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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:
- #63906 Review and improve reliability of language pack upgrades
- #63918 updated_…_meta meta_id is string not int – wrong docs
- #63908 Style concatenation may duplicate inline styles
- #63923 style-engine: Add string check to prevent fatal errors from malformed block attributes
- #63916 Reinstall page advises users to delete their previous database
- #63929 WordPress sitemap not indexing correctly when custom post types are used
- #63940 Prevent POST flood cache bypass attacks
- #63909 Automatic excerpts: support lists in addition to columns and groups
- #63932 Investigate failing Imagick tests on PHP 8.3 and 8.4
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:
- #62468 wp_update_post overwrites post_date when updating post_status
- #60628 Issues with avif image imagecreatefromavif not working. Resizing not possible.
- #28821 Admin page registered with add_menu_page() allows access through wrong URls and hightlights wrong top level menu item
- #63876 Certificate verification failure causing PHP 8.3 and 8.4 workflows to fail
- #61097 Filter `wp_count_posts()` query before execution to avoid slow query
- #63920 get_adjacent_post() has a misplaced check for WP_Error
- #63821 Proposal: Drop support for IE conditional scripts and styles
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:
6.9 Related issues need testing
The following 6.9 tickets need testing, those are having patches:
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