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Devalps

@synchro joined Jan 2012

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    Last 90 days
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    Last 12 months
    1contribution
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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 11 releases
    • 6.8
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.5

    Contributions

    Type
    August 2026
    Aug 03 Mon · 18:58
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62975] on WordPress SVN:
    External Libraries: Upgrade PHPMailer to version 7.1.1.
    February 2025
    Feb 17 Mon · 11:22
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59828] on WordPress SVN:
    Security: Switch to using bcrypt for hashing user passwords and BLAKE2b for hashing application passwords and security keys.
    November 2023
    Nov 26 Sun · 19:25
    Core high
    Mentioned in [57137] on WordPress SVN:
    External Libraries: Upgrade PHPMailer to version 6.9.1.
    August 2023
    Aug 29 Tue · 13:44
    Core high
    Mentioned in [56484] on WordPress SVN:
    External Libraries: Upgrade PHPMailer to version 6.8.1.
    March 2023
    Mar 17 Fri · 14:20
    Core high
    Mentioned in [55557] on WordPress SVN:
    External Libraries: Upgrade PHPMailer to version 6.8.0.
    December 2022
    Dec 06 Tue · 12:17
    Core high
    Mentioned in [54937] on WordPress SVN:
    External Libraries: Upgrade PHPMailer to version 6.7.
    October 2022
    Oct 09 Sun · 17:10
    Core high
    Mentioned in [54427] on WordPress SVN:
    External Libraries: Upgrade PHPMailer to version 6.6.5.
    August 2022
    Aug 22 Mon · 12:24
    Core high
    Mentioned in [53917] on WordPress SVN:
    External Libraries: Upgrade PHPMailer to version 6.6.4.
    June 2022
    Jun 20 Mon · 15:02
    Core high
    Mentioned in [53535] on WordPress SVN:
    External Libraries: Upgrade PHPMailer to version 6.6.3.
    April 2022
    Apr 11 Mon · 04:27
    Core high
    Mentioned in [53122] on WordPress SVN:
    Upgrade/Install/Users: Prevent JS bug filling new passwords.