= 8.1.1 – November 5, 2025 =
* Improvement: Improved localization support for the various block screens and messages.
* Improvement: Updated the bundled geoip database.
* Improvement: Prioritized Wordfence tables in the diagnostics tool when large numbers of tables exist.
* Improvement: Allow non-US Google crawler IP addresses to pass country blocking.
* Improvement: Enforcement of password strength requirements is now applied on the corresponding REST API endpoints.
* Fix: Fixed detection for first-time logins and overall sending for login alerts when the corresponding settings are enabled.
* Fix: When the WAF is using the mysql storage engine, fixed an issue with exclusion rules for the WAF not running correctly.
* Fix: Reduced per-hit database query load around checking license status for free installations.
* Fix: Optimized data sync with the WAF to better detect when the known server IP address list has changed.