Core Team Update – December 11, 2023

Overview

• 2024 Team Rep nominations remain open until Dec 14.
• DevChat held last Wednesday, Dec 6th (agenda).

Code 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):
  • 22 commits.
  • 39 new tickets opened.
  • 45 tickets closed.
• 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/:
  • 105 commits to trunk.
  • 40 new issues opened.
  • 47 issues closed.

Releases

• Gutenberg releases:
  • 🏁 17.2.0 released on Dec 6th.
• 6.4 minor releases:
  • 🏁 6.4.2 released on Dec 6th – a maintenance and security release.
  • 6.4.3: 8 open Trac tickets.
• 6.5 major release is underway:
  • Current development phase: Early Alpha.
  • Roadmap to 6.5 is now available on Make/Core.
  • Bug scrubs: no one attended this past week’s scrub.
  • Core Trac:
    • 21 commits (+8 from last week).
    • 257 open tickets (+7 from last week):
      • 149 defects / bugs.
      • 108 enhancements, feature requests, and blessed tasks.
    • 9 early tickets (no change from last week).
  • Gutenberg:
    • 89 tasks in the Editor tasks board (+2 from last week).

Highlights:

• MySQL minimum version will be raised to 5.5.5 in WordPress 6.5.0.
• Recap: WordPress 6.4 “Shirley” Retrospective.
• Proposal: Default Theme Task Force for 2024.
• Update from Core Editor side:
  • Coming to Gutenberg 17.3, you can explore partially synced patterns behind an experimental flag by enabling the “Connections” experiment when the time comes.
  • Efforts continue to align post and site editor features with some behind the scenes work done to have the canvas of the site editor and post editor under a unique component.
  • New tracking issue for a public 1.0 version of the interactivity API.
  • Progress update on having the navigation overlay as a separate template part that can be individually customized.
  • PR to Add layout classes to legacy Group inner container merged (requires a PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. backport) as part of an overall effort to bring appearance tools to classic themes.
  • Various improvements to the data views work including support for NOT IN operator as a way to filter, a way to filter by template author allowing you to see templates provided by plugins more readily, and a grid view for templates with a preview of the templates listed. This is all behind an experimental flag in Gutenberg > Experiments > “New admin views”.
• Performance Team is seeking opinions / feedback from the Core Team about new database values for the autoload column.

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