2.7.0 - 2018-11-14 #

Added #

• Added soft PHP 5.3 requirement, with admin messaging.
• Added meta tag for breadcrumb position.
• Added ability to export or remove private data via the WordPress privacy tools.
• Added ability to autoload namespaced classes.
• Added genesis_is_amp() utility function for detecting when the request is an AMP URL.
• Added minimum-scale to the viewport meta tag when the request is an AMP URL.
• Added a genesis_more_text filter.
• Added a /docs folder for housing Genesis documentation.
• Added individual changelog files for each release.
• Added SEO support for SEOPress.
• Added Genesis version to the "At a Glance" dashboard widget.
• Added rel="noopener noreferrer" to new window links.
• Added aria-current to pagination for accessibility.

Changed #

• Use Semantic Versioning for all future releases.
• Use config file for breadcrumb arguments.
• Use Markup API to build breadcrumb links.
• Redirect to the "What's New" page on all upgrades, not just "major" ones.
• Change the license line in all file headers to "GPL-2.0-or-later".
• Use wp_strip_all_tags() instead of strip_tags().
• Replace all references to "Copyblogger" with "StudioPress".
• Refresh .editorconfig.
• Use Markup API for opening and closing entry-content tags.
• Clear cache at the end of an upgrade.

Fixed #

• Fixed various code standards violations.
• Fixed various missing or incorrect inline documentation.
• Fixed issue where avatars were fetched even when the size to fetch is 0.
• Fixed issue where genesis_update_action_links() was not returning an array.
• Fixed potential null pointer exceptions.
• Fixed misuses of mb_strlen().
• Fixed Tiago Hillebrandt's Twitter link.

Removed #

• Deprecated genesis_is_major_version().
• Deprecated third arg in genesis_structural_wrap(), intended as a return function.
• Removed direct file access block from comments.php.
• Removed an unused variable assignment in the entry content output function.
• Removed a duplicate description from composer.json.
• Removed tab stop on aria-hidden featured images.
• Remove all references to "Scribe".