WooCommerce 10.5 was due on February 3, 2026 and did not ship. Removing the AccessiblePrivateMethods trait looked risky enough in testing that the team left it in, with a status update set for February 4 at 12pm UTC.
Freshly Pressed is back in the WordPress.com Reader, with people picking the posts instead of an engagement score. If you are self-hosted, that only helps once your Jetpack sync is actually working, so here is what to check.
Chat history arrays are a log, not memory. This walks through the LLM memory layer I build instead: DSPy signatures for extracting atomic facts, QDrant for per-user vector storage, and a maintenance agent that decides when an old fact gets updated or deleted.
The February 4, 2026 dev chat put client-side media on the road to WordPress 7.0: libvips compiled to WASM, running in a worker thread, with image resizing done in the visitor’s browser instead of on your server.
The WP AI Client merge proposal would put a provider-agnostic AI API in WordPress 7.0: one PHP interface, a fluent prompt builder, WP_Error returns, and no outbound calls until a plugin configures a provider.
Notes from the WordPress performance chat: bridging classic scripts with script modules for the CodeMirror upgrade, memoizing wp_normalize_path, and why Copilot kept reintroducing a PCRE bug that had already been fixed.
The Core AI team put out a Call for Testing for the AI Experiments plugin. Here is what is in it: MCP server support, markdown feeds, extra providers and AI request logging, plus the $400 API bill that convinced me logging is the part you cannot skip.
A million-token context window does not mean a model can reason across a million tokens. Recursive Language Models hand the context to a sandboxed Python REPL and let the model write code to partition and query it, which is how DSPy now implements the strategy.
Cron jobs and hope are not a data pipeline. Ahmad Wael walks through an ETL setup for crime trend data with Python, Prefect and PostgreSQL, including schema validation, automatic retries and a Metabase dashboard running in Docker.
WordPress 6.9 shipped the Abilities API, and the MCP Adapter is what lets AI agents find those abilities and call them. Ahmad Wael covers flagging an ability for MCP, the two transport methods, custom servers, and keeping permission callbacks tight.