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There will be an additional dev chat this week to further discuss the fallback strategy to be used if support is dropped for older browsers. This chat will take place on . While only a small percentage of WordPress users still utilize older, obsolete browsers, it amounts to hundred of thousands, if not millions of people…

As we’re now into the full throes of the 4.8 cycle, the uncertainty that comes with not releasing “until it’s ready” inevitably creates a lull in areas other than the three focuses. Areas like maintaining our inline documentation, which populates the official Code Reference. In the past, the freshness of coreCore Core is the set…

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : 4.7.3 release update from @jnylen0 4.7.4 planning Browser support summary from @desrosj Core team reps comment from @helen A11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct…

This post is a summary of the latest weekly Media component meeting, which took place in #core-media on Slack, on . The purpose of these meetings are to move priority tasks forward, provide feedback on issues of interest, and review media focused tickets on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from March 1st (agenda, Slack archive). 4.7.3 Schedule Reminder of plan to release 4.7.3 as bugfix and maintenance release on Monday March 6, 2017 RC is available so please test Community Summit Working to review submissions on Planning for Community Summit 2017 post on Make/CoreCore Core is the set of software required to…

The 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 team has recently been focussed on figuring out and planning the implementation of REST APIREST…

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 [40101-40141]. Here are the highlights: 41 commits 46 contributors 76 tickets created 21 tickets reopened 71 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on…

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : 4.7.3 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). & call for testing CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress.…

If you have not already, I encourage you to read through the Editor Technical Overview and check out the great work so far in the initial Gutenberg prototype. Progress on the new editor can also be followed on the GitHub project. While the technical overview focuses on what obstacles are faced before forming opinions on the…

Please help test! Here’s the build: https://wordpress.org/wordpress-4.7.3-RC1.zip What’s in this release? We made some improvements to media upload handling after the 4.7.1 release, so this is a good flow to test. Especially if you have the Disable Real MIME Check plugin installed, please remove it and re-test uploading your previously problematic files. See #39550 and…