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Thank you to all who volunteered as interested in serving on the WordPress 6.8 release squad! After collecting all of the volunteers, reviewing active initiatives and tickets currently in the milestone, contributor availability in various areas, and planned events or holidays the following squad, timeline, and focus has been assembled.
Release Squad
This squad continues the experiment that started in 6.7 of merging the MarComms (Marketing and Communications) Lead with Release Coordination in order to gather more feedback on that experiment. This can change during the process for future releases if needed. The squad is also a bit smaller than usual because of this release being a polish and 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. fix release. Also of note, the Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Tech Lead and Editor Tech Lead roles have been combined into a single “Tech Leads” role as part of the continued initiative to support a more closely coordinated effort across Gutenberg 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/ and Core.
Aaron Jorbin has volunteered to continue managing tickets and will organize minor releases as necessary for the remainder of the 6.8 release cycle.
Release Timeline
As a reminder, here are a few of the key milestones for the release:
- Beta 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: March 4, 2025
- Release 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). 1: March 25, 2025
- General Release: April 15, 2025
Please refer to the WordPress 6.8 Development Cycle page for the full release schedule.
Release Focus
After evaluating the current active initiatives, there will likely be fewer features ready to ship when compared to other recent major releases. As a result, 6.8 will focus primarily on being a polish and bug fix release. New features will be considered if deemed reasonably ready.
A WordPress release is put together by the entire community and the release squad only represents a fraction of the contributors to a release. If you are looking to get involved, please join the #core channel in 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/. where there are weekly chats on Wednesday at 20:00 UTC and bi-weekly new contributor onboarding meetings on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month at 19:00 UTC.
Props @jorbin, @joemcgill, @jeffpaul, @marybaum, @4thhubbard, @davidbaumwald, @courane01 for prepublish review.
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