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The current major is 5.4, scheduled to go out on March 31st 2020; please keep testing for all the bugs!
Trunk has branched to 5.5 on the beginning of March. That means 5.5 is officially in Alpha.
Work for 5.6, aka all-women release, has kicked off with an initial round of messages going out to the women that expressed interest.
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In case you were looking for an blog post about the XML Sitemaps feature project last week, worry no more. Work on the plugin is progressing smoothly and steadily, we just didn’t publish an agenda post last week. That means it is time for a double update today!
Meeting Recap: March 10th & 17th
For reference, check my previous blog post from March 10th:
A lot has happened since then. Here’s the summary, not necessarily in the right order:
SimpleXML dependency We received great feedback from a variety of big hosting providers, all saying that this PHP extension is widely available and we can rely on it safely. Current status: no action needed.
Rewrite rule conflict with plugins As we realized that the new /wp-sitemap.xml URL format clashes with big existing plugins, we decided to look into alternate names for both the rewrite rules as well as the query params. See GitHub issue for details. Current status: needs contributors.
Rewrite rule issues with custom providers It was reported that adding custom sitemap providers might require flushing rewrite rules. Ideally, that shouldn’t be needed. Current status: needs decision.
Last modified date (lastmod) We decided to continue with the proposed PR to remove lastmod from sitemaps (at least for now), but need to make sure there is appropriate documentation. It’s something that can always be added back if needed. Current status: has PR, needs documentation.
Query Filters Valuable feedback emerged from testing, which led to the decision to close the existing PR to make query instances filterable in favor of a simpler approach. In its place, we should make the query arguments filterable, and also add filters to short-circuit queries. Current status: needs contributors.
Please let me know in the comments if I got something wrong in this summary!
At the present moment, due to various circumstances, the Monday 14:00 UTC time slot for the WP Notify weekly meeting has become problematic for me. This means it is becoming more and more difficult for me to attend, let alone host these meetings.
I am therefore putting these meetings on hold until we can agreed on either a new meeting time, or chose a new meeting host to drive the weekly meetings forward.
I will leave the post open for comment for the rest of the week, or until we can agree on a way forward.
The current major is 5.4; please keep testing for all the bugs. At the same time, trunk has branched to 5.5 as of RC1. That means 5.5 is officially in alpha.
Final release is March 31.
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