What's new for developers? (November 2023)

[justintadlock]

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/1v8kmYmRY3_3FH7WawKxXoHyQ1g4_-mfYyO6xL5oAp4g/edit?usp=sharing

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

[justintadlock]

Noting this for later: https://twitter.com/aurooba/status/1714323750781665402

[bph]

suggested being included in our round-up however punted to Nov edition because of release schedule cc @justintadlock

• https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/44214
• https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/54494

[justintadlock]

The draft for this is now ready for review: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v8kmYmRY3_3FH7WawKxXoHyQ1g4_-mfYyO6xL5oAp4g/edit?usp=sharing

[thetinyl]

@justintadlock Nice! Took a look and made some suggestions in the doc for your consideration.

[justintadlock]

@thetinyl - Thanks for the review!

This is now drafted on the Dev Blog and ready to be published tomorrow: https://developer.wordpress.org/news/?p=2190&preview=1&_ppp=12515b033f

[justintadlock]

Published! 🎉

Social Copy:

With WordPress 6.4 now shipped around the world, make sure you catch up with all the developer-focused changes in the latest release and get a look ahead at some upcoming features:

https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/11/whats-new-for-developers-november-2023/

[bph]

scheduled on social for 2/27