Summary, Dev Chat, December 3, 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 @benjamin_zekavica 🔗 Agenda post.

Announcements 📢

WordPress 6.9 is now available!

WordPress 6.9 is now available for download. Huge thanks to all contributors who made this release possible.

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/ 22.2 has been released!

Gutenberg 22.2 has been released and is available for download!

Discussions 💬

Clarify wording for the Version field in TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.

@SirLouen pointed out that the Handbook currently says the Version field shows when 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 “discovered.” @joedolson noted this can be confusing, and most agreed it should show the version where the bug was introduced.

@jorbin has updated the Handbook, and everyone is welcome to update any other places in the Handbook where the old wording still appears.

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Welcome!

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Announcements 📢

WordPress 6.9 is now available!

Discussions 💬

Clarify wording for the Version field in TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.

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