Welcome back to a new issue of Week in Core 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 Trac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between February 14 and February 21, 2022.
- 33 commits
- 48 contributors
- 57 tickets created
- 20 tickets reopened
- 70 tickets closed
The Core team is currently working on the next minor release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality., WP 5.9.1, and on the next major, WP 6.0 🛠
Ticket 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.
Code changes
Administration
- Fix a CSS Cascading Style Sheets. issue on the Welcome Panel when the “Dashboard” heading is missing – #54977
Bundled Themes
- Twenty Seventeen: Remove bottom border (box-shadow) from linked images – #55141
- Twenty Twenty-One: Allow editor styles to control block 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. margins – #54250
- Twenty Twenty-Two: Bump theme version to 1.1 – #55056
Cache API An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.
- Add
wp_cache_flush_runtime function – #55080
Coding Standards
- Rename some variables in
iis7_add_rewrite_rule() for consistency – #54728
Docs
- Correct parameter types for
data_wp_validate_boolean() – #54725, #54729 - Fix typo in
TracTickets::isTracTicketClosed() description – #54729 - Improve some DocBlocks in
wp_validate_boolean() tests for consistency – #54725, #54729 - Use third-person singular verbs in some test descriptions in
phpunit/tests/functions/ – #54725
Editor
- Adds an additional check to guard against incompete presets – #55161
- Automatically apply global styles duotone filters to render in post editor – #55190
- Backport A port is when code from one branch (or trunk) is merged into another branch or trunk. Some changes in WordPress point releases are the result of backporting code from trunk to the release branch. Duotone fixes for 5.9.1 – #55179
- Grant only admins access to the “Navigation Menus” UI User interface for block and non-block themes – #54889
- Prevent front-end assets of a block from being enqueued in the block editor – #55151
- Update block editor packages for WordPress 5.9.1 – #55179
- Fix PHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher warning in WP_REST_Global_Styles_Controller if no styles exist – #54900
- Load the global styles before the theme styles in the editor – #55188
External Libraries
- Update random_compat to version 2.0.21 – #55181
- Upgrade PHPMailer to version 6.5.4 – #55187
Filesystem API
- Use a temp folder for
Content-Disposition files – #55109
Networks and Sites
- Remove unnecessary commented code from
remove_user_from_blog() – #55170
Script Loader
- Improvements to the load block support styles mechanism – #55148
- Load block support styles in the head for block themes – #55148
- Load block themes styles in the head section – #55148
- Prevent normalizing data URIs in
_wp_normalize_relative_css_links() – #54243, #55177
Tests
- Convert
_wp_to_kebab_case() tests to use a data provider – #54725 - Correct the
@ticket reference in a download_url() test with the Content-Disposition header The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. – #55109 - Correct the order of expected and actual values in
get_status_header_desc() tests – #54725 - Correct the order of expected and actual values in
wp_array_slice_assoc() tests – #54725 - Correct the order of expected and actual values in
wp_validate_boolean() tests – #54725
Themes
- Allow extending
WP_Theme_JSON and WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver classes – #55178, #55179
- Missing markup from Widgets Group block – #55072
Props
Thanks to the 41 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week: @oandregal (6), @azouamauriac (4), @jrf (3), @SergeyBiryukov (3), @ironprogrammer (3), @Mamaduka (3), @sabernhardt (2), @nidhidhandhukiya (2), @swissspidy (2), @aristath (2), @ntsekouras (2), @noisysocks (2), @scruffian (2), @audrasjb (2), @wpsoul (1), @youknowriad (1), @paragoninitiativeenterprises (1), @hellofromtonya (1), @mikachan (1), @peterwilsoncc (1), @kapilpaul (1), @Faison (1), @critterverse (1), @rolfsiebers (1), @antonynz (1), @gziolo (1), @ocean90 (1), @stacimc (1), @mukesh27 (1), @hellofromTonya (1), @Synchro (1), @ajlende (1), @rafiahmedd (1), @Spacedmonkey (1), @tillkruess (1), @flixos90 (1), @adamsilverstein (1), @barryhughes (1), @abhanonstopnewsuk (1), @staatic (1), @jeherve (1), @sergeybiryukov (1), @costdev (1), @talldanwp (1), @petaryoast (1), @manfcarlo (1), @pyrobd (1), and @Boniu91 (1).
Congrats and welcome to our 5 new contributors of the week: @rolfsiebers, @antonynz, @barryhughes, @staatic, @pyrobd ♥️
Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (13), @audrasjb (9), @jorgefilipecosta (4), @hellofromtonya (3), @ocean90 (2), @spacedmonkey (1), and @clorith (1).
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