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News
- WordPress 6.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Now Available for Testing
- The Month in WordPress – April 2022
- WordPress 6.0 Field Guide
- New Five for the Future section below!
Accessibility
- Request for feedback on the WordPress Accessibility Statement.
Central
- WordCamp Europe 2022 is just around the corner
- Join the European WordPress Community in Porto, Portugal!
Core
Reminder: Gutenberg 13.0 ships with WordPress 6.0.
- Add Site Health test for full page caching (advanced cache)
- Proposal: API to facilitate more accurate sizes #140
- Proposal: Regenerate existing image
- Research: Impact of additional WebP images on upload
- Research: WebP compatibility
- Measurement overview doc
- Capturing front-end performance metrics in WordPress doc
- A Week in Core – May 2, 2022
DevNotes
Leading up to releasing WordPress 6.0, DevNotes and release-related information will remain.
- WordPress 6.0 Field Guide
- Block Locking Settings in WordPress 6.0
- WordPress 6.0 Release Candidate Phase
- Miscellaneous Dev Notes for WordPress 6.0
- Block Editor miscellaneous Dev Notes for WordPress 6.0
- Page creation patterns in WordPress 6.0
- Global Styles variations in WordPress 6.0
- Separator block: Updated to use block supports color settings
- Block markup updates for image, quote, list, and group blocks
- Support for handling resolution errors for Editor data module
- Taxonomy performance improvements in WordPress 6.0
- Changes to the do_parse_request filter in WordPress 6.0
- Caching improvements in WordPress 6.0
- New filter to modify content images in WordPress 6.0
- Media: storing file size as part of the metadata
- Updates to the @wordpress/create-block templating system
- Object type-specific registration hooks in 6.0
- Taxonomy performance improvements in WordPress 6.0
- New features for working with patterns and themes in WordPress 6.0
- Theme export in WordPress 6.0
- WP_User_Query now accepts fields options in WordPress 6.0
- Performance increase for sites with large user counts (now also available on a single site)
Docs
- WordPress release 6.0 Trac ticket triage for docs
- Documentation Team Update – April 25, 2022
- Documentation Team Update – May 9, 2022
Support Docs:
Five for the Future
What’s happening specific to Five for the Future? Provide your feedback on these posts:
- Consider launching end-to-end solution for a specific team
- Tracking contributions: receiving special access
- Tracking contributions: meeting attendance
- Tracking Contributions: HelpScout
- Tracking Contributions: Contributors share their contributions periodically.
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