Information Sources for 6.3

With every release comes a need to revise and create content on LearnWP. You can help. Here’s a list of what is ready for us to prepare for the release.

When assessing what content will need to be updated and revised for LearnWP, these are sources of information.

Core Announcements:

• WordPress 6.3 RC1
• WordPress 6.3 Beta 4
• WordPress 6.3 Beta 3
• WordPress 6.3 Beta 2
• WordPress 6.3 Beta 1 postponed
• 6.3 Release Parties Schedule and hosts
• Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.3
• WordPress 6.3 Planning Roundup
• Roadmap to 6.3

Source of Truth

GitHub Labels

Not all of these are related to

• Needs User Docs
• Needs Dev Docs

Core DevNotes

• DevNotes tracking GitHub Issue
• WordPress 6.3 Field Guide
• Introducing the Block Selectors API
• Introducing the WordPress Command Palette API
• Layout updates in the editor for WordPress 6.3
• Social Icons block: Applied colors now dynamically update based on theme.json and Global Styles
• Miscellaneous Editor changes in WordPress 6.3
• Bundled themes dropping Internet Explorer scripts and styles
• Improvements to the Cache API in WordPress 6.3
• Configuring development mode in 6.3
• I18N Improvements in 6.3
• Image performance enhancements in WordPress 6.3
• Improvements to the metadata API in WordPress 6.3
• WP_Query used internally in get_pages()
• Registering scripts with `async` and `defer` attributes in WordPress 6.3
• New in 6.3: Rollback for failed manual plugin and theme updates
• Improved Caching for Database Queries in WP_User_Query
• Miscellaneous developer changes in WordPress 6.3

Gutenberg

Changelogs (on Core)

• What’s new in Gutenberg 15.2? (22 February)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 15.3? (13 March)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 15.4 (22 March)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 15.5? (05 April)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 15.6? (19 April)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 15.7? (03 May)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 15.8? (May 17)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 15.9? (31 May)
• Gutenberg 15.9.1 is now available
• What’s new in Gutenberg 16.0? (14 June)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 16.1? (29 June)

Trac:

• Core Trac 6.3 Milestone
• Milestone 6.3, Keywords needs-docs or needs-user-docs
• Gutenberg-Merge

Editor Team:

• Editor tasks GitHub Project Board

Docs team:

• Docs WP 6.3 GitHub Project Board

Design team:

• Design GitHub Project Board

Training / LearnWP Project

• Issue labeled 6.3
• LearnWP Content Development Project View for WP 6.2

Revisions Extended

We revise content ahead of release while preserving the current content until release. Think of it as a Pull Request that ships on release day. Here’s how we do that: