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WP Mail SMTP by WPForms 4.9.0 Released
What’s new in WP Mail SMTP by WPForms 4.9.0
Released: 2026-06-25
Active installations: 4,000,000
Tested up to WordPress 7.0.2
Requires PHP 7.4
Changelog
- Added: WP-CLI commands to configure WP Mail SMTP from the command line, including SMTP and API-key mailer setup and individual setting management.
- Added: Code Snippets tab on the Tools page to browse, preview, and install WP Mail SMTP’s WPCode snippets.
- Added: Support for the WordPress Abilities API (WordPress 6.9), letting connected tools and AI assistants securely read your debug events.
- Added: A one-click option to deactivate a conflicting plugin directly from the conflict notice.
- Added: Confirmation prompt before enabling the “Hide Email Delivery Errors” option, so the setting is not turned on by accident.
- Changed: Improved error handling and troubleshooting guidance when an email fails to send.
- Changed: Updated Action Scheduler library to 4.0.0.
- Fixed: The “Last week” stat in the Lite weekly summary email showed the just-started current week’s count instead of the actual previous week’s total, because the email is sent on Monday at 2pm.
- Fixed: Hardened permission checks and request handling across several admin features to address potential security issues.
Previous releases
4.8.0 — 2026-04-16
- Added: SendLayer Quick Connect – allows connecting to SendLayer without DNS setup in 2 minutes.
- Changed: Improved plugin security.
4.7.1 — 2025-11-26
- Added: WordPress playground blueprint file.
- Fixed: Text domain in a couple of strings.
- Changed: Switched Return-Path option to enabled by default to align with WordPress core.