Week in Test: March 12, 2024

Hello and welcome to another edition of Week in Test, the place where contributors of any skill level can find opportunities to contribute to WordPress through testing. You can find the Test Team in #core-test.

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Calls for Testing 📣

Calls for Testing can originate from any team, from themes to mobile apps to feature plugins. The following posts highlight features and releases that need special attention:

• Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 3
• Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 1
• Early Opportunities to Test WordPress 6.5
• Bug scrub schedule for WordPress 6.5

Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠

Weekly update: Test Team Update: 11 March 2024

Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions.

Did you know that contributions to the Test Team are also a fantastic way to level up your WordPress knowledge and skill? Dive in to contribute and gain coveted props 😎 for a coming release.

Reproduction Testing 🔁

Who? Any contributor.
Why? It is helpful to show an issue exists for other users in order to move a ticket forward for patching.

The following new tickets are awaiting review, and need testers to attempt to reproduce the reported issue (aka “repro”), and then provide a reproduction test report with the results:

• #60695 Links in the admin-menu are generated incorrectly for mu-plugins
• #60710 save_post_{$post->post_type} hook returns inconsistent $_POST[‘tax_input’] format
• #60714 Vertical alignment icon missing 6.5-RC1
• #60721 redirect_canonical suddenly causes issues with paramter values and CDN
• #60722 incorrect display of mail due to outdated version of PHP mailer
• #60724 TT2: Wrap Navigation block in Row within the header.html template part
• #60728 Install/upgrade latest supported version of plugin, when latest version of plugin is not supported
• #60729 YouTube embed start=
• #60716 Font Library:Replace error message “A font face matching those settings already exists” with notice
• #60739 Wrong redirection when installing with URI rewrite
• #60742 Script Modules: Module src not filterable.
• #60708 REST page 2 item 0 === page 1 item 99 when requesting 100 posts from a post type
• #60744 6.5-rc1: ref may be null from getElement() in style bindings
• #60745 WP_Query::parse_query() does not handle invalid query arg values
• #60748 auth_redirect() login check doesn’t exist or doesn’t work
• #60750 Warning: these pages should not be the same as your Privacy Policy page!
• #60752 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class ‘WpOrg\Requests\Hooks’ not found
• #60753 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class “wpdb” not found in load.php

Patch Testing 🩹

Who? All contributors (not just developers) who can set up a local testing environment.
Why? It is necessary to apply proposed patches and test per the testing instructions in order to validate that a patch fixes the issue.

The following tickets have been reviewed, a patch provided, and need testers to apply the patch and manually test, then provide feedback through a patch test report:

• #49950 Twenty Twenty (1.2) Horizontal menu – Submenu
• #60672 Improve menu toggle accessible name in admin menus
• #60398 WordPress 6.4.3 MacOS/Linux Compressed Zip plugin archives “Incompatible Archive” on upload
• #60740 wp_mime_type_icon function fails to return non-SVG icons

PHPUnit Tests 🛟

Who? Any QA or PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. developer contributors who can (or are interested in learning how to) build automated PHPUnit tests.
Why? Automated tests improve the software development feedback loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. for quality and backward compatibility.

The following 6.5 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:

• No ticket has been available for the PHPUnit Test in the past weeks.

6.5 Related issues need testing

The following 6.5 tickets need testing those have patches:

#60740 wp_mime_type_icon function fails to return non-SVG icons

Profile Badge Awards 🎉

No Badges were awarded this week.

Read/Watch/Listen 🔗

• WordPress 6.5 Release Candidate 1 last week on March 5.
• Highlights from WordCamp Asia 2024 – WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Asia was in Taipei, Taiwan. Here, you can check the quick summary.
• Recap of Core Test team at Contributors Day WCAsia – we had a great contributors’ day at WordCamp Asia, and you can check out the summary here.
• Miscellaneous Editor changes in WordPress 6.5
• Josepha shared about Unblocking WP6.5 – Font Library and Synced Pattern Overrides. give it a read.
• Gutenberg 17.9 is scheduled for release on March 13 and will include these issues.

Upcoming Meetings 🗓

🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.

2024 Schedule:

• Tuesday, 19 March 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-triage> in #core-test.
• Tuesday, 26 March 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-chat> in #core-test.

Interested in hosting a <test-scrub>The test Team needs you! Check out Leading Bug Scrubs for details, or inquire in #core-test for more info.