Francesca Marano 6:32 pm on February 25, 2025
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Agenda, Dev Chat, Feb 26, 2025

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday at 15:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack.

The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section.

Additional items will be referred to in the various curated agenda sections below. If you have ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. requests for help, please continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda.

Announcements 📢

There are no major announcements from the past week.

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. Read more about the release squad, timeline and focus for this release.

Current 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: 20.3

Gutenberg 20.3 was released on February 19, and it includes the following issues. An announcement post will follow.

Discussions 🤔

The discussion section of the agenda is to provide a place to discuss important topics affecting the upcoming release or larger initiatives that impact the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team. To nominate a topic for discussion, please leave a comment on this agenda with a summary of the topic, any relevant links that will help people get context for the discussion, and what kind of feedback you are looking for from others participating in the discussion.

Topics for discussion from the 6.8 Release Squad

  • Clarifying our PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher support for 6.8
  • Moving default template types and template part areas to the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. (#62574)
  • Make style book available to classic themes (#62509)

See Roadmap to 6.8

Editor Updates 🔄

You can keep up to date with the major Editor features with the weekly updates, now on the blogblog (versus network, site)!
Editor Weekly Updates: Feb 17–21

Highlighted posts ✨

Open floor  💬

Any topic can be raised for discussion in the comments, as well as requests for assistance on tickets. Tickets in the milestone for the next major or maintenance release will be prioritized.

Please include details of tickets / PRs and the links in the comments, and indicate whether you intend to be available during the meeting for discussion or will be async.

Props to @benjamin_zekavica for reviewing the agenda.

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