May 11th Support Team Meeting Summary

Announcements

• We’ve re-allowed clients on IRC using TOR proxies, as we now have better tools to moderate anonymous connections
• WordPress 4.8 is scheduled to ship betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 tomorrow (Friday May 12th) if all goes as planned

WordPress 4.7.4

• There’s been a public disclosure of a possible security concern to some users, a good writeup of the trifecta required for it to be applicable is available on the pagely blogpost about it
• Plugin names are missing from the WordPress dashboard views after a recent Chrome update, a ticket exists with Chrome as a possible regression

Checkin with International Support Liaisons

• The Russian, Italian, Portuguese and German support communities are doing well.

Open floor

• A request to make WPBot (on IRC) automatically handle users with foul language was put forth, and will be carried out at our earliest convenience, but by the end of next week at the latest

Attendance

@clorith, @contentiskey, @vishalmukadam, @bcworkz, @vitormadeira, @erricgunawan, @cristianozanca, @t-p, @sterndata, @zoonini, @bdbrown, @sergeybiryukov, @kidsguide, @otto42, @liamdempsey, @tnash, @pmfonseca, @zodiac1978 and @ketuchetan attended.

Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)

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