WordPress Development Updates
- 19. April 2024Merge Proposal: Rollback Auto-Update
Background The biggest risk for a site owner when updating plugins is encountering a PHP fatal error that crashes their website. While Core updates are protected by automatic rollbacks since WordPress … - 18. April 2024Summary, Dev Chat, April 17, 2024
Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @joemcgill. Announcements The WordPress 6.5 retrospective post has been published, please fill in the survey if you would like to leave feedback or sugges … - 17. April 2024Agenda, Dev Chat, Wednesday April 17, 2024
The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section. … - 16. April 2024Performance Chat Summary: 16 April 2024
Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. Announcements Priority Items Structure: WordPress Performance Trac Tickets Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance … - 15. April 2024WordPress 6.5.3: An upcoming maintenance release
WordPress 6.5.3 is scheduled to be the next maintenance release for the 6.5 version. Its release will follow the following preliminary schedule: Specific times will be decided in advance and adjustmen … - 15. April 2024Performance Chat Agenda: 16 April 2024
Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for . If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below. This meeting happens in the … - 12. April 2024Bundled Theme Bug Scrubs
Starting there will be a bundled theme bug scrub. Currently, there are over 326 tickets in the bundled theme component queue. Recently, efforts have been made to reduce the queue, which is going well. … - 12. April 2024WordPress 6.5 Release Retrospective
Here's another easy way to contribute: share your feedback on the 6.5 release process! Comments and the survey form are open until April 26. - 12. April 2024Summary, Dev Chat, April 10, 2024
Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @mikachan. Announcements WordPress 6.5.2 Maintenance and Security Release was released on Tuesday, April 9. WordPress version 6.5.1 could not be released … - 10. April 2024Agenda, Dev Chat, Wednesday April 10, 2024
The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section. … - 10. April 2024Performance Chat Summary: 9 April 2024
Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. Announcements Priority Items Structure: WordPress Performance Trac Tickets Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance … - 10. April 2024What’s new in Gutenberg 18.1? (10 April)
“What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing new features included in each release. As a reminder … - 9. April 2024What Happened to WordPress 6.5.1?
Observant folks will notice that the first minor release for WordPress 6.5 is 6.5.2 instead of 6.5.1. This is due to an error with the initial package. When the tag for 6.5.1 was created on the WordPr … - 9. April 2024Speculative Loading in WordPress
The WordPress Performance Team recently published a new plugin called “Speculative Loading” which enables a new technology of the same name to automatically prerender certain URLs on the page, which c … - 8. April 2024Dropping support for PHP 7.0 and 7.1
Support for PHP 7.0 and 7.1 will be dropped in WordPress 6.6, scheduled for release in July 2024. The new minimum supported version of PHP will be 7.2.24. The recommended version of PHP remains at 7.4 … - 8. April 2024Performance Chat Agenda: 9 April 2024
Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for . If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below. This meeting happens in the … - 5. April 2024Conducting WordPress performance research in the field
Over the past few years, several Make Core posts, for example the 2023 performance retrospective, have referenced field data based on how real users experience millions of real WordPress sites. Such f … - 5. April 2024Developer Blog editorial meeting summary, April 4, 2024
Summary of the WordPress Developer Blog meeting, which took place in the #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress Slack. Start of the meeting in Slack. Attendees: @greenshady, @matteoenna, @ironn … - 4. April 2024Hallway Hangout: Let’s chat about what’s next in Gutenberg
There are some big, exciting efforts underway within the Gutenberg project and plugin that will eventually make their way in some form to a future WordPress release. It’s all WordPress at the end of t … - 3. April 2024Summary, Dev Chat, April 3, 2024
Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @joemcgill. Announcements WordPress 6.5 “Regina” was released yesterday! Thank you to everyone who worked on, tested, and supported this release 🎉 Forthco …
