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webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 11:44 pm on January 19, 2022
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Dev Chat Summary – January 19, 2022

Link to the start of the meeting in the WordPress Core Slack

Agenda

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. 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. @marybaum and @webcommsat led the meeting.

Announcements

WordPress 5.9 Release Candidate 3 is available.

Two key resources:
Help test WordPress 5.9 features
Read the 5.9 Field Guide.

Blogblog (versus network, site) posts of note

Update on the release

@hellofromtonya

5.9 final will land next week on 25 Jan 2022. RC3 yesterday was the last planned release before the final. If blockers or regressions are reported before 5.9 starts its 24 hour code freeze (which starts on 24 Jan), then another 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). may happen. As of right now, there are not any reports that warrant another RC. But will keep on on it. 

@jeffpaul: You’re almost there @hellofromtonya, we’re all in support of you and the team, thanks again for everyone’s amazing work!

Release Process summary from @hellofromtonya

  • The release squad is discussing the start time for the release party on the 25th. Stay tuned.
  • The code freeze will start exactly 24 hours before that time.
  • Dry run will be on the 24th and end before that code freeze starts.
  • A post on Make Core will appear in advance to outline the release processes and how you can help.

Thank you to all contributors who made this happen! 

How can you help?

  • Test
  • Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. any reports that come into TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. or 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/ to help teams figure out if a report needs immediate attention. Then come join the 5.9 Release Party to help prep and test the package and get it out into the world! Celebrate.
  • @webcommsat: please share the posts about the release and the RC3 post.

5.9.1 early discussions

@jeffpaul: wait until we see how the forum responses come in post 5.9 since it sounds like nothing needing another RC as of now.

@marybaum shared she and @estelaris would be helping with the release-coordination for the minors, in in the interregnum before 6.0.

@hellofromtonya: I agree with @jeffpaul and points @desroj raised in the release leads channel. Though there are fixes ready for 5.9.1, good to give a week or so for reports to come in within the forums, Gutenberg GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/, and Trac. Why? There may be things hadn’t yet surfaced that need priority attention.

@costdev: For reporting issues when testing RC, reproducing reported issues during/triage, and for when reports land in the forums and make their way to Trac, a test report template is available to help narrow down the steps and environments where issues may occur.

Open Floor

a) Request for core agenda to be published 24 hours ahead of a meeting to allow items and links o be more easily added for the discussion. It has not been published this far in advance in the last two weeks. Confirmed.

b) FSE
@annezazu: Join me for a hallway hangout on Thursday 20 January 2022 at 9:00pm UTC to talk about 5.9. It will be held in #fse-outreach-experiment and is meant to be a casual place to chat with other folks in the WordPress space. Bring your questions, pop in and out, etc. It will be recorded and recapped. Previous editions

c) Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #54859: New Welcome’s panel “Edit styles” link does not seem to work

@audrasjb: relating to 5.9: should we consider #54859 as a blockerblocker A bug which is so severe that it blocks a release.? any thought about this small (but annoying) issue? Can probably be skipped to a minor unless there is a RC4.

@hellofromtonya: That issue needs testing and more discussion to determine what should happen and if reproducible. But does not seem to be a blocker for the 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..

If it’s merely a bad link, that’s one thing and easily fixable. If it’s something else, then discussion needs to happen about resolution.

@audrasjb: The expected behavior would be to open the Global Styles panel.

For now, the two links in the welcome panel both lead to the same screen (*), which is, indeed, annoying.
(* on 5.9 + TT2)

ironprogrammer: The first time you open Styles, it has the nifty tutorial, so it’s a shame to miss that when you come here the first time…

@hellofromtonya: The question is: What should the link be to open the panel (this would be fixable in Core)? Or is the panel not wired to a link (this would be a Gutenberg issue)?

@audrasjb: I don’t think it’s a blocker. But I think it’s annoying and it’s not a super user experience when associated to the Welcome panel which is supposed to show all the amazing stuff we shipped in this release. What I try to say is that it’s more a “communication issue” than a technical one. @jeffpaul agreed not a blocker.

@hellofromtonya:

  • let’s get it fixed.
  • Then if there are other issues that pop, it can be bundled into a RC4.
  • I agree it has to be fixed upstream in Gutenberg and then packages released and backported to Core.

@hellofromtonya: Depends upon if the URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org is correct or not. If not correct, then it can be fixed in Core. Else, yes, I agree it has to be fixed upstream in Gutenberg and then packages released and backported to Core.

@audrasjb: I’m currently opening an issue upstream, and also, I’m searching for any Gutenberg behavior that would open the panel based on the URL hash.

@audrasjb: If so, we could fix this on Core side.

@desrosj: I think we should be worried about making the right decisions for our users and not to avoid publications writing unfavorable pieces about us.

@marybaum: A thing that seems like not-a-blocker to us can affect UXUX User experience profoundly, which in turn can damage perception.

@hellofromtonya: For now, it’s prioritized and in the 5.9 milestone. I’ll take ownership of this issue with priority to fix it. Once fixed, then a decision can be made as to whether to do another RC or release it in.

@hellofromtonya: There are known bugs that do impact UX that are in 5.9.1. Yes, the release seeks to ship a solid experience. And yes, it would be great to have a perfect UX across the board. In this case, the link does take the user to the Site Editor where the Styles can be opened with another click. The experience is not broken nor perfect. But I don’t see it as a major blocker to the final release. But let’s see if it can be fixed quickly and if other issues come in to warrant another RC. 

@audrasjb pinged the editor team
An issue has been reported that is a good to get fixed in case there’s a 5.9 RC4.
Clicking wp-admin/site-editor.php?styles=open in the Welcome panel is expected to automatically open the Styles panel in the Site Editor.  It is not. Is this the right link? Or is this 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. that needs to be fixed? https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/38090
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/54859Posted in core-editor 

d) Dev notesdev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include: a description of the change; the decision that led to this change a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase.

@webcommsat and @courane01: For the work on Learn WordPress and social media, are there more dev notes on the release to come? Working on social media for LearnWP.
@marybaum: it looks like one more – https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/11/views/8

Props: Meeting notes summary by: @webcommsat and light editing by @marybaum

#5-9, #dev-chat, #summary, #week-in-core

Jb Audras 11:51 pm on January 17, 2022
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A Week in Core – January 17, 2022

Welcome back to a new issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Let’s take a look at what changed on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between January 10 and January 17, 2022.

  • 34 commits
  • 39 contributors
  • 74 tickets created
  • 20 tickets reopened
  • 53 tickets closed

The Core team is currently working on the next major release, WordPress 5.9 🛠

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

Code changes

Administration

  • Ensure an integer is used for menu priority in add_menu_page() – #54798, #48249
  • Fix an erroneous translators comment after changeset [52569] – #54798
  • Replace “Current theme” with “Active theme” in user facing strings – #54770
  • Revert [51946] – #54837, #53587
  • Update design of the Dashboard welcome panel – #54489

Build/Test Tools

  • Re-enable E2E tests for the 5.8 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". – #54749
  • Avoid duplicate queries in some WP_Query tests – #54822
  • Trac ticket number correction after changeset [52569] – #54798

Bundled Themes

  • Twenty Twenty-Two: Sync updates from GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ for 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). 2
  • Twenty Twenty-Two: Sync updates from GitHub from RC3 – #54318

Coding Standards

  • Correct alignment in get_block_editor_settings() – #54728
  • Remove an extra variable in get_author_posts_url() – #54728
  • Rename the $val variable to $site for clarity in WP_MS_Users_List_Table::column_blogs() – #54728
  • Use strict comparison in wp-admin/includes/class-wp-ms-users-list-table.php – #54728
  • Use strict comparison in wp-admin/includes/class-wp-users-list-table.php – #54728

Database

  • Add missing AS after INNER JOIN in some queries – #54769

Docs

  • Correct description for two HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. 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. functions: – #54796
  • Miscellaneous docblockdocblock (phpdoc, xref, inline docs) corrections in 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/. and Sitemaps API – #54729
  • Typo correction in WP_REST_Response class docblocks – #54823

Editor

  • Explicitly load remote 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. patterns in the block and site editor screens – #54806
  • Fix enqueueing additional styles in wp_enqueue_block_style() to print only when blocks render – #54787
  • Update some default presets in use by default themes to the new format – #54782
  • WordPress default presets aren’t loaded for all themes – #54781
  • Site Editor: Fix typo in home template translatable description – #54787
  • Update packages to include these 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 from 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/: – #54487

Help/About

  • Correction in “Managing Themes” HelpHub Docs link – #54707
  • Update the About section for 5.9 – #54270

Internationalization

  • Contextualize “light” color translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. strings – #54804

Media

  • Add a missing / in post thumbnail lazy loading regex – #54815
  • Typo correction in wp_image_maybe_exif_rotate docblock – #54816

Script Loader

  • Fix a variable typo in wp_enqueue_block_style – #54786

Upgrade/Install

  • Check if the disk_free_space() function exists before calling it – #54826, #54730
  • Typo correction in a Core_Upgrader class inline comment – #54821

XML-RPC

  • Fix typos in some XMLRPC related docblocks – #54820

Props

Thanks to the 39 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week: @audrasjb (8), @costdev (5), @kebbet (4), @SergeyBiryukov (4), @hellofromTonya (3), @richtabor (2), @Presskopp (2), @critterverse (2), @poena (2), @kjellr (2), @oandregal (2), @joedolson (2), @danieldudzic (1), @omaeyusuke (1), @sabernhardt (1), @aristath (1), @Mamaduka (1), @domainsupport (1), @scruffian (1), @kharisblank (1), @talldanwp (1), @isabel_brison (1), @desrosj (1), @versusbassz (1), @SierraTR (1), @kirtan95 (1), @johnbillion (1), @chesio (1), @mitogh (1), @noisysocks (1), @shreyasikhar26 (1), @david.binda (1), @swb1192 (1), @jrf (1), @tobifjellner (1), @ironprogrammer (1), @dhusakovic (1), @peterwilsoncc (1), and @jdy68 (1).

Congrats and welcome to our 9 new contributors of the week: @omaeyusuke, @domainsupport, @versusbassz, @SierraTR, @kirtan95, @shreyasikhar26, @swb1192, @ironprogrammer, @dhusakovic ♥️

Core committers: @audrasjb (12), @sergeybiryukov (9), @hellofromtonya (4), @jffng (2), @ryelle (2), @davidbaumwald (2), @jorgefilipecosta (2), and @noisysocks (1).

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

Estela Rueda 1:12 am on January 13, 2022
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Dev chat summary: January 12, 2022

@webcommsat and @marybaum led the meeting on this agenda.

See the real-time chat in the Make WordPress Slack.

And last week’s notes are at Dev chat summary, January 5, 2021.

Announcements

WordPress 5.9 Release Candidate 2 has landed. Please download and test! Also, please feel free to share the package and invite your friends to test the 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 themselves.

Help test WordPress 5.9 features. You can test in general or find prompts for daily features to test in  #fse-outreach-experiment.

Also, share the details of the new features with your teams and networks – Read the latest Developer Notes

@nalininonstopnewsuk asked about testing deadlines and current focuses from a question from the marketing meeting. @hellofromtonya: Testing and feedback can be ongoing. But for regressions or bugfixes to land in the final release, these would need to be reported, fixed, and committed 24 hours before the final release, which is on 25 January 2022.

Blogblog (versus network, site) posts to note

A year in core (December 29, 2021)

What’s new in Gutenberg 12.3 release (5 January 2022)

A Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.: January 10, 2022

A reminder of the revised 5.9 release schedule.

Join the discussion on 2022 release planning (December 27, 2021 post by @chanthaboune). This is still open for discussion. No current closing date.

Proposal: Approving custom block pattern directory submissions (posted January 4, feedback by January 14, 2022)
Proposed changes to javascript coding standards for full prettier compatibility 

The 5.9 Field Guide brings together the developer notes about every change in the new release. It’s a must-read if you build themes or plugins!

Update on 5.9 release

@hellofromtonya:

First of all, thank you to everyone who has contributed to the 5.9 release.

The final release is in less than 13 days on 25 January and it is on track to release on that day. There are currently no blockers or red flags. Everyone has come together across Core and 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/ to make the revised schedule happen on time as promised.

Release Candidate (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).) 2 landed yesterday and is available for testing and feedback. Please, test test test test. Regressions and bugs introduced in the RC cycle are priority to find and fix before the final release. Your help is needed to test and report. 

When is the next release? Release Candidate 3 will be on 18 January 2022. You are all invited to join and actively participate in the release party.

As a reminder, 5.9 is in a hard string freeze. Any string changes must be critically necessary — and nearly unanimously agreed as such before they show up in the 5.9 package. Why? Translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. teams are working hard translating the release and in many cases, translations are done. String changes impact not only the translators but users. Please cautiously recommend string changes only where it’s critically necessary.

One more reminder, with 5.9 in RC, code changes require two core committers: one to review and approve the backportbackport A port is when code from one branch (or trunk) is merged into another branch or trunk. Some changes in WordPress point releases are the result of backporting code from trunk to the release branch. to 5.9 and the second to do the review and actual backport commit. Why? This is on purpose to make sure code changes are necessary and respect the release processes. With all that said, 5.9 is less than two weeks from full final release.

Additional updates

Last week, a security update, 5.8.3, arrived. @audrasjb also confirmed that updates dropped for older versions, from 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". 3.7 to 5.8, to patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. the same issues.

Component Maintainers update

Until 5.9 final release on January 25, the team is skipping component updates unrelated to 5.9. If any maintainer has something to add, please add it to the comments.

Open Floor

The core team is looking for notetakers. The idea is to create a pool and encourage more contributors, and spread the responsibility around.
@webcommsat: at and after last week’s meeting, there was a discussion about the usefulness of an advance rota for people to volunteer to write summaries for dev chat.

Writing notes is a great way to review what is happening — and learn more about items you might be interested in. Some other teams find it easier to have a rota running a couple of weeks in advance, where people can volunteer in advance rather than just asking on the day.

And when you volunteer, you are not going it alone. There’s lots of help, you can ask questions just about anytime, and at least one other person will review and help with edits too.

Finally, the summaries are really helpful for people who cannot join the live meeting or are in different timezones, but who still want to be part of what’s happening in core. So it’s a really important task. It’s a great way to get involved and contribute!

Volunteers invited for notes on:
12 Jan – Estela
19 Jan –
26 Jan –
2 Feb –
9 Feb –

@davidbaumwald: Yeah, sometimes not everyone can make the meeting, so it’s tough to find volunteers. … One perk of writing notes: You get to become an author on Make WordPress/Core.

@estelaris commented that it is a great way of meeting the team that is actually building WordPress and learn from them. @webcommsat mentioned about creating a schedule and asked anyone who would like to take notes during dev chat to post in the #core channel or comment on this summary.

There is a call for volunteers on the marketing and training teams to support 5.9, specifically in the next two weeks. You can reach out to them in their 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/. channels.

Next meeting

Dev Chat will take place next week, Wednesday 19 January 2022 at 20:00 UTC in the Make WordPress Core Slack.

Props: Dev Chat summary by @estelaris and @webcommsat. Thanks to @marybaum for proofing.

#5-9, #dev-chat, #summary

#dev-chat, #summary, #week-in-core

Jb Audras 12:06 am on January 11, 2022
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A Week in Core – January 10, 2022

Welcome back to a new issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Let’s take a look at what changed on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between January 3 and January 10, 2022.

  • 41 commits
  • 63 contributors
  • 65 tickets created
  • 8 tickets reopened
  • 51 tickets closed

The Core team is currently working on the next major release, WordPress 5.9 🛠

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

Code changes

Administration

  • Add missing texture image for Welcome panel & About page – #54489, #54270
  • Refresh the Dashboard Welcome panel – #54489

Build/Test Tools

  • Add the 5.9 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". to the workflow for testing branches
  • Re-enable E2E tests for the 5.8 branch – #54749
  • Update qUnit test fixtures after [52535] – #54745

Bundled Themes

  • Fix: WordPress default presets aren’t loaded for all themes – #54781
  • Update some default presets in use by default themes to the new format – #54782
  • Twenty Twenty-Two: Sync updates from GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ for 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). 1 – #54318

Coding Standards

  • Remove empty space at end of inline comment in _add_default_theme_supports() – #54731
  • Correct alignment in get_block_editor_settings() – #54728
  • Use strict comparison in wp-admin/options.php – #53359
  • Use strict comparison in wp-admin/plugin-install.php – #54728
  • Use strict comparison in wp-admin/revision.php – #54728
  • Use strict comparison in wp-admin/themes.php – #54728

Editor

  • Update wordpress packages for WP 5.9 RC 1 – #54487

Embeds

  • Fix oEmbed host script enqueueing on 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.-based themes – #44632

External Libraries

  • Update jQuery hoverIntent to version 1.10.2 – #54722, #51812

Formatting

  • Correctly encode ASCII characters in post slugs

HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. 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.

  • Improve docs for wp_remote_retrieve_header function return value – #51736

Help/About

  • Change the HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. title of Themes Screen and add related HelpHub Docs link – #54707
  • Change the Learn WP link in the about page – #54755
  • Correction in “Managing Themes” HelpHub Docs link – #54707
  • Correction on the documentation link about adding new themes – #54709
  • Use “refactoring” noun form in WordPress 5.9 About Page – #54270
  • WordPress 5.9 About Page

Login and Registration

  • Remove aria-expanded from “Generate Password” button – #54538
  • Rename login_language_switcher_args to login_language_dropdown_args – #54696
  • Rename two filters related to language dropdown for better consistency – #54696

Query

  • Improve sanitization within WP_Meta_Query
  • Improve sanitization within WP_Tax_Query

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/.

  • Add unit tests for the 404 template slug handler – #54680
  • Typo correction in a link description object – #54745

RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision.

  • Improve _set_preview for case when autosave is missing – #54708

TaxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies.

  • Typo correction in context used for the navigation link block title – #54566

Themes

  • Make block themes support HTML5 by default – #54731, #54597

Upgrade/Install

  • Avoid using unserialize() unnecessarily
  • Fix parameter count in error call when an automatic core upgrade fails – #53284
  • Make first comment URLs translatable – #54535

Props

Thanks to the 63 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week: @hellofromTonya (9), @audrasjb (7), @desrosj (5), @SergeyBiryukov (4), @costdev (4), @xknown (4), @tobifjellner (3), @jdy68 (3), @dd32 (3), @marybaum (3), @sabernhardt (2), @oandregal (2), @critterverse (2), @kebbet (2), @melchoyce (2), @walbo (2), @webcommsat (2), @Mamaduka (2), @johnjamesjacoby (2), @davidbaumwald (2), @peterwilsoncc (2), @vortfu (2), @chanthaboune (1), @mukesh27 (1), @mkaz (1), @kjellr (1), @ryelle (1), @annezazu (1), @paaljoachim (1), @richtabor (1), @Clorith (1), @mitogh (1), @adamsilverstein (1), @kafleg (1), @faisal03 (1), @swissspidy (1), @westonruter (1), @rachelbaker (1), @ockham (1), @flixos90 (1), @cbringmann (1), @smit08 (1), @nalininonstopnewsuk (1), @hlashbrooke (1), @sainthkh (1), @devutpol (1), @Chouby (1), @la-geek (1), @zieladam (1), @whyisjake (1), @iandunn (1), @ehtis (1), @alexstine (1), @dansoschin (1), @jameskoster (1), @noisysocks (1), @karmatosed (1), @poena (1), @robtarr (1), @felipeelia (1), @joyously (1), @ocean90 (1), and @titsmaker (1).

Congrats and welcome to our new contributor of the week: @dansoschin, @robtarr ♥️

Core committers: @audrasjb (13), @sergeybiryukov (9), @hellofromtonya (5), @davidbaumwald (4), @desrosj (4), @ryelle (3), @jorgefilipecosta (2), and @noisysocks (1).

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

webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 9:52 pm on January 5, 2022
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Dev Chat Summary, January 5, 2022

Meeting start on 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/..

1. Welcome

Agenda

2. Announcements

Trunk is now open for 6.0-alpha, which means 6.0 is now underway!

WordPress 5.9 Release Candidate 1 is available.  Please download and test! You can reshare and encourage others to take part in testing RC1 on social media: Twitter, Facebook.

Help test WordPress 5.9 features

Read the latest Developer Notes

3. Blogblog (versus network, site) posts to note

Post by @audrasjb: A year in core (December 29, 2021)

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/:

A Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.: January 3, 2022 and December 27, 2021

Reminder of the revised 5.9 release schedule.

Join the discussion on 2022 release planning (December 27, 2021 post by @chanthaboune)

Proposal: Approving custom block pattern directory submissions (posted January 4, feedback by January 14, 2022)

If you’re wondering what performance improvements are slated for WordPress 5.9, @annezazu shares a post published today that gathers them all together. “Hope it helps get you excited about even speedier performance whether you’re writing a new post or hoping to improve the experience of visitors to your site.”

4. Update on the upcoming release

a) Update from @hellofromtonya

Thank you to everyone who contributed to 5.9! This is a big release with a lot of moving parts. Each you made it happen. Thank you! 

Let’s start with RC1 and what that means.

5.9 is now in the 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 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).) cycle. What does this mean? I gave a rundown of the main highlights in this message on Slack.

The biggies of what it means:

 A hard string freeze or a hard freeze is announced when all the strings of the upcoming release are frozen including the strings of the About page. A hard freeze is the final string freeze before a release.

  • Any changes to source code will require a dev-feedback keyword and 2 core committers review with the keyword dev-reviewed.

Focus during the remaining RC cycle is on any regressions or blockers that get reported.

The milestone itself has been cleared, meaning all tickets cleared both in Gutenberg and Core.

What remains then are new things reported (during the RC) and 2 tickets for the About and Dashboard Welcome. Everything else is either closed or punted to 5.9.1 or 6.0.

RC1 also means that trunk is now open for 6.0-alpha. For 6.0, tickets marked early can move forward and get committed for early feedback, testing, and soak time. This includes some of the work reverted in 5.9 that needed more time and were punted to 6.0.

What can you do in 5.9?
Test test test. And reach out into the community to encourage feedback, testing, and folks to update and prepare their themes and plugins for 5.9.

b) A request from both the marketing and training teams

Update from @webcommsat

Volunteers are needed to help with input and checking on social media posts on 5.9 release and to write/ update materials for Learn WordPress.

You can find more about what is needed for Training in this sprint post. Get involved through the Training Team Slack channel.

If you can help give input about features which could be highlighted in social media posts and feedback on what you would want to be sharing about 5.9, get involved through the Marketing Team’s Slack channel and work on this sheet. Please let Abha know and one of the Marketing Team will be able to help with links and access.

There are further marcomms and training joint sessions on the release taking place during the next two weeks. All dates are listed in the comments on today’s dev chat agenda or on this GitHub card.

5. Calls for volunteers

  • Test: help test the WordPress 5.9 RC1 – tips and how to above
  • Training Team: need urgent help to update/ produce materials on 5.9 for Learn WordPress (more details above)
  • Marketing Team: need dev input and your favorite features of 5.9 to incorporate into generic asocial media posts on the release (more details above)
  • Notetakers for the weekly developers chat in Core. Put your name down for a future week. There’s help available and another experienced core contributor will proof notes, so you’re not on your own.

Props to @webcommsat for the agenda and the notes, and @audrasjb for reviewing. Props to @marybaum @hellofromtonya and @webcommsat for facilitating dev chat.

#5-9, #dev-chat, #week-in-core

Jb Audras 10:23 am on January 4, 2022
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A Week in Core – January 3, 2022

Welcome back to a new issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Let’s take a look at what changed on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between December 27, 2021 and January 3, 2022.

  • 17 commits
  • 21 contributors
  • 34 tickets created
  • 1 tickets reopened
  • 23 tickets closed

The Core team is currently working on the next major release, WordPress 5.9 🛠

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

Code changes

Build/Test Tools

  • Update PHPCompatibilityWP to version 2.1.3 – #54711

Bundled Themes

  • Twenty Twenty-Two: Sync updates from GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ for 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). 1 – #54318

Coding Standards

  • Use strict comparison in wp-admin/options-reading.php – #53359
  • Use strict comparison in wp-admin/options.php – #53359

Docs

  • Further corrections and improvements to the inline documentation for wpdb – #53399, #54610
  • Miscellaneous inline documentation improvements – #53399

Editor

  • Update wordpress packages for WP 5.9 RC 1 – #54487

External Libraries

  • Update jQuery hoverIntent to version 1.10.2 – #54722, #51812

General

  • Bump the recommended MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com/. and MariaDB versions in readme.html – #41490, #meta5999
  • Happy New Year! 🎄 – Update copyright year to 2022 in license.txt and bundled themes

Login and registration

  • Rename login_language_switcher_args to login_language_dropdown_args – #54696
  • Rename two filters related to language dropdown for better consistency – #54696

Plugins

  • Escape 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/ 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 page URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org in the Plugin Installation modal – #54362

RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision.

  • Improve _set_preview for case when autosave is missing – #54708

Tests

  • Add a 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. for the recommended MariaDB version in readme.html – #41490
  • Correct the check for the recommended MySQL version in readme.html – #41490

Users

  • Use the “Posts” post type general name to contextualize the string used in Users posts count column label – #54712

Props

Thanks to the 21 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week: @SergeyBiryukov (4), @audrasjb (3), @hellofromTonya (2), @titsmaker (1), @henrywright (1), @dimadin (1), @Presskopp (1), @chintan1896 (1), @JavierCasares (1), @jrf (1), @jdy68 (1), @richtabor (1), @kjellr (1), @faisal03 (1), @Clorith (1), @mukesh27 (1), @kebbet (1), @Mamaduka (1), @walbo (1), @adamsilverstein (1), and @aezazshekh (1).

Congrats and welcome to our new contributor of the week: @titsmaker ♥️

Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (8), @audrasjb (5), @johnbillion (2), @noisysocks (1), and @hellofromtonya (1).

#5-9, #core, #meta5999, #week-in-core

Jb Audras 10:45 pm on December 29, 2021
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A Year in Core – 2021

Here’s some aggregate data for 2021 about WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contribution on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.. Please note: it only include code contributions and it does not include contributions on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ repositories like 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/.

The raw data for this post are on this public spreadsheet. You might find that easier to read if you have low vision or colorblindness; the graphics below are a snapshot pulled together to include as much information as possible in this blogpost.

General Trac overview

In 2021, the WordPress Core team shipped 1852 commits. 2797 tickets were opened, 2732 tickets were closed, and 408 were reopened.

Also, 2572 people contributed to WordPress source code using Trac, and 305 people made their very first contribution to WordPress Core ♥️

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulaugSepOctNovDecTotal
Commits6217511097142286174175103573271441852
Tickets closed236315372147182355248210157882711512732
Tickets reopened263345212537773622193136408
Tickets created2002803711771973202882971611261901902797
New contributors144314223537151218147110305
Contributors120229165117280400154132156905551742572
This chart can be scrolled horizontally

Check out the Trac timeline in the graph below:

Here’s how many props and new contributors the Core project had per month. The most prolific month was November, in the WordPress 5.9 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. cycle, followed by June (WP 5.8 beta cycle).

Components activity

How did 2021’s commits break out by Core Component?

The most prolific components were:

  • Build/Test Tools with 310 commits (17% of all listed commits)
  • Docs with 198 commits (11% of all listed commits)
  • Editor with 188 commits (10.5% of all listed commits)
  • Bundled Themes with 144 commits (8% of all listed commits)
  • Coding Standards with 140 commits (8% of all listed commits)
  • Then comes Media, 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/., Code Modernization, External Librairies, Administration, Upgrade/Install, Site Health and Posts/Post Types. The other components each had fewer than 30 commits this year.

Data fetched from 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/ profiles

The data below comes from matching contributors’ usernames, as mentioned in Trac props, with their profiles on WordPress.org. One caveat: usernames that did not match a profile on dotorg, or that left blank their country/company information, filled in non-exploitable info got ignored. After all, “The Universe” or “The place to be” are not known countries 😆

Contributions by country

The next graph shows the number of props received by country. The top eight countries, based on the number of props received, are these:

  • United States with 1142 contributions
  • France with 266 contributions
  • Russia with 227 contributions
  • The Netherlands with 225 contributions
  • India with 219 contributions
  • Australia with 211 contributions
  • United Kingdom with 112 contributions
  • Canada with 102 contributions

Contributors (people) by country

In 2021, people from more than 56 countries contributed to WordPress Core.

The top eight countries by contributions, expressed as the number of props received, are:

  • United States with 155 people
  • India with 58 people
  • United Kingdom with 34 people
  • France with 26 people
  • Germany with 23 people
  • The Netherlands with 20 people
  • Canada with 16 people
  • Australia with 15 people

Contributions by company

In 2021, people from at least 236 companies contributed to WP Core.

These companies each contributed (well, their people did) to more than 50 commits:

  • Automattic with 785 contributions
  • Yoast with 379 contributions
  • Whodunit with 215 contributions
  • Advies en zo with 191 contributions
  • Bluehost with 146 contributions
  • Human Made with 131 contributions
  • Google with 87 contributions
  • iThemes with 73 contributions
  • Dekode Interaktiv with 52 contributions

Contributors (people) by company

The graph below is also interesting, because it shows that a huge number of companies have only one contributor—or a very few contributors. The exceptions are Automattic, with 85 core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. https://core.trac.wordpress.org. on Trac in 2021, Yoast (18 contributors) and 10up. Only those three companies had more than ten people credited on Trac in 2021.

What did 2021 hold for Core Committers?

33 Core Committers committed code to the WordPress SVNSVN Subversion, the popular version control system (VCS) by the Apache project, used by WordPress to manage changes to its codebase. repository this year:

@sergeybiryukov (729), @desrosj (272), @hellofromtonya (159), @johnbillion (93), @peterwilsoncc (86), @ryelle (61), @audrasjb (59), @noisysocks (54), @joedolson (46), @gziolo (42), @timothyblynjacobs (38), @youknowriad (38), @davidbaumwald (31), @antpb (26), @whyisjake (20), @jorbin (19), @azaozz (18), @jorgefilipecosta (15), @johnjamesjacoby (13), @ocean90 (12), @clorith (10), @spacedmonkey (9), @adamsilverstein (8), @flixos90 (7), @jffng (6), @pento (6), @iandunn (5), @mikeschroder (4), @westonruter (4), @joemcgill (3), @rachelbaker (2), @isabel_brison (2), and @swissspidy (1).

Of the 1852 commits, 729 were made by people working at Yoast, 426 from employees of Automattic, and 272 came from Bluehost people:

Thanks to @marybaum for the copy review and to @flixos90 and @adamsilverstein for proofreading.

#contributions, #contributors, #team-update, #week-in-core, #year-in-core

Jb Audras 12:06 pm on December 28, 2021
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A Week in Core – December 27, 2021

Welcome back to a new issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Let’s take a look at what changed on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between December 20 and December 27, 2021.

  • 28 commits
  • 45 contributors
  • 36 tickets created
  • 1 tickets reopened
  • 25 tickets closed

The Core team is currently working on the next major release, WordPress 5.9, and the beta 4 was released last week 🛠

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

Code changes

Administration

  • Add “File” to Theme/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 Editor menu names and relocate “Plugin File Editor” to Tools for 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. themes – #54382
  • Make sure the $customize_url variable is always defined in the adminadmin (and super admin) menu – #54682

Application Passwords

  • Show 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. required message without filtering when not enabled or not in local environment – #53658

Build/Test Tools

  • Allow the PHPCSPHP Code Sniffer PHP Code Sniffer, a popular tool for analyzing code quality. The WordPress Coding Standards rely on PHPCS. plugin in Composer configuration – #54686
  • Restore the https URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org for browserify-aes – #54487
  • Separate the tests for recommended PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher and MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com/. versions in readme.html – #41490

Bundled Themes

  • Twenty Twenty-Two: Sync updates from GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ for 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. 4 – #54318

Coding Standards

Docs

  • Improve the @since 5.9.0 note for WP_Theme_JSON::PRESETS_METADATA – #53399

Docs

  • Typo correction in validate_file() comments – #53399
  • Typo correction in wp_dropdown_languages() DocBlockdocblock (phpdoc, xref, inline docs) – #53399
  • Typo correction in wp_get_layout_style() introduced in 5.9 – #53399

Editor

  • Add edit_theme_options capabilities to wp_navigation post type – #54487
  • Add missing default template areas to the post/page editor settings – #54679
  • Add support for nameless font sizes in WP_Theme_JSON – #54640, #54487
  • Explicitly declare $post_types and $area properties in WP_Block_Template class – #54670
  • Update wordpress packages for Beta 4 – #54487

External Libraries

  • Update the SimplePie library to version 1.5.7 – #54659
  • Update the SimplePie library to version 1.5.8 – #54659

General

  • Fix 'rel' argument in Tests_Functions_wpListBookmarks test datasets – #53839

Login and Registration

  • Use secondary button style for the Language switcher – #54692
  • Add a 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. to allow to disable the Login screen language dropdown – #54675

Plugins

  • Escape 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/ plugin page URL in the Plugin Installation modal – #54362

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 . in theme directory names in WP_REST_Global_Styles_Controller, WP_REST_Templates_Controller, and WP_REST_Themes_Controller – #54596

Script Loader

  • Skip getting 'can_compress_scripts' option in script_concat_settings() during install – #54634

Toolbar

  • Show the Customize link on front end when using a block theme if any plugins use the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. – #54683

Props

Thanks to the 45 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week: @costdev (7), @hellofromTonya (8), @SergeyBiryukov (5), @audrasjb (5), @jrf (4), @johnbillion (3), @spacedmonkey (2), @schlessera (2), @david.binda (2), @pbiron (2), @ocean90 (2), @marybaum (1), @walbo (1), @youknowriad (1), @rickcurran (1), @TimothyBlynJacobs (1), @ntsekouras (1), @get_dave (1), @joyously (1), @bijayyadav (1), @kafleg (1), @felipeelia (1), @williampatton (1), @manfcarlo (1), @chintan1896 (1), @joen (1), @Mamaduka (1), @dimadin (1), @henry.wright (1), @aezazshekh (1), @rainbowgeek (1), @afragen (1), @sabernhardt (1), @faisal03 (1), @gziolo (1), @jameskoster (1), @poena (1), @annezazu (1), @clorith (1), @courane01 (1), @dryanpress (1), @desrosj (1), @Presskopp (1), @ipstenu (1), and @kjellr (1).

Congrats and welcome to our 5 new contributors of the week: @rickcurran, @bijayyadav, @manfcarlo, @aezazshekh, @rainbowgeek ♥️

Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (12), @hellofromtonya (8), @audrasjb (6), @isabel_brison (1), and @jffng (1).

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

marybaum 5:14 pm on December 22, 2021
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Dev Chat agenda for 22 December 2021

Announcements

The WordPress 5.9 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. 4 has landed. Please download and test! 

Blogblog (versus network, site) posts of note

Beta 4 fixes 20 bugs that surfaced in Beta 3. Please test them and report your findings on the announcement post.

What’s new in Gutenberg 12.2?

@audrasjb has the latest issue of A Week in Core.

Here is the revised release schedule.

And please join the discussion @chanthaboune has started on 2022 release planning.

Got other posts that should get the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team’s attention? Please add them in the comments.

Upcoming releases

The current upcoming 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. is version 5.9.

RC1 is set to release on 4th January and means two things:

Hard string freeze, including all the strings for the About page.

And 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. branches to 6.0 alpha, so if you have a feature you’d like to see in the next major version, this is the time to start on it!

Component Maintainers

From now until launch, devchat will skip a formal check-in so the group can have a longer Open Floor. If you’re a maintainer who’d like to get help with a blockerblocker A bug which is so severe that it blocks a release. or share success, add your item to the comments.

Open Floor

Add your topic to the comments, and enjoy priority for your topic at the beginning of Open Floor.

See you Wednesday at 20:00 UTC!

#agenda, #core, #dev-chat

#agenda, #dev-chat

#agenda, #core, #dev-chat, #week-in-core

Jb Audras 12:03 am on December 21, 2021
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A Week in Core – December 20, 2021

Welcome back to a new issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Let’s take a look at what changed on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between December 13 and December 20, 2021.

  • 31 commits
  • 44 contributors
  • 57 tickets created
  • 6 tickets reopened
  • 42 tickets closed

The Core team is currently working on the next major release, WordPress 5.9, and the beta 3 was released last week 🛠

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

Code changes

Build/Test Tools

  • Reduce the use of unnecessary randomness in tests – #37371
  • Remove the assertion in filter_rest_url_for_leading_slash() – #54661
  • Add an assertion to test the WP_REST_Server::add_site_logo_to_index() method – #53516, #53363
  • Add unit tests for theme features that 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. themes should support by default – #54597
  • Fix typo in a data provider name – #53363
  • Fix typo in a test method name – #53363
  • Mock the HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. request response in download_url() tests – #54420, #53363
  • Move the tests for theme features that block themes should support by default to a more appropriate place – #54597
  • Use shared fixtures in block theme tests – #53363

Bundled Themes

  • Twenty Twenty-Two: Sync updates from GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ for 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. 3 – #54318
  • Twenty Twenty-Two: Sync updates from GitHub for Beta 4 – #54318

Customize

  • Customize: Overlay incompatible banner for block themes – #54549

Database

  • Correct and improve documentation for properties and parameters in wpdb – #53399

Docs

  • Capitalize “ID”, when referring to a widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. ID or 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. ID, in a more consistent way – #53399
  • Typo correction in TinyMCE related JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. file – #53399
  • Typo correction in wp_dropdown_languages() DocBlockdocblock (phpdoc, xref, inline docs) – #53399
  • Use generic references to “Database” in wp-config-sample.php – #54610

Editor

  • Activate missing default theme features for block themes – #54597
  • Add “Featured” patterns from pattern directory to Patterns in block inserter – #54623
  • Update @wordpress packages – #54487
  • 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. custom block templates with PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher – #54335

External Libraries

  • Update the SimplePie library to version 1.5.7 – #54659

Formatting

  • Use is_scalar() in sanitize_key() – #54160

Media

  • Fix selections in Media Library 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. modal on open – #53765

Posts, Post Types

  • Add missing translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. context on FSE related post types labels – #54611

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/.

  • Add block theme support for valid non-alphanumeric characters in theme’s directory name – #54596
  • Ensure that the get_theme_item method should respect fields param – #54595
  • Ensure that the parent link, uses the rest_get_route_for_post function – #53656

Script Loader

  • Fix deprecated usage of passing null to explode() – #53635

Site Health

  • Typo correction in Site Health help tab – #54656

Themes

  • Rename public static functions in WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver to remove custom_post_type references – #54517

Props

Thanks to the 44 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week: @hellofromTonya (11), @costdev (6), @noisysocks (4), @youknowriad (4), @SergeyBiryukov (4), @audrasjb (3), @peterwilsoncc (3), @ocean90 (2), @oandregal (2), @antonvlasenko (2), @spacedmonkey (2), @jffng (2), @desrosj (2), @jrf (2), @kjellr (2), @sabernhardt (2), @pedromendonca (1), @mamaduka (1), @Ov3rfly (1), @schlessera (1), @williampatton (1), @wppunk (1), @shaunandrews (1), @poena (1), @joyously (1), @bernhard-reiter (1), @johnillo (1), @scruffian (1), @joen (1), @szaqal21 (1), @onemaggie (1), @TimothyBlynJacobs (1), @benitolopez (1), @justinahinon (1), @joedolson (1), @mkaz (1), @ryelle (1), @circlecube (1), @danielbachhuber (1), @ignatggeorgiev (1), @PieWP (1), @sergeybiryukov (1), @dariak (1), and @Spacedmonkey (1).

Congrats and welcome to our 3 new contributors of the week: @wppunk, @johnillo, @ignatggeorgiev ♥️

Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (10), @audrasjb (6), @hellofromtonya (5), @johnbillion (3), @jffng (2), @spacedmonkey (2), @noisysocks (2), and @isabel_brison (1).

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