0.34.0-beta.1

Security

• Enforce per-post edit capability on venue / event meta and post-specific REST routes so unauthenticated or under-privileged callers cannot modify another user's events or venues. [#1520] [#1694]
• Lock down GITHUB_TOKEN permissions across CI workflows to least-privilege scopes, reducing the blast radius of a compromised workflow. [#1650] [#1694]
• Override vulnerable transitive npm dependencies (qs, uuid, webpack-dev-server) via npm overrides. [#1651] [#1694]
• Rate-limit the geocoding REST endpoints to prevent abuse-by-loop. [#1546] [#1694]
• Split privileged PR workflows to remove the untrusted-checkout / cache-poisoning exposure that pull-request-target workflows otherwise inherit. [#1652] [#1694]

Added

• Add a block transform from core/post-date to gatherpress/event-date, re-implemented via the WordPress Block Transforms API. [#1565] [#1664] [#1694]
• Add a configurable RSVP mode with a sitewide disable switch and per-event control, plus an Open RSVP setting that lets non-logged-in users RSVP via magic-link comments. [#1468] [#1469] [#1694]
• Add a default template for the Event Query Loop block so it has a sensible starting point on themes that don't ship one. [#1399] [#1694]
• Add a setting for the Google Maps API key, so sites that prefer Google over OpenStreetMap can wire credentials in through the UI. [#1568] [#1694]
• Add a site health test that flags installs running on plain permalinks, since several GatherPress features (notably RSVP magic links and .ics downloads) require pretty permalinks. [#1660] [#1694]
• Add a gatherpress.durationDefault JavaScript filter to override the default event duration (in hours). The value is honored when it matches one of the available durationOptions, otherwise it falls back to the first available duration. [#1706] [#1716]
• Add a show_if field key to the Settings API so settings fields can be conditionally hidden based on the value of other fields. [#1634] [#1694]
• Add network-wide GatherPress settings with per-option inheritance so multisite installs can share or override individual settings at the site level. [#1500] [#1694]
• Add server-rendered static maps to the venue-map block, with a regenerate button, prewarming, retina (2×) srcset rendering, a scale attribute, and Inspector polish. Editor previews now poll for async-arriving map descriptors so the block reflects geocode-on-save state in real time. [#1480] [#1483] [#1485] [#1489] [#1491] [#1492] [#1497] [#1498] [#1694]
• Add starter pattern pickers to the Event, Venue, RSVP Form, RSVP Response, and RSVP blocks, plus an Event Query Loop starter pattern with a Start blank event scaffold. Patterns are hookable so themes can register their own. [#1571] [#1578] [#1579] [#1580] [#1581] [#1582] [#1584] [#1694]
• Add tag-driven release automation. Pushing a stable tag now triggers a workflow that builds a versioned distro zip, rolls up .github/changelog/* into a new CHANGELOG.md section (auto-PR'd back to develop), creates a GitHub Release with the zip attached, and deploys to wordpress.org. Pre-release tags (alpha/beta/rc) produce a GitHub Pre-Release with the [Unreleased] changelog snapshot and skip the wp.org deploy. See docs/developer/release-process.md. [#1692]
• Add the Event Archive setting so site organizers can choose whether the post-type archive defaults to upcoming, past, or is disabled. [#1587] [#1694]
• Add the gatherpress-event-date post type support so any post type can opt into event datetime storage, the gatherpress_events DB table, date-based query ordering, and the Event Date / Add to Calendar blocks. [#1440] [#1694]
• Add the gatherpress-rsvp post type support so any post type can opt into the comment-based RSVP system, attendee management, waiting lists, and the RSVP block family. [#1444] [#1694]
• Add the gatherpress-venue and gatherpress-online-event post type supports so venue association and online-event link handling can be enabled on any custom event post type. [#1453] [#1694]
• Add venue address autocomplete search powered by the Photon geocoder, with a rate-limited REST endpoint and graceful fallback to manual entry. [#1451] [#1546] [#1694]
• Adopt the Jetpack changelogger workflow with a per-PR .github/changelog/* file format and a rolled-up CHANGELOG.md. Backfills history from 0.27.0. [#1690]
• Expose the gatherpress_venue_map_prewarm_pre_enqueue_job filter so extensions can short-circuit individual venue-map prewarm jobs (useful for sites with hundreds of venues where a switch_theme would otherwise flood WP-Cron with warm jobs). [#1504] [#1694]
• Expose WordPress Geodata standard meta on venue post types so third-party themes and plugins that consume geo_latitude / geo_longitude / geo_address work out of the box. [#1471] [#1694]
• Extract the gatherpress-shadow-source primitive. Hidden _<post_type> taxonomies with post-name-derived terms can now be enabled on any post type, providing the foundation for the venue ⇄ event tagging mechanism and letting companion plugins register their own source-style CPTs (productions, organizers, etc.). [#1569] [#1694]
• Integrate with the Advanced Query Loop plugin, including a Venue facet in the taxonomy filter. [#1411] [#1694]
• New documentation about customizable Playground previews per pull-request [#1791]
• Persist structured venue address fields (house number, street, city, county, state, postcode, country, country code) via an async geocode-on-save cron handler. Exposed via individual meta keys for block bindings. [#1517] [#1530] [#1694]
• Refactor the Settings API with flat storage, a config-driven architecture, import / export, and reorganized tabs. [#1434] [#1694]
• Support the Interactivity API's clientNavigation flag for the venue block so navigation between venue pages stays SPA-style on themes that opt in. [#1464] [#1694]

Changed

• Apply the GatherPress hook naming convention across the codebase. New shadow_* subsystem row added to the hooks-naming-convention doc. [#1550] [#1694]
• Apply the WordPress 6.8 __next40pxDefaultSize opt-in to every SelectControl instance so admin form controls match the upcoming default sizing. [#1661] [#1694]
• Bump 'Tested up to' to WordPress 7.0. [#1649] [#1694]
• Calendar endpoint registration is now an explicit (new Foo(...))->init() chain instead of a side effect of new Foo(...). The Calendar\\Endpoint constructor only stores validated args; init() performs rewrite-rule registration and hook wiring, and returns $this for chaining. Fixes five SonarCloud php:S1848 bugs flagged on Calendar\\Setup and makes the registration side effect surface at the call site. [#1695]
• Enforce per-post edit capability on venue / event meta and post-specific REST routes. [#1520] [#1694]
• Extend the admin list-table columns, sorting, and views to every event-supporting post type — not just the built-in gatherpress_event. [#1467] [#1619] [#1694]
• Extract Event\Meta and Venue\Meta from their respective Setup classes so meta registration lives in a dedicated, testable component. [#1542] [#1694]
• Flatten Event_* classes into the GatherPress\Core\Event subnamespace. Event_Admin_List is extracted into its own class. [#1450] [#1508] [#1694]
• Flatten Rsvp_* classes into the GatherPress\Core\Rsvp subnamespace. [#1524] [#1694]
• Flatten Venue_* classes into the GatherPress\Core\Venue subnamespace. [#1522] [#1694]
• GatherPress UI strings now pull from each post type's registered labels rather than hardcoding 'Event' / 'Venue'. Custom event-supporting post types see their own labels everywhere in the settings sub-menus, admin list, sidebar panels, and Query block UI. [#1627] [#1629] [#1631] [#1647] [#1659] [#1694]
• Generalize the gatherpress/venue block and the gatherpress/event-query block's contextual toggle to work with any gatherpress-shadow-source post type (productions, tours, organizers, etc.), not just venues. Adds a new gatherpress_shadow_taxonomy_object_types filter so extensions declaratively wire their shadow taxonomy to event CPTs, plus two reusable Shadow_Source helpers (resolve_post_from_query_context, build_tax_query_clause) for custom Query Loops. [#1689]
• Honor the WordPress comment privacy filters when inserting RSVP comments. [#1470] [#1694]
• Include SECURITY.md in the distributed plugin zip. wp-scripts plugin-zip ignores .distignore and builds from a fixed allowlist, so a package.json files list now pins the shipped fileset and adds the security policy. [#1727]
• Lowered the default Venue Map zoom level from 18 to 16 so new venue maps show more neighborhood context. Sites that already set a custom Default Zoom Level are unaffected. [#1799]
• Make postIdOverride work for the event and venue blocks, with the dim-gate suppressed on non-event hosts when the override resolves. [#1552] [#1554] [#1694]
• Move RSVP-related settings to a dedicated RSVP settings panel and relocate the online event link to Venue settings for better organization. [#1394] [#1694]
• Move the gatherpress-utility-style enqueue onto enqueue_block_assets so it reaches the editor iframe in FSE themes. [#1655] [#1694]
• Re-implement block-unregistration handling and clean up legacy unregister flow. [#1409] [#1694]
• Re-implement the calendar .ics download endpoint with proper rewrites and feed handling, replacing the legacy Event ICS code. [#1669] [#1694]
• Read isEditorPanelOpened from core/editor instead of core/edit-post, silencing a WordPress 6.5 deprecation warning. [#1653] [#1694]
• Refactor the venue-detail block architecture and fix context handling so it composes cleanly inside Query Loops and FSE templates. [#1391] [#1405] [#1694]
• Refactor the venue map block into a swappable provider strategy so Google Maps and OpenStreetMap (and future providers) share a common interface. [#1534] [#1694]
• Rename the safeHTML helper to stripScriptsAndEventHandlers and document its narrow scope (it strips <script> tags and on*= event handlers — it is not a full HTML sanitizer). [#1545] [#1694]
• Rename OnlineEventLink to OnlineEvent and remove the legacy Listener / Broadcaster code that was no longer used. [#1420] [#1694]
• Replace the original RSVP / RSVP Response / RSVP Template / Venue blocks with their V2 equivalents that shipped in 0.32.0. The V2 naming is dropped now that the new blocks are canonical. [#1407] [#1694]
• Restructure settings tabs — Date & Time moves under Events, Maps moves under a new Venues tab. Venue splits into an instance class plus a Venue_Setup singleton. [#1477] [#1694]
• Separate README.md (GitHub-facing) and readme.txt (wp.org-facing) so each surface gets content tailored to its audience. [#1423] [#1694]
• Stop dimming GatherPress blocks inside Query Loop contexts when valid event context is present. [#1549] [#1694]
• Support arbitrarily deep namespaces in the GatherPress class autoloader. [#1526] [#1694]
• The Default Map Type venue setting now only appears when the Google Maps platform is selected. [#1787]
• The editor's "already passed" notice now uses the post type's own singular label, so a custom event-supporting post type (e.g. a production) reads "Production has already passed." instead of the hardcoded "event". [#1728]
• Use the WordPress-native taxonomy column for venues in the events admin list, replacing the custom column. [#1544] [#1694]
• WordPress conventions sweep across the codebase (blank line after class openings per WP core style, JS docblock dependency-header normalization, str_contains / str_starts_with migration from strpos), plus two small settings panel fixes. [#1589] [#1694]

Removed

• Remove the window.GatherPress global in favor of editor settings, interactivity state, and per-block data stores. [#1465] [#1694]

Fixed

• Add the gatherpress_exclude_rsvp_from_comment_query filter so integrations (like comment moderation plugins) can opt back into seeing RSVP comments in the comment query. [#1640] [#1694]
• Deduplicate admin column sorting in Event_Setup and fix SQL identifier quoting on the sort query. [#1449] [#1694]
• Editor no longer forces the events admin list back to the Upcoming filter when the user explicitly selects All — the previously-saved filter sticks. [#1515] [#1694]
• Event Query block no longer lists past events on the front end when its saved query omits the event type; it now defaults to upcoming, matching the editor. [#1806] [#1807]
• Event Query blocks placed in a Single Event block template now filter by the viewed event's season/venue and can exclude the current event on the frontend, instead of rendering every event unfiltered. [#1793]
• Event Query blocks placed inside a block template no longer leave the editor preview spinning indefinitely. [#1792]
• Fix a datetime-picker stack overflow when pressing the down-arrow on the year field in relative mode. [#1621] [#1694]
• Fix anonymous RSVP deletion breaking magic-link tokens. [#1424] [#1694]
• Fixed the event-date block incorrectly showing the edited event's dates for all events inside a query loop on an event post. [#1750]
• Fixed the Event Query block hanging on an endless spinner when its post type is switched to one that does not support event dates. [#1783]
• Fix ICS export escaping of lowercase n characters in event titles and descriptions. [#1416] [#1694]
• Fix initial context for event date supporting types inside venue block [#1757]
• Fix misleading single-event iCal URL in calendar test fixtures. [#1730] [#1743]
• Fix the default archive temporal handling (upcoming / past / none) for event-supporting custom post types. The gatherpress_event_archive_mode filter receives the queried post type as its second argument. [#1624] [#1694]
• Fix the Event Query Settings panel and REST collection params so they work for any event-supporting post type. [#1622] [#1694]
• Fix the orderby behavior of the default Past events filter. [#1442] [#1694]
• Fix the Post Date block to display the event date when the 'use event date for post date' setting is enabled. [#1430] [#1694]
• Fix timezone parsing so option values can no longer leak HTML attributes into rendered markup. [#1558] [#1694]
• Fix venue sorting in the admin venues list. [#1448] [#1694]
• Follow-up to the 0.33.3 protected-meta hardening. Additional GatherPress meta keys are now protected from the Custom Fields panel to prevent stale data overwrites on event save. [#1387] [#1694]
• Gate the 'Send Updates' email notice so it only appears on event-supporting post types, and surface post-type-aware label / pattern filters for related UI. [#1598] [#1694]
• Guard the RSVP block against a malformed serializedInnerBlocks attribute so a bad stored value degrades gracefully instead of crashing the editor with "RSVP block has encountered an error and cannot be previewed". [#1704] [#1713] [#1713]
• Harden asset metadata loading so build dependency/version data is read correctly even if the asset file was already loaded in the request. [#1788]
• Hide the Filter by Current Venue toggle when the host post type doesn't support venues, and gate the Event Query Settings panel by context. [#1566] [#1694]
• Invalidate caches on RSVP token redemption and bypass page cache for magic-link URLs so the user sees the result of their RSVP immediately. [#1636] [#1694]
• Make the Online Event Link field a URL input and add spacing between the toggle and the field [#1745]
• Multiple JS fixes for blocks inside FSE templates. [#1459] [#1461] [#1694]
• Only show "Venue Settings" panel for post types supporting gatherpress-venue-information [#1734]
• Open RSVP attendees are now correctly promoted from the waiting list when a spot opens up. [#1777]
• Pre-release tags (alpha / beta / rc) now produce a release body containing the rolled-up changelog of every queued entry, computed in an ephemeral checkout so the entry files stay in place for the eventual stable release. Previously the body only showed CHANGELOG.md's [Unreleased] section, which is empty until the stable rollup happens, so testers downloading pre-release zips never saw what they were testing. [#1693]
• Prevent a fatal error when the event REST response is prepared without an id field (e.g. a _fields= request that excludes it). [#1779]
• Read SVGs from the filesystem instead of issuing an HTTP self-request, fixing icon-block rendering on hosts behind authenticating reverse proxies. [#1455] [#1694]
• Refuse activation when duplicate GatherPress folders are on disk to prevent silent class collisions. [#1560] [#1694]
• Remove the dead RichText onSplit prop on the dropdown-item block, silencing a WordPress 6.4 deprecation warning. [#1663] [#1694]
• Render the Duration select with whatever duration options are provided, defaulting to the first available option when the built-in 2-hour default is filtered out via gatherpress.durationOptions, instead of dropping straight to the end-time picker. [#1706] [#1716]
• Replace custom-made "Start blank" logic with registerBlockVariation() calls, like it is intended by WP core. [#1802]
• Return 404 for the event archive URL when no matching page exists, instead of rendering an empty archive. [#1381] [#1694]
• RSVP requests no longer throw and leave the UI inconsistent when the server returns a success response with a missing or partial responses object. [#1798]
• RSVP status changes now save correctly from event archive and Query Loop pages, not only from individual event pages. [#1784]
• Scope the RSVP UI to the gatherpress-rsvp support so non-RSVP event post types don't see RSVP fields. [#1594] [#1694]
• Set referrerPolicy: 'no-referrer-when-downgrade' on OpenStreetMap tile requests so tile providers that gate access on the Referer header (e.g. CARTO basemaps) receive the request correctly. [#1433] [#1694]
• Several improvements and bug fixes to the Event Query Loop block surface (template handling, attribute migration, pattern selection). [#1396] [#1398] [#1694]
• Show "Exclude current event" toggle only when queried post type matches the currently edited post type. [#1725]
• Show a clear "Map could not be loaded" state instead of a blank gray box when the interactive map's tile provider fails to serve tiles (e.g. CartoDB returning 502s for uncached high-zoom tiles). A failed tile fetch no longer leaves the map silently empty. [#1747]
• Stopped the RSVP attendance modal from flickering when the Number of Guests field was changed. [#1749]
• Stop the front-end RSVP button from vanishing when a request fails or the block markup is incomplete. The status switcher now falls back to the no_status state when no inner block matches, the request handler guards against missing/non-JSON responses and surfaces an error instead of failing silently, and the post-RSVP modal logic no longer throws on malformed markup. [#1729]
• Stop the venue map from breaking out of the body on narrow viewports. With an auto width, the inline height + aspect-ratio pair resolved to a fixed pixel width (300px tall at 2/1 → 600px wide) that overflowed mobile screens; the wrapper is now capped to its container width. [#1703] [#1714]
• The event-date block inside a venue block with a source post type (e.g. productions/seasons) now shows the related source post's date instead of the host event's date in the editor. [#1797]
• The events list REST endpoint now always returns an array for the current_user field instead of an empty string when no RSVP exists. [#1781]
• The RSVP manager in the editor now shows an error notice instead of silently clearing the attendee list when an RSVP request fails. [#1782]
• The venue-map block returned new empty-object references from its useSelect selector on every render, triggering Gutenberg's "Non-equal value keys" warning and causing unnecessary re-renders when no venue address was set. [#1748]