1.2.0

Added

• New Experiment: Suggest Reply; gives comment moderators a quick way to generate a reply to a comment through the admin (#724).
• New "Advanced settings" option in Developer Tools to show/hide additional configuration options for features and experiments (#842).
• Bulk "Generate AI Summary" action to the posts and pages list table, enabling summary generation for multiple posts at once (#650).
• New core/read-content Ability with secure single-post and query modes (including include and opt-in fields) to enable read-only content access (#739).
• New core/read-users Ability that retrieves a single user by ID, email, login, or nicename, or a filtered and paginated users collection, with sensitive fields opt-in and permission-gated (#774).
• An inline admin notice when Connector Approvals are enabled and no AI connectors are yet approved, prompting admins to approve the AI plugin for use (#830).
• Introduce new wp_ai_client_default_request_timeout filter to make the default request timeout configurable. Use this for the image generation request timeout (#862).

Changed

• Content Summary block detection now checks within nested blocks (#810).
• Move all existing configuration options into a new "Advanced settings" section which is hidden by default (#842).

Fixed

• Focus restoration after AI setting saves (#812).
• Added descriptive alt text to AI Home feature card images for improved screen reader accessibility (#819).
• Prevent Type-Ahead assets from loading on the front end (#820).
• Dismissing a type-ahead suggestion with escape should not trigger a new suggestion request (#840).
• Type-ahead ghost text placement and stale suggestions overlapping empty-block placeholders (#847).
• MutationObserver crash when editor iframe body isn't ready when using Title Generation (#849).
• Respect an explicit show_in_abilities value on curated settings, and leave the flag to WordPress core once core declares it (#852).
• Register initial settings before core/read-settings snapshots them (#856).

Developer

• Increased test timeout from 20m to 30m (#811).
• Updated Excerpt Generation E2E selectors to use Playwright user-facing attributes (#813).
• Fix feature request issue template formatting (#814).
• Update type-ahead E2E selectors to use Playwright user-facing attributes (#817).
• Update Alt Text Generation E2E selectors to use Playwright user-facing attributes (#828).
• Pin NPM package versions and update dev-dependencies (#831).
• Updated and added screenshots/casts (#838).
• Updated Meta Description E2E selectors to use Playwright user-facing attributes (#843).
• Updated Connector Approvals E2E selectors to use Playwright user-facing attributes (#850).
• Register core ability categories once in the bootstrap test file (#854).
• Added docs on becoming a Maintainer (#857).
• Updated Content Classification E2E selectors to use Playwright user-facing attributes (#859).
• Standardize E2E snackbar locators to use data-test-id (#860).
• Bump actions/cache from 5.0.5 to 6.1.0 (#821).
• Bump phpstan/phpstan-phpunit from 2.0.16 to 2.0.17 and phpstan/phpstan from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5 (#836).
• Bump @wordpress/admin-ui from 2.0.0 to 2.4.0 and @wordpress/ui from 0.12.0 to 0.15.1 (#837).

GitHub-generated release notes

• Increase gh actions runner timeout for E2E tests completion by @Intenzi in #811
• Fix[Settings]: Improve focus restoration after AI settings saves by @yogeshbhutkar in #812
• refactor: migrate excerpt generation e2e tests to use Playwright loca… by @Infinite-Null in #813
• refactor: Update type-ahead e2e selectors to use ARIA roles by @Infinite-Null in #817
• Fix image ALT text issue by @monzuralam in #819
• chore(ci): bump actions/cache from 5.0.5 to 6.1.0 in the github-actions-updates group by @dependabot[bot] in #821
• refactor: Update alt-text-generation e2e selectors to use ARIA roles by @Infinite-Null in #828
• ci: pin NPM deps and ignore @wordpress from dependabot by @justlevine in #831
• fix(deps-dev): bump the composer-dev-minor-patch group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #836
• Update/screenshots by @jeffpaul in #838
• Fix[Type-ahead]: Prevent suggestions from restarting right after Escape dismissal by @yogeshbhutkar in #840
• Fix markdown formatting in feature request template by @jeffpaul in #814
• feat: update Type Ahead experiment implementation by @SohamPatel46 in #820
• refactor: Update meta-description e2e selectors to use ARIA roles by @Infinite-Null in #843
• Type Ahead: Fix ghost text placement and empty-block placeholder overlap by @yogeshbhutkar in #847
• refactor: Update connector-approval e2e selectors to use ARIA roles by @Infinite-Null in #850
• New Ability: core/read-users by @jorgefilipecosta in #774
• Fix MutationObserver crash when editor iframe body isn't ready by @vedant-ere in #849
• Respect explicit and core-owned show_in_abilities setting values by @gziolo in #852
• Tests: register core ability categories once in the bootstrap by @gziolo in #854
• Fix/815 grant ai plugin access by @roberiacono in #830
• Experiment: Add Suggest Reply experiment by @Infinite-Null in #724
• Add Advanced Settings toggle to Developer Tools menu by @Infinite-Null in #842
• Enhance Content Summary block detection to nested blocks by @Intenzi in #810
• fix(deps): bump the npm-prod-minor-patch group across 1 directory with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #837
• E2E[Content Classification]: Prefer user-facing attributes by @yogeshbhutkar in #859
• Refactor snackbar locators by @Infinite-Null in #860
• Register initial settings before core/read-settings snapshots them by @jorgefilipecosta in #856
• Add bulk "Generate AI Summary" action to the posts list table by @prasadkarmalkar in #650
• Add core/read-content ability by @jorgefilipecosta in #739
• Add/commit access docs by @jeffpaul in #857
• Make image generation request timeout configurable by @ishitaj34 in #862
• Release/1.2.0 by @jeffpaul in #868

New Contributors

• @monzuralam made their first contribution in #819
• @SohamPatel46 made their first contribution in #820
• @vedant-ere made their first contribution in #849

Full Changelog: 1.1.0...1.2.0.
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