Week in Core, Mar 29 – Mar 5 2016

Welcome back the latest issue of Week in Core, covering changes [37092-37160]. Here are the highlights:

• 69 commits
• 16 contributors
• 62 tickets created
• 7 tickets reopened
• 32 tickets closed
• Target release date for 4.5 is April 12th

Ticket numbers based on trac timeline for the period above.

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Accessibility

• Improvements for the Editor wpLink modal form fields. [37160] #33301

Build/Test Tools

• Adjust unit tests to account for change in [37145].
• Adjust unit tests to account for change in [37144] [37150]
• Remove Debugging code introduced in [37145] [37148]
• Remove Debugging code introduced in [37146] [37147]

• Wrap the formatted comment text on the comment moderation screen in comment_text() so paragraphs and texturisation are applied. [37158] #34133

Customize

• Fix toggle of title attribute field visibility on nav menus admin page. [37153] #35273, #36353
• Put focus on change button instead of remove button in media control. [37152] #36337
• Respect aspect ratio on cropped images. [37113] #36318

Docs

• Ignore _wp_upload_dir_baseurl() from parsing for the Code Reference. [37114] #36371

Editor

• Remove trailing space from a help text string. [37159] #36407
• Restore the bottom half of the modal. Make it always expanded and remove the toggle. It is used as advanced link options now, no need to have simple mode. [37154] #36359

Embeds

• Improve how iframes are loaded after being initially hidden. [37093] #35894

General

• Add deprecated notice and removal warning to _wp_upload_dir_baseurl(). [37112] #36371
• Snoopy: use escapeshellarg instead of escapeshellcmd [37102-37094]

HTTP API

• Improve detection of valid IP addresses. [37123-37115]

I18N

• Clarify translator comment for an a11y label added in [36618]. [37155] #35111, #36396

Javascript

• Add nonce to AJAX action for script compression setting. Merges [37143] to the 4.4 branch [37144] [37143]

Networks and Sites

• Improve escaping in network settings.  [37132-37124]
• Validate new email address confirmations. [37111-37103]

Plugins

• Use correct placeholder for the number of reviews. [37156] #35111, #36395

Role/Capability

• Add create_sites and delete_sites to the list of capabilities that are checked as part of the comporehensive roles and capabilities tests. [37157] #32394, #36413

Taxonomy

• Make sure taxonomy functions work correctly with taxonomy names with special characters [37142-37136], [37134], [37133]

Themes

• Remove $size reference from get_custom_logo().  [37135] #36327

Upgrade/Install

• Add Nonce to updating wporg_favorites user meta field Merges [37145] to the 4.4 branch [37146] [37145]

Thanks to @adamsilverstein, @afercia, @azaozz, @dimadin, @DrewAPicture, @iseulde, @jeremyfelt, @johnbillion, @jorbin, @nbachiyski, @obenland, @ocean90, @sidati, @swissspidy, @TacoVerdo, and @westonruter for their contributions!

Week in Core, Mar 29 – Mar 5 2016 by Andrew Rockwell was originally posted at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/04/07/week-in-core-mar-29-mar-5-2016/