• New: Added remote MCP server integration for connecting Next3 Offload with ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, and other MCP-compatible applications.
• New: Added secure OAuth 2.1 authorization with PKCE, automatic client registration, token management, and OAuth discovery.
• New: Added 10 MCP tools for checking configuration, finding media, viewing offload status, offloading files, restoring files, optimizing images, unoffloading media, cleaning local files, and monitoring background jobs.
• New: Users can now manage WordPress media using natural-language prompts without manually entering tool names.
• New: Added confirmation previews and short-lived security tokens for destructive actions, including deleting verified local files, removing cloud copies, and overwriting optimized images.
• New: Added background job processing with job-status monitoring, retry protection, and idempotency support for long-running media operations.
• New: Added a dedicated MCP Integration dashboard containing the MCP server URL, connection readiness checks, published tools, OAuth client management, recent activity, and access-revocation controls.
• New: Added automatic OAuth metadata discovery, allowing supported applications to connect using only the main MCP server URL.
• Security: Added separate read, write, and destructive OAuth permissions. Storage credentials and provider secrets are never exposed to connected AI applications.

New: Added AVIF converter support along with existing WebP optimization options.

Improved: Rename File feature now keeps the original file name and adds a unique string for better file identification and uniqueness.

Example:
original-image.jpg → original-image-x7As91.jpg

• New Addon: Next3 AI Assistant introduced – AI-powered image optimization, WebP & AVIF generation, responsive images, duplicate detection, and AI alt text generation
• New: AI Settings panel added – configure API keys for OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Kimi with model selection (e.g. GPT-4o)
• New: AI image compression with customizable user prompt, WebP/AVIF compression type selection, lazy loading, and background removal
• New: Auto-generate alt tags, captions, and descriptions for media files using AI
• Improve: Duplicate media files checker added to Tools – one-click scan detects duplicate files in local storage

• Improve: In-memory cache layer added for frontend URL resolution
• Improve: Negative caching for attachment URL lookups to prevent repeated LIKE queries
• Improve: Redundant SQL JOIN removed from metadata retrieval
• Fix: Cloud sync restricted to admin context only
• Fix: Frontend transient writes optimized to reduce database overhead

• Fix: License expiration date auto-check added
• Fix: Offload Processing system updated

• New: License expire date auto-check added
• Fix: License check triggered on upload error response
• Fix: User-Agent header updated with WordPress version & site URL
• Fix: License validation returns detailed status codes
• Fix: Error messages simplified to plain strings

• Optimized: Provider instance caching to prevent redundant credential checks on every file operation
• Improved: Faster admin and frontend loading for sites with many offloaded files
• Fixed: WordPress original image files (pre-scaled backups) now supported in offload, cleanup, and restore operations
• Fixed: Srcset URL generation for responsive images

• Faster page loading with optimized caching
• Reduced database queries for better performance
• Improved URL processing speed
• Fixed memory usage on image-heavy pages

• Add version when delivery media URLs
• Delivery Presigned Object URLs
• Disabled rewrite URLs in media page

• New: Added support for TinyPNG, Kraken.io, ShortPixel, and EWWW Optimizer as selectable optimization engines.
• Optimized: Faster performance improvements.