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    "version":     "14.1",
    "released_at": 1647269718,
    "hrefs":       {
      "release": "https://shsec.io/shieldrelease141",
      "upgrade": "https://shsec.io/shieldupgradeguide141"
    },
    "title":       "REST API Integrations",
    "description": [
    ],
    "items":       [
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    true,
        "title":       "Complete REST API",
        "description": [
          "Partners and developers can now manage the Shield Security plugin completely with the new REST API."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    true,
        "title":       "REST API Routes",
        "description": [
          "New REST API endpoints let you manage many areas of the Shield Security plugin."
        ],
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          "get/set any single option, or group of options",
          "get scan results & status, and start new scans and check their status",
          "add/remove IP addresses to/from any list (block or bypass)",
          "check for, and remove, ShieldPRO license",
          "run Debug to get general site information summary for debug purposes"
        ],
        "href":        "https://shsec.io/shieldrestapidocs"
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    true,
        "title":       "Option To Load Shield as a WordPress Must-Use (MU) Plugin",
        "description": [
          "To prevent unwanted or accidental deactivation of the Shield plugin, Shield can be converted to an MU plugin."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Show Recent User Session In Admin Bar",
        "description": [
          "Show quick links to recently active (10 minutes) user sessions in the admin bar and the most recently active sessions."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Support For Application Password Authentication Failures",
        "description": [
          "Shield detects and logs when application passwords have been used incorrectly and applies offenses."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Speed-Up For Audit Trail and Traffic Log Tables",
        "description": [
          "Audit Trail and Traffic Log tables are usually huge and loading them were slow. They're now entirely AJAX based and fast-loading."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Support 3rd Party Traffic Log Handlers",
        "description": [
          "3rd parties can now easily integrate with Shield's Traffic Log to send log records to any destination."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Support 3rd Party Audit Trail Handlers",
        "description": [
          "3rd parties can now easily integrate with Shield's Audit Trail to send log records to any destination."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "IP Record Management Error",
        "description": [
          "When inserting a duplicate IP address record into the database, we now INSERT IGNORE to reduce error messages in logs."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Updated Dutch Translations",
        "description": [
        ]
      },
      {
        "title":       "Deprecated: Options For CAPTCHA and GASP Bot Checking On WordPress Comments",
        "description": [
          "The options to use CAPTCHA and/or GASP Bot Checking for WordPress Comment SPAM has been deprecated.",
          "These options are replaced with the AntiBot Detection Engine and will be completely removed in a future release."
        ],
        "type":        "changed",
        "pro_only":    false
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Firewall didn't always scan all parameters in some cases",
        "description": [
        ]
      }
    ],
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      {
        "version":     "1",
        "released_at": 1647849231,
        "items":       [
          {
            "title": "Fix for 'find as you type' in the options search dialog.",
            "type":  "fixed"
          },
          {
            "title": "PHP Warning.",
            "type":  "fixed"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version":     "2",
        "released_at": 1647852420,
        "items":       [
          {
            "title": "Audit Trail and Traffic Log search panels didn't always load correctly.",
            "type":  "fixed"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version":     "3",
        "released_at": 1647854124,
        "items":       [
          {
            "title": "Ensure database upgrade doesn't stall for large traffic logs.",
            "type":  "fixed"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version":     "5",
        "released_at": 1647948720,
        "items":       [
          {
            "title": "Allow direct searching of request path in Traffic Log.",
            "type":  "improve"
          },
          {
            "title": "Provide a more robust database migration for large request log tables.",
            "type":  "fixed"
          },
          {
            "title": "Adjust the traffic log database to account for very long request paths.",
            "type":  "fixed"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
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    "version":     "14.0",
    "released_at": 1643364060,
    "hrefs":       {
      "release": "https://shsec.io/shieldrelease140",
      "upgrade": "https://shsec.io/shieldupgradeguide140"
    },
    "title":       "Two-Factor Authentication Overhaul",
    "description": [
    ],
    "items":       [
      {
        "title":       "WP Login Style 2FA Screen",
        "description": [
          "Users can complete their 2FA login using the UI they're most familiar with."
        ],
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false
      },
      {
        "title":       "Custom Redirect For Hide WP Login & Admin",
        "description": [
          "Rather than display an unfriendly 404 error page for the hidden login page, you can decide to redirect requests to any page you wish."
        ],
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false
      },
      {
        "title":       "Easier Access To User 2FA Settings with WP Admin Menu",
        "description": [
          "Users can now update their 2FA account settings from a dedicated WP admin page."
        ],
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false
      },
      {
        "title":       "Improved 2FA User Experience",
        "description": [
          "Smoother, faster, more reliable and more secure 2FA experience."
        ],
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false
      },
      {
        "title":       "Multi-factor Authentication Removed",
        "description": [
          "The option to force users to supply ALL two-factor authentication options has been removed."
        ],
        "type":        "changed",
        "pro_only":    false
      },
      {
        "title":       "Dedicated table for User meta information",
        "description": [
          "This allows for new filters and better user status on the WP Admin User page."
        ],
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false
      },
      {
        "title":    "Updated Translations - Dutch (thanks J.P.!)",
        "type":     "improved",
        "pro_only": false
      },
      {
        "title":    "Further page caching mitigation for NotBot",
        "type":     "improved",
        "pro_only": false
      },
      {
        "type":        "changed",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Updated Bootstrap Libraries",
        "description": [
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Various bugs and errors",
        "description": [
        ]
      }
    ],
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      {
        "version":     "2",
        "released_at": 1644400200,
        "items":       [
          {
            "title": "Integration with some 3rd party membership plugins + 2FA.",
            "type":  "improved"
          },
          {
            "title": "Alert displayed that U2F isn't support when U2F isn't in-use.",
            "type":  "fixed"
          },
          {
            "title": "A rare issue which Custom MFA login triggering an HTTP 402 error!",
            "type":  "fixed"
          },
          {
            "title": "Options Search dialog failed to open (can't find-as-you-type yet).",
            "type":  "fixed"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version":     "3",
        "released_at": 1645005000,
        "items":       [
          {
            "title": "Work around WP Engine login mechanism blocking 2FA verification.",
            "type":  "fixed"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
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    "version":     "13.0",
    "released_at": 1636970660,
    "hrefs":       {
      "release": "https://shsec.io/shieldrelease130",
      "upgrade": "https://shsec.io/shieldupgradeguide130"
    },
    "title":       "Scanning Engine Overhaul",
    "description": [
    ],
    "items":       [
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Complete Scanning Engine Overhaul",
        "description": [
          "We've completely rewritten the scanning engine to be faster and more intuitive.",
          "Includes improvements to reduce cases where results are reported and then are no longer visible."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    true,
        "title":       "Scans can now be executed using WP-CLI",
        "description": [
          "Audit Trail now uses our preferred table UI with built-in, useful search and filter controls.",
          "There's also rapid and reliable pagination and data reloading."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Support for WP-CLI based cron execution",
        "description": [
          "Running WP Crons using WP-CLI is full supports automatic scans."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Scan Results Management",
        "description": [
          "Scan results management is improved with historical scan results display and more descriptive messaging."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Scan Result Diffs",
        "description": [
          "Wherever possible scan results will allow you to view a file diff showing any and all file changes clearly.",
          "This is available only for official WordPress core files and plugins/themes hosted on WordPress.org."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Simplified Scan Options",
        "description": [
          "Hugely simplified and reduced the configuration options available for scans."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Dynamic Search For IP Analyse Tool",
        "description": [
          "IP Analyse tool use AJAX-based dynamic searching when selecting an IP address on the IP Analyse tool.",
          "This makes the tool more practical and performant for sites with large IP datasets."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Traffic Logging for WP-CLI requests",
        "description": [
          "WP-CLI commands and their arguments are logged for WP-CLI requests just as with paths for web requests."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Yubikey Device Verification",
        "description": [
          "Yubikey One-Time Passwords are now verified when attempting to register a Yubikey device to your profile."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Adding/Removing Yubikey Device Reliability",
        "description": [
          "Adding and removing Yubikey devices to and from your WP user profile is more reliable."
        ]
      }
    ],
    "patches":     [
      {
        "version":     "1",
        "released_at": 1636968900,
        "items":       [
          {
            "type":  "fixed",
            "title": "Reduce scan chunk size to improve MySQL query memory usage."
          },
          {
            "type":  "fixed",
            "title": "Automatic selection of IP addresses in IP Analyse tool after switching to AJAX source."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version":     "3",
        "released_at": 1640079300,
        "items":       [
          {
            "type":  "fixed",
            "title": "Ensure database states are handled correctly."
          },
          {
            "type":  "fixed",
            "title": "MySQL requirements are checked more flexibly."
          },
          {
            "type":  "fixed",
            "title": "Add a class to Google Authenticator QR image."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version":     "4",
        "released_at": 1640165700,
        "items":       [
          {
            "type":  "fixed",
            "title": "Error with MainWP loading in certain cases."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version":     "5",
        "released_at": 1641980100,
        "items":       [
          {
            "type":  "improved",
            "title": "Options to provide custom roles for Email 2FA enforcement is now free-form."
          },
          {
            "type":  "improved",
            "title": "Multi-factor authentication settings are available even when your IP is on the bypass lists."
          },
          {
            "type":  "improved",
            "title": "ShieldPRO license lookups when using separate domains for multilingual site versions."
          },
          {
            "type":  "improved",
            "title": "FluentForms integration wasn't always loading and so SPAM submissions could still come through."
          },
          {
            "type":  "improved",
            "title": "NotBot Javascript is improved to better handle server timeouts and work around Page Caching limitations."
          },
          {
            "type":  "fixed",
            "title": "Prevent some fatal errors when integrating with 3rd parties and their data isn't as expected."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version":     "6",
        "released_at": 1642152900,
        "items":       [
          {
            "type":  "improved",
            "title": "Improved handling of ClassicPress versions and file scanning for migrated WP sites."
          },
          {
            "type":  "changed",
            "title": "Official WP.org themes that are inactive no longer display a warning in results tables."
          },
          {
            "type":        "fixed",
            "title":       "[Minor Security Vulnerability] An authenticated (administrator+) Persistent XSS.",
            "description": [
              "Privately disclosed to us by Yoru Oni - thank you."
            ],
            "href":        "https://shsec.io/kh"
          },
          {
            "type":  "changed",
            "title": "It's now possible to add custom exclusions to the anonymous REST API block."
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "12.0": {
    "version":     "12.0",
    "released_at": 1631783098,
    "hrefs":       {
      "release": "https://shsec.io/shieldrelease120",
      "upgrade": "https://shsec.io/shieldupgradeguide120"
    },
    "title":       "Events & Audit Trail Overhaul",
    "description": [
    ],
    "items":       [
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Complete Audit Trail Overhaul",
        "description": [
          "The Audit Trail and Events system has been completely rewritten.",
          "It allows for extensions to log to any destination, severity levels, search and more."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "New Audit Trail Table & Filters",
        "description": [
          "Audit Trail now uses our preferred table UI with built-in, useful search and filter controls.",
          "There's also rapid and reliable pagination and data reloading."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Audit Trail Events With Severity",
        "description": [
          "All events are given a default severity of 'Alert', 'Warning', 'Info' and 'Debug.",
          "Which event categories are logged can be adjusted in the Configuration."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Audit Trails Logs To File",
        "description": [
          "As well as logging to the database, you can elect to log certain events to file."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Audit Trail Logs Description",
        "description": [
          "Logged events now have more descriptive messages along with more meta details for the event."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Audit Trail Meta Data",
        "description": [
          "By linking the Audit Trail to the Traffic Log, you can now see request data alongside Audit Logs."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Plugin Data Storage",
        "description": [
          "We're adding some smarter data storage to the plugin through more complex and interconnected database tables.",
          "This approach reduces repeated and redundant data storage and disk usage."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Traffic Logging UI.",
        "description": [
          "The Traffic Log feature now also uses the improved table UI for faster processing and better search."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Scanning Improvements and Fixes",
        "description": [
          "Based on customer feedback we've made some adjustments and fixes to the scans and results processing."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "changed",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Traffic Log Limits",
        "description": [
          "Traffic logs are no longer limited by amount.",
          "They are instead limited by age (in days). Updated configuration options are available."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "changed",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "NotBot JS Is Always Loaded By Default",
        "description": [
          "Since many customers are using caching and optimisation plugins that interfere with NotBot JS, it is now loaded for all visitors by default.",
          "An option within the plugin has been provided to revert to the normal optimised loading of the NotBot JS."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "changed",
        "pro_only":    true,
        "title":       "U2F 2-Factor Authentication Bypasses MFA",
        "description": [
          "U2F is a strong 2FA mechanism and so it doesn't really need to be used in conjunction with other factors.",
          "When the Chained/MFA option is enabled, when U2F is supplied, this can be done alone without the need for other factors."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "changed",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Minimum Required MySQL Version",
        "description": [
          "Shield processed IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and stores them in the MySQL database.",
          "With this upgrade, the minimum required MySQL database engine is moving to 5.6."
        ],
        "href":        "https://shsec.io/shieldsystemrequirements"
      }
    ],
    "patches":     [
      {
        "version":     "4",
        "released_at": 1632303300,
        "items":       [
          {
            "type":  "fixed",
            "title": "Prevent PHP exception being thrown in certain cases."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version":     "8",
        "released_at": 1632389700,
        "items":       [
          {
            "type":  "fixed",
            "title": "Ensure Shield runs only on supported MySQL servers."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version":     "9",
        "released_at": 1632908100,
        "items":       [
          {
            "type":  "fixed",
            "title": "Error when processing certain types of query strings in the firewall."
          },
          {
            "type":  "fixed",
            "title": "Yubikey 2FA verification was failing with a nonce less than 16 characters. Who knew?"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version":     "11",
        "released_at": 1633599300,
        "items":       [
          {
            "type":  "fixed",
            "title": "A few minor fixes, along with slight optimisation of NotBot JS."
          },
          {
            "type":  "fixed",
            "title": "Issue with managing Shield Central profiles."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version":     "13",
        "released_at": 1633858500,
        "items":       [
          {
            "type":  "improved",
            "title": "Improve support for auto-login systems like ManageWP admin login."
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "11.5": {
    "version":     "11.5",
    "released_at": 1626779164,
    "hrefs":       {
      "release": "https://shsec.io/shieldrelease115",
      "upgrade": "https://shsec.io/shieldupgradeguide115"
    },
    "title":       "Revamped Scan Results",
    "description": [
    ],
    "items":       [
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Brand New Arrangements of Scan Results",
        "description": [
          "To-date scan results have been presented in tabular format, by listing affected files or assets.",
          "This release sees a major reorganisation to display results grouped into logical sections and areas, such as by plugin, theme, WordPress etc."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "View Scan File Contents In Browser",
        "description": [
          "We've added the ability to view the contents of any file shown in file results directly within your web browser.",
          "There's no longer any need to download the files, though you still can do this of course."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Remove 'Empty' PHP Files From Results",
        "description": [
          "A common problem is where a PHP file that has no executable code in it gets flagged in certain scans.",
          "It isn't trivial to detect whether a PHP file has executable code, but we've added detection for this scenario."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Scan File and Folder Exclusions",
        "description": [
          "You can specify files and folder which will be excluded from all file scans.",
          "Files can be excluded in bulk using the asterisk (*) wildcard.",
          "This option is designed to completely replace the exclusions option under the Unrecognised Files Scanner."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Scan Results Management",
        "description": [
          "We've scrapped the 'WordPress Tables' approach to display results and instead use the powerful DataTables JS plugin.",
          "This makes display, pagination, refresh and actions far smoother and completely seamless."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    true,
        "title":       "Switch To Crowd-Sourced Plugin and Theme Hashes.",
        "description": [
          "When scanning plugin and theme files for modification, Shield now uses its ShieldNET crowd-source hashes system.",
          "This results in more accurate and adaptive hashes accounting for edge-cases better resulting in fewer false positives in scan results."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    true,
        "title":       "Malware Scanner Uses Crowd-Sourced Hashing Data",
        "description": [
          "False Positives in malware results are frustrating, so the more we can reduce them, the better.",
          "Shield already removes 99% of false positives automatically from results, before you even see them.",
          "To improve this, ShieldNET now draws upon Crowd-Source Hashes to eliminate false positives even further."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Reporting alert email now lists some repaired/deleted files.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "WP Admin warning when 2FA by email verification isn't complete.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Audit Trail entries for IP addresses are added and removed manually.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Audit Trail WordPress filter to allow customisation of event logging.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Improved support and fixes for PHP 8 and WordPress 5.8.",
        "description": []
      }
    ],
    "patches":     [
      {
        "version":     "1",
        "released_at": 1627551300,
        "items":       [
          {
            "type":  "improved",
            "title": "Prevent overloading ShieldNET API in some cases."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version":     "2",
        "released_at": 1627637700,
        "items":       [
          {
            "type":  "improved",
            "title": "Add some limited details into the Audit Trail entries for scan results."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version":     "3",
        "released_at": 1627896900,
        "items":       [
          {
            "type":  "fixed",
            "title": "Plugin/Theme scanning could result in large quantities of unrecognised files."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version":     "4",
        "released_at": 1628069700,
        "items":       [
          {
            "type":  "improved",
            "title": "Scan results were being reported, but not displayed in results tables in some cases."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version":     "5",
        "released_at": 1631180100,
        "items":       [
          {
            "type":  "fixed",
            "title": "Scan results wouldn't be updated after scans completed in some cases."
          },
          {
            "type":  "fixed",
            "title": "Shield would apply login blocks for requests originating from a whitelisted IP addresses."
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "11.4": {
    "version":     "11.4",
    "released_at": 1625560514,
    "hrefs":       {
      "release": "https://shsec.io/shieldrelease114",
      "upgrade": "https://shsec.io/shieldupgradeguide114"
    },
    "title":       "ShieldNET Integration",
    "description": [
    ],
    "items":       [
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Begin ShieldNET Integration To Provide Network Intelligence For Bots & IP Addresses",
        "description": [
          "You can now start to see ShieldNET scores for IP addresses based on the cumulative intelligence gathered for IP addresses.",
          "By combining scores for IP addresses across many different Shield Security installations we can provide a more accurate IP reputation score.",
          "These scores won't be used yet to respond to threats on your WordPress site, but this will be the goal."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Generating QR codes for Google Authenticator is improved by using the ShieldNET API.",
        "description": [
          "The code necessary to generate QR Code for Google Authenticator is quite large and required the GD extension to be enabled.",
          "Not all WordPress installation offer this, so we've provided a ShieldNET API endpoint to easily generate the QR codes."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    true,
        "title":       "Scanning for vulnerability in WordPress plugins and themes is improved.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Capturing and managing of user sessions is improved.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Capturing and managing user 2-Factor Authentication is improved.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Added enhancement for when local tests for NotBot JS loading fails, use ShieldNET to test.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Tweaks and adjustments to crowd-sourced hashing.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.4.2"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Certain modules would still run even though 'forceoff' file was present.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.4.2"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "HTML formatting issue with the 2FA Login Page.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.4.2"
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Refinements to the ShieldNET cron processing.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.4.3"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Prevent a rare fatal error on certain pages.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.4.4"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Fix for error showing in logs during cron.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.4.5"
      }
    ]
  },
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    "version":     "11.3",
    "released_at": 1623057021,
    "hrefs":       {
      "release": "https://shsec.io/shieldrelease113",
      "upgrade": "https://shsec.io/shieldupgradeguide113"
    },
    "title":       "",
    "description": [
    ],
    "items":       [
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "High IP Reputation Bypass",
        "description": [
          "Added an option to ensure that IP addresses with a high-enough reputation are never blocked by Shield."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Bot Scoring Logic Is Provisioned From ShieldNET API",
        "description": [
          "To allow for easier and faster updates and improvements to the bot scoring logic, they are served from our ShieldNET API.",
          "If, for whatever reason, the API is unavailable the plugin will use its built-in scoring logic."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "NotBot Javascript Loading Check",
        "description": [
          "The NotBot Javascript that loads for visitor is critical to Shield's ability to detect bots - we now show a warning when we can't detect it."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "404 Bot Signal doesn't trigger Shield offense on certain requests for assets",
        "description": [
          "404s encountered for requests for assets such as images, javascript and CSS no longer trigger offenses.",
          "The 1 exception is if the asset URL is within a plugin/theme directory that doesn't exist on the site."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "changed",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Minimum supported WordPress version is now 3.7",
        "description": []
      }
    ]
  },
  "11.2": {
    "version":     "11.2",
    "released_at": 1621844125,
    "hrefs":       {
      "release": "https://shsec.io/shieldrelease112",
      "upgrade": "https://shsec.io/shieldupgradeguide112"
    },
    "title":       "AntiBot Scoring Improvements",
    "description": [
      "Shield 11.0 brought the new AntiBot Detection Engine, designed to detect bad bots and block them automatically.",
      "With feedback from customers and ongoing research, we've made some major improvements and adjustments to the system."
    ],
    "items":       [
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "New And Improved Welcome Wizard",
        "description": [
          "All-New Welcome Wizard designed to get you up and running with Shield quickly and effortlessly."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Add Shield's Two-Factor Authentication User Settings Anywhere",
        "description": [
          "With the use of a WP Shortcode, you can add user configuration pages for 2FA into any page.",
          "This is useful if you want to offer 2FA options to your customers."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "AntiBot Detection Engine Improvements.",
        "description": [
          "We've adjusted some of the bot scoring and improved the ability to detect legitimate users based on earlier logins.",
          "We've also removed the need for the small cookie that was needed to help track the NotBot status.",
          "The AntiBot Detection Engine can now be disabled by setting the minimum reputation score to 0."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Google Authenticator QR Codes Are Generated Locally.",
        "description": [
          "Google's Legacy Chart API wasn't always loading the QR code so we replaced it with a locally generated QR code image."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Brand new Knowledgebase Integration.",
        "description": [
          "We've moved to a brand new Helpdesk/Knowledgebase and this allows us to integrate instant access to docs inside the plugin itself.",
          "Simply click the 'Info' link for any option to view documentation within your WordPress admin area."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Support For Protecting Subscription Forms in Groundhogg CRM.",
        "description": [
          "Added support for protecting Groundhogg forms from bots."
        ],
        "href":        "https://shsec.io/groundhogg"
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Support For Protecting Super Forms Contact Forms.",
        "description": [
          "Added support for protecting contact forms against SPAM in the Super Forms plugin."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Support For Protecting User Forms in LifterLMS.",
        "description": [
          "Added support for protecting LifterLMS login & registration forms from bots."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "The tour system would run multiple times.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Some plugin SQL query syntax broke on MySQL 8.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.2.1"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Fatal error when initiating WP-CLI in some cases.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.2.2"
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Adjust default bot scoring logic to reduce spam.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.2.4"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Some clients reported a fatal error in certain circumstances.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.2.4"
      }
    ]
  },
  "11.1": {
    "version":     "11.1",
    "released_at": 1616666000,
    "hrefs":       {
      "release": "https://shsec.io/shieldrelease111",
      "upgrade": "https://shsec.io/shieldupgradeguide111"
    },
    "title":       "UI Cleanup and Enhancement",
    "description": [
      "With Shield being such a large plugin, it's been a challenge to get a UI that everyone is happy with.",
      "This release aims to improve the UI and make it easier for everyone to get their security task done as efficiently as possible."
    ],
    "items":       [
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Improved Dashboard UI and Navigation",
        "description": [
          "Detecting bad bots on your WordPress sites is a huge challenge, but it's notoriously difficult to do this.",
          "We have developed an exclusive system for the detection of bad bots and the option to block requests from them."
        ],
        "href":        "https://shsec.io/jb"
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "A new Quick Stats screen is available to see the activity of Shield over time.",
        "description": [
          "The implementation is currently basic, but it forms the foundation of future development and offers users the option to offer suggestions."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Code overhaul for Security Admin system to improve reliability and fix various bugs.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Automatic User Unblock now makes use of Shield's AntiBot Detection Engine.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "File Locker will better handle the scenario where a site is moved/migrated.",
        "description": [
          "File Locker for wp-config.php files will also better detect when this file is placed 1 directory higher than the site."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "White Label settings that are empty aren't applied and defaults remain.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Statistics in reporting emails were under-reporting the full stats.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Audit Trail didn't capture all upgrades when upgrading plugins/themes in-bulk.",
        "description": [
          "The Audit Trial would only capture 1 upgrade when a bulk upgrade was performed."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Exclusions for unrecognised file scanner weren't stored correctly in the case of regular expressions.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "In some rare scenarios, user sessions wouldn't be properly created and user automatically logged-out.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.1.1"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "WP Config FileLocker bug not correctly maintaining its state and resulting in locks not being created.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.1.1"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "The .htaccess file in the root of the Shield plugin directory is only created if its supported.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.1.1"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Whitelabel settings were misleading and didn't properly update the dashboard log.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.1.1"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "SPAM detection for Ninja Forms would report as SPAM when not SPAM.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.1.1"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "wpForo integration produced a PHP Warning in certain circumstances.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.1.1"
      }
    ]
  },
  "11.0": {
    "version":     "11.0",
    "released_at": 1616666000,
    "hrefs":       {
      "release": "https://shsec.io/shieldrelease110",
      "upgrade": "https://shsec.io/shieldupgradeguide110"
    },
    "title":       "All-New Shield AntiBot Detection Engine",
    "description": [
      "WordPress security nearly always starts with bots - detecting bad bots and blocking them.",
      "This release delivers your new and exclusive AntiBot Detection Engine allowing Shield to more quickly identify bad bots and block their requests."
    ],
    "items":       [
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "AntiBot Detection Engine",
        "description": [
          "Detecting bad bots on your WordPress sites is a huge challenge, but it's notoriously difficult to do this.",
          "We have developed an exclusive system for the detection of bad bots and the option to block requests from them."
        ],
        "href":        "https://shsec.io/jb"
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Contact Form SPAM Protection",
        "description": [
          "With the arrival of our AntiBot Detection Engine, we can now more easily integrate with 3rd party plugins.",
          "You can add Shield's SPAM protection to Elementor PRO Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, Ninja Forms, and many more."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Charts and Stats.",
        "description": [
          "We've added a page in Shield to allow you to chart some of your favourite Shield Stats."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Download Audit Trail, Traffic Log and IP DB as CSV.",
        "description": [
          "A long-requested feature is the ability to download the raw database data - you can now do this with a single click."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Added some new filters and hooks to allow customisation.",
        "description": [
          "For example, you can override the hour at which the Shield crons run, including the scans."
        ],
        "href":        "https://shsec.io/jv"
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Allow webmaster to specify certain web crawlers and search engines that aren't automatically whitelisted.",
        "description": [],
        "href":        "https://shsec.io/jt"
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Big improvements in the reliability of Shield's Database handling.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Use CDNJS to supply important plugin Javascript/CSS assets.",
        "description": [
          "Using a CDN to deliver assets reduces the plugin footprint on your site, while also speeding up admin page loading."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "New and improved guided tour upon plugin activation.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Link Cheese Robots additions use enhanced Robots API in WordPress 5.7.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Various bug fixes and enhancements.",
        "description": [
          "WP-Config FileLocker system is more reliable with requests in the case of database problems",
          "Lots of code cleanup"
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Gravity Form error",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.0.1"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Performance issue.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.0.2"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "PHP Warning message appears in some scenarios.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "11.0.3"
      }
    ]
  },
  "10.2": {
    "version":     "10.2",
    "released_at": 1613037000,
    "hrefs":       {
      "release": "https://shsec.io/shieldrelease102",
      "upgrade": "https://shsec.io/shieldupgradeguide102"
    },
    "title":       "Removal of simple Content Security Policy settings and bugfixes",
    "description": [
      "We've decided to remove our simple Content Security Policy options as this feature is too complex.",
      "We've also fixed a number of bugs and optimised how Shield loads and stores options and configurations."
    ],
    "items":       [
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Removed Content Security Policy Settings",
        "description": [
          "Due to the complexity of CSP and the superficial nature of our CSP implementation, we've decided to remove these options.",
          "We explore the issue in full detail in our blog post on this topic."
        ],
        "href":        "https://shsec.io/jb"
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Invalid user login tracking covers empty usernames.",
        "description": [
          "When tracking for bots logging in user invalid usernames (i.e. that don't exist) it'll also trigger an offense on empty usernames."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Deleting Malware files doesn't initiate a new scan.",
        "description": [
          "This addresses a reported UX issue where bulk malware deletion isn't yet available and so instead of a full re-scan, the page just reloads."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Malware scanners are more efficient.",
        "description": [
          "Malware scanning is involved - every PHP file has to be read and then searched using a large set of patterns.",
          "So it takes time. Hopefully these tweaks will optimise this process a little and lead to faster scans."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Add IP status to information in the traffic viewer.",
        "description": [
          "The traffic table will now display many offenses or whether the IP address is blocked."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Upgrade Bootstrap Library to latest 4.6.0",
        "description": [
          "Asset enqueuing has been refactored and optimised and also now loading Bootstrap assets from CDNJS."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Significant code cleanup.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Added cleanup code to remove stale entries in the WP Options table.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Added detection of server clock inconsistencies which break Google Authenticator.",
        "description": []
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "U2F/Yubikey Removal Bug",
        "description": [
          "A javascript issue prevented removal of U2F keys from user profiles."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "FileLocker would fail to load file contents if it exceeded 64KB.",
        "description": [
          "We upgraded the database table definition to allow for much larger files."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Plugin Upgrade Code wasn't always running",
        "description": [
          "Code designed to automatically run when the plugin is upgraded between version wasn't always running."
        ],
        "patch":       "10.2.1"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Fatal error in some cases",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "10.2.2"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Certain admin JS and CSS assets were loading on the frontend.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "10.2.3"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Shield would report the server time was out-of-sync when it wasn't.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "10.2.4"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Replaced corrupted Javascript library (base64.min.js).",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "10.2.6"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Link Cheese shouldn't run if there's an actual robots.txt file present.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "10.2.6"
      }
    ]
  },
  "10.1": {
    "version":     "10.1",
    "released_at": 1605606920,
    "hrefs":       {
      "release": "https://shsec.io/shieldrelease101",
      "upgrade": "https://shsec.io/shieldupgradeguide101"
    },
    "title":       "Enhanced Dashboard + MainWP Integration",
    "description": [
      "We're continuing our improvements to the Shield UI with a brand new Dashboard.",
      "The Dashboard is your primary launchpad for all things WordPress Security and Shield.",
      "We're also delighted to bring our first major 3rd party integration - MainWP."
    ],
    "items":       [
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Brand New Shield Dashboard",
        "description": [
          "With the help of some feedback from clients, we've made significant enhancements to the Shield UI.",
          "A brand-new Shield dashboard centralises everything related to Shield giving you a consistent, clean launchpad to perform security tasks."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    true,
        "title":       "MainWP Integration/Extension",
        "description": [
          "You can now manage your Shield Security plugin directly from within your MainWP WordPress management control panel.",
          "The Shield Security Extension page will highlight all sites with any scan issues that need your attention.",
          "For now, the functionality is limited to installing, activating and deactivating the Shield plugin."
        ],
        "href":        "https://shsec.io/ir"
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "IP Analyse Tool Enhancements",
        "description": [
          "Based on customer feedback we've added links to the IP Analyse tool to let you quickly perform blocks or bypass on an IP.",
          "The identification of a 'known' IP address now also draws information from the IP Bypass labels."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Enhanced Plugin Badge",
        "description": [
          "Based on customer feedback we've added the ability to customize the plugin badge based on Whitelabel settings.",
          "You'll may also use a WordPress filter to make fine adjustments to settings and styles of the badge."
        ],
        "href":        "https://shsec.io/is"
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Huge Codebase Refactor",
        "description": [
          "With our earlier move to PHP 7.0, we're continuing with our codebase cleanup and optimisations."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Shield Overview Styles",
        "description": [
          "With some feedback and suggestions provided by clients, we've improved our Shield Overview design."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "iControlWP Whitelist",
        "description": [
          "Fix to ensure iControlWP is properly whitelisted."
        ],
        "patch":       "10.1.1"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Bug with PHP Type Error in some cases",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "10.1.2"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Bug with MainWP site actions not working in all cases",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "10.1.3"
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Full support for Application Passwords arriving with WordPress 5.6",
        "description": [
          "Part of the purpose of Application Passwords is to allow APIs and 3rd parties to integrate with your WP site.",
          "Shield recognises authentication via Application Passwords and doesn't apply restrictions to it, including 2FA.",
          "Of course, failed logins attempted through Application Passwords will be treated as an offense against the site, as always."
        ],
        "patch":       "10.1.4"
      },
      {
        "type":        "improved",
        "title":       "Full support for PHP 8.0",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "10.1.4"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "504 Gateway Timeout error on servers with malconfigured rDNS lookups.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "10.1.4"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Ensure requests from ManageWP bypass Shield protections, where possible.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "10.1.4"
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Add a new WordPress admin notice for when the Shield plugin version gets too old.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "10.1.4"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Stop notice showing when it's not required.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "10.1.5"
      },
      {
        "type":        "fixed",
        "title":       "Prevent warnings and logouts when loading WordPress Site Health tool.",
        "description": [],
        "patch":       "10.1.6"
      }
    ]
  },
  "10.0": {
    "version":     "10.0",
    "released_at": 1603281600,
    "hrefs":       {
      "release": "https://shsec.io/shieldrelease100",
      "upgrade": "https://shsec.io/shieldupgradeguide100"
    },
    "title":       "All-New PHP-7 Optimised Shield Security",
    "description": [
      "We've massively enhanced the Dashboard UI, making it much easier to secure your WordPress site by quickly identifying areas of improvement.",
      "Of particular note is the IP Analysis tool which lets you see all information pertaining to an IP address in 1 place."
    ],
    "items":       [
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "Enhanced Dashboard Overview UI",
        "description": [
          "The new Dashboard Overview provides a simplified display of all security items on your site.",
          "You can quickly discover where your site is doing well, and what areas need immediate attention or improvements.",
          "Responsive filters let you filter by individual Shield modules and the current status of each item."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    true,
        "title":       "SureSend Email Delivery",
        "description": [
          "Most WordPress sites aren't properly configured to send emails, so sometimes they don't arrive.",
          "This is a critical issue when 2-Factor Authentication emails don't go where they should.",
          "SureSend uses the ShieldNET API to deliver 2FA emails so that you always get them."
        ],
        "href":        "https://icwp.io/im"
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    false,
        "title":       "IP Analysis Tool",
        "description": [
          "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."
        ]
      },
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "title":       "Force Shield Locale",
        "description": [
          "An option has been added that lets you force Shield to always display in certain locale.",
          "Setting this option will override user's profile locale for anything relating to Shield.",
          "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."
        ],
        "patch":       "10.0.3"
      },
      {
        "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."
        ]
      },
      {
        "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"
      }
    ]
  },
  "9.2":  {
    "version":     "9.2",
    "released_at": 1599135934,
    "hrefs":       {
      "release": "https://shsec.io/shieldrelease92",
      "upgrade": "https://shsec.io/shieldupgradeguide92"
    },
    "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."
    ],
    "items":       [
      {
        "type":        "new",
        "pro_only":    true,
        "title":       "Automatic Unblock For Logged-In Users",
        "description": [
          "When a user's IP address is blocked on a site, they may automatically unblock it if they're logged-in.",
          "By using a magic unblock-link, users may regain access to a site without intervention from an admin."
        ],
        "href":        "https://shsec.io/ii"
      },
      {
        "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."
        ],
        "href":        "https://shsec.io/hv"
      },
      {
        "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"
      }
    ]
  }
}