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221 open tickets in the Build/Test Tools component

221 open tickets	defect (bug)	enhancement	feature request	task (blessed)
7.2	8	3	1	14
Awaiting Review	48	48	5	8
Future Release	27	39	5	15

221 open tickets. Last 7 days: +7 tickets

15 tickets that have no replies

View list on Trac

• #29066  Grunt clean:dynamic task does not delete file/s from /build during grunt watch task
• #46804  wp-phpunit calls _delete_all_posts() too early during bootstrap
• #53118  Tests: review of correctly setting output expectations docs
• #53506  When using the WordPress Development Environment (wpenv) links to missing asset files do not return 404 and are redirected
• #53842  Review the type of select return values rest-api
• #56087  Configure Codecov status checks
• #56785  Automatically catch potential security issues before release
• #60874  Better Block Management System required
• #61568  Only share Playground testing details when appropriate
• #62944  Allow a single theme to be tested/built
• #64222  Improve the upgrade process for the Twemoji library javascript
• #64296  Make the workflow file responsible that commits changes to built files more maintainable
• #64970  Create a GitHub Actions workflow for running visual regression testing
• #66073  Tests: Let WP_Test_REST_Controller_Testcase reflect read-only routes tests
• #66139  Build/Test Tools: Prepare for GitHub's default block on `pull_request_target`

26 tickets slated for 7.2

View list in Trac

• #29792  Grunt: Add a stylelint precommit task to check for CSS syntax errors accessibility css coding-standards
• #40538  Fix or remove useless PHPUnit tests
• #62004  Test suite: update the tests for PHPUnit 10/11 and get ready for PHPUnit 12
• #63914  Reassess the need for the external-http tests
• #64895  Tests: Reduce usage of assertEquals for 7.2
• #64958  Copy React vendor scripts from Gutenberg, update version number
• #65064  Flaky test: test_get_theme_featured_list_api fails with external HTTP unavailability tests
• #65208  Introduce namespacing for the test classes for 7.2 tests
• #65278  PHPCS scans can fail after running `build:dev`
• #65432  CI: Upgrade GitHub Actions to support Node.js 24
• #65451  Update Node.js to 24.x
• #65484  Loopback requests fail in the wordpress-develop Docker environment
• #65621  Tests: Make sure to preserve the contents of the uploads directory
• #65819  Test tool and unit test improvements for 7.2
• #65845  GitHub Actions updates and improvements for 7.2
• #65857  Update/Audit NPM Dependencies for 7.2
• #65889  Skip PHPUnit runs on CSS- and JS-only pull requests
• #65893  Many PHPUnit tests are not well isolated tests
• #65920  Add a plugin compatibility testing workflow to catch fatals with popular plugins before release
• #66048  Multiple runs of the Test Old Branches workflow in a short period of time can cause a stampede of automatic reruns and Slack notifications
• #66069  Trim the PHPUnit test matrix to supported MySQL and MariaDB LTS versions, with full coverage on the weekly run
• #66073  Tests: Let WP_Test_REST_Controller_Testcase reflect read-only routes tests
• #66074  Tests: Reduce the cost of the heaviest PHPUnit test classes tests performance
• #66111  Unit test factory should throw exceptions instead of returning WP_Error instances
• #66117  Build/Test Tools: The database healthcheck pings the unix socket, so it passes before the TCP server is up
• #66123  Grunt jshint:plugins: Exclude minified files more effectively javascript

221 open tickets

Open enhancements: 90 View list on Trac
Open tasks: 37 View list on Trac
Open feature requests: 11 View list on Trac
Open defects: 83 View list on Trac

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