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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:
- #63462 add_query_arg() should handle encoded input URLs
- #63464 Uneven Horizontal Spacing in WordPress Admin .wrap Container
- #63469 Twenty Nineteen: Table block Stripes style does not show borders in the editor
- #63470 WordPress 6.8.1 – Adding a new block or line in Editor causes the page to jump down
- #63474 getchmod() can cause Fatal error
- #63471 Remove IE Compat scripts from Media element scripting
- #63465 Events and News Widget: Empty <ul> Appears Without City Selection Causing Layout Shift
- #63475 Changes made to the site icon image through media library are not reflected on the site icon
- #63467 function do_robots() should use admin_url()
- #63473 Most recent tab in classic menu is not showing special pages (front, posts, privacy policy)
- #63481 WP_Image_Editor_Imagick takes longer time to upload image
- #63480 UI refresh inconsistency in plugin deactivation flow (WP 6.8.1)
- #63482 wp:list does not like additional attributes on ul
- #63479 current_filter() can return false if fatal
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:
- No tickets found
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:
- #56311 Week query variable is not being sanitized correctly
- #31127 Can’t add a new user to two sites before they’ve accepted their account
- #54516 Full site editing/REST-API: modify permission checks to use post type.
- #62600 fatal error on capabilities.
- #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
- #8592 Private Pages not listed in the Parent dropdown
- #42404 Introduce singular capabilities for managing individual plugins
- #15332 dbDelta($query) – do not create view
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- The next major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” — for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five dot two dot) branch of that software. Major Releases often are the introduction of new major features and functionality. things are in progress and can be found here.
- WCEU is around the corner. Please check out the schedule.
- GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc.
https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ 20.9 is scheduled for release on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. - No major announcements from the past week.
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
2025 Schedule:
- Wednesday, 28 May 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>in #core-test. - Wednesday, 04 June 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
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