WordPress 6.8 is currently scheduled for release on April 15th. On Tuesday, March 25, the first release candidate marked the string freeze point for the 6.8 release. A string freeze means that no more new strings should be introduced or changed in the codebase. The only exception is the About page in the admin.
Version 6.8 introduces some changes to files that cannot use gettext. These files will require manual translation and deployment from Locale Managers with commit access on the /dist repository.
The readme.html file is now set to noindex,nofollow
Because site owners likely don’t intend for the content of the readme.html file to be indexed, as it’s unrelated to the site content, a noindex,nofollow meta tag was added to this file, to prevent it from being indexed. Polyglot teams that are translating this file manually are encouraged to update their version.
To follow this changeset, just add the following line before the <title> tag in the <head> section of the page:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
For more information, refer to Trac ticket #63069 (the related changeset may be easier to read)
Removal of the Cafelog URL in readme.html
This changeset removed Cafelog links from licence.txt and readme.html files as the domain was purchased by another entity, providing unsafe content. For more information, see Trac ticket #63000 (or the related changeset).
In this changeset, this line:
<p>WordPress is the official continuation of <a href="https://cafelog.com/">b2/cafélog</a>, which came from Michel V. The work has been continued by the <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/">WordPress developers</a>. If you would like to support WordPress, please consider <a href="https://wordpress.org/donate/">donating</a>.</p>Was replaced with:
<p>WordPress is the official continuation of b2/cafélog, which came from Michel V. The work has been continued by the <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/">WordPress developers</a>. If you would like to support WordPress, please consider <a href="https://wordpress.org/donate/">donating</a>.</p>Please update your readme.html file accordingly.