A Week in Core – December 14, 2020

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Welcome back to a new issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Let’s take a look at what changed on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between December 7 and December 14, 2020.

13 commits
20 contributors
120 tickets created
10 tickets reopened
102 tickets closed

This week our main news is of course that WordPress 5.6 «Simone» was smoothly released! ♥️

Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. numbers based on the Trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.

Code changes

App Passwords

Ensure redirection description is shown on mobile devices – #51970
Store the “in use” option in the main networknetwork (versus site, blog) options – #51939

Build/Test Tools

Enable reporting of results to WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ – #50401
Build/Test Tools: Remove the Appveyor configuration file – #51968

Bundled themes

Twenty Twenty-One: Bring back PostCSS config – #52040
Twenty Twenty-One: Correct the DocBlockdocblock (phpdoc, xref, inline docs) for map-deep-set() Sass function – #52064
Twenty Twenty-One: Use a more specific link for Dark Mode instructions – #52010
Twenty Twenty-One: Fix typos in some inline comments – #52042
Twenty Nineteen: Add images for use in blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. patterns – #51996
Twenty Twenty-One: Use esc_url() for the WordPress.org link in footer.php – #51954
Twenty Twenty-One: Use consistent HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. comments after closing HTML tags – #51950Docs: Document the usage of $wpdb global in WP_Query::get_posts() and ::set_found_posts() – #52027
Bundled Themes: Bump theme versions ahead of WordPress 5.6 – #51919

Props

Thanks to everyone who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week:

@mukesh27 (4), @poena (3), @t-p (1), @spacedmonkey (1), @arcangelini (1), @SergeyBiryukov (1), @aristath (1), @sabernhardt (1), @dkarfa (1), @hareesh-pillai (1), @peterwilsoncc (1), @ayeshrajans (1), @dd32 (1), @mikeschroder (1), @jontyravi (1), @transl8or (1), @tanvirul (1), @justinahinon (1), @engahmeds3ed (1) and @audrasjb (1).

Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (7), @ryelle (2), @desrosj (2) and @timothyblynjacobs (2).

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