WP-Desktop 7.0.6

Latest Changes

This is the first release of the overhauled WordPress Desktop application. 🎉 Includes new navigation controls as well as a host of fixes and improvements.

• New title bar with navigation controls to enable easier back, forward and home access.
• Updated icons on Linux, Mac and Windows.
• Refine how links are opened in the app when triggered with about:blank or window.open
• Better handling of code=-30 ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CSP request failures
• Some fixes for notification payload parsing
• Add "network disconnected" error message

6.0.2

Announcement
In August 2020, the WordPress Desktop project became part of the Calypso monorepo. Going forward, this repository will be used for publishing releases and issue tracking only. Please refer to Automattic/wp-calypso/releases for the WordPress Desktop source code.

What's Changed

Auto-Update

• Point auto-updater to wp-calypso

Continous Integration

• Add check to fail if tag version doesn't match package.json (#939)
• Add step to validate tag matches version in package.json

Enhancements

• Configure YML indentation in .editorconfig

6.0.2-beta1

What's Changed

Auto-Update

• Point auto-updater to wp-calypso

Continous Integration

• Add check to fail if tag version doesn't match package.json (#939)
• Add step to validate tag matches version in package.json

Enhancements

• Configure YML indentation in .editorconfig

6.0.1

What's Changed

Calypso

• Update to Automattic/wp-calypso@77f169c (#947)

Continous Integration

• Remove Slack notifications (#936)
• Fix ignore path for import branch (#926)
• Ignore wp-desktop migration branch (#925)
• Send PR # and author back to canary bridge (#905)
• Add Slack notifications for Calypso PRs (#903)
• Accept user name and PR number (#902)

Fixes

• Update Calypso to fix #942 (#946)
• Fix updater and SSO dialog prompts (#944)
• Handle unknown editor load failures (#937)

6.0.1-beta4

What's Changed

Calypso

• Update to Automattic/wp-calypso@77f169c (#947)

Continous Integration

• Remove Slack notifications (#936)
• Fix ignore path for import branch (#926)
• Ignore wp-desktop migration branch (#925)
• Send PR # and author back to canary bridge (#905)
• Add Slack notifications for Calypso PRs (#903)
• Accept user name and PR number (#902)

Fixes

• Update Calypso to fix #942 (#946)
• Fix auto-updater and SSO dialog prompts (#944)
• Handle unknown editor load failures (#937)
• Disable Jetpack backup feature (Automattic/wp-calypso@77f169c)
• Fix the "Try the block editor" dialog (Automattic/wp-calypso@9238904)
• Fix Jetpack checklist not loading (Automattic/wp-calypso@2122225)

6.0.1-beta3

What's Changed

Calypso

• Update to Automattic/wp-calypso@1c03224 (#938)

Continous Integration

• Remove Slack notifications (#936)
• Fix ignore path for import branch (#926)
• Ignore wp-desktop migration branch (#925)
• Send PR # and author back to canary bridge (#905)
• Add Slack notifications for Calypso PRs (#903)
• Accept user name and PR number (#902)

Fixes

• Fix updater and SSO dialog prompts (#944)
• Handle unknown editor load failures (#937)

6.0.1-beta2

What's Changed

Calypso

• Update to Automattic/wp-calypso@1c03224 (#938)

Continous Integration

• Remove Slack notifications (#936)
• Fix ignore path for import branch (#926)
• Ignore wp-desktop migration branch (#925)
• Send PR # and author back to canary bridge (#905)
• Add Slack notifications for Calypso PRs (#903)
• Accept user name and PR number (#902)

Fixes

• Handle unknown editor load failures (#937)

6.0.1-beta1

What's Changed

Calypso

• Update to Automattic/wp-calypso@1c03224 (#938)

Continous Integration

• Remove Slack notifications (#936)
• Fix ignore path for import branch (#926)
• Ignore wp-desktop migration branch (#925)
• Send PR # and author back to canary bridge (#905)
• Add Slack notifications for Calypso PRs (#903)
• Accept user name and PR number (#902)

Fixes

• Handle unknown editor load failures (#937)

6.0.0

What's Changed

Build

CI

• Isolate canary from wp-desktop workflows (#898)

General

• Update to Electron v8 LTS
• Convert desktop/server/server module to ESM for better Calypso import compat (#890)

Calypso

• Update to Automattic/wp-calypso@6d53da19 to fix bug (#933)

Enhancements

• Augment print handler (#928)

New Features

Spellchecker

• Use os-native spellchecker

Fixes

• Open "View Post" in an external browser (#924)

Testing

• Disable logout test (#894)

6.0.0-beta4

What's Changed

Build

CI

• Isolate canary from wp-desktop workflows (#898)

General

• Update to Electron v8 LTS
• Convert desktop/server/server module to ESM for better Calypso import compat (#890)

Calypso

• Update Calypso to pull in some bug fixes (#908, #909, #910, #931)

Enhancements

• Augment print handler (#928)

New Features

Spellchecker

• Use os-native spellchecker

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where clicking "View Post" after updating/publishing a post broke the app (#908)
• Fixed a bug where the site setup list would not populate. To address this issue, site setup list on desktop will be disabled until a more comprehensive solution is found. (#909)
• Fixed a bug where clicking "print recovery codes" would silently fail (#910)
• Fixed a bug where the Get Help card would open the wrong "Domains" link (#931)

Testing

• Disable logout test (#894)