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Calls for Testing 📣
Calls for Testing can originate from any team, from themes to mobile apps to feature plugins. The following posts highlight features and releases that need special attention:
Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update: 03 March 2025
Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions.
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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:
- #63063 IDN domains are erroneously URL-encoded in the wp_sanitize_redirect() function
- #63065 Reject nonce if presented as array
- #63066 Warning when array passed to wp_check_invalid_utf8()
- #63078 plugins_api() Default Argument Issue: ‘downloaded’ Not Set to True
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:
- #61398 Missing src attribute on <audio> tag prevents m4a audio files playing in safari.
- #62550 Add screen reader announcements confirming saved changes in screen options
- #62400 RSS Block showing date in UTC when pubDate in feed is not
- #61244 The export_wp() function inserts empty <wp:comment> data when get_comment() returns a false or empty value
- #58905 Ensure locate_template only loads theme files
#62985 Fix layout support classes to be generated with a stable ID - #61265 Add class name for block variations
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 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
- #58905 Ensure locate_template only loads theme files
- #61265 Add class name for block variations
- #50422 Prevent Browser Caching From Getting Involved With wp_redirect and wp_safe_redirect (Leaving the Browser to Purely Honor the Redirect Code Used)
6.8 Related issues need testing
The following 6.8 tickets need testing those are having patches:
- #61398 Missing src attribute on <audio> tag prevents m4a audio files playing in safari.
- #62550 Add screen reader announcements confirming saved changes in screen options
- #62400 RSS Block showing date in UTC when pubDate in feed is not
- #60074 Add New Media File > The ”dismiss button ”not showing any response when uploading the unsupported (.jfif) file
- #61244 The export_wp() function inserts empty <wp:comment> data when get_comment() returns a false or empty value
- #62985 Fix layout support classes to be generated with a stable ID
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- We are currently in the WordPress 6.8 release cycle. Read more about the release squad, timeline and focus for this release.
- Check what to expect in WordPress 6.8 release: Roadmap to 6.8
- Beta 1 release of WordPress 6.8 is now available
- Due to a bug, older versions cannot be updated to Beta 1. The core team is actively working on a fix for this issue. We will provide more information as soon as it becomes available. In the meantime, you can refer to the detailed article for further reading and updates on the matter.
- The Beta 2 release of WordPress 6.8 will be available today, Tuesday, March 11th. Please check the detailed overview of the release schedule for WordPress 6.8. Join the Release Party in #core to test and provide the feedback!
- Gutenberg 20.4 was released on Wednesday, March 5th. Checkout the milestone for the issues those were part of 20.4 release.
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
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