Summary, Dev Chat, October 2, 2024

Announcements

WordPress 6.7 Beta 1 was released on October 1. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release and attended the release party! There is a helpful guide here on how to help test this release.

Forthcoming releases

Next major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.7

We are currently in the WordPress 6.7 release cycle. WordPress 6.7 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 2 is scheduled for Tuesday, October 8. For specific release times, review the release party schedule post.

@peterwilsoncc noted that the release is now in the phase of bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. fixes only. No further enhancements or features can be committed to WordPress-Develop until the 6.7 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". is forked in a few weeks time after RCrelease 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). 1. Tasks can also be completed at this stage, such as the about page, etc.

@peterwilsoncc also mentioned that the Twenty Twenty-Five theme is still being worked on in the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repository and he’s sure the theme team would love assistance there https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwentyfive/issues.

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/49985 could do with some eyes on it and is currently in the 6.7 milestone. Also, getting eyes and follow-ups on the items marked as needing changes in the milestone report by workflow would be helpful.

On the Editor side, @noisysocks suggested diving into fixing bugs that are in the 6.7 board if you’re interested in helping out.

Next maintenance release

There are no maintenance releases planned at this time. Currently, the next minor report is clear.

Next GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ release: 19.4

The next Gutenberg release will be 19.4, scheduled for October 9, and will include the following issues.

Discussion

There were no discussion topics raised this week.

Open Floor

@akirk left a comment on the agenda asking whether the WordPress project wanted to be represented at FOSDEM 2025, happening in Brussels this coming Feb. To quote his comment on the agenda:

I believe bringing a dedicated WordPress room to this open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. conference could be beneficial for WordPress to connect more with other open source projects. We could select talks for the devroom (given that they’d be proposed) that can inspire and take inspiration from other open source projects, for example about WordPress Playground, or how the WordPress project does translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization..

Proposals need to be submitted by Oct 10. Alex is looking for feedback about whether it makes sense to engage in the FOSDEM environment and to gather interest in submitting talks if the room is accepted. Please reach out to @akirk directly if you’d like more information about this.

Props to @joemcgill for proofreading.