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          "Discover all the ways an IP address is interacting with your site, in 1 place.",
          "Rather than jump around looking at different tables and filtering by IP address, you can see all information in the IP Analyse tool."
        ]
      },
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        "title":       "Force Shield Locale",
        "description": [
          "An option has been added that lets you force Shield to always display in certain locale.",
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          "This setting doesn't affect the locale for any other part of a WordPress site."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Huawei (Petal) Bot Detection",
        "description": [
          "Added support for detection of Huawei search engine bot/spider."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Shield plugin badge URL may be replaced using White Label settings",
        "description": [
          "The URL used in the Shield plugin badge may be replaced using the Home URL provided in White Label settings."
        ],
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      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "PHP 7+ Only",
        "description": [
          "PHP 7.0+ is required to run Shield v10.",
          "This change in minimum requirements lets us optimise Shield code for PHP 7 and better prepare for PHP 8."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "More reliable 2FA email codes",
        "description": [
          "2FA codes generated for email 2FA are more reliable."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "changed",
        "title":       "U2F two-factor authentication can now be standalone",
        "description": [
          "Due to the experimental nature of the U2F implementation, you needed at least one other 2FA factor active on your profile before you could enable U2F."
        ]
      },
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        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Server Public IPv6 Detection",
        "description": [
          "Detection of your WordPress server's public IPv6 address has been fixed."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "HTTP loopback tests would timeout",
        "description": [
          "HTTP loopback request now has a longer timeout to be more reliable for slow sites."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Link Cheese requests could be missed",
        "description": [
          "Detection of requests to link cheese is improved."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Potential PHP error",
        "description": [
          "A PHP error has been fixed which would occur in some cases."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Database creation may delete existing tables",
        "description": [
          "In some cases during plugin upgrade, some table may get inadvertently deleted."
        ],
        "patch":       "10.0.1"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Fatal error when IP address isn't detected",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "10.0.2"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Not correctly identifying GoogleBot.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "10.0.3"
      }
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    },
    "title":       "Improved UX For Logged-In Users",
    "description": [
      "Most notable in this release is a feature that allows logged-in users to unblock their IP.",
      "Note that this will also be the final release to support PHP 5."
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        "type":        "new",
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        "title":       "Automatic Unblock For Logged-In Users",
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          "By using a magic unblock-link, users may regain access to a site without intervention from an admin."
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      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Auto-Delete Unnecessary WordPress Files",
        "description": [
          "Files such as wp-config-sample.php, readme.html and license.txt are replaced each time WordPress upgrades.",
          "This new option ensures that they are removed each time they are restored to your site after an upgrade."
        ],
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      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    true,
        "title":       "Support for WP Members plugin",
        "description": [
          "Provide native support for protection on WP Members plugin login/registration forms."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Defer to WordPress 5.5 Automatic Updates Changes",
        "description": [
          "Automatic updates notification email is now only sent if on WordPress < 5.5"
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Integrate with WordPress 5.5 Automatic Updates Changes",
        "description": [
          "Shield's Automatic updates notification email setting also applies to plugin/theme update emails."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Improved Integration with WP Fastest Cache",
        "description": [
          "Use WP Fastest Cache method to prevent caching of block pages. Whether it makes a difference is another thing."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Better Mitigation of Error From Other Plugins",
        "description": [
          "Prevent spurious output from errors not relating to this plugin from affecting display of our admin pages."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Better Detection Of forceoff File",
        "description": [
          "Detecting the forceoff file is all its many forms is improved."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "File Locker + open_basedir",
        "description": [
          "The File Locker is less likely to trigger an open_basedir warning."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Lots Of Code Optimisation",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "changed",
        "title":       "Session Cookie Name Change",
        "description": [
          "Session cookie renamed from icwp-wpsf to wp-icwp-wpsf."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "changed",
        "title":       "Bootstrap Library Updated",
        "description": [
          "Upgraded shipped Bootstrap libraries to latest available (v4.5.2)."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Increased Limit For Counting IP Offenses",
        "description": [
          "Upgraded the database to support much larger values for the IP offenses counter."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "MemberPress Integration Bug",
        "description": [
          "MemberPress support had a bug where certain forms weren’t checked for bots."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "WP-CLI Bugs",
        "description": [
          "Cleaned some WP-CLI PHP notices on certain commands."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Bug: User Sessions",
        "description": [
          "User session IDs weren’t cleared correctly."
        ],
        "patch":       "9.2.1"
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    ]
  }
}

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