Just updated my blog to WordPress v6.9 ( known as “Gene” ) which contains various feature updates/additions and performance improvements. I’ll let you read the WordPress 6.9 Field Guide to find out more as the release documentation doesn’t say that much currently. As always, I backed up my files and database first. I have automatic updates disabled so I can do this beforehand. As I usually do, I updated the local copy on my PC before updating the blog here.

My TwentyTwelve parent theme was not updated so I did not have to worry about anything affecting my child theme. So far the update seems to have gone well; although, I haven’t tried much of the newest changes yet. 🙂

Update: As it turns out, later on December 3, my TwentyTwelve parent theme was updated to version 4.7 ( changelog ). Comparing files with the previous version, I found out that I only needed to modify the header.php and footer.php of my child theme. So far the theme update seems to have gone well. 🙂