Dev Chat Agendas | Dev Chat Summaries | Roadmap post | Bug Scrubs Schedule | Dev Notes 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. | Field Guide The field guide is a type of blogpost published on Make/Core during the release candidate phase of the WordPress release cycle. The field guide generally lists all the dev notes published during the beta cycle. This guide is linked in the about page of the corresponding version of WordPress, in the release post and in the HelpHub version page. | Help Test 6.8 | All Posts Tagged 6.8 | 6.8 Release Leads Channel
WordPress 6.8 will be the first major release of 2025.
Release team
- Release Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release.:
- Release Coordinator:
- Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Tech Lead:
- Editor Tech Leads:
- Core Triage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. Leads:
- Editor Triage Leads:
- Documentation Leads:
- Test Lead:
- Design Lead:
- Performance Lead:
- Default Theme Design Lead:
- Default Theme Development Leads:
All release decisions will ultimately be this release team’s to make and communicate while gathering input from the community.
Release Schedule
The WordPress 6.8 release schedule is TBA
How to contribute
To get involved in WordPress core development, head over to Trac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress., and pick a 6.8 ticket. Need help? Check out the Core Contributor Handbook.
Get your patches done and submitted as soon as possible, then help find people to test the patches and leave feedback on the ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.. Patches for enhancements will not be committed after the dates posted above so that we can all focus on squashing bugs and delivering the most bug 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.-free WordPress ever 😉.
If you want to dive deeper into 6.8, join the weekly meetings in the #core Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel, which occur every Wednesday at 20:00 UTC.