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:
- Active tickets slated for the next WP 6.5 release
- Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 3
- Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 1
- Early Opportunities to Test WordPress 6.5
- Bug scrub schedule for WordPress 6.5
Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update – March 18, 2024
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:
- #60745 WP_Query::parse_query() does not handle invalid query arg values
- #60748 auth_redirect() login check doesn’t exist or doesn’t work
- #60750 Warning: these pages should not be the same as your Privacy Policy page!
- #60756 Block Hooks: Toggle (re-)inserts hooked block in wrong position (if added by filter)
- #60752 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class ‘WpOrg\Requests\Hooks’ not found
- #60753 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class “wpdb” not found in load.php
- #60775 Twenty Twenty Four :- Search block having issue with the width when we add first time.
- #60776 Twenty Twenty Four :- Pullquote block having minor difference in design in editor and frontside
- #60777 New terms created when a term with commas is added in post editor
- #60780 Twenty Twenty :- Button block having issue with line-height
- #60788 Content-Disposition support in download_url() seems broken
- #60786 [PHP 8.4] Fix implicit nullable parameter type depcation
- #60790 Editor has encountered an unexpected error
- #60793 wp_trigger error has a wrong wp_kses $allowed_html arguement.
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:
- #60672 Improve menu toggle accessible name in admin menus
- #59043 the_excerpt() function return excerpt with different length in page load and ajax request on WordPress 6.3
- #24837 querying optimization for category AND searching
PHPUnit Tests 🛟
Who? Any QA or PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php developer contributors who can (or are interested in learning how to) build automated PHPUnit tests.
Why? Automated tests improve the software development feedback loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop for quality and backward compatibility.
The no tickets are available for 6.5 that need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches.
6.5 Related issues need testing
The following 6.5 tickets need testing those have patches:
- Add a database persisted fallback for the default font folder path
- Add fallback for the default font folder path
- Fix naive filtering of uploads directory
- #59779 Consider testing against MySQL “Innovation Releases”
- #60751 Add fallback for the default font folder path
- #60754 Block Hooks: Incorrect context passed when setting ignored hooked blocks metadata
- #60652 font_dir filter enters an infinite loop if wp_get_upload_dir() is used in the filter callback
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
No Badges were awarded this week.
Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- WordPress 6.5 Field Guide outlines major developer features and breaking changes in 6.5.
- Font Library is finally merging into 6.5
- Learn What’s new in Gutenberg 17.9
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.
March 2024 Schedule:
- Tuesday, 19 March 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>in #core-test. - Tuesday, 26 March 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>in #core-test.
Interested in hosting a <test-scrub>? Test Team needs you! Check out Leading Bug Scrubs for details, or inquire in #core-test for more info.