v1.8.0-beta.1

1.8.0-beta.1 (2026-08-10)

Plugin and language-pack update checks previously ran on every admin page load, so a slow or unresponsive millipress.com could stall every admin request waiting for a timeout. Both checks now run only during WordPress's scheduled update refresh cycles, with a 3-second timeout and a 15-minute back-off after any failure. "Check again" still triggers an immediate fresh check.

Bug Fixes

• updates: keep update checks off every admin page load (1661d07)

Performance Results

Loading 6.7x faster with MilliCache!

Metric	Without Cache	With MilliCache	Improvement
Server Response (TTFB)	47ms	7ms	85% faster
Page Load (LCP)	96ms	56ms	42% faster

Server Response is the primary metric for page caching. It measures how fast the server delivers the HTML. MilliCache focuses on serving cached pages instantly, eliminating database queries and PHP processing.

Page Load includes frontend rendering time, which depends on themes, scripts, and assets. Content optimization is outside MilliCache's current scope.

Technical Details

Cache Efficiency

• Database queries: 27 → 29
• Response time range: 6ms-57ms (cached) vs 43ms-60ms (uncached)

Cache Generation (First Request)

• Total processing: 48.63ms
• Before template: 22.74ms
• Template rendering: 25.89ms

Test Configuration

• Iterations: 50 (3 warm-up runs discarded)
• Outliers removed: 5
• Timestamp: 2026-08-10T08:11:16.402Z
• Commit: 1971cbc

Regression Analysis

• Status: PASS
• Performance stable: 6.81x -> 6.75x (-0.9%)
• Threshold: 10% slowdown triggers failure