Hello and welcome to another edition of Week in Test, the place where contributors of any skill level can find opportunities to contribute to WordPress through testing. You can find the Test Team in #core-test.

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Calls for Testing 📣

Calls for Testing can originate from any team, from themes to mobile apps to feature plugins. The following posts highlight features and releases that need special attention:

• Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 1
• Early Opportunities to Test WordPress 6.5
• Bug scrub schedule for WordPress 6.5

Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠

Weekly update: Test Team Update: 19 February 2024

Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions.

Did you know that contributions to the Test Team are also a fantastic way to level up your WordPress knowledge and skill? Dive in to contribute and gain coveted props 😎 for a coming release.

Reproduction Testing 🔁

Who? Any contributor.
Why? It is helpful to show an issue exists for other users in order to move a ticket forward for patching.

The following new tickets are awaiting review, and need testers to attempt to reproduce the reported issue (aka “repro”), and then provide a reproduction test report with the results:

• #60502 remove_function method removing next priority action too while removing current priority
• #60505 Column names in wpdb->insert aren’t sanitized.
• #60503 MySQL VALUES function deprecated in MySQL 8
• #60519 Link widget always displays rating
• #60526 Comment fields filter missing
• #60529 Filter to disable “password reset”
• #60530 Console log showing Updated Block: core/heading
• #60534 NOTICE script should not be enqueued together with the new widgets editor
• #60531 TypeError: t.substr is not a function
• #60552 Add hook to WP_Sitemaps::render_sitemaps()
• #60556 Link Box Half Off Left Side Of Screen
• #60557 Elements: Fix block instance element styles for links applying to buttons
• #60559 Widgets moved by calling the sidebars endpoint
• #60560 Twenty Ninteen – Group block font size is not applied to pullquote.
• #60548 Image editor: improve the browsePopup function
• #60564 download_url() always returns error_code ‘http_404’ for any non-200 responses
• #60567 Block editor crushed

Patch Testing 🩹

Who? All contributors (not just developers) who can set up a local testing environment.
Why? It is necessary to apply proposed patches and test per the testing instructions in order to validate that a patch fixes the issue.

The following tickets have been reviewed and a patch provided, and need testers to apply the patch and manually test, then provide feedback through a patch test report:

• #52294 add_editor_style: Allow replacing a style with an RTL version
• #59043 the_excerpt() function return excerpt with different length in page load and ajax request on WordPress 6.3
• #44958 &nbsp character in title generates a permalink (and slug) with space
• #51358 Add a clearer warning message before deleting a site from a network
• #60435 Footnotes Icon not showing for TT4 on Mac OS Sonoma 14.3 and Safari 17.3
• #49787 Twenty Nineteen: Highlight text color isn’t reflected in the editor
• #59688 Add descriptions to patterns in bundled themes
• #60398 WordPress 6.4.3 MacOS Compressed Zip plugin archives “Incompatible Archive” on upload
• #60472 Improve the `plugin_missing_dependencies` error message
• #39827 notice in wp-includes/canonical.php:392
• #17379 Filtered exports drop attachments and featured images
• #59922 Twenty Nineteen is using CSS selectors that are no longer used in the editor
• #58973 Unwanted Section appears in the sidebar of Media Library after go back from Edit Image
• #60520 Update `precommit:emoji` following GitHub’s deprecation of SVN support.
• #43904 Media toolbar spacing inconsistent across views
• #27914 Information about image is jumping in media modal
• #46550 Uncaught TypeError: setcookie() expects parameter 5 to be string, bool given in…
• #49950 Twenty Twenty (1.2) Horizontal menu – Submenu
• #55991 Twenty Twenty One: Unable to change size in Quote block
• #60411 Parent theme wrongly missing (till 6.5-alpha-57505)
• #58479 Add notice if no posts are selected in Bulk Edit
• #59712 `WP_Ugrader` doesn’t check source and destination variable types, is missing a string.
• #60524 Cropping site icon should preserve attachment properties
• #59402 Plugin cannot be uninstalled if uninstall crashes

PHPUnit Tests 🛟

Who? Any QA or PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. developer contributors who can (or are interested in learning how to) build automated PHPUnit tests.
Why? Automated tests improve the software development feedback loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. for quality and backward compatibility.

The following 6.5 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:

• #18408 Can’t wp_reset_postdata after custom WP_Query in an admin edit page
• #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
• #54516 Full site editing/REST-API: modify permission checks to use post type.
• #17904 Multisite has more restrictions on user login character set
• #59774 Undefined array key when using wp_list_pluck function
• #60299 Default assignment of `use_ssl` user meta value causes unnecessary DB write.

6.5 Related issues need testing

The following 6.5 tickets need testing those are having patches:

• #60472 Improve the `plugin_missing_dependencies` error message
• #17379 Filtered exports drop attachments and featured images
• #59922 Twenty Nineteen is using CSS selectors that are no longer used in the editor
• #58973 Unwanted Section appears in the sidebar of Media Library after go back from Edit Image
• #60520 Update `precommit:emoji` following GitHub’s deprecation of SVN support.
• #43904 Media toolbar spacing inconsistent across views
• #27914 Information about image is jumping in media modal
• #58087 Fix the ‘data’ dynamic property in WP_Term
• #55991 Twenty Twenty One: Unable to change size in Quote block
• #60411 Parent theme wrongly missing (till 6.5-alpha-57505)
• #45714 Allow all valid email formats when editing accounts in the dashboard
• #59712 `WP_Ugrader` doesn’t check source and destination variable types, is missing a string.
• #60524 Cropping site icon should preserve attachment properties

Profile Badge Awards 🎉

Test Contributor badge awarded to the following WordPress users:
Congratulations 🎉 @akshayar, @pbiron, @shailu25, @zunaid321, @sakibsnaz, @vipuljnext, @gajendrasingh, @lumiblog, @tejwanihemant, @mmaattiiaass, @jamieblomerus, @hardiksharma

Test team badge to the following WordPress users. They are the Test Leads for the WP 6.5 version:
Congratulations 🎉 @oglekler, @lumiblog, @vipuljnext

Read/Watch/Listen 🔗

• Excited to know what is coming to the next WordPress version. Checkout: WordPress 6.5 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.
• Read 2023 Annual Survey Results and Next Steps
• Next contributor mentorship pro program is announced, checkout the Second Cohort (2024 Q1) of the WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program
• Learn what unfolds next: Data Liberation Next Steps

Upcoming Meetings 🗓

🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.

2024 Schedule:

• Tuesday, 20 February 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-triage> in #core-test.
• Tuesday, 27 February 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-chat> in #core-test.

Interested in hosting a <test-scrub>? Test Team needs you! Check out Leading Bug Scrubs for details, or inquire in #core-test for more info.

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