Summary, Dev Chat, July 10, 2024

Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @joemcgill. 🔗 Agenda post.

Announcements WordPress 6.6 RC3 was released on July 9. We are in a hard string freeze. Note that the dev-feedback and dev-reviewed workflow is required prior to committing to the 6.6 branch (handbook reference). Forthcoming Releases Next major release: 6.6

We are currently in the WordPress 6.6 release cycle. WordPress 6.6 is scheduled for Tuesday, July 16. There will be a dry run of the release on Monday, July 15 which starts a 24-hour code freeze of the 6.6 branch.

We’re getting very close to the end of the road for this release cycle, which is exciting!