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@zinigor zinigor released this 20 Jan 22:02

Featured:

  • New sharing button: let users share your content using Skype.
  • New "Social Menu" theme tool that uses Genericons to display Social Links.
  • Sitemap support for better search engine indexing.

Enhancements:

  • Contact Form: Added a new filter that allows you to change the "Required" text.
  • General: Hidden archived sites in multisite site list.
  • General: Removed several function calls that would be deprecated in WordPress 4.5.
  • Infinite Scroll: Added a new filter to check if Infinite Scroll has been triggered.
  • Likes: Added a conditional to ensure WordPress 4.5 compatibility.
  • Photon: Improved compatibility with responsive images feature added in WordPress 4.4.
  • Photon: Now enabled by default on sites using HTTPS.
  • REST API: Extended the ability to manage users from WordPress.com.
  • REST API: Increased the performance of the plugin update endpoint.
  • Responsive Videos: Centering videos when they are wrapped in a centered paragraph.
  • Sharing: Added a new filter to customize the default OpenGraph description.
  • Shortcodes: Added Wistia oEmbed support.
  • Shortcodes: Bandcamp: Added support for new attributes for tracks approved by artists.
  • Shortcodes: Improved Medium path format recognition.
  • Slideshow: Improved compatibility with older IE versions.
  • Staging: Improved staging environment detection.
  • Widgets: Added "width" option to the Facebook Page widget.
  • Widgets: Added size parameters to tags in Top Posts to avoid warnings.
  • Widgets: Introduced major performance and stability improvements to the Display Posts Widget.
  • Widgets: Refactored to remove deprecated code patterns.

Bug Fixes:

  • AtD: Fixed replacing emojis with images in the text editor in Chrome.
  • AtD: Made pre tags be excluded from spell-checking.
  • CPT: Not registering Nova if it is already registered.
  • Carousel: Fixed a bug where full size images were not always served by Photon.
  • Carousel: Reverted a change that broke direct link to carousel image.
  • Contact Form: Fixed a CSV export bug with multiple choice questions.
  • Contact Form: Fixed notices when creating feedback entries without a contact form.
  • General: Fixed a scrolling bug on modal window closing.
  • Infinite Scroll: Disabled in the Customizer when previewing a non-active theme.
  • Publicize: Fixed notices appearing with bbPress or BuddyPress installed.
  • Publicize: Showing options only to users that can change them.
  • Related Posts: Fixed incorrect URLs generated for posts.
  • Responsive Videos: Fixed warnings in debug mode.
  • Shortcodes: Bandcamp: Fixed a problem with large track IDs.
  • Shortcodes: Fixed a problem with dynamic Gist embeds.
  • Stats: Fixed dashboard widget resize problem.
  • Widgets: Added a fallback to English US when a locale isn't supported by Facebook.
  • Widgets: Fixed layout for Twenty Sixteen.