Since being released on December 2, WordPress 6.9 has been downloaded over nine million times. Shipping is the first step, and core contributors have been monitoring bug reports, forum posts, and social networks to see the effects of the release. Issues are analyzed to understand how widespread they are, the impact they have on sites, and if there is a viable workaround available. This is combined with analyzing potential release dates, coordination with other projects that may be necessary, and the riskiness of fixes to decide on a release date for a maintenance release. Please note, only a small subset of
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