LiteMage for Magento 1 changelog (archive)¶

Version 1.3.14¶

Released: April 26, 2021

• [Improvement] Allowed pages to be cacheable when the environment vary changed.
• [Bug fix] Kept the Magento session alive when the default session cookie was not frontend. This allows the same login-session length as the application.

Version 1.3.13¶

Released: June 5, 2019

• [Improvement] Added support for the built-in cookie notice from the Magento 1.x security patch using a private ESI block.

Version 1.3.12¶

Released: May 9, 2019

• [Feature] Allowed custom varies to be added with custom code.
• [Feature] Allowed use of the Mobile_Detect class for separate mobile views.

Version 1.3.11¶

Released: March 20, 2019

• [Security] Fixed a security bug that allowed external code injection through crafted ESI block requests.

Version 1.3.10¶

Released: November 2, 2018

• [Feature] Added purging by SKU and purging of related products and categories through the CLI shell purge command.
• [Improvement] When autopurging bundled products, checks up to three levels for sub-bundle conditions.
• [Bug fix] Fixed autopurge-related categories when saving a product with an enable or disable status update.
• [Bug fix] Fixed the HTTPS verifyhost cURL option for the shell purge script. Fixed the base URL when the backend is on a separate server.

Version 1.3.9¶

Released: September 10, 2018

• [Improvement] Added support for auto-purging related bundle products when a product is updated.
• [Improvement] Added a restriction that shell commands may only be issued from defined Admin IPs.

Version 1.3.8¶

Released: June 12, 2018

• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug when Track Recently Viewed Products was enabled.

Version 1.3.7¶

Released: March 5, 2018

• [Improvement] Improved warm-up cron detection when running multiple cron jobs.
• [Bug fix] Fixed missing cache statistics in certain cases.
• [Bug fix] Fixed an issue where selecting Purge when product qty change did not purge cache after a new order was placed.

Version 1.3.6¶

Released: June 6, 2017

• [Feature] Added a Debug Level option for controlling debug-log message detail.
• [Feature] Added a Disable Layout Override for Non-Cacheable Routes option for sites with issues during checkout.
• [Improvement] Added an extra check for mismatched mobile-detection rules between LiteMage and .htaccess when mobile views do not respond correctly.
• [Improvement] Added the ability to crawl mobile views for unresponsive themes.
• [Improvement] LiteMage now writes to its own debug log when enabled under Developer testing. Magento debug logging no longer needs to be enabled.

Version 1.3.5¶

Released: March 10, 2017

• [Improvement] Improved compatibility for Magento 1.7 stores not using form_key.
• [Improvement] Improved compatibility with customized themes.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug where AJAX output containing ESI blocks could break JSON format.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug where an external extension setting the layout cache ID could break checkout, such as Amasty One Step Checkout.

Version 1.3.4¶

Released: January 26, 2017

• [Improvement] Improved compatibility with customized themes where ESI blocks include setter functions.
• [Improvement] 404 pages for disabled products are now tagged with product and category IDs. Related URLs are now auto-purged when these pages become available again.

Version 1.3.3¶

Released: December 22, 2016

• [Improvement] Improved compatibility with other plugins when rendering ESI blocks.

Version 1.3.2¶

Released: December 9, 2016

• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug when an AJAX response contained an ESI block and the ESI URLs were encoded in JSON output.

Version 1.3.1¶

Released: November 7, 2016

• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented layered AJAX navigation from displaying properly.

Version 1.3.0¶

Released: November 4, 2016

• [Major Feature] Improved first-page load speed for new visitors. This feature requires LiteSpeed Web Server 5.1.10 or LiteSpeed Load Balancer 2.0.1.
• [Feature] Allowed separate cache copies for each defined user group.
• [Feature] Allowed crawlers to warm a copy of the site for logged-in users.
• [Improvement] Improved generation of site URLs.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug caused when ESI blocks had child blocks with special layout handles.

Version 1.2.3¶

Released: October 3, 2016

• [Feature] Added a category-purge option on the Edit Category screen.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug introduced in v1.2.0 that affected crawling URLs with a cache vary.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug where the crawler sometimes did not work properly when setting the LiteMage Server IP.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug that occurred when user-agent theme exceptions were added for the template and skin, but not the layout.

Version 1.2.2¶

Released: September 14, 2016

• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug introduced in v1.2.1 where the default value for the LiteMage Server IP option in Cache Warm Up settings could cause errors.

Version 1.2.1¶

Released: September 13, 2016

• [Feature] Added cache support for FishPig WordPress Integration. WordPress pages are auto-purged by the LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress plugin.
• [Feature] Added support for LiteSpeed Load Balancer (LSLB). LiteMage cache is located on the LSLB, with no need to change the local web server setup.
• [Feature] Added support for purging by store ID.
• [Feature] Added a command-line tool to purge LiteMage cache. The tool is located in the shell subdirectory of the Magento root directory.
• [Improvement] Improved the crawler and added delta-crawler logging.
• [Improvement] Improved new-visitor detection when the visitor log is disabled.
• [Improvement] Allowed users to specify what is automatically purged when saving a product from the admin panel.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug caused by specifying a different theme for different categories.

Version 1.2.0¶

Released: August 5, 2016

• [Major Feature] Added an auto-collect feature to collect URLs not included in the sitemap, including deep URLs with different filter selections.
• [Major Feature] Added Delta Crawler. URLs related to purged tags are now recrawled.
• [Feature] Added options to customize product-page and related-category purging when product quantities or stock statuses change.
• [Improvement] LiteMage now auto-detects and sets cache varies for product pages based on whether the review form is displayed and whether the site allows guests to write reviews.
• [Improvement] Improved compatibility with third-party themes, including AW, MT, and Ultimo themes.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug that caused errors when receiving SOAP API requests.

Version 1.1.2¶

Released: June 17, 2016

• [Feature] Added a cached-object counter and statistics to the Cache Management page.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug that could result in a blank page after LiteMage installation.

Version 1.1.1¶

Released: May 31, 2016

• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug introduced in v1.1.0 that prevented the second crawl from starting properly until the cache was flushed.

Version 1.1.0¶

Released: May 19, 2016

• [Feature] Added a Home Page TTL setting.
• [Feature] Added support for multiple custom URL warm-up lists per store with different intervals and priorities.
• [Feature] Added support for setting a different default vary-cookie name through .htaccess to avoid conflicts with other LiteSpeed Cache plugins.
• [Improvement] Updated esi:include URLs to be compatible with LiteSpeed Load Balancer's PageSpeed module.
• [Improvement] Improved ESI block detection and hole-punching accuracy.
• [Improvement] URL Blacklist now performs an exact match unless a * is added.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug where non-cacheable pages that redirected to a 404 page were mistakenly cached.

Version 1.0.18¶

Released: April 7, 2016

• [Feature] LiteMage is now open-source under the GPLv3 license.

Version 1.0.17¶

Released: March 9, 2016

• [Improvement] Domain names are now excluded from ESI URLs.
• [Improvement] Switched cache warm-up URL-list handling from Magento's cache backend to a file-based system to decrease the chance of large lists exceeding memcached's maximum object size.

Version 1.0.16¶

Released: January 18, 2016

• [Feature] Displayed crawler warm-up progress in the Magento Admin Panel, allowed active crawler runs to be reset, and allowed the full crawl list to be viewed.
• [Improvement] Requires LiteSpeed Web Server 5.0.11 or later. The litemage_walker crawler now always hits the backend, keeping the cache in an always-warm state when Warm Up Interval is set to less than the cache TTL.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug in the crawler relating to default stores on non-default sites in a multi-site setup.

Version 1.0.15¶

Released: January 8, 2016

• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug from v1.0.14 when crawling non-default stores or non-default currencies.
• [Improvement] Excluded inactive stores from the crawler's list.

Version 1.0.14¶

Released: January 4, 2016

• [Feature] Enhanced the crawler, allowing it to run in multiple threads. The number of threads is adaptively adjusted based on a user-defined limit and server load.
• [Feature] Added a configuration option allowing users to supply a custom URL list with different crawler priorities and intervals.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug introduced in v1.0.13 that caused the crawler to stop crawling.

Version 1.0.13¶

Released: December 3, 2015

• [Improvement] Improved first-page load time when a site has multiple currencies or different cached copies per user group.
• [Improvement] Added new and existing customization options to the store-level configuration scope.
• [Improvement] Enhanced the built-in crawler to allow designation of stores to crawl and configuration of each store's priority and crawl order.

Version 1.0.12¶

Released: November 23, 2015

• [Feature] Added a system-default configuration to prevent search results from being cached.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug where cached 404 pages returned a 200 OK header, causing them to be incorrectly indexed by search engines.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug causing a blank page after logging in when Redirect Customer to Account Dashboard after Logging in was set to No. Navigate to Configuration > CUSTOMERS > Customer Configuration > Login Options in the Magento Admin Panel. This setting is now ignored, and customers are always sent to the dashboard page after logging in.

Version 1.0.11¶

Released: October 27, 2015

• [Feature] Added a configuration option to crawl non-default currencies.
• [Feature] Added an admin function to allow purging tags from external programs.
• [Improvement] Ensured that LiteMage can still function when cache storage is not available, such as during memcached restarts or when layout cache is disabled. A warning message is displayed on the Cache Management page in the Magento Admin Panel.
• [Improvement] Removed the Separate Cache Copy for Customized Cookie Values option. To handle this more efficiently, instructions for using a provided rewrite rule are now shown instead. Rewrite rules are available in LiteSpeed Web Server 5.0.7 and later.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug where private blocks sometimes did not update when a user logged in.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug in the warm-up cron process when crawling non-default stores.

Version 1.0.10¶

Released: October 6, 2015

• [Feature] Added the Admin IPs field to allow displaying debug information in the browser for listed IPs.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented LiteMage cache warm-up from running.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented mobile views from displaying properly.

Version 1.0.9¶

Released: August 26, 2015

• [Feature] Added compatibility with customized message blocks that use templates. Added a configuration option in the Magento Admin Panel to define these blocks.
• [Improvement] Improved tolerance of customized extensions that use non-unique block names in layout files, as long as the alias is different.
• [Improvement] Improved compatibility with some extensions involving “cannot add to cart” errors for configurable products.

Version 1.0.8¶

Released: August 17, 2015

• [Feature] Added a configuration option for customer-defined block names associated with welcome and toplinks tags.
• [Feature] Added a configuration option to enable alternative ESI syntax if standard syntax is filtered by another extension.
• [Improvement] Added the version number to the module title under System > Configuration in the Magento Admin Panel.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug when a dynamically created block was used.

Version 1.0.7¶

Released: August 11, 2015

• [Feature] Added two access-control points for LiteMage in the Magento Admin Panel.
• [Feature] Added the option to distinguish between logged-in and logged-out users only in Separate Cache Copy per Customer Group.
• [Improvement] Allowed the LITEMAGE_DEBUG GET parameter only when debug mode is set to Yes or the current IP matches an IP listed in Enable LiteMage Cache Only for Listed IPs.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug in a multi-currency setup.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug caused when Separate Cache Copy per Customer Group was enabled.

Version 1.0.6¶

Released: July 29, 2015

• [Feature] Added a block attribute to allow programmatic hole-punching of a dynamically created block from a template.
• [Feature] Added user-defined cacheable routes and Do-Not-Cache subroutes in the configuration. Settings are saved in the database, so there is no need to update config.xml.
• [Feature] Added debugging support that allows users to purge by product, category, or CMS IDs, or by specific URLs, under Cache Management. LiteMage automatically triggers purges when information is updated in the Magento Admin Panel.
• [Improvement] Adjusted the crawler to use a longer timeout.

Version 1.0.5¶

Released: July 22, 2015

• [Bug fix] Fixed an exception caused when an ESI block had no associated parent block.

Version 1.0.4¶

Released: July 20, 2015

• [Improvement] Improved detection of customized ESI blocks.
• [Improvement] Changed ESI block configuration. Default settings now cover most customized cases.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug that caused a removed child block within an ESI block to continue displaying.

Version 1.0.3¶

Released: June 2, 2015

• [Bug fix] Fixed website errors when Add Store Code to URLs was set to Yes.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug in the purge process when a product was out of stock.
• [Bug fix] Fixed a bug where the private session expired while the LiteMage private cache had not expired. Requires LiteSpeed Web Server 5.0 build 16.

Version 1.0.2¶

Released: May 26, 2015

• [Feature] Restructured LiteMage config.xml. ESI blocks are grouped based on cache tags and purge events to reduce duplication.
• [Feature] Added a private litemage.jsvar block at the end of the HTML page as a placeholder block to reset JavaScript global variables for each user.
• [Feature] Added an attribute to ESI block configuration to allow injecting a private block into a form-value field.
• [Feature] Added the LITEMAGE_DEBUG=NOCACHE|SHOWHOLES GET parameter to assist with integration testing.
• [Improvement] Removed HTML comment tags around esi:include to work with HTML-minification extensions.

Version 1.0.1¶

Released: April 30, 2015

• [Feature] Allowed a separate cache copy for user-defined cookies.
• [Improvement] Sent purge headers upfront to avoid issues caused by AJAX cart extensions.

Version 1.0.0¶

Released: April 17, 2015

• Initial release.