From b058f24638bcd65ede4c6469df7b3be5b226ab17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Weston Ruter <weston@xwp.co>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:39:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Coding Standards: Initialize `$comments_count` before loop in
 case not set during initial iteration.

Follow-up to [60643].

Props westonruter, mindctrl.
See #56499.
Fixes #64223.

Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@61192


git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@60528 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php | 1 +
 wp-includes/version.php         | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php b/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php
index 6bb2599439..cac03b1fe3 100644
--- a/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php
+++ b/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php
@@ -1074,6 +1074,7 @@ function wp_dashboard_recent_comments( $total_items = 5 ) {
 		$comments_query['status'] = 'approve';
 	}
 
+	$comments_count = 0;
 	do {
 		$possible = get_comments( $comments_query );
 
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index f05c3e5d36..675ea871ab 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '6.9-beta4-61191';
+$wp_version = '6.9-beta4-61192';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.