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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.
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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:
- #63406 Lack of mutex for query object values like is_category and is_author can result in warnings
- #63426 wptexturize breaks markup
- #63429 URL transliteration functionality to Latin
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:
- #17019 add hooks for Media Library attachment counts
- #29849 Better human_time_diff()
- #34986 Add Upgrade Notice for Themes
- #36710 Symlinked directories should not be deleted recursively
- #39827 notice in wp-includes/canonical.php:392
- #44958   character in title generates a permalink (and slug) with space
- #50683 Parse content for shortcodes instead of using regex
- #52939 Frontend toolbar CSS conflict with some themes
- #53816 Overview: Refactor the widgets read/write logic
- #58183 PHP notice when accessing Customizer with a classic theme without widgets
- #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
- #58722 Fix RTL display in Optional grouping on Permalinks Settings page
- #58763 Inconsistent add/get/update/delete_post_meta() functions leads to deleting post metadata.
- #58902 add_query_arg() should esc_url_raw() REQUEST_URI
- #61890 Handle WP_Term dynamic properties for PHP 8.2
- #63135 Testing and Debugging WP_Mail related topics
- #32597 mediaelement.js high CPU usage triggered by the buffering CSS animation
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 following tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
- #51006 Add a mechanism for accessible tooltips in core
- #55358 Passing int term term_exists parent param not respected
- #33821 redirect_canonical does not consider port in $compare_original
- #17904 Multisite has more restrictions on user login character set
- #39827 notice in wp-includes/canonical.php:392
- #41445 post_parent can prevent media from embedding correctly
- #44958   character in title generates a permalink (and slug) with space
- #48689 PHP warnings after updating to WP 5.3: ftp_nlist() and ftp_pwd() expect missing parameters
- #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
- #61100 Fix capability error in bulk role removal when editing site users in network admin
- #61330 Plugin Dependencies: Refresh plugin-install.php instead of redirecting on activation
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- WordPress 6.8.1 Maintenance Release
- WordPress Campus Connect Expands
- The CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team is planning to set up a release squad, a plan/scope and a schedule for 6.8.2 (and beyond)
- Call for 6.8.x Release Managers is still open. Anyone interested to lead a 6.8.x release can drop a comment in this P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org post.
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
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2025 Schedule:
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