Summary, Dev Chat, Feb 12, 2025

Start of the meeting in 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/., facilitated by @francina. 🔗 Agenda post.

Announcements 📢

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team Representatives 2025

The new Core Team Reps for 2025 are @francina, @audrasjb and @benjamin_zekavica.

Benjamin Zekavica is joining as a Core Team RepTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. for the first time, and along with Francesca Marano and Jean-Baptiste Audras. He aims to get up to speed, gain new experiences, and strengthen the Core Team together.

Forthcoming releases 🚀

New maintenance release: 6.7.2

The maintenance release WordPress 6.7.2 was officially released on February 11 and is now available for download. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release and helped with testing at the release party!

Next major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.8

We are currently in the WordPress 6.8 release cycle. You can read more about the release squad, timeline, and focus for this release. For more insights, read the post about the WordPress 6.8 Roadmap.

Next GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ release: 20.3

Gutenberg 20.3 is due for release on February 19, 2025. For more insights into the latest version, here is a detailed overview of all the changes and new features in the Gutenberg release.

Discussion 🤔

Improving Unit Testunit test Code written to test a small piece of code or functionality within a larger application. Everything from themes to WordPress core have a series of unit tests. Also see regression. Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. visibility

@desrosj shared a proposal to improve the visibility of unit test-related tickets. See more here: #7907. A new tests focus has been added in MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. to highlight tickets where tests need to be added or improved. @joemcgill clarified that this focus is specifically for tickets where new tests are being added or enhanced, not for tickets that already include tests as part of feature work.

@jorbin discussed that Task (blessed) tickets should only be handled by the release squad. If this is not the case, the categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. should likely be re-evaluated.

Open Floor 💬

WordPress 6.8 | Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. update

@audrasjb shared updated stats for the upcoming WordPress Release 6.8 release with detailed information.

Ticket Status 

On the 361 tickets in the milestone:

  • 160 tickets are closed as fixed
  • 201 tickets are still open (14 of them were reopened for further fixes)

Ticket Types

On the 361 tickets in the milestone:

  • 194 are bugfixes
  • 132 are enhancements
  • 24 are blessed tasks
  • 11 are feature requests

@audrasjb shared key updates on open tickets:

  • 1 high-priority ticket: #62503
  • Out of the 201 open tickets:
    • 9 have the ‘commit’ keyword
    • 7 have the ‘early’ keyword

@audrasjb encourages committers involved in version 6.8 to commit tickets that are ready. A Trac report for commit-ready tickets has been shared. Starting tomorrow, tickets with the early keyword will be moved to milestone 6.9, and a Trac report for those tickets is also available. A milestone for WordPress 6.9 was created on February 11, during the latest accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) scrub.

Gutenberg Packages update status

@joemcgill mentioned that the initial sync of Gutenberg (GB) packages was completed last week, allowing features to be tested directly in trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision.. Ongoing syncs will continue after upcoming Gutenberg releases and as needed for bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. fixes. There are several pending pull requests (PRs) to port PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher functionality to trunk, which still require review and merging. These PRs are tagged with the gutenberg-merge keyword in Trac. See #62887

Recommended PHP version information

@Mdxfr raised a question about the recommended PHP version for WordPress 6.8, particularly for performance and pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party compatibility. While WordPress is compatible with PHP 8.3, full compatibility is still being assessed. This will be discussed further in the next Dev Chat, where a Core Team representative will gather additional information from the Hosting Team.

Thanks to @francina for helping review this summary.

#6-8, #core, #dev-chat, #summary

Performance Chat Summary: 11 February 2025

The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

WordPress Performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets

Discussion of performance tickets for the upcoming 6.8 release:

  • #39242 (Add caching to count_user_posts()) – Jonny Harris plans to commit
  • #62503 (Add speculative loading support) is now waiting for follow up reviews

Performance Lab PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party (and other performance plugins)

  • A reminder that the next version of the Performance Lab plugin will be this Thursday. 
  • The release branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch". has been cut and the PR to prep the release has been opened.
  • Needs testing and then we’re good to go for Thursday.
  • Builds for Thursday’s release are now available for testing: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1862#issuecomment-2649801657

Open Floor

  • There are still 13 enhancements in the milestone for 6.8.
    • Discussion of which tickets are ready or need further review.
  • #56481 and #39242 are both ready to commit.  
  • #58001 is close
  • #57496 Needs another review

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, Feb 25, 2025 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack

#core-performance, #hosting, #performance, #performance-chat, #summary

What’s new in Gutenberg 20.1 and 20.2?

This time, due to the smaller sizes of the releases, this post contains information for both the 20.1 (22 January) and 20.2 (5 February) releases.

“What’s new in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing new features included in each release. As a reminder, here’s an overview of different ways to keep up with Gutenberg and the Editor.

Gutenberg 20.1 and 20.2 have been released and the latest is available for download!

Although both releases were smaller in size, they contain many useful enhancements, bugfixes and more. Apart from the highlighted changes, work continued on updating the 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. settings to use the ToolsPanel. Both updates ship with accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) updates as well.

  • 20.1 (22 January)
    • Content preview for pages in DataViews
    • Menu name shown in list view
    • Color pickers in Navigation, Social Icons and Post Featured ImageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. get Clear control
    • Changelog
  • 20.2 (5 February)
    • Content block: color options for headings added
    • Changelog

20.1 (22 January)

Content preview for pages in DataViews

The DataViews got enhanced by a new preview functionality to show the page’s content instead of the featured image, similar to patterns and templates. You can activate this feature in the settings and switch between featured image and content preview. This setting persists across all three views, table, grid and list. (67278)

Menu name shown in list view

In the list view, the name of a menu is now shown instead of the block name “Navigation”. If the menu is changed, the name is updated as well. (68446)

Color pickers in Navigation, Social Icons and Post Featured Image get Clear control

Previously, color options at the Navigation, Social Icons and Post Featured Image blocks did not have a Clear control to easily remove the color. This applies to every color option on these blocks. (68454, 68564, 68525)

Other Notable Highlights

Enhancements

  • ESLint: Improve regex for valid-sprintf rule to handle ‘%%’. (68270)
  • Simplify sprintf translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. for percentage widths. (68587)

Block Library

  • Archive Title Block: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67915)
  • Author Name: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67953)
  • Block Editor: Move state logic inside ‘BlockRenameModal’. (68560)
  • Details: Add allowedBlocks attributes. (68489)
  • Navigation: Add clearable option to color picker in navigation block. (68454)
  • Navigation: Surface menu name in the List View next to the Navigation block. (68446)
  • Page List: Added color support. (66430)
  • Query: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (68008)
  • Social links block: Add Clear button for color option. (68564)
  • Table of Contents Block: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67964)

Design Tools

  • Post Comment Link: Show Border Controls By Default. (68506)
  • Query Total: Show Border Controls By Default. (68507)

List View

  • Use badge component for block anchors. (68566)

Template Editor

  • Editor: New default rendering mode for editor via post type supports. (68549)

Document Settings

  • Change “Swap” to “Replace” for Template Action. (68234)

DataViews

  • Add: Media field changing ui to Dataviews and content preview field to posts and pages. (67278)

Bug Fixes

  • CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Data: Check post-type support before requesting autosaves. (68680)
  • Fix text direction for URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org and email fields in block editor for RTL languages. (68188)
  • Try: Fix end-to-end tests ‘visitSiteEditor’ helper. (68534)

Block Library

  • Details block: Remove auto-close behaviour. (67766)
  • Fix File block resize glitches. (68372)
  • Navigation Link UIUI User interface: Remove onClose from onSelectBlock. (67760)
  • Post Featured Image: Adds control to clear the the overlay color. (68525)
  • Site Logo: Prevent uploading multiple images via drag and drop. (68618)
  • Social Links: Don’t prepend URL fragments. (68655)
  • i18ni18n Internationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an acquired skill.: Make example label for Comments Pagination Next block translatable. (68373)
  • i18n: Make example translatable in comments-pagination-previous. (68374)

Components

  • Duotone: Fix scrollbars displayed on Duotone Control. (67187)
  • Fix SCSS Media Query Compilation Issue in Storybook. (68464)
  • Fix icon condition for Badge. (68588)
  • Restore Non-Themed Text Colors for optimizeReadabilityFor. (68472)
  • StoryBook: Fix error that could occur when loading compiled CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets.. (68526)

Site Editor

  • Classic theme preview: Remove adminadmin (and super admin)-bar class name. (68519)
  • Fix: Site Editor Template part is missing an icon in the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme.. (68653)
  • Navigation: Fix typo in history.navigation's function call. (68623)

Block Editor

  • Differentiate ‘Copy’ and ‘Copy styles’ snackbar confirmation messages. (68167)
  • Refactor: Separate input form styles to a dedicated stylesheet. (68501)
  • Update percentage strings to be translatable. (66323)

npm Packages

  • Fix irregular workspace version numbers. (68467)
  • Packages: Fix published * workspace dependencies. (68240)

Post Editor

  • Inline Commenting: Avoid querying comments when the experiment is disabled. (68632)

Colors

  • Color Gradients: Adjust max-width for color gradient swatch to accommodate reset button size. (68626)

Block Directory

  • Fix : Block Inserter Search Infinity Spinner. (68600)

Interactivity APIAPI 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.

  • iAPI: Fix the logic path that merges plain objects. (68579)

Accessibility

  • Nux: Standardize reduced motion handling using media queries. (68423)

Block Library

  • Fix Inconsistent Labels for Lightbox Feature. (68261)
  • Site Logo: Prevent focus loss when updating media from the sidebar. (68621)
  • Standardize reduced motion handling with media queries. (68315)

Components

  • Fix usage of tooltip in the Circular option picker. (68602)

Post Editor

  • Edit Post: Standardize reduced motion handling using media queries. (68426)

Widgets Editor

  • Customize Widgets: Standardize reduced motion handling using media queries. (68425)

Block Editor

  • Remove unnecessary CSS order property for the contrast checker in the Color hook. (68055)

DataViews

  • Remove label from dataview checkbox. (67868)

Performance

  • Add npm script to profile TypeScript builds. (68533)

Post Editor

  • Editor: Update data selector in ‘PostPreviewButton’. (68678)

Documentation

  • Storybook: Add UnitControl story. (67346)
  • Add BlockIcon Storybook stories. (67186)
  • Added Global Documentation in inline documentation. (68613)
  • Block Card: Remove storybook for internal BlockCard component. (68556)
  • BlockInspector: Add showNoBlockSelectedMessage prop documentation. (68444)
  • Docs: Interactivity API – missing styles in the sample code. (66253)
  • Menu: Auto-generate README. (68249)
  • StoryBook: Add Story for ResolutionTool. (68292)
  • Storybook: Add TabbedSidebar stories and improve documentation. (68118)
  • Tabs: Remove unnecessary stories. (68463)
  • Updated Inline Document order. (68650)
  • Updated Small Typo in Feature-flags.md file. (68612)
  • Updated Typo in Document file. (68477)
  • docs: Fix type syntax in _gutenberg_add_block_template_plugin_attribute(). (68391)

Code Quality

  • Data Views: Standardize reduced motion handling using media queries. (68422)
  • Fix typos. (67304)
  • [core-data] Document and add types for dynamic actions and selectors. (67668)
  • docs: Fix param name in gutenberg_add_can_update_block_bindings_editor_setting(). (68390)
  • docs: Fix return type on gutenberg_register_block_module_id(). (68393)

Block Library

  • Query LoopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop.: Remove unused styles. (68615)
  • Site Logo: Remove unused argument for ‘mediaUpload’ function. (68617)

Global Styles

  • Remove unused prop for ‘BackgroundImageControls’. (68616)

Post Editor

  • Document Outline: Use block client ID as unique ‘key’. (68502)

Block Editor

  • BlockInspector: Remove unused ‘showNoBlockSelectedMessage’ prop. (68487)

Widgets Editor

  • Edit Widgets and Base Styles: Standardize reduced motion handling using media queries. (68427)

Components

  • Standardize reduced motion handling using media queries. (68421)

Block Directory

  • Standardize reduced motion handling using media queries #68419. (68420)

Site Editor

  • Edit Site: Add tsconfig.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. validation for package. (67406)

Tools

Testing

  • Check Storybook build on CI for PRs. (68466)
  • Fix flaky DataViews list arraow nav end-to-end tests. (68503)
  • Fix flaky navigation-frontend-interactivity end-to-end tests. (68667)
  • Site Editor: Fix “Quick Edit Mode” end-to-end tests. (68484)
  • Upgrade Playwright to v1.49. (68504)

Build Tooling

  • PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party: Remove ESLint rule for deprecated functions. (68590)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@afercia @AhmarZaidi @atachibana @benazeer-ben @carolinan @ciampo @dhananjaykuber @ellatrix @geriux @himanipanchal @himanshupathak95 @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @juanfra @justlevine @karthick-murugan @luisherranz @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @mirka @ramonjd @SainathPoojary @shail-mehta @shimotmk @sirreal @stokesman @Sukhendu2002 @szepeviktor @t-hamano @vipul0425 @Vrishabhsk @yogeshbhutkar

20.2 (5 February)

Content block: color options for headings added

Previously, it was only possible to change colors for text, background and link on the content block. With this update, the color of all headings and each individual heading level can be changed. (67783)

Other Notable Highlights

Enhancements

Block Library

  • Details block: Add name attribute for exclusive accordion. (56971)
  • Details block: Add placeholder attribute. (68917)
  • Home Link: Enable all non-interactive formats. (68737)
  • Latest Comments: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67951)
  • Latest Post Block: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67956)
  • Read More: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67925)
  • Search Block: Refactoring settings panel. (67907)
  • Search Results Title Block: Add dropdown menu props to Tools Panel component. (68763)
  • Spacer: Add dropdown menu props to Tools Panel component. (68761)
  • Term List Block: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67955)

Design Tools

  • Position: Refactor “Position” controls panel to use ToolsPanel instead of PanelBody. (67967)
  • Post-content block headerHeader 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. color support. (67783)

Block Editor

  • Improve grid visualizer resize observation. (68842)

Style Book

  • Navigation Submenu Block: Add example preview. (68378)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix: Invalidinvalid A resolution on the bug tracker (and generally common in software development, sometimes also notabug) that indicates the ticket is not a bug, is a support request, or is generally invalid. _doing_it_wrong() for experimental-link-color. (68408)

Block Library

  • Archives Block: Fix reset button display state. (68757)
  • Fix: Add rel="tag" to individual anchor links in editor markup of the post terms block. (68722)
  • Fix: Linked featured image block cannot be selected correctly. (68775)
  • Page List Block: Fix empty settings panel. (68756)
  • Post Date Block: Fix reset button display state. (68758)
  • Query Page Numbers Block: Fix reset button display state. (68759)
  • Spacer block: Fix dimension control when no spacing presets are available. (68818)
  • Spacer: Fix flex layout unit reset. (68815)
  • Spacer: Fix changes being marked as persistent to undo. (68869)

Patterns

  • Editor: Improve conditions for displaying new page assembler. (68852)

Style Book

  • Disable the device preview button in the header. (68841)

Block Editor

  • Fix block color contrast checker. (68799)

DataViews

  • Fixed Incorrect Text Position issue in Dataviews. (68767)

Block Transforms

  • Embed: Remove aspect ratio classes when transforming into Paragraph. (68721)

Media

  • Upload Media: Fix package dependencies. (68718)

Accessibility

Block Library

  • Navigation Link: Improve accessibility by removing non-interactive tooltips. (68628)
  • Use the term menu instead of navigation in nav elements labels. (68683)

Post Editor

  • Update text description of the “Contain text cursor inside block” preference. (68132)

Performance

Block Editor

  • Fix ‘isBlockVisibleInTheInserter’ selector helper performance. (68898)

Block Library

  • Paragraph: Use CSS to hide placeholders in Zoom out mode. (68690)

Documentation

  • Block Editor: Add documentation for SpacingSizesControl component. (68581)
  • Changed Inline Documentation Order. (68879)
  • Docs: Update links to HTTPSHTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information.. (68888)
  • Lint: Fix broken URL reference for stylelint user guide configuration. (68706)
  • Updated Typo in Constants.js. (68765)
  • Used https in main-dashboard-button.md file. (68883)
  • wp-env: Add phpMyAdmin and multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site support to the documentation. (68125)

Code Quality

  • Inline Commenting: Change the PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher compat directory. (68846)
  • Fix: Remove invalid param from wp_register_style() in gutenberg_enqueue_stored_styles(). (68409)
  • Fix: setcookie() $value must be string in Gutenberg_HTTP_Signaling_Server::Handle_read_pending_messages(). (68411)

Block Library

  • Gallery: Remove unused inline menu styles. (68776)
  • Move HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. element help messages to the block library utils. (68708)
  • Navigation Submenu: Classname trailing spaces. (68880)
  • Unify block title with a strict title case. (51912)
  • Video: Fix reactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. component warning error. (68762)

Post Editor

  • Editor: Children prop to accept ReactNode. (68839)
  • Editor: Combine selectors in the ‘Header’ component. (68697)
  • Editor: Standardize reduced motion handling using media queries. (68424)

Components

  • Box Control: Add Runtime Check & Conditional Types for presets and presetKey Props. (68385)
  • Remove unnecessary Tooltip component from linked button. (68498)

Block Editor

  • Clean up unused utils of spacing size control. (68794)

Template Editor

  • Editor: Update post-type support key for new default rendering mode. (68745)

Tools

Build Tooling

  • Fix Duplicate Entries for 19.7.0 in changelog.txt. (68836)
  • Release Workflow: Install Subversion. (68837)

Testing

  • E2E: Fix WP Editor MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. Boxes test. (68872)

Env

  • Add WP_ENV_MULTISITE envoriment variable. (68792)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@afercia @benazeer-ben @fabiankaegy @himanshupathak95 @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @justlevine @karthick-murugan @Mamaduka @Mayank-Tripathi32 @SainathPoojary @shail-mehta @shimotmk @Soean @spacedmonkey @stokesman @Sukhendu2002 @t-hamano @yogeshbhutkar

Thanks to @fabiankaegy and @mamaduka for helping review this post.

#block-editor-2, #core-editor-2, #gutenberg, #gutenberg-new

WordPress 6.7.2 RC2 is now available

WordPress 6.7.2 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is available for testing! Some ways you can help test this minor release:

  • Use the WordPress Beta Tester pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party
    • As this is a minor RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). release, select the Point Release channel and the Nightlies stream. This is the latest build including the RC and potentially any subsequent commits in trunk.
  • Use WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ to test: wp core update https://wordpress.org/wordpress-6.7.2-RC2.zip
  • Directly download the Beta/RC version.

What’s in this release candidate?

6.7.2 RC2 is a release candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). for a maintenance release with a focus on bugs introduced in WordPress 6.7. In total, this RC features fixes for 35 bugs throughout Core and the Block Editor. This also includes one fix for Twenty Twenty-Five which means a new version of that default theme will be released. Please see the RC1 announcement for a list of fixes. New fixes in RC2 are:

  • #62907 – 6.7 broke accordion styles for themes/plugins using `do_accordion_sections()`
  • #62597 – WordPress 6.7 sizes=”auto” is messing featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. on chrome mobile.
  • fix ensure post meta panel stays visible in all rendering modes gutenberg#69083

What’s next?

Reminder: the dev-reviewed workflow (double committer sign-off) is required when making changes to the 6.7 branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch"..

The final release is expected on Tuesday, February 11th, 2025. This date is subject to change if any issues with RC2 are discovered. Coordination will happen in the 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/ 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/. #6-7-release-leads channel, and releases are always packaged and tested in #core.

A special thanks to everyone who reported issues, helped test, and helped create patches. The success of 6.7.2 depends on proper testing, so please lend a helping hand.

Thanks to @fabiankaegy and @desrosj for pre-publication review.

#6-7, #6-7-2, #6-7-x, #minor-releases, #releases

Summary, Dev Chat, Feb 5, 2025

Start of the meeting in 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/., facilitated by @joemcgill. 🔗 Agenda post.

Announcements

The Nominations for 2025’s Core Team Reps are now closed. @joemcgill is following up with folks who were nominated this week and will have a follow-up announcement soon.

Forthcoming releases

Next major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.8

We are currently in the WordPress 6.8 release cycle. Read more about the release squad, timeline and focus for this release.

Next maintenance release: 6.7.2

WordPress 6.7.2 is scheduled for February 11WordPress 6.7.2 RC 1 is available for testing. Thanks to everyone who helped with the release party yesterday! 

Review the next minor release milestone.

Next GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ release: 20.2

Gutenberg 20.2.0 was released on February 5. It included the following issues. For the last several releases, the “What’s new in Gutenberg” posts have been paused due to the team’s capacity. If anyone is interested in helping with these posts, please contact @mamaduka.

Discussion

GB sync update 

  • @mamaduka has been working on fixing issues found when opening the initial PR for this.
  • The PR is ready for another review. There is an issue causing the wp-polyfill script being bundled but is not a blockerblocker A bug which is so severe that it blocks a release. for the sync.

WordPress 6.8 Roadmap

  • @krupaly2k was still working on this with support from @jeffpaul and feedback from release squad members.
  • The Roadmap to 6.8 post was published following the meeting.

REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. feedback needed

  • @mamaduka is asking for feedback on this issue related to editing custom post types with non-Latin slugs.
  • There was discussion about whether this should be fixed on the server side or in the client.
  • @jorbin suggested trying to get some tests written that show the bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. in the server in order to help drive a fix.
  • @joemcgill said that fixing server side is a good idea, but if a client side fix could resolve a user issue then we should pursue that as well.

Open Floor

#6-8, #core, #dev-chat, #summary

WordPress 6.7.2 RC1 is now available

WordPress 6.7.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing! Some ways you can help test this minor release:

  • Use the WordPress Beta Tester pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party
    • As this is a minor RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). release, select the Point Release channel and the Nightlies stream. This is the latest build including the RC and potentially any subsequent commits in trunk.
  • Use WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ to test: wp core update https://wordpress.org/wordpress-6.7.2-RC1.zip
  • Directly download the Beta/RC version.

What’s in this release candidate?

6.7.2 RC1 is a maintenance release with a focus on bugs introduced in WordPress 6.7. In total, this RC features fixes for 32 bugs throughout Core and the Block Editor. This also includes one fix for Twenty Twenty-Five which means a new version of that default theme will be released.

The following coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. tickets and PRs are included:

What’s next?

Reminder: the dev-reviewed workflow (double committer sign-off) is required when making changes to the 6.7 branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch"..

The final release is expected on Tuesday, February 11th, 2025. This date is subject to change if any issues with RC1 are discovered. Coordination will happen in the 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/ 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/. #6-7-release-leads channel, and releases are always packaged and tested in #core.

A special thanks to everyone who reported issues, helped test, and helped create patches. The success of 6.7.2 depends on proper testing, so please lend a helping hand.

Thanks to @audrasjb and @desrosj for pre-publication review.

#6-7, #6-7-2, #6-7-x, #minor-releases, #releases

Summary, Dev Chat, Jan 29, 2025

Start of the meeting in 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/., facilitated by @joemcgill. 🔗 Agenda post.

Announcements

The Nominations for 2025’s Core Team Reps are closing soon! Please nominate people in the comments of that post. Self-nominations are welcome. The deadline is January 31, 2025.

Forthcoming releases

Next major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.8

We are currently in the WordPress 6.8 release cycle. Read more about the release squad, timeline, and focus for this release.

  • ⚠️ BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 is only five weeks away!
  • @krupaly2k is working on a Roadmap post with support from @jeffpaul and @michelleames, with hopes of publishing in the next week.

Next maintenance release: 6.7.2

WordPress 6.7.2 is scheduled for February 11, with an RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). planned for February 4. Review the next minor release milestone.

@jorbin shared that scrubs have been going on, and we have one more tomorrow at 18:00 UTC before RC next week.  As of now, there are no concerns to share.

Next GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ release: 20.2

The next Gutenberg release will be 20.2, tentatively scheduled for February 5. It will include the following issues.

If you want to help with early testing of things that will likely land in 6.8, testing the Gutenberg releases is an excellent way of doing so. At this point, we’re expecting GB 20.4 to be the final release that will be included in WordPress 6.8, so there’s about four more weeks available before we get to 20.4 RC1

Discussion

Syncing GB packages to trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision.

  • The latest packages have now been published. @mamaduka is planning to create a draft PR for the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. sync tomorrow.
  • While some open PRs for code needs to be synced, there are no known blockers
  • #62839 still needs to be addressed. It is not believed to be a blockerblocker A bug which is so severe that it blocks a release., but manual intervention is required to dedupe packages.

CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. variables for colors: @karmatosed is looking for feedback on what approach should be taken for variables for colors in CSS. Related tickets: #49930, #62872.

The next steps from the conversations summarized by @karmatosed were:

  • I will close the Sass ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.
  • I will update the CSS variables ticket with this context (so we have one place to decide)
  • I will create that post and lean on awesome people

REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. – Support for sorting by hierarchy: @mamaduka identified this PR that could use more eyes.

Speculative Loading: @flixos90 is looking for additional feedback on #62503 before merging for 6.8

  • @flixos90 mentioned that the PR has been tested and has good PHPUnit coverage, so it’s ready for a thorough review. Since it’s a new tentative feature for 6.8, I’d like to get at least 1-2 more reviewers.
  • @joemcgill asked specifically for reviews from committers who were not closely involved in the Performance Team to get less biased feedback.
  • 🔗 Link: The PR for review
  • 🔗 Link: The original post proposing the feature

Core Performance Team Reps: The Core Performance team is looking for new Team Reps

Open Floor

Props to @francina for contributing to this summary.

#6-8, #core, #dev-chat, #summary

Agenda, Dev Chat, Jan 29, 2025

Beginning this week, Dev Chat times for the 6.8 cycle are changing. The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday at 15:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack.

The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section.

Additional items will be referred to in the various curated agenda sections below. If you have ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. requests for help, please continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda.

Announcements

The Nominations for 2025’s Core Team Reps are closing this week. Please nominate people in the comments of that post. Self-nominations are welcome. The deadline is January 31, 2025.

Forthcoming releases

Next major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.8

We are currently in the WordPress 6.8 release cycle. Read more about the release squad, timeline and focus for this release.

Next maintenance release: 6.7.2

WordPress 6.7.2 is scheduled for February 11, with a RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). planned on February 4.

Review the next minor release milestone.

Next GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ release: 20.2

The next Gutenberg release will be 20.2, tentatively scheduled for February 5. It will include the following issues.

Discussions

The discussion section of the agenda is to provide a place to discuss important topics affecting the upcoming release or larger initiatives that impact the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team. To nominate a topic for discussion, please leave a comment on this agenda with a summary of the topic, any relevant links that will help people get context for the discussion, and what kind of feedback you are looking for from others participating in the discussion.

Topics this week

  • Syncing GB packages to trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision.: Let’s discuss next steps and potential blockers @mamaduka and @desrosj
  • CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. variables for colors: @karmatosed is looking for feedback on what approach should be taken for variables for colors in CSS. Related tickets: #49930, #62872
  • REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/.: Support for sorting by hierarchy: @mamaduka identified this PR that could use more eyes.
  • Speculative Loading: @flixos90 is looking for additional feedback on #62503 before merging for 6.8
  • Core Performance Team Reps: The Core Performance team is looking for new Team Reps

Editor Updates

You can keep up to date with the major Editor features that are currently in progress by viewing these Iteration issues.

  • Document outline does not detect headings in the content when template-lock is used – Document outline bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.. Need to hear more options on this
  • Accessibility: Menu: reconsider the modal behavior – Need to discuss in next accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) meeting
  • Non Administrator roles are no longer able to switch post templates (and therefore also cannot preview them) – This is a regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5. issue
  • Font size picker: Fix i10n and a11y for HeaderLabel – Accessibility, UIUI User interface components. This PR refactors the font-size-picker component to improve the translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. in the HeaderLabel. It ensures that text concatenation issues are resolved for gendered languages (e.g., Italian).
  • Block Editor: Fix ‘isBlockVisibleInTheInserter’ selector helper performance – Fixes recent performance regression in the 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. Editor package. – Block Editor, Performance
  • Add format attribute to the palette’s color property – Enhances the JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. schema for WordPress theme.json to enable color swatches and the color picker functionality for hex values within JSON in VS Code.
  • Update paragraph block placeholder text format for consistency – Paragraph enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature. – Updates placeholder text in paragraph blocks to use ‘ / ‘ for the forward slash key.

Thanks to @krupaly2k for pulling together these updates.

Open floor

Any topic can be raised for discussion in the comments, as well as requests for assistance on tickets. Tickets in the milestone for the next major or maintenance release will be prioritized.

Please include details of tickets / PRs and the links in the comments, and if you intend to be available during the meeting for discussion or if you will be async.

#6-8, #agenda, #dev-chat

Summary, Dev Chat, Jan 22, 2025

Start of the meeting in 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/., facilitated by @joemcgill. 🔗 Agenda post.

Announcements

The Nominations for 2025’s Core Team Reps are now open! Please nominate people in the comments of that post. Self-nominations are welcome. The deadline is January 31, 2025.

Forthcoming releases

Next major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.8

We are currently in the WordPress 6.8 release cycle. Read more about the release squad, timeline and focus for this release.

Next maintenance release: 6.7.2

A release schedule for 6.7.2 was announced earlier today. Currently the release date is February 11. Review the next minor release milestone.

A bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrub was held just a few hours ago and all tickets on tracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. for the 6.7.2 release were reviewed. One area that I could use some help with is reviewing all the tickets on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/232.

Next GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ release: 20.1

Gutenberg 20.1 was packaged earlier today, including the following issues. The team is currently addressing an issue that blocked the release from being published and the release will be delayed until tomorrow.

Discussion

Proposal: Moving Dev Chat starting next week, January 29, 2025 to 15:00 UTC – Based on conversation last week, and feedback from the release squad availability, it is proposed that we change the time of Dev Chat meetings for the 6.8 cycle to 15:00 UTC. Unless there are any new objections, this updated time will be reflected in the next Dev Chat agenda.

WordPress 6.8 Bug Scrubs – We have two bug scrubs each week scheduled in #core (on Mondays and Thursdays), and other ones in various channels like #accessibility#core-editor, etc. The next one will be held in #core tomorrow at 20:00 UTC. See the 6.8 bug scrub schedule blogpost for more info.

Anyone is welcome to run a scrub, just let @audrasjb know if you’re interested in running one (or more) and he’ll add it to the schedule.

WordPress 6.8 Release Roadmap update@krupaly2k is working on putting this together and had some follow-up questions.

  • There are some open iteration issues, are we planning to work on those for WordPress 6.8? @joemcgill asked @mamaduka to review and follow up.
  • There are two issues in the milestone related to PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher compatibility
    • #59231 – Prepare for PHP 8.3: @joemcgill and @desrosj will review and see if there are any follow-up tasks planned for this release.
    • #62061 – Prepare for PHP 8.4: @johnbillion is planning to split out remaining tasks and close this issue. No major work is planned.

Syncing Gutenberg updates to trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision. – We’ve been discussing trying to do this sync earlier this cycle once GB 20.1 is released.

  • There are a number of PRs listed in this GB issue that need to be reviewed in order to help facilitate that process.
  • There’s a bug with the sync command, that needs to be addressed: #62839

#6-8, #core, #dev-chat, #summary

Summary, Dev Chat, Jan 15, 2025

Start of the meeting in 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/., facilitated by @joemcgill. 🔗 Agenda post.

Announcements

The Nominations for 2025’s Core Team Reps are now open! Please nominate people in the comments of that post. Self-nominations are welcome. The deadline is January 31, 2025.

Forthcoming releases

Next major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.8

We are currently in the WordPress 6.8 release cycle. Read more about the release squad, timeline and focus for this release.

Next maintenance release: 6.7.2

There is currently no release date planned for WordPress 6.7.2 @jorbin is going to schedule a scrub for next week and is currently thinking of tentatively planning a release date in Feb. If you see a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. that you think should be considered, please drop it in the #6-7-release-leads channel.

You can review the next minor release milestone.

Next GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ release: 20.1

The next Gutenberg release will be 20.1, scheduled for January 22. It will include the following issues.

Discussion

With the release squad having just been announced, we spent some time checking in on getting processes up and running for the release.

A few housekeeping items to share:

For tickets in the milestone marked early (🔗 Trac report):

  • While the handbook includes a definition for early, there is no standard deadline by when these tickets MUST be committed
  • @jorbin and @francina volunteered to update the description
  • @audrasjb and @joemcgill will review these tickets in a few weeks and determine whether the remaining ones need to be punted, or if they can have the keyword removed

We will attempt to do the first sync of Gutenberg releases to trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision. earlier in this release. @mamaduka is planning to work on this.

While this release is focused mainly on “polish”, we will still include any new enhancements that are ready in time. A few that were mentioned in the meeting included:

  • #62503: Add speculative loading support
  • #21022: Use bcrypt for password hashing; updating old hashes
  • #30465: Dashboard alert if a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party/theme was removed from WordPress repo (may be stalled)

@karmatosed asked that folks please label and raise issues that need help from the design team.

We are looking at moving Dev Chat times during this release to an earlier time. Currently thinking that these will be some time between 15–18:00 UTC. Once confirmed, and update will be posted to the team blog.

Open Floor

  • @nikunj8866 asked about ticket #40477. It looks like it was previously tested but needs to be reviewed for code quality/approach.
  • @mamaduka is looking for feedback on this GB issue proposing a change to the post editor.
  • @justlevine asked for feedback on the following:
    • #49442: Request: filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. for parse_blocks() result
    • #61175: Integrate PHPStan into the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development workflow

#6-8, #core, #dev-chat, #summary