Overview
- Core DevChat held on Oct 18th.
- Editor chat held on Oct 18th.
- 6.4 began the 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. (RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge.) phase.
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:
- 6.4 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. (beginning of the week), now in RC.
- 🏁 6.4 RC1 shipped on Oct 17th, shifting the release into the RC cycle.
- Bug Scrub: held on Oct 16th.
- Code Activity:
- 6.4 branched on Oct 17th.
- 26 Core commits (-32 from last week).
- 46 Trac tickets closed (+9 from last week).
- 4 commits into Gutenberg’s wp/6.4 branch (-5 from last week).
- 46 commits into TT4 repository (X from last week).
- 6.5 major release:
- Opened for business on Oct 17th (as
trunkbecame 6.5-alpha). - Current development phase: Early Alpha.
- Opened for business on Oct 17th (as
Highlights:
- WordPress 6.4 Release Candidate Phase – which shares the commit policies during the RC phase including the hard string freeze, tickets that can be put on the 6.4 milestone, backporting to the 6.4 branch, and trunk now 6.5-alpha.
- Changes to e2e tests: WordPress core is now using Playwright for all browser-based tests.