Performance Chat Summary: 11 February 2025

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WordPress Performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets

Discussion of performance tickets for the upcoming 6.8 release:

#39242 (Add caching to count_user_posts()) – Jonny Harris plans to commit
#62503 (Add speculative loading support) is now waiting for follow up reviews

Performance Lab PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party (and other performance plugins)

A reminder that the next version of the Performance Lab plugin will be this Thursday.
The release 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". has been cut and the PR to prep the release has been opened.
Needs testing and then we’re good to go for Thursday.
Builds for Thursday’s release are now available for testing: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1862#issuecomment-2649801657

Open Floor

There are still 13 enhancements in the milestone for 6.8.
- Discussion of which tickets are ready or need further review.
#56481 and #39242 are both ready to commit.
#58001 is close
#57496 Needs another review

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, Feb 25, 2025 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack

#core-performance, #hosting, #performance, #performance-chat, #summary

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WordPress Performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets

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