The first Release Candidate (“RC1”) for WordPress 6.8 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it’s recommended that you evaluate RC1 on a test server and site. Reaching this phase of the release […]
Performance Chat Summary: 25 March 2025
The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. Performance Lab plugins As a consequence from the previous meeting and last week’s release (which for the first time saw releases for only a few of the performance plugins, without Performance Lab), changes to the release cadence were defined Specifically, the team will change release cadence from monthly […]
Interactivity API best practices in 6.8
WordPress 6.8 comes with a few new best practices and requirements in the Interactivity API that are part of a longer-term continuous-improvement effort. Some of the relevant changes in 6.8 are an intermediary step: They do not include these enhancements themselves, but they prepare the project to add them in a future release by adding two new deprecation […]
WordPress 6.8 Beta 3
WordPress 6.8 Beta 3 is now ready for testing! This beta version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommended you evaluate Beta 3 on a test server and site. You can test WordPress 6.8 Beta 3 in four […]
WordPress 6.8 Beta 2
WordPress 6.8 Beta 2 is now ready for testing! This beta version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, you should evaluate Beta 2 on a test server and site. You can test WordPress 6.8 Beta 2 in four ways: Plugin […]
Performance Chat Summary: 11 March 2025
The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets @westonruter The second beta of 6.8 was just released. @westonruter There are 5 performance tickets in the milestone. @johnbillion RE #63026, this is an issue with the performance of the tests due to the high number of user fixtures, all of which generate and […]
Speculative Loading in 6.8
WordPress 6.8 introduces speculative loading, which can lead to near-instant page load times by loading URLs before the user navigates to them. The feature relies on the Speculation Rules API, a web platform feature that allows defining rules for which kinds of URLs to prefetch or prerender, and how early such speculative loading should occur. Please refer to […]
WordPress 6.8 Beta 1
WordPress 6.8 Beta 1 is ready for download and testing! This beta version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, set up a test environment or a local site to explore the new features. How to Test WordPress 6.8 Beta 1 […]
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