Jb Audras 9:50 pm on April 29, 2025
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Summary, Dev Chat, Apr 23, 2025

Start of the meeting in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/., facilitated by @francina. 🔗 Agenda post.

Announcements 📢

WordPress 6.8 is now available 🥳

WordPress 6.8 was released as scheduled and it was named after the legendary jazz pianist Cecil Taylor.

For now, 6.8 is identified as the last major release of the year.

A post was published about performance enhancements in 6.8.

Forthcoming releases 🚀

WordPress 6.8.1

@jorbin is leading WP 6.8.1 which is scheduled for Wednesday April, 30, after the dev chat.

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/ 20.7

Gutenberg 20.7 was released on Tuesday April, 22.

Discussion 💬

@mamaduka and @karmatosed are planning to start working on the backlog management in the Gutenberg repository. The plan is to close non-actionable issues/tickets and stale PRs. This was mentioned during the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Committers call and they just trying to get things moving at this moment. They will try to publish a more detailed announcement once the path is clear.

@sirlouen reported that the conflictconflict A conflict occurs when a patch changes code that was modified after the patch was created. These patches are considered stale, and will require a refresh of the changes before it can be applied, or the conflicts will need to be resolved. between the needs-testing and needs-testing-info keywords in search results on WordPress Core TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. (Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. 7935) was about to be resolved by the next #core-test team meeting.

@justlevine is looking for discussion and assistance to move forward with the following tickets:

  • #49442: a parse_blocks filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output., so we can stop dumping parsing functionality on render_blocks
  • #61175: Implementing PHPStan in core, which was recently discussed

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