WordPress for iOS version 18.0 beta is available for testing on TestFlight. You can sign up for our TestFlight program and join as a beta tester by opening that link on your iPhone or iPad.
Test Setup
- Make sure you are using the latest beta noted in the title of this post. You can check your app version by going to My Site > Profile (top right) > Help & Support > Version or by looking at the version number in the TestFlight app.
- Go to Account > App Settings > Privacy Settings and turn on the Collect information option.
- Go to Account > Help & Support and turn on the Extra Debug option.
- Go to My Site > Settings > Use Block Editor to enable the block editor for new posts.
- If you are comfortable testing in a language other than English, please test in that language.
What’s New?
POSTING/ EDITING
- Posts: Ampersands are correctly decoded in publishing notices instead of showing as HTML entites. [#16972]
- Block editor: Add a “featured” banner and ability to set or remove an image as featured. [#3449]
NUX
- Updated the header text sizes to better support large texts on Choose a Domain and Choose a Design flows. [#16923]
COMMENTS
- Comments and Notifications list are now displayed with a unified design. [#16985]
BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Adjusted the image size of Theme Images for more optimal download speeds. [#16914]
- Resolved an issue where authentication tokens weren’t be regenerated when disabled on the server. [#16920]
- [internal] Updated GoogleSignIn to 6.0.1 through WordPressAuthenticator. Should be no visible changes, but could cause regression in Google sign in flow. [#16974]
Release notes source: WordPress-iOS/RELEASE-NOTES.txt. Updates that went into this release: WordPress-iOS 18.0, gutenberg-mobile 1.59.
Instructions for Reporting Issues
- If you find a problem with any of the blocks in the block editor, please search the gutenberg-mobile issues and leave a new comment if it has already been reported or create a new issue if you cannot find a previous report.
- If you find a problem with any part of the app other than blocks in the block editor, please search the WordPress-iOS issues and leave a comment it has already been reported or create a new issue if you cannot find a previous report.
- If you’re not sure where to report or if something is a bug, please comment on this post.
- Please always note the app version and device info you tested with!
- In GitHub, a bot may ask for labels but you may not have rights to add them. Know that labels will be added by someone on the triage team.
- Please do not include full Activity Logs which include tokens. Activity Logs can be very helpful for debugging but you should only include them if you have removed tokens as those should not be shared publicly. You can find the logs at Account > Help & Support > Application log.
Thanks for testing!