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This Week at WordPress.org (March 25, 2024)

News

• WordPress 6.5 Release Candidate 4
• Zip uploads not working from Finder/Nautilus/Gnome/etc in WP 6.4.3
  • Workarounds and testing the patch

WordPress 6.5

• Understanding and Testing Font Library Feature with block editor theme
• WordPress 6.5 Release Candidate 4
• WordPress 6.5 release delayed 1 week
• WordPress 6.5 release delayed 1 week
• Font Library update: storage of font files
• Drop Shadow updates in WordPress 6.5
• WordPress 6.5 Field Guide
• New Feature: Font Library
• WordPress 6.5 Release Candidate 3
• 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)

Share your thoughts on what the block theme tag should be for https://w.org/themes

In this trac issue https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7524 , it’s proposed to update the  full site editing tag for block themes. What makes the most sense to you all to include?

Anne McCarthy

• jQuery 4.0.0 BETA!
• Curl for 8.7.1
• Node 21.7.1
• React 18.2.0
• PHP 8.3.4 Released!
• PHP 8.2.17 Released!
• PHP 8.1.27 Released!
• PHPCS 3.9.0
• WPCS 3.1.0
• Requests 2.0.11
• PHPMailer 6.9.1
• PHP Parallel Lint 1.4.0
• LibZip 1.10.1
• MySQL 8.3
• Composer 2.7.2
• Homebrew 4.2.14
• TC39
• Chromium Roadmap
• Firefox Release Calendar
• Safari Release Notes

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