What's new for developers? (April 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/1u1dwdNdkD48qIdEQ0IyI8MR0VusiOeHiSfvPjiyrQ4o/edit

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

[bph]

I added the links to the folder for images and videos to the resources on the Google Doc

[bph]

Also, @gziolo maintains a tracking issue on the next round of updates for the Block API (#41236) - including this PR (WIP) Blocks: Add block environment and directives support (edit vs save).

= > There are considerable changes coming outside the Phase 2 and Phase 3 narrative.

[justintadlock]

The draft of this post is in Google Docs and is now ready for review: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u1dwdNdkD48qIdEQ0IyI8MR0VusiOeHiSfvPjiyrQ4o/edit#heading=h.qnou48p528gk

[marybaum]

On it in about two hours! After 🎾

[marybaum]

Done!

[justintadlock]

Published here: https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/04/whats-new-for-developers-april-2023/