Overview
- Core DevChat held on Jul 12th.
- Editor chat held on Jul 12th.
- New Contributor meeting held on Jul 5th.
Code Overview
- CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.: A Week in Core (TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. and svn):
- 78 commits by 15 committers.
- 135 contributors including 23 new contributors.
- 61 Trac tickets created.
- 12 Trac tickets reopened.
- 70 Trac tickets closed.
- 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/:
Releases
- Gutenberg releases:
- 🏁 16.2.1 released on Jul 13th with 1 enhancement and 1 bug fix.
- 🏁 16.2.0 released on Jul 12th.
- 🏁 16.2.0 RC3 released on Jul 10th (no production changes).
- 🏁 16.2.0 RC2 released on Jul 10th with 6 bug fixes.
- 6.3 major release:
- Current development phase: 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..
- 🏁 6.3.0 Beta 4 released on Jul 11th, includes 40+ (Editor) and 60+ (Trac) fixes.
- Bug Scrubs: held on Jul 10th, Jul 11th, Jul 12th, and Jul 13th.
- Code Activity:
Highlights:
- PHP 5 support dropped in 6.3 Beta 4.
- Phase 3: Real-time Collaboration: architecture, which shares the proposed technical architecture to implement real-time collaboration in WP Admin (Post and Site editors).
- What’s new for developers? (July 2023)
- Phase 3: Collaboration Roadmap:
- Block Library published on Jul 10th.
- Admin Design published on Jul 12th.