Final releases of WordPress 3.7 – 4.0

As announced earlier this year, the security team will be dropping support for WordPress versions 3.7 – 4.0 as of December 1, 2022.

The final releases for these versions of WordPress will take place on November 30, 2022 (the last day of support). The release party is scheduled to begin at Wednesday, November 30th, 2022 at 00:00 UTC.

These release will update the notices in the WordPress adminadmin (and super admin) to inform users their version of WordPress is no longer receiving security updates.

The design for these notices can be found on the original post announcing the dropping of support; the patches are included on ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #56786.

For the purpose of clarity: new versions of WordPress 4.1 and later will not be released on the 30th.