Release Changelog Draft

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Weston Ruter edited this page May 3, 2022 · 24 revisions

This release includes 16 closed issues and 27 merged pull requests (aside from dependency updates including updating Workbox to v6.5.3).

For a full list of issues and pull requests, see the 0.7 milestone. Compare all changes in 0.6.0...0.7.0.

Changelog

Service Worker

Make use of Workbox window to register service worker and provide access to registration. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/issues/204, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/578, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/777
Eliminate custom skipWaiting message in favor of de facto Workbox message. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/issues/444, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/578
Deprecate integrations. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/issues/403, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/713
Prevent errors from being raised on IE11. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/issues/227, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/578
Use plugins_url() to allow for filtering of Workbox.js script URLs so they can be loaded from CDN. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/issues/543, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/600
Don't flush rewrite rules on every admin request. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/544
Update wp_register_service_worker_caching_route() to reflect change to underlying register method. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/424

Offline Page

Remove offline commenting feature and add post request handler to display offline/error templates. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/issues/363, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/728
Automatically reload the offline page once the user is back online. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/issues/438, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/697, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/763, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/716
Only unauthenticate user when parse_query is for the main query, fixing PHP notice for is_offline() being called incorrectly. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/issues/538, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/712
Update error messages placeholders to use Mustache tags instead of HTML comments to avoid stripping by minifiers. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/issues/709, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/720
Use wp_robots() to prevent indexing the error template on WP≥5.7. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/414

Web App Manifest

Add short name field in General Settings when Site Title is longer than 12 characters. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/issues/210, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/691
Warn when no Site Icon set, when it is too small, or when a PNG is not being used. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/issues/229, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/702
Facilitate indicating the site icon as being maskable. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/issues/304, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/698, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/770
Output link/meta tags depending on web app manifest display value. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/581
Make apple-touch-startup-image link tags filterable. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/issues/586, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/595

HTTPS

Remove HTTPS detection/migration since landed in WP 5.7. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/557

Misc

Introduce PHPStan for static analysis. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/issues/243, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/560, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/563
Make README.md canonical, generating readme.txt at build time. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/400
Add WordPress-VIP-Go standards for PHPCS. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/issues/471, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/476
Add husky. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/issues/736, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/747
Fix PHP 8 unit testing. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/599
Add wp-env for development environment. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/778

Props

Alberto Medina (@amedina), Ankit Gade (@ankitrox), Derek Herman (@derekherman), Diede Exterkate (@diedexx), Felix Arntz (@felixarntz), Fellyph Cintra (@fellyph), Greg Ziółkowski (@gziolo), Jeffery To (@jefferyto), Jip (@moorscode), Lovekesh Kumar (@thelovekesh), Maitreyie Chavan (@maitreyie-chavan), Max Hartshorn (@maxhartshorn), Pierre Gordon (@pierlon), Pooja Killekar (@pooja-muchandikar), Rutvik Savsani (@rutviksavsani), Stew Heckenberg (@Youdaman), Viktor Szépe (@szepeviktor), Weston Ruter (@westonruter)

Installation

Now available to install via WordPress.org.

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