This Week at WordPress.org (March 10, 2024)
News
- WordPress 6.5 Release Candidate 2
- Highlights from WordCamp Asia 2024
- WordCamp Asia 2024: Q&A with Matt Mullenweg
- Zip uploads not working from Finder/Nautilus/Gnome/etc in WP 6.4.3
WordPress 6.5
- Unblocking WP6.5 – Font Library and Synced Pattern Overrides
- Miscellaneous Editor changes in WordPress 6.5
- Miscellaneous developer changes in WordPress 6.5
- WordPress 6.5 Release Candidate 2
- WordPress 6.5 ready to be translated
- Unblocking WP6.5 – Font Library and Synced Pattern Overrides
- New Feature: The Block Bindings API
- WordPress 6.5 Release Candidate Phase
- Introducing Plugin Dependencies in WordPress 6.5
- Unification of the site and post editors in 6.5
- Updates to the HTML API in 6.5
- Interactivity API in 6.5
- Script Modules in 6.5
- Block metadata viewScriptModule field in 6.5
- Updates to Block Hooks in 6.5
- Performance improvements for registering block variations with callbacks
- I18N Improvements in 6.5 (Performant Translations)
- WordPress 6.5 adds AVIF support
- Merge Announcement: Interactivity API
- Merge Announcement: Plugin Dependencies
- Welcoming 2024 with WordPress 6.5 Beta 1
- WordPress 6.5 Beta 3
- WordPress 6.5 Beta 2
- WordPress 6.5 Beta 1
- Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 1
- 6.5 Release Parties Schedule and Hosts
- Editor: Important milestones for WordPress 6.5
- WordPress 6.5 release squad formation
- Discussion: Training’s contribution to the 6.5 release (and beyond)
Accessibility
Community
Core
Core Meetings
- Summary, Dev Chat, March 13, 2024
- Developer Blog editorial meeting summary, March 7, 2024
- Performance Chat Summary: 12 March 2024
Developer Blog:
- What’s new for developers? (March 2024)
- Introducing Block Bindings, part 2: Working with custom binding sources
Data Liberation
Design
Meta
- Doc: Plugin Repo Live Preview and Playground Blueprint
- Introduce limits for readme field length
- Show Photo Directory contribution in Activity stream
- Add “My favorites” functionality to the WordPress Photo Directory
Mobile
Openverse
Playground
- Latest NGINX equivalent for .htaccess to host a playground
- A doc page to list everything you can do with Playground
- WP shell command doesn’t work in WP-CLI
Plugins
Polyglots
- Translation Events
- Translation Events Prototype
- Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – March 13, 2024 (13:00 UTC)
Support
- Discussion on changes needed for Forums to adhere to the Digital Services Act (DSA)
- Should mods delete links on topics when requested?
Sustainability
Test
Themes
- Themes team update March 12, 2024
- Themes Team Meeting Notes – March 12, 2024
- Themes team meeting agenda for March 12, 2024
Training
- Training Team Meeting Recap – 7th March 2024
- Discussion: possible collaboration to transform learning pathways to Skill Trees
Online Workshops
WPTV
Related News:
- jQuery 4.0.0 BETA!
- Curl for 8.6.0
- Node 21.7.0
- React 18.2.0
- PHP 8.3.3 Released!
- PHP 8.2.16 Released!
- PHP 8.1.27 Released!
- PHPCS 3.9.0
- WPCS 3.0.1
- PHPMailer 6.9.1
- LibZip 1.10.1
- MySQL 8.0.36 (2024-01-16, General Availability)
- Composer 2.7.2
- Homebrew 4.2.12
- TC39
- Chromium Roadmap
- Firefox Release Calendar
- Safari Release Notes
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