24.7-RC1

Changes compared to: 24.6

Enhancements:

• Improves the accuracy of assessments measuring character count for Japanese texts by removing common punctuation from the count. #22050

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the help beacon would be displayed over table pagination on the bulk editor page. #22071

Other:

• Improves the feedback strings of the subheading distribution assessment for better translatability. #22044
• Removes extra span tags in the Post/Page overview. Props to dilipbheda. #22055

Non user facing:

• Tracks sites that have connected Site Kit. #22074
• Adds enforcement of WordPress's i18n rules. #22042
• Updates Dashboard page description. #22048
• Fixes copy and styling for the site kit widgets. #22068
• Adds protection that ensures api calls are only fired from the repositories in the data sources are configured. #22059
• Minor refactor for accessing the metric names in the Organic Session endpoints. #22057
• Refactors endpoint to use Google libraries for parsing the responses from Google APIs. #22053
• Builds the endpoint route for the Organic Sessions widget. #22023
• Corrects the date ranges of existing endpoints for Top 5 pages and Top Queries #22023
• Shows the "Top 5 most popular content" table on the dashboard on connecting to site kit, replacing the set up widget. #22045
• Removes the PR validation for milestone. #22063
• Fixes unreleased bug where the site kit widget "Top 5 mot popular content" would disappear on tab navigation. #22069
• Removes an unneeded interface from the Site_Kit configuration object which caused JS data to be enqueued in the post editor. #22079
• Adds the top queries widget to the dashboard. #22060
• Changes the learn more short link in the info tooltip for the top pages widget. #22060
• Improves accessibility for disabled SEO score in the Top 5 most popular content table of the unreleased site kit integration. #22047
• Adds error messages to the dashboard widgets. #22054
• Adds translator comments for subheading distribution assessment feedback. #22066