Commit a1b4e08a21 for wordpress.org

commit a1b4e08a218cd645b1f0694196084b8137e43834
Author: jonsurrell <jonsurrell@git.wordpress.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 6 09:40:45 2026 +0000

    HTML API: Improve character reference decoding performance.

    Improve the performance of `WP_HTML_Decoder::decode()` on strings containing ampersands that do not start a character reference.

    Developed in: https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/13986

    Props serhatsoylu06, westonruter, jonsurrell.
    Fixes #66241.

    Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@64124


    git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@63280 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd

diff --git a/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-decoder.php b/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-decoder.php
index cc3dde6e7e..31ed56808e 100644
--- a/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-decoder.php
+++ b/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-decoder.php
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ class WP_HTML_Decoder {
 				continue;
 			}

-			++$at;
+			$at = $next_character_reference_at + 1;
 		}

 		if ( 0 === $was_at ) {
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index c118f4cf5d..042223cc46 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '7.2-alpha-64123';
+$wp_version = '7.2-alpha-64124';

 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.