Core Team Update – December 4, 2023 – Team Updates

Overview

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. and svn):
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/:

Gutenberg releases:
- 17.1.4 on Dec 1st.
- 17.1.3 on Nov 27th.
- 17.2.0 RC1 on Nov 29th.
- For more information on 17.1, see What’s new in Gutenberg 17.1 (22 November).
6.4 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.:
- Release Managers: mostly identified and should know who soon.
- Work is underway to triage and resolve reported issues:
- 2 bugs were fixed and committed to the 6.4 branch for 6.4.2 release.
6.5 major release:
- Current development phase: Early Alpha.
- Bug scrubs: Happened on Tuesday, Nov 28th.
- Early draft of the Roadmap to 6.5.
- Core Trac:
  - 13 commits
  - 250 open tickets:
    - 144 defects / bugs
    - 82 enhancements and feature requests
  - 9 early tickets
- Gutenberg:
  - 87 tasks in the Editor tasks board.

Feedback is requested on the following:

Check out some recent design shares around improving the styles panel in the Site Editor and better distinguishing template vs content editing.
Explore some early proof of concept PRs for partial sync patterns, DataViews: implement multiple selection in filters (two big projects for 6.5) along with Post Editor: Use the post-only mode introduced by the site editor and Site Editor: Apply the right post content layout in the “post only” mode (help align Site Editor & Post Editor).
Review a discussion around changing the order of the sidebar items in the Site Editor (and why it might make more sense in the future with improved blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. theme switching!).