v4.1.0

Changelog

= v4.1.0 – Sep 25, 2026 =

Update: Major release. WP Project Manager 4.1.0 needs WP Project Manager Pro 4.1.0 or newer. Pro 4.0.8 stays paused with a notice and can still be updated from the Plugins screen; older Pro versions are deactivated until updated. Update both plugins together.
Security: Global settings can no longer be read by low-privileged users, and the Pusher secret is never sent to the browser. Reported by Patchstack (Ananda Dhakal).
Security: Payment gateway secret keys stay on the server and are masked on the settings screen; the PayPal email is validated.
Security: Private tasks, subtasks, milestones and files stay private in lists, the dashboard, activity and email notifications, and comment emails only go to people who can open the item.
Security: A task's completion date can no longer be set from the client, attachment links only accept http(s) URLs, and a Kanban board background can only use or delete the user's own upload.
New: Modernized interface across projects, task lists, the task sheet, Kanban, milestones, discussions, files, My Tasks and settings, with a new type scale, Plus Jakarta Sans, loading skeletons, empty states and retry on failed loads.
New: Dashboard home page scoped to the viewer's role: summary cards that follow the date range, overdue milestones, projects overview, viewer-aware task performance chart, contribution heatmap, team workload and a Recent Activity feed that opens each item.
New: Archive a project from the project menu and browse archived projects in their own list.
New: Filter tasks by priority, label, task type and milestone; search on the Kanban board and in discussions.
New: Kanban board background image per project, with column colors that stay readable on top of it.
New: Paste GitHub Markdown into descriptions and comments, and copy them back as Markdown.
New: Create a task type or milestone straight from its picker in the task sheet, and deep links to My Tasks tabs and task sheet tabs.
New: Project Calendar tab (Pro preview in Free) and a My Tasks overview calendar that shows multi-day tasks as one bar.
New: Invoice Defaults: the tax rate prefills each new line item and Default Terms & Conditions (now a rich text editor) prefills a new invoice (with Pro).
Improved: Toasts with a countdown and clear messages on every action, shared pagination, keyboard and screen reader access across the app, and responsive layouts on narrow screens.
Improved: The activity log records a field's first value, a cleared value and start date changes, and shows as a timeline.
Improved: Settings use a left navigation, and Invoices and Settings tabs show only to managers.
Improved: The File Upload Limit setting applies to every upload, and downloads show progress.
Fixed: Urgent priority shows everywhere and is kept on save, and the Undefined offset notice for it is gone.
Fixed: Dates entered as a day no longer show a day early, and date displays include the year.
Fixed: Stale screens on hosts that cache wp-json responses; member, category and task changes now refresh without a reload.
Fixed: Kanban Import Task shows every task list, AI models load for OpenAI and Google, and the Modules menu is hidden from non-admins.
Fixed: Updating a project without its members no longer removes them, and opening a project no longer jumps back to the previous one.
Fixed: Bullets and numbered lists show in editors on the settings and invoice screens.