### 2.9.8 | 2025-05-08
– Added a setting to disable the dashboard widget.
– Fixed a PHP fatal error that occurs during background processing if another plugin includes an older version of `WP_Async_Request` that doesn’t include `maybe_wp_die()`.
– Fixed a PHP fatal error that occurs in `wp_date()` for some PHP versions and timestamps during background processing if a batch has previously been attempted.
– Fixed a nonce validation error that occurs when a background processor dispatch method is called during an admin-ajax.php request, such as the one used to process new Ajax enabled form submissions.