Summary, Dev Chat, Apr 30, 2025

WordPress 6.8.1 is now available 🥳

• 6.8.1 RC 1 announcement
• 6.8.1 final release announcement

WordPress 6.8.1 was released right after the dev chat. It is a maintenance release.

For now, 6.8 is identified as the last major release of the year.

Forthcoming releases 🚀

WordPress 6.8.2

There are currently 7 tickets in the 6.8.2 milestone on Trac. Bugfixes currently located in milestone 6.9 can probably start to be moved to 6.8.x milestones, but 6.8.2 will most probably still be focused on remaining issues/regressions found on 6.8.

Call for 6.8.x release leads

@michelleames and @jeffpaul published a Call for 6.8.x Release Managers. Anyone interested to lead a 6.8.x release can drop a comment in this P2P2 A free theme for WordPress, known for front-end posting, used by WordPress for development updates and project management. See our main development blog and other workgroup blogs. post.

Discussion 💬

@sirlouen wanted to bring attention to this ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.: #43936. He commented this ticket with a recap of everything that must be known if someone doesn’t want to read all the way through. @audrasjb pointed out that this ticket is a good candidate for a further 6.8.x release, as the patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. shouldn’t add any new file.

@sirlouen pointed out that publishing a call for dev chats topics should ideally be posted on the Make/CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Slack channel, ideally 2 days before each meeting to help gather topics for the agenda. @audrasjb proposed to post such a call on next Monday and to iterate on this process.

@sirlouen added another topic coming from the Core Test Team: “I’m writing a guide on creating Testing Use-Cases for core developers. The thing is that I’ve found over the period of ~100 ticket reviews, that most old stuck tickets with patches that have been pretty much abandoned, the main cause is that the patch creator did not provide enough information to test and help patch progress (even sometimes other reviewers asked for it). I’ve been ideating some examples and ideas, to help people build testing cases, and I’m going to publish this in the Test WP blogblog (versus network, site).” He is looking for people able and willing to review his proposal. @audrasjb volunteered.

@justlevine proposed to discuss the following ticket: #62622: Bump minimum PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher version to 7.4.
This ticket is on @johnbillion‘s radar. Everyone agreed that this ticket is a major goal for 6.9.