum version to 4.9
• Removed : Remove the EasyCron integration and switch it with WPCron.
• Removed : Remove Database Backup file name & compression options from the UI can be edited via filter (backwpup_generate_dump_filename)
• Fixed : Conflict with WP Hotel Booking from ThimPress
• Changed : Add the default exclude files in a filter. (backwpup_file_exclude)
• Fixed : Use wp translation

4.1.4

Release date: jul 22, 2024

• Ehanced: Store the review notice dismiss as an option
• Fixed: Hide the evaluate notice using css
• Removed: Remove the “Compression” option in Settings > Logs
  ** Disabled by default, can be enabled with a filter (backwpup_gz_logs)
• Fixed: Check if the third parties constants are defined before using them

4.1.3

Release date: Jul 05, 2024

• Changed: Upgraded minimum version to PHP 7.4
• Fixed: Evaluate notice doesn’t dismiss
• Removed: General tab on settings page
  ** Admin bar: enabled by default, can be disabled with a filter (backwpup_is_in_admin_bar)
  ** Folder sizes: disabled by default, can be enabled with a filter (backwpup_show_folder_size)
  ** Protect folders: we protect your folders by default can be disabled with a filter (backwpup_protect_folders)
  ** Plugin data: we delete all plugin data after its delation by default
• Fixed: Fix S3 uploads over 5 Gb

4.1.2

Release date: Jun 27, 2024

• Fixed: Open_basedir restriction on some servers
• Added: Notice to ask users their experience with BackWpUp

4.1.1

Release date: Jun 18, 2024

• Changed: AutoExclude the cache plugin folders from the backup
• Fixed: Problems with the sql dump of the database
• Fixed: Update phpseclib library to fix issues in Windows environment.

4.1.0

Release date: Jun 4, 2024

• Changed: Add Restore to the free version
• Fixed: Improved checking of encrypted archives
• Added (pro): decryption and encryption with WP-CLI of archives
• Fixed (pro): Problems with Asymmetric encryption on restarts

4.0.5

Release date: May 21, 2024

• Fixed (pro): Gdrive oAuth authentication flow

4.0.4

Release date: March 12, 2024

• Fixed: Changed directory structure of BackWPup temporary files to prevent unauthorized access of database backup.

4.0.3

Release date: February 22, 2024

• Fixed: Security issue where FTP passwords were stored in the database in plaintext.

4.0.2

Release date: November 22, 2023

• Fixed: Disallow backups or logs directories from being outside of wp-content directory for security purposes

4.0.1

Release date: October 18, 2023

• Changed (pro): Clarified instructions in the “Path to mysqldump file” field
• Changed: Upgraded minimum version to PHP 7.2.5
• Fixed (pro): Restoring a compressed database backup resulted in a “Could not get size of SQL file” error
• Fixed (pro): 500 error in Restore app, due to missing dependencies
• Fixed (pro): Escaped previously unescaped SQL query
• Fixed (pro): Security issue regarding location of restore files
• Fixed (pro): PHP warning when configuring a wizard with the glacier destination
• Fixed: Missing nonce validation on certain AJAX endpoints
• Fixed: Escaping for values on log output
• Fixed: Escaping of sendmail command
• Fixed: Corrected an invalid URL in the documentation link found in the plugin overview
• Fixed: Various deprecation notices on PHP 8.0+
• Fixed: Issue where webp thumbnail images were not excluded despite enabling the “Don’t backup thumbnails from the site’s uploads folder” option
• Fixed: Ensure validation of logfile parameter during job run

4.0.0

Release Date: November 16, 2022

• Added: Support for additional S3 storage classes
• Added: Support for Glacier Instant Retrieval
• Added: Created backwpup_ftp_use_passive_address filter for when FTP is behind NAT
• Added: Support for object lock in S3 by adding Content-MD5 header
• Added (pro): Include unique IV when encrypting archives
• Added (pro): Default character set fetched from alternative database credentials
• Changed: Upgraded minimum version to PHP 7.2
• Changed (pro): Upgraded Google Drive SDK to V3
• Fixed: Better support for PHP 8
• Fixed: PHP warning when backing up to S3 destination
• Fixed: Unable to download from S3 when using predefined region
• Fixed: Unable to download from SugarSync
• Fixed: Backups downloaded twice from MS Azure
• Fixed: wp-config.php backed up twice when parent folder is included in backup
• Fixed: Text fields too long on SugarSync destination settings
• Fixed: Dropbox runs out of memory when more than 50 files in folder
• Fixed (pro): Authentication of OneDrive when HTTP_REFERER not set.
• Fixed (pro): Displayed creation date of OneDrive backups was incorrect
• Fixed (pro): Disabled mysqldump radio button when binary cannot be found
• Fixed (pro): HiDrive does not detect when refresh token expires
• Removed: Unnecessary AWS and Google library files to save on package size.

Version 3.10.0

Release Date: September 1, 2021

• Added: Support for Dropbox short-lived access tokens
• Fixed (pro): Prevent out of memory error on HiDrive backups
• Fixed (pro): Small files uploaded twice to HiDrive
• Fixed (pro): Fatal error on plugin update if $transient is null
• Fixed (pro): Restore of stored functions, procedures, and triggers
• Fixed: Export of stored functions, procedures, and triggers including delimiters
• Fixed: Support emojis and other 4-byte characters in database dump
• Fixed: PHP 8 deprecation notice in XML export

Version 3.9.0

Release Date: June 14, 2021

• Added (pro): Migrate website to another URL
• Added (pro): Validation for database credentials on restore
• Added: PHP notice for outdated PHP versions less than 7.2
• Fixed (pro): License deactivated on settings save
• Fixed (pro): Corrupted path name in Google Drive destination
• Fixed (pro): Unable to download backup from Google Drive
• Fixed: Unable to connect to custom S3 endpoints
• Fixed: Intermittent error selecting restore strategy
• Fixed: Memory leaks when uploading to S3
• Fixed: PHP 7.4 Deprecation notices
• Fixed: PHP 8 compatibility issues
• Fixed: Remove BackWPup user roles on uninstall in multisite
• Fixed: Correctly handle relative upload paths
• Fixed: Display welcome page even after consent dialog clicked
• Fixed: Exclude non backup files from the backups page
• Fixed: Format dates as ISO-formatted dates instead of binary hex in MySQL backup
• Fixed: Don’t pre-fill database credentials when backing up non-WordPress database
• Fixed: Description of replacement patterns for archive name
• Fixed: Added missing destinations to destination list in about page
• Fixed: Made BackWPup banner local
• Removed: Phone home client
• Removed: Remote admin notices

Version 3.8.0

Release Date: September 21, 2020

• Added: OneDrive destination for Pro version
• Added: HiDrive destination for Pro version
• Added: WordPress 5.5 compatibility
• Added: PHP 7.4 compatibility
• Added: Option to keep BackWPUp data after plugin uninstall
• Added: More default excluded folders and files for BackWPUp
• Fixed: Custom S3 destination return error after Amazon library update
• Fixed: PHP Notice: Undefined index: dbdumpdbcharset
• Fixed: Cannot use variables for the xml file name
• Fixed: Deprecated: Non-static method BackWPup_Admin::admin_css() should not be called statically
• Fixed: Prevent click on overlay disable backup download process
• Fixed: BackWPUp redirects even in the CLI environment

Version 3.7.1

Release Date: March 30, 2020

• Fixed: Error Notices CSS is loaded on all pages and overwrite the color of other plugins notices
• Updated: (Pro) License system update for premium version

Version 3.7.0

Release Date: Nov 27, 2019

• Updated: Raise the minimum PHP version required by BWU to 5.6
• Updated: Microsoft Azure Storage Blob PHP Client Library
• Fixed: S3 custom url not used for bucket selection
• Fixed: S3 malformed error message when authentication credentials are wrong
• Fixed: S3 selecting an invalid service raise no error
• Fixed: Rackspace uses old cacert.pem file
• Fixed: Log page not correcty sorted
• Added: Option to enable or disable the phone home client

Version 3.6.10

Release Date: Jul 8, 2019

• Fixed: Azure Supports https on uploading
• Fixed: Auto remove old backup files not working when archive file name have prefix “backwpup”
• Added: Filter to extend list of S3 destinations
• Removed: S3 multipart upload checkbox, now in destination definition
• Updated: Amazon AWS SDK for S3 services, now PHP 5.5+ is needed
• Added: Filter to extend list of Glacier destinations (Pro version)
• Updated: Amazon AWS SDK for Glacier, now PHP 5.5+ is needed (Pro version)

Version 3.6.9

Release Date: May 7, 2019

• Fixed: Google Drive destination automatically remove old backup files
• Fixed: Do not expose destination data within the manifest file
• Fixed: Update Dropbox Tokens
• Fixed: Restore error: MIME returns html instead of event stream
• Fixed: Log files name are predictable because of weak hash
• Fixed: ZipArchive doesn’t fallback to PclZip in Restore
• Fixed: Session already started could cause issues during ajax calls
• Fixed: Wrong vendor include path for PEAR using MS Azure
• Fixed: Decryption Key prompt when any error occur during the first step of a Restore
• Fixed: Phone home client notice and php 5 issue with php short echo tag
• Fixed: mime_content_type function may not exists prevent backup decryption
• Improve: Restore Log and produce report for user feedback
• Changed: License changed to GPLv2+

Version 3.6.8

Release Date: Feb 25, 2019

• Fixed: Typos in settings job page
• Fixed: Rest API admin note language doesn’t change when changing user language

Version 3.6.7

Release Date: Jan 22, 2019

• Fixed: More margin to dashboard footer to avoid save button unclickable
• Fixed: On folder sync destination folder is not created
• Fixed: Encryption option should not be displayed for syncing job
• Fixed: Restore stuck on file restore step because of file permission issue
• Fixed: “Do not delete files while syncing to destination!” not working
• Tweak: Increase PHP Version from 5.3.2 to 5.3.3
• Tweak: Encryption Settings description and ui improvements
• Tweak: On restore error, include restore.dat file along with the log when user download the restore log file
• Tweak: Lock server to execute same task multiple time when one is already in progress

Version 3.6.6

Release Date: Nov 28, 2018

• Fixed: Files could be excluded from the backup because of incorrect string comparison

Version 3.6.5

Release Date: Nov 23, 2018

• Fixed: Admin notice won’t update correctly

Version 3.6.4

Release Date: Nov 22, 2018

• Fixed: Encrypted backup must force users to download the encryption keys
• Fixed: Warning mime type when a backup is going to be downloaded
• Fixed: Admin Notice in free version is sometimes empty
• Fixed: Random restore error about SQL syntax when restoring a database
• Fixed: Exclude restore directories to be copied during a restore phase
• Fixed: Standalone App has no encryption support
• Fixed: Open basedir, backup dir is not within the allowed path
• Fixed: Unable to download backup file because of mime_content_type function missing in some environment
• Tweak: Encryption Settings UI
• Tweak: Minor translations issues
• Tweak: Remove languages files from the free version, the plugin will use translation.wordpress.org

Version 3.6.3

Release Date: Nov 5, 2018

• Fixed: “Failed to restore file”: file restore progress stop working and jump directly to database restore step
• Fixed: Restore progress stuck on “restoring database” with archive backup contains files only
• Fixed: All config.php files are not in backup archive

Version 3.6.2

Release Date: Oct 17, 2018

• Fixed: Not recognized file extensions get an additional underscore in the file name in zip file
• Fixed: Backup archive file have dot folder contains all web root files
• Fixed: Ftp destination downloader repetitively open a new handler for the source file causing corrupted backup

Version 3.6.1

Release Date: Sep 25, 2018

• Fixed: Backup doesn’t handle special characters correctly
• Fixed: Use of function that doesn’t exists prior to 4.9
• Fixed: Class bryter/helpers/csrf/CSRF.php was not loaded
• Fixed: Backup don’t override old database file in web root
• Fixed: Restore Folder backup won’t download the backup file
• Fixed: Function owns_backup_archive not exists, the one is is_backup_archive
• Fixed: Some settings page and license api manager strings are missing translation
• Fixed: Incompatibility with php 5.3 in destination folder downloader
• Fixed: fatal error on Amazon Glacier because of an undefined function
• Fixed: Ensure extra files are not overwritten
• Fixed: Cannot delete woocommerce_downloadable_product_permissions table
• Fixed: Incompatibility with php 5.3 in the restore process

Version 3.6.0

Release Date: June 14, 2018

• Added: Pro Feature – Encrypt before sending backups to the cloud
• Fixed: Handling of special Amazon S3 regions such as Google Storage
• Fixed: Downloading of large files encountered PHP memory error
• Improved: Delete pro-only scss files in free version
• Fixed: Version constraints of composer dependencies
• Fixed: Localized strings from restore
• Fixed: Deleting FTP backup resulted in error
• Fixed: openssl_encrypt compatibility with PHP 5.3

Version 3.5.1

Release Date: May 23, 2018

• Fixed: call to a member function close() on null
• Fixed: Cannot use object of type WP_Error as array
• Fixed: Can’t use function return value in write context
• Fixed: Compatibility with PHP 5.3
• Fixed: Decreased size of plugin by purging unneeded files

Version 3.5.0

Release Date: May 16, 2018

• Added: Restore for pro version
• Fixed: stylesheet was being included on frontend