We are happy to announce that version 3.17 of the Parse.ly plugin will become available in VIP staging environments on Tuesday, November 12, 2024. Before using it in production, we recommend testing the new release in staging.

This release will become the default in production on Tuesday, November 19, 2024, and all non-pinned environments will be auto-upgraded to this version. These changes do not affect customers who don’t use wp-parsely, or use an integration method outside of mu-plugins.

What’s new

In terms of features, the Excerpt Suggestions tool is now accessible through the Content Helper Sidebar in the Post Editor, and it’s now possible to customize the tone and persona of the suggested excerpts.

As we’re preparing to introduce more features into the Content Helper, this is mainly a maintenance release geared towards making our codebase more flexible and easily maintainable. We’ve done this by:

• Refactoring our WP REST API endpoints.
• Adding more tests, making our integration tests run against PHP 8.4, and migrating our E2E tests to Playwright.
• Using Composer autoloader and creating a new plugin release workflow.
• Making a handful of smaller adjustments and fixing a couple of issues.

Breaking Changes

With the rework of our internal REST API, the old API in the wp-parsely/v1 namespace has been deprecated and replaced with the new wp-parsely/v2 namespace. While this update does not impact the standard use of the Parse.ly plugin, it will affect any custom implementations that rely on the previous API. If you are using a custom implementation to fetch data from the plugin, please update your implementation to ensure compatibility.