Release/0.9.0

[jeffpaul]

What?

Prepares 0.9.0 release.

Closes #517.

Copilot summary

This pull request prepares the plugin for the 0.9.0 release, introducing major new features, enhancements, and fixes. Notably, it adds new experiments for comment moderation and content resizing, improves developer options, updates the plugin version, and documents all changes in the changelog and readme. The codebase also updates all relevant @since tags for the new release.

Major feature additions:

• Added new experiments:

  • Comment Moderation: Automatically moderates comments using toxicity detection and sentiment analysis (Comment_Analysis ability and documentation updates). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
  • Content Resizing: Allows users to shorten, expand, or rephrase selected block content. [1] [2]

• Added developer-focused improvements:

  • Developer Mode settings page toggle for selecting provider/model per feature.
  • New WP-CLI command for bulk alt text generation.
  • Additional developer documentation and E2E test coverage.

Enhancements and UI changes:

• Compressed AI settings page and migrated to use @wordpress/ui components, with various UI improvements.
• AI-generated images now use descriptive, slugified filenames.
• Updated Content Summary experiment to use a Group variation block.

Bug fixes and security:

• Fixed standards compliance, UI issues in RTL, and improved error localization.
• Security bumps for serialize-javascript, postcss, and minimatch dependencies.

Release and documentation updates:

• Updated plugin version to 0.9.0 in ai.php and all @since tags in Comment_Analysis.php. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
• Added 0.9.0 changelog entry and updated README to reflect new and changed features. [1] [2] [3]
• Updated credits with new contributors.

Why?

How?

Use of AI Tools

Any and all mistakes here are human, sorry.

Testing Instructions

Screenshots or screencast

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Changelog Entry

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✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 70.07%. Comparing base (35fe1b8) to head (be7a473).

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