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A week with us: WordPress 5.9 on the finishing line

20 January 2022 Carolina Nymark

The last planned release candidate for WordPress 5.9, RC3, was released on Tuesday. Unless new critical bugs are found, there will be no more code changes to this major release. Head over to WordPress.org to read the release post and how you can contribute with testing or translations. Our weekly updates Justin This week, my …

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Non-technical contributions to WordPress core

16 November 2021 Francesca Marano

The Core team of WordPress oversees the code that powers one of the most popular open-source content management systems (CMS) worldwide. You might think that this team consists solely of developers, but in fact, non-technical contributions are vital for each WordPress release and the overall project’s health.  The WordPress project has multiple teams that cover …

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A week with us: Webfonts, Twenty Twenty Two and WordPress 5.9

28 October 2021 Justin Ahinon

Our weekly team updates This week, the team continued its work on our different projects. Ari made great progress on the webfonts API, Carolina worked on Gutenberg and Twenty Twenty Two, Sergey continues to work on the 5.9 tickets and commit them, Francesca continues her Core team rep tasks and outreach projects to the end, …

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A week with us: Webfonts, Twenty Twenty Two and WordPress 5.9