ClassicPress 1.4.0-rc3 Release Notes

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We’re happy to announce the latest public release candidate for ClassicPress 1.4.0.

This release contains a few new features and a relatively large number of minor updates and fixes, as we have recently been going through the list of changes submitted to ClassicPress over the past ~year and accepting many of them. We have also started work on PHP 8 compatibility but this work is not finished so you will need to use PHP 7.x (7.4 recommended) with the 1.4.0 release series.

We encourage you to try out this release candidate by pasting the zipfile URL into the “Advanced” section of the migration plugin, and letting us know if you see any issues. See instructions and links below, under the “Download this release → Existing ClassicPress sites” section.

Changes since 1.4.0-rc2

  • Fix fatal error in themes.php admin page (#882, thanks @MattyRob)
  • Polish several parts of the plugins admin pages (#877)
  • Security updates from WP 4.9.19 (#898, thanks @MattyRob and WP contributors; see the WP 4.9.19 release notes for more information)
  • Fixes/improvements to upgrading plugins via a zip file (#885, thanks @MattyRob and WP contributors)
  • Fix incorrect menu item highlighting as current in the plugins admin pages (#925, thanks @Simone)
  • Fix incomplete backport in do_all_pings() function (#923, thanks @timkaye and @MattyRob)
  • A couple of other miscellaneous improvements and cleanups for core developers (#871 and #892, thanks @MattyRob)

See also the release notes for 1.4.0-rc2.

New features since 1.3.1

  • Allow plugin and theme updates from an uploaded .zip file (#621, thanks @MattyRob and WP contributors)
  • Add new ID column to posts/pages/CPTs admin screens, hidden by default (#786, thanks @alvarofranz)
  • Add two direct plugin upload links to admin to bypass loading the WP plugin repo (#788, thanks @ozfiddler)
  • Upgrade Dashicons to the latest version, making all icons in the Dashicons reference available for ClassicPress plugins (#769, thanks @MattyRob and WP contributors)
  • Work towards PHP 8 compatibility (not finished yet; multiple PRs, thanks @MattyRob, @omukiguy, @timkaye and WP contributors)

Minor changes and bugfixes since 1.3.1

  • Improve accessibility of toggle switches on Widgets admin page (#787, thanks @MattyRob)
  • Accessibility: Change the “Show / Hide dismissed updates” link to a button (#699, thanks @MarcoZ and WP contributors)
  • Update the ClassicPress tagline (#784, thanks @anon66243189)
  • Minimize a race condition when using an object cache (#789, thanks @timkaye and WP contributors)
  • Ensure the proper action is triggered when a different action is selected in the top and bottom Quick/Bulk Edit forms (#588, thanks @MattyRob and WP contributors)
  • Add more helpful user message when ‘heic’ images are uploaded (#773, thanks @MattyRob and WP contributors)
  • Correct the inline docs for the wp_kses_allowed_html filter (#798, thanks @timkaye and WP contributors)
  • Update oEmbed sources (#683, thanks @MattyRob and WP contributors)
  • Enforce permission_callback in REST-API (#732, thanks @MattyRob and WP contributors)
  • Upgrade SimplePie to latest version (#754, thanks @MattyRob and WP contributors)
  • Upgrade PHPMailer to 6.x (#623, thanks @MattyRob and WP contributors)
  • Fix “Required ClassicPress Version” text in plugins screen (#830, thanks @viktor)
  • Unify “Back to”, “Return to”, “Go to” strings (#797) (#823, thanks @viktor and WP contributors)
  • Remove blogs and users parameters from data sent to upgrade API (#831, thanks @viktor)
  • Always show filters on media and post list tables (#590, thanks @MattyRob and WP contributors)
  • Ensure proper comment and page count for unapproved comments (#602, thanks @MattyRob and WP contributors)
  • Update TinyMCE to the latest minor version, 4.9.11 (#819, thanks @MattyRob and WP contributors)
  • Fix WP and other version specifiers in inline docs (#857)
  • Ensure found_posts property of WP_Query is numeric (#592, thanks @MattyRob and WP contributors)

Development improvements and fixes since 1.3.1

  • Improve conflict detection/merging and other improvements to WP backport script (#825, #828, #847, and #832; thanks @MattyRob)
  • Add maintainers’ guide (#822)
  • Add new parents_first parameter to get_term_parents_list() function (#742, thanks @anon66243189)
  • Add new multiple and value_field parameters to wp_dropdown_users() function (#791, thanks @anon66243189)
  • Do not ignore existing PHP files in wp-content/plugins folder (#824, thanks @viktor)
  • Keep the automated tests running properly (e.g. #874, thanks @MattyRob and WP contributors)
  • Keep all build dependencies up to date (multiple PRs, thanks renovate-bot)

Download this release

New sites Download
ClassicPress-release-1.4.0-rc3.zip
and follow the installation instructions.
Existing WordPress sites Download the migration plugin and follow the migration instructions.
Existing ClassicPress sites Use the “Advanced” section of the migration plugin to switch to the release build (same link as for “New sites” above). This version will be available using the built-in update mechanism when it is released as 1.4.0 final.

Full changelog

The full changelog is available on GitHub.

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This is good to know, because my webhost don’t support old versions of PHP. The minimum they support is 7.3, which is already EOL.

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