Release Changelog Draft

2.5.0

For the full list of issues and pull requests in this release, please see the 2.5.0 milestone with 8 closed issues and 13 merged pull requests (minus dependency updates).

Changelog

Validation

• Add support for fetchpriority. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/issues/7601, https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7644, https://github.com/ampproject/amp-toolbox-php/pull/544

• Update amphtml spec to 2309011827000 and remove Bento experiment. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7615, https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7652, https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/issues/7029

• Add amp-story-audio-sticker to spec. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7603

• Remove obsolete gyfcat embed support. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7612, https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/issues/7610

• Fix deprecated call to _admin_bar_bump_cb in WordPress 6.4. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/issues/7619, https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7635

• Omit redundant page caching and object caching tests for Site Health if on WP>=6.1. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7645, https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/issues/7643

• Fix interactivity API enabled navigation block in WordPress 6.4. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7650, https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/issues/7647

• Correctly handle siblings_disallowed from spec. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7597

• Revert custom GB 16.3 installation steps and add WP_DEBUG support in local-env. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7602

• Increase navigation timeout in e2e tests. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7611

Infrastructure

• Update node from 14 to 18. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7605, https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/issues/7599
• Fix deprecation warnings in PHP 8.1. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/issues/7604, https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7614
• Fix deprecation warning on AMP validation post edit screen. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7651
• Update docs generate command to run if PHP <= 7.4. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7594, https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/issues/7501
• Update paired browsing script dependencies array to add data-ampdevmode attribute to wp-polyfill-inert. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7596, https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/issues/7595
• Bump minimum PHP version to 7.4 and minimum WordPress to 5.3. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7613
• Fix multiple typos in PHP comments. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7648
• Update Build, test & measure workflow. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7649
• Fix navigation timeout errors in E2E tests. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7669
• Fix docs generation command. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7670
• Update ecosystem data; Update docs for v2.5.0. https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/7674

Props

Lovekesh Kumar (@thelovekesh), Maitreyie Chavan (@maitreyie-chavan), Milind More (@milindmore22), Weston Ruter (@westonruter), Pavan Patil (@pavanpatil1) Matthew Riley MacPherson (@tofumatt) Pascal Birchler (@swissspidy) Parikshit Adhikari (@parikshit-adhikari)

Andre Esteves Perrone (@artneo7), David Vallejo (@thyngster), Pooja Killekar (@pooja-muchandikar),

Installation

Now available to install via WordPress.org.

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