Summary, Dev Chat, Apr 2, 2025

WordPress 6.8 | Release Candidaterelease 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). 2 is now available 🥳

The Release Candidate 2 release of WordPress 6.8 is now available! A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined the Release Party. We appreciate your testing and feedback.

@jeffpaul reminds all CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Committers to read this article and follow the outlined process for the upcoming steps: WordPress 6.8 Release Candidate Phase

Help Test 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. version 🧪

The Test-Team has written two helpful guides for people interested in testing:

• How to Contribute to WP 6.8 Release Party
• Help Test WordPress 6.8

Forthcoming releases 🚀

Release Candidate 3: April 8, 2025

The Release Candidate 3 release of WordPress 6.8 will be available on Tuesday, April 8, 2025.

A detailed overview of the release schedule for WordPress 6.8 can be found here. The article also includes information about the individuals assigned to each release party.

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/ version: 20.6

Gutenberg 20.6 is scheduled for release on Wednesday, April 2, 2025.

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.

Highlighted posts ✨

• WordPress 6.8 Field Guide
• New REST API Filter for Exposing Menus Publicly in WordPress 6.8

Discussion 🤔

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Open Floor 💬

PHPDocs Improvements

@sirlouen is requesting a status update on Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #57299 on Core TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress., which concerns the improvement of PHPDocs for arrays. The goal is to enhance code quality and developer-friendliness in WordPress.

Style Book Integration

@smrubenstein is asking for advice on handling tab color states. Currently, custom color attributes and slotfill are used for the color inspector, but there’s no clear way to define 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. states like hover or focus. He’s asking how to integrate these into the Style Book and Style Engine so users can set default values.

Github Pull-Request