WordPress 6.9 Compatibility

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Task Description

Schedule: https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-9/

Important dates:

• RC1 on November 11, 2025
• Stable release on December 2, 2025

Things that stand out:

• Command Palette (Press Ctrl+K or Command+K anywhere in the dashboard to use the command palette) is available across both the Editor and the Dashboard
  • Might clash with the story editor when adding links

Previously:

• WordPress 6.2 Compatibility #13043
• WordPress 6.3 Compatibility #13259
• WordPress 6.4 Compatibility #13447
• WordPress 6.5 Compatibility #13581
• WordPress 6.6 Compatibility #13702
• WordPress 6.7 Compatibility #13804
• WordPress 6.8 Compatibility #14045

Before release of WordPress 6.9:

• Manual testing against trunk/Beta/RC releases
• Run E2E tests against 6.8 RC once published
• Update staging environments to use 6.8 RC
• Bump Tested up to in readme.txt

After release of WordPress 6.9:

• Update php-stubs/wordpress-stubs (via composer update php-stubs/wordpress-stubs)
• Update php-stubs/wordpress-tests-stubs
• Update sniccowp/php-scoper-wordpress-excludes