This release adds Vietnamese as new translation and support for SSL for basemaps if available as well as some minor performance and security optimizations. See below for more details.

For even more features and optimizations (see the comparision page), please use the integrated pro upgrader to start a free 30-day-trial of Leaflet Maps Marker Pro.

Pro v1.5.3 has also been released today with the following highlight:

• upgrade to leaflet.js v0.7.2 (free version uses v0.4.5)

If you want to keep up to date with the latest Maps Marker development, please follow @MapsMarker on twitter (= most current updates), on Facebook, Google+ or subscribe to news via RSS or via RSS/email.

Vietnamese translation

Thanks to Hoai Thu, http://bizover.net, Vietnamese is now the 34th supported translation by Maps Marker 🙂

map tiles loading via SSL if available

Map tiles for Google Maps and bing maps have already been loaded via SSL if your WordPress site is also being loaded via SSL. I now also added SSL support for OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and OGD Vienna to avoid mixed content warnings in the browser.

Other changes & optimizations

• increased security by hardening search input field for markers on backend
• optimized performance by moving version checks for PHP and WordPress to register_activation_hook()
• optimized performance by running pro active check only on admin pages

Translations updates

Thanks to many motivated contributors, this release comes with the following translation updates:

Updated translations

• Chinese thanks to John Shen, http://www.synyan.net and ck
• German
• Norwegian (Bokmål) thanks to Inge Tang, http://drommemila.no
• Polish thanks to Tomasz Rudnicki, http://www.kochambieszczady.pl
• Russian thanks to Ekaterina Golubina (supported by Teplitsa of Social Technologies – http://te-st.ru) and Vyacheslav Strenadko, http://poi-gorod.ru
• Spanish thanks to Alvaro Lara, http://www.alvarolara.com, Victor Guevara, http://1sistemas.net and Ricardo Viteri, http://www.labviteri.com
• Turkish thanks to Emre Erkan, http://www.karalamalar.net and Mahir Tosun, http://www.bozukpusula.com

If you want to contribute to translations (some would need updates), please visit http://translate.mapsmarker.com/projects/lmm for more information. Please note that translators are also compensated for their contribution – for example if a translation is finished less than 50%, the translator gets a free 25 licenses pack worth  €199 as a compensation for completing the translation to 100%.

Outlook – my plans for the next release

Please see the roadmap for a rough schedule for planned features of the pro version and please subscribe to this blog (via RSS or Email) or follow @MapsMarker on twitter (= most current updates) if you want to stay up to date with the latest development news.

Full changelog

	upgrade to leaflet.js v0.7.2 (free version uses v0.4.5)
	Vietnamese (vi) translation thanks to Hoai Thu, http://bizover.net
	increased security by loading basemaps for OSM, Mapbox and OGD Vienna via SSL if WordPress also loads via SSL
	increased security by hardening search input field for markers on backend
	optimized performance by moving version checks for PHP and WordPress to register_activation_hook()
	optimized performance by running pro active check only on admin pages
Translation updates In case you want to help with translations, please visit the web-based translation plattform
	updated Chinese translation thanks to John Shen, http://www.synyan.net and ck
	updated German translation
	updated Norwegian (Bokmål) translation thanks to Inge Tang, http://drommemila.no
	updated Polish translation thanks to Tomasz Rudnicki, http://www.kochambieszczady.pl
	updated Russian translation thanks to Ekaterina Golubina (supported by Teplitsa of Social Technologies – http://te-st.ru) and Vyacheslav Strenadko, http://poi-gorod.ru
	updated Spanish translation thanks to Alvaro Lara, http://www.alvarolara.com, Victor Guevara, http://1sistemas.net and Ricardo Viteri, http://www.labviteri.com
	updated Turkish translation thanks to Emre Erkan, http://www.karalamalar.net and Mahir Tosun, http://www.bozukpusula.com

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How to download / update 

The easiest way to update is to use the WordPress update process: login with an user who has admin privileges, navigate to Dashboard / Updates, select plugins to update and press the button “Update Plugins”. Alternatively you can also download the current version here, unzip the package and overwrite the plugin´s files on your webserver.