1.2.1-RC1

This is the first release candidate of version 1.2.1 of the AMP plugin, following 1.2.1-beta2 and 1.2.1-beta1.

For AMP Stories there have been ~5 pull requests merged (and ~5 issues closed) since the previous pre-release. The most notable changes include:

• Add inline text color support (flat text background scrim). #3033
• Require double click (or just two clicks) for editing. #2863
• Harden logic for normalizing image metadata before adding story images. #3049
• Improve story page background media with image srcset, reduced image size, and a11y text. #3006
• Wait until content loaded before calculating font size. #3052

For general AMP changes, there have been ~2 pull requests merged (and ~0 issues closed) since 1.2.1-beta2. A change to highlight includes:

• Prevent tree shaking any CSS selectors based on the descendants of amp-script elements. #3034

Please review the v1.2.1 milestone for what else to expect in the subsequent stable release. See also diff 1.2.1-beta2...1.2.1-RC1.

As a reminder, you will need the latest version of the Gutenberg plugin installed (v5.8+ specifically) to use AMP Stories, since the AMP Stories editor uses bleeding-edge features of WordPress's block editor which are not yet in a WordPress core release. You can then install the amp.zip build below by uploading it in the WordPress admin. Once active, enable the AMP Stories feature from the AMP admin settings screen.

To install as a Git submodule, consider 1.2.1-RC1-built.

The 1.2.1 stable release is due by August 22nd.