What's new for developers (October 2023)

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What's new for developers (October 2023) #170

Closed bph closed 8 months ago

bph commented 9 months ago

This is a rolling discussion for a new monthly series that is intended to keep track of the items, PRs, Trac tickets, and Make blog posts that are interesting/important for developers. The goal is to publish a post on the 10th of each month with the previous month's updates.

Everyone is welcome to contribute to this monthly document. If you find something interesting, just create a new reply to this discussion below.

Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_lhva1_BB3eHM8DVpuazCHTUQUzLHL3UjGtdkw-S4Ts/edit#heading=h.8c87ntigzvhh

Resources to track:

Keeping up with Gutenberg: Index 2022 A Week in Core Gutenberg plugin release posts Core editor chat, dev chat, performance team meeting summaries Dev Notes

dingo-d commented 9 months ago

Hi!

I'd like to report the release of the 3.0.1 version of WordPress Coding Standards: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards/releases/tag/3.0.1

bph commented 9 months ago

Congrats for the fast release! @dingo-d - Thank you so much for sharing we'll add it to the post.

justintadlock commented 9 months ago

Just a heads up that the linked Google Doc is not currently public. :)

bph commented 9 months ago

It is now open to be commented on to anyone with a link :-) Thanks @justintadlock for the ping!

justintadlock commented 9 months ago

Breaking change with fonts

This came up in a convo today, so it'll definitely be worth looking into if it's not addressed in GB/Core.

justintadlock commented 9 months ago

This ticket was passed along by Dave Smith: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/54590

It looks like it's in the Gutenberg 16.8 release, so y'all will probably catch that one anyway.

bph commented 9 months ago

@justintadlock Thanks. Seem it's slated to be cherry-picked for 16.7 and 6.4 -

bph commented 9 months ago

Needs to be highlighted, too https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/54494

juanmaguitar commented 9 months ago

Plugin Checker - To be highlighted https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2023/09/19/update-turning-the-tide/

annezazu commented 9 months ago

Noting this as something to include: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/44214

bph commented 9 months ago

Needs to be highlighted, too https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/54494

will be moved to the November edition. the PR is part of the 16.8 which will come out after the publishing date of the October edition. (10/10)

bph commented 9 months ago

@annezazu Noting this as something to include: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/44214

This will be in the Plugin release 16.8 and will be covered in the November edition of What's new for developers

bph commented 9 months ago

Public preview is now available. for first review

Pre-publishing checklist:

[x] Post Title in Sentence case
[x] Use "Center Column" template
[x] Are Category or Categories selected?
[x] Are Tags identifies?
[x] Is there an explicit Excerpt?
[x] Do all images have an alt-text?
[x] Assign or upload a featured image
[x] Props added? (See Guidelines) 🙌 Publish! 📗

Post-publishing checklist

[x] add Props for reviews to #props channel in WP Slack (Example) (use Slack handles)
[x] add copy for a social post as comment to this issue (example)
[x] close the issue with a comment to link to the published post
[x] close the accompanying discussion with the link to the published post.

justintadlock commented 8 months ago

I did a quick review and found some minor issues. I didn't make any changes directly since this is already a draft post:

Dates shouldn't use the ordinal number (e.g., 1st, 2nd, etc.). For example, "November 7th, 2023" becomes "November 7, 2023."
In the intro section, "nexxt major" should be "next major."
Use the Notice block instead of a Paragraph block for the alert box. It will have the correct padding.
Can you add a screenshot for the Background for Group blocks section? It's not 100% necessary, but if it's worth highlighting, I like to showcase it visually.
Make sure to change backticks to inline code in the editor. There are a few spots (probably where I added them in the initial doc).
"light box" should be "lightbox."
The lightbox code example could be tightened up by removing the extra spacing between lines.
The list in the "More design tools for Core blocks" has inconsistent period usage at the end of the list items. I'd prefer to add a period after each here.
Need a link for the "Font Library and Management" section. Actually, do we need this section at all? It's already mentioned in the intro.

bph commented 8 months ago

@justintadlock Thank you for the thorough review. All issues fixed.

It's scheduled now for October 10 at 3pm UTC Again the publish preview link here

bph commented 8 months ago

Social Copy:

Gutenberg as a framework, Background image in Group block, Lightbox for images and so much more: October roundup of What's new for Developers https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/10/whats-new-for-developers-october-2023/ #WordPressDevBlog

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bph commented 4 months ago

schedule for 2/26 on social networks.