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  • This Week in 4.6: August 15 – 21

    This is the jump-start post for the seventeenth and last week of the WordPress 4.6 release cycle. This week is all about the final release of WordPress 4.6. 🚢 There is a release dry run today, . The process for the final release starts tomorrow, , with a release at . Priority tickets this week: There are currently…

  • Global overloading in advanced-cache.php

    As a part of the 4.6 release, a change is made to the order of loading files during the bootstrap process. This change included an attempt to protect sites from the overloading of the hook related globals in advanced-cache.php. This change was reverted with [38251]. This means that the 4.5 behavior where if an advanced-cache.php sets…

  • 4.6 Release Dry Run

    In preparation for the release on , we’ll do a dry run on . The dry run will include: Testing various features, including Shiny Updates, native fonts, comment/site/networknetwork (versus site, blog) queries with and without a persistent object cache Generally testing the adminadmin (and super admin) and common features using a multitude of devices and browsers Running our…

  • Week in Core, August 2 – 9, 2016

    Welcome back the latest issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., covering changes [38181-38238]. Here are the highlights: 58 commits 47 contributors 76 tickets created 10 tickets reopened 53 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. numbers based…

  • Weekly Dev Chat Agenda for August 10 — Sixteen Weeks Later

    This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : Current status of WordPress 4.6 Schedule for the next 6 days Open tickets About page Release of WordPress 4.6 RC2 If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda, please leave a comment below. See you in the chat! #4-6, #agenda, #dev-chat

  • This Week in 4.6: August 8 – 14

    This is the jump-start post for the sixteenth week of the WordPress 4.6 release cycle. T minus 9 days until release day. ⏳ There was no second release candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see…

  • Dev Chat Summary: August 3, 2016

    Current status of WordPress 4.6 The 4.6 branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to…

  • Weekly Dev Chat Agenda for August 3 — Fifteen Weeks Later

    This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : Current status of WordPress 4.6 Schedule for the next 13 days About page Call for volunteers Component announcements/updates Open discussion If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda, please leave a comment below. See you in the chat! #4-6, #agenda, #dev-chat

  • Week in Core, July 26 – August 2, 2016

    Welcome back the latest issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., covering changes [38160-38180]. Here are the highlights: 20 commits 17 contributors 69 tickets created 4 tickets reopened 38 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on…

  • Do you have dedicated time to work on WordPress core?

    Do you have dedicated time to work on WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.? In order to help core developers/maintainers get a sense of who works on core regularly and what might be expected of them (what is known in some places as…