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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: 27 May 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:
- #61258 class-phpass.php uses old ‘2a’ prefix for crypt_blowfish hashes
- #61263 Nested hook removal removes remaining hooks with higher priority
- #61267 Theme JSON Tests: Refactor base styles to a static variable
- #61270 Error notice Updating failed. The response is not a valid JSON response.
- #61271 Add filter for duotone to account for gutenberg_restore_image_outer_container in classic themes
- #61268 PHP Deprecated: ltrim() in formatting esc_url.
- #61259 Widgets not working when using Gutenberg editor but load fine on Classic view.
- #61289 Logout error on Multisite with directories – Login subsites
- #61291 WP-Admin Categories and Post Edit Page Slow Rendering Due to lot of hidden Taxonomies and Authors
- #61283 Twenty-Twenty-Four: Cover-element is not displayed correctly on smartphone
- #61297 Font Directory uploads ignore `subdir` property.
- #61299 Regression with bulk checkbox on updates table
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:
- #59493 Bundled themes: remove blank CSS lines
- #61168 Bulk select issue with with All select
- #17019 add hooks for Media Library attachment counts
- #58763 Inconsistent add/get/update/delete_post_meta() functions leads to deleting post metadata.
- #58087 Fix the ‘data’ dynamic property in WP_Term
- #52294 add_editor_style: Allow replacing a style with an RTL version
- #58479 Add notice if no posts are selected in Bulk Edit
- #49950 Twenty Twenty: with horizontal menu, submenu should be dismissible
- #57789 Make theme.json related caches persistent
- #53167 upload_filetypes should map to get_allowed_mime_types
- #61052 WP_KSES data attributes: Allow double dash
- #43936 Settings: Warn when open registration and new user default is privileged
- #61287 Twenty Sixteen : Code Block Background color is not reflecting in frontend
- #60673 Indicate submenu item level in admin nav menu editor and customizer nav menu editor
- #26858 Comment duplicate check has a slow query
- #37040 Enhancement: new function to validate a transient exists, and isn’t expired without extra query
- #61294 Plugin Dependencies: Ensure dependency detection for newly installed plugins
- #61260 Rollback Auto-update: Automatic update of translations can cause confusion
- #55991 Twenty Twenty One: Unable to change size in Quote block
- #58539 Twenty Seventeen: Image block figcaption text alignment inconsistency
- #39281 Twenty Seventeen: header.php forces thumbnails on all post types
- #60293 Twenty Fourteen: Table block does not have same design in editor and front.
- #52696 Add a way to determine whether a translation exists
- #60835 Fix and improve handling of uploading of font files
- #61276 Add “Audit Autoloaded Options” Site Health Check
- #61153 Update help text in the admin area
- #61269 Plugin Dependencies: Add filter to restore auto-redirect after plugin activation
- #36710 Symlinked directories should not be deleted recursively
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 6.6 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
- #60291 Support Lossless WebP in WP_Image_Editor_GD
- #52723 Admin options.php default value to NULL for option_value may lead to MySQL Integrity constraint violation error, potential other bugs
- #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
- #60158 The description field for media doesn’t automatically make paragraphs in the generated code
- #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
- #61113 WP_REST_Templates_Revisions_Controller not checking parent ID correctly
- #58905 Ensure locate_template only loads theme files
- #61123 Background block supports: add support for top-level styles in theme.json
6.6 Related issues need testing
The following 6.6 tickets need testing those are having patches:
- #60499 Duplicate CSS in src/wp-includes/css/media-views.css
- #59282 WordPress should register custom error and exception handlers
- #61021 REST API: Add stylesheet_uri and template_uri fields to themes endpoint
- #60645 Add pre-fire hook for cron
- #54738 Unable to upload images with URL over API when the image doesn’t have a filetype in the filename
- #52294 add_editor_style: Allow replacing a style with an RTL version
- #58479 Add notice if no posts are selected in Bulk Edit
- #53167 upload_filetypes should map to get_allowed_mime_types
- #61052 WP_KSES data attributes: Allow double dash
- #43936 Settings: Warn when open registration and new user default is privileged
- #60673 Indicate submenu item level in admin nav menu editor and customizer nav menu editor
- #61276 Add “Audit Autoloaded Options” Site Health Check
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- WordPress 6.5.4: An upcoming maintenance release
- 30 May 2024 – Release CandidateRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. made available and announced here on the make/coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. site.
- 5 June 2024 – Final release made available.
- What’s new in Gutenberg 18.4 (22 May)Our 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. is WordPress 6.6. See the Roadmap Post for details about what is planned. Also, see the Bug Scrub post for more details on when the 6.6 bug scrubs are happening.
- The scheduled date for WordPress 6.6 Beta 1 is June 4, which is less than 2 weeks away
- What’s new in Gutenberg 18.4 (22 May)
- @ellatrix recently announced that the last 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/ release to go into WP 6.6 will have an RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. next Friday, May 31.
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.
June 2024 Schedule:
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