Changelog

All notable changes to DecaLog are documented in this changelog.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and DecaLog adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[4.3.1] - 2024-12-04

Fixed

Some options are wrongly unavailable when shmop php extension is not installed.

[4.3.0] - 2024-11-22

Added

Compatibility with WordPress 6.6 & 6.7.
It's now possible to change buffering behavior (for loggers supporting deferred forwarding). By default, the new behavior is: events batch at 1000 and no buffering for WP CLI. To modify it, you have to activate "advanced settings" in admin (see hooks for details).

Changed

To avoid name collision with some third-party configurations, the version tag in Datadog, Loki and Grafana loggers is now named wp_version (it was previously version).
Ability to self-update from Github.
The plugin user agent is now more consistent and "standard".

Fixed

There's a WordPress core "feature" which causes some PII to leak (to wp.org) during plugin and theme updates. This is no more the case for this plugin.
In some cases, a WordPress notice can be triggered concerning the loading sequence of translations.

Removed

Test site launching from wordpress.org plugin page.
All Databeam hooks and libraries, as the Databeam project is abandoned.
Dependency on wp.org for updates.

[4.2.0] - 2024-06-16

Added

It's now possible to send Datadog events, metrics and traces to custom endpoints. These custom endpoints must be defined in wp-config.php as DECALOG_DATADOG_EVENTS_CUSTOM_ENDPOINT, DECALOG_DATADOG_METRICS_CUSTOM_ENDPOINT and DECALOG_DATADOG_TRACES_CUSTOM_ENDPOINT constants.

Changed

To avoid name collision with some third-party configurations, the environment tag in Datadog, Loki and Grafana loggers is now named wp_env (it was previously env).

[4.1.0] - 2024-05-28

Added

New listener for WP Migrate Lite & Pro.

Fixed

[WP-CLI] PHP error in some cases when Elastic Cloud is a running logger.
Some failing loggers may not be able to report their health state.

[4.0.0] - 2024-05-13

Important note about this version:

DecaLog 4 is a transition version to prepare DecaLog 5.

No migration path wil be available to migrate from DecaLog 3.x to 5.x, so don't ignore this version 4: install it!

DecaLog 5 will be available in early 2025.

Added

Events sent to DataDog, Elastic Cloud, Elasticsearch, Grafana Cloud, Loki and Sematext can now be extended with custom fields (this feature supports variable substitution).
It's now possible to substitute PHP-defined constants for some loggers settings.
There's now a filter to map PHP error levels to PSR3 levels - see hooks reference (thanks to Clément Hallet).
Full compatibility with Elasticsearch 8.

Changed

[BC] If a third-party plugin or theme uses PSR-3 1.x only, DecaLog early-loading option become unavailable.
[BC] DecaLog now uses PSR-3 1.x & 3.x => if you use the DecaLog SDK, you should update it to version 4.
Events contexts are now fully mapped with standard fields while using Elastic Cloud logger.
The responsiveness of DecaLog settings pages has been greatly boosted.
The rendering of web console has been improved.
Upgraded Monolog library from version 2.9.1 to version 2.9.3.
Upgraded InfluxDB library from version 1.12.0 to version 3.5.0.
Upgraded GuzzleHttp library from version 7.2.0 to version 7.8.1.
Upgraded Elasticsearch library from version 7.6.1 to version 8.13.0.
Upgraded Tracy from version 2.10.5 to version 2.10.7.

Fixed

Constant storage may produce PHP warning while initializing.
There's some deprecation warnings with PHP 8.4.

[3.10.0] - 2024-03-02

Added

Compatibility with WordPress 6.5.
Spatie Ray logger now supports host and port settings to allow Docker, Kubernetes and other "local" usage (thanks to Axel Ducoron).

Changed

Minimal required WordPress version is now 6.1.
Minimal required PHP version is now 8.1.

[3.9.1] - 2024-01-24

Changed

Upgraded Tracy library from version 2.8.7 to version 2.10.5.

Fixed

[SEC004] SQL Injection vulnerability (thanks to isacaya from Patchstack).
[WP-CLI] In some cases --no-color and --color global parameters may be overridden.

Removed

Warning message when Spatie Ray is activated as it doesn't log in browser.

[3.9.0] - 2023-10-25

Added

It's now possible to substitute environment variables for some loggers settings.
Compatibility with WordPress 6.4.

Changed

Settings options have been reorganized to be more consistent.

[3.8.0] - 2023-07-19

Added

Compatibility with WordPress 6.3.
Datadog events logging now supports all events levels (thanks to Jan Thiel).

Changed

The color for shmop test in Site Health is now gray to not worry to much about it (was previously orange).

Fixed

The url for console error remediation is wrong.

Removed

Support for WP Activity Log plugin because it doesn't adhere to observability basic standards.

[3.7.1] - 2023-03-02

Fixed

[SEC003] CSRF vulnerability / CVE-2023-27444 (thanks to Mika from Patchstack).

[3.7.0] - 2023-02-24

The developments of PerfOps One suite, of which this plugin is a part, is now sponsored by Hosterra.

Hosterra is a web hosting company I founded in late 2022 whose purpose is to propose web services operating in a European data center that is water and energy efficient and ensures a first step towards GDPR compliance.

This sponsoring is a way to keep PerfOps One plugins suite free, open source and independent.

Added

Compatibility with WordPress 6.2.
It's now possible to define failsafe loggers right in the wp-config.php file (thanks to Jan Thiel).
Jaeger and Zipkin traces loggers now support SpanKind feature (thanks to YR Chen).
It's now possible to add a custom service name for tracers using Jaeger thrift over HTTP format.
New option to not report non-existent metrics.

Changed

Upgraded Monolog library from version 2.8.0 to version 2.9.1.
Improved browser logger for events.
Fixed tags are now passed as global tags when tracing with Jaeger logger (thanks to YR Chen).
Great resources improvement for WordPress installs where there's no monitoring needed (thanks to Jan Thiel).
Improved loading by removing unneeded jQuery references in public rendering (thanks to Kishorchand).

Fixed

Some weird processes can try to delete null attachments, and it produces PHP warning (thanks to Axel Ducoron).
In some edge-cases, detecting IP may produce PHP deprecation warnings (thanks to YR Chen).
Some strings should not be translatable (thanks to Laurent Millet).

[3.6.3] - 2022-12-01

Changed

[WP-CLI] Now, metrics are not sent by default when using command line (thanks to Jan Thiel).

Fixed

DecaLog may produce PHP errors with new versions of WP Activity Log (thanks to Axel Ducoron).

[3.6.2] - 2022-10-24

Fixed

[WP-CLI] Enabling/disabling listeners is not working properly (thanks to Alex Mozhey).
[WP-CLI] Some messages have inconsistent upper/lower casing or success/warning prefix.

[3.6.1] - 2022-10-11

Changed

[WP-CLI] A warning is now triggered when an outdated version of WP-CLI is detected.

Fixed

[WP-CLI] With outdated versions of WP-CLI, a PHP uncaught exception is thrown (thanks to Jan Thiel).
Unable to use Plesk WordPress toolkit when Plesk WP-CLI is not up to date.

[3.6.0] - 2022-10-06

Added

Compatibility with WordPress 6.1.
Compatibility with PHP 8.2.
DecaLog can now warn about slow SQL queries - see "options" tab in plugin settings.
It's now possible to collect SQL queries in traces (based on a suggestion from evoicefire) - see "options" tab in plugin settings.
DecaLog now collects installed/updatable themes metrics (based on a suggestion from deltaecho07).
It's now possible to add custom tags to each span in traces for Datadog, Grafana, Jaeger, NewRelic, Tempo and Zipkin loggers (based on a suggestion from YR Chen).
DecaLog can now log all events triggered by WooCommerce status tools.
[WPCLI] DecaLog can now log all events triggered in interactive wp-cli sessions.

Changed

Upgraded Monolog library from version 2.6.0 to version 2.8.0.
Improved and optimized launch of listeners.
[WPCLI] The command wp log listener list --detail=full now returns launch step too.
[WPCLI] The results of wp log commands are now prefixed by the product name.
Improved detection, loading and listening of WooCommerce.

Fixed

Live console with PHP 8 may be broken (thanks to stuffeh).
In some rare conditions, Rotating Files logger may wrongly compute the file path or name.
The trace span for logger purges may be attached to a wrong parent.
Some listeners may not detect they need to be launched.

[3.5.1] - 2022-05-12

Changed

Upgraded Monolog library from version 2.5.0 to version 2.6.0.
Experimental: Elasticsearch V7-only support is now upgraded to V7/V8.

Fixed

A PHP error may be triggered when adding a new role to a user (thanks to Axel Ducoron).

[3.5.0] - 2022-04-22

Added

Compatibility with WordPress 6.0.
New events when adding or removing a user role.
A new filter allows now to exclude specific metrics for specific loggers (based on a suggestion from Jan Thiel).
New icons in loggers list to show activated privacy options.

Changed

Messages for database version downgrade/upgrade are much more precise.
Upgraded Monolog library from version 2.3.4 to version 2.5.0.
Site Health page now presents a much more realistic test about object caching.
Improved favicon handling for new Google API specifications.
Improved compatibility with Members plugin.
Improved errors handling when creating incomplete loggers.

Fixed

Events about roles changes are wrongly reported (thanks to Valérie Galassi).
The APCu test in option page may fail (thanks to Renaud Pacouil).
PHP 8.1 compatibility changes have introduced side effect on HTML entities encoding (thanks to Jan Thiel).
Callstack items are wrongly named (and ordered) in Loki logger.

[3.4.1] - 2022-01-17

Fixed

The Site Health page may launch deprecated tests.

[3.4.0] - 2022-01-17

Added

Compatibility with PHP 8.1.
New logger to send events to Spatie Ray app.
New listener for Redis Object Cache (thanks to Till Krüss for the help).
Logo for bbPress in events list and viewer.
Logo for MysQL DB in events list and viewer.
Logo for MariaDB DB in events list and viewer.
Logo for PostgreSQL DB in events list and viewer.
Logo for Percona DB in events list and viewer.

Changed

Html entities are now substituted for better readability in New Relic NR-Logs.
Refactored cache mechanisms to fully support Redis and Memcached.
Improved layout for WordPress traces viewer.
Better events messages for lost password form submission.
Improved APCu storage for loggers.
Reduction of the events' level for the wp_die ajax handler because it is not used consistently in the WordPress core (thanks to Jan Thiel for the suggestion).
Updated DecaLog SDK from version 2.0.0 to version 2.0.2.
Updated PerfOps One library from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2.
Improved bubbles display when width is less than 500px (thanks to Pat Ol).
Updated headers for drop-in and mu-plugin files.

Fixed

The console menu may display an empty screen (thanks to Renaud Pacouil).
There’s a PHP error when reaching the checkout page of woocommerce with WP Activity Log activated (thanks to freshuk).
Object caching method may be wrongly detected in Site Health status (thanks to freshuk).
The "WordPress metrics collation" span is attached to the wrong parent.
There may be name collisions with internal APCu cache.

[3.3.0] - 2021-12-07

Added

Compatibility with WordPress 5.9.
New listener for Cavalcade (thanks to Jan Thiel for the suggestion).
Internal viewers for events and traces display instance name in details screens.
New button in settings to install recommended plugins.
There's now decalog_events_list_actions_for_event, decalog_events_list_actions_for_source, decalog_events_list_actions_for_time, decalog_events_list_actions_for_site, decalog_events_list_actions_for_user and decalog_events_list_actions_for_ip filters to add custom actions to events list view (thanks to Julio Potier for the suggestion).
There's now decalog_event_view_actions_for_event, decalog_event_view_actions_for_content, decalog_event_view_actions_for_php, decalog_event_view_actions_for_device, decalog_event_view_actions_for_wp, decalog_event_view_actions_for_http, decalog_event_view_actions_for_wpbacktrace and decalog_event_view_actions_for_phpbacktrace filters to add custom actions to single event viewer (thanks to Julio Potier for the suggestion).
There's now decalog_traces_list_actions_for_trace, decalog_traces_list_actions_for_duration, decalog_traces_list_actions_for_time, decalog_traces_list_actions_for_site and decalog_traces_list_actions_for_user filters to add custom actions to traces list view (thanks to Julio Potier for the suggestion).
There's no decalog_trace_view_actions_for_trace and decalog_trace_view_actions_for_wp filters to add custom actions to single trace viewer (thanks to Julio Potier for the suggestion).
In all internal viewers, country flags have the name of the country as alternative text.
Adds OPcache compatibility for cluster/nodes environments - including Kubernetes.
Adds, for consistency check, PHP versions and modules compatibility for cluster/nodes environments - including Kubernetes.
Logo for WP-CLI in events list and viewer.

Changed

Improved update process on high-traffic sites to avoid concurrent resources accesses.
Better publishing frequency for metrics.
Instance name is now propagated for all events and traces loggers (in context), even if it is not required by the corresponding service.
Upgraded Monolog library from version 2.2.0 to version 2.3.4.
Improved default values for "InfluxDB 2" logger.
Improved way to detect instance name.
Updated labels and links in plugins page.

Fixed

The loggers list displays wrong types for "crash analytics" and "alerting".
OPcache events logging is wrong on clustered environments (thanks to Jan Thiel).
The warning message about "debugging" class logger is not always displayed when it should be.
The default index names for Elasticsearch and Elastic Cloud are inconsistent.
The HTTP 204 error code sometimes returned by a Loki instance is wrongly interpreted.
Name collisions or PHP errors can occur with plugins using outdated versions of Monolog library (like BackWPup).
Clearing events by hook reference may be not logged (thanks to Jan Thiel).
Unscheduling events may be not logged.
Logging an event with a message containing SQL select may be wrongly truncated in the where clause.
In some edge cases, logging plugins updates may not work correctly.
WordPress event viewer try to display request referrer even if it doesn't exist.
Country translation with i18n module may be wrong.
There's typos in CHANGELOG.md.

[3.2.0] - 2021-09-07

Added

New logger to send events to New Relic as NR-Logs.
New logger to send events in Tracy bar.
New logger to send metrics to New Relic.
New logger to send traces to New Relic.
New PerfOps One menu in the admin bar for quick actions.
All cron-related events are now logged (schedule, unschedule and clear).
There's now a warning box in all admin pages if a "debugging" logger is running.
Logos for Action Scheduler and WooCommerce in events list and viewer.
Logo for BuddyPress in events list and viewer.
Logo for W3 Total Cache in events list and viewer.
Logos for standard, Amelia and Forminator Stripe gateways in events list and viewer.
DecaLog now propagates site domain in events and traces (thanks to Jan Thiel).
It's now possible to hide the main PerfOps One menu via the poo_hide_main_menu filter or each submenu via the poo_hide_analytics_menu, poo_hide_consoles_menu, poo_hide_insights_menu, poo_hide_tools_menu, poo_hide_records_menu and poo_hide_settings_menu filters (thanks to Jan Thiel).

Changed

Design has been improved for the logger selector.
Better layout for the "bot details" box when bot name or manufacturer is not detected.

Fixed

There may be name collisions for some functions if version of WordPress is lower than 5.6.
The main PerfOps One menu is not hidden when it doesn't contain any items (thanks to Jan Thiel).
In some very special conditions, the plugin may be in the default site language rather than the user's language.
The PerfOps One menu builder is not compatible with Admin Menu Editor plugin (thanks to dvokoun).

[3.1.0] - 2021-08-11

Added

WordPress events list and viewer display component's logo if it is known.

Changed

New redesigned UI for PerfOps One plugins management and menus (thanks to Loïc Antignac, Paul Bonaldi, Axel Ducoron, Laurent Millet, Samy Rabih and Raphaël Riehl for their invaluable help).
There's now a decalog_no_log_post_activity filter to modify ability to log posts activities.
DecaLog SDK self calls are removed from backtraces.
The "Browser Console" logger has been improved (colors and concurrent accesses).

Fixed

In some conditions, the plugin may be in the default site language rather than the user's language.
Displaying events in WordPress viewer may produce a PHP notice.
There're some typos in the settings UI.
There's a PHP warning while creating a "PHP Error Log" logger (thanks to Axel Ducoron).
The "Browser Console" logger may not log all events in some rare cases.
With WordPress 5.8 it is impossible to move and close boxes (events and traces).

[3.0.2] - 2021-06-22

Fixed

DecaLog is unable to work properly with BackWPup (thanks to Emil1).

[3.0.1] - 2021-06-22

Fixed

wp.org distribute a Release Candidate, not the 3.0.0 version.

[3.0.0] - 2021-06-22

Added

DecaLog now supports metrics collecting, forwarding and publishing.
DecaLog now supports traces collecting and publishing.
New WordPress traces viewer allowing to view traces right in the admin dashboard.
New "metrics" tab in settings to list all currently collected metrics.
New "self-registration" tab in settings to list all currently self-registered components.
DecaLog now collects extended metrics for: PHP, WordPress core, database, WordPress multisite and plugins / themes.
DecaLog now collects minimalist metrics for Wordfence.
DecaLog now collects extended traces for WordPress core and plugins / themes using WordPress DecaLog SDK.
New logger to send events to Datadog.
New logger to send metrics to a Prometheus instance (via Pushgateway).
New logger to publish metrics as endpoint for Prometheus polling.
New logger to send metrics to InfluxDB Cloud or on-premise InfluxDB 2 instance or cluster.
New logger to send metrics to Datadog via Datadog agent.
New logger to send traces to a Jaeger collector.
New logger to send traces to a Zipkin instance.
New logger to send traces to Grafana Cloud via Grafana agent.
New logger to send traces to Datadog via Datadog agent.
New logger to store traces in WordPress database or with APCu.
[WP-CLI] New command to list, dump or get metrics: see wp help log metrics for details.
[WP-CLI] New command to list self registered components: see wp help log selfreg for details.
[WP-CLI] New command to activate/deactivate endpoint authentication: see wp help settings for details.
[BC] The version of DecaLog API is now v3.
Deactivating or deleting DecaLog now removes MU-plugin and dropin function.

Changed

Redesigned loggers list.
The WordPress logger now accepts "APCu" as storage engine, in addition to "Database".
Upgraded Lock library from version 2.1 to version 2.2.
Improved internal IP detection: support for cloud load balancers.
[WP-CLI] All commands now support the --stdout flag.
[WP-CLI] The wp log logger list command now accepts a logger id or logger type as filter parameter.
[WP-CLI] The wp log listener list command now accepts a listener id as filter parameter.
[WP-CLI] The wp log type list command now accepts a logger type as filter parameter.
[WP-CLI] The wp log status command now returns SDK version too (if SDK in is in use).
[WP-CLI] Updated documentation.
Wordfence listener is much more precise while logging events.
The Stackdriver logger is now named "Google Cloud Logging" to follow Stackdriver rebranding.

Fixed

[WP-CLI] The wp log send command doesn't set an exit code in case of failure.
[WP-CLI] Typos in inline help.
Messages may be wrongly truncated in live console.
Detecting database version on WordPress prior to 5.5 generates an error (thanks to Sébastien Gastard).
Saving a page from the Divi builder may trigger an error when W3 Total Cache is activated.

[2.4.2] - 2021-03-01

Removed

Some currently unused logger types (will be in next release).

[2.4.1] - 2021-03-01

Changed

[WP-CLI] Changing the color scheme for the tail command is now done via the --theme=<theme> parameter.

Fixed

[WP-CLI] There's an error in the tail command synopsis (thanks to aspsa).
Site Health may produce PHP notice while listing loggers details.

[2.4.0] - 2021-02-25

Added

New logger to send crash reports to Bugsnag.
New logger to send crash reports to Raygun.
New logger to send exceptions to Google (Universal) Analytics.
New logger to send logs to an Elasticsearch instance.
New logger to send logs to a Loki instance.
New logger to send logs to Grafana Cloud service.
New listener for bbPress.
New listener for BuddyPress.
New listener for Action Scheduler library.
New listeners for Stripe gateways (standard, Amelia and Forminator) libraries.
New 'environment' context metadata for all external loggers.
Compatibility with WordPress 5.7.
New setting to override live console and local access privileges when in development or staging environments (thanks to sebastienserre for the suggestion).
New automatic bootstrap listener allowing to catch PHP events occurring before DecaLog is loaded.
It's now possible to filter by session ID in WordPress events viewer.
The current session user blinks in WordPress events viewer.
Core listener now reports stuck/unstuck posts.
New "early-loading auto diagnostic" in Site Health.
The WordPress events viewer allows to manage sessions for a user if Sessions plugin is installed.

Changed

When OPcache API is restricted by restrict_api configuration directive, OPcache configuration is no more monitored.
Detection of PHP version upgrade/downgrade now takes care of web vs. command-line difference.
Detection of OPcache configuration changes now takes care of web vs. command-line difference.
DecaLog now propagates traceID and sessionID for all loggers supporting it.
Upgraded Monolog library from version 2.0.2 to version 2.2.0.
Consistent reset for settings.
Improved translation loading.
Now detects and emits warning when a call is sandboxed (theme/plugin editor, for instance).
Improved display in WordPress event viewer when backtraces are not available.
[WP_CLI] log command have now a definition and all synopsis are up to date.
The display of verb labels in events viewer has been improved.
Better PHP introspection and backtrace cleaning, parsing and rendering.
Check on "mandatory" processors are now done for loggers which need it.
Improved hash handling and reporting for users and IPs.
Improved self monitoring to handle loggers internal errors.
Code refactoring led to a huge execution speed gain: DecaLog is now 30% faster.
Improved message for deleted posts/pages in core listener.
Elastic Cloud logger is renamed for better consistency.
Now fully detects versions for MariaDB, Percona, MySQL and PostgreSQL (and so, fully detects migrations and upgrades).

Fixed

[SEC002] The password for Elastic Cloud logger is in plain text in "Site Health Info" page.
DecaLog doesn't correctly honour previous error handler calls (thanks to ajoah).
DecaLog jams the plugin/theme editor while editing PHP files (thanks to ajoah).
In Site Health section, Opcache status may be wrong (or generates PHP warnings) if OPcache API usage is restricted.
PHP notice when trying to display details for "System auto-logger".
DecaLog may log multiple times a change about environment type.
When disabling "early loading", the mu-plugin is not always removed.

Removed

DecaLog internal watchdog as it is no longer necessary.

[2.3.0] - 2020-11-23

Added

Supports for new application passwords events (WordPress 5.6 and higher).
Compatibility with WordPress 5.6.

Changed

Improvement in the way roles are detected.
Console now starts automatically in the admin dashboard if checked.
Anonymous proxies, satellite providers and private networks are now fully detected when IP Locator is installed.
Better web console layout.

Fixed

[SEC001] User may be wrongly detected in XML-RPC or Rest API calls.
Deleting a comment may trigger an error (thanks to jimmy19742).
When site is in english and a user choose another language for herself/himself, menu may be stuck in english.
When shared memory is not available, it is wrongly reported as an emergency.

[2.2.2] - 2020-10-16

Fixed

The DecaLog menus may be hidden when they should be visible (thanks to Emil1).

[2.2.1] - 2020-10-13

Changed

Hardening (once again) IPs detection.
Prepares PerfOps menus to future 5.6 version of WordPress.

Fixed

[WP_CLI] The command wp log type list --format=table sometimes triggers an error.
The remote IP can be wrongly detected when in AWS or GCP environments.

[2.2.0] - 2020-10-11

Added

DecaLog now integrates Spyc as yaml parser.
DecaLog now warns user when "DEBUG" level is chosen for a logger.

Changed

Strongly improved yaml and json output for wp log type list, wp log logger list and wp log listener list.
For loggers allowing it, default level is now "INFO" (it was previously "DEBUG").
[WP-CLI] Improved documentation.

Fixed

The remote IP can be wrongly detected when behind some types of reverse-proxies.
[WP-CLI] The wp log type list --format=json fails to render right json output.

[2.1.0] - 2020-10-05

Added

[WP-CLI] PHP shmop module status added to the wp log status command.

Fixed

[WP-CLI] With some PHP configurations, there may be a (big) delay in the display of lines.
In wp-cli help, some arguments are not described.
Some typos in wp-cli help.

[2.0.1] - 2020-10-03

Changed

Improved IP detection (thanks to Ludovic Riaudel).
Improved orders and sections in "options" settings tab.

Fixed

Console source code is not fully compatible with PHP 7.2.

[2.0.0] - 2020-09-30

Added

New live console-in-browser to see events as soon as they occur.
[WP-CLI] New command to display (past or current) events in console: see wp help log tail for details.
[WP-CLI] New command to display DecaLog status: see wp help log status for details.
[WP-CLI] New command to send messages to running loggers: see wp help log send for details.
[WP-CLI] New command to toggle on/off main settings: see wp help log settings for details.
[WP-CLI] New command to manage loggers (list, start, pause, clean, purge, remove, add and set): see wp help log logger for details.
[WP-CLI] New command to view available logger types (list and describe): see wp help log type for details.
[WP-CLI] New command to manage listeners (list, enable, disable and auto-listening on/off): see wp help log listener for details.
New tab in plugin settings for WP-CLI commands.
New Site Health "info" section about shared memory.
A warning is shown in the settings page if shmop PHP module is not enabled.

Changed

The PHP listener now takes care of activated/deactivated modules between web server and command-line configurations.
The consistency checker has been improved.
Improved layout for language indicator.
If GeoIP support is not done via IP Locator, the flags are now correctly downgraded to emojis.
Improved file names and paths normalization in backtraces.
In WordPress viewer, the client detail is now "Local shell" if the call is made from local command-line.
Admin notices are now set to "don't display" by default.
The integrated markdown parser is now Markdown from Carsten Brandt.

Fixed

The rotating file logger wrongly skips events when sent from external process.
For some logger types the minimal level may be wrongly set to "debug" at creation.
Some typos in processors' names.
The WordPress viewer may display wrong details about "generic" devices.
The call to OPcache functions may trigger a PHP warning.
With Firefox, some links are unclickable in the Control Center (thanks to Emil1).

Removed

The "HTTP request" box of WordPress viewer is no more displayed if the event is triggered from local command-line.
It's no more possible to modify/remove/start/pause a system logger.
Parsedown as integrated markdown parser.

[1.14.0] - 2020-09-04

Added

New logger to send logs to Sumo Logic cloud-syslog.
New listener for UpdraftPlus Backup/Restore plugin.
New listener for iThemes Security plugin.
Detection of environment type changes (feature introduced in WordPress 5.5).

Changed

The Syslog logger can now send extended timestamps (RFC5424) if needed.
The positions of PerfOps menus are pushed lower to avoid collision with other plugins. (thanks to Loïc Antignac).
The selector for WordPress events logs is now sorted: running first, paused after (thanks to Loïc Antignac).

Fixed

Some typos in "add a logger" screen.

[1.13.0] - 2020-07-20

Added

Compatibility with WordPress 5.5.

Changed

Optimized early loading.
Improved installation/uninstallation and activation/deactivation processes.
In WordPress logger, the shown columns are now automatically set.

Fixed

Uninstalling the plugin may produce a PHP error (thanks to Emil1).
In some conditions, some tables may not be deleted while uninstalling.

Removed

The screen options in WordPress logger (as it is now automatically set).

[1.12.8] - 2020-07-15

Fixed

PHP deprecated warning emitted while debugging WordPress cache.
The WordPress events may be not purged when it should be (thanks to Emil1).

[1.12.7] - 2020-06-29

Changed

Full compatibility with PHP 7.4.
Automatic switching between memory and transient when a cache plugin is installed without a properly configured Redis / Memcached.

Fixed

The WordPress events may be wrongly purged when '0' is set as a limit (thanks to Emil1).

[1.12.6] - 2020-05-15

Changed

Supports now Wordfence alerting system inconsistency.

Fixed

When used for the first time, settings checkboxes may remain checked after being unchecked.

[1.12.5] - 2020-05-05

Changed

The WordPress events tables are now deleted when plugin is uninstalled.

Fixed

There's an error while activating the plugin when the server is Microsoft IIS with Windows 10.
Some tabs may be hidden when site is switched in another language.
With Microsoft Edge, some layouts may be ugly.

Removed

The "channel" starting the "message" from Stackdriver formatter, because channel is now usable as "summary field" in Stackdriver interface.

[1.12.4] - 2020-04-10

Changed

Improved way to handle fatal errors in PHP listener.
"Updated user" messages have now "INFO" type (was "NOTICE" previously).
"Logged-in user" messages have now "NOTICE" type (was "INFO" previously).

Fixed

Some main settings may be not saved.

[1.12.3] - 2020-04-07

Changed

Forces mu-plugin dir creation if it doesn't exist.

Fixed

The doc blocks of some classes wrongly reference Fluentd (thanks to Nicolas Juen).

[1.12.2] - 2020-04-07

Changed

Removes the mu-plugin to the plugin update list.

[1.12.1] - 2020-04-07

Fixed

The version number of the mu-plugin is wrong.

[1.12.0] - 2020-04-07

Added

New logger to send logs to Elastic Cloud / Elastic Cloud Enterprise.
New logger to send logs to Sematext.
New option to early load DecaLog as a mu-plugin.
Full integration with IP Locator.

Changed

There's now a flag for each IP address in WordPress events logs (when a GeoIP detection handler is installed).
The settings page has now the standard WordPress style.
Better styling in "PerfOps Settings" page.
In site health "info" tab, the boolean are now clearly displayed.
Displaying of IPv6 addresses has been improved.

Fixed

The update indicator is sometimes hidden.
If there's no GeoIP detection handler, a wrong flag is shown for public IPs.
An error may appear when updating plugin's empty tables.
Some placeholders (in text input) may have a wrong example value.

Removed

Dependency to "Geolocation IP Detection" plugin. Nevertheless, this plugin can be used as a fallback solution.
Flagiconcss as library. If there's no other way, flags will be rendered as emoji.
Integrated migration helpers prior to 1.9.x.

[1.11.0] - 2020-03-09

Added

New logger to send logs to Google Stackdriver via Google-Fluentd.

Changed

Improved IP detection for multi-proxying.
Double quotation mark " is now replaced by a left double quotation mark “ in event message, context and extra.
Single quotation mark ' is now replaced by a grave accent in event message, context and extra.
"HTTP request" reported details have been fully redesigned.
Better styling in "PerfOps Settings" page.

Fixed

In some cases, the referer and method are wrongly detected.
In some cases, the "screen options" tab may be invisible.

[1.10.0] - 2020-03-01

Added

New listener for Wordfence plugin.
Full integration with PerfOps One suite.
Compatibility with WordPress 5.4.

Changed

New menus (in the left admin bar) for accessing features: "PerfOps Records" and "PerfOps Settings".

Fixed

The shutdown action of APCu Manager can cause a PHP notice in DecaLog.

Removed

Compatibility with WordPress versions prior to 5.2.
Old menus entries, due to PerfOps integration.

[1.9.1] - 2020-02-13

Changed

The method for remote IP detection has been improved.
All loggers are now paused when deactivating/reactivating DecaLog (thanks to jimmy19742).

Fixed

Warning is generated when WP Security Audit Log set out-of-scope severity levels.

[1.9.0] - 2020-01-22

Added

New listener for WP-Optimize plugin.
New listener for Redirection plugin.
Full compatibility with Device Detector.
Full compatibility with APCu Manager.
The user-agent is now collected as an extra field when HTTP request is selected as reported details.
In WordPress logger, if Device Detector is installed, a new box displays device, bot or client details.
In WordPress logger, if GeoIP is installed, a flag is displayed after the "from" IP.

Changed

The number limit of items in traces is now fixed at 40.

Fixed

Typos in developer's documentation.

Removed

The self reference in recorded stack traces.

[1.8.0] - 2020-01-02

Added

Full compatibility (for internal cache) with Redis and Memcached.
Using APCu rather than database transients if APCu is available.
New Site Health "status" sections about OPcache and object cache.
New Site Health "status" section about i18n extension for non en_US sites.
New Site Health "info" sections about OPcache and object cache.
New Site Health "info" section about the plugin itself.
New Site Health "info" section about loggers settings.

Changed

Upgraded Monolog library from version 2.0.1 to version 2.0.2.
The SQL listener now generates multiple critical errors if there's more than one SQL error during page rendering.

Fixed

Updating plugin from prior versions may generates a (innocuous) warning.

[1.7.2] - 2019-12-18

Changed

Error message field can now handle up to 64K characters in WordPress events logs.
Traces can now contain up to 64K characters in WordPress events logs.
All fields can now handle emojis.
The cleaning cron job is now launched hourly.

Fixed

Some debug events might be ignored when they shouldn't.
Some plugin options may be not saved when needed (thanks to Lucas Bustamante).

[1.7.1] - 2019-12-12

Changed

Improved layout for mobile usage.

Fixed

In rare conditions, displayed/hidden columns in WordPress logger are not saved.

[1.7.0] - 2019-12-03

Added

Full compatibility with MailArchiver.

Changed

The status of the user in the event viewer is now clearly visible.

Fixed

Removing a WordPress logger may produce a wrong backtrace.
The selector for number of displayed lines (in WordPress logger) show sometimes a wrong value.

Removed

As a result of the Plugin Team's request, the auto-update feature has been removed.

[1.6.1] - 2019-11-22

Changed

Upgraded Monolog library from version 2.0.0 to version 2.0.1.
Events for wp_ajax_sample_permalink hook are now rendered at debug level.
The events levels from WP Security Audit Log listener are now more consistent.
Unit symbols and abbreviations are now visually differentiated.
There's now a non-breaking space between values and units.

Fixed

Some very long fields may be displayed outside the box in the WordPress events logs.
With some OPcache configurations there may be PHP warning in "CoreListener".
Some cached items may not be deleted when needed.

[1.6.0] - 2019-11-11

Added

New listener for WooCommerce plugin.
New listener for Jetpack plugin.
New listener for WP Security Audit Log plugin.
New listener for W3 Total Cache plugin.
New listener for WP Super Cache plugin.
New logger to send logs to Solawinds Loggly.
New logger to send logs to Logentries / insightOps.
New "Content" box in event viewer (for WordPress events logs) to display detailed error code and message.

Changed

PHP listener now detects all OPcache resets or status changes.
Message size (for WordPress events logs) has been increased from 1000 to 7500 characters.
Improved display for message column in WordPress events logs.
Upgraded Feather library from version 4.22.1 to version 4.24.1.
The PHP and WordPress backtraces are now cleaned from DecaLog and Monolog references.
The name and help message for backtraces settings are more clear.
cURL timeouts have now an "error" level (it was previously a "critical" one).

Fixed

Non blocking HTTP request may sometimes generate a "Global Timeout" event in core listener (thanks to Julio Potier).
Changelog date of version 1.5.3 is wrong.

Security

[PRV001] In case of failed login, the username may appear in clear text logs even if pseudonymisation is activated.

[1.5.3] - 2019-11-01

Fixed

The message for PHP upgrading/downgrading was wrongly named "WordPress" (instead of "PHP").
A PHP notice may appear when enqueuing some plugin assets.

[1.5.2] - 2019-10-24

Changed

Normalization of cache IDs to avoid name collisions.
Developer's documentation modified as wp.org now allows PHP7.1+ code.

Fixed

Some cached elements may be autoloaded even if not needed.
[MultiSite] The "what's new?" screen is only viewable by network admin.
[MultiSite] Action link in sites list for network admins.
[MultiSite] Action link in "my sites" for local admins.

[1.5.1] - 2019-10-05

Changed

New logo, more in line with the plugin topic.
The (nag) update message has now a link to display changelog.

[1.5.0] - 2019-10-04

Added

Compatibility with WordPress 5.3.
It's now possible to use public CDN to serve DecaLog scripts and stylesheets (see Settings | DecaLog | Options).

Changed

Finally better IP reporting with local address fallback.
Improved information message when in developer preview or release candidate version.
The right logo is now displayed in the "about box".

Removed

"Compatibility Mode" for Monolog 2, as wp.org now allows PHP7.1+ code.

[1.4.1] - 2019-09-17

Changed

Better IP reporting with local address fallback.
Better timezone detection for multisites.

Fixed

In some cases, the remote IP is not correctly set (for sites behind a proxy).

[1.4.0] - 2019-09-13

Added

Full support for User Switching plugin.
New events in core listener for posts (trashed, untrashed, drafted, draft saved, published, privately published, scheduled, unscheduled, pending review).
New events in core listener for comments (created, updated, deleted, marked as "spam", marked as "not spam", trashed, untrashed, approved, unapproved, duplicate triggered).
New events in core listener for menus (created, updated, deleted, item added, item updated).
New events in core listener for users (updated, role added).
New events in WPMU listener for users (marked as "spam", marked as "not spam").
The core listener can now detect plugin and theme installations/updates.
The core listener can now detect translations updates.

Changed

Plugin activation/deactivation give the full plugin name (instead of its slug).
Events regarding "options" and "transients" now differentiate site/network operations.
Events relating to HTTP error codes (outbound requests) are now classified according to their severity.
The word "blog" has been replaced by "site" in events messages.
Some help strings have been modified to be more clear.
Lower severity of serialized json messages (triggered by wp_die handler) from criticial to debug.

Removed

"Switch Blog" event (for WPMU) because lack of documentation.

Fixed

PHP notice when accessing a multisites log as a local admin.
PHP notice when displaying an event with no backtrace.
Removing a user of a site may produce an inconsistent log message.

[1.3.0] - 2019-09-11

Added

New listener for WordPress multisite specific events.
New listener for htaccess Server-Info & Server-Status plugin.
Links to support, site and GitHub repository in plugin list.
New class (Decalog\Logger) to use as a standard PSR-3 logger (for plugins and themes developers).
New shortcodes to query the plugin statistics.

Removed

WordPress release now excludes GitHub .wordpress-org directory.

Fixed

A WordPress logger may record log in the wrong table in multisites instances.

[1.2.1] - 2019-09-05

Changed

Pushover logger now allows to set socket timeout.
Watchdog (for self listening) is now fully operational for PHP and MySQL channels.

Fixed

ChromePHP logger header size limit is unsuitable for the most recent Chromium versions (thanks to dotMastaz).

[1.2.0] - 2019-08-31

Added

The WordPress listener can now detect version upgrading/downgrading.
The PHP listener can now detect version upgrading/downgrading.
The PHP listener can now detect extensions activation/deactivation.
The database listener can now detect version upgrading/downgrading.
The plugin now embeds its own inline help (help tab in all screens).

Changed

Upgraded Monolog version from 2.0.0-beta-2 to 2.0.0.

Security

In a multisite, a non-admin user was able to read the name of a logger (not its content).

[1.1.1] - 2019-08-29

Changed

Better 'Page not found' detection and report.
Better handling of malformed wp_die calls.
'Component' become 'source' in WordPress events viewer.
Some events have new levels and/or messages to comply with rules described in DEVELOPER.md.

Fixed

WordPress formatter may (wrongly) emit warnings when source ip is unknown.

[1.1.0] - 2019-08-28

Added

A test message can now be sent to a specific logger, from the loggers list.

Changed

Status (in loggers list) have now their own column.
Polishing loggers list.
The README.md displays badges.

Removed

DecaLog admin pages no longer render emoji.
The section "install from GitHub" has been removed from README.md.

Fixed

Url of the EFF website was wrong in readme.txt.

[1.0.1] - 2019-08-26

Changed

Language file (.pot) is updated.
Main file has now a consistent GPL version license.
In admin dashboard, & character is now outputted in UTF, not with its HTML entity equivalent.

Fixed

Erroneous date in CHANGELOG.md is changed.
Wrongly rendered unordered lists in readme.txt are fixed.

[1.0.0] - 2019-08-26

Initial release

Files

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History

CHANGELOG.md

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[4.3.1] - 2024-12-04

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[4.2.0] - 2024-06-16

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[4.1.0] - 2024-05-28

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[4.0.0] - 2024-05-13

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[3.10.0] - 2024-03-02

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[3.9.0] - 2023-10-25

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[3.7.1] - 2023-03-02

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[3.5.1] - 2022-05-12

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[3.4.1] - 2022-01-17

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[3.3.0] - 2021-12-07

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[3.2.0] - 2021-09-07

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