Title: WordPress 6.2 Release Candidate Phase
Author: Tonya Mork
Published: March 9, 2023

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hellofromtonya/) [Tonya Mork](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hellofromtonya/)
9:59 pm _on_ March 9, 2023      

# WordPress 6.2 Release Candidate Phase

Now that WordPress 6.2 has entered the Release Candidaterelease candidate One of
the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential
to be a final release to the public. Also see [alpha (beta)](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/09/wordpress-6-2-release-candidate-phase/?output_format=md#alpha-beta).
phase, the following policies are in place.

_These policies mainly cover how and when CoreCore Core is the set of software required
to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. committers can commit.
For non-committing contributors, this post may help explain why a Core committercommitter
A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent
core developers with commit access. Additionally, the project usually has a few 
guest or component committers - a developer receiving commit access, generally for
a single release cycle (sometimes renewed) and/or for a specific component. makes
a certain decision._

## String Freeze

To allow the Polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual
translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing
marketing copy. [https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/](https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/)
time to get their local language’s translationtranslation The process (or result)
of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also
see [localization](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/09/wordpress-6-2-release-candidate-phase/?output_format=md#l10n),
[internationalization](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/09/wordpress-6-2-release-candidate-phase/?output_format=md#i18n).
of WordPress ready, no new strings are permitted to be added to the release. Existing
strings can be removed and/or duplicated if needed.

Seek guidance from the Polyglots team leadership for any strings reported as buggy.
A buggy string is one that can not be translated to all languages in its current
form. 

## Tickets on the WordPress 6.2 milestone

For the remainder of the cycle, only two types of tickets may be placed on/remain
on the 6.2 milestone:

 * **Regressions**: bugs that have been introduced during the WordPress 6.2 development
   cycle, either to existing or new features.
 * **Test suite expansion**: tests can be committed at any time without regard to
   code or string freezes. This can cover either new or existing features.

## Trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision. is now WordPress 6.3-alpha

WordPress 6.2 was recently forked to its own branchbranch A directory in Subversion.
WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release(
3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that
branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively
referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch"., trunk is now open for commits
for the next version of the software.

## Backporting to the 6.2 branch

Backporting commits of production code (that is, anything that ends up in the zip
file) now requires double sign-off by two core committers. The `dev-feedback` keyword
should be used to request a second committer’s review, `dev-reviewed` should be 
added to indicate a second committer has reviewed and approved the commit to the
6.2 branch.

Commits to the test suite do not require double sign-off.

_Props to [@audrasjb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/) for peer review._

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