Hello and welcome to another edition of Week in Test, the place where contributors of any skill level can find opportunities to contribute to WordPress through testing. You can find the Test Team in #core-test.
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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:
- Roadmap to 6.8
- Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.8
- Help Test WordPress 6.8
- How to Contribute to WP 6.8 Release Party
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:
- #63085 “Login details” spam sent by from the account registration page
- #63091 wp_get_archives() with post_type parameter generates duplicate query parameters in URLs
- #63093 Image scaling size change
- #63096 Remove “noopener” from wp_list_bookmarks() output
- #63098 Passing array in term query arg triggers fatal error
- #63106 The loop can throw warning if `WP_Query::have_posts()` not called.
- #63099 wp_rand() function returns only 0 or 1 when called without parameters on 32-bit PHP systems
- #63107 two deprecated warnings in /wp-includes/functions.php
- #63104 Undefined constant “BLOGUPLOADDIR” for subdirectory multisites
- #63110 Site Editor: Update old URLs to new path-based URLs
- #63113 Gutenberg bug for non latin
- #63112 Translation bug in wordpress 6.7.2
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:
- #41180 ABSPATH definition – incorrect on chrooted vhost
- #50422 Prevent Browser Caching From Getting Involved With wp_redirect and wp_safe_redirect (Leaving the Browser to Purely Honor the Redirect Code Used)
- #62785 wp_kses_no_null() should be modified to handle $content having a null value
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:
- #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
- #61381 Bulk update plugins no longer working when 1 Plugin failed to update
- #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
- #49950 Twenty Twenty: with horizontal menu, submenu should be dismissible
- #61100 Fix capability error in bulk role removal when editing site users in network admin
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- WordPress 6.8 Beta 2 is now available for testing. Please share your feedback and report the issue on trac/github if you find any regression.
- The Beta 3 release of WordPress 6.8 is scheduled for Tuesday, March 18th. 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 20.5 is scheduled for release on Wednesday, March 19th. This will be the first version of Gutenberg to be merged into WordPress 6.9 next major release of the this year. Checkout this milestone for what to expect with Gutenberg 20.5
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
2025 Schedule:
- Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>in #core-test. - Wednesday, 26 March 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>in #core-test.
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