FlyWP’s December 2025 release brings Akamai provisioning without API keys, built-in PageSpeed Insights, enhanced security scanning for OpenLiteSpeed sites, accurate Cloudflare IP logging, and a wide range of performance and stability improvements.
All New Features:
1. Akamai Provisioning Support (No API Key Required):
You can now deploy and provision servers directly on Akamai’s cloud infrastructure from within FlyWP, without needing to bring your own API key.
With this update, you can:
- Provision Akamai servers directly from the FlyWP dashboard
- Get started faster with no API key setup required
- Manage Akamai infrastructure alongside your existing servers
2. PageSpeed Insights Integration:
You can now analyze your site’s performance directly inside FlyWP using Google PageSpeed Insights.
- Run PageSpeed performance checks without leaving your dashboard
- Get clear insights into speed, performance, and optimization opportunities
- Save time by avoiding external tools and manual testing
Follow these steps to create and configure your key:
- Set Up a Google Cloud Project
- Enable the PageSpeed Insights API
- Create Your API Key
- Integrate API key with FlyWP
- Scan for PageSpeed Insights & Core Web Vitals.
Check out our detailed documentation with video guides. It makes performance monitoring faster, simpler, and more accessible for all FlyWP users.
3. Security Scans for OpenLiteSpeed Sites:
Integrity Checker and Vulnerability Scanner are now fully supported on OLS-powered sites, bringing deeper security insights and protection across all server types.
Vulnerability Scanner:
- Automatically scans WordPress core, plugins, and themes for known vulnerabilities.
- Provides severity ratings (High, Medium, Low) to help you prioritize fixes effectively.
- Displays detailed information on exactly which versions are affected.
WordPress Core & Plugin Integrity Checker:
- Scans your site’s WordPress core and plugin files.
- Compares them against the official WordPress repositories.
- Detects and alerts you to any unauthorized file modifications.
4. Real Visitor IP Logging with Cloudflare:
FlyWP now ensures real visitor IP addresses are correctly logged in Nginx access logs, even when your site is behind a Cloudflare proxy.
This improvement helps with:
- More accurate traffic analysis
- Better security monitoring and auditing
- Improved compatibility with analytics and security tools
5. Enhanced WordPress Plugin Management:
Plugin listing, detection, and installation flows have been improved for a smoother and more reliable plugin management experience across your WordPress sites.
Fixes & Enhancements:
We’ve also enhanced FlyWP’s performance and reliability with key fixes:
- Streamlined NGINX Configuration Testing: NGINX configuration testing has been simplified by removing temporary error handling, resulting in Cleaner configuration validation, more predictable test results, and a smoother server configuration workflow.
- More Reliable Browser-Based Terminal: The terminal has been refactored for improved stability.
- Server Selection Pagination: Server selection screens (Clone & Transfer) now include pagination for smoother navigation.
- Updated Default OS Version: New server provisioning now defaults to Ubuntu 24 (upgraded from Ubuntu 22).
- Password Validation Improvements: Password validation now correctly supports all special characters, ensuring a smoother and more flexible authentication experience.
- Site Info Display Logic: Site information is now displayed conditionally based on site type, reducing confusion and improving clarity across the dashboard.
Quality & Stability Improvements:
- Site Restoration Cache Handling: After restoring a site, the PHP container automatically restarts to clear cached data, ensuring that restored sites behave correctly immediately.
- One-Click App Rename Fix: Resolved issues that occurred when renaming one-click application installations, improving reliability and consistency.
- Site Restore Permissions: Resolved permission issues that occurred during site restoration.
- OpenLiteSpeed PHP Settings: Fixed an issue where PHP setting changes were overriding OLS HTTPD configuration files.
- WordPress Search-Replace: The WP users table is now correctly excluded during database search-replace operations.
Hotfixes:
- pCloud Restore Flow: Fixed restoration issues with pCloud integration.
- User Invitation Processing: Resolved user invitation workflow issues.
- Code Editor Improvements: Standardized Unix line endings and corrected editor build imports to improve reliability.
- SFTP and Certificates Improvements: Resolved SFTP relationship issues and fixed incorrect certificate active states for accurate status reporting.
📅 Looking Ahead to January 2026?
In the upcoming months, we’ll be releasing a full migration and backup system refactor, delivering faster, more reliable site transfers and safer backups.
💡 Pro Tip: Explore these new tools in your dashboard now and keep your WordPress sites secure, fast, and easy to manage.
That’s a wrap for December 2025!
This month’s release brings major improvements to your FlyWP workflow – and we couldn’t have done it without you. Join our Facebook Community to share feedback, suggest features, and connect with fellow FlyWP users. Don’t forget to subscribe to our channel for tutorials, tips, and the latest updates to help you get the most out of FlyWP.
See you next month with even more powerful tools and improvements! 👋
