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This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from February 22nd (agenda, Slack archive). 4.7.3 Schedule Planning to release 4.7.3 on Monday March 6, 2017. This will be a bugfix and maintenance release, nothing major. Latest view of what’s in/coming in 4.7.3: Trac report This date is coming up pretty soon.  Ideally anything going into 4.7.3 would already be in…

We’ve published a changelog page for the REST API: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/changelog/ This page can be updated using git logs as follows: git clone https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop cd wordpress-develop # for a previous release git log –reverse 4.7.1…4.7.2 src/wp-includes/rest-api* src/wp-includes/js/wp-api.js tests/phpunit/tests/rest-api* tests/qunit/wp-includes/js/wp-api.js tests/qunit/fixtures/wp-api* # for an upcoming release git log –reverse 4.7.2…origin/4.7 #[paths here] Many of the changes made…

As discussed in yesterday’s dev chat, we’re planning to release WordPress 4.7.3 on Monday, March 6, 2017. To prepare for this release we will have a 4.7.3-focused bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with…

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 [40060-40101]. Here are the highlights: 42 commits 35 contributors 64 tickets created 14 tickets reopened 75 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on…

In preparation for the 2017 WordPress Community Summit (“CS”) on June 13th-14th before 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. Europe in Paris, France we’ve…

The bootstrapping process of WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (affectionately called the “Bootstrap/Load” component around here) is a critical piece of the system, and everything else depends on it being reliable and performant. However, developers and system administrators also need it to…

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : 4.7.3 Timing CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. team (Media widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can…

We’re rescheduling the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”)…

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 February 15th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.7.3 Schedule Completed first pass on all tickets in the 4.7.3 milestone, @jnylen0 is reviewing those that “need” to land in 4.7.3, and identifying a release date for 4.7.3 in the coming week Customizer team update #23601 (Use ACE Code Editor for Theme and…