Overview
- Core DevChat held on Oct 11th.
- Editor chat held on Oct 11th (agenda).
- 6.3.2 release moved 1 day “to accommodate the need for hosts to deal with an important curl 8.4.0 security release “.
- 6.4 experiment continues: commit freeze 1 hour before release party start time.
Releases
- 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:
- 6.3 minor releases:
- 🏁 6.3.2 released on Oct 12th – 19 bug fixes and 8 security fixes.
- 6.3.2 is the last planned 6.3 minor releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality..
- Code Activity:
- 11 Core commits (-1 from last week).
- 4 Trac tickets closed (-4 from last week).
- 4 commits into Gutenberg’s wp/6.3 branch (+4 from last week).
- 6.4 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..
- 🏁 Unscheduled Beta 4 released on Oct 12th in response to 6.3.2 Maintenance and Security release.
- 🏁 Beta 3 released on Oct 10th:
- 60 updates including 29 TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets.
- Font Library punted to 6.5 as it’s not ready yet and needs more time.
- Bug Scrub: 2 scrubs held on Oct 11th and Oct 12th.
- Code Activity:
- 58 Core commits (+20 from last week).
- 37 Trac tickets closed (+21 from last week).
- 9 commits into Gutenberg’s wp/6.4 branch (+8 from last week).
- 125 commits into TT4 repository (+44 from last week).
Highlights:
None this week.