Summary, Dev Chat, November 13, 2024

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Start of the meeting in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/., facilitated by @joemcgill. 🔗 Agenda post.

Announcements

WordPress 6.7 “Rollins” was released on November 12, 2024. A big thank you to everyone who contributed to this release!

To quote the release post:

WordPress 6.7 reflects the tireless efforts and passion of more than 780 contributors in countries all over the world. This release also welcomed over 230 first-time contributors!

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.: 6.8

We are currently in the WordPress 6.8 release cycle.

Next maintenance release

There are no maintenance releases planned at this time.

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: 19.7

The next Gutenberg release will be 19.7, scheduled for November 20.

Discussion

There were two main topics today:

Immediate issues that need to be addressed following the release
Confirming volunteers to coordinate upcoming maintenance releases following 6.7

There are currently no immediate issues requiring a quick minor releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality., so the first minor will likely be released in around 30 days.

@azaozz mentioned #62401 as something that may need addressing soon, but it is from 6.6 rather than 6.7.

@oglekler also raised #62413 for potential inclusion in the next minor release.

We also discussed the need to start to identify volunteers who are willing to help with minor releases as they are ready. We already have a list of 21 issues (1 fixed) set to the 6.7.1 release milestone. @joemcgill suggested we do a call for volunteers if needed next week.

Props to @joemcgill for proofreading.

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