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- Discussions are in the #core-editor SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel and development happens in the Gutenberg GitHub repository
- Gutenberg Versions in WordPress Core
WordPress 7.0 📘 WordPress 7.1 📗 WordPress 7.2 📙
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December
August 2026
2026-08-19 #core WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou”
2026-08-19 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 23.8? (19 August)
2026-08-18 #core-dev-blogblog (versus network, site) Hands-on with the WordPress 7.1 Icon Registration API
2026-08-13 #core Accessibility Improvements in WordPress 7.1 📗
2026-08-05 #core WordPress 7.1 Field Guide
2026-08-05 #core-editor Responsive block styles and configurable viewports in WordPress 7.1 📗
2026-08-05 #core-editor Pseudo and custom style states in WordPress 7.1📗
2026-08-04 #core-editor Miscellaneous Editor Changes in WordPress 7.1 📗
2026-08-03 #core-editor Iframed Editor Changes in WordPress 7.1📗
July 2026
2026-07-26 #core-editor New Block Support in WordPress 7.1: Background Gradient (background.gradient) 📗
2025-07-26 #core-editor New Block Support in WordPress 7.1: Minimum Width
2026-07-24 #core-editor Registering and rendering SVG icons in WordPress 7.1 📗
2026-07-24 #core-editor React 19: punted beyond WordPress 7.1, experiment in Gutenberg 📗
2026-07-23 #core-editor Editor components updates in WordPress 7.1 📗
2026-07-23 #core-editor Editable blocks inside the Custom HTML block 📗
2026-07-23 #core-editor Text Shadow Support in Global Styles 📗
2026-07-22 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 23.6? (July 22, 2026)
2026-07-16 #core-test Help Test WordPress 7.1
2026-07-13 #core Consistent navigation in WordPress 7.1 with persistent toolbar 📗
2026-07-13 #core-dev-blog On-brand maintenance mode for WordPress Block Themes
2026-07-08 #core-editor Transitioning To Rulesets In The Gutenberg Repository
2026-07-07 #core-editor Merge Proposal: Design System Theming
2026-07-07 #core The Classic block stays in the inserter for WordPress 7.1
2026-07-03 #core-test Call for Testing: Responsive Styling
2026-07-01 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 23.5? (July 1, 2026)
June 2026
2026-06-30 #core Guidelines for Syncing Code From Gutenberg Into WordPress Develop
2026-06-23 #core-editor Hiding the Classic block from the inserter in WordPress 7.1
2026-06-22 #core Merge Proposal: Guidelines built on Knowledge
2026-06-19 #core Roadmap to 7.1
2026-06-18 #core-dev-blog Dynamically loading template parts in block themes
2026-06-17 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 23.4? (June 17, 2026)
2026-06-05 #core-editor React 19 upgrade temporarily reverted in Gutenberg
2026-06-04 #core-editor Call for Testing: client-side media processing
2026-06-03 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 23.3? (03 Jun)
2026-06-03 #core Announcing a collaborative editing outreach effort for 7.1
May 2026
2025-05-27 #core-editor React 19 Upgrade in WordPress
2025-05-22 #core-editor Media Editor Modal: call for testing
2025-05-21 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 23.2? (21 May)
2026-05-07 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 23.1? (07 May)
2026-05-05 #core-editor Proposal: Auto-generate Block Editor Handbook docs from block.json
April 2026
2026-04-29 #core-hosting Urgent: Testing request to Web hosts for collaborative editing by May 4th
2026-04-22 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 23.0? (22 April)
2026-04-22 #core-editor Roster of design tools per block (WordPress 7.0 edition) 📘
2026-04-09 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 22.9? (8 April)
2026-04-08 #themes Twenty Twenty-Seven: Team Announcement
2026-04-02 #core-dev-blog @wordpress/build, the next generation of WordPress plugin build tooling
March 2026
2026-03-25 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 22.8? (25 March) (u)
2026-03-16 #core-editor Pattern Overrides in WP 7.0: Support for Custom Blocks 📘
2026-03-15 #core-editor Pattern Editing in WordPress 7.0 📘
2026-03-15 #core-editor Block Visibility in WordPress 7.0 📘
2026-03-15 #core-editor Dimensions Support Enhancements in WordPress 7.0 📘
2026-03-15 #core-editor Custom CSS for Individual Block Instances in WordPress 7.0 📘
2026-03-15 #core-editor New Block Support: Text Indent (textIndent) 📘
2026-03-13 #core Twenty Twenty-Seven default theme: Call for Volunteers
2026-03-11 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 22.7? (11 March)
2026-03-09 #core-editor Pseudo-element support for blocks and their variations in theme.json 📘
2026-03-04 #core-editor Breadcrumb block filters 📘
2026-03-04 #core-editor Customisable Navigation Overlays in WordPress 7.0 📘
2026-03-04 #core-editor DataViews, DataForm, et al. in WordPress 7.0 📘
2026-03-03 #core-editor PHP-only block registration 📘
February 2026
2026-02-25 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 22.6? (25 February)
2026-02-24 #core-editor Iframed Editor Changes in WordPress 7.0
2026-02-23 #core Changes to the Interactivity API in WordPress 7.0 📘
2026-02-06 #playground wp-env now runs WordPress with Playground runtime (r)
2026-02-04 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 22.5? (04 February) (u)
2026-02-03 #core-ai Content Guidelines: A Gutenberg Experiment (u)
2026-02-01 #core-ai AI Guidelines for WordPress (u)
January 2026
2026-01-30 #core WordPress 6.9.1 RC1 is now available (u)
2026-01-28 #core-test Call for Testing – Customizable Navigation (“Mobile”) Overlays (r)
2026-01-22 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 22.4? (20 January) (u)
Happy New Year! 🎆 🙌 🎉🥂 Welcome to the 7th year of the Gutenberg Index.
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- (m) = Meeting Summaries/Notes, check here for meeting days and times
- (r) = general resource
- (u) = indicates an update to software, methods, processes, or discussions
- We use universal date format in yyyy-mm-dd to indicate publication date.
- Separators divide the list by weeks
- This page started in January 2021. The index started in July 2020
Big thanks to Anne McCarthy @annezazu and William Patton @williampatton for support and review.
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