A Week in Core – October 25, 2021

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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 October 18 and October 25, 2021.

14 commits
9 contributors
37 tickets created
5 tickets reopened
31 tickets closed

The Core team is currently working on the next point (5.8.2) and major (5.9) releases 🛠

Worth noting that each feature slated to the 5.9 milestone has been validated, that the Twenty Twenty-Two Theme development is on the way, and the 5.9 bug scrub schedule has been published 🚀

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

We can note that there has been a decrease in the number of commits. Hopefully this will increase again quickly.

Code changes

Build/Test Tools

Use the correct workflow name in notifications on workflow_run – #53363
Restore SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. notifications for older branches – #53363
Add @ticket references for page_on_front canonical tests – #53363
Adjustments as a follow up to [51921] – #53363
Modify the Slack notifications workflow to be a reusable one – #53363
Fix syntax for passing secrets to a called workflow – #53363
Pass required secrets to the Slack notifications workflow – #53363

Coding Standards

Rename $theHeaders variable to $processed_headers in WP_Http_Curl::request() – #53359
Rename the $arrHeaders variable to $processed_headers in WP_Http_Streams::request() – #53359
Escape id attributes in WP_Customize_Control::render_content() and ::print_template() – #54295
Improve escaping in wp_login_form() – #54279
Improve escaping in wp-admin/theme-install.php – #54277

Docs

Use sign-up & signup consistently in wp-signup.php – #54041, #53399

Help/About

Don’t output empty tags on Credits screen – #54275

Props

Thanks to the 9 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week: @audrasjb (3), @sabbirshouvo (3), @mukesh27 (3), @jeffpaul (1), @henry.wright (1), @SergeyBiryukov (1), @sabernhardt (1), @afragen (1), and @sayedulsayem (1).

Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (7), @desrosj (6), and @peterwilsoncc (1).

#5-8-2, #5-9, #core, #week-in-core