Title: Dev Chat Agenda – May 6, 2026
Author: Amy Kamala
Published: May 6, 2026

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# Dev Chat Agenda – May 6, 2026

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on [Wednesday, May 6, 2026, at 15:00 UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20260506T1500)
in the [core](https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/core/) channel on [Make WordPress Slack](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/).

The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an
open floor section.

The various curated agenda sections below refer to additional items. If you have
ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.
requests for help, please continue to post details in the comments section at the
end of this agenda or bring them up during the dev chat.

## Announcements 📢

### WordPress 7.0

 * [RC3 (“new Beta 1”) scheduled for this Friday, May 8th](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/04/22/wordpress-7-0-release-party-updated-schedule/)
 * [Call for RTC testing from hosts](https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/2026/04/29/urgent-testing-request-to-web-hosts-for-collaborative-editing-by-may-4th/).
   Submissions still welcome.
 * Thank you to Bluehost, Kinsta, XServer, GoDaddy, WordPress.comWordPress.com An
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   WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company
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   [https://wordpress.com/](https://wordpress.com/), Ionos, and any other hosts 
   for helping test RTC!

### **General**

 * [Proposal: Auto-generate Block Editor Handbook docs from block.json](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/05/05/proposal-auto-generate-block-editor-handbook-docs-from-block-json/)
 * [Help us help others contribute to WordPress](https://make.wordpress.org/project/2026/04/23/help-us-help-others-contribute-to-wordpress/)

## 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._

## 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.

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[#core](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/core/), [#core-privacy](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/core-privacy/),
[#dev-chat](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/dev-chat/)

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