= 4.16.0 - 11 December, 2024 =
- New: Filter hooks to exclude JS files from delay and defer (for third-party plugin developers)
- Improvement: A remarkable 80% reduction in CPU usage during cache preloading for sites with large number of pages
- Improvement: Enhanced compatibility with the SureCart plugin
- Improvement: Enable defer inline by default when defer JavaScript is enabled
- Improvement: Cache was not purged properly when ACF option pages are updated in certain cases
- Improvement: CORS compliant image preloading to ensure efficient resource reuse for better performance
- Improvement: Do not optimize images inside `template` tags for broader compatibility
- Fix: A PHP notice triggered by early textdomain loading in WP v6.7.1