WordPress 4.9.1

After a much longer than expected break due to moving and the resulting lack of Internet, plus WordPress releasing a package with a non-free file, the Debian package for WordPress 4.9.1 has been uploaded!

WordPress 4.9 has a number of improvements, especially around the customiser components so that looked pretty slick. The editor for the customiser now has a series of linters what will warn if you write something bad, which is a very good thing! Unfortunately the Javascript linter is jshint which uses a non-free license which that team is attempting to fix.  I have also reported the problem to WordPress upstream to have a look at.

While this was all going on, there were 4 security issues found in WordPress which resulted in the 4.9.1 release.

Finally I got the time to look into the jshint problem and Internet to actually download the upstream files and upload the Debian packages. So version 4.9.1-1 of the packages have now been uploaded and should be in the mirrors soon.  I’ll start looking at the 4.9.1 patches to see what is relevant for Stretch and Jessie.


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