Summary, Dev Chat, October 22, 2025

Welcome!

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:

Found 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.? Create a ticket in the bug tracker.

Want to contribute? Get started quickly with tickets marked as good first bugs for new contributors or join a bug scrub. There’s more on the reports page, like patches needing testing, and on feature projects page.

Other questions? Here is a detailed handbook for contributors, complete with tutorials.

Start of the meeting in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/., facilitated by @amykamala 🔗 Agenda post.

Announcements 📢

WordPress 6.9 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. 1 is now available!

WordPress 6.9 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing.
You can find more information in the release post.

Forthcoming releases 🚀

WordPress 6.9 Timeline

WordPress 6.9 is planned for December 2, 2025. Beta 2 is planned for October 28.

Bug Scrub Schedule

Regular scrubs are already underway, led by @wildworks and @welcher across time zones.
Full details are in the Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.9.

Call for Testing

The Test Team invites testing and feedback on the following upcoming 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 features:

Discussion 💬

Several contributors shared feedback on the Beta 1 preparation and suggested writing down the key points for later review. Topics mentioned included how build failures are handled in relation to the schedule, when to apply freezes, adding more time to stabilize changes before milestones, and syncing the codebases more often to keep the process smooth.

#6-9, #core, #dev-chat

Welcome!

Communication

Announcements 📢

Forthcoming releases 🚀

WordPress 6.9 Timeline

Bug Scrub Schedule

Call for Testing

Discussion 💬

Process notes related to 6.9 Beta 1

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