Dev Chat Summary, April 13

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from April 13.

WordPress 4.5

• WordPress 4.5 was released on schedule.
• @swissspidy and @adamsilverstein were proposed to lead the next minor release (4.5.1). Both accepted the nomination.
• Current status:
  • The jQuery update in 4.5 includes an intentional change which broke a few themes/plugins. Unquoted # in attribute selectors are now causing a syntax error (a[href*=#] vs a[href*="#"]). jQuery was updated in [36285] four months ago.
    Next steps: A make/core posts which explains the issue and to educate developers. It shouldn’t focus on end users. @georgestephanis and @jorbin are preparing the post.
  • #36501: Issue seems to be limited because it only affects an old version of ImageMagick.
  • #36510: Themes like Twenty Eleven don’t expect the new .singular body class. Needs a decision on how to fix the issue and if an update of Twenty Eleven is necessary.
  • #36506: A change to the rewrite rules for IIS installs is breaking sites because of duplicate rules. Patch is available, needs more testing.

WordPress 4.6

• Announcements:
  • Trunk is open for 4.6.
  • The official kick of meeting for WordPress 4.6 will be next Wednesday, April 20th.
  • There will be two posts over the next few days:
    • “WordPress 4.6: What’s on your wish list?”
    • “Call for Volunteers”
      • @swissspidy, @iseulde, @crowdedtent, @arush, and @voldemortensen showed interest for being a release deputy/backup.
• Pre-4.6 tasks:
  • Call for Component Maintainers
    • The release will heavily focus on work of each component, because we’ll try something different this cycle: Bug scrubs per component.
• Open discussions:
  • Question by @krogsgard whether I’ll look back through past idea posts and filter any candidates, or folks should bring ideas again from the beginning. I suggested to start from the beginning.

View the full logs on Slack.

Dev Chat Summary, April 13 by Dominik Schilling (ocean90) was originally posted at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/04/17/dev-chat-summary-april-13/