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Happy New Year to all, and hope everyone enjoyed the holiday season. Our weekly office hours resume today, in #core-privacy. The goal today is to ease back into the swing of things a bit slowly, starting with short office hours today, and see where things go from there. Agenda Roadmap Review Is our roadmap still…

Hello and welcome to the new year, contributors! This is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on : 5.0.3 updates This minor release is due today, so this update may be as simple as “woo hoo, we did it”. 5.1 updates BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and…

A new change in 5.1 Beta 1 introduces a change in behaviour for cron spawning on servers running fastcgi and PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher 7.0.16+. When available, requests to wp-cron.php will now return a repsonse immediately, before processing lengthy cron jobs, allowing…

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 9th January 2019, 14:00 GMT: Releases: 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/…

Below is a summary of the discussion from this week’s 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 user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com chat…

The release candidate package for 5.0.3 is now available for testing.  Please help test this release candidate to ensure everything works as expected. After activating the WordPress BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly…

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/ 4.8 is the first pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a…

Due to a handful of different factors, the number of tickets in unreleased milestones on Trac has become unmanageable. One of the main reasons is the following scenario. Person milestones ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. for the next release with good intentions. Ticket is not quite ready…

Overview This post is a summary of the latest weekly Media component meeting, which took place in the #core-media 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/ channel, on . The purpose of these meetings are to move priority tasks forward, provide feedback on…

Happy New Year everyone! Meeting archive is here. 5.0.3 Update @audrasjb has been sorting tickets for the milestone 5.0.3. There is some discussion over whether tickets should be backported if this is a true minor releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as…