Log message:
Update to version 6.4.3.
Changelog:
6.4.3:
WordPress 6.4.3 includes 5 bug fixes on Core, 16 bug fixes for the Block Editor, \
and 2 security fixes.
The security team would like to thank the following people for responsibly \
reporting vulnerabilities, and allowing them to be fixed in this release:
- m4tuto for finding a PHP File Upload bypass via Plugin Installer (requiring \
admin privileges).
- @_s_n_t of @pentestltd working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative for \
finding an RCE POP Chains vulnerability.
The 6.4.3 release was led by Sarah Norris, Joe McGill, and Aaron Jorbin.
6.4.2:
WordPress 6.4.2 fixes 7 Big fixes
#59819 - Change CSS align-item from start / end to flex-start / flex-end for \
full browser support
#59821 - Irrelevant comment for translators
#59847 - Since WordPress 6.4, the functions.php of a theme moved to a different \
location using register_theme_directory is no longer called
#59869 - Incorrect reference in docblock for _register_theme_block_patterns
#59882 - Expose serialized template content to callbacks registered to the \
`hooked_block_types` filter.
#59891 - Incorrect example for WP_HTML_Tag_Processor class
#59935 - Site editor: logo
The security team addressed the following vulnerability in WordPress 6.4.2
- A Remote Code Execution vulnerability that is not directly exploitable in core;
however, the security team feels that there is a potential for high severity
when combined with some plugins, especially in multisite installations.
The 6.4.2 release was led by @jorbin.
6.4.1:
WordPress 6.4.1 fixes 4 regressions introduced in version 6.4.
Fixed Core tickets from trac:
#59830 - Administration: Typos in wp_admin_notice() arguments
#59837 - Categories are removed when bulk editing posts
#59842 - WordPress 6.4 wp_remote_get (cURL error 28: Operation timed out)
#59846 - Reinstate the wpdb::$use_mysqli property
The 6.4.1 release was lead by @jorbin and @hellofromtonya.
6.4:
- Meet Twenty Twenty-Four
Experience site editing at its finest with Twenty Twenty-Four. This new
multi-faceted default theme has been thoughtfully crafted with three distinct
use cases in mind, from writers and artists to entrepreneurs. Save time and
effort with its extensive collection of over 35 templates and patterns - and
unlock a world of creative possibilities with a few tweaks.
Twenty Twenty-Four's remarkable flexibility ensures an ideal fit for almost
any type of site. Check it out in this demo.
- Let your writing flow
New enhancements ensure your content creation journey is smooth. Find new
keyboard shortcuts in List View, smarter list merging, and enhanced control
over link settings. A cohesive toolbar experience for the Navigation, List,
and Quote blocks lets you work efficiently with the tooling options you need.
- The Command Palette just got better
First introduced in WordPress 6.3, the Command Palette is a powerful tool to
quickly find what you need, perform tasks efficiently, and speed up your building
workflow. Enjoy a refreshed design and new commands to perform block-specific
actions in this release.
- Categorize and filter patterns
Patterns are an excellent way to leverage the potential of blocks and simplify
your site-building process. WordPress 6.4 allows you to organize them with
custom categories. Plus, new advanced filtering in the Patterns section of
the inserter makes finding all your patterns more intuitive.
- Get creative with more design tools
Build beautiful and functional layouts with an expanded set of design tools.
Play with background images in Group blocks for unique designs and maintain
image dimensions consistent with placeholder aspect ratios. Do you want to add
buttons to your Navigation block? Now you can do it conveniently without a \
line of code.
- Make your images stand out
Enable lightbox functionality to let your site visitors enjoy full-screen,
interactive images on click. Apply it globally or to specific images to
customize the viewing experience.
- Rename Group blocks
Set custom names for Group blocks to organize and distinguish areas of your
content easily. These names will be visible in List View.
- Preview images in List View
New previews for Gallery and Image blocks in List View let you visualize and
locate where images on your content are at a glance.
- Share patterns across sites
Need to use your custom patterns on another site? Import and export them as
JSON files from the Site Editor’s patterns view.
- Introducing Block Hooks
Block Hooks enables developers to automatically insert dynamic blocks at specific
content locations, enriching the extensibility of block themes through plugins.
While considered a developer tool, this feature is geared to respect your
preferences and gives you complete control to add, dismiss, and customize
auto-inserted blocks to your needs.
- Performance wins
This release includes more than 100 performance-related updates for a faster and
more efficient experience. Notable enhancements focus on template loading
performance for themes (including Twenty Twenty-Four), usage of the script loading
strategies "defer" and "async" in core, blocks, and \
themes, and optimization
of autoloaded options.
- Accessibility highlights
Every release is committed to making WordPress accessible to everyone.
WordPress 6.4 brings several List View improvements and aria-label support for
the Navigation block, among other highlights. The admin user interface includes
enhancements to button placements, "Add New" menu items context, and \
Site Health
spoken messages. Learn more about all the work aimed at improving accessibility
in this post.
- Other notes of interest
PHP 8.1 or 8.2 are recommended for use with WordPress 6.4. Find in-depth \
details on PHP support in this post.
WordPress 6.4 disables attachment pages for new installations.
6.3:
- Do everything in the Site Editor
WordPress 6.3 brings your content, templates, and patterns together in the
Site Editor for the first time. Add pages, browse style variations, create
synced patterns, and enjoy fine-tuned control over navigation menus. Spend
less time switching across different site areas - so you can focus on what
matters most. Creation to completion, all in one place.
- Preview Block themes
Experience block themes before you switch and preview the Site Editor, with
options to customize directly before committing to a new theme.
- Create and sync patterns
Arrange blocks and save them to the 'My Patterns' section for use throughout
your site. You can even specify whether to sync your patterns (previously
referred to as "Reusable blocks") so that one change applies to all \
parts of
your site. Or, utilize patterns as a starting point with the ability to customize
each instance.
- Work faster with the Command Palette
Switch to a specific template or open your editor preferences with a new tool
that helps you quickly access expanded functionality. With simple keyboard
shortcuts (mac+k on Mac or Ctrl+k on Windows), clicking the sidebar search icon
in Site View, or clicking the Title Bar, get where you need to go and do what
you need to do in seconds.
- Sharpen your designs with new tools
New design controls bring more versatility for fine-tuning, starting with the
ability to customize your captions from the Styles interface without coding.
You can manage your duotone filters in Styles for supported blocks and pick from
the options provided by your theme or disable them entirely. The Cover block
gets added settings for text color, layout controls, and border options, making
this powerful block even more handy.
- Track design changes with Style revisions
With a new audit trail, you can now see how your site looked at a specific time.
Visualize these revisions in a timeline and access a one-click option to
restore prior styles.
- Annotate with the Footnotes block
Footnotes add convenient annotations throughout your content.
Now you can add and link footnotes for any paragraph.
- Show or hide content with the Details block
Use the Details block to avoid spoiling a surprise, create an interactive Q&A
section, or hide a long paragraph under a heading.
- Performance gets a boost
WordPress 6.3 has 170+ performance updates, including defer and async support
for the Scripts API and fetchpriority support for images. These improvements,
along with block template resolution, image lazy-loading, and the emoji loader,
can dramatically improve your website's perceived load time.
- Accessibility remains a core focus
Incorporating more than 50 accessibility improvements across the platform,
WordPress 6.3 is more accessible than ever. Improved labeling, optimized tab
and arrow-key navigation, revised heading hierarchy, and new controls in
the admin image editor allow those using assistive technologies to navigate
more easily.
- Other highlights
- Set aspect ratio on images
Specify your aspect ratios and ensure design integrity, especially when \
using images in patterns.
- Build your site distraction-free
Distraction-free designing is now available in the Site Editor.
- Rediscover the Top Toolbar
A revamped Top Toolbar offers parent selectors for nested blocks, options \
when selecting multiple blocks, and an interface embedded into the title bar \
with new functionality in mind.
- List View improvements
Drag and drop to every content layer and delete any block you would like in \
the updated List View.
- Build templates with Patterns
Create unique patterns to jumpstart template creation with a new modal \
enabling access to pattern selection.
6.2:
- Meet the reimagined Site Editor
An updated interface gives you more control over your site editing experience.
Explore full previews of your templates and template parts, then jump in and
get to editing your site from wherever you choose.
- Manage your menu in more ways with the Navigation block
A new sidebar experience makes it easier to edit your site's navigation.
Add, remove, and reorder menu items faster—no matter how complex
your menus are.
- Discover a smoother experience for the Block Inserter
A refreshed design gives you more visibility and easier access to the content
you need. Use the Media tab to drag and drop content from your existing Media
Library quickly. Find patterns faster with a split view that lets you navigate
categories and see previews all at once.
- Find the controls you want when you need them
Your block settings sidebar is better organized with tabs for Settings and
Styles. So the tools you need are easy to identify and access.
- Build faster with headers and footers for block themes
Discover a new collection of header and footer patterns. Use them with any
block theme as a quick, high-quality starting point for your site's templates.
- Explore Openverse media right from the Editor
Openverse's library catalogs over 600 million free, openly licensed stock images
and audio - and now it's directly integrated into the Editor.
- Focus on writing with Distraction Free mode
For those times you want to be alone with your ideas. You can now hide all
your panels and controls, leaving you free to bring your content to life.
- Experience the Site Editor, now out of beta
Stable and ready for you to dive in and explore: 6.2 is your personal invitation
to discover what the next generation of WordPress - and block themes - can do.
- Meet the new Style Book
Get a complete overview of how every block in your site's library looks.
All in one place, all at a glance.
- Copy and paste styles
Perfect the design on one type of block, then copy and paste those styles to
other blocks to get just the look you want.
- Custom CSS
Power up your site any way you wish. Add CSS to your site, or your blocks,
for another level of control over your site's look and feel.
- Sticky positioning
Choose to keep top-level group blocks fixed to the top of a page as visitors \
scroll.
- Importing widgets
Options to import your favorite widgets from Classic themes to Block themes.
- Local fonts in themes
Default WordPress themes offer better privacy with Google Fonts now included.
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Log message:
Update to version 6.1.
Changes:
- Twenty Twenty-Three: A fresh default theme with 10 distinct style variations
After the introduction of foundational elements for block themes and style \
variations introduced by the 5.9 and 6.0 releases WordPress site builders \
welcome a new default theme, Twenty Twenty-Three, that is powered by 10 \
different styles and tagged as "Accessibility Ready." These \
intentionally unique ensure users can apply a different look and feel to their \
site with a single click-all within a single theme.
- New templates for an improved creator experience
Additional new and more refined templates now give site builders more control \
over the creation of their sites. In this suite of new templates find a custom \
template for posts & pages in the Site Editor. Create and edit template \
parts like headers and footers more quickly with a new search-and-replace tool \
and easily view your new site.
- Design tools for more consistency and control
Thoughtful upgrades to the controls for design elements and blocks make laying \
out and building your new site a more consistent, complete, and intuitive \
experience.
- Manage menus with ease
New fallback options in the navigation block mean you can edit the menu that's \
open; no searching needed. Plus, the controls for choosing and working on menus \
have their own place in the block settings. The mobile menu system also gets an \
upgrade with new features, including different icon options, to make the menu \
yours.
- Cleaner layouts and document settings visualization
View and manage post and page settings with a better-organized display improving \
the use of features like template picker and scheduler.
- One-click lock setting for all inner blocks
When locking blocks, a new toggle lets you apply your lock settings to all the \
blocks in a containing block like the group, cover, and column blocks.
- Improved block placeholders
Various blocks have improved placeholders that reflect customization options to \
help you design your site and its content. For example, the Image block \
placeholder displays custom borders and duotone filters even before selecting an \
image.
- Compose richer lists and quotes with inner blocks
The List and Quote blocks now support inner blocks, allowing for more flexible \
and rich compositions like adding headings inside your Quote blocks.
- More Responsive text with fluid typography
Fluid typography lets you define font sizes that adapt for easy reading in any \
screen size.
- Add starter patterns to any post type
In WordPress 6.0, when you created a new page, you would see suggested patterns \
so you did not have to start with a blank page. In 6.1, you will also see the \
starter patterns modal when you create a new instance of any post type.
- Find block themes faster
The Themes Directory has a filter for block themes, and a pattern preview gives \
a better sense of what the theme might look like while exploring different \
themes and patterns.
- Keep your Site Editor settings for later
Site Editor settings are now persistent for each user. This means your settings \
will now be consistent across browsers and devices.
- A streamlined style system
The CSS rules for margin, padding, typography, colors, and borders within the \
styles engine are now all in one place, reducing time spent on layout-specific \
tasks and helps to generate semantic class names.
- Updated interface options and features
Updates include styling elements like buttons, citations, and links globally; \
controlling hover, active, and focus states for links using theme.json (not \
available to control in the interface yet); and customizing outline support for \
blocks and elements, among other features.
- Continued evolution of layout options
The default content dimensions provided by themes can now be overridden in the \
Styles Sidebar, giving site builders better control over full-width content. \
Developers have fine-grained control over these controls.
- Block Template parts in classic themes
Block template parts can now be defined in classic themes by adding the \
appropriate HTML files `parts` directory at the root of the theme.
- Expanded support for Query Loop blocks
New filters let Query Block variations support custom queries for more powerful \
variations and advanced hierarchical post types filtering options.
- Filters for all your styles
Leverage filters in the Styles sidebar to control settings at all four levels of \
your site—core, theme, user, or block, from less to more specific.
- Spacing presets for faster, consistent design
Save time and avoid hard-coding values into a theme with preset margin and \
padding values for multiple blocks.
- Content-only editing support for container blocks
Thanks to content-only editing settings, layouts can be locked within container \
blocks. In a content-only block, its children are invisible to the List View and \
entirely uneditable. So you control the layout while your writers can focus on \
the content. Combine it with block-locking options for even more advanced \
control over your blocks.
- Other notes of interest
6.1 includes a new time-to-read feature showing content authors the approximate \
time-to-read values for pages, posts, and custom post types.
The site tagline is empty by default in new sites but can be modified in General \
Settings.
A new modal design offers a background blur effect, making it easier to focus on \
the task at hand.
- Enhancing WordPress 6.1 accessibility
Accessibility is an integral part of the WordPress mission of fostering an \
inclusive community and supporting users of all types around the world. With \
this in mind, WordPress 6.1 includes nearly 60 updates specifically focused on \
enhancing the accessibility of the platform. Read about these updates to learn \
more about the continual initiatives aimed at improving accessibility.
- Improved performance in WordPress 6.1
WordPress 6.1 resolves more than 25 tickets dedicated to enhancing performance \
with improvements for every type of site. A full breakdown can be found in the \
Performance Field Guide.
Explore learn.wordpress.org for brief how-to videos and lots more on new \
features in WordPress. Or join a live interactive online workshop on a specific \
WordPress topic.
Developers can explore the WordPress 6.1 Field Guide, complete with detailed \
developer notes to help you build with and extend WordPress.Read the WordPress \
6.1 Release Notes for more information on the included enhancements and issues \
fixed, installation information, developer notes and resources, release \
contributors, and the list of file changes in this release.
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