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We are planning a 4.5.1 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 alpha (beta). tomorrow, April 21st, then shipping 4.5.1 next Monday or Tuesday. One goal of doing a release candidate is to let the…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from April 20. Update on WordPress 4.5.1 #36510 and #36545 are large bugs that are prompting an earlier release than was anticipated. #36510: a ‘singular’ class was added for singular items, but some existing themes -including Twentyeleven – already used ‘singular’ in a different way leading to unexpected…

I’m excited to announce my deputy for WordPress 4.6. It’s … … CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Contributor Garth Mortensen (@voldemortensen)! He’s a proud father and husband, former project manager, and now working as a developer. You’ll see him around both on the…

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 [37191-37253]. Here are the highlights: 62 commits 49 contributors 112 tickets created 14 tickets reopened 105 tickets closed Call for Component Maintainers – 4.6 WordPress 4.6 Wishlist Ticketticket Created for both bug reports…

Agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : Update on WordPress 4.5.1 Announcements Release Schedule Results of the Community Wish List Component 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

This we’ll have an I18N chat in #core-i18n to discuss the roadmap and ideas for 4.6. Some of the bigger tasks on which could be worked during the cycle: JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better…

We will be meeting today,  (at the usual coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. dev chat time) in #core to scrub bugs milestoned for 4.5.1. Although only a few bugs have been milestoned for 4.5.1, there are two bugs of particular concern that potentially effect many users and…

Let’s have an official multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site kickoff chat this in #core-multisite to discuss some of the things we’d…

Time change Per the comments on the introduction post, the next feature project chat will be held at . This will alternate with the first meeting’s time of 17:00 UTC (1:00PM Eastern) (sorry for the initial error, math is hard). Since there are a number of people in place where only one of the times…

While 4.5 came a little too early for Shiny Updates v2, I think it would be worthwhile to try getting the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress…