Core Team Update – April 22, 2024 – Team Updates

Overview

Data is from April 15–21

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):
- 37 commits (-19 from previous week)
- 39 new tickets opened (-15 from previous week)
- 123 tickets closed (+65 from previous week)
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/:
- 110 commits to trunk (+23 from previous week)
- 65 new issues opened (+6 from previous week)
- 80 issues closed (+46 from previous week)

Gutenberg releases:
- 🏁 18.1 was released on April 10.
- 🏁 18.2.0 RC1 was released on April 19, with full release due on April 24.
WordPress 6.5.2 was released on April 9.
- There was not WordPress 6.5.1 for technical reasons.
WordPress 6.5.3 is being planned with a tentative release date of May 7
- WP 6.5.3 milestone has 15 tickets:
  - 7 new
  - 4 reopened
  - 1 assigned
  - 3 closed
6.6 major release is underway:
- Current development phase: Alpha and initial release squad announced.
- Bug scrubs: none scheduled yet.
- Core Trac:
  - 13 commits (-1 from previous week)
  - 32 open tickets:
    - 22 defects / bugs
    - 7 enhancements, 1 feature requests, and 2 blessed tasks
  - 1 early tickets (+0 from previous week)
- Gutenberg:
  - Gutenberg’s wp/6.6 branch has not yet been created.
  - Editor tasks board
6.5.x Editor tasks board has 29 tickets:
- 6 open tasks
- 22 done tasks
- 1 punted tasks