Week in Core, Feb. 2-9 2016

Hi everybody! Welcome back to the latest issue of Week in Core, covering changes from February 2nd [36471] – February 9th [36504], changesets [36471-36504]. Here are the highlights:

• 34 commits
• 19 contributors with props
• 114 tickets created
• 13 tickets reopened
• 52 tickets closed

Ticket numbers based on trac timeline for the period above.

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Code Updates

Accessibility

• Simplify the Plugins and Themes tables on the Updates screen. [36477] #34780

Administration

• In login_header(), use correct separator for RTL locales. [36487] #35737

Comments

• Restore the ability to bypass post_id filter using 0 or ‘0’. Reverts [36381], [36387]. [36480] #35090
• Add parent__in and parent__not_in to query var defaults. [36479] #35677
• Allow comments to be queried by ‘any’ post_type or post_status. [36486] #35512

Database

• Use the new wpdb::close() method for closing the DB connection. [36478] #34903

Docs

• Fix a variety of phpDoc issues [36471] [36472] [36473] [36474] [36475] [36476] [36493] [36494] [36495] [36496] [36499] [36500] [36501] #32246
• Revert unintended changes in wp-includes/post.php, mistakenly included in [36497]. [36498] #34988, #33701
• Add a missing version to the file header for wp-admin/term.php, introduced in [36308]. [36497] #34988, #33701
• Add a note to the DocBlock for current_user_can() to explain that it will always return true for super admins, unless specifically denied. [36492] #35551
• Fix two notations in the DocBlocks for show_admin_bar() and is_admin_bar_showing() to reflect use of the $show_admin_bar global rather than $wp_admin_bar. [36491] #35686
• Use the correct parameter name in the DocBlock for wp_kses_post_deep(), introduced in [36429]. [36489] #35700, #35316
• Add a missing type to the return description for map_deep(). [36488] #35700

Posts

• Make the $post param optional in get_post_field(). When $post is null, the current post object will be returned. [36481] #35683

Taxonomy

• Allow get_terms() results to ordered by metadata. […] This brings order-by-meta support for terms in line with post, comment, and user queries. [36485] #34996
• WP_Query taxonomy query vars should be set to first of multiple taxonomies […] for better parity with get_queried_object(), which will return the first taxonomy/term matched by the current query. [36484] #35619

Themes

• Pass information about the old theme in the form of a WP_Theme object when the switch_theme action is fired. [36502] #22401

TinyMCE

• TinyMCE inline link improvement and fixes. [36483] #33301

Users

• Display the new user email notice in user admin too. Also […], use the global $pagenow and add a translators comment for the placeholder. [36504] #35767
• Use self_admin_url() for the email change confirmation link – prevents sending users to wp-admin/profile.php if they only have access to wp-admin/user/profile.php. [36503] #35766
• When updating a user, invalidate its ‘userslugs’ cache. [36482] #35750

Props

Thanks to @afercia, @azaozz, @boonebgorges, @Chouby, @danielbachhuber, @DrewAPicture, @eherman24, @finnj, @Frozzare, @jadpm, @kouratoras, @markoheijnen, @MikeHansenMe, @ocean90, @pento, @ramiy, @sebastianpisula, @SergeyBiryukov, and @thebrandonallen for their contributions!

Week in Core, Feb. 2-9 2016 by Grant Palin was originally posted at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/02/11/week-in-core-feb-2-9-2016/