Core team
Version 1.2.0-rc1 was released on September 3rd with the new custom login image feature, PHP 7.4 support, and several months worth of bugfixes and minor changes. Thanks to community members for helping test this release and provide feedback, in particular @ozfiddler.
Version 1.2.0 was released on September 15th, with the same changes as 1.2.0-rc1 plus a fix for a couple of minor issues with the new “custom login image” feature.
Version 1.3.0 has not been scheduled yet, but the focus will most likely be on improving the built-in plugins and themes features, including upgrading plugins from .zip files and preventing installation of plugins / plugin upgrades that are marked as incompatible with WP 4.9.x.
Those changes will be a nice segue into our own directory. Work has started on the ClassicPress plugin/theme directory (mainly @wadestriebel and @1stepforward) - I haven’t done much there yet except for offer input, but soon I will be helping to integrate the directory with GitHub and with ClassicPress itself.
There has been some community interest in another core development meeting - at this time I am looking for a volunteer to put together an agenda and run the meeting.
Infrastructure team
We are now running Classic Commerce to accept donations directly on our main site, as planned in the last Infrastructure update from July.
On September 2 I had a call with a couple of account representatives from DigitalOcean, they seemed pretty interested in our project and they were able to help me eliminate a manual task related to provisioning/refreshing servers.
Thanks to @1stepforward for a number of changes/fixes on our main site, including building a nice donations block widget thingy. I’ve been reviewing and deploying these as they come up, and the ClassicPress servers are still receiving regular maintenance and working as intended.