The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, July 8, 2026, at 15:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack.

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

The various curated agenda sections below refer to additional items. If you have ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. requests for help, please continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda or bring them up during the dev chat.

Announcements 📢

7.1

• 7.1 bug scrub schedule
• 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 is scheduled for next week on Wednesday July 15th at 15:00 UTC
• Heads up Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Committers: Tech and Triage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. leads have started tagging tickets for 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.. Deadline for publishing is August 3rd, and the 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. targeted for the 4th (just before RC1).
• Merge Proposal: Expanding WP Core Abilities
• Classic block will NOT be hidden from inserter in WP 7.1

General

• WP 7.0.1 RC1 is now available
• Merge Proposal: Design System Theming
• What’s new in Gutenberg 23.5

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