Grouped backports for the 6.7 branch.

- Customize: Introduce a fix for themes that pass a stringable object through the `template_include` filter despite it being documented as only accepting a string.
- Update version string following r61902.

Props dmsnell, desrosj, westonruter.


git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/branches/6.7@61923 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82

Author: peterwilsoncc

src/wp-includes/class-wp-block-patterns-registry.php

@@ -174,7 +174,9 @@ private function get_content( $pattern_name, $outside_init_only = false ) {
 			$patterns = &$this->registered_patterns;
 		}
 
-		$pattern_path = realpath( $patterns[ $pattern_name ]['filePath'] ?? '' );
+		$file_path    = $patterns[ $pattern_name ]['filePath'] ?? '';
+		$is_stringy   = is_string( $file_path ) || ( is_object( $file_path ) && method_exists( $file_path, '__toString' ) );
+		$pattern_path = $is_stringy ? realpath( (string) $file_path ) : null;
 		if (
 			! isset( $patterns[ $pattern_name ]['content'] ) &&
 			is_string( $pattern_path ) &&

src/wp-includes/interactivity-api/class-wp-interactivity-api.php

@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ private function data_wp_bind_processor( WP_Interactivity_API_Directives_Process
 							__( 'Binding event handler attributes is not supported. Please use "%s" instead.' ),
 							esc_attr( 'data-wp-on--' . substr( $bound_attribute, 2 ) )
 						),
-						'x.y.z'
+						'6.9.2'
 					);
 					continue;
 				}

src/wp-includes/template-loader.php

@@ -101,8 +101,9 @@
 	 *
 	 * @param string $template The path of the template to include.
 	 */
-	$template = apply_filters( 'template_include', $template );
-	$template = is_string( $template ) ? realpath( $template ) : null;
+	$template   = apply_filters( 'template_include', $template );
+	$is_stringy = is_string( $template ) || ( is_object( $template ) && method_exists( $template, '__toString' ) );
+	$template   = $is_stringy ? realpath( (string) $template ) : null;
 	if (
 		is_string( $template ) &&
 		( str_ends_with( $template, '.php' ) || str_ends_with( $template, '.html' ) ) &&