Part two of the Fernao build log: the ICS calendar feed needed five minutes to generate a schedule, so I moved to the Google Calendar API and got it down to twenty seconds. The new Task Breaker module splits oversized tasks into 20-minute subtasks.
WordPress 7.0 now ships May 20, 2026. Notes on why the schedule moved, why the release squad is treating RC3 as a new Beta 1, and the jump to PHP 7.4 as the minimum version.
Version 0.8.0 of the WordPress AI plugin moves image generation out of experiments, adds a Refine from Notes experiment that applies editorial notes for you, and ships the first AI dashboard widgets.
Part 2 on summarizing a 200,000-word handbook: validating K-means clusters with UMAP and silhouette scores, picking the chunk nearest each centroid, and where the final reduce step still drops topics.
Levenshtein and Soundex break the moment a query crosses script boundaries. Notes from a sanctions screening build on byte-level transformer embeddings, ANCE hard negative mining, and where CJK still causes trouble.
Regex and K-means both fall apart on short free-text data where the same idea gets phrased three different ways. Zero-shot classification with a local model like Gemma 2 handles the paraphrasing, and this is the Ollama pipeline I ran over several thousand security annotations.
The Presence API feature plugin gives the WordPress admin real-time awareness of who is editing what, using a dedicated ephemeral table on a 60-second TTL instead of hammering wp_options. Here is what ships with it, and where it still gets confused.
Tabular RL breaks the moment the state space grows past a toy grid. Approximate Solution Methods swap the lookup table for a weight vector and semi-gradient updates, so one state teaches you about every state like it. Includes where linear models still beat a neural net.
The WordPress 7.0 Beta is live for Business and Commerce plans, and the change worth having is a one-click Deactivate button on the fatal error screen, instead of an SFTP session or a recovery mode email that never arrives.
Twenty-three pipeline failures in six weeks, none of them caused by my code. This is how I replaced GPT-4 with a seeded Qwen2.5 on Ollama, plus the GitHub Actions caching and Pydantic validation details that made it stick.