WordPress weekly recap #14: WordPress 4.9.5 and more

WordPress 4.9.5 was released this week, with bug fixes and fixes for three security issues.

Accessibility

Misc

• WordPress now has an accessibility statement under wordpress.org/about/accessibility/.

Core

WordPress 4.9.5

On April 3, the core team published WordPress 4.9.5, a security and maintenance release. Besides three security issues, the new version also fixes 25 bugs.

You can find out details on that in the post »WordPress 4.9.5 Security and Maintenance Release« by Aaron D. Campbell.

Misc

• »PHP Meeting Recap – March 19th & 26th«.
• »Media Meeting Recap – March 29«.
• »PHP Meeting Recap – April 2nd«.
• »GDPR Opt-in Commenter Cookies«. There was a new checkbox added to the comment form to ask the commenter for consent on setting the comment cookies.
• »GDPR Compliance Chat Recap – April 4«.
• Gutenberg 2.6 brings drag and drop reordering of blocks.

Design

Misc

• »Design meeting summary April 5, 2018«.

Support

Misc

• »April 5th Support Team Meeting Summary«.

Community

Misc

• »Moving WordCamp Ticket Sales from PayPal to Stripe«.
• »Code of Conduct Survey«.
• »Want to Help Organize a WordCamp for Organizers?«.
• »Call for WordCamp Mentors!«.
• »WordCamp Nordic Proposal«.

Training

Misc

• »Recap of April 5, 2018 meeting«.
• »Contributor Days and Contributor Drives«.

Marketing

Misc

• »Unicef Case Study«.
• »Urban Southern Case Study«.
• »Marketing Team Notes – April 4, 2018«.

Hosting

Misc

• »Hosting Meeting Notes: March 28, 2018«.