Jb Audras 3:49 pm on August 18, 2026
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Dev Chat summary: August 18, 2026

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 @audrasjb 🔗 See the agenda post.

Announcements 📢

7.1

  • 7.1 RC3 was released on August 12th.
  • The Accessibility Improvements dev notedev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. was published.
  • 7.1 RC4 was released on August 17th.
  • WordPress 7.1 Field Guide
  • As of Aug 10th, 7.1 is branched. Committers: Trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision. is open for 7.2 and the 7.1 branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch". requires double sign off.
  • Learn more about WordPress 7.1 Release Day Process.

@amykamala mentioned that commit freeze is currently in effect until Wednesday post-release.

From @joedolson: “Nothing else to share from the release squad. At the moment, everything is looking like it’s in good shape for the release.” 🚀

7.2

General

Discussion 💬

From @amykamala

“Dev chat scheduling! Back to Wednesdays next week?”

ℹ️ We will indeed move back to the regular schedule starting next week: Wednesdays at 15:00 UTC.

From @jeffpaul

More a metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. thing than coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., but it sounds like https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1181 had some folks at WCUS discussing it this week.  So if anyone has interest or experience there, commenting with feedback on the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. would be helpful.

#7-1, #7-2, #core, #dev-chat