March 24th, 2026

Security: Improved authorization checks in the Heartbeat API to prevent unintended access to Child Reports data by authenticated users with lower-level permissions. Updating to version 2.3 is recommended. (CVE-2026-4299)
Added: Object caching for main query and meta record lookups to improve performance
Updated: Improved output escaping compliance throughout plugin (WordPress Coding Standards)
Updated: Translation and echo statements with proper context-aware escaping functions