Release v2.4.0

v2.4.0 - 06/21/2024

• Improvement: Optimized the order we determine if we can skip checking restrictions for any givem content type. Thanks to PolyLang team for the suggestion.
• Improvement: Better coverage for taxonomy query detection & filtering.
• Improvement: Added inertnal function caches to drastically reduce overhead of checking restrictions. This may result in a significant performance increase for large sites or sites with many restrictions.
• Improvement: Only generate list of page template types for rules when in the admin, saving potential DB query.
• Tweak: Explicitly bail on rule checks for unknown Rest API endpoints as we don't currently fully support them. Filter below added to allow modifying this behavior.
• Tweak: Remove upsell message when pro version is active.
• Fix: Bug with restricting logged in users from content when the user had post_edit permissions for the post.
• Developer: Added new internal globals variable handler instead of using global $vars directly. Set of helper functions available to get/set/push/pop global variables.
• Developer: Made controllers more efficient by conditionally loading them only when needed.
• Developer: Added new filter content_control/determine_uknonwn_rest_api_intent to allow 3rd party plugins to modify the REST API intent used in rule checks specifically for unknown intents.
• Developer: Added new filter content_control/request_is_excluded_rest_endpoint to allow 3rd party plugins to exclude/include custom REST API endpoints from restriction checks.
• Developer: Added new filter 'content_control/pre_query_can_be_ignored allowing early return for known ignorable queries.
• Developer: Added second paramter to thecontent_control/get_rest_api_intent filter pass the $rest_route.