Summary, Dev Chat, Mar 5, 2025

Announcements 📢

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/ version 20.4 was released!

Gutenberg version 20.4 was officially released today! This update brings a variety of enhancements and improvements to the blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. editor. This version is the final release to be merged into WordPress 6.8.

A detailed changelog article will follow shortly, providing an in-depth look at the features and changes in this version.

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 – 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

The Beta 2 release of WordPress 6.8 will be available on Tuesday, March 11th.
Join the Release Party to test new features and provide feedback!

Next major release: 6.8

We are currently in the WordPress 6.8 release cycle. Read more about the release squad, timeline and focus for this release.

Editor Updates 🔄

Stay tuned for weekly updates to keep you informed about the latest in WordPress editor development. Whether you’re a developer, designer, or content creator, these updates will keep you in the loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. on all the key changes.

Don’t miss out — check out the weekly update and get ready for more!

Discussion 🤔

To avoid listing the topics here twice, all the necessary links and information can be found in the agenda. This section now includes a few additions.

6.8 – Beta 1 | Current update issue with versions older than 5.1 ⚠️

A 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. was found preventing updates for versions older than 5.1 in Beta 1, with ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #63052 created. @joemcgill mentioned that @johnbillion will handle it when he’s back this week, and it shouldn’t affect Beta 2. 🥳

6.8 | Preparing Documentation for the 6.8 Release

@jeffpaul mentioned that the document is intended for the Helphub page, similar to the 6.7 release. Additionally, @milana_cap shared details on docs-related topics here.

Call for the Security Role for the upcoming 6.8 release parties

@desrosj mentioned that he can take on the security role, as it involves running the security test suite. He is open to involving more team members if anyone is interested, but he’s fine handling it on his own.

Open Floor 💬

6.8 Beta 1 | Feedback

After the Beta 1 release, a ticket was created for an issue (#63055) regarding missing template parts, related to #62574. @jeffpaul confirmed that changes from #62574 won’t be included in 6.8 as is, but updates will resolve the gaps.