Core Team Update – October 30, 2023

Overview

• Core DevChat held on Oct 25th.
• Editor chat skipped this week.
• New Contributor meeting held on Oct 25th.

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:
  • 🏁 16.9.0 released on Oct 25th.
• 6.4 major release:
  • Current development phase: RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge..
  • 🏁 6.4 RC2 shipped on Oct 24 with 25 issues resolved.
  • Bug scrubs: none this week.
  • Field Guide: published on Oct 23rd.
  • Code Activity:
    • 20 Core commits (-6 from last week).
    • 21 Trac tickets closed (-25 from last week).
    • 6 commits into Gutenberg’s wp/6.4 branch (+2 from last week).
    • 31 commits into TT4 repository (-15 from last week).
• 6.5 major release:
  • Current development phase: Early Alpha.
  • Core Trac:
    • 24 commits (-16 from last week).
    • 138 open tickets (+12 from last week).
      • 87 defects / bugs.
      • 51 enhancements, feature requests, and blessed tasks.
    • 7 early tickets (no change from last week).

Highlights:

• Summary and Insights of Phase 3 related conversations.
• During DevChat, this Community Summit session was highlighted: Community Summit Discussion Notes: Aligning processes and contributions between WordPress Core and Gutenberg.

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