WooCommerce 10.9 brings variation galleries into core, retiring the paid Additional Variation Images extension. Notes on the new meta key, the Action Scheduler migration, and the theme overrides that tend to break it.
The WooCommerce 10.8 release slips one week to May 26, 2026, clearing the WordPress 7.0 launch on May 20 and buying time to validate a late-landing change. Revised RC and release dates, plus what to check first.
Notes from the core performance chat the day before WordPress 7.0 ships: on-demand block style loading for classic themes, Performance Lab moving to PHP 7.4, npm ignore-scripts, and an FTP filesystem install fix.
WordPress Workspace for Mac is in beta. It puts a site-aware agent, voice dictation and screenshot uploads on the desktop instead of in another browser tab, and it previews the Guidelines feature headed for Core.
WordCamp US 2026 runs August 16 to 19 at the Phoenix Convention Center. The schedule covers Contributor Day, Showcase Day, and two days of sessions on WordPress and AI. Ticket tiers run from $25 for students to $750 for micro-sponsors.
WordPress 7.0 brings a provider-agnostic AI client, PHP-only block registration with autoRegister, and a minimum PHP 7.4. This is a practical walk through those changes, with code examples and where they help on real sites.
WordPress 7.0 removes real-time collaboration from the release after performance tests turned up race conditions and cache problems. What stays in the milestone, how RC3 looks, and what to test before the May 20th release.
WooCommerce 10.8 lands May 19 and it is not a routine patch. It tightens the Orders REST API, adds a product.published webhook, caps filter caches, and slims an HPOS meta index. Here is what to test before it hits your store.
How WordPress 7.0 handles author link title attributes: the archive link drops its title by default, and core author functions gain a parameter to toggle the tooltip.
WordPress 7.0 RC4 is the last release candidate before the May 20, 2026 launch. It locks the hard string freeze and fixes bugs in DataViews and the WP AI Client. Here is how to test it on staging with WP-CLI.