WordPress 4.9.8

3 August 2018

WordPress version 4.9.8 is now available.

Upgrading to WordPress 4.9.8

What's New in WordPress 4.9.8

• try Gutenberg header wraps over text below on narrow screens
  
• minor tweaks to Try Gutenberg callout formatting
  

• TwentySeventeen backend editor: level 2 bulleted lists nested under numbered lists show numbers instead of bullets
  
• Bundled Themes: Bump version number and update changelog in Twenty Seventeen for 4.9.8 release
  

• Adding fields to comments_form args prevents checkbox displaying
  
• Privacy: Don’t replace comment author URL and email with anything
  
• Commenter cookie consent message should not be displayed if the cookie action isn’t hooked
  

• minor tweaks to Try Gutenberg callout formatting
  

• Introduce “Try Gutenberg” callout
  
• Replace _deprecated_function( ‘add_filter’ ) with apply_filters_deprecated()
  
• Restrict the Try Gutenberg callout audience
  

• minor tweaks to Try Gutenberg callout formatting
  

• wp_is_stream fails with stream definition containing nonascii chars
  

• i18n: “About” disambiguation
  
• Saratov and other cities missing from translations
  

• Missing parameter type for `login_header()`
  

• Extreme memory leak related to wp_is_stream in wp-includes/functions.php in WordPress 4.9.7
  
• REST API: Attachments controller should respect “Max upload file size” and “Site upload space” in multisite
  

• Reconsider $object_subtype handling in `register_meta()`
  

• Add action hook to get_inline_data()
  

• Privacy Policy page should have suffix like other special pages
  
• Privacy: Pagination screen options for the requests list tables
  
• Add Request Type into Admin Email Subject for GDPR
  
• GDPR Privacy Page setting allows for Draft Pages
  
• Mixed Case of Privacy Policy on Privacy Settings page
  
• If draft page selected for Privacy Policy page should verbiage change from view to preview
  
• The input field id username_or_email_to_export should be something else on remove_personal_data page
  
• Title of Privacy Policy Page not used on login page
  
• “Silence is golden” index.html generates output
  
• Add filter for email subject for erasure complete notification
  
• Replace `site_url( ‘wp-login.php’ )` in `wp_send_user_request()`
  
• Add a privacy setting to disable comment cookie consent
  
• GDPR filters should provide either $request or $request_id
  
• Filter the subject within _wp_privacy_send_request_confirmation_notification
  
• Inconsistent use of blogname and sitename in Privacy emails
  
• Grammar – Missing ‘a’ in ‘select new Privacy Policy page’
  
• Admin emails after email confirmation don’t work for data privacy requests
  
• Remove “// WPCS:” comments
  

• REST API saves attachments with absolute path for `_wp_attached_file` on Windows platforms
  
• REST API: Only render fields specific to request when _fields= is used
  
• REST API: Expose revision count and last revision ID on Post response
  
• REST API: Declare user capability to perform actions using JSON Hyper Schema `targetSchema`
  

• WP_Term_Query get_terms generates invalid sql queries
  
• REST API: Taxonomy and term endpoints should use correct permission checks
  

• Update to TinyMCE 4.7.13
  
• do not force-load external TinyMCE plugins