Anna Harrison has done user tests of the Gutenberg editor and wrote down the results in an extensive post.
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WordPress weekly recap #16: changing IE support in 4.8 and more
Matt Mullenweg introduced browser support changes which will come in WordPress 4.8. The new release will not longer officially support Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10.
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The team around the media widgets proposed the image widget for a merge into core.
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The mobile team introduced the Aztec editors, which work with the Google and Apple APIs to improve the editing experience in the mobile apps.
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At this week, the new plugin repo was released. One new aspect is that it runs on WordPress instead of bbPress, which was used before.
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The theme review team discussed a few review guidelines, to clarify the wording of them — for example, the copyright links and child theme name guidelines.
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The WordPress 4.2 upgrade changed the database character set from utf8 to utf8mb4 (for example necessary for full emoji support) if a few requirements were met. This article shows you how to make the switch manually if you did not meet the requirements at the time of the WordPress 4.2 upgrade.
WordPress weekly recap #11: browser support for the editor and more
The current state of browser support for the new editor is that older browsers are not explicitly supported, but a fallback in the form of a text area will be provided. The current editor will be provided as a plugin.
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The recently published WordPress version 4.7.3 fixes various bugs and six security issues.
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The editor team thinks about which IE versions the new editor should support, and which fallback should be provided to users with non-supported browsers.
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