Core Contributor News for Sprint: Jun 20th - Jul 03rd, 2026
This sprint brought mostly positive experiences. 71% of participants rated their experience as good or great, while 29% reported a neutral experience or faced some challenges.
What Pull Requests (PRs) need review?
As a CC, check for PRs that are stuck and need attention. Don’t have write access? No problem! You can still help by reviewing to move things forward. Ping Axim if there are issues merging after you review.
Below is a list of stalled PRs that need urgent attention. These are just some of the many PRs that require immediate review and action. In addition, there are several Draft PRs that need attention to move forward. Please take a moment to review and update them as needed so they don’t remain blocked. Thank you!
Stuck waiting for review
- fix: do not update LMS user during retirement
- feat: add hasUnmetPrerequisitesList in CoursewareAccessSerializer
- [BB-10699] Add configurable Qualtrics query params
- feat: update gitignore file
- fix: hydrate authenticated user in Studio
- feat: Requesting to add Course Passing Grade in the Admin Portal Learner Progress Report
- fix: return relative path from get_proctored_exam_settings_url to prevent double /authoring prefix in MFE sidebar
- fix: include user-defined tokens as app token source
- fix: update secondary text color tokens
- feat: make staged static asset size limit configurable by site.
Draft PRs: Require review and updates to move forward:
- feat: Management command to generate a CSV report of xblocks used in all courses or specific courses
- feat: allow hiding question count on the course outline page
- fix: update MathJax CDN from 2.7.5 to 2.7.9 (CVE-2023-39663)
- perf(user_api): implement centralized caching for user preferences
- perf(grades): optimize database queries for large-scale grade recalcu…
- feat!: rm user db_constraint in CourseEnrollment
- feat: scope immediate notification email batching per user
Find a full list of PRs ready for review here, or focus on edx-platform PRs that need attention.
What are the Working Groups up to?
| Working Group | Latest Updates |
|---|---|
| BizDev | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2026-04-02 Partnership development Meeting |
| Build-Test-Release (BTR) | The Build-Test-Release Working Group continued driving the Verawood release, reaching approximately 96% test completion while resolving several blockers, with most remaining issues related to pending backports rather than new defects.The group agreed to continue the Go/No-Go process until all release-critical blockers are cleared and confirmed that the Playwright-based E2E testing initiative is moving forward, with the first architecture proposal approved and migration from Cypress underway. Latest meeting notes → 2026-13-07 BTR Meeting Minutes |
| Governance WG | The Governance Working Group concluded the Contributions Review Spring Cleaning Hackathon, expanding participation to 21 contributors and significantly reducing the backlog of outstanding pull requests ahead of the final wrap-up. The group also revisited the Single Responsible Person Principle (OSPR) proposal, concluding that current review processes are functioning well and that the main bottlenecks lie in reviewer availability and inactive PR authors, rather than a lack of automation. Last meeting notes → June 22 to July 6, 2026 — Open edX Governance WG |
| Core Product | No current updates available. Latest meeting notes → 2026-06-30 Core Product Meeting Notes |
| Data | No current updates available. Next meeting 07-22-2026. Last meeting notes → 2026-04-08 Meeting notes |
| Deprecation | The DEPR Working Group reviewed the deprecation board and continued tracking the removal of legacy v1 libraries and the Legacy Instructor Dashboard. Progress continues on disabling the creation and editing of v1 libraries, while the remaining work for the new Instructor Dashboard centers on CCX compatibility, which is already tracked through an existing DEPR and is expected to proceed after WGU completes its Ulmo upgrade. Last meeting notes → DEPR Meetings Notes (2026) |
| Documentation | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2026-02-04 Docs WG |
| Educators | No current updates available. Latest meeting notes → 2026-04-27 Educators |
| Frontend | The Frontend Working Group finalized key decisions ahead of the frontend-base 1.0 release, confirming that the current configuration precedence will remain unchanged and that existing operator override mechanisms are sufficient. The group also identified an avatar rendering regression across microfrontends, prioritizing a fix before proposing an enhanced initials-based fallback, while continuing final documentation and cleanup work for the upcoming release. Latest meeting notes → 2026-07-02 Frontend Working Group Meeting Notes |
| Large Instances | No current updates available. Latest meeting notes → Large Instances Meeting Notes 2026-06-23 |
| Maintenance | The Maintenance Working Group agreed to transition to a monthly meeting cadence, while continuing to evaluate the effectiveness of the openedx-platform on-call rotation as contributors become more familiar with the process. The group also reviewed the frontend-base migration roadmap, with Verawood expected to adopt frontend-base 1.0 and Willow introducing the new frontend-site and frontend-app-authoring architecture as part of the long-term frontend consolidation. Latest meeting notes → 2026-07-09 Meeting notes |
| Marketing | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → Agenda, Jun 16th, 2026 |
| Mobile | No current updates available. Latest meeting notes → Agenda, 2026-01-30 |
| Technical Oversight Committee | The session covered major updates including AI experimentation, plugin-based architecture improvements, and the universal mobile app proposal, highlighting a shift toward a more modular and scalable Open edX ecosystem. A strong focus was placed on AI-assisted code contributions, emphasizing human review, transparency, and the potential of AI to reduce technical debt and accelerate development. Strategic discussions also explored frontend-base migration, customization challenges, and a university-focused LMS distribution, positioning Open edX as a flexible platform to capture new global market opportunities. Latest meeting notes → TOC Meeting Notes - 2026-03-11 |
| Translation | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2026-03-18 Translation WG Meeting |
| Design | No current updates available. Last meeting notes → 2026-03-18 - Design Working Group Meeting |
What events are coming up?
- Join a working group meeting using the community calendar.
What are we working on?
- Our community is working on exciting projects! Visit our Open edX Roadmap and Release Planning Spreadsheet to find out what’s happening.
Want to participate in Core Contributor Governance?
- Participate to the work of the Contributor Coordination Working Group. The group works asynchronously using the working group tasks board, and we’d love your input there. You can review and comment on existing threads there, or post your own topic to discuss with the group by creating your own ticket on the board (“+ Add item” in “New topics and issues to discuss”).
Anything to add?
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