The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.
WordPress Performance Trac tickets
- @westonruter recapped the 6.9 performance roadmap and noted that 6.9-beta1 is scheduled for 21 October 2025, giving six weeks for performance enhancements.
- @westonruter also shared queries listing the performance issues milestoned for 6.9, including 25 enhancement tickets targeted for 6.9-beta1.
- @westonruter announced that fetchpriority for scripts has now landed in Core #61734.
- @spacedmonkey highlighted that ticket #59592 has landed in Core.
- @westonruter checked on ticket #63045, and @spacedmonkey confirmed it should leverage the new introduced function and pointed to usage examples in PR #8444.
- @spacedmonkey requested feedback on the tickets #63021 and #58001.
Performance Lab Plugin (and other performance plugins)
- @westonruter flagged that the Optimization Detective plugin is overdue for a release but likely won’t ship before 6.9-beta1 due to focus on Core enhancements.
- @westonruter reminded that getting the 1.0.0 stable release out is blocking next milestone, which includes the work @b1ink0 is doing on URL Metrics priming.
Open Floor
- @mukesh27 inquired about the date of the next bug scrub and @westonruter confirmed it is scheduled for next Tuesday (16 September 2025).
Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.
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