{"id":125796,"date":"2026-09-02T19:29:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/?p=125796"},"modified":"2026-09-02T19:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:29:05","slug":"summary-dev-chat-september-2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2026\/09\/02\/summary-dev-chat-september-2-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Dev Chat summary: September 2, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.slack.com\/archives\/C02RQBWTW\/p1788361357654099\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wordpress.slack.com\/archives\/C02RQBWTW\/p1768402818971609\">Start<\/a>\u00a0of the meeting in\u00a0<span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>Slack<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>Slack<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/\">https:\/\/slack.com\/<\/a>. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/chat\/\">https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/chat\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>, facilitated by <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/audrasjb\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>audrasjb<\/a> \ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2026\/09\/02\/dev-chat-agenda-sep-02-2026\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"125759\">See the agenda post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 id=\"announcements-1\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Announcements \ud83d\udce2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7.2<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We have a <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2026\/08\/25\/proposal-a-secrets-api-for-wordpress-7-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposal: Secrets API for WP 7.2<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We are still waiting for a release squad to be published, probably early next week as per <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/jeffpaul\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>jeffpaul<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7.1.1<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We now have a <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2026\/09\/02\/wordpress-7-1-1-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WordPress 7.1.1 Release Schedule<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">General<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/security\/2026\/09\/01\/updates-to-the-wordpress-vulnerability-disclosure-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Updates to WordPress Vulnerability Disclosure program<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2026\/08\/open-weight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WordPress signs Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"discussion\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Discussion \ud83d\udcac<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/jeffpaul\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>jeffpaul<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeff resurfaced this heads up from <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/annezazu\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>annezazu<\/a>, for anyone who\u2019s working on something for 7.2 to ensure they flag that to Anne for the roadmap post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Howdy! I\u2019m starting to work on a roadmap for WordPress 7.2 since we\u2019re less than 2 months from <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>beta<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>Beta<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>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.<\/span><\/span><\/span> 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\u2019t meant to be completely comprehensive but are meant to reflect the priority work slated for the release. As a result, I won\u2019t include every little detail and instead focus on getting the broad strokes in place. As always, I\u2019ll share drafts as I go but just want to flush out anything early as I have a long list already!<\/p>\n<cite>@annezazu \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.slack.com\/archives\/C02RQBWTW\/p1788303660549699\">link to the Slack thread<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/audrasjb\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>audrasjb<\/a>: \u201cOn my side, I\u2019d say <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/65910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this feature (ticket #65910)<\/a> may be a huge thing for support teams (on dotorg as well as for plugins\/themes support teams if we make it an <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>API<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>API<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>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.<\/span><\/span><\/span>).\u00a0Design welcome but I think we can probably make a POC with the existing dashicons and basic styling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/pbearne\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>pbearne<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul would love to see <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/query?focuses=~tests&amp;reporter=~pbearne&amp;status=accepted&amp;status=assigned&amp;status=new&amp;status=reviewing&amp;order=priority&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=focuses&amp;col=owner&amp;col=type&amp;col=status&amp;col=priority\">some of his patches that add tests get merged<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"o2-appended-tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/tag\/7-1-1\/\" class=\"tag\"><span class=\"tag-prefix\">#<\/span>7-1-1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/tag\/7-2\/\" class=\"tag\"><span class=\"tag-prefix\">#<\/span>7-2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/tag\/core\/\" class=\"tag\"><span class=\"tag-prefix\">#<\/span>core<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/tag\/dev-chat\/\" class=\"tag\"><span class=\"tag-prefix\">#<\/span>dev-chat<\/a><\/p><nav class='o2-post-footer-actions'><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><li class='o2-post-footer-action'><a href=\"https:\/\/login.wordpress.org\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmake.wordpress.org%2Fcore%2F2026%2F09%2F02%2Fsummary-dev-chat-september-2-2026%2F%23respond&#038;locale=en_US\" title=\"Login to Reply\"  class=\"genericon  genericon-reply\"  data-action=\"login-to-reply\"  data-actionstate=\"default\" >Login to Reply<\/a><\/li><\/ul><div class='o2-post-footer-action-likes'><\/div><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><\/ul><\/nav>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start\u00a0of the meeting in\u00a0SlackSlack 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 \ud83d\udd17 See the agenda post. Announcements \ud83d\udce2 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8670591,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4194,1175,1176],"tags":[5943,5861,2325,92],"class_list":["post-125796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devchat","category-general","category-summaries","tag-7-1-1","tag-7-2","tag-core","tag-dev-chat","mentions-annezazu","mentions-audrasjb","mentions-jeffpaul","mentions-pbearne","author-audrasjb"],"revision_note":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2AvED-wIY","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8670591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125797,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125796\/revisions\/125797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}