WordPress 4.5 RC
WordPress 4.5 RC 1 is out, as is the 4.5 Field Guide, and so far we haven’t noticed anything consistent or otherwise worth highlighting in our testing.
Please do test the RC when you can. If we can find bugs before 4.5 goes final, we’ll have less threads to deal with after.
Image Auto-Embeds in Forums
The Team voted unanimously to begin researching the possibility of providing image auto-embeds in the forums (leave a URL to an image on a trusted source, and it embeds automatically).
@otto42 has begun development. We’ll launch with the sources he’s comfortable with when he’s ready to, then discuss the addition of other sources at a later meeting.
Plugin Update Email
The “Please update your plugins” email went out to developers last night. If for any reason you run into people confused about it, please tell them to either update their plugins or press REPLY on the email and tell the Plugins Team which ones they want them to close. The Plugins Team is currently aware of some slowness in the update process.
Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)