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- Dec 15, 2025
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8.1.1
Playlists: fix drag and drop tip for logged out users #3800
Keep episode downloads from missing podcasts during sync #3799
- Dec 8, 2025
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8.1
Release Notes
- Add Playback 2025 #3734
- Remove episode downloads on unsubscribe if an episode is not part of the a Manual playlist. #3761
- Fix display of empty results when searching for episodes in a Podcast #3772
- Dec 5, 2025
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8.1.0.5
Release notes
- Add Playback 2025 #3734
- Remove episode downloads on unsubscribe if an episode is not part of the a Manual playlist. #3761
- Fix display of empty results when searching for episodes in a Podcast #3772
- Dec 5, 2025
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8.1.0.6
Release Notes
- Add Playback 2025 #3734
- Remove episode downloads on unsubscribe if an episode is not part of the a Manual playlist. #3761
- Fix display of empty results when searching for episodes in a Podcast #3772
- Dec 4, 2025
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8.1.0.4
Add Playback 2025 #3734
Remove episode downloads on unsubscribe if an episode is not part of the a Manual playlist. #3761
Fix display of empty results when searching for episodes in a Podcast #3772
- Dec 3, 2025
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8.1.0.3
Release Notes
- Add Playback 2025 #3734
- Remove episode downloads on unsubscribe if an episode is not part of the a Manual playlist. #3761
- Dec 2, 2025
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WordPress 6.9 “Gene”
WordPress 6.9 Gene brings major collaboration upgrades with block notes, a new Command Palette, and a universal Abilities API for AI workflows. It also boosts accessibility and performance with smarter typography and optimized rendering.
Welcome to WordPress 6.9
WordPress 6.9 brings major upgrades to how teams collaborate and create. The new Notes feature introduces block-level commenting when writing posts and pages that streamlines reviews, while the expanded Command Palette makes it faster for power users to navigate and operate across the entire dashboard. The new Abilities API provides a standardized, machine-readable permissions system that opens the door for next generation AI-powered and automated workflows. This release also delivers notable performance improvements for faster page loads and adds several practical new blocks alongside a more visual drag and drop to help creators build richer, more dynamic content.
Download WordPress 6.9 “Gene”
Introducing Notes: Seamless, Block-Level Collaboration
Collaborate Smarter: Leave Feedback Right Where You’re Working
With notes attached directly to blocks in the post editor, your team can stay aligned, track changes, and turn feedback into action all in one place. Whether you’re working on copy or refining design in your posts or pages, collaboration happens seamlessly on the canvas itself.
Command Palette Throughout the Dashboard
Your tools are always at hand.
Access the Command Palette from any part of the dashboard, whether you’re writing your latest post, deep in design in the Site Editor, or browsing your plugins. Everything you need, just a few keystrokes away.
Fit text to container
Content that adapts.
There’s a new typography option for text-based blocks that’s been added to the Paragraph and Heading blocks. This new option automatically adjusts font size to fill its container perfectly, making it ideal for banners, callouts, and standout moments in your design.
The Abilities API
Unlocking the next generation of site interactions.
WordPress 6.9 lays the groundwork for the future of automation with the unified Abilities API. By creating a standardized registry for site functionality, developers can now register, validate, and execute actions consistently across any context—from PHP and REST endpoints to AI agents—paving the way for smarter, more connected WordPress experiences.
Accessibility Improvements
More than 30 accessibility fixes sharpen the core WordPress experience. These updates improve screen reader announcements, hide unnecessary CSS-generated content from assistive tech, fix cursor placement issues, and make sure typing focus stays put even when users click an autocomplete suggestion.
Performance enhancements
WordPress 6.9 delivers significant frontend performance enhancements, optimizing the site loading experience for visitors. 6.9 boasts an improved LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) through on-demand block styles for classic themes, minifying block theme styles, and increasing the limit for inline styles – removing blockages to page rendering and clearing the rendering path by deprioritizing non-critical scripts. This release comes with many more performance boosts, including optimized database queries, refined caching, improved spawning of WP Cron, and a new template enhancement output buffer that opens the door for more future optimizations.
And much more
For a comprehensive overview of all the new features and enhancements in WordPress 6.9, please visit the feature-showcase website.
Check out What’s New
Learn more about WordPress 6.9
Learn WordPress is a free resource for new and experienced WordPress users. Learn is stocked with how-to videos on using various features in WordPress, interactive workshops for exploring topics in-depth, and lesson plans for diving deep into specific areas of WordPress.
Read the WordPress 6.9 Release Notes for information on installation, enhancements, fixed issues, release contributors, learning resources, and the list of file changes.
Explore the WordPress 6.9 Field Guide. Learn about the changes in this release with detailed developer notes to help you build with WordPress.
The 6.9 release squad
Every release comes to you from a dedicated team of enthusiastic contributors who help keep things on track and moving smoothly. The team that has led 6.9 is a cross-functional group of contributors who are always ready to champion ideas, remove blockers, and resolve issues.
Thank you, contributors
The mission of WordPress is to democratize publishing and embody the freedoms that come with open source. A global and diverse community of people collaborating to strengthen the software supports this effort.
WordPress 6.9 reflects the tireless efforts and passion of more than 900+ contributors in countries all over the world. This release also welcomed over 279 first-time contributors!
Their collaboration delivered more than 340 enhancements and fixes, ensuring a stable release for all – a testament to the power and capability of the WordPress open source community.
More than 71 locales have fully translated WordPress 6.9 into their language. Community translators are working hard to ensure more translations are on their way. Thank you to everyone who helps make WordPress available in 200+ languages.
Last but not least, thanks to the volunteers who contribute to the support forums by answering questions from WordPress users worldwide.
Get involved
Participation in WordPress goes far beyond coding. And learning more and getting involved is easy. Discover the teams that come together to Make WordPress and use this interactive tool to help you decide which is right for you.
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8.3
New Features
- Allow Wear OS playback through the watch speaker (#4830)
- Add the starred episodes screen on Wear OS (#4838)
Updates
- Improve Wear OS downloads page with a loading spinner and empty message (#4837)
- Improve starred page to include episodes for unfollowed podcasts and fix sort order (#4839)
- When following a podcast cache the smaller podcast images (#4827)
- On Wear OS show archived or played episodes as greyed out (#4842)
Bug Fixes
- Improve help & feedback page padding (#4843)
- On Wear OS hide archived or played episodes (#4831)
- Nov 28, 2025
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WordPress 6.9 Release Candidate 2
WordPress 6.9 RC2 is ready for download and testing, marking a key milestone before the December 2, 2025 final release. The note details testing methods, technical notes, and how to contribute to ensure stability and broad compatibility.
The second Release Candidate (“RC2”) for WordPress 6.9 is ready for download and testing!
This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it’s recommended that you evaluate RC2 on a test server and site.
Reaching this phase of the release cycle is an important milestone. While release candidates are considered ready for release, testing remains crucial to ensure that everything in WordPress 6.9 is the best it can be.
You can test WordPress 6.9 RC2 in four ways:
Plugin
Install and activate the WordPress Beta Tester plugin on a WordPress install. (Select the “Bleeding edge” channel and “Beta/RC Only” stream).Direct Download
Download the RC2 version (zip) and install it on a WordPress website.Command Line
Use the following WP-CLI command:wp core update --version=6.9-RC2WordPress Playground
Use the 6.9 RC2 WordPress Playground instance to test the software directly in your browser without the need for a separate site or setup.The scheduled final release date for WordPress 6.9 is December 2, 2025. The full release schedule can be found here. Your help testing RC versions is vital to making this release as stable and powerful as possible.
Please continue checking the Make WordPress Core blog for 6.9-related posts in the coming weeks for more information.What’s in WordPress 6.9 RC2?
Get a recap of WordPress 6.9’s highlighted features in the Beta 1 announcement. For more technical information related to issues addressed since RC1, you can browse the following links:- GitHub commits for 6.9 since November 11
- Closed Trac tickets since November 11
Want to look deeper into the details and technical notes for this release? These recent posts cover some of the latest updates:
- Notes Feature in 6.9
- Abilities API in WordPress 6.9
- WordPress 6.9 Frontend Performance Field Guide
- Interactivity API’s client navigation improvements in WordPress 6.9
- Block Bindings improvements in WordPress 6.9
- Changes to the Interactivity API in WordPress 6.9
- Consistent Cache Keys for Query Groups in WordPress 6.9
- DataViews, DataForm, et al. in WordPress 6.9
- Preparing the Post Editor for Full iframe Integration
- Theme.json Border Radius Presets Support in WordPress 6.9
- Heading Block CSS Specificity Fix in WordPress 6.9
- Miscellaneous Developer-focused Changes in 6.9
- Modernizing UTF-8 support in WordPress 6.9
How you can contribute
WordPress is open source software made possible by a passionate community of people collaborating on and contributing to its development. The resources below outline various ways you can help the world’s most popular open source web platform, regardless of your technical expertise.
Get involved in testing
Testing for issues is crucial to the development of any software. It’s also a meaningful way for anyone to contribute.
Your help testing the WordPress 6.9 RC2 version is key to ensuring that the final release is the best it can be. While testing the upgrade process is essential, trying out new features is equally important. This detailed guide will walk you through testing features in WordPress 6.9. For those new to testing, follow this general testing guide for more details on getting set up.
If you encounter an issue, please report it to the Alpha/Beta area of the support forums or directly to WordPress Trac if you are comfortable writing a reproducible bug report. You can also check your issue against a list of known bugs.
Curious about testing releases in general? Follow along with the testing initiatives in Make Core and join the #core-test channel on Making WordPress Slack.Update your theme or plugin
For plugin and theme authors, your products play an integral role in extending the functionality and value of WordPress for all users.
Thanks for continuing to test your themes and plugins with the WordPress 6.9 beta releases. If you haven’t yet, make sure to conclude your testing and update the “Tested up to” version in your plugin’s readme file to 6.9.
If you find compatibility issues, please post detailed information to the support forum.Test on your hosting platforms
Web hosts provide vital infrastructure for supporting WordPress and its users. Testing on hosting systems helps inform the development process while ensuring that WordPress and hosting platforms are fully compatible, free of errors, optimized for the best possible user experience, and that updates roll out to customer sites without issue.
Want to test WordPress on your hosting system? Get started with configuring distributed hosting tests here.Help translate WordPress
Do you speak a language other than English? ¿Español? Français? Русский? 日本語? हिन्दी? বাংলা? मराठी? ಕನ್ನಡ? You can help translate WordPress into more than 100 languages. This release milestone (RC2) also marks the hard string freeze point of the 6.9 release cycle.
An RC2 haiku
A calm hillside sighs,
Work of many now complete —
RC2 stays true.Props to @amykamala, @annezazu, @davidbaumwald, @westonruter, and @joedolson for proofreading and review.
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