WordPress 6.9 Release Retrospective

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The WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:

Found a bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.? Create a ticket in the bug tracker.

Want to contribute? Get started quickly with tickets marked as good first bugs for new contributors or join a bug scrub. There’s more on the reports page, like patches needing testing, and on feature projects page.

Other questions? Here is a detailed handbook for contributors, complete with tutorials.

Congratulations to all who helped make WordPress 6.9 possible!

Now that the release cycle is complete, you’re invited to reflect and share your thoughts on the release cycle, release processes, release squad, or whatever else is on your mind. Feedback loops are critical to learning what works and what doesn’t so that the teams involved can iterate on the processes to improve for future releases.

Everyone is welcome to submit feedback about the release using this form, even contributors who did not contribute directly to the release itself.

A member of the community that casually observes a release cycle will have very different thoughts and opinions than someone who was heavily involved on a weekly or daily basis. The more viewpoints and backgrounds represented within this feedback loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. the better. So please take a moment to complete the form or leave public feedback in the comments below.

Please note: the survey is not anonymous, but anything submitted will be anonymized before being shared in a post summarizing the results. Your wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ username is required just case the person processing the responses needs to reach out to you for further clarification.

The form and comments will be open until January 15, 2026. A follow-up post with the collected, anonymized results will be published shortly after.

Again, thank you for your contributions to 6.9 “Gene,” and for taking the time to provide valuable feedback to help make future releases even better!

Props to @amykamala, @desrosj for the peer review.

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