Changelog History
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v16.3-rc Changes
November 30, 2020- Stories: New feature for WordPress.com and Jetpack sites: Use photos and videos to create engaging and tappable fullscreen slideshows.
- Site Creation: Adds an option to pick a home page design when creating a WordPress.com site.
- 👍 Block Editor: Adding support for selecting different unit of value in Cover and Columns blocks.
- Block Editor: Button block - Add link picker to the block settings.
- 🔀 Block Editor: Fix theme colors syncing with the editor.
- 👍 Reader: introduced a Follow/Unfollow button in comments screen to follow a post conversation and get notified by e-mail. Not supported for self-hosted sites not Jetpack connected.
- 🚚 Posts Settings: removed deprecated location setting.
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v16.2 Changes
November 30, 2020🐎 Block editor enhancements: We’ve improved the overall performance and speed, which you might notice when you open the editor to create a new post. We’ve also improved the Image block, with better support for uploading multiple images.
⚡️ Other updates and fixes: Your app now uses a new Media Picker when you select files for posts, your site icon, Gravatar, and other places. We also fixed a bug on pure self-hosted sites on HTTP that prevented featured images from displaying in the Posts List.
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v16.2-rc Changes
November 20, 2020🐎 Block editor enhancements: We’ve improved the overall performance and speed, which you might notice when you open the editor to create a new post. We’ve also improved the Image block, with better support for uploading multiple images.
⚡️ Other updates and fixes: Your app now uses a new Media Picker when you select files for posts, your site icon, Gravatar, and other places. We also fixed a bug on pure self-hosted sites on HTTP that prevented featured images from displaying in the Posts List.
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v16.1 Changes
November 16, 2020- Choose from a variety of predesigned page templates when you create a new page on a Gutenberg-enabled site.
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v16.1-rc Changes
November 12, 2020- Choose from a variety of predesigned page templates when you create a new page on a Gutenberg-enabled site.
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v16.0.1 Changes
November 10, 2020⚡️ Block editor updates: There’s now full-width and wide alignment support for the Video, Gallery, and more blocks. We fixed an issue affecting the Classic block on Jetpack sites and resolved an issue involving unsupported blocks on rotated devices.
⚡️ Reader updates: Enjoy a cleaner reading experience and beautiful images in the redesigned Reader. You can access it even if you don’t follow any topics.
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v15.9-rc Changes
October 05, 2020- 👍 Block Editor: On Jetpack connected sites, Unsupported Block Editor can be enabled via enabling Jetpack SSO setting directly from within the missing block alert.
- 🔧 Block Editor: Add support for selecting user's post when configuring the link.
- Block Editor: Added expected double tap for focus behavior for text fields in accessibility mode.
- 👍 Block Editor: Increase tap-target of primary action on unsupported blocks.
- Block Editor: Fix for a crash that can occur when long pressing selected images.
- Block Editor: Add message that mentions are unavailable when device is offline.
- 👌 Improved My Site layout on devices with big screens.
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v15.8 Changes
October 05, 2020- 💅 Block editor enhancements: Added full-width and wide alignment support for Group, Cover, and Image blocks; added support for the Rounded style in the Image block; and resolved an issue where the toolbar behaved unexpectedly when adding a block.
- ⚡️ Reader update: Preview images are now displayed on posts when no featured image is set.
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v15.8-rc Changes
September 21, 2020- Reader: Now displaying preview images for more posts when no feature image is set.
- 👍 Block Editor: Full-width and wide alignment support for Group, Cover and Image block.
- 💅 Block Editor: Add support for rounded style in Image block.
- 🛠 Block Editor: Fixed a case where adding a block made the toolbar jump.
- 👌 Improved AppBar and Site Picker design.
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v15.7 Changes
September 21, 2020👌 Improvements in the Reader: A new Discover tab you can tailor to your interests and an “(un)follow” button to the site and topic detail screens.
Block Editor enhancements: A new Pullquote block that lets you add emphasis to a chosen piece of text. Any changes made in menu sliders are now also immediately reflected in block settings.