Benjamin Zekavica 8:59 pm on December 17, 2025
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Summary, Dev Chat, December 17, 2025

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 @desrosj 🔗 Agenda post.


Note: This was the final Dev Chat of 2025. The next Dev Chat will take place on January 7, 2026. Bug scrub meetings may still take place in the meantime. Thanks everyone, and see you in the new year.

Announcements 📢

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/ 22.3 has been released!

Gutenberg 22.3 is now available for download!

WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Asia 2026 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.: Call for table leads

Contributors interested in helping with the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team during the WordCamp Asia 2026 Contributor Day can contact @krupajnanda.

WordPress 6.9 Hotfixes

Since the WordPress 6.9 release, several issues have been reported, temporary workarounds are available as plugins and will be included in a maintenance release planned for January 2026 at the earliest, with full details in the linked post.

Planning for WordPress 7.0

With 6.9 released, attention is already shifting toward WordPress 7.0, including early ideas, focus areas, and ways to contribute, all outlined in the follow-up post.

Real-time collaboration: Early user feedback

Real-time collaboration for WordPress 7.0 has been in WordPress VIP 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. testing since October 2025, with early feedback covered in this post.

Discussions 💬

Dev Chats Over the Holidays

During today’s meeting, it was decided to skip the next two Dev Chat meetings, making today’s meeting the final Dev Chat of the year. Bug scrub meetings may still take place during this time. The next Dev Chat is scheduled for January 7, 2026.

#7-0, #core, #dev-chat