Agenda, Dev Chat, Wednesday March 20, 2024

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on  Wednesday March 20, 2024 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack.

The live meeting will focus on the discussion for updates on 6.5, and have an open floor section.

Additional items will be referred to in the various curated agenda sections, as below. If you have ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. requests for help, please do continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda.

Announcements

WordPress 6.5 RC 3 was released on March 19, 2024. Thanks to everyone involved and those who helped test.

Forthcoming releases

Next major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.5

Updates from the release squad can be shared in the Dev Chat.

• WordPress 6.5 Release Candidate Phase

Please continue to test the 6.5 release. See this list of key features to test, which was published alongside WP 6.5 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 3.

Next GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ release: 18.0

Gutenberg 18.0 is scheduled for release on March 27 and will include these issues.

Discussions

This week the discussion will focus on any priority topics that need to be raised before the launch of WordPress 6.5.

Proposed topics

• Are there any priority topics needed for discussion ahead of the WordPress 6.5 release?
  • Is there a need for a silent RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta).?

Feel free to suggest additional topics related to this release in the comments.

Highlighted posts

• WordPress 6.5 Field Guide
• New Feature: Font Library
• How to register block variations with PHP

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Editor Updates

• Designs updated on Phase 3: Collaboration > Media Library reflecting some recent thinking and work in light of data views.
• Unify publishing flow between post and site editor as part of aligning features in the site and post editor work.
• WIP: Advancing site editor index views to help surface pages and templates lists sooner in the site editor flows.
• Data Views: Forms around introducing a “fields” config for each data view component to help reduce repeated work and offer a more cohesive experience.
• Epic: Connecting block attributes and custom fields & Block Bindings API updated with 6.6 in mind. Please keep sharing feedback to help scope out what’s next!
• Introduce overrides in synced patterns epic (WordPress 6.6) created to start thinking about 6.6 once more and bringing forward a previously punted feature. As part of this, design discussions are underway to improve the UI clarity for using named overrides
• Font Library bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. fixed around loading and unloading font faces in the browser when toggling the variants
• Updated Reddit social icon to the latest brand guidelines
• Refactored the Zoom-Out iFrame scale
• Fixed a bug that caused the editor to crash when trying to edit typography variations or color variations before they are loaded
• Fixed bug around the selected featured image when opening media library
• Video walkthrough all about the most recent progress and thinking behind the admin redesign project

Tickets for assistance

Tickets for 6.5 will be prioritized.
Please include detail of tickets / PR and the links into comments, and if you intend to be available during the meeting if there are any questions or will be async.

Open floor

Items for this can be shared in the comments.

Props to @joemcgill for reviewing.

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