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Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update
Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions.
Did you know that contributions with the Test Team are also a fantastic way to level up your WordPress knowledge and skill? Dive in to contribute, and gain coveted props 😎 for a coming release.
Reproduction Testing 🔁
Who? Any contributor.
Why? It is helpful to show an issue exists for other users in order to move a ticket forward for patching.
The following new tickets are awaiting review, and need testers to attempt to reproduce the reported issue (aka “repro”), and then provide a reproduction test report with the results:
- #63554 Are we sensitive about direct accessed URL fatal errors?
- #63553 Administration: Color Schemes are not properly applied on individual attachment within media views
- #63562 Term counts should not be recalculated when a post transitions between statuses that are not counted
- #63570 Adapt to MySQL tenant of OceanBase
Patch Testing 🩹
Who? All contributors (not just developers) who can set up a local testing environment.
Why? It is necessary to apply proposed patches and test per the testing instructions in order to validate that a patch fixes the issue.
The following tickets have been reviewed and a patch provided, and need testers to apply the patch and manually test, then provide feedback through a patch test report:
PHPUnit Tests 🛟
Who? Any QA or PHP developer contributors who can (or are interested in learning how to) build automated PHPUnit tests.
Why? Automated tests improve the software development feedback loop for quality and backward compatibility.
The following 6.8.2 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
- #57518 Undefined array key in widgets.php on line 919
- #63316 [E_WARNING] Undefined array key “host” in wp-includes/canonical.php on line 717
- #56519 Inner blocks serialization bug in serialize_block function
- #46350 If a term is ‘0’ clicking on its “Count” value displays all posts
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
Test Contributor badges is awarded to the following contributors.
nigelnelles, nabiabdi, damianwilusz, pedrofigueroa1989, jeannetteunifreiburg, marcinwosinek, mleraygp, ravigadhiyawp, rayhatron, riccardodicurti, Sandeepdahiya, splitmaster, vishalbhisara, wpfy
Test Team badge is awarded to @sirlouen.
Thank you everyone for your contribution! 🙌
Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- Gutenberg 21.0 was released last week and is now ready to download.
- The Performance team has announced that the initial release of the View Transitions plugin is now live on WordPress.org. For more information about this plugin, please check the here.
- WordPress Playground Update : Developers can now pass data URLs directly in the
blueprint-urlquery parameter. - What’s new for developers? June 2025 edition is published.
- A series of Gutenberg Posts are published under gutenberg-new tag :
- The Core Team is putting together a squad for future minor releases. A release squad for 6.8.2 and 6.8.3 will be announced soon. Follow #6-8-release-leads for updates.
- WCEU 2025 Core Committers Meeting Notes
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
2025 Schedule:
- Wednesday, 18 June 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>in #core-test. - Wednesday, 25 June 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>in #core-test.
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