Week in Core, Mar 1 – Mar 8 2016

Welcome back the latest issue of Week in Core, covering changes [36801-36888]. Here are the highlights:

• WordPress 4.5 Beta 2 released!
• 88 commits
• 42 contributors
• 82 tickets created
• 19 tickets reopened
• 90 tickets closed

Ticket numbers based on trac timeline for the period above.

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Code Changes

Build/Test Tools

• Update grunt-contrib-copy ~0.8.2 → ~1.0.0 [36864] #35104
• Update Autoprefixer to 6.3.3 [36860] #35104
• Update grunt-contrib-cssmin ~0.14.0 → ~1.0.0 [36865] #35104
• Update grunt-contrib-concat ~0.5.1 → ~1.0.0 [36863] #35104
• Update grunt-contrib-compress ~0.14.0 → ~1.1.0 [36862] #35104
• Update grunt-contrib-clean from 0.6.0 → 1.0.0 [36861] #35104
• Document PHP unit test classes. [36854] #35494

Customize

• Improve the collapsed view when switching to the responsive view. [36877] #35220
• Fix image cropping when doing live preview of theme switches. Ensure that the Customizer gets bootstrapped with the pre-activated theme supplied in the custom-header-crop admin ajax requests. [36866] #32783
• Fix visibility of preview in iOS. Removes CSS rule added in [21014] that is now obsolete. [36804] #20805, #35875
• Eliminate unnecessary WP_Customize_Site_Logo_Control in favor of re-using WP_Customize_Image_Control. Fixes #35941. [36851] #36096, #33755, #35941
• Don’t show custom image sizes in the media modal. Custom image sizes for logos should only be used for their intended purpose. [36839] #33755
• Rename custom logo classes after [36837]. [36838] #35945
• Site logos are custom logos. Brings the nomenclature closer to custom headers and backgrounds. See #35945. [36837] #35945
• Remove gap above section contained in panel when initially focusing on control. [36805] #36050
• Define params on WP_Customize_Partial::render_callback() for the sake of subclasses overriding this method. [36801] #27355

Date/Time

• Add a unit test for mysql_to_rfc3339(). [36832] #36054

Docs

• Improve documentation for the update_welcome_user_email() filter, introduced in [26538]. [36827] #25598, #35986
• Minorly improve the hook doc summary for the pre_network_site_new_created_user action, introduced in [35786]. [36826] #33631, #35986
• Improve documentation for upgrade_450(), introduced in [36180]. [36825] #27772, #35323, #35986
• Minorly improve the hook doc summary for the pre_uninstall_plugin action, introduced in [36124]. [36824] #34569, #35986
• Add a more descriptive changelog entry to the hook doc for the privacy_on_link_title filter. [36823] #35049, #35986
• Improve documentation for WP_Upgrader::release_lock(), introduced in [36349]. [36822] #34878, #35986
• Use third-person singular verbs in DocBlock summaries for the WP_Site_Logo class, introduced in [36698]. Also minorly improves various inline docs. [36820] #33755, #35986
• Add wp_add_dashboard_widget() parameter descriptions. [36868] #36092
• Correct $plugins global type in WP_Plugins_List_Table::prepare_items(). [36830] #36080
• Improve syntax and correct documentation throughout a variety of methods in WP_Customize_Widgets. [36842] #32246, #35986
• Improve documentation for WP_Customize_Widgets::customize_dynamic_partial_args(), introduced in [36586]. [36841] #27355, #35986
• Improve DocBlock syntax for WP_Customize_Nav_Menus::customize_dynamic_partial_args(), introduced in [36586]. [36836] #27355, #35986
• Improve documentation for WP_Customize_Nav_Menus::filter_nonces(), introduced in [36414]. [36835] #27355, #35617, #35986
• Add a missing @since version to the DocBlock for wp_add_dashboard_widget(). [36878] #32246
• Improve DocBlock syntax and add a missing @return notation for WP_Image_Editor_Imagick::strip_meta(), introduced in [36700]. [36847] #33642, #30402, #28634, #35986
• Improve the hook doc summary for the image_strip_meta filter, introduced in [36700]. [36846] #33642, #30402, #28634, #35986
• Improve documentation for WP_Upgrader::create_lock(), introduced in [36349]. [36821] #34878, #35986
• Match the parameter name in the hook docs for the press_this_useful_html_elements filter, introduced in [36672]. [36819] #34455, #35986
• Standardize the changelog entry for the new $author_url argument, introduced in [36224]. [36834] #35377, #35986
• Move the hook doc for the all_plugins filter in WP_Plugins_List_Table::prepare_items() to directly precede the apply_filters() line. [36828] #35986

Editor

• TinyMCE, inline link: Add uiAutocompleteL10n with translatable strings for use in UI Autocomplete live region. [36806] #33301
• Fix the icon for the native dialogs close button. Highlight the button on :focus. [36857] #36035
• TinyMCE, inline link: add styling for the dialog and UI Autocomplete to Press This. [36849] #33301
• TinyMCE: then toggling the paste in plain text mode disable the warning message after the second time. [36807] #28612
• TinyMCE: update to 4.3.7. Has few bug/regression Fixes #36035. [36803] #36035

Embeds

• During discovery, only request the first 150kb of linked content to avoid timouts requesting larger documents. [36880] #35979
• Adjust the iframe title attribute for improved accessibility. Changes the title attribute from Embedded WordPress Post to "Post name" — site title. [36873] #35804
• Embeds: Add support for embeds in the theme template hierarchy. [36875] #35421

Emoji

• Fix some jshint warnings introduced in [36816]. [36818] #35300
• Add some extra IE11 compatibility. [36817] #35977
• Clean up the emoji browser support tests. [36816] #35300

External Libraries

• Update Random_Compat from 1.1.6 to 1.2.1. [36886] #35665

Filesystem API

• Tests: Merge the two different wp_normalize_path() tests. [36882] #35996
• Support Windows shares/DFS roots in wp_normalize_path(). [36881] #35996

General

• Fix License test. Broken in r36855 [36856] #35278
• Clarify Copyright year Based on ​http://copyright.gov/title17/92chap4.html#401 and being more consistent with the rest of the document. [36855] #35278

HTTP API

• Avoid an undefined index notice in wp_http_validate_url(). [36870] #34164

I18N

• Remove the title attributes from the old Media UI. [36879] #34944
• Fix an invalid placeholder added in [36844]. [36850] #36048
• Don’t use the locale for the HTML language attribute. [36802] #33511
• Move the aria-label text in get_theme_update_available() to a separate string for easier translation. Add translator comments. [36845] #36048
• Move the aria-label text in wp_plugin_update_row() and wp_theme_update_row() to a separate string for easier translation. Add translator comments. [36844] #36048

Media

• Change wording for media files which aren’t attached. [36887] #36089
• Tests: Remove test_new_files_are_not_in_old_files_array() from [36843].[36885] #36083
• Comment out some CSS files in $_old_files that were added back as a result of [36341]. [36843] #36083

Menus

• Avoid a notice when outputting a description for an existing archive menu item for a post type that doesn’t. [36888] #35324
• Ensure Description is respected in post type archive menu items. Introduced in r35382. [36859] #35324, #16075
• Ensure theme location setting data is saved with a large menu. [36852] #14134

Networks and Sites

• Handle redirect to a user’s subdomain properly during login [36867] #30598

Posts, Post Types

• Posts, Post Types: Ensure that non-ASCII characters in attachment slugs aren’t shown in urlencoded form in the sample permalink UI. [36853] #35980

Press This

• Change the newly added press_this_save_post_content filter to press_this_save_post and pass the $post_data array to it. Remove the newly added press_this_useful_html_elements. Remove the press_this_suggested_content filter. Add some more inline docs and rename couple of vars to make the code more readable. [36848] #34455

REST API

• Unit test for OPTIONS request should call rest_send_allow_header In [36829] we moved this logic to rest_send_allow_header() [36831] #36829
• OPTIONS requests to REST API should return Allow header. [36829] #35975

Script Loader,Media

• Enqueue the minified version of farbtastic if SCRIPT_DEBUG is false. The files are available since [36341]. [36884] #36083, #35229
• CSS: Rename the handle for deprecated-media.css after [36341]. The media handle is now used for media.css thus the stylesheet
  for the old media UI needs a different handle name. [36869] #35229
• Improve group processing of script dependencies. 36871] #35873, #35956

Security

• Setup config: Generate the default secret keys & salts from the local CSPRNG if available, falling back to the WordPress.org API and a backup psuedo random source. [36872] #35290

Taxonomy

• Improve backward compatibility on the wp-admin/term.php page. Specifically, run do_action( 'edit-tags.php' ); on this new term edit page introduced in [36308]. Changes the GET param back to tag_ID and properly sets the screen base in WP_Screen. [36874] #34988
• Remove unnecessary ‘All categories’ string on Edit Posts and Edit Links screens and use taxonomy’s all_items label instead. [36808] #36049

Themes

• Bring the device preview from [31195] to the theme install previewer. [36858] #36017

Uploads

• Remove an unnecessary static var from wp_is_mobile() to allow its direct and indirect use within unit tests. The static $is_mobile var was only used to avoid a handful of calls to strpos(), which are exceptionally fast and result in no measurable increase in processing time on each call to wp_is_mobile(). [36813] #35976, #20014
• Add tests for device upload capabilities based on user agent. [36810] #35976

Props

Thanks to @adamsilverstein, @afercia, @andg, @azaozz, @boonebgorges, @borgesbrun, @borgesbruno, @bradyvercher, @celloexpressions, @ChriCo, @dd32, @diddledan, @DrewAPicture, @ericlewis, @extendwings, @faishal, @gitlost, @jeremyfelt, @joehoyle, @joemcgill, @johnbillion, @jorbin, @keraweb, @markoheijnen, @mattwiebe, @mayukojpn, @meitar for initial patch, @mikeschroder, @mt8.biz, @netweb, @obenland, @ocean90, @pento, @perezlabs, @ramiy, @rilwis for initial patch, @rittesh.patel, @SergeyBiryukov, @stephenharris, @swissspidy, @Toro_Unit, and @westonruter for their contributions!

Week in Core, Mar 1 – Mar 8 2016 by Eric Binnion was originally posted at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/03/09/week-in-core-mar-1-mar-8-2016/