Core Team Update – November 13, 2023

Overview

• WordPress 6.4 “Shirley” shipped 🎉.
• DevChat was cancelled for Nov 8th.
• New Contributors meeting was cancelled for Nov 8th.
• Super fast 6.4.1 minor shipped, within approximately 9 hours from the first bug report.

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:
  • 🏁 17.0.1 released on Nov 10th.
  • 🏁 16.9.1 released on Nov 10th.
  • 🏁 17.0.0 released on Nov 9th.
• 6.4 minor releases:
  • 🏁 A super fast 6.4.1 shipped on Nov 9th and included 4 bug fixes (see reasoning and timeline).
  • Gutenberg: merged 1 PR into wp/6.4 branch.
• 6.4 major release:
  • 🏁 Shipped on Nov 7th
• 6.5 major release:
  • Current development phase: Early Alpha.
  • Bug scrubs: held on Nov 14th.
  • Core Trac:
    • 23 commits.
    • 174 open tickets:
      • 106 defects / bugs.
      • 68 enhancements, feature requests, and blessed tasks.
    • 8 early tickets (no change from last week).

Highlights:

• WordPress 6.4.1 Rapid Maintenance Release: Technical Details and Timeline.
• Core Committers agreed to a commit message format including the usage of the word props, usernames for props, and the order backport lines. The handbook was updated.
• Proposal: 2024 Major Release Timing.
• WordPress 6.4 Accessibility Improvements.
• A proposal to cancel the weekly Core Editor chat.

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