WordPress 4.9.8

WordPress 4.9.8 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 46 bugs.

Download WordPress 4.9.8 or visit Dashboard → Updates and click “Update Now”. Sites that support automatic background updates are already beginning to update automatically.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to WordPress 4.9.8:

1naveengiri, Aaron D. Campbell, Aaron Jorbin, Abdullah Ramzan, alejandroxlopez, Allen Snook, Andrea Fercia, Andrew Ozz, Andrew Taylor, Arun, Ayesh Karunaratne, Birgir Erlendsson (birgire), Birgit Pauli-Haack, BjornW, Boone Gorges, Brandon Kraft, Burhan Nasir, Chetan Prajapati, Chris Lema, Corey McKrill, Daniel Bachhuber, Daniel James, David Herrera, Dion Hulse, Dominik Schilling (ocean90), dontstealmyfish, dyrer, Felipe Elia, Felix Arntz, Fernando Claussen, Gareth, Garrett Hyder, Gary Pendergast, Gennady Kovshenin, GM_Alex, Heather Burns, Ian Dunn, ibelanger, imath, Jb Audras, Jeremy Pry, JJJ, Joe McGill, Joen Asmussen, John Blackbourn, Jonathan Desrosiers, Jonny Harris, Josepha, JoshuaWold, Joy, jrf, K. Adam White, khaihong, kjellr, Konstantinos Xenos, laurelfulford, lbenicio, Leander Iversen, leemon, macbookandrew, Marius L. J., Matias Ventura, Mel Choyce, mensmaximus, mermel, metalandcoffee, michelleweber, Milan Dinić, Muhammad Kashif, Naoko Takano, Nathan Johnson, Ov3rfly, palmiak, Paul Biron, Prashant Baldha, PressTigers, programmin, Rafsun Chowdhury, redcastor, Robin Cornett, Sergey Biryukov, Simon Prosser, skoldin, spyderbytes, Subrata Sarkar, Sébastien SERRE, Tammie Lister, tharsheblows, Thomas Patrick Levy, timbowesohft, Timothy Jacobs, Tobias Zimpel, Tor-Bjorn Fjellner, Towhidul Islam, Usman Khalid, warmlaundry, William Earnhardt, Yui, and YuriV.

Primary Focuses

The primary focuses of 4.9.8 are:

  • Introduce “Try GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/” callout
  • Privacy fixes/enhancements

Introduce “Try Gutenberg” callout

Most users will now be presented with a notice in their WordPress dashboard. This “Try Gutenberg” is an opportunity for users to use the Gutenberg blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. editor before it is released in WordPress 5.0.

You can learn more by reading the “Try Gutenberg” Callout in WordPress 4.9.8 post.  It contains information about the callout, including which users will, by default, be shown the callout and the hooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same. it provides for site administrators to modify that default behavior.

Privacy fixes/enhancements

This release includes 18 Privacy fixes focused on ensuring consistency and flexibility in the new personal data tools that were added in 4.9.6, including:

  • The type of request being confirmed is now included in the subject line for all privacy confirmation emails.
  • Improved consistency with site name being used for privacy emails in multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site.
  • Pagination for Privacy request adminadmin (and super admin) screens can now be adjusted.
  • Increased the test coverage for several coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. privacy functions.

In addition to the primary focuses another notable change in 4.9.8 is that developers can now register meta keys for object subtypes:

With WordPress 4.9.8, the register_meta() function supports registration of metadata not only for an entire object type (posts, terms, comments, users), but also for a specific object subtype (such as a specific post type or taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies.).

4.9.8 Changes

See the full list of closed tickets in TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress..

Administration

  • #44611 – try Gutenberg headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. wraps over text below on narrow screens
  • #44627 – minor tweaks to Try Gutenberg callout formatting

Bundled Theme

  • #44109 – TwentySeventeen backend editor: level 2 bulleted lists nested under numbered lists show numbers instead of bullets
  • #44646 – Bundled Themes: Bump version number and update changelog in Twenty Seventeen for 4.9.8 release

Comments

  • #44126 – Adding fields to comments_form args prevents checkbox displaying
  • #44141 – Privacy: Don’t replace comment author URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org and email with anything
  • #44342 – Commenter cookie consent message should not be displayed if the cookie action isn’t hooked

Customize

  • #44627 – minor tweaks to Try Gutenberg callout formatting

Editor

  • #41316 – Introduce “Try Gutenberg” callout
  • #44341 – Replace _deprecated_function( ‘add_filter’ ) with apply_filters_deprecated()
  • #44680 – Restrict the Try Gutenberg callout audience

Emoji

  • #44339 – minor tweaks to Try Gutenberg callout formatting

Filesystem APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.

  • #43054 – wp_is_stream fails with stream definition containing nonascii chars

I18Ni18n Internationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an acquired skill.

  • #44139 – i18n: “About” disambiguation
  • #44574 – Saratov and other cities missing from translations

Login and Registration

  • #44052 – Missing parameter type for `login_header()`

Media

  • #44532 – Extreme memory leak related to wp_is_stream in wp-includes/functions.php in WordPress 4.9.7
  • #43751 – REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/.: Attachments controller should respect “Max upload file size” and “Site upload space” in multisite

Options, MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. APIs

  • #38323 – Reconsider $object_subtype handling in `register_meta()`

Posts, Post Types

  • #36085 – Add action hook to get_inline_data()

Privacy

  • #44006 – Privacy Policy page should have suffix like other special pages
  • #44025 – Privacy: Pagination screen options for the requests list tables
  • #44099 – Add Request Type into Admin Email Subject for GDPR
  • #44100 – GDPR Privacy Page setting allows for Draft Pages
  • #44130 – Mixed Case of Privacy Policy on Privacy Settings page
  • #44131 – If draft page selected for Privacy Policy page should verbiage change from view to preview
  • #44181 – The input field id username_or_email_to_export should be something else on remove_personal_data page
  • #44192 – Title of Privacy Policy Page not used on login page
  • #44195 – “Silence is golden” index.htmlHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. generates output
  • #44265 – Add filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. for email subject for erasure complete notification
  • #44353 – Replace `site_url( ‘wp-login.php’ )` in `wp_send_user_request()`
  • #44373 – Add a privacy setting to disable comment cookie consent
  • #44379 – GDPR filters should provide either $request or $request_id
  • #44382 – Filter the subject within _wp_privacy_send_request_confirmation_notification
  • #44396 – Inconsistent use of blogname and sitename in Privacy emails
  • #44612 – Grammar – Missing ‘a’ in ‘select new Privacy Policy page’
  • #43967 – Admin emails after email confirmation don’t work for data privacy requests
  • #44590 – Remove “// WPCSWordPress Community Support A public benefit corporation and a subsidiary of the WordPress Foundation, established in 2016.:” comments

REST API

  • #40861 – REST API saves attachments with absolute path for `_wp_attached_file` on Windows platforms
  • #43874 – REST API: Only render fields specific to request when _fields= is used
  • #44321 – REST API: Expose revision count and last revision ID on Post response

Role/Capability

  • #44287 – REST API: Declare user capability to perform actions using JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. Hyper Schema `targetSchema`

Taxonomy

  • #42691 – WP_Term_Query get_terms generates invalidinvalid A resolution on the bug tracker (and generally common in software development, sometimes also notabug) that indicates the ticket is not a bug, is a support request, or is generally invalid. sql queries
  • #44096 – REST API: Taxonomy and term endpoints should use correct permission checks

TinyMCE

  • #44134 – Update to TinyMCE 4.7.13
    • See the TinyMCE changelog.  WordPress 4.9.6 included TinyMCE 4.7.11, WordPress 4.9.8 updated to TinyMCE 4.8.0, despite the title of this ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker..
  • #44330 – TinyMCE: do not force-load external TinyMCE plugins

Change Log

Introduced

Functions

_wp_privacy_requests_screen_options()
source file: wp-admin/includes/user.php

_wp_privacy_settings_filter_draft_page_titles()
source file: wp-admin/includes/misc.php

get_object_subtype()
source file: wp-includes/meta.php

register_post_meta()
source file: wp-includes/post.php

register_term_meta()
source file: wp-includes/taxonomy.php

unregister_post_meta()
source file: wp-includes/post.php

unregister_term_meta()
source file: wp-includes/taxonomy.php

wp_ajax_update_try_gutenberg_panel()
source file: wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php

wp_try_gutenberg_panel()
source file: wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php

Hooks

add_inline_data
source file: wp-admin/includes/template.php

auth_{$object_type}_meta_{$meta_key}_for_{$object_subtype}
source file: wp-includes/capabilities.php

get_object_subtype_{$object_type}
source file: wp-includes/meta.php

sanitize_{$object_type}_meta_{$meta_key}_for_{$object_subtype}
source file: wp-includes/meta.php

try_gutenberg_learn_more_link
source file: wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php

try_gutenberg_panel
source file: wp-admin/index.php

user_erasure_complete_email_subject
source file: wp-includes/user.php

user_request_confirmed_email_subject
source file: wp-includes/user.php

Methods

WP_REST_Attachments_Controller::check_upload_size()
source file: wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-attachments-controller.php

WP_REST_Comment_Meta_Fields::get_meta_subtype()
source file: wp-includes/rest-api/fields/class-wp-rest-comment-meta-fields.php

WP_REST_Meta_Fields::get_meta_subtype()
source file: wp-includes/rest-api/fields/class-wp-rest-meta-fields.php

WP_REST_Post_Meta_Fields::get_meta_subtype()
source file: wp-includes/rest-api/fields/class-wp-rest-post-meta-fields.php

WP_REST_Posts_Controller::get_available_actions()
source file: wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php

WP_REST_Posts_Controller::get_schema_links()
source file: wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php

WP_REST_Term_Meta_Fields::get_meta_subtype()
source file: wp-includes/rest-api/fields/class-wp-rest-term-meta-fields.php

WP_REST_User_Meta_Fields::get_meta_subtype()
source file: wp-includes/rest-api/fields/class-wp-rest-user-meta-fields.php

WP_Term_Query::populate_terms()
source file: wp-includes/class-wp-term-query.php

Modified

Functions

get_registered_meta_keys()
modification: The $object_subtype parameter was added.
source file: wp-includes/meta.php

register_meta()
modification: The $object_subtype argument was added to the arguments array.
source file: wp-includes/meta.php

registered_meta_key_exists()
modification: The $object_subtype parameter was added.
source file: wp-includes/meta.php

sanitize_meta()
modification: The $object_subtype parameter was added.
source file: wp-includes/meta.php

unregister_meta_key()
modification: The $object_subtype parameter was added.
source file: wp-includes/meta.php

Deprecated

Hooks

auth_{$object_type}_{$object_subtype}_meta_{$meta_key}unregister_meta_key()
alternative: Use auth_{$object_type}_meta_{$meta_key}_for_{$object_subtype} instead.
source file: wp-includes/capabilities.php

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