Merge branch 'release/4.17'

CHANGELOG.md

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 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [4.17] - 2019-12-11
+### Added
+* New "Tools" that replaces the "Blacklist", "Import/Export" and "Debugging" pages.
+* New option to control whether items with future dates are scheduled or published with truncated dates.
+* New "feeds" shortcode parameter to select feed sources by their slug names.
+* New "1 week" update interval option to update feeds once every week.
+* The "Edit Feed Source" page now allows the slug to be edited.
+* The "Edit Feed Source" page now shows shortcode snippets.
+
+### Changed
+* RSS feeds that are invalid due to leading whitespace are now trimmed and may now be imported.
+* Images that have the same URL are now downloaded to the media library only once.
+* Updated some styles to match the new WordPress 5.3 aesthetic.
+* Optimized template saving to be more performant and less error prone.
+* Improved error messages in REST API responses.
+* Removed some log messages.
+* Fatal errors are now always logged.
+* Optimized cron-related functionality.
+* The plugin will no longer register cron schedules that already exist.
+* License-related notices are now only shown to users who have access to the Licenses settings page.
+
+### Fixed
+* The "Import Source" option did not work.
+* Templates now link imported posts to the local post instead of to the original article.
+* Images with HTML entities in the URL could not be downloaded.
+* Feed items without a PolyLang translation did not show up in templates.
+* PHP notices were triggered when trying to download invalid images.
+* The feed item count in the "Feed Sources" page would show zero when certain add-ons are installed.
+* Removed a warning shown in templates about `reset()` expecting an array.
+* Thumbnails imported by Excerpts & Thumbnails were not shown in templates.
+* Some databases would report the following error during logging: "Column 'date' cannot be null".
+* Unserializing the options for the system info triggered PHP notices.
+
+### Removed
+* A WordPress 5.1 function was being used to check for ready cron jobs, now replaced with a custom function.
+
 ## [4.16] - 2019-10-31
 ### Changed
 * Overhauled the data set system with a more robust entity system.

composer.json

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
         "php": "^5.4 | ^7.0",
         "ext-curl": "*",
         "ext-simplexml": "*",
+        "ext-gd": "*",
         "psr/log": "^1.1",
         "twig/twig": "1.39.0",
         "twig/extensions": "^1.5.4",