|
#53607
|
Loading or saving a post with enough (large) revisions exhausts available memory
|
|
Revisions
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
|
06/10/2025
|
|
#55749
|
Large-site inefficiency in REST users endpoint used by Gutenberg editor
|
|
Users
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
|
04/20/2023
|
|
#64001
|
Large user data set causes very slow load/pagination/search in the user list
|
|
Users
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
|
09/19/2025
|
|
#40052
|
Issue with WP_Cache not invalidating stale cache after an update request
|
|
Cache API
|
normal
|
major
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
|
07/23/2024
|
|
#61234
|
Investigation Request: High Frequency of `hooked_block_types` Filter Calls
|
|
Editor
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
|
07/03/2024
|
|
#63946
|
Introduce a mechanism for lazy-loading REST routes and handlers
|
|
REST API
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
has-patch
|
12/08/2025
|
|
#64093
|
Interactivity API: Performance bottleneck in `data_wp_each_processor` due to repeated template parsing
|
|
Interactivity API
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
has-patch
|
10/28/2025
|
|
#57525
|
Incorrect home link
|
|
General
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
has-patch
|
04/15/2024
|
|
#50435
|
In some cases wp_get_post_parent_id() = get_post_ancestors
|
|
Posts, Post Types
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
|
02/18/2025
|
|
#27127
|
Improve plugin search on installed plugins page
|
|
Administration
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
03/22/2024
|
|
#58488
|
Improve performance of wp-admin -> Comments
|
|
Administration
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
has-patch
|
09/17/2024
|
|
#55675
|
Improve performance Themes REST API endpoint
|
|
REST API
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
04/16/2024
|
|
#59173
|
Improve optimizations of get_site_url by not using switch_to_blog
|
|
Networks and Sites
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
has-patch
|
08/24/2023
|
|
#57483
|
Improve optimizations for WP_Site::get_instance and WP_Network::get_instance
|
|
Networks and Sites
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
has-patch
|
06/08/2023
|
|
#37958
|
Improve looping through sites and restoring
|
|
Networks and Sites
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
has-patch
|
03/19/2025
|
|
#60053
|
Improve cache flush handling for large multisite database upgrades
|
|
Cache API
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
12/20/2023
|
|
#55639
|
Implement Async CSS
|
|
Script Loader
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
06/10/2025
|
|
#47292
|
Heartbeat API cause Apache/PHP to exhaust memory
|
|
Administration
|
normal
|
critical
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
|
07/24/2024
|
|
#17246
|
Handling of HTTP 404 errors for non-existing files
|
|
Bootstrap/Load
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
has-patch
|
05/03/2025
|
|
#58356
|
Gravatar local image cache
|
|
Cache API
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
05/19/2023
|
|
#55780
|
Global Styles: Introduce filter for toggling stylesheet cache
|
|
Editor
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
has-patch
|
08/08/2024
|
|
#43416
|
Function to Maybe Convert Tables to InnoDB
|
|
Upgrade/Install
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
feature request
|
|
04/17/2023
|
|
#53415
|
Filter API to edit footer content
|
|
Themes
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
feature request
|
has-patch
|
09/30/2022
|
|
#56883
|
Feeds of non-existent tags and categories displays an empty feed instead of 404
|
|
Feeds
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
|
04/15/2024
|
|
#63173
|
FS_Method with ftpext and Core Updates
|
|
Filesystem API
|
normal
|
major
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
dev-feedback
|
01/24/2026
|
|
#44694
|
Extra and un-neccessary query when no posts found in Posts Rest Controller
|
|
REST API
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
02/12/2025
|
|
#57517
|
Expose MutationObserver instance in wpEmoji
|
|
Formatting
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
has-patch
|
01/20/2023
|
|
#53070
|
Establish a Core CSS deprecation path
|
|
General
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
12/16/2021
|
|
#44971
|
Enable WP_Community_Events to find cached events even if it's instantiated without a user location
|
pbearne*
|
Administration
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
has-patch
|
06/24/2024
|
|
#40953
|
Empty values are handled inconsistently between wpdb->get_results() and wpdb->get_col()
|
|
Database
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
dev-feedback
|
01/17/2025
|
|
#52320
|
Empty entries in WP_Scripts 'extra' field
|
|
Script Loader
|
normal
|
trivial
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
|
08/14/2025
|
|
#51623
|
Does WordPress run a clean-up cron-job for menu items having the draft status?
|
|
Menus
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
has-patch
|
02/18/2025
|
|
#61025
|
Do not write in DB when updating a user if no user data has changed
|
|
Users
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
04/18/2024
|
|
#55909
|
Do WordPress feeds need pagination query SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS?
|
|
Feeds
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
06/03/2022
|
|
#41520
|
Disable deprecated functions
|
pbearne
|
Bootstrap/Load
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
08/16/2024
|
|
#46713
|
Comment reply link uses inconvenient eventlistener
|
|
Comments
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
has-patch
|
07/05/2025
|
|
#54116
|
Check ImageMagick version 6/7
|
|
Site Health
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
01/24/2024
|
|
#47514
|
Change priority of make_clickable callback to boost performance
|
|
Comments
|
normal
|
minor
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
09/22/2024
|
|
#56105
|
Call update_post_parent_caches in the_post function in WP_Query class
|
|
Query
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
needs-unit-tests
|
04/20/2023
|
|
#32452
|
Cache optimizations
|
pbearne
|
Cache API
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
has-patch
|
01/23/2025
|
|
#64171
|
Cache failed requests to WordPress.org API endpoints
|
|
General
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
|
10/29/2025
|
|
#47285
|
Better Management of External Asset Dependencies
|
|
Script Loader
|
normal
|
major
|
Awaiting Review
|
feature request
|
|
07/24/2024
|
|
#56489
|
An extra post lookup in WP_Embed::shortcode for known post
|
|
Embeds
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
09/01/2022
|
|
#55889
|
Allow specifying multiple keys as an array in meta and option retrieval functions.
|
|
Options, Meta APIs
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
feature request
|
|
06/01/2022
|
|
#54378
|
Admin Pages - The dropdown of 'Main Page (no parent)' on QuickEdit query is slow
|
|
Quick/Bulk Edit
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
06/04/2024
|
|
#45354
|
Adding index for meta_key and post_id in postmeta
|
|
Database
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
06/24/2024
|
|
#56376
|
Add wp_is_ini_value_changeable( 'memory_limit' ) yes or no to class WP_Debug_Data
|
|
Site Health
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
08/14/2022
|
|
#59488
|
Add index to comment_type and comment_approved fields in comment table
|
|
Comments
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
01/14/2026
|
|
#41675
|
Add filter to bypass display/query for Media Months filter in media modal
|
|
Media
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
has-patch
|
01/29/2025
|
|
#58470
|
Add configurable batching to `wp_scheduled_delete` for controlling cleanup operations
|
|
Cron API
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
06/07/2023
|
|
#61522
|
Add autoload control to register_setting()
|
pbearne*
|
Options, Meta APIs
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
has-patch
|
07/08/2024
|
|
#52998
|
Add a filter to paginate_links to allow bypassing merging query params
|
|
General
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
04/05/2022
|
|
#61358
|
Add Support to HTTP 2 in WP_Http Class
|
|
HTTP API
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
has-patch
|
07/19/2024
|
|
#37178
|
Add $cache_only parameter to get_option
|
|
Options, Meta APIs
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
needs-unit-tests
|
09/06/2024
|
|
#52990
|
Account for single quoted attributes when lazy loading images and iframes.
|
|
Embeds
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
needs-unit-tests
|
04/12/2024
|
|
#41180
|
ABSPATH definition - incorrect on chrooted vhost
|
|
Bootstrap/Load
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
defect (bug)
|
has-patch
|
03/12/2025
|
|
#52011
|
'The REST API encountered an unexpected result' should be a critical error
|
|
Site Health
|
normal
|
normal
|
Awaiting Review
|
enhancement
|
|
08/28/2022
|
|
#21989
|
update_option() calls sanitize_option() twice when option does not exist
|
pbearne*
|
Options, Meta APIs
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
defect (bug)
|
dev-feedback
|
11/19/2025
|
|
#37115
|
recent canonical change is giving an infinite 301 redirect loop
|
|
Canonical
|
normal
|
normal
|
|
defect (bug)
|
dev-feedback
|
06/04/2019
|
|
#37762
|
cache_results parameter doesn't prevent queried posts from being added to cache
|
boonebgorges
|
Query
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
defect (bug)
|
dev-feedback
|
06/15/2022
|
|
#53450
|
[WP_Meta_Query] Add faster LIKE based 'STARTSWITH' and 'ENDSWITH' compare modes for value query
|
|
Query
|
normal
|
trivial
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
03/03/2025
|
|
#46388
|
WP_User::get_data_by(): Cache non-existent users to prevent triggering multiple queries
|
|
Cache API
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
reporter-feedback
|
06/15/2021
|
|
#42883
|
Use sargable queries for date-based lookups for posts
|
|
Query
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
05/29/2024
|
|
#49490
|
Proposal: New wrapper function and hook for creating attachments
|
pbearne*
|
Media
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
07/15/2024
|
|
#58801
|
Prefetch Block Editor from Posts page
|
adamsilverstein
|
Editor
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
needs-unit-tests
|
08/27/2024
|
|
#18836
|
ORDER BY RAND() is slow
|
pbearne
|
Query
|
normal
|
minor
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
08/21/2025
|
|
#24688
|
Memory exhaustion caused by very many unattached media
|
|
Media
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
defect (bug)
|
reporter-feedback
|
06/02/2025
|
|
#63021
|
Lazy load user meta
|
spacedmonkey
|
Users
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
02/10/2026
|
|
#57496
|
Lazy load post meta
|
spacedmonkey
|
Posts, Post Types
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
01/20/2026
|
|
#13066
|
Last-Modified headers for individual comment feeds are incorrect
|
jgci*
|
Feeds
|
low
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
defect (bug)
|
dev-feedback
|
06/28/2022
|
|
#61467
|
Inconsistent cache handling for network (site) meta
|
spacedmonkey
|
Cache API
|
normal
|
major
|
Future Release
|
defect (bug)
|
dev-feedback
|
02/03/2026
|
|
#61849
|
Improve performance and memory usage of wp_list_post_revisions() / wp_get_post_revisions()
|
|
Revisions
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
reporter-feedback
|
01/20/2026
|
|
#49278
|
Improve meta query
|
|
Query
|
normal
|
normal
|
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
02/27/2025
|
|
#59638
|
Images: repeating a single image causes `fetchpriority` to be repeated
|
|
Media
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
defect (bug)
|
dev-feedback
|
06/05/2024
|
|
#63636
|
Enable instant page navigations from browser history via bfcache when sending "nocache" headers
|
westonruter*
|
Administration
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
needs-unit-tests
|
01/25/2026
|
|
#57416
|
Do not split query if requesting one post
|
spacedmonkey
|
Query
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
02/04/2026
|
|
#59596
|
Cache file sizes of core block style files.
|
|
Editor
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
03/26/2025
|
|
#31696
|
Better select, multi-select, and autocomplete/suggestion inputs in the admin
|
|
Administration
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
09/25/2025
|
|
#6814
|
Async media crunching
|
adamsilverstein
|
Upload
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
06/28/2025
|
|
#45471
|
Allow caching of parse_blocks results
|
francina
|
Cache API
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
06/12/2025
|
|
#41305
|
Add lazily evaluated translations
|
timothyblynjacobs
|
I18N
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
11/06/2024
|
|
#15499
|
Add an index for get_lastpostmodified query
|
OllieJones
|
Database
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
08/28/2025
|
|
#61296
|
Add "force" parameter to get_option and get_transient
|
|
Options, Meta APIs
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
reporter-feedback
|
09/06/2024
|
|
#55999
|
wp_suspend_cache_addition should also disable cache setting?
|
|
Cache API
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
defect (bug)
|
dev-feedback
|
06/05/2024
|
|
#62124
|
wp_parse_url() - code update for performance and removal of now unnecessary code fix
|
pbearne
|
HTTP API
|
normal
|
trivial
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
has-patch
|
06/03/2025
|
|
#32366
|
wp_count_comments() is hardcoded into /wp-admin/menu.php and queries all comments every single page load within the admin area, regardless of if edt_posts is removed from top menu or not
|
|
Comments
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
defect (bug)
|
close
|
04/04/2024
|
|
#39703
|
wp-signup.php & wp-activate.php are doing an avoidable posts query
|
|
Login and Registration
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
dev-feedback
|
07/17/2024
|
|
#59361
|
update_post_meta() strict checks can cause false negatives
|
|
Options, Meta APIs
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
defect (bug)
|
has-patch
|
05/07/2025
|
|
#14254
|
update_meta_cache fails; query too large?
|
pbearne
|
Cache API
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
defect (bug)
|
has-patch
|
02/26/2025
|
|
#55996
|
the get_the_block_template_html call all the same functions as the the_conent filter so they are run twice
|
|
Formatting
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
defect (bug)
|
dev-feedback
|
08/28/2024
|
|
#34872
|
dbDelta Missing Index Name Creates Duplicate Indexes
|
|
Database
|
normal
|
normal
|
|
defect (bug)
|
has-patch
|
06/04/2019
|
|
#11585
|
WordPress should cache failed feed fetches so as to avoid overloading feed sources
|
pbearne
|
Feeds
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
has-patch
|
11/19/2024
|
|
#42513
|
WP_Theme::get_post_templates() is extremely inefficient for large themes
|
|
Themes
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
defect (bug)
|
has-patch
|
02/13/2025
|
|
#44921
|
User nicename discovery is slow to return
|
pbearne*
|
Users
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
enhancement
|
has-patch
|
01/18/2025
|
|
#34981
|
Usage of `image_size_names_choose` breaks JS attachment model attributes
|
|
Media
|
normal
|
normal
|
Future Release
|
defect (bug)
|
needs-unit-tests
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06/28/2025
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#56320
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Update mediaelement.js to the latest version
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adamsilverstein*
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External Libraries
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normal
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normal
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Future Release
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defect (bug)
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dev-feedback
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08/12/2025
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#54171
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Twenty Twelve: Replace frontend jQuery usage with Interactivity API
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flixos90
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Bundled Theme
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normal
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normal
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Future Release
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enhancement
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has-patch
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10/08/2024
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#47925
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Twenty Nineteen: Size of style.css seems excessively large (225% as large as the next largest theme's CSS)
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Bundled Theme
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normal
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normal
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Future Release
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enhancement
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has-patch
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02/24/2025
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#63251
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Twenty Fourteen: implement slider feature with CSS carousel
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Bundled Theme
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normal
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normal
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Future Release
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enhancement
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has-patch
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04/09/2025
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#40351
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Term post re-counts scale poorly, are common and difficult to avoid
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whyisjake
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Taxonomy
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normal
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normal
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Future Release
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enhancement
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has-patch
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05/02/2024
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