Version 3.6.0

Note that the upcoming ElasticPress 3.7.0 release will remove built assets from the develop branch, will replace master with trunk, will build a stable release version including built assets into a stable branch, and will include a build script should you want to build assets from a branch. As such, please plan to update any references you have from master to either stable or trunk depending on whether you require built assets or not.

Breaking Changes

• Autosuggest will now respect the [name="post_type"] input in the same form. Before it would bring all post types. Props @mustafauysal and @JakePT via #1689
• Facets Widget presentation, replacing the <input type="checkbox"> elements in option links with a custom .ep-checkbox presentational div. Props @MediaMaquina, @amesplant, @JakePT, and @oscarssanchez via #1886

Added

• Comments Indexable. Props @dkotter, @dinhtungdu, @Rahmon, and @felipeelia via #1531
• "ElasticPress - Comments", a search form for comments. Props @Rahmon and @felipeelia via #2238
• Facets: new ep_facet_allowed_query_args filter. Props @mustafauysal, @JakePT,@Rahmon, and @felipeelia via #1689
• Facets: new ep_facet_use_field filter. Props @moraleida via #2071
• GitHub Action to auto-close non-responsive reporter feedback issues after 3 days. Props @jeffpaul via #2199
• Autosuggest: new ep_autosuggest_default_selectors filter. Props @JakePT and @johnbillion via #2181
• WP-CLI: Index by ID ranges with --upper-limit-object-id and --lower-limit-object-id. Props @WPprodigy, @Rahmon, and @felipeelia via #2171
• Confirmation for destructive WP-CLI commands. Props @nickdaugherty and @Rahmon via #2120
• Elasticsearch::get_documents() and Indexable::multi_get(). Props @nickdaugherty, @felipeelia, and @Rahmon via #2210
• Custom sorting to features on the Features page. Props @Rahmon via #1987
• Terms: add a new facet field to hold the entire term object in json format. Props @moraleida via #2071
• Elasticsearch connection check to Site Health page. Props @spacedmonkey and @Rahmon via #2084
• Support for NOT LIKE operator for meta_query. Props @Thalvik) and @Rahmon via #2157.
• Support for category__not_in and tag__not_in. Props @oscarssanchez and @felipeelia via #2174
• Support for post__name_in. Props @jayhill90 and @oscarssanchez via #2194
• $indexable_slug property to ElasticPress\Indexable\Post\SyncManager. Props @edwinsiebel via #2196
• Permission check bypass for indexing / deleting for cron and WP CLI. Props @nickdaugherty and @felipeelia via #2172
• Check if term exists before a capabilities check is done. Props @msawicki via #2230
• New ep_show_indexing_option_on_multisite filter. Props @johnbillion and @Rahmon via #2156
• Documentation updates related to upcoming changes in 3.7.0. Props @jeffpaul via #2248
• Documentation about how to search using rendered content (shortcodes and reusable blocks). Props @johnbillion and @felipeelia via #2127
• Autosuggest: filter results HTML by defining a window.epAutosuggestItemHTMLFilter() function in JavaScript. Props @JakePT via #2146

Changed

• Autosuggest: JavaScript is not loaded anymore when ElasticPress is indexing. Props @fagiani and @felipeelia via #2163
• Indexable\Post\Post::prepare_date_terms() to only call date_i18n() once. Props @WPprodigy and @Rahmon via #2214

Removed

• Assets source mappings. Props @Rahmon and @MadalinWR via #2162
• References to posts_by_query property and spl_object_hash calls. Props @danielbachhuber and @Rahmon via #2158

Fixed

• GitHub issue templates. Props @jeffpaul via #2145
• Facets: error in filters where terms wouldn't match if the user types a space. Props @felipeelia via #2218
• Facets: pagination parameters in links are now removed when clicking on filters. Props @shmaltz, @oscarssanchez, and @Rahmon via #2229
• Output of WP-CLI index errors. Props @notjustcode-sp and @felipeelia via #2243
• index_name is transformed in lowercase before the index creation in Elasticsearch. Props @teoteo and @felipeelia via #2173
• Validate that a meta_value is a recognizable date value before storing. Props @jschultze, @moraleida and @Rahmon via #1703
• Array with a MIME type without the subtype in post_mime_type argument. Props @ethanclevenger91 and @Rahmon via #2222
• Sort for WP_User_Query. Props @Rahmon via #2226
• WP Acceptance Tests. Props @felipeelia via #2184
• Styling issue of Autosuggest and search block (WP 5.8). Props @dinhtungdu via #2219
• Undefined variable: closed notice in Elasticsearch::update_index_settings(). Props @nickdaugherty and @pschoffer via #2159
• Documentation for WP-CLI *-feature commands. Props @felipeelia via #2164
• Custom Results: a current_user_can() call now receives the post ID instead of the whole object. Props @Sysix via #2255
• Autosuggest: adjust debounce to avoid sending unnecessary requests to the server. Props @Rahmon via #2257

Security

• Updated browserslist and jsdoc versions. Props @felipeelia via #2246
• Updated lodash, hosted-git-info, ssri, rmccue/requests, and y18n versions. Props @dependabot via #2203, #2204, #2179, #2188, and #2153

See: https://github.com/10up/ElasticPress/pulls?q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A3.6.0+is%3Aclosed+