This Week at WordPress.org (January 3, 2022)

Community

• WordPress 5.9 Talking Points for Meetup Organizers: Six Features You Will Love About This Release
• Proposal: Automatically send emails to WordCamp attendee requesting details about their accessibility accommodation or life-threatening allergy

Docs

• Meeting Notes: Theme docs updates for WP 5.9 and block themes.

Marketing

• Help contribute to social media materials for the 5.9 release

Polyglots

• WordPress 5.9 ready to be translated

Themes

• Gutenberg and Themes: Week of Dec 5

Training

• January 2022 Sprint
• Team Goal Setting 2022

Test

• Hallway Hangout: Let’s talk about WordPress 6.0

Openverse

• CC Search Now Redirects to Openverse

Core

There’s a lot of information coming over the next few weeks leading up to the WordPress 5.9 release. Check back on the dev-notes section as it will grow throughout the week when new posts are published.

Dev Notes, Field Notes, 5.9:

• Bundled theme updates with WordPress 5.9
• WordPress 5.9 Performance Improvements
• New Capability Queries in WordPress 5.9
• Miscellaneous Core changes in WordPress 5.9
• Introducing new language switcher on the login screen in WP 5.9
• Block themes, a new way to build themes in WordPress 5.9
• New API to access global settings & styles
• Miscellaneous block editor changes in WordPress 5.9
• Enhanced lazy-loading performance in 5.9
• Take more control over Inner Block Areas (as a block developer)
• Using multiple stylesheets per block
• Posts, Post types and Taxonomy changes in WordPress 5.9

General

• What’s new in Gutenberg 12.3? (5 January)
• Proposal: Changes to JavaScript Coding Standards for Full Prettier Compatibility
• A Week in Core – January 3, 2022
• A Week in Core – December 27, 2021
• Discussion: 2022 Major Release Timing
• Proposal: Approving Block Pattern Directory Submissions
• A Year in Core – 2021
• Updater initiative status report: December 25, 2021
• What’s new in Gutenberg 12.2? (22 December)

Reminder: Gutenberg 11.9 ships with WordPress 5.9