Polish 1.18.0 release notes - #4552
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| * Agentic UI: Reworked the new-user onboarding screens and added a first-run orientation guide, a "What's New" view, and welcome tour illustrations #4413, #4331, #4414, #4501 | ||
| * Agentic UI: Rebuilt the site preview with a segmented address bar, an omnibox with live page and post search, responsive preview modes, a full preview panel with Desktop + Mobile comparison, and a redesigned stopped-site state #4366, #4367, #4373, #4368, #4423, #4364, #4527 | ||
| * Agentic UI: Brought over the remaining site workflows from the classic UI — the site overview with an About summary and disk usage, backup import, Open in actions, connecting a WordPress.com site, selective sync, and cancelling an in-flight push or pull #4470, #4473, #4500, #4469, #4365, #4307, #4305, #4377, #4510, #4522, #4461, #4350 | ||
| * Agentic UI: Added multi-note annotation sessions, preserved unsubmitted annotations when navigating the preview, and kept Annotate available when agentic features are disabled #4521, #4460, #4455 |
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I am wondering if some of these agentic UI items can be combined in one item? What do you think>
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The reason for that is that I am not sure whether the users would benefit from this level of detail and whether it is necessary?
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I considered the one line, but I noticed Agentic UI was mentioned in previous notes, so I think we should offer some level of detail. Trimmed it down more in 2dafa3f, what do you think?
| * Agentic UI: Fixed preview navigation and caching, a toast crash, a blinking Create Site button, and a range of visual and interaction glitches across the site menu, chat, composer, and create-site flow #4370, #4505, #4519, #4329, #4337, #4335, #4359, #4520, #4334, #4338, #4380, #4498, #4362, #4443, #4421, #4453, #4332, #4361 | ||
| * Studio Code: Replaced Opus 4.8 with Opus 5, surfaced the payment-method requirement before the first prompt, and showed a clear notice when AI is disabled or the account is blocked #4342, #4422, #4386, #4463, #4493 | ||
| * Studio Code: Fixed a 400 error when using a direct Anthropic API key, validated the key in the api-key and provider CLI commands, and sent a custom user agent on AI requests #4480, #4504, #4437 | ||
| * Added Tracks analytics alongside MC Stats, covering onboarding and authentication, site lifecycle and open actions, imports and exports, preview sites, settings and appearance changes, and Studio Code chat #4162, #4532, #4464, #4490, #4482, #4434, #4506, #4457, #4420, #4395, #4418, #4358 |
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I am not sure if the user needs to know the details about MC stats or track analytics, we could probably just condense it into something like: improved analytics across the app
What do you think?
| * Studio Code: Replaced Opus 4.8 with Opus 5, surfaced the payment-method requirement before the first prompt, and showed a clear notice when AI is disabled or the account is blocked #4342, #4422, #4386, #4463, #4493 | ||
| * Studio Code: Fixed a 400 error when using a direct Anthropic API key, validated the key in the api-key and provider CLI commands, and sent a custom user agent on AI requests #4480, #4504, #4437 | ||
| * Added Tracks analytics alongside MC Stats, covering onboarding and authentication, site lifecycle and open actions, imports and exports, preview sites, settings and appearance changes, and Studio Code chat #4162, #4532, #4464, #4490, #4482, #4434, #4506, #4457, #4420, #4395, #4418, #4358 | ||
| * Made site startup more resilient with a PHP error page and auto-recovery when a site fails to start, a real reason when a Blueprint fails, no ghost site left behind when creation fails, and blocking of conflicting site operations #4246, #4487, #4489, #4406 |
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I was a bit lost by the end of this sentence to be honest. I am not sure how the first part is related to blocking conflicting operations. I think this can be rephrased for clarity
| * Fixed a stuck Start/Stop indicator and the inverted play/pause glyphs on the site status toggle #4253, #4374 | ||
| * Fixed site URLs not updating on native PHP imports and an ENAMETOOLONG error from open_basedir, raised max_execution_time, and dropped Blueprint features the native runner cannot accept #4454, #4432, #4274, #4488 | ||
| * Added Spotlight keywords for improved discoverability, and dropped the restart popup when an update is ready #3255, #4405 | ||
| * Updated the bundled PHP binaries and the SQLite database integration to v3.0.0-rc.8, pinned Reprint to v0.9.2, and pointed CLI Reprint provisioning at the v1/v2-aware export endpoints #4438, #4440, #4439, #4436, #4417, #4431, #4375, #4491 |
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I am not sure if the users know about the CLI Reprint, I am not up to date on that project - is that something that we already mentioned publicly?
| * Fixed site URLs not updating on native PHP imports and an ENAMETOOLONG error from open_basedir, raised max_execution_time, and dropped Blueprint features the native runner cannot accept #4454, #4432, #4274, #4488 | ||
| * Added Spotlight keywords for improved discoverability, and dropped the restart popup when an update is ready #3255, #4405 | ||
| * Updated the bundled PHP binaries and the SQLite database integration to v3.0.0-rc.8, pinned Reprint to v0.9.2, and pointed CLI Reprint provisioning at the v1/v2-aware export endpoints #4438, #4440, #4439, #4436, #4417, #4431, #4375, #4491 | ||
| * Updated multiple dependencies, including WP Playground, Electron, the pi (agent) packages, the MCP SDK, tar, postcss and undici, resolving several Dependabot alerts #4230, #4327, #4357, #4383, #4384, #4428, #4416 |
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the pi (agent) packages, the MCP SDK, tar, postcss and undici, resolving several Dependabot alerts
I would probably drop this level of detail, especially Dependabot alerts as this is not something user-facing or something the users need to know about
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Looks good, thanks for addressing the comments 👍
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