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This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on / December 6, 2017 at 21:00 UTC: 4.9 + 4.9.1 feedback 4.9.2 ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. + timing…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from November 29th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.9 feedback + 4.9.1 timing WordPress 4.9.1 was released last week. It’s a security and maintenance release for all versions since WordPress 3.7, users are strongly encouraged to update their sites immediately. Notable bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result.…

Due to conflicting travel arrangements of some participants following this past weekend’s WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US, we will be canceling…

For 12 long years, the WordPress Coding StandardsWordPress Coding Standards The Accessibility, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, etc. coding standards as published in the WordPress Coding Standards Handbook. May also refer to The collection of PHP_CodeSniffer rules (sniffs) used to format and validate PHP code developed for WordPress according to the PHP coding standards. have stood…

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on / November 29, 2017 at 21:00 UTC: 4.9 feedback + 4.9.1 timing 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…

As mentioned earlier today, WordPress 4.9.1 has been scheduled for release tomorrow, . Please have a read of that post for details of the fixes. The beta package for 4.9.1 is now ready for testing. Please help us by testing this betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to…

WordPress 4.9 has been downloaded over 6 million times since its release two weeks ago. A small number of bugs have been identified which are impactful enough that the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team has decided to release 4.9.1 with fixes for…

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This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from November 22nd (agenda, Slack archive). 4.9 feedback + 4.9.1 planning WordPress 4.9 was released last week, and so far 3 pressing issues have arisen that needs to be addressed in a timely manner: #42573 (template file caching), #42574 (MEJS breaking things for some languages), and #42609 (file…

This recap is a summary of this week’s PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher meeting. It highlights the ideas and decisions which came up during that meeting, both as a means of documenting and to provide a quick overview for those who were unable…