In July, WordPress 5.8 “Tatum” was released. On the dedicated release page, you can find dev-notes and the field guide. You can read about the WordPress 5.8 Release Day Process.
Two retrospective articles were published
- Consistent minor release squad leaders for each major branch: Trial run retrospective and 5.8.x releases
- WordPress 5.8 ‘Tatum’ Retrospective
GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg//Full Site Editing (FSE)
- Planned Gutenberg tasks and site editing status check for late July/August.
- Gutenberg 11.0 and 11.1 were released.
- In July, there were three Hallway Hangouts:
- Anne also posted
Miscellaneous blog posts, updates, and discussions published in the Core Blog
- [Request for feedback] Updater Proof of Concept
- Refining WordPress core’s lazy-loading implementation
- Do you want a more granular recap of what is going on in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.? Don’t miss the “A week in Core” posts that @audrasjb has been publishing regularly.