Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @audrasjb 🔗 See the agenda post. Announcements 📢 7.1 7.1 RC3 was released on August 12th. The Accessibility Improvements dev note was published. 7.1 RC4 was released on August 17th. WordPress 7.1 Field Guide As of Aug 10th, 7.1 is branched. Committers: Trunk is open for 7.2 and the 7.1 branch requires double sign off. Learn more about WordPress…

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Dev Chat summary: August 18, 2026