Hosting Meeting Notes: October 14, 2019

This is the summary of the meeting in #hosting-community on Slack Monday, October 14, 2019, at 1400 UTC (Slack archive).

Attendees: @codexdemon @redituk @mikeschroder

Team Agenda

The only agenda was to connect about WordPress 5.3.

WordPress 5.3 Testing

The 5.3 Release CandidateRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. is out now, and has many changes.

As a couple of examples for testing, @mikeschroder pointed out that for upgrades, the JSON extension will now be required, and there have been many changes with regards to media uploads.

The field guide will be released soon, but in the meantime you can see dev notes here.

Open Floor

@codexdemon requested an update on what’s next for @antpb / the team’s work on the hostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. page project. @mikeschroder wasn’t sure the exact plan, but asked async in the channel, and mentioned that he thought folks would reconnect around the time of WCUS.

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be in #hosting-community on Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 1700 UTC. Hope to see you then!

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