WordPress 7.0 slipped a few weeks so the collaboration layer can sit on a custom table instead of transients. What that means for polling load, cache invalidation, and any plugin still using classic metaboxes.
Trac #64393 pushed the 7.0 branch back to RC2, so every trunk commit now needs two committers to sign off and the Polyglots team cannot start yet. Here is what is still allowed on the milestone.
WooCommerce 10.6.2 stops matching variable product attributes through a transformed slug and compares names directly, which unbreaks selection when attributes carry special characters. It also cleans up the admin ahead of WordPress 7.0.
A store that closes for a refresh breaks like-for-like PY reporting: the current year says Comparable and the previous year does not. Here is the SQL cursor that builds a separate PY status key, and the DAX measure that reads it.
WP Packages is a community-funded replacement for WPackagist from the Roots team. It speaks the Composer v2 metadata protocol, so a ten-plugin resolve takes 0.7 seconds instead of 12.3. Here is what changed and how to move your composer.json over.
WordPress 7.0 RC2 landed on March 26 and trunk is now 7.1-alpha. What that means for your test environments, the two-committer backport rule, the string freeze, and which tickets still make the 7.0 milestone.
WordPress 7.0 RC2 is out, with the final release set for April 9, 2026. How to install it with WP-CLI or Playground, and what to stress test first: real-time collaboration, pattern editing, and the Connectors AI endpoints.
An unplanned Beta 6 arrived on March 20, 2026 and pushed WordPress 7.0’s RC1 to March 24. The extra cycle covers the DataViews admin overhaul and the PHP 7.2/7.3 drop, and the release also brings the Connectors API for credential handling.
Barbara Kingsley is 77 and has 100,000 TikTok followers, but her brand lives on her own domain. Why creators past five figures of followers need an owned WordPress hub, and a small referral handler for the traffic social sends over.
WordPress.com added MCP support, so an AI agent can read and write the site directly. The same update brings a site-wide newsletter default, a command palette shortcut, button state controls, UPI payments for India, and a fixed subscriber chart.