New Features

• Added live progress reporting for cache preloading with resumable cache-warming jobs.
• Added inline JavaScript minification.
• Added automatic LCP image preloading.
• Added hero background image detection and preloading.
• Added Critical CSS support with asynchronous CSS loading.
• Added automatic exclusions for WooCommerce cart, checkout, and account pages.

Improved

• Improved cache preloading visibility with a dedicated progress panel.
• Improved WooCommerce compatibility by protecting payment provider scripts from JavaScript delay.
• Improved JavaScript delay behavior to keep jQuery, theme, and Elementor scripts loading immediately.
• Improved initial page rendering by shortening the delayed JavaScript fallback timer.
• Improved asynchronous CSS handling to support Critical CSS without requiring CSS combining.
• Improved performance settings descriptions for asynchronous CSS and JavaScript delay.
• Improved settings usability with one-click button groups for database cleanup frequency, WordPress Heartbeat behavior, and eager image count.
• Improved LCP performance by excluding above-the-fold hero background images from lazy loading.

Fixed

• Fixed cache preloading feedback and recovery after settings page reloads.
• Fixed WooCommerce dynamic pages being incorrectly cached or optimized, regardless of page slug or site language.
• Fixed payment and checkout functionality issues caused by delayed payment provider scripts.
• Fixed JavaScript-dependent content rendering being unnecessarily delayed.
• Fixed inline JavaScript minification handling to preserve strings, template literals, regular expressions, and necessary line breaks.
• Fixed Critical CSS not being inlined when CSS combining was disabled.
• Fixed potential flashes of unstyled content when asynchronous CSS loading is enabled.