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Andrew Rockwell 6:11 pm on June 8, 2017
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Welcome back the latest issue of Week in Core, covering changes [40857-40877]. Here are the highlights:

  • 21 commits
  • 25 contributors
  • 43 tickets created
  • 3 tickets reopened
  • 46 tickets closed

Ticket numbers based on trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.

Code Changes

Administration

  • Dashboard: Better titles for the Recent Drafts widget. [40877] #37595

Build/Test Tools

  • Fix PHP 5.2 compatibility for grandchild methods which expect exceptions to be raised. [40876] #39822
  • Fixed support of PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase as the base class. [40873] #39822

Bundled Theme

Help/About

I18N

  • Improve translator comments for strings in the community events widget. [40866] #40865

Media

  • Fix an issue selecting media when clicking item edges. [40874] #40578

Misc

Networks and Sites

TinyMCE

  • Force urlencoding of commas in URLs added by plugins to prevent warnings about missing stylesheets. [40862] #40893

Thanks to @bridgetwillard, @adamsilverstein, @afercia, @azaozz, @bhargavbhandari90, @circlecube, @dimadin, @flixos90, @francina, @iandunn, @iseulde, @jenblogs4u, @johnbillion, @johnroper100, @melchoyce, @michelleweber, @obenland, @ocean90, @psiico, @rcutmore, @soniakash, @sudar, @swissspidy, @voldemortensen, and @zachwtx for their contributions!

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Andrew Rockwell 12:46 am on June 2, 2017
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Week in Core, May 24th – 30th 2017

Welcome back the latest issue of Week in Core, covering changes [40827-40856]. Here are the highlights:

  • 30 commits
  • 27 contributors
  • 40 tickets created
  • 7 tickets reopened
  • 26 tickets closed

Ticket numbers based on trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.

Code Changes

Build/Test Tools

  • Add a missing class to the PHPUnit 6 back compat. [40854] #39822
  • Remove mentions of HHVM from the test infrastructure on Travis for the 4.0 branch. [40833] #40548

Bundled Theme

Emoji

Help/About

  • About: Introduce design and add link to Media Widgets API dev note. [40849] #40721
  • About: Further polish for Under The Hood. [40841] #40721
  • About: Further polish for feature descriptions. [40838] #40721

Media

Misc

Plugins

REST API

  • In the admin area, ensure the REST API endpoint URL is forced to https when necessary. [40843] #36451

TinyMCE

Widgets

  • Normalize YouTube and Vimeo URLs in video shortcode (primarily for Video widget) to work around ME.js 2.22 bug. [40847] #32417, #39994, #40866
  • Ensure that audio and video files appear in media library browser upon upload. [40836] #32417, #39994, #39995, #40803
  • Supply missing descriptions for instance schema fields in media widgets. [40835] #32417
  • Prevent multiple items from being selectable when first populating a media widget. [40827] #32417

Thanks to @apmarshall @obenland, @hedgefield, @reportermike, @ryelle, @rclations, @westonruter, @adamsilverstein, @apmarshall, @azaozz, @bridgetwillard, @celloexpressions, @iandunn, @jnylen0, @johnbillion, @juhise, @karmatosed, @leemon, @matveb, @melchoyce, @mikeschroder, @mohanjith, @obenland, @ocean90, @pento, @peterwilsoncc, @peterwilsoncc, @Soean, @timmydcrawford, @voldemortensen, and @westonruter for their contributions!

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Andrew Rockwell 3:52 am on May 25, 2017
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Week in Core, May 17th – 23th 2017

Welcome back the latest issue of Week in Core, covering changes [40771-40826]. Here are the highlights:

  • 56 commits
  • 75 contributors
  • 70 tickets created
  • 7 tickets reopened
  • 71 tickets closed

Ticket numbers based on trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.

Code Changes

Accessibility

Administration

  • Fix some HTML validation errors. [40823] #37004
  • Update the docs for wp_check_browser_version(). [40822] #40839
  • Dashboard: Change the cache key for dashboard RSS widget; remove the unnecessary database upgrade routine. [40803] #40702
  • Dashboard: Append the current locale to dashboard RSS widget cache key in wp_dashboard_rss_control(), for consistency with the changes to wp_dashboard_cached_rss_widget() in [33183] and [33192]. [40802] #32804, #40702
  • Dashboard: Don’t trigger an Events search when the search field is empty. [40799] #40816
  • Dashboard: Improve the Events widget spinner position after [40789]. [40794] #40735
  • Dashboard: Improve the handling of locations determined by geolocating the IP address and by entering a city name. Fix couple of edge cases, and some names. [40790] #40702
  • Dashboard: [40789] #40735
  • Dashboard: Combine methods to retreive IP [40781] #40702
  • Use consistent spacing for form elements in the Discussion Settings screen. [40779] #31594
  • Dashboard: Document request proxy for events. [40777] #40702
  • Dashboard: Properly localize data for events [40776] #40702
  • Dashboard: Always pass the IP when getting events [40774] #40702
  • Upgrade: Use correct commit no. to trigger upgrade [40773] #40702

Build/Test Tools

  • Remove mentions of HHVM from the test infrastructure on Travis for the 4.6 branch. [40818] #40548

Bundled Theme

  • Twenty Seventeen: Remove uneccessary return statement [40795] #40516

Customize

  • Docs: Improve phpdoc for WP_Customize_Manager, WP_Customize_Control, WP_Customize_Setting, and WP_Customize_Selective_Refresh. [40804] #39671
  • Docs: Add missing @since tags and phpdoc descriptions to the Custom_Image_Header class. [40788] #21785, #40231
  • Run a partial’s fallback behavior (full refresh) when selective refresh fails due to a script error. [40771] #27355, #40658

Help/About

I18N

  • Dashboard: Use get_user_locale() for the news feed cache key. [40793] #40417

Login and Registration

  • Add some margin to notices on the login screen so multiple notices remain separated. [40778] #39971

Media

Misc

  • Themes: Skip tests if ReflectionMethod::setAccessible is unavailable [40826] #
  • Post-4.8 Beta 2 bump. [40820] #
  • WordPress 4.8 Beta 2 ([40807] again) [40819] #
  • Revert [40807] unbumping from 4.8 Beta 2 back to Beta 1 due to aborted release. [40808] #
  • WordPress 4.8 Beta 2 [40807] #
  • Updates for 4.6. Merge of and to the 4.6 branch.

Quick/Bulk Edit

REST API

  • Fix changing parameters with set_param() for some requests. [40815] #40344
  • Avoid sending blank Last-Modified headers with authenticated requests. [40805] #40444
  • Do not set X-WP-Deprecated* headers as often. [40782] #40787

Themes

TinyMCE

  • Fix selecting the link node after creating a link by pasting an URL. [40801] #40818
  • Editor: When stripping paragraph tags, and there is a <br> at the beginning or the end, merge them and keep the paragraph, not the <br>. [40787] #37066
  • Fix pasting while an image with caption is selected. The image and the caption should be replaced with the pasted content. [40786] #40809
  • Provide styles for link and code boundaries. [40783] #40767

Users

  • Multisite: Handle both role change selections in site-users.php. [40780] #40113

Widgets

  • Further refine WP JS coding style in media widgets code. [40821] #32417
  • Remove core embedding support for WMV and WMA files since MediaElement.js has discontinued supporting them. [40813] #39994, #39995, #40819
  • Clarify some context information for translators. [40812] #32417, #39993, #39994, #39995
  • Remove unused JS variable to fix JSHint error introduced in [40640]. [40811] #39994
  • Introduce isHostedVideo method on VideoWidgetControl to allow plugins to extend for recognizing services beyond YouTube and Vimeo. [40810] #39994, #40808
  • Revert [40251] pending more accessible solution for showing default widget titles rather than using placeholders. [40806] #39909
  • Ensure title field for media widget will update with sanitized value after change event in addition to input event. [40785] #32417, #40805
  • Use “Add Audio” for button in Audio widget instead of generic “Add File”. [40784] #39995, #40797
  • Media: Trim whitespace in URLs provided for external embeds. [40772] #40771

Thanks to @4nickpick, @abhishekfdd, @adamsilverstein, @adamsoucie, @afercia, @arena, @arshidkv12, @azaozz, @BharatKambariya, @bradyvercher, @bridgetwillard, @coffee2code, @coreymckrill, @darshan02, @dd32, @desrosj, @emirpprime, @gma992, @iandunn, @iandunn, @iseulde, @Italian polyglots team, @iv3rson76, @jenblogs4u, @jeremyfelt, @jjcomack, @jnylen0, @joedolson, @joemcgill, @joen, @johnbillion, @juhise, @ketuchetan, @kraftbj, @leewillis77, @LiamMcArthur, @matveb, @melchoyce, @michalzuber, @michelleweber, @mihai2u, @MikeLittle, @mikeschroder, @mp518, @mrahmadawais, @netwe, @nitin, @kevadiya, @nobremarcos, @obenland, @ocean90, @odysseygate, @pento, @postpostmodern, @rellect, @rensw90, @rianrietveld, @riddhiehta02, @rmccue, @ryelle, @sagarjadhav, @sagarprajapati, @Samantha Miller., @sami.keijonen, @SergeyBiryukov, @sloisel, @sstoqnov, @stubgo, @swissspidy, @tejas5989, @timmydcrawford, @TimothyBlynJacobs, @topher1kenobe, @truongwp, @westonruter, and @zinigor for their contributions!

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Andrew Rockwell 2:17 pm on May 4, 2017
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Week in Core, April 26th – May 2nd 2017

Welcome back the latest issue of Week in Core, covering changes [40557-40568]. Here are the highlights:

  • 12 commits
  • 13 contributors
  • 76 tickets created
  • 4 tickets reopened
  • 29 tickets closed

Ticket numbers based on trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.

Code Changes

Administration

  • Accessibility: Avoid a keyboard trap on the date and time custom format settings. [40568] #40515

Build/Test Tools

  • When asserting microtime output as a number, make it a number [40566] #30336
  • Automatically skip tests in the ms-required and ms-excluded groups. [40564] #40531
  • Pin the WordPress Importer plugin to version 0.6.3 when testing on Travis. [40562] #40620
  • Add object-cache.php to the unit test suite. [40561] #40619

Comments

Customize

  • Allow select dropdowns to stretch full width in widened controls pane. [40567] #32296

Menus

  • Introduce page_menu_link_attributes filter in Walker_Page::start_el() for the HTML attributes applied to a page menu item’s anchor element. [40565] #40359

Posts, Post Types

Role/Capability

  • Users: Add two missing special cases to the capability tests for non-logged-in users. [40563] #37405

Users

  • Ensure user counts remain accurate if users are added to or removed from the users table without corresponding usermeta entries being added or removed. [40560] #38741, #29785

Thanks to @afercia, @boonebgorges, @dots, @jdgrime, @johnbillion, @pbiron, @psoluch, @ptbello, @SergeyBiryukov, @stephdau, @tharsheblow, @timmydcrawford, and @westonruter for their contributions!

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Andrew Rockwell 4:10 pm on April 26, 2017
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Week in Core, April 19th – April 25th 2017

Welcome back the latest issue of Week in Core, covering changes [40476-40556]. Here are the highlights:

  • 81 commits
  • 29 contributors
  • 90 tickets created
  • 11 tickets reopened
  • 48 tickets closed

Ticket numbers based on trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.

Code Changes

Administration

Build/Test Tools

  • Feeds: Remove an incorrect usage of sizeof() in a helper class used during unit testing of XML element handling. [40555] #40109
  • Add Composer files to the cache on Travis. [40554] #40539
  • Backport various recent changes to the 4.7 branch. [40547] #40539, #39822, #40548
  • Remove HHVM from the test infrastructure on Travis. [40546] #40548
  • Remove more unnecessary test skipping when erroneous situations occur. [40544] #40533
  • Introduce skipWithoutMultisite() and skipWithMultisite() methods into the test suite. [40543] #40531
  • More tweaks to the deprecated calls assertion. This needs to be triggered when there are unexpected deprecated calls or wrongdoings too. [40542] #40538
  • Only perform an assertion for deprecated calls and wrongdoings if any are expected. [40541] #40538
  • Move the setExpectedException() method into the WP_Ajax_UnitTestCase class to avoid a fatal error when PHPUnit 3.6 is in use. [40539] #39822
  • Add support for PHPUnit 6+. [40536] #39822
  • Ensure that WP_UnitTestCase::expectedDeprecated() performs an assertion to avoid risky test notices. [40535] #40538
  • Be strict about tests that do not test anything. [40534] #40538
  • Remove unnecessary checks and skips that should instead cause failures if they ever fail. [40533] #40533
  • Convert more test skipping into hard failures. These dependencies should all be present when testing. [40532] #40533
  • Correct an incorrect ms- group name. [40530] #40531
  • Add some locale debugging to the Travis config so we can determine which locales are available to test with. [40528] #40533, #19861
  • Enable verbose mode in PHPUnit so we can see which tests are being skipped, and now that the number of skipped tests has been lowered. [40527] #40533, #40531
  • Don’t trigger a skipped test when the built version of wp-embed.min.js isn’t present. [40526] #34698, #40533
  • Replace test skipping with actual assertions when dealing with the DISALLOW_UNFILTERED_HTML, DISALLOW_FILE_MODS, and DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT constants. [40525] #40533
  • Remove more skipped tests that should actually be failures if their conditions aren’t satisfied. [40524] #40533
  • Remove ancient UT ticket handling. [40523] #40533
  • Add some more tests to the ms-required and ms-excluded groups. [40522] #40531
  • Introduce ms-required and ms-excluded groups for tests. [40520] #40531
  • Don’t skip tests when php.net or dev.mysql.com are unreachable. [40519] #40533
  • Avoid skipping canonical tests that are connected to open Trac tickets. [40518] #30284, #40534
  • Canonical: Don’t skip tests if the test data is invalid. [40517] #40533

Customize

Database

Editor

  • TinyMCE: Fix cursor position after updating a wpview node. Fix hiding the inline toolbar on editor blur. [40482] #40480
  • Define $suffix before using it in _WP_Editors::print_tinymce_scripts(). [40477] #40479, #35760
  • Provide API for the editor to be dynamically instantiated via JS. First run. [40476] #35760

General

  • Accessibility: Make Safari 10 + VoiceOver announce repeated, identical, wp.a11y.speak() messages. [40479] #36853

Help/About

  • Fix typo in help text on Reading Settings screen. [40540] #40530

Menus

Networks and Sites

  • Multisite: Add $network_id parameter to wp_update_network_counts(). [40486] #40386, #38699
  • Multisite: Add $network_id parameter to wp_update_network_user_counts(). [40485] #40349, #38699
  • Multisite: Add $network_id parameter to wp_update_network_site_counts(). [40484] #37528, #38699
  • Multisite: After [37918] add support for retrieving custom site properties set by the site_details filter. [40478] #40458

Posts, Post Types

  • Correct the fallback value for the label_count argument of register_post_status(). [40516] #38686

Query

Taxonomy

  • Restore support for taxonomy ‘args’ override when querying object terms. [40514] #40496
  • Docs: Improve @param and @return entries for wp_get_post_categories(), wp_get_post_tags(), and wp_get_post_terms(). [40483] #40481

TinyMCE

Widgets

Thanks to @csloisel, @afercia, @Arena94, @azaozz, @bhargavbhandari90, @boonebgorges, @celloexpressions, @danielbachhuber, @darthaud, @dd32, @flixos90, @gitlost, @imath, @iseulde, @johnbillion, @johnjamesjacoby, @littler.chicken, @miyauchi, @ocean90, @peterwilsoncc, @philipjohn, @PieWP, @raisonon, @SergeyBiryukov, @swissspidy, @theMikeD, @timmydcrawford, @westonruter, and @xrm for their contributions!

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Andrew Rockwell 11:21 pm on April 21, 2017
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Week in Core, April 12th – April 18th 2017

Welcome back the latest issue of Week in Core, covering changes [40417-40475]. Here are the highlights:

  • 59 commits
  • 37 contributors
  • 59 tickets created
  • 6 tickets reopened
  • 36 tickets closed

Ticket numbers based on trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.

Code Changes

Administration

  • Add “(link opens in a new window)” as a screen reader text for “Preview” link on Edit Post screen. [40422] #40185

Build/Test Tools

  • Build/Test tools: Ruthlessly remove failing tests from the 4.0 branch. [40457] #40463
  • Better rewrite rule flushing in test_permalink_without_title(). [40456] #40463
  • Remove failing tests related to WP_User::__unset(). [40455] #30284, #40463
  • Remove failing is_textdomain_loaded() test. [40454] #30284, #40463
  • Remove failing tests related to square brackets being stripped in URL sanitizers. [40453] #30284, #40463
  • Remove failing test in the hooks group. [40452] #30284, #40463
  • Remove skipped tests for unimplemented JS plural functions. [40451] #22229, #40463
  • Remove failing unit tests from ‘canonical’ group. [40450] #30284, #40463
  • Partial merge of [30283] into the 4.0 branch to avoid PHP notices that cause a test failure. [40449] #30284
  • assertTag() has been deprecated in PHPUnit 4.2. Rewrite some of the tests in Tests_Paginate_Links to use DOMDocument. [40447] #29545
  • Build/Test tools: Reverse the order in which the Travis jobs run on the 3.8 branch. [40444] #39705
  • Build/Test tools: Reverse the order in which the Travis jobs run. [40435] #39705
  • Build/Test tools: Introduce and implement assertNotIXRError() and assertIXRError() assertion methods. [40417] #40423

Bundled Theme

  • Twenty Seventeen: Bump version and update the changelog. [40473] #40461
  • Twenty Seventeen: Correct heading hierarchy for posts on the front page. [40459] #40264

Customize

  • Use fixed-width illustrative placeholder for hex field in color picker to prevent truncation. [40471] #39096
  • Verify availability of history.replaceState (in IE9) before attempting to populate changeset_uuid parameter. [40420] #39227, #40405

Media

  • Fix broken audio/video functions when sanitizing ID3 data [40470] #40075, #40085
  • Default to always showing the “Create Audio/Video Playlist” buttons. [40430] #31071
  • Ensure Crop Image is always visible. [40429] #40152
  • Add filters to allow overriding slow media queries. [40425] #31071
  • Improve filters that allow overriding slow media queries. [40421] #31071

Misc

  • Bump 4.7 branch to 4.7.4-RC1. [40475] #
  • 4.7.4-RC [40474] #
  • Tests: Fix a YouTube embed test failing since YouTube switched to HTTPS-only. [40448] #
  • Updates for 4.6. Merge of and to the 4.6 branch.

Networks and Sites

  • Correct a capability check when accessing the Sites -> Add New screen. [40433] #39156

Options, Meta APIs

Posts, Post Types

  • In wp_check_post_lock(), check if the user with lock exists and return false otherwise. [40424] #39888
  • Improve the docs for wp_check_post_lock() and wp_set_post_lock(). [40423] #39888

Query

REST API

Taxonomy

TinyMCE

  • Update TinyMCE to 4.5.6. Has many improvements and bug [40419] #40305

Toolbar

  • Reset CSS properties that might be inherited from the active Theme. [40418] #40313

Upload

  • Improve legacy SWFUpload event handlers for current jQuery. [40431] #39886

Thanks to @sagarprajapati, @1naveengiri, @adamsilverstein, @afercia, @arshidkv12, @azaozz, @celloexpressions, @curdin, @Cybr, @davidakennedy, @eclev91, @boldwater, @flixos9, @jdgrimes, @jnylen0, @joedolson, @joemcgill, @johnbillion, @karinedo, @lukecavanagh, @MatheusGimenez, @mayurk, @mayur, @MMDeveloper, @netwe, @Presskopp, @programmin, @rianrietveld, @sagarprajapati, @sboisvert, @SergeyBiryukov, @stormrockwell, @swissspidy, @tejas5989, @timmydcrawfor, @westonruter, and @wonderboymusic for their contributions!

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Andrew Rockwell 12:30 pm on April 13, 2017
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Week in Core, April 5th – April 11th 2017

Welcome back the latest issue of Week in Core, covering changes [40376-40416]. Here are the highlights:

  • 41 commits
  • 26 contributors
  • 61 tickets created
  • 12 tickets reopened
  • 56 tickets closed

Ticket numbers based on trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.

Code Changes

Bootstrap/Load

Build/Test Tools

  • Build/Test tools: Improve the failure message reported by assertQueryTrue() so it’s a little less cryptic. [40416] #40411
  • Build/Test tools: Trim the test matrix on Travis in order to speed up the 3.8 branch build. [40407-40415] #40407
  • Add assertNotFalse() method to WP_UnitTestCase and use it where appropriate. [40388] #39219

Customize

  • Verify availability of history.replaceState (in IE9) before attempting to populate changeset_uuid parameter. [40405] #39227, #40405
  • Auto-expand a widget area section when expanding the Widgets panel if there is only one registered sidebar and it is active. [40395], [40402] #37471
  • Fix behavior of clicking Delete Menu link and keep available nav menu items panel open when doing bulk deletion. [40396], [40401] #38953
  • Fix HTTPS navigation of site in preview on IE11. [40381], [40386] #38409, #40198
  • Use is_header_video_active() as active_callback for external_header_video control instead of is_front_page(). [40379], [40384] #38738, #40308
  • Fix reversal of nav menu item’s type and object properties for page stub added in customizer. [40380], [40383] #38164, #40277

General

  • Build/Test tools: Remove occurrences of create_function() in unit tests. [40392] #37082

Media

Networks and Sites

  • Multisite: Replace unnecessary is_super_admin() check when setting up the initial network. [40406] #40406, #37616
  • Align the display of site statuses on the Sites listing screen with those of posts on the Posts listing screen. [40393] #40290
  • Multisite: Partially revert [40295]. [40391] #39676, #37616
  • Multisite: Handle sites cache invalidation more granularly for option updates. [40385] #40063

REST API

Role/Capability

TinyMCE

  • Update the tests for version 4.5.6. Remove default plugins tests, it is quite pointless to keep repeating them at this point. [40399] #40305
  • Update TinyMCE to 4.5.6. Has many improvements and bug [40398] #40305

Upgrade/Install

  • Introduce wp_disallow_file_mods() helper function. [40394] #38673

Thanks to @adamsilverstein, @ashokkumar24, @azaozz, @blobfolio, @curdin, @DavidAnderson, @delawski, @desrosj, @dhanendran, @flixos90, @jnylen0, @joemcgill, @johnbillion, @ketuchetan, @maguiar, @MatheusGimenez, @mattwiebe, @MaximeCulea, @melchoyce, @peterwilsoncc, @pratikshrestha, @sboisvert, @swissspidy, @timmydcrawford , @westonruter, and @wonderboymusic for their contributions!

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Andrew Rockwell 2:05 pm on April 6, 2017
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Week in Core, March 29th – April 4th 2017

Welcome back the latest issue of Week in Core, covering changes [40348-40375]. Here are the highlights:

  • 28 commits
  • 29 contributors
  • 81 tickets created
  • 8 tickets reopened
  • 51 tickets closed
    Ticket numbers based on trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.

Code Changes

Administration

Bundled Theme

  • Twenty Seventeen: Use esc_attr_e() for translatable strings in HTML attributes. [40374] #40216
  • Twenty Seventeen: Declare jQuery as a dependency for navigation.js. [40373] #40224

Customize

Embeds

  • Change the embed_autourls option filter from default_option_* to pre_option_* to avoid a DB query. [40360] #38924

I18N

  • Remove an extra slash between .mo file path and name in load_muplugin_textdomain(). [40362] #39168

Mail

  • Use correct capitalization for PHPMailer methods in wp_mail(). [40363] #39702

Media

  • Accessibility: Improve the Media Library inline uploader accessibility. [40359] #37188

Networks and Sites

  • Multisite: Fix wp_get_sites() to return an unlimited amount of sites when passing a falsy limit argument. [40372] #39879, #35791
  • Multisite: Add $network_id parameter to get_user_count(). [40371] #37866
  • Multisite: Support the $network_id parameter of get_blog_count(). [40370] #37865
  • Multisite: Correct documentation for site status change hooks. [40352] #40287
  • Multisite: Add deleted_blog action after site has been deleted. [40351] #25584

Posts, Post Types

  • Introduce post_date_column_status filter for post status text in list tables’ Date column. [40361] #39545

Press This

  • Reorder post format icon styles for consistency with get_post_format_strings(). [40356] #40304
  • Add missing icons for Chat and Status post formats. [40355] #40304

Quick/Bulk Edit

REST API

  • JS Client – Enable connecting to multiple endpoints. [40364] #39683
  • Tests: Remove a couple of invalid error assertions. [40350] #40270

Taxonomy

  • Invalidate term query caches when setting or deleting term relationships. [40353-40354] #40306
  • Fix typo in $aria_checked variable name in Walker_Category_Checklist::start_el(). [40348] #40295

Thanks to @adamsilverstein, @afercia, @boonebgorges, @bor0, @chesio, @davidbenton, @dhanendran, @dlh, @ejner69, @flixos90, @iandunn, @jeremyfelt, @jnylen0, @johnbillion, @johnjamesjacoby, @karmatosed, @lucasstark, @mantismamita, @mboynes, @menakas, @mt8.biz, @nsundberg, @pauldewouters, @pbearne, @reidbusi, @SergeyBiryukov, @Soean, @swissspidy, and @westonruter for their contributions!

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Andrew Rockwell 12:32 pm on March 30, 2017
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Week in Core, March 22nd – 28th, 2017

Welcome back the latest issue of Week in Core, covering changes [40307-40347]. Here are the highlights:

  • 41 commits
  • 27 contributors
  • 76 tickets created
  • 14 tickets reopened
  • 65 tickets closed

Ticket numbers based on trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.

Code Changes

Administration

  • List Tables: After [38703], [38706], and [40118], adjust the jQuery selector to make the selection of a range of checkboxes work again. [40327] #40056
  • Docs: Add description for $mode global in WP_MS_Sites_List_Table and WP_MS_Users_List_Table. [40310] #40208
  • Docs: Add description for $mode global in WP_Media_List_Table and WP_Posts_List_Table. [40309] #40208
  • Docs: Add missing @global entry for list table view mode in WP_Screen::render_view_mode(). [40308] #40208
  • Docs: Add missing @global entry for list table view mode in wp_ajax_inline_save(). [40307] #40208

Bundled Theme

  • Twenty Seventeen: Declare jQuery as a dependency for navigation.js. [40315] #40224
  • Twenty Seventeen: Use esc_attr_e() for translatable strings in HTML attributes. [40311] #40216

Cache API

Customize

Database

  • Tests: Use utf8mb4 max index length when creating keys. [40339] #35958

Formatting

  • Docs: Correct default value in @param entry for the $num_words parameter of wp_trim_words filter. [40322] #40248

Login and Registration

  • Avoid a potentially incorrect value for the cookie hash on multisite installations that don’t have a value in the siteurl network option. [40320-40321] #34084, #39497

Networks and Sites

  • Multisite: Respect $_wp_suspend_cache_invalidation when clearing network and site caches. [40346] #40028
  • Multisite: Allow falsy properties to be cached in site-details. [40344] #40247
  • Tests: Clarify zero path segment tests for get_network_by_path(). [40342] #37217
  • Multisite: Add lang_id support to WP_Site_Query. [40340] #40196
  • Multisite: After [40305], rename clean_site_details_cache() method as it’s not really private. [40333] #40063
  • Multisite: Add further unit tests for get_blog_details(). [40317] #40228, #40180

Posts, Post Types

  • Add missing REST API properties to WP_Post_Type class. [40329] #39986

REST API

  • Tests: Consolidate logic used to skip API fixture generation. [40341] #40041
  • Confirm the parent post object of an attachment exists in WP_REST_Posts_Controller::check_read_permission(). [40337] #39881
  • Add gmt_offset and timezone_string to the base /wp-json response. [40336] #39854
  • Use get_gmt_from_date() when preparing a draft post for response. [40324-40325] #40136

Taxonomy

  • Add missing REST API properties to WP_Taxonomy class. [40328] #39987

Themes

  • Fix incorrect annotation for __clear_multi_author_cache() function. [40334] #40063, #40262
  • Add filter for excluding directories from being scanned for template files. [40326] #38292

Users

  • Don’t push the current user’s role to the top of the list in wp_dropdown_roles(). [40323] #40162

Thanks to @afercia, @aussieguy123, @bor, @bor0, @caseypatrickdriscoll, @chesio, @clarinetlord, @danielbachhuber, @dd32, @dlh, @flixos90, @GhostToast, @jeremyfelt, @johnbillion, @johnjamesjacoby, @lukasbesch, @michelleweber, @nerrad, @ocean90, @priyankabehera155, @rachelbaker., @redrambles, @sagarkbhatt, @SergeyBiryukov, @swissspidy, and @westonruter for their contributions!

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Andrew Rockwell 2:08 pm on February 23, 2017
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Week in Core, February 15th – 21st, 2017

Welcome back the latest issue of Week in Core, covering changes [40060-40101]. Here are the highlights:

  • 42 commits
  • 35 contributors
  • 64 tickets created
  • 14 tickets reopened
  • 75 tickets closed

Ticket numbers based on trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.

Code Changes

Administration

  • JavaScript: when starting Backbone history, stop if previously started. [40076] #39612

Customize

  • Prevent vertical clipping of thumbnail in header image customizer control. [40100], [40082] #21785, #38559
  • Extend auto-draft life of a customize_changeset post whenever modified. [40099] #30937, #39713
  • Allow custom post types to be used in starter content. [40098] #38615, #38114, #39610
  • Ensure edit shortcuts get re-created for nested partials when a parent partial is refreshed. [40097] #39101, #39353
  • Skip intercepting non-HTTP(S) links in customizer preview just as jump links are ignored. [40096], [40064] #39797
  • Always enqueue customize-preview stylesheet in the customizer preview to style selective refresh and visual edit shortcuts. [40095] #27403, #39498
  • Trim whitespace from nav menu item titles so that the underlying object’s original title appears as input placeholder and in the control’s title. [40094] #38015, #39600
  • Update customize.php URL with changeset_uuid param the instant a change is made instead of deferring until the changeset update request responds. [40093] #39227
  • Ensure root values are accessible in multidimensional custom setting types. [40088] #32103, #36952
  • Introduce get_header_video_url filter for the return value of get_header_video_url(). [40087] #39512
  • Update the introduced version in the docs for the get_header_video_url filter to 4.7.3. [40086] #39512

Feeds

Formatting

  • Fix wpautop() to stop adding paragraph tags around <figcaption>. [40091] #39307

HTTP API

  • Restore backwards compatibility with the http_api_curl filter – it expects that the handle parameter is passed as a reference, however [39212] missed that. [40068-40069] #39783

Help/About

  • About page: Remove autoplay and loop attributes on “Theme Starter Content”, “Edit Shortcuts”, and “Video Headers” videos, originally added as a part of [39512]. [40089-40090] #39560

I18N

Media

  • Avoid PHP Warnings in get_post_galleries() when processing empty

    shortcodes and avoid returning the incorrect results when the global $post does not match the provided post ID. [40070] #39277, #39304

  • Debounce the media grid search, avoiding duplicate requests. [40060] #38911

Menus

  • Prevent notice thrown in class-walker-page.php. [40092] #39564
  • Docs: Correct @return value type for wp_nav_menu(). [40062] #39890

Options, Meta APIs

REST API

  • Fix multiple issues with setting dates of posts and comments. [40101] #39256
  • JavaScript client should use _.extend when merging objects. [40084] #39341
  • Include the status property in view context responses from the Posts endpoints. [40080-40081] #39466
  • Correctly serve the index with PATH_INFO [40079] #39432
  • Cast revision author ID to int. [40078], [40063] #39871
  • JavaScript client – improve route discovery for custom namespaces. [40074] #39561
  • Skip generating the client test fixtures in PHP 5.2 and 5.3. [40066] #39264
  • Fix the client test fixture generation in PHP 5.2 and 5.3. [40065] #39264
  • Improve test fixture generation, normalizing data. [40061] #39264

Shortcodes

  • Avoid PHP Warnings in get_post_galleries() when processing empty

    shortcodes and avoid returning the incorrect results when the global $post does not match the provided post ID. [40071] #39277, #39304

Taxonomy

  • Disallow overriding the name property when registering a taxonomy. [40083] #39308

Upload

  • Media: In wp_unique_filename(), use explicit type casting when incrementing $number. [40075] #39774

Thanks to @adamsilverstein, @asalce, @azaozz, @batmoo, @bhargavbhandari90, @bor0, @bradyvercher, @ccprog, @celloexpressions, @certainstrings, @chesio, @dd32, @dhanendran, @dlh, @drrobotnik for initial patch, @jazbek, @jnylen0, @joemcgill, @Kelderic, @ketuchetan, @netweb, @ocean90, @pavelevap for reporting, @pbearne for tests, @pento, @peterwilsoncc, @rachelbaker, @sanket.parmar, @seanchayes, @SergeyBiryukov, @stevenkword for initial patch, @swissspidy, @tfrommen, @westonruter, and @wpfo for initial patch for their contributions!

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