Changelog

Major milestones through v0.21.0.

0.24.3 — 2026-10-13

• Default customer installations to the production Stardetha One service and pinned public signing key.
• Preserve complete staging/custom overrides and explicit legacy mode; fail closed on partial trust configuration.
• Customers enter only their licence key; provider API credentials remain separately configured.
• Synchronize product documentation 0.24.3 and documentation plugin 1.5.3.

0.24.2 — 2026-10-12

• Corrected the One License screen update guidance.
• Added real-host update and recovery instructions.
• Recorded the baseline native CI checkpoint with its limits.
• Synchronized docs site 0.24.2 and WordPress viewer 1.5.2.
• Translation, licensing and updater logic remain unchanged.

0.24.1 — 2026-10-08

• Documentation/version maintenance release; translation/licensing runtime unchanged.
• Staging acceptance guide, native WordPress runner instructions and explicit validation limits.
• Synchronized docs site 0.24.1 and WordPress viewer 1.5.1.

0.24.0 — 2026-10-08

• Licensed One-mode WordPress update checks and plugin details.
• Fresh short-lived package authorization, runtime compatibility and size/SHA-256 verification before install.
• Synchronized documentation project/site 0.24.0 and WordPress docs viewer 1.5.0; legacy updater unchanged.

0.23.0 — 2026-10-08

• Online licence-wide UTC monthly character allowance with idempotent authorization retries.
• Provider dispatch fails closed without confirmed authorization. Failed/interrupted authorized batches remain counted.
• Cached usage display and customer portal totals; public/manual translation paths preserved.
• Synchronized documentation project/site 0.23.0 and WordPress docs plugin 1.4.0.

0.22.0 — 2026-10-08

• Optional Stardetha One licensing with isolated encrypted connection storage, trusted public-key verification, hourly refresh and disconnect retry.
• Explicit legacy compatibility; no automatic key or purchase migration.
• Target-language generation and strict memory grants, retaining published translations and manual editing.
• Monthly-character metering and One automatic updates are not implemented.
• PHP 8.1 minimum; native WordPress staging acceptance still required.
• Synchronized docs project/site 0.22.0 and documentation plugin 1.3.0.

v0.21.0 — Standalone Stardetha licensing

• Replaced EDD Software Licensing integration with the standalone Stardetha Licensing Manager REST API.
• Removed the Easy Digital Downloads and WooCommerce licensing dependency.
• Added persistent installation instance IDs for activation tracking.
• Added encrypted local license-key storage and masked display.
• Added signed licensing-response verification and public-key pinning when supported.
• Added direct activation, check and deactivation endpoints.
• Added direct licensed update checks and short-lived secure package URLs.
• Restricted the 14-day grace period to genuine connectivity/server failures after a successful validation.
• Added customer license portal link and signature status on the License screen.

v0.20.0 — Commercial licensing foundation

• Added the first Stardetha commercial License dashboard and premium entitlement checks.
• Added the initial 14-day connectivity grace model.
• Added license-gated premium generation/rendered-site discovery and update hooks.
• Added Stardetha About/ownership branding.

v0.19.0 — Automatic rendered-site discovery

• Added resumable full-site frontend-rendered discovery to Translate Entire Site.
• Made Visual Editor an exception/QA tool rather than a required page-by-page discovery workflow.

Earlier releases established posts/blog support, shortcode rendering, Visual Editor capture, Elementor coverage, diagnostic logging, direct DeepL/Google providers, queue processing, glossary/memory, multilingual routing and the core translation model.

Documentation 1.5.4 — 2026-10-13

Stardetha One 0.11.0 customer download guide added. ILS runtime remains 0.24.3.