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Updates to the HTML API in 6.9

WordPress 6.9 brings an abundance of quiet improvements to the HTML API. Updates in this release mostly represent applications of the HTML API to existing code in Core; these updates increase WordPress’ reliability, improve its security hardening, and reduce maintenance… Continue Reading →

Introducing the streaming block parser in WordPress 6.9

WordPress 6.9 introduces the WP_Block_Processor class — a new tool inspired by the HTML API and designed for efficiently scanning, understanding, and modifying block structure in HTML documents. Continue on to learn about this new class, its use-cases, and how… Continue Reading →

More-reliable email in WordPress 6.9

Emails sent from WordPress will be more reliable in WordPress 6.9 thanks to a few updates and bug-fixes to the wp_mail() function. The sender address is extensibly configured. The sender address, also known as the Envelope-From, the MAIL FROM, the… Continue Reading →

Modernizing UTF-8 support in WordPress 6.9

A number of changes in WordPress 6.9 are coming which modernize WordPress’ text encoding and UTF-8 handling. These improvements establish more reliable and consistent text processing across WordPress’ widely-supported environments, benefiting plugins and themes that handle international content, emoji, diacritics,… Continue Reading →

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