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Present: @danielbachhuber, @matth_eu We shipped Shortcake v0.3.0. Read the release notes Shortcake v0.4.0 is slated for June 8th, 2015. Now is a great time to get involved! Logs: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/feature-shortcode/p1430161317000487 Next chat: same time and place #meeting-notes, #shortcode-ui, #shortcodes

Shortly after we shipped WordPress 4.2, we shipped WordPress 4.1.3 to fix an issue caused in WordPress 4.1.2. Specifically, WordPress 4.1.3 fixed database writes for esoteric character sets, which were broken in the WordPress 4.1.2 security release. However, neither UTF-8 nor latin1 were affected. More information on this issue can be found in #32051. Additionally,…

There are two UIUI User interface component changes in 4.2 aimed at better experiences moving forward that may affect 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 plugins are…

WordPress 4.2 includes both new and improved features. It also includes changes under the hood.  While I’m sure you’ve been testing your themes, plugins, and sites in preparation for the release, you may have missed the announcements of all the changes. Here is a quick rundown of developer related things you should know: The new wp.a11y.speak() APIAPI An…

In WordPress 4.2 there will be changes to the experimental TinyMCE views APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.. We don’t recommend this for use in production unless you closely follow the development. If you’re…

In preparation for a Thursday release, I’d like to do a dry run for 4.2 on . The goal would be to complete the dry run and freeze for about a day prior to release. We’ve pushed the scheduled release date by a day due to the 4.1.2 security release that went out on Tuesday…

We’ll be scrubbing report 6 in the #core channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ in about 20 minutes at . Join us! @azaozz @dd32 @nacin @helen @sergeybiryukov @ocean90 @wonderboymusic @mark @johnbillion @jorbin @boone @jeremyfelt @pento #4-2

Present: @danielbachhuber, @matth_eu Meeting focused on clearing up some of the remaining issues in the v0.3 milestone. In v0.4, we’re looking into de-coupling Shortcake from the Media Library experience. If you have opinions on this regard, you should follow along on this issue Matt has done some exploration of repeatable fields. The crux of the…

This is the jump-start post for the fourteenth (and final!) week of the WordPress 4.2 release cycle. Last week, we tagged RC1 and “hard froze” strings. We’ll likely tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control…

Howdy! Sorry, I dropped the ball last week so this week’s Weekly Roundup is a double issue — it covers April 4, 2015 [32003] to April 18, 2015 [32140]. This week marks the release of RC1, which is the first release that many pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions…