Changelog

v1.6.0 - 27 May 2026

Added

Pure Comments logo now appears on all admin pages (dashboard, settings, updates, login).
Search box on the dashboard to search comments by name or content (search terms are preserved when paginating through results).

Changed

Admin page headers and links are now themed red to match the Pure Comments brand colour.
Replaced emoji favicon with the Pure Comments logo.

v1.5.2 - 09 May 2026

Pure Comments has moved from GitHub to Codeberg. The update checker now fetches release information from Codeberg, and all relevant links have been updated accordingly.

Upgrade notice - This release restructures the in-app updater so a manual update is required.

Manual upgrade steps

Back up your site — download a copy of your entire Pure Comments directory before proceeding.
Download the v1.5.2 release zip from the Codeberg releases page and extract it.
Delete everything EXCEPT for the db/ directory and the config.php file.
Copy the new files to your existing installation, replacing everything except your db/ directory and config.php file.

v1.5.1 - 04 May 2026

Updated license to v1.1: commercial self-use is now explicitly permitted.
Added Italian translation (thanks Elena Brescacin)

1.5.0 - 25 April 2026

New features

“Remember me” checkbox on the login page; sets a 90-day persistent cookie so the browser session survives a restart.
Filter by post - each comment row in the dashboard now has a “Filter by this post” link that scopes both pending and published lists to that post.
Filter by commenter - each comment row has a “Filter by this commenter” link; filters by email if the commenter provided one, otherwise by name.

Note: Translations for new strings were done by an AI, so will likely need a human review.

Improvements

Enhanced German translation (thanks werschreibt).

1.4.1 - 21 April 2026

Fixed incorrect email encoding for UTF-8 characters (e.g. umlauts) in SMTP notifications (fixes #2)
Added SMTP debug logging toggle to settings — displays the full SMTP conversation log in the admin UI when sending a test email (fixes #4)
Fixed updater not replacing the lang/ directory when upgrading — lang files will now be updated correctly from this version onwards

⚠️ One-off manual step for anyone upgrading to v1.4.1: the updater could not replace your lang files during this upgrade, so you will need to manually copy the lang/ directory from the release zip to your installation.

1.4.0 - 14 April 2026

Added translation support. Currently has English (en.php) and German (de.php). German translations were created by AI, so please submit a PR if updates are required. Read the docs.

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ IMPORTANT NOTE AFTER UPDATING: Your site will produce a 500 error after updating. This is expected behaviour. It's because the current updater doesn't expect the /lang directory, so it won't copy the language files over during the update.

To fix this you have to manually copy the /lang directory to the root of your comments install. This is a one off action. Future updates will be fine.