WooCommerce 10.7 is mostly a performance release: the /wc/v4/orders endpoint drops from 271 queries to 132 and checkout loses about 15% of its SQL. It also ships a Fulfillment API beta and moves the Fulfillments namespace, which breaks old use statements.
Trunk is closed to 7.1 commits and WordPress 7.0 is under a hard string freeze while the core team stabilizes real-time collaboration. What that means for your workflow, plus the new custom sync provider API and where to help before the RC.
The 7.0 release went back from RC to Beta so Real-Time Collaboration data could move out of post_meta and into its own table. Also covers the WP AI Client, pseudo-states in theme.json and the Playground MCP server.
Notes from the April 8, 2026 dev chat: WordPress 7.0 makes the collaboration sync layer provider agnostic, so polling is only the default. What that means for WebSocket providers, CRDT reconciliation and block API v3.
The Gutenberg repo is changing how iteration issues work: a fresh issue per release, monthly updates before beta, weekly through RC, and a template that asks for scope and blockers up front.
@wordpress/build is the tooling Gutenberg already uses internally: esbuild in place of Webpack, entry points discovered by folder, and a generated PHP file that handles enqueueing. It is not ready to replace wp-scripts on an ordinary plugin yet.
WordPress 7.0 has gone back to beta work over real-time collaboration bugs, but it keeps shipping as RC3 and RC4 because version_compare() would reject a beta string. What that means for testing and backports until April 17th.
WordPress 7.0 ships real-time collaboration over HTTP polling, which is fine until traffic picks up. Here is how I swap in a WebSocket transport with Yjs and the sync.providers filter, and what the auth side has to look like.
Notes from the Dev Chat on WordPress 7.0: the AI Client and Connectors API, why the release cycle got extended, the left navigation rethink, and the argument over YouTube support in the Cover block.
WordPress 7.0 brings AI into core through the AI Client and the Abilities API. Here is what wp_ai_client_prompt() actually does, how to test it now, and what the Core AI team will work on during Contributor Day at WordCamp Asia 2026 in Mumbai.