@desroj led the weekly meeting at 20:00 UTC. Here is the meeting agenda.

Link to 20:00 UTC <dev-chat> in #core on Making WordPress Slack

Notable news and blogblog (versus network, site) posts

WordPress 5.8 was released yesterday(July 20, 2021)! The new release was downloaded 7.7 million times in a little over 24 hours.

What’s next in Gutenberg?

What’s new in Gutenberg 11.1.0?

Requests for Feedback

• Refining WordPress Core’s lazy-loading implementation
• Updater Proof-of-Concept
• Changes to the Theme Directory requirements
• What is your favorite feature in WordPress 5.8?

Component Team Updates

Build/Test Tools

• Ongoing modernization of PHPUnit tests. #53363
• PHP_CodeSniffer updated to 3.6 (with PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher 8 support) #53477

Auto-Updates

• Request for feedback on Updater Proof-of-Concept

Themes

• Request for feedback on changes to the Theme Directory requirements

Open Floor

• @desroj highlighted a bug in the Multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site Filesystem APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. that was requested to be prioritized in 5.9.
• @chanthaboune raised a discussion about Making WordPress Slack — what we can/should use it for. Should #core be the default channel? Should some other SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel be created to greet new users (who may or may not have context entering Slack that it is mostly a working environment)? This was a lively discussion, please add more thoughts in the comments below!
• While it’s been a fairly quiet (some might say too quiet) and smooth release, @chanthaboune encouraged the hosting (and greater) community to check-in with support folks and report back any trends. @johnbillion also noted a handful of tickets about Widgets have been opened related to “widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. customisation and logic plugins.�?

Watch For

• WordPress 5.8 release reflection and retrospective.
• New episodes of the WordPress Briefing.
• Our next Weekly Developer Chat is Wednesday, July 28 at 20:00 UTC.

Interested in volunteering for upcoming WordPress releases? Please comment below and team reps will reach out!

Props to @dryanpress for taking these #summary notes!

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