Dev Chat summary: September 2, 2026

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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 📢

7.2

We have a Proposal: Secrets API for WP 7.2
We are still waiting for a release squad to be published, probably early next week as per @jeffpaul

7.1.1

We now have a WordPress 7.1.1 Release Schedule!

General

Discussion 💬

From @jeffpaul

Jeff resurfaced this heads up from @annezazu, for anyone who’s working on something for 7.2 to ensure they flag that to Anne for the roadmap post:

Howdy! I’m starting to work on a roadmap for WordPress 7.2 since we’re less than 2 months from 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. I wanted to check in to see what might be coming up across the project that folks are dedicated to working on. As a reminder, roadmaps aren’t meant to be completely comprehensive but are meant to reflect the priority work slated for the release. As a result, I won’t include every little detail and instead focus on getting the broad strokes in place. As always, I’ll share drafts as I go but just want to flush out anything early as I have a long list already!
@annezazu – link to the Slack thread

@audrasjb: “On my side, I’d say this feature (ticket #65910) may be a huge thing for support teams (on dotorg as well as for plugins/themes support teams if we make it an APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.). Design welcome but I think we can probably make a POC with the existing dashicons and basic styling.”

From @pbearne

Paul would love to see some of his patches that add tests get merged.

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