UUpdraftPlus: version, compatibility and updates

UpdraftPlus is a WordPress plugin with 4+ million active installs. The current version on WordPress.org is 1.26.14, last updated on 26 October 2026.

Facts from WordPress.org

Does UpdraftPlus work with WordPress 7.2?

UpdraftPlus says it was tested up to WordPress 7.1.4. It does not yet say it has been tested with WordPress 7.2. See the full WordPress 7.2 compatibility list.

What the plugin says about itself

The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world. Backup with UpdraftPlus UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup and migration plugin. Backup to your preferred storage location and restore in just three clicks. Backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift or email. The paid version also allows you to backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV or UpdraftVault, our integrated storage option for UpdraftPlus. Backup manually or schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly or fortnightly. Restore with UpdraftPlus Your WordPress website is vulne…

Newest changelog entry

1.26.14 – 26/Oct/2026 FEATURE: SFTP/SCP remote storage now supports modern host key algorithms like Ed25519 and also new cryptographies FEATURE: Improve the restoration of the ‘uploads’ entity to be more efficient, and add the ‘UPDRAFTPLUS_RESTORE_DELETE_OLD_UPLOAD_FILES’ constant to allow the deletion of leftover files in the ‘uploads’ directory that are not part of the backup file FIX: Fixed a JS error and incorrect checkbox state handling on the auto-backup before update prompt. FIX: Prevent a fatal TypeError on PHP 8+ when an admin URL contains an “action” query argument as an array. TWEAK: Disabled the option to automatically add websites to UDCentral upon connection by default. Users must now explicitly enable this option if they want websites to be added automatically upon connection. TWEAK: Adjusted the Abort Backup popup icon sizing and added the missing “X” icon to the Close button on the backup completion popup. TWEAK: Avoid warning by handling $_ENV variable. TWEAK: Change the ‘pre_database_backup_setup’ action hook name to ‘updraftplus_pre_database_backup_setup’ TWEAK: Check the existence of the user’s folder before doing any UpdraftVault storage-related oprations to ensure the same directory is used even if the home/site URL has changed from using “www” to without using “www” or vice versa. TWEAK: Enforce the WordPress DISALLOW_FILE_MODS constant to block all restore operations (including database) via the admin UI, WP-CLI, and the core restore method. TWEAK: En

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