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Related issues

• Follows the code-freeze draft of the 2.2.0 release notes, refined the way the 2.1.0 notes were in 65ebbec

How AI was used in this PR

Claude Code compared the draft with the 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 notes and with the commits that landed on release/2.2.0 after the freeze, then rewrote the 2.2.0 section. It checked that every PR appears exactly once. I reviewed the result.

Proposed Changes

• Drops the 34 entries that already shipped: Improve the stopped-site thumbnail start button #5537–Polish sidebar scrolling and small interface details #5584 were cherry-picked into 2.1.0, and CLI: Fix site start crash from the unread readiness check response #5647 and Delete db-path.php on pinned sites so imports and exports use the right database #5651 shipped in 2.1.1.
• Adds the 26 PRs that landed after the draft: the 22 PRs of the post-freeze backport (Backport Rich Tabor’s post-freeze changes to 2.2.0 #5819), the SQLite 3.1.3 bump (Bump the SQLite integration to v3.1.3 #5689) and the Cursor and Windows fixes (Show the design picker's options in Cursor, which drops _meta from MCP App tool results #5858, Connect Cursor with its own plugin copy, instead of guessing whether it loads Claude Code's #5859, Load PHP extensions on Windows when the profile path has non-ASCII characters #5860).
• Groups related entries with user-facing work first, and adds area prefixes (Previews:, Pull:, CLI:, Tracks:, CI:…), with internal work and dependency bumps last. Rewords a few vague titles to say what the user gets.
• Leaves out Preview sites: create new previews on WordPress.com #5525 (WordPress.com previews for Automatticians) and Preview: keep WordPress.com's plugins in Jurassic Ninja preview archives #5638 (plugins in Jurassic Ninja preview archives), which Preview: create every new preview on WordPress.com #5756 supersedes by creating every new preview on WordPress.com.

Testing Instructions

• Read the 2.2.0 section of RELEASE-NOTES.txt. Each PR in git log v2.1.1..release/2.2.0 should appear once, except those already listed under 2.1.0 or 2.1.1, and Preview sites: create new previews on WordPress.com #5525 and Preview: keep WordPress.com's plugins in Jurassic Ninja preview archives #5638.

Pre-merge Checklist

• Have you checked for TypeScript, React or other console errors?

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