Howdy! This is Last Week in WordPress Core for the week of February 24—March 2! Lots of activity for the past week, which is great as we head into our last few days of alpha. Please join us for daily triage at 1900 UTC to help work through the remaining enhancements scheduled for 3.9.
As a quick note, if you work with our tools in ‘develop’, and are receiving a SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN error, you can resolve it by running npm config set ca="". For details, check out this npm blog post.
If you want to skim, each section is roughly ordered by an important and/or interesting factor.
Editor
Add the ability to drag and drop files directly onto the editor. Upon drop, the media manager will open, and file will begin to upload. [27343] #19845
Throttle scrolling of the main window when the editor is active and is being scrolled with the mouse wheel or a trackpad. [27368]. Expect some major tweaks here, though; see #27013.
Templating
Introduce HTML5 gallery support. When a theme supports HTML5 galleries via add_theme_support( 'html5', 'gallery' ), figure, and figcaption will be used instead of definition list markup. [27302] #26697
Add a filter to remove or rename page templates for a theme. This does not yet handle adding page templates. [27297] #13265
Move comment-reply.js to the footer. While it can function before the page is loaded, it works by moving the comment form, which is usually toward the bottom of the page. Please report any contraindications on the ticket. [27303] #12641
Return 404 when querying author’s posts who is not a member and has no posts on the site. [27290] #20601
Make get_adjacent_post() wrap a new WP_Adjacent_Post object that uses WP_Query. [27285] [27286] #26937
Add exclude and include arguments to wp_list_authors(). [27274] #9902
Internals
Multisite: Introduce get_site_by_path() and further rewrite the site detection process for multisite. This makes it so that a sunrise plugin could do much of its work by adding filters, if those are even needed. [27359] #27003
Database: Use MySQLi for WordPress development versions, regardless of PHP version, to increase testing footprint. There’s also a constant for testing purposes. [27257] [27278] #21663
Plugin API: Introduce doing_filter() and doing_action() to identify hooks in progress. You can also use this with to identify a hook that has completed. For more, see [27294] #14994.
Formatting: Strip backslashes, not just forward slashes, from untrailingslashit(). trailingslashit() will now remove any forward or backslashes from the end of a string before appending a forward slash. [27344] #22267
Date/Time: Allow current_time() to accept a date format string, adding to timestamp and mysql. [27259] #21653
Updates: During core upgrade, copy wp-includes/version.php over last, to avoid an installation failing with the new version.php in place. [27336] #25860
Rewrite API: Allow rewrite endpoints to specify a query variable name. [27327] #20905
Cache API: Revert [27115] and let cache backends handle the stripping of spaces in cache keys as necessary. microtime() returns greater precision than microtime(true). [27300] #27000, #23448, #26903, #14485
Query: Add a $default argument to get_query_var() and WP_Query::get(). Helpful when working with endpoints. [27304] #16471
Comment Query: Allow user_id to be an array of IDs in WP_Comment_Query. [27258] #27064
Users: Make the user arguments for get_edit_profile_url() and get_dashboard_url() optional, defaulting to the current user. [27260] [27265] #16686
External Libraries
Update the Masonry JavaScript library to version 3. [27271] #25351
The new script handle is masonry. The old jquery-masonry handle is the official shiv that sits on top of the v3 library to be backwards compatible with v2 usage. While v3 no longer depends on jQuery, a theme or plugin may have been implicitly loading jQuery though Masonry, rather than additionally declaring it as a dependency for themselves.
Themes should switch to masonry and declare jQuery as a dependency on their own if they need it.
Upgrade guide on Masonry’s site, with the exception that, for core, we continue to include imagesLoaded.
Upgrade Plupload to 2.x (2.1.1) [27316] #25663
Update the Root Certificate bundle used for SSL communication by WP_HTTP from the latest Mozilla release NSS. [27307] #27017
Developer Tools
Add grunt-patch-wordpress for applying patches directly from Trac. Mapped to grunt patch, which declares usage. Requires npm install to install. [27299] #27023
Add JSHint to Travis CI config. [27267] #26446
For the complete list of commits to trunk, check out the log on Trac. Interested in joining in? Write or test a patch for 3.9.
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