Twenty Seventeen changelog

Version 4.0

Released: December 3, 2025 with WordPress 6.9

• Remove code for obsolete browsers, including conditional comments for Internet Explorer and the contents of IE-specific stylesheets and HTML5 Shiv files. (#58836)
• Use wp_print_inline_script_tag() when available to construct scripts while also ensuring filters may inject additional attributes on the <script> tags, such as nonce for Content Security Policy (CSP). (#63806)
• Prevent output of empty heading and/or link tags if the Site Title or Tagline has no value. (#44656)
• Add label text to use explicit labels (with for and id attributes) in Customizer hue picker. (#42078)
• Escape translations in block patterns. (#63264)
• Document the twentyseventeen_should_show_featured_image filter. (#63644)
• Document the the_content filter. (#63637)
• Add missing @since tag for twentyseventeen_scripts(). (#63692)
• Use third-person singular verbs for function descriptions. (#63692)

Version 3.9

Released: April 15, 2025 with WordPress 6.8

• Add aria-current="page" on header links that point to the current URL. #62895
• Update .screen-reader-text class, replacing the obsolete clip property with clip-path. #62238
• Replace references to “Add New” theme screen in readme file. #61219

Version 3.8

Released: November 12th, 2024 with WordPress 6.7

• Add spacing between each Reply heading and its Cancel reply link in the comments template. (#59334)
• Restrict front page panels to show only pages with ‘publish’ or ‘private’ status, and show a placeholder in the Customizer if the page has a different status. (#46604)
• Remove extra spacing from floated images when they are the first image. (#46785)
• Respect user-defined font weight settings in Button blocks. (#60937)
• Fix Gallery block caption styles when the Gallery is inside a different block. (#50376)
• Show the Verse block in the same font family in the editor as it has on the front end. (#61140)
• Fix Pullquote block text color settings in the editor. (#46080)
• Fix Search block button styles in the editor. (#61888)
• Edit initial-scale value in viewport meta tag to 1.0 instead of 1. [59026]
• Load block patterns on the init hook to avoid triggering notices caused by loading the translations too early. (#62237)
• Add contributors to copyright notices. (#61943)

Version 3.7

Released: July 16th, 2024 with WordPress 6.6

• Add a twentyseventeen_should_show_featured_image filter to adjust when a featured image should display in the header. (#39281)
• Fix inconsistent alignment, font style and margin for the figure caption in Image and similar blocks within the editor. (#58539)
• Improve header image quality with mobile devices and browsers at a narrow width. (#39253)
• Correct image height for the Site Logo block, and remove box shadow when the “Link image to home” setting is enabled. (#58474)
• Set a default border style of solid for the Pullquote block when the user adds a border. (#61362)
• Fix the font weight of links in the Latest Comments block, and remove unused rulesets. (#61180)
• Use a consistent space between comments in a Latest Comments block, within a post, as typography size is increased. (#59130)
• Center the Calendar block’s header cells when added to a post. (#58547)
• Remove blank CSS lines. (#59493)
• Optimize theme screenshot. ([58442])
• Correct a spelling mistake in a comment within dark.css. ([57987])
• Update HelpHub link for post format documentation to avoid unnecessary redirections. ([57800])

Version 3.6

Released: April 2nd, 2024 with WordPress 6.5

• Cast font URL functions to string for add_editor_style(), to avoid PHP warnings on child themes. (#59074)
• Add missing text domain to various block patterns. (#60245)
• Correct a typo (#60310)

Version 3.5

Released: January 16, 2024

• Revert usage of str_contains() in older bundled themes (#60241).

Version 3.4

Released: November 7, 2023

• Update default themes to use new script function signature: the last parameter of wp_register_script() and wp_enqueue_script() is an array instead of the boolean true (#59302)
• Use defer loading strategy for theme scripts (#59316)

Version 3.3

Released: August 8, 2023

• Improve Grid View variation rendering in the editor for the Post List block by removing an unwanted disc list style (#58531)
• Deprecate the skip link focus fix, switching the enqueue function to just register the script (#54421)
• Remove Internet Explorer-specific checks (#56699)
• Make twentyseventeen_is_static_front_page() an alias of twentyseventeen_is_frontpage() because both functions returned same result (#43515)
• Fix documentation for template functions (#58695)
• Remove call to load_theme_textdomain() function (#58318)
• Add “Requires at least” and “Requires PHP” to readme.txt (#57857)
• Replace usage of strpos() with str_contains() (#58206)

Version 3.2

Released: March 29, 2023

• Remove letter-spacing from Farsi/Persian alphabet (#56994)
• Fix comment indentation in twentyseventeen_setup() ([54902])
• Improve various globals documentation, as per docblock standards (#57069)
• Document the $twentyseventeencounter global. ([55004])
• Bundle Google Fonts locally (#55985)
• Mark strings for screen readers (#29748)
• Use the new /documentation/ URLs for HelpHub links (#57726)

Version 3.1

Released: November 1, 2022

• Button text word break does not apply correctly (#55783)
• Scaling Issue on Front Page Parallax Image Using Safari on iPadOS (#48195)
• Update jQuery scrollTo to the latest version (#56702)
• Remove closing PHP tags from bundled themes (#40039)

Version 3.0

Released: May 24, 2022

• Remove bottom border (box-shadow) from linked images (#55141)
• Define List item separator as a WP_Locale property (#39733)
• Note visually hidden text for translators (#55591)

Version 2.9

Released: January 25, 2022

• Remove “role” attribute on HTML5 elements with a default landmark role. (#54079)
• Return type not matched in PHPDoc – Bundled Themes (#53878)
• Change WhatsApp URL in social links menu (#51946)
• Post title’s margin-bottom on front page is too large (#43628)
• Add “Tested up to” in style.css (#53797)

Version 2.8

Released: July 20, 2021

• Avoid JS errors when displaying legacy widgets. (#53512)
• Improve display of blocks in widget areas. (#53422)

Version 2.7

Released: April 14, 2021

• Post metabox style has a border (#52816)

Version 2.6

Released: March 9, 2021

• Core blocks are positioned incorrectly in some core bundled themes. (#52009)
• Add support for the font size option for the code block. (#52431)

Version 2.5

Released: December 8, 2020

• Introduce block patterns for Twenty Seventeen. (#51100)
• Correct list block alignment in editor styles. (#51157)
• Declare support for the html5 feature navigation-widgets. (#51445)

Version 2.4

Released: August 11, 2020

• Fixes navbar z-index issue by upping the z-index value to 1000 from 7. (#39384)
• Fixes issues where pagination does not work on the page that is set to the home page. (#39685)
• Adds Telegram and Whatsapp support and SVG’s to Social Media Menu. (#43999)
• Fixes CSS issue when using rowspan in tables. This issue does not apply to the Table Block, just tables inserted as custom html. (#44004)

Version 2.3

Released: March 31, 2020

• Update calendar widget styles for 5.4 markup. (#49549)

Version 2.2

Released: May 7, 2019

• Trigger a new wp_body_open action immediately after the opening body tag, and add shim. (#12563, #46679)
• Use theme version number when enqueuing styles. (#39997)
• Correct hover styles for MediaElement JS buttons. (#40843)
• Update readme.txt file content to fix validation errors. (#45871)
• Make th styling match on the front-end and in the editor. (#46568)
• Prevent too-long strings from causing horizontal scrolling. (#46703)
• Fix inconsistent HTML comments after closing HTML tags. (#46871)

Version 2.1

Released: February 21, 2019

• Add escaping to the pingback URL. (#43717)
• Fix issue with YouTube videos used in the Header Media area displaying offset in Safari. (#40522)
• Make sure right-aligned quotes are correctly positioned on page load. (#40103)
• Correct the documentation for twentyseventeen_scripts() function. (#45466)
• Update @link information in index.php. (#45222)
• Remove unneeded default_text_color from doc block, and add information for the twentyseventeen_custom_header_setup() function. (#44920)
• Correct “frontpage” to “front page” in the code comments. (#42666)
• In the code comments, correct the number of recent blog posts that will be displayed on the static front page. (#42621)

Version 2.0

Released: January 9, 2019

• Use simple counter rather than uniqid() for generating unique IDs for HTML elements. (#44883)
• Fix block editor custom color styles, to make sure they’re being correctly applied to blocks. (#45426)
• Make sure button blocks respect the default rounded style, as well as the squared and outline options. (#45541)
• Bump version numbers of updated scripts and stylesheets to prevent caching. (#45679)

Version 1.9

Released: December 19, 2018

• Remove unneeded ordered list styles from editor styles, which caused issues in starting order. (#44775)
• Add focus styles to the cookies consent checkbox in the comment form. (#44699)
• Remove legacy Internet Explorer 8 styles from the editor that were making it impossible to resize images. (#39738)
• Correct font family used for Simplified Chinese in the block editor styles. (#45408)
• Correct block appender appearance in block editor. (#45450)
• Remove the term “Gutenberg” from code comments and editor styles. (#45452)

Version 1.8

Released: December 6, 2018

• Add front end and editor styles for the new block-based editor. (#45045 and #45246)
• Add theme support for responsive block embeds. (#45274)

Version 1.7

Released: August 2, 2018

• Correct list item style for nested unordered lists. (#44109)

Version 1.6

Released: May 17, 2018

• Add link to privacy policy page in footer. (#43715)
• Comments: Move comment consent input outside the label for a11y. (#43436)

Version 1.5

Released: April 3, 2018

• Various code improvements for formatting. (#41057)
• Use consistent wording when referring to the front page in inline docs. (#42666)
• Correct the number of recent posts in a comment in template-parts/page/content-front-page-panels.php. (#42621)
• Remove unnecessary comment in front-page.php. (#42820)
• Underline links in comments. (#43317)

Version 1.4

Released: November 14, 2017

• Remove/merge unused variables in content-front-page.php. (#39771)
• Correct the @return value for twentyseventeen_post_thumbnail_sizes_attr(). (#41830)
• Document the type of $item argument in twentyseventeen_dropdown_icon_to_menu_link() more accurately. (#41923)
• Add Periscope icon to supported social links. (#40959)
• Add Docker Hub icon to supported social links. (#41529)
• Add missing labels for <aside role="complementary"> widget areas. (#42056)
• Change tag cloud format to a list (ul) for better semantics and accessibility. (#40184), (#40138)
• Add missing @return tag for twentyseventeen_video_controls(). (#41927)
• Fix positioning of edit shortcuts when partials are nested inside a frontpage panel. (#41557)
• Fix double bottom-margins below embeds. (#42118)
• Make gallery link styles consistent in all widget areas. (#42302), (#41969)

Version 1.3

Released: June 8, 2017

• Improve styles for 4.8 widgets. (#40745)
• Remove uneccessary return statement. (#40516)
• Improves code readability and code standards in files. (#39152)
• Hardens the logic for calling featured image in header.php. (#39302)
• Correct @param entry for twentyseventeen_front_page_sections filter. (#39488)
• Remove extra asterisk from a translator comment so the comment could be parsed correctly. (#39116)
• Correct @param entries for twentyseventeen_custom_colors_css filter. (#39575)
• Remove duplicate global $post declaration in twentyseventeen_front_page_section(). (#39590)
• Improve typography for Simplified Chinese (zh_CN). (#39379)
• Allow category display in post preview even when only one category. (#39531)
• Rename “Sidebar” widget area for clarity. (#39567)
• Correct grammar in ‘Page Layout’ control description. (#40107)

Version 1.2

Released: April 18, 2017

• Declare jQuery dependency for navigation.js. (#40224)
• Correctly escape translatable strings in HTML attributes. (#40216)
• Fix incorrect heading hierarchy for front page posts. (#40264)

Version 1.1

Released: January 6, 2017

• Fix incorrect $content_width value in theme. (#39272)
• Ensure functions in customize-controls.js don’t count on Customizer sections always being present. (#39335)
• Deprecate page_home nav menu item starter content in favor of link_home. (#39104)
• Introduce a theme-specific filter twentyseventeen_starter_content for customizing the starter content array. (#39109)

Version 1.0

Released: December 6, 2016

Initial Release.