Title: Plugins Directory Release Process Issues
Author: Francisco Torres
Published: August 5, 2026

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/frantorres/) [Francisco Torres](https://profiles.wordpress.org/frantorres/)
4:54 pm _on_ August 5, 2026      

# Plugins Directory Release Process Issues

The Plugins Team is aware of an issue currently affecting pluginPlugin A plugin 
is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress
website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites.
WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly
with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory [https://wordpress.org/plugins/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/)
or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. releases and is actively investigating
it.

At this time, newly released plugin ZIP files are not being generated as expected.
We are also aware that some users are experiencing issues accessing SVNSVN Short
for "SubVersioN", it's the code management system used to maintain the plugins hosted
on WordPress.org. It's similar to git..

We will provide updates by editing this post as more information becomes available.

Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the problem.

## Timeline

 * **5 August, 15:15–15:54 UTC:** Multiple plugin authors reported the issue in 
   the `#pluginreview` SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/).
   The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/)
   channel and via email.
 * **5 August, 16:07 UTC:** The MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside
   workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress
   sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. Team confirmed they were aware
   of the issue and escalated it to the Systems Team for investigation.
 * **5 August, 16:54 UTC:** The Plugins Team deployedDeploy Launching code from 
   a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available
   to visitors. an automated email response to help manage the high volume of incoming
   messages and direct users to this status post for updates.
 * **5 August, 16:56 UTC:** Systems and Meta confirmed that the zip generation is
   fixed.
 * **5 August, 17:09 UTC**: Still investigating the SVN issues. A fix was applied,
   we are verifying it.
 * **5 August, 17:39 UTC**: Several users reported that this was solved.

To help us keep communication channels available for new reports and other requests,
please do not email the Plugins Team about this issue. We will continue to update
this post as more information becomes available.

## Done!

This issue has now been resolved. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for
bringing it to our attention.

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