Here is an interesting update on Real-time Collaboration. This feature set is slated for WordPress 7.0 and has been in testing with WordPress VIP customers. For the most part the feedback has been very good.

A discussion of common issues and possible hotfixes for WordPress 6.9

Core contributors, Matt, and Mary had a meeting to brainstorm ideas for WordPress 7.0. They are listed in this post. It gives an idea of what ~might~ be in 7.0. I was interested to see that the possibility of creating blocks with PHP is on the radar.

It might be a good idea to test that email sending from your sites is still working as expected.

Some people use toolbox plugins, some use custom plugins or code snippets, some use small single purpose plugins, and some people don’t care … but here is Terence Eden’s list of things that he disables in WordPress, along with the code.

Ronald Huereca wrote a developer-oriented guide for the updated Command Palette coming in WordPress 6.9. The guide might be of interest to developers as he provides code samples for adding your own commands.

Here is the WordPress 6.9 field guide – round-up of developer features.

Wondering what the Abilities API is that is coming in WordPress 6.9? This article does a nice job of explaining it.

Nice, PHP 8.5 was released on November 20th and WordPress 6.9 RC2 already has support for it.