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The Month in WordPress: January 2018 Things got off to a gradual start in 2018 with momentum starting to pick up over the course of the month. There were some notable developments in January, including a new point release and work being done on other important areas of the WordPress project. WordPress 4.9.2 Security and Maintenance Release On January 16, WordPress 4.9.2 was released to fix an important security issue with the media player, as well as a number of other smaller bugs. This release goes a long way to smoothing out the 4.9 release cycle with the next point release, v4.9.3, due in early February. To get involved in building WordPress Core, jump into the #core channel in the Making WordPress Slack group, and follow the Core team blog. Updated Plugin Directory Guidelines At the end of 2017, the [ more… ]

WordPress 4.9.2 Security and Maintenance Release WordPress 4.9.2 is now available. This is a security and maintenance release for all versions since WordPress 3.7. We strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. An XSS vulnerability was discovered in the Flash fallback files in MediaElement, a library that is included with WordPress. Because the Flash files are no longer needed for most use cases, they have been removed from WordPress. MediaElement has released a new version that contains a fix for the bug, and a WordPress plugin containing the fixed files is available in the plugin repository. Thank you to the reporters of this issue for practicing responsible security disclosure: Enguerran Gillier and Widiz. 21 other bugs were fixed in WordPress 4.9.2. Particularly of note were: JavaScript errors that prevented saving posts in Firefox have been fixed. The previous taxonomy-agnostic behavior of get_category_link() [ more… ]

The Month in WordPress: December 2017 Activity slowed down in December in the WordPress community, particularly in the last two weeks. However, the month started off with a big event and work still pushed forward in a number of key areas of the project. Read on to find out more about what transpired in the WordPress community as 2017 came to a close. WordCamp US 2017 Brings the Community Together The latest edition of WordCamp US took place last month in Nashville on December 1-3. The event brought together over 1,400 WordPress enthusiasts from around the world, fostering a deeper, more engaged global community. While attending a WordCamp is always a unique experience, you can catch up on the sessions on WordPress.tv and look through the event photos on Facebook to get a feel for how it all happened. Of [ more… ]

The Month in WordPress: November 2017 The WordPress project recently released WordPress 4.9, “Tipton” — a new major release named in honor of musician and band leader Billy Tipton. Read on to find out more about this and other interesting news from around the WordPress world in November. WordPress 4.9 “Tipton” On November 16, WordPress 4.9 was released with new features for publishers and developers alike. Release highlights include design locking, scheduling, and previews in the Customizer, an even more secure and usable code editing experience, a new gallery widget, and text widget improvements. The follow up security and maintenance, v4.9.1, has now been released to tighten up the security of WordPress as a whole. To get involved in building WordPress Core, jump into the #core channel in the Making WordPress Slack group, and follow the Core team blog. Apply [ more… ]