Stars

Stars’ version now tracks the major version of Craft CMS it targets. 5.0.0 is the first public release on the Craft Plugin Store, for Craft CMS 5.

Added

• Privacy controls: captureIpAddress, captureUserAgent, and captureReferrer settings to independently disable storing each piece of submission metadata (GDPR-style data minimization). All default to on.
• Reviewer email addresses are now masked in error logs (e.g. a***@example.com).
• Automated test suite (Codeception + Craft's test framework), runnable via DDEV.

Fixed

• craft.reviews.averageRating() — and the ratingValue in the schema.org JSON-LD output — returned an incorrect value instead of the true average.
• The per-IP rate limiter flagged legitimate first-time submissions as spam, rejecting valid reviews whenever rate limiting was enabled (on by default).

Changed

• New plugin icon.
• Licensed under the standard Craft License.

Added

• Initial release
• Review element type with star ratings (1-5 configurable up to 10)
• Four-state moderation: pending, approved, rejected, spam
• Pros/cons fields
• Admin response support
• Spam protection: honeypot, reCAPTCHA v3, rate limiting, submission time check
• Schema.org JSON-LD output (Review + AggregateRating)
• Email notifications on new submissions
• Twig variable craft.reviews for frontend queries
• User permissions for view, manage, moderate, respond, delete
• CP element index with bulk actions (approve, reject, mark as spam)