Summary, Dev Chat, October 15, 2025

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

Announcements 📣Forthcoming releases 🚀WordPress 6.9 TimelineNext maintenance release 6.8.4Next Gutenberg release: 21.9Call for Testing Discussion 💬A number of issues require some final reviewMerging the Abilities API Announcements 📣

Release party schedule for 6.9 is now available!

Forthcoming releases 🚀 WordPress 6.9 Timeline

Core is currently in the WordPress 6.9 release cycle. There are now less than six days until beta 1 on 21 October!

Regular scrubs are already underway, led by @wildworks and @welcher across time zones. Full details are in the Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.9.

Next maintenance release 6.8.4

No maintenance release is currently