Performance Chat Summary: 11 February 2025

The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

WordPress Performance Trac tickets

Discussion of performance tickets for the upcoming 6.8 release:

• #39242 (Add caching to count_user_posts()) – Jonny Harris plans to commit
• #62503 (Add speculative loading support) is now waiting for follow up reviews

Performance Lab Plugin (and other performance plugins)

• A reminder that the next version of the Performance Lab plugin will be this Thursday.
• The release branch has been cut and the PR to prep the release has been opened.
• Needs testing and then we’re good to go for Thursday.
• Builds for Thursday’s release are now available for testing: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1862#issuecomment-2649801657

Open Floor

• There are still 13 enhancements in the milestone for 6.8.
  • Discussion of which tickets are ready or need further review.
• #56481 and #39242 are both ready to commit.
• #58001 is close
• #57496 Needs another review

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, Feb 25, 2025 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack

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