Performance Chat Summary: 9 September 2025

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The WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:

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The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

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

@westonruter recapped the 6.9 performance roadmap and noted that 6.9-beta1 is scheduled for 21 October 2025, giving six weeks for performance enhancements.
- @westonruter also shared queries listing the performance issues milestoned for 6.9, including 25 enhancement tickets targeted for 6.9-beta1.
@westonruter announced that fetchpriority for scripts has now landed in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. #61734.
@spacedmonkey highlighted that ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #59592 has landed in Core.
@westonruter checked on ticket #63045, and @spacedmonkey confirmed it should leverage the new introduced function and pointed to usage examples in PR #8444.
@spacedmonkey requested feedback on the tickets #63021 and #58001.

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)

@westonruter flagged that the Optimization Detective plugin is overdue for a release but likely won’t ship before 6.9-beta1 due to focus on Core enhancements.
- @westonruter reminded that getting the 1.0.0 stable release out is blocking next milestone, which includes the work @b1ink0 is doing on URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org Metrics priming.

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@mukesh27 inquired about the date of the next 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 and @westonruter confirmed it is scheduled for next Tuesday (16 September 2025).

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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