In CosmicWord 1.1.4 we were focused on removing legacy features and added in login security to help try to prevent brute force logins. This introduced the pop-up letting you know that your Ip may be logged.
We removed any form of support for Windows Live Writer, since it was discontinued in 2017. We completely removed trackbacks, except for the minimal amount needed to avoid plugins looking for trackbacks not to crash. We removed them because they were one way to do a denial of service attack, which is one person attacking a site or distributed denial of service, which is more than one person.
Trackbacks were the number one way spam got all over your site, which is something everyone wanted gone. Trackbacks were from a bygone era of telling one another that a site linked to you, so we disabled it, but due to how prevalent it is throughout the code Disabled we have not fully removed it. All Filters and hooks for trackbacks remain for backward compatibility.
We also improved the security for language selection, session management, and enhanced cookie protection.
These changes show our commitment to maintaining a modern, secure CosmicWord while ensuring compatibility with existing plugins and themes.
We are now on github with version 1.1.4