Release 1.5.4-RC1 · ampproject/amp-wp

This is the first release candidate for v1.5.4. The stable release is due out June 23rd. For the full list of changes in this release, please see the 1.5 milestone, with 24 issues and 35 pull requests. Also compare code changes since 1.5.3. Please report any issues you encounter while testing!

Changelog

🚀 Discontinue disabling Optimizer SSR when WP_DEBUG is enabled. #4667, #4669
✨ Base64-encode the server-side rendered sizer SVG images to prevent corruption by caching/optimization plugins. #4491, #4862
⏪ Revert converting decimal image sizes to integers for sizer SVG generation since has landed in the AMP validator upstream. #4863, #4864
✨ Tweak Optimizer interfaces for consistency. #4612, #4614
📖 Add paragraph about server-side rendering to README. #4841

🐛 Extend WordPress.tv embed handler to also handle VideoPress so as to avoid validation error when embedding. #4754, #4755
🐛 Omit non-standard type attribute during amp-iframe normalization when text/html to prevent Amazon Kindle block from producing validation error. #4758, #4759
🐛 Remove the wp-has-aspect-ratio class from block embeds to fix extra space on top in Gutenberg 8.2+. #4810, #4813
🐛 Use responsive layout for blocks with alignwide class so that wide width alignment of iframe-containing blocks is respected. #4692, #4693

✨ Suppress Site Health ICU test if site or home URL is not an IDN since not relevant. #4616, #4698
🐛 Prevent printing Site Health styles for re-enabling transient caching on every admin page. #4643, #4861

✨ Make CollectionPage the default Schema.org JSON+LD metadata @type for archive queries. #4666, #4680
🐛 Prevent output of Schema.org metadata JSON script if empty array. #4783, #4860

✨ Strip leading BOM and whitespace and trailing HTML comment before parsing validation response JSON. #4678, #4679, #4683

🐛 Fix merging of viewport CSS at-rules nested in other rules, fixing an invalid property validation error for the meta viewport tag. #4722, #4866

🐛 Pin amp-experiment to v0.1 since v1.0 is itself still experimental. #4628, #4690

🏗 Add GitHub actions to automatically create ZIP build artifacts for pushes to branches and PRs. #4766, #4830, #4832, #4835, #4839, #4836, #4834, #4769
🏗 Raise PHPStan level for the amp/common package to 4, and overall improve PHPStan static analysis. #4379, #4686, #4865, #4867
🏗 Improve testing infrastructure. #4824, #4825, #4654, #4662, #4641, #4642, #4868

Thanks to the many contributors who made this release possible through work on development, design, testing, project management, and more:

Adam Silverstein (adamsilverstein), Alain Schlesser (schlessera), Alberto Medina (amedina), Deepak Lalwani (deepaklalwani97), Kasper Myram (kmyram), ktmn, Laurel Fulford (laurelfulford), Pierre Gordon (pierlon), Renee Johnson (ernee), Ryan Kienstra (kienstra), Sebastian Benz (sebastianbenz), Towhidul Islam Chowdhury (itowhid06), Weston Ruter (westonruter), and Yosu Cadilla (YosuCadilla)

You can also install the amp.zip build linked below by uploading it in the WordPress admin.

Up-to-the-minute builds from the 1.5 branch are also available.