Agenda, Dev Chat, Wednesday March 27, 2024

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on  Wednesday March 27, 2024 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack.

The live meeting will focus on the discussion for updates on 6.5, and have an open floor section.

Additional items will be referred to in the various curated agenda sections, as below. If you have ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. requests for help, please do continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda.

Announcements

WordPress 6.5 was scheduled for release on March 26, 2024, however, the release has now been rescheduled for April 2, 2024. Thanks to everyone involved in the related discussions around delaying the release by one week.

Forthcoming releases

Next major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.5

Updates from the release squad can be shared in the Dev Chat.

Please continue to test the 6.5 release. See this list of key features to test, which was published alongside WP 6.5 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. 3.

Next 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/ release: 18.0

Gutenberg 18.0 is scheduled for release on March 27 and will include these issues.

Discussions

This week the discussion will focus on any priority topics that need to be raised before the launch of WordPress 6.5.

Proposed topics

  • Are there any priority topics needed for discussion for WordPress 6.5 release preparations?
  • Follow-up for the release squad for 6.6

Feel free to suggest additional topics related to this release in the comments.

Highlighted posts

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Editor Updates

Props to @annezazu for putting together these updates.

Tickets for assistance

Tickets for 6.5 will be prioritized.
Please include detail of tickets / PR and the links into comments, and if you intend to be available during the meeting if there are any questions or will be async.

Open floor

Items for this can be shared in the comments.

Props to @joemcgill for reviewing.

#agenda, #dev-chat

Performance Chat Summary: 26 March 2024

Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

Announcements

  • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
  • WordPress 6.5 delayed (see blog post):
    • RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). 4 will be March 28
    • Release April 2
  • Performance Team have launched two new plugins
    • Optimization Detective pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party
    • Embed Optimizer plugin
  • Reminder on timezone difference for this week, this chat will remain at 16:00 UTC and then shift to 15:00 UTC from April 2, 2024

Priority Items

Structure:

  • WordPress performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets
    • Current release
    • Future release
  • Performance Lab plugin (and other performance plugins)
  • Active priority projects
    • INP research opportunities
    • Improve template loading

WordPress Performance Trac Tickets

  • For WordPress 6.5:
    • @flixos90 Nothing concrete, though since part of the reason for the release delay is changes to the Font 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., we should probably keep an eye on that it doesn’t regress performance. As far as I understand the scope of the changes, it shouldn’t… but still worth staying on top of
  • For Future Releases:
    • We already have 14 open items in the 6.6 milestone
    • @flixos90 update on #42441 (enhancing autoload API and disable autoload for large options) – The PR has two approvals and looks excellent to me, so I’ve marked the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. for commit
      • Going to wait for a few more days to see if any additional feedback comes in, but generally plan to commit this next week so that we can get a lot of testing during the 6.6 release cycle

Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

Active Priority Projects

    Improve template loading

    INP research opportunities

    • @adamsilverstein As promised, I have collected the results of my INP research and am sharing now in this summary doc (along with a linked spreadsheet with all the data). If you want access to the colab and queries, please request it directly in the colab.
      • The summary doc Analysis section highlights some notable data for both coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and plugins/themes (with action items) that will be worth investigating further. Since there is a ton to absorb there, I think its best to leave comments/questions on the doc itself so we can discuss async, and maybe we can discuss further at a subsequent meeting.

    Open Floor

    • @pbearne one ticket from the old tickets https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/29717 might worth looking at
    • @joemcgill We’ve traditionally done a post following a major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope. which gives an overview of the performance characteristics of that release. I was planning to draft one for 6.5 once we can take a final set of benchmarks, but I’m assuming that we’re going to end with similar metrics to what we’ve been seeing in the last several RCs, since we’ve not had any new improvements or regressions. I’ll also include details about the editor improvements, but that doesn’t effect any of the CWV metrics we’ve been focusing on. I’d appreciate any thoughts folks have about how to communicate the performance of 6.5 clearly, while accurately reflecting that our benchmarks do NOT show an improvement over the previous release.
    • REMINDER: This meeting will switch to 15:00 UTC from April 2 (next week) onwards

    Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

    #core-performance, #performance, #performance-chat, #summary

    Performance Chat Agenda: 26 March 2024

    Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for Mar 26, 2024 at 16:00 UTC.

    • Announcements
      • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
      • WordPress 6.5 delayed:
        • RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). 4 will be March 28
        • Release April 2
      • Performance Team have launched the new Optimization Detective plugin
      • Reminder on timezone difference for this week, this chat will remain at 16:00 UTC and then shift to 15:00 UTC from April 2, 2024
    • Priority items
      • WordPress performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets
        • Current release
        • Future release
      • Performance Lab pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party (and other performance plugins)
      • Active priority projects
        • INP research opportunities
        • Improve template loading
        • Plugin checker
    • Open floor

    If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below.


    This meeting happens in the #core-performance channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Make WordPress Slack.

    #agenda, #meeting, #performance, #performance-chat

    Agenda, Dev Chat, Wednesday March 20, 2024

    The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on  Wednesday March 20, 2024 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack.

    The live meeting will focus on the discussion for updates on 6.5, and have an open floor section.

    Additional items will be referred to in the various curated agenda sections, as below. If you have ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. requests for help, please do continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda.

    Announcements

    WordPress 6.5 RC 3 was released on March 19, 2024. Thanks to everyone involved and those who helped test.

    Forthcoming releases

    Next major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.5

    Updates from the release squad can be shared in the Dev Chat.

    Please continue to test the 6.5 release. See this list of key features to test, which was published alongside WP 6.5 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. 3.

    Next 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/ release: 18.0

    Gutenberg 18.0 is scheduled for release on March 27 and will include these issues.

    Discussions

    This week the discussion will focus on any priority topics that need to be raised before the launch of WordPress 6.5.

    Proposed topics

    • Are there any priority topics needed for discussion ahead of the WordPress 6.5 release?
      • Is there a need for a silent RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta).?

    Feel free to suggest additional topics related to this release in the comments.

    Highlighted posts

    CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Editor Updates

    Tickets for assistance

    Tickets for 6.5 will be prioritized.
    Please include detail of tickets / PR and the links into comments, and if you intend to be available during the meeting if there are any questions or will be async.

    Open floor

    Items for this can be shared in the comments.

    Props to @joemcgill for reviewing.

    #agenda, #dev-chat

    Performance Chat Summary: 19 March 2024

    Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

    Announcements

    • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
    • WordPress 6.5 Release Candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). 3 is today (Mar 19)
    • Reminder on timezone difference for the next week, this chat will remain at 16:00 UTC and then shift to 15:00 UTC from April 2, 2024

    Priority Items

    Structure:

    • WordPress performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets
      • Current release
      • Future release
    • Performance Lab pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party (and other performance plugins)
    • Active priority projects
      • INP research opportunities
      • Improve template loading
      • Plugin checker

    WordPress Performance Trac Tickets

    Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

    Active Priority Projects

    Plugin Checker

    • No updates this week, will be removed from agenda moving forwards unless there are proactive updates on release 1.1

    Improve template loading

    • @thekt12 I should be able to raise a PR for review today, for #59600 including template part caching

    INP research opportunities

    • @adamsilverstein I have continued working on INP research in a colab nostly by querying httparchive data. Recently I added a few new queries that gather:
      • Plugins on WordPress sites with not good INP (based on Wapalyzer detection)
      • Long task scripts on WordPress sites with not good INP (using the long task audit)
      • Long task scripts on WordPress sites overall
    • I then focused in on scripts by path and ran some group queries that only look at the path. Removing the host part ensures we catch common scripts that run across many WordPress sites. Finally, I am grouping by host to see if any 3p stand out at a top level. I’m collecting all the resulting data in a sheet and will soon be ready to summarize the findings in a doc and share everything!

    Open Floor

    Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

    #core-performance, #performance, #performance-chat, #summary

    Performance Chat Agenda: 19 March 2024

    Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for Mar 19, 2024 at 16:00 UTC.

    • Announcements
      • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
      • WordPress 6.5 Release Candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). 3 is today (Mar 19)
      • Reminder on timezone difference for the next week, this chat will remain at 16:00 UTC and then shift to 15:00 UTC from April 2, 2024
    • Priority items
      • WordPress performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets
        • Current release
        • Future release
      • Performance Lab pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party (and other performance plugins)
      • Active priority projects
        • INP research opportunities
        • Improve template loading
        • Plugin checker
    • Open floor

    If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below.


    This meeting happens in the #core-performance channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Make WordPress Slack.

    #agenda, #meeting, #performance, #performance-chat

    Agenda, Dev Chat, Wednesday March 13, 2024

    The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on  Wednesday March 13, 2024 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack.

    The live meeting will focus on the discussion of proposals and releases, updates on 6.5, and have an open floor section.

    Additional items will be referred to in the various curated agenda sections, as below. If you have ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. requests for help, please do continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda.

    Announcements

    WordPress 6.5 RC 2 was released on March 12, 2024. Thanks to everyone involved and those who helped test.

    Forthcoming releases

    Next major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.5

    Updates from the release squad can be shared in the Dev Chat.

    Please continue to test the 6.5 release. See this list of key features to test, which was published alongside WP 6.5 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. 3.

    Next 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/ release: 18.0

    Gutenberg 18.0 is scheduled for release on March 27 and will include these issues.

    Discussions

    This week the discussion will focus on any priority topics that need to be raised before the next RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). for WordPress 6.5.

    Proposed topics

    • Are there any priority topics needed for discussion ahead of WordPress 6.5 RC 3?
    • Update on A Call for 6.6 release squad
      • Should we reduce the number of leads on a release squad?

    Feel free to suggest additional topics related to this release in the comments.

    Highlighted posts

    CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Editor Updates

    • Color and typography presets that are defined in theme variations are now exposed within the color and typography sections of Global Styles.
    • List blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. items can now be indented using the tab key.
    • Users can now shuffle between random patterns via the block toolbar when inserting a pattern.
    • It’s now easier to swap Template Parts in the block inspector controls.
    • Background images can now be set in the root of the theme.json file to provide site-wide background images.
    • For container blocks that use allowedBlocks, insert before and after actions are now supported on child blocks.
    • Use drag handles to set row and column span and see a dotted outline of block placement when the new “Grid interactivity” experiment is enabled.

    Tickets for assistance

    Tickets for 6.5 will be prioritized.
    Please include detail of tickets / PR and the links into comments, and if you intend to be available during the meeting if there are any questions or will be async.

    Open floor

    Items for this can be shared in the comments.

    #6-5, #agenda, #dev-chat

    Performance Chat Summary: 12 March 2024

    Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

    Announcements

    • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
    • Reminder on timezone difference for the next 3 weeks, this chat will remain at 16:00 UTC, then it will switch to 15:00 UTC from April 2

    Priority Items

    Structure:

    • WordPress performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets discussion
    • Performance Lab pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party (and other performance plugins) discussion
    • Active priority projects
      • Plugin checker
      • Improve template loading
      • INP opportunities research

    WordPress Performance Trac Tickets

    • For WordPress 6.5:
      • @joemcgill opened #60749
        • @flixos90 asked if this is mostly a memory win?
        • @joemcgill It does seem to be less of an impact on IWT than what I was measuring on Friday. Still not sure what the difference is there, or if there is some caching in play that I had disabled on Friday. Even so, it does make a positive impact and memory consumption can lead to slower IWT. The other place that could use more eyes is trying to identify opportunities to improve the performance of the Navigation blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience., which went through a bigger refactor during this release, which is leading to longer rendering times. I don’t think we’ve identified any particular flaw thus far
      • @flixos90 working on the ongoing research on potential performance regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5. that I think is still unresolved [link]
      • @joemcgill will plan on doing another set of benchmarks for RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). 2 once it has been released, and can continue
    • For Future Releases:
      • We already have 16 items in the 6.6 milestone, but it’s a good time for folks to start thinking about what they are wanting to focus on for the next release.

    Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

    Active Priority Projects

    Plugin Checker

    • Mostly quiet since the 1.0 release. There is the start of a 1.1 milestone, but I think the folks involved in next steps here have been mostly busy with WC Asia and 6.5 release work.

    Improve template loading

    INP research opportunities

    • @joemcgill Last item in our active priority projects list: INP opportunities research. I believe @adamsilverstein recently did some research on this, but am unsure if there is anything ready to be shared yet. We can pick this up in a future meeting. That is a good reminder to everyone that INP became a CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Web Vital starting today: https://web.dev/blog/inp-cwv-march-12
      • One of our team goals for this year is to find ways to improve WP this metric, so it’s good to keep in mind.

    Open Floor

    • @thelovekesh asked Currently when we do a plugin release it triggers two workflows:
      • PL plugin release
      • and Standalone plugin release.
      • Do we always need to trigger the workflow for standalone plugins?
    • @flixos90 By default, new versions of standalone plugins are triggered together with the PL plugin release. Other than that, it would need to be the manual workflow. That’s how it works now. There’s certainly things that can be improved. We need to rethink our release strategy, for instance also whether we want to have releases of the standalone plugins tagged on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ in addition, which right now is missing
    • @thelovekesh We might need to streamline release notes for PL and standalone plugins. Currently we are including them for PL plugin. With https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1033, we are attaching all release assets on specific release.
    • @flixos90 Right, the changelog generator also only works for PL right now.
    • @pbearne is working down this list in age order to review/renew [link]
      • @flixos90 I gave your PR for limiting autoloaded options size another review last week, it looks really good, just a few minor things. Have you been able to take a look at that? I’d love to commit this early in the 6.6 cycle
      • @joemcgill Something else that would be helpful is that if you run across an issue that you think should be prioritized because it makes a big impact to improve overall performance for end users, please share it in the channel so we can get more eyes on it and get it into a milestone.
      • @pbearne will start with these tickets 18836 ORDER BY RAND() is slow
        If we can get some modified SQL that works
    • REMINDER: This meeting will continue at 16:00 UTC for the next 3 weeks, then it will switch to 15:00 UTC from April 2 onwards

    Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

    #core-performance, #performance, #performance-chat, #summary

    Performance Chat Agenda: 12 March 2024

    Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for Mar 12, 2024 at 16:00 UTC.

    • Announcements
      • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
      • WordPress 6.5 Release Candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). 2 is today
      • Reminder on timezone difference for the next 3 weeks, this chat will remain at 16:00 UTC
    • Priority items
      • WordPress performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets
      • Performance Lab pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party (and other performance plugins)
      • Active priority projects
        • Plugin checker
        • Improve template loading
        • INP opportunities research
    • Open floor

    If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below.


    This meeting happens in the #core-performance channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Make WordPress Slack.

    #agenda, #meeting, #performance, #performance-chat

    Agenda, Dev Chat, Wednesday March 6, 2024

    The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on  Wednesday March 6, 2024 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack.

    The live meeting will focus on the discussion of proposals and releases, updates on 6.5, and have an open floor section.

    Additional items will be referred to in the various curated agenda sections, as below. If you have ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. requests for help, please do continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda.

    Announcements

    WordPress 6.5 RC 1 was released on March 5, 2024. Thanks to everyone involved and those who helped test.

    Forthcoming releases

    Next major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.5

    Updates from the release squad can be shared in the Dev Chat.

    Please continue to test the 6.5 release. See this list of key features to test, which was published alongside WP 6.5 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. 3.

    Next 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/ release: 17.9

    Gutenberg 17.9 is scheduled for release on March 13 and will include these issues.

    Discussions

    This week the discussion will focus on any priority topics that need to be raised before the next RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). for WordPress 6.5.

    Proposed topics

    • Are there any priority topics needed for discussion ahead of WordPress 6.5 RC 2?
    • How can we make it easier to follow the decision process of major decisions across the project?
    • Should we reduce the number of leads on a release squad?

    Feel free to suggest additional topics related to this release in the comments.

    Highlighted posts

    CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Editor Updates

    Props to @annezazu for helping to collate this list.

    Tickets for assistance

    Tickets for 6.5 will be prioritized.
    Please include detail of tickets / PR and the links into comments, and if you intend to be available during the meeting if there are any questions or will be async.

    Open floor

    Items for this can be shared in the comments.

    #6-5, #agenda, #dev-chat