Information Sources for 6.3

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With every release comes a need to revise and create content on LearnWP. You can help. Here’s a list of what is ready for us to prepare for the release.

When assessing what content will need to be updated and revised for LearnWP, these are sources of information.

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Announcements:

• WordPress 6.3 RC1
• WordPress 6.3 Beta 4
• WordPress 6.3 Beta 3
• WordPress 6.3 Beta 2
• WordPress 6.3 Beta 1 postponed
• 6.3 Release Parties Schedule and hosts
• Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.3
• WordPress 6.3 Planning Roundup
• Roadmap to 6.3

Source of Truth

WordPress 6.3 Source of Truth

GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that 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/ Labels

Not all of these are related to

• Needs User Docs
• Needs Dev Docs

Core DevNotes

• DevNotes tracking GitHub Issue
• WordPress 6.3 Field Guide
• Introducing the Block Selectors API
• Introducing the WordPress Command Palette API
• Layout updates in the editor for WordPress 6.3
• Social Icons block: Applied colors now dynamically update based on theme.json and Global Styles
• Miscellaneous Editor changes in WordPress 6.3
• Bundled themes dropping Internet Explorer scripts and styles
• Improvements to the Cache API in WordPress 6.3
• Configuring development mode in 6.3
• I18N Improvements in 6.3
• Image performance enhancements in WordPress 6.3
• Improvements to the metadata API in WordPress 6.3
• WP_Query used internally in get_pages()
• Registering scripts with `async` and `defer` attributes in WordPress 6.3
• New in 6.3: Rollback for failed manual plugin and theme updates
• Improved Caching for Database Queries in WP_User_Query
• Miscellaneous developer changes in WordPress 6.3

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/

Changelogs (on Core)

• What’s new in Gutenberg 15.2? (22 February)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 15.3? (13 March)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 15.4 (22 March)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 15.5? (05 April)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 15.6? (19 April)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 15.7? (03 May)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 15.8? (May 17)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 15.9? (31 May)
• Gutenberg 15.9.1 is now available
• What’s new in Gutenberg 16.0? (14 June)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 16.1? (29 June)

TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/.:

• Core Trac 6.3 Milestone
• Milestone 6.3, Keywords needs-docs or needs-user-docs
• Gutenberg-Merge

Editor Team:

• Editor tasks GitHub Project Board

Docs team:

• Docs WP 6.3 GitHub Project Board

Design team:

• Design GitHub Project Board

Training / LearnWP Project

• Issue labeled 6.3
• LearnWP Content Development Project View for WP 6.2

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. Extended

We revise content ahead of release while preserving the current content until release. Think of it as a Pull Request that ships on release day. Here’s how we do that: