CMS Navigation

This release makes navigation caching more reliable and improves compatibility with other WPML components.

Navigation caching and rendering

• Editing a page's offsite URL now immediately updates the navigation cache, so menus reflect the change right away.
• Fixed a fatal error that could occur when the navigation cache was enabled.
• Removed a PHP warning that appeared when rendering navigation on a fresh install.
• The navigation sidebar now loads faster, especially on sites with many pages.

Compatibility and stability

• Fixed a fatal error that could occur when an outdated version of WPML String Translation was active.
• CMS Navigation now checks companion plugin versions consistently, preventing crashes caused by outdated versions.
• Fixed an issue where translated private posts were missing from results returned during scheduled (cron) tasks.

Settings

• Removed the legacy removed-languages table from Settings → Languages, leaving the new Removed languages panel as the only place to manage them.

Security

• This release includes security hardening.

Fixes:

• Cleaned up deprecation notices related to PHP 8.4.
• Fixed two cases where a child page with the wrong language assigned could cause the page to hang while rendering.
• Refreshed the plugin's links and metadata in the WordPress plugin header.

• Fixed PHP 8.x deprecated notices.

Fixes

• Added filter wpml_navbar_sections to make it possible to add or remove items to the navigation.

Fixes

• Fixed calls to deprecated jQuery functions.

Fixes

• Fixed unexpected checkbox behaviors due to jQuery changes in WP 5.5.

• Full breadcrumbs path not displayed for hierarchical custom post types.

Features

• Improved performance by clearing cache only when applicable.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue to ensure the resources (CSS/JS) are loaded only when required.

Fixes

• Renamed the .mo file for Ukrainian language since we adjusted its locale to uk.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the Ukrainian .mo files.

Fixes

• Re-organised the WPML menu in order to allow changing the default menu item and the order of the items.

Fixes

• Re-organised the WPML menu in order to allow changing the default menu item and the order of the items.

Features

• Added support for the "Display as translated" feature

Fixes

• Fixed a broken breadcrumb for non-translatable CPT with has_archive disabled.

Features

• Added support for the new translation mode which uses translations if available or falls back to default language

Fixes

• Fixed a broken breadcrumb for non-translatable custom post types with has_archive disabled

• Removed dependency with WPML Page Builder, as is now merged into String Translation

• Removed dependency with WPML Page Builder, as is now merged into String Translation

• Removed dependency with WPML Page Builder, as is now merged into String Translation

• Removed dependency with WPML Page Builder, as is now merged into String Translation

• Removed dependency with WPML Page Builder, as is now merged into String Translation

• Updated some dependencies, to be compatible with the ones used in WPML-Core and add-ons

Fixes

• `$post->ancestors` is a read-only field and should not be set
• Fixed bug occurring when the "auto-save" action was running, and causing some CMS-NAV loss data during post editing
• Fixed issue with pages' order not being respected

• Resolved wpml-auto-loader.php issues
• Fixed wrong use of MyISAM engine when creating the icl_cms_nav_cache table