WordPress 6.9 Field Guide

This guide outlines major developer features and breaking changes in 6.9 and is published in the Release Candidate phase to help inform WordPress extending developers, Core developers, and others.

There are more than 400 Core Trac tickets included in WordPress 6.9, over 125 of which are enhancements and feature requests, and more than 250 bug fixes. This release includes 35+ tickets focused on the Editor, 15 tickets focused on wp-admin, and over 45 tickets focused on performance.

Additionally, this release includes 440 enhancements and more than 570 bug fixes for the Block Editor, Site Editor, DataViews, and other related Core