Performance Chat Summary: 22 April 2025

The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

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WordPress Performance Trac tickets

@spacedmonkey shared plans to land the following performance enhancements early in the cycle:
- #63021
- #58001 – @flixos90 noted intent to review this.
@spacedmonkey also proposed revisiting #59592
@flixos90 suggested some of these low-risk enhancements could be backported to 6.8.x.

No immediate updates or blockers were reported for the Performance Lab plugin suite.

@flixos90 shared that work is beginning on a new View Transitions feature plugin (issue #1963). This plugin aims to provide a WordPress-specific API for enabling cross-document view transitions.
- Development will start with a few experimental PRs, similar to the approach taken with the Web Worker Offloading plugin. A public release will only happen once an MVP is ready.
- For those curious about the planned approach, @flixos90 pointed to an experimental PR opened against Core: wordpress-develop#8370, which will serve as the basis before being ported over to plugin form.

@flixos90 removed the milestone due dates from the performance plugin repo, following the team’s decision to move to an on-demand release schedule. Due dates will now be set only when a specific plugin release is planned.
@flixos90 shared an adapted GitHub Actions workflow originally created by @shyamgadde to bump the “Tested up to” version in readme.txt without triggering a full deployment. The updated version works for single-plugin repos and can be reused by most plugins on WordPress.org. Example: bump-tested-up-to-dotorg.yml
- @flixos90 is planning to write a blog post to promote the workflow.