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This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from August 2nd (agenda, Slack archive). 4.8.1 RC2 feedback & planned release post-devchat 4.8.1 includes fixes for the text widget, delayed yesterday due to performance issues identified 4.8.1RC2 on WordPress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content.…

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on / August 2, 2017 at 20:00 UTC: 4.8.1 RC2 feedback & planned release post-devchat 4.9 kickoff Call for Component Maintainers General announcements If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda or specific items related to the above, please leave a comment below. See…

The 4.8.1 release was due out today (August 1st), however a performance problem was raised during release preparations. Specifically, the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. in question is #35293 and its problematic commit on the 4.8 branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest…

The 4.8 release caused issues for many sites that had custom HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. in Text widgets, which until now had been common practice. So we’ve been working hard on fixes in the 4.8.1 release which aim to simultaneously serve the needs…

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Office Hours Agenda This is the agenda for the weekly office hours meeting on in #core-multisite. Discuss global state in 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…

Office Hours Recap There was no agenda post this week. This week’s chat was a continuation of last week’s. The conclusion last week was: more discussion around specific items that will be in the roadmap is needed in order to construct an effective roadmap. The first item to be discussed (and the topic for this…

Yesterday our weekly new contributors meeting was held, again with some great questions and insights into contributing to WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Here is the recap for the chat, alternatively the full chat log is also available. Participants: @adamcarter @audunhus @desrosj…

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…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from July 26th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.8.1 RCrelease 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). feedback & release timing No issues on the widgets front Those who reported…