Wordfence version 6.2.8 – Released today!

Greetings all. We have a point release for Wordfence today, version 6.2.8. Please update as soon as you are able.

• Improvement: Added support for hiding the username information revealed by the WordPress 4.7 REST API. Thanks Vladimir Smitka.
• Improvement: Added vulnerability scanning for themes.
• Improvement: Reduced memory usage by up to 90% when scanning comments.
• Improvement: Performance improvements for the dashboard widget.
• Improvement: Added progressive loading of addresses on the blocked IP list.
• Improvement: The diagnostics page now displays a config reading/writing test.
• Change: Support for the Falcon cache has been removed.
• Fix: Better messaging when the WAF rules are manually updated.
• Fix: The proxy detection check frequency has been reduced and no longer alerts if the server is unreachable.
• Fix: Adjusted the behavior of parsing the X-Forwarded-For header for better accuracy. Thanks Jason Woods.
• Fix: Typo fix on the options page.
• Fix: Scan issue for known core file now shows the correct links.
• Fix: Links in “unlock” emails now work for IPv6 and IPv4-mapped-IPv6 addresses.
• Fix: Restricted caching of responses from the Wordfence Security Network.
• Fix: Fixed a recording issue with Wordfence Security Network statistics.

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