Release Changelog Draft

2.2.2

This is a maintenance release, following up on 2.2.1 from 2 months ago.

[This release improves compatibility with changes in WordPress 5.9, including block-based themes like Twenty Twenty-Two.]

For the full list of issues and pull requests in this release, please see the 2.2.2 milestone with 25 closed issues and 34 merged pull requests (minus dependency updates). See full diff of changes.

Changelog

• Improve handling of WordPress post embeds by utilizing amp-wordpress-embed. (#809, #6665)
• Remove obsolete code that strips whitespace around equal signs from meta viewport. (#4742, #6979)
• Disable auto-lightbox by default. (#5122, #6936)
• Add plugin suppression indication on plugins list table. (#5340, #6959)
• Add E2E tests for the nav menu toggles and search UI on core themes. (#5404, #6967, #6933)
• Replace img with amp-pixel instead of amp-img when sanitizing the Facebook tracking pixel. (#6059, #6965)
• Reduce length of specificity-hacked CSS selectors and fix CSS selector conversion to work properly with amp-next-page. (#6909, #6312)
• Add dropdown to select vendors when managing analytics entries. (#6367, #6894)
• Bump stable PHP version used in CI and update unit tests to utilize Yoast/wp-test-utils v1.0. (#6466)
• Prevent duplication of script for hiding admin bar in onboarding wizard. (#6643, #6877)
• Prevent removal of entire picture element tree when sanitizing by promoting child fallback img in conversion to amp-img; add sanitizer argument to retain picture as PX-verified. (#6676, #6896)
• Immediately add or remove DevTools-related AMP admin menu items when toggling setting. (#6714, #6878)
• Fix color and position of captions in carousel galleries when links are present. (#6734, #6907)
• Add support for dark mode user toggle in Twenty Twenty-One. (#6783, #6874)
• Allow native img without any PX-verified exemptions. In the subsequent 2.3 release images will no longer be converted to amp-img/amp-anim by default and native img will be used instead (per #6805). (#6803)
• Show validation issues for plugins and themes on AMP setting page after completion of Site Scan; allow copying of issues to clipboard to be shared with theme/plugin authors even when user has DevTools turned off. (#6807, #6835, #7013, #7015)
• Do async site scanning after theme activation. (#6814, #6859)
• Improve determination of eligible post types for AMP. (#6883, #6897)
• Re-insert AMP Preview button whenever editor toolbar changes to ensure button shows up initially in WP 5.6, 5.7, and 5.8. (#6893, #6900)
• Harden against possibility of 'Undefined array key url' warning for PHP 8.0. (#6921, #6948)
• Use wp_unique_id()-based block class names instead of uniqid() and reset the disabling of CSS transient caching in affected versions of WordPress/Gutenberg. (#6925, #6949, #7004)
• Fix Site Health check for page caching to account for wp_remote_retrieve_header() returning arrays when duplicate response headers are present. (#6937, #6938)
• Update gallery shortcode embed handler to account for no shortcode attributes (improving PHP 8 compat). (#6939)
• Prevent copying PHP files from src/ into assets/. (#6947, #6952, #6955)
• Update amphtml validator spec to 2202230359001. (#6956, #6803)
• Parent theme with AMP incompatibilities is greyed-out in the Site Scan results. (#6958, #6859)
• Update Dependabot auto-merge workflow based on latest GitHub documentation. (#6964)
• Improve checks for image dimensions extraction to avoid possibility of division by zero. (#6968, #6973)
• Attempt to fix Dependabot auto-merge workflow. (#6975)
• Fix phpunit tests after postcss update and changes in WP 6.0-alpha. (#6983)
• Add margins to buttons on Settings screen. (#7001, #7010)

Props

Alain Schlesser (@schlessera), Alberto Medina (@amedina), Bartosz Gadomski (@bartoszgadomski), Daniel Rueda (@danirueda), Dhaval Parekh (@dhaval-parekh), Edi Amin (@ediamin) Fellyph Cintra (@fellyph), James Osborne (@jamesozzie), John Watkins (@johnwatkins0), Lovekesh Kumar (@thelovekesh), Maitreyie Chavan (@maitreyie-chavan), Milind More (@milindmore22), Nikhil Joshua (@NikhilJoshua), Pierre Gordon (@pierlon), Piotr Delawski (@delawski), Pooja Killekar (@pooja-muchandikar), Rutvik Savsani (@rutviksavsani), Ryan Welcher (@ryanwelcher), Weston Ruter (@westonruter)

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.