Title: Release announcement: TablePress 1.9
Author: Tobias Bäthge
Published: December 3, 2017
Last modified: May 28, 2025

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December 3, 2017

# Release announcement: TablePress 1.9

I’m happy to announce that a new release of TablePress is now available. TablePress
1.9 can now be downloaded from the [WordPress Plugin Directory](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/)
and will show up as an automatic update in the WordPress Dashboard for existing 
users shortly.

This release not only fixes a few annoying bugs for some users, but it also brings
a nice feature for the “Custom CSS” editor: It now shows common syntax errors, which
will make it even easier to style tables with CSS code.

Here is a summary of the changes in TablePress 1.9:

 * Full compatibility with WordPress 4.9
 * Feature: The “Custom CSS” text field highlights and notifies about CSS code syntax
   errors.
 * Enhancement: Update list of allowed CSS properties in “Custom CSS”.
 * Enhancement: Make the CSV import more robust against malformed input.
 * Bugfix: The integration into the WordPress search was broken since a WordPress
   core change.
 * Bugfix: The HTML import was broken on certain server configurations.
 * Updated external libraries (Build tools).
 * Some internal changes and fixes for better stability, cleaner code, translations,
   and documentation.
 * TablePress 1.9 requires WordPress 4.9.1!

Updates to some [TablePress Extensions](https://tablepress.org/extensions/?output_format=md)
will also be available shortly. Please take a look through the list of Extensions
and check if there’s maybe an update available.

If TablePress is helpful for you, please [rate it](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/reviews/)
in the WordPress Plugin Directory and consider supporting further TablePress development
with a [donation](https://tablepress.org/donate/?output_format=md). Thank you!