@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * Plugin Name:       LiteSpeed Cache
  * Plugin URI:        https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/cache-plugins/wordpress-acceleration
  * Description:       High-performance page caching and site optimization from LiteSpeed
- * Version:           7.9.2-b70
+ * Version:           7.9.2-rc1
  * Author:            LiteSpeed Technologies
  * Author URI:        https://www.litespeedtech.com
  * License:           GPLv3
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 	return;
 }
 
-! defined( 'LSCWP_V' ) && define( 'LSCWP_V', '7.9.2-b70' );
+! defined( 'LSCWP_V' ) && define( 'LSCWP_V', '7.9.2-rc1' );
 
 ! defined( 'LSCWP_CONTENT_DIR' ) && define( 'LSCWP_CONTENT_DIR', WP_CONTENT_DIR );
 ! defined( 'LSCWP_DIR' ) && define( 'LSCWP_DIR', __DIR__ . '/' ); // Full absolute path '/var/www/html/***/wp-content/plugins/litespeed-cache/' or MU
 
@@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ Please don't report a suspected vulnerability in this support forum. Reporting d
 * **Task** Isolated asynchronous tokens by job type, used constant-time validation, and excluded tokens from logs.
 * **Purge** Corrected unpublished-post and empty-archive purges, preserved encoded paths, and prevented site cron from flushing shared backends.
 * **3rd** Corrected WooCommerce and NextGEN purges, protected unvaried cart responses, and validated bulk-edit and WCML settings permissions.
+* **3rd** WCML: guests in the shop currency now use the default cache, and the crawler warms it. (#1057)
 * **Core** Hardened file writes, admin output and static asset headers, replaced React and Babel with plain jQuery/JavaScript forms, and improved installation, upgrade and uninstall handling.
 * **Localization** Validated resource patterns while preserving comments, limited remote JavaScript downloads to 10 seconds, cleaned failed downloads, and restored HTTPS fallback redirects.
 
 
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ public static function apply_vary( $vary_list ) {
 	/**
 	 * Inject the WCML vary row into the crawler cookie list.
 	 *
+	 * A currency that needs no vary cookie (the shop currency without location mode, Guest Mode off) maps to `_null`, so the crawler also runs it cookie-less.
+	 *
 	 * @since 7.9
 	 * @access public
 	 * @param mixed $cookies Crawler cookie list.
@@ -131,6 +133,11 @@ public static function inject_vary_row( $cookies ) {
 
 		$vals = [];
 		foreach ($selected as $code) {
+			if (self::_is_cookieless($code)) {
+				$vals[] = '_null';
+				continue;
+			}
+			// A false hash here is a HASH failure or LITESPEED_GUEST bypass, never proof of no vary: skip it.
 			$h = self::_vary_hash($code);
 			if (!empty($h)) {
 				$vals[] = $h;
@@ -154,9 +161,14 @@ public static function inject_vary_row( $cookies ) {
 				$other_rows[] = $c;
 			}
 		}
+		$vals = array_values(array_unique(array_merge($existing_vals, $vals)));
+		// Without an existing or selected hash, the default guest crawl is already cookie-less.
+		if (!array_diff($vals, [ '_null' ])) {
+			return $cookies;
+		}
 		$other_rows[] = [
 			'name' => $vary_name,
-			'vals' => array_values(array_unique(array_merge($existing_vals, $vals))),
+			'vals' => $vals,
 		];
 		return $other_rows;
 	}
@@ -329,6 +341,28 @@ private static function _by_location() {
 		return !empty($settings['default_currencies']) && is_array($settings['default_currencies']) && in_array('location', $settings['default_currencies'], true);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Whether a guest in the given currency needs no vary cookie at all.
+	 *
+	 * Mirrors the guest vary list of Vary::finalize_default_vary(-1) with Guest Mode off. With Guest Mode on the crawler already presets a `_null` run.
+	 *
+	 * @since 7.9.2
+	 * @access private
+	 * @param string $currency Currency code.
+	 * @return bool
+	 */
+	private static function _is_cookieless( $currency ) {
+		if (apply_filters('litespeed_conf', \LiteSpeed\Base::O_GUEST)) {
+			return false;
+		}
+
+		$prev            = self::$_currency;
+		self::$_currency = $currency;
+		$vary            = apply_filters('litespeed_vary', []);
+		self::$_currency = $prev;
+		return empty($vary);
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Compute the vary cookie value for a guest under the given currency.
 	 *
 
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 // List of available public versions
 $v_list = array(
+	'7.9.2',
 	'7.9.1',
 	'7.9',
 	'7.8.1',