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News
WordPress 5.9 RC 2.WordPress 5.8.3 Security Release.Help Test WordPress 5.9 Features.People of WordPress: Collins Agbonghama.
Accessibility
Accessibility Team’s goals for WordPress 6.0 and beyond.
Community
Proposal: Mandatory Safety Measures for In-person WordPress Events in 2022.WordPress 5.9 Talking Points for Meetup Organizers: Six Features You Will Love About This Release.
Docs
Meeting Notes: Theme docs updates for WP 5.9 and block themes.
Articles:
Site EditorBlock themesNavigation BlockTemplate Part BlockTemplate EditorStyles Overview
Hosting
WordPress 5.9 and PHP 8.0-8.1.
Marketing
Help contribute to social media materials for the 5.9 release.
Meta
Discussion: Meta focuses in 2022.
Mobile
Call for Testing: WordPress for Android 19.0.Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 19.0.
Polyglots
WordPress 5.9 ready to be translated.
Themes
Gutenberg and Themes: Week of Dec 5.
Training
Social Learning Spaces Streaming Platforms.Learn WordPress Version Taxonomy.January 2022 Sprint.Team Goal Setting 2022.
Courses:
Simple Site Design with Full Site Editing.
Test
Hallway Hangout: Let’s talk about WordPress 6.0.
Updates
Journal Entry | Log4j Vulnerability.
Openverse
Core
There’s a lot of information coming over the next few weeks leading up to the WordPress 5.9 release. Check back on the dev notes section as it will grow throughout the week when new posts are published.
Field Notes
Block Editor
Block themes, a new way to build themes in WordPress 5.9.Updates for Settings, Styles, and theme.json.Gallery Block Refactor Dev Note.The new Navigation block.State of the Customizer with block themes in WordPress 5.9.Take more control over Inner Block Areas (as a block developer).Using multiple stylesheets per block.New Capability Queries in WordPress 5.9.Locking Blocks in WordPress 5.9.
Theme & Customizer
State of the Customizer with block themes in WordPress 5.9.Theme-focused changes and filters in WordPress 5.9.Bundled theme updates with WordPress 5.9.
Performance
Enhanced lazy-loading performance in 5.9.WordPress 5.9 Performance Improvements.
Core API
Posts, Post types and Taxonomy changes in WordPress 5.9.New Capability Queries in WordPress 5.9.New API to access global settings & styles.
Internationalization
Introducing new language switcher on the login screen in WP 5.9.
PHP 8.0 and 8.1
WordPress 5.9 and PHP 8.0-8.1.
Tooling
Changes to the WordPress Core PHP Test Suite.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Core changes in WordPress 5.9.
General
What’s new in Gutenberg 12.3? (5 January).Proposal: Changes to JavaScript Coding Standards for Full Prettier Compatibility.A Week in Core – January 10, 2022.Discussion: 2022 Major Release Timing.Proposal: Approving Block Pattern Directory Submissions.
Reminder: Gutenberg 11.9 ships with WordPress 5.9.
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