6.9 Release Day Timeline Shift for State of the Word

Each and every WordPress release day is an acknowledgment of the collective efforts from every single contributor in the community that helped to make that release possible. The State of the Word has historically also been festive in nature, calling out the broad accomplishments of the WordPress community over the course of the previous calendar year.

The 2025 State of the Word was planned around an idea: what better way to celebrate and honor the 6.9 release and the community’s accomplishments from 2025 than combining the two occasions? With that in mind, the event was moved to December 2.

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