Dev Chat Agenda – June 18, 2025

Announcements 📢

• WCEU 2025 Core Committers Meeting Notes

Forthcoming releases 🚀

WordPress 6.8.2 and beyond

• A release squad was announced for 6.8.2: @audrasjb, @estelaris and @zunaid321 will lead this version.
• The detailed 6.8.2 schedule is available

Discussions 💬

The discussion section of the agenda is for discussing 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.

• The following tickets were mentioned by Will Garcia on Slack. They asked whether these tickets are likely to be fixed, since the related dependencies are frequently pointed out as outdated by security compliance audits:
  • #47218: Update TinyMCE to 5.X.X or 6.X.X
  • #48277: Update plupload library to the latest version
• Mentioned by @justlevine:
  • Concerning  #61175 (Integrate PHPStan into the core development workflow): “We still to have a serious look at what PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher Static Analysis errors we want to ignore (e.g. bc they conflictconflict A conflict occurs when a patch changes code that was modified after the patch was created. These patches are considered stale, and will require a refresh of the changes before it can be applied, or the conflicts will need to be resolved. with WPCSWordPress Community Support A public benefit corporation and a subsidiary of the WordPress Foundation, established in 2016., should be handled in a follow-up after the tool is merged, etc) vs baselined (enforced on new code, but not justifiable enough on it’s own to the required criteria for a code refactor).”
    For more info on this topic, see this thread in the #core-coding-standards channel.
  • Also they pointed out that “there’s some PHPStan Level 0 +1 errors that I need help remediating (if we dont baseline/ignore them in the previous bullet) […] If anyone else is interested in lending a hand here, please chime in on the ticket, in chat, or via DM”.
• @sirlouen mentioned: as per Monday’s 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. scrub there are two tickets that need to discussed about errors in Direct Execution of Files. See tickets #62722 and #63316. The discussion should go around if this kind of issues should be covered or is not something of priority for WP.
• Finally, @krupajnanda proposed the following: “I’d love to discuss some pointers shared in the recent WCEU Core Committers notes, especially around improving the quality and timing of testing, reviving structured user testing, and making better use of tools like the 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. 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. Looking forward to some guidance and input on how test team can align better with the Core team’s needs.”

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.