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Today we’re pleased to announce the official release of WP Migrate 2.5, which brings High-Performance File Transfers out of beta and into its new role as the standard file transfer method in WP Migrate. This means if you migrate big sites with lots of files, your migrations just got a whole lot faster.
We first introduced a public beta of High-Performance File Transfers in WP Migrate 2.4. The idea was born out of the reality that every network request takes some amount of time to process regardless of its size. This overhead usually amounts to a fraction of a second per request, but quickly adds up over hundreds or even thousands of requests when moving large WordPress sites.
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