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Contribution Stats for WordPress 6.1 « Misha »
800 people from at least 60 countries and 179 identified companies contributed to WordPress 6.1.
Worth noting that 288 people contributed to WordPress Core for the very first time! That’s around 35% of the total number of contributors!
Performance Improvements in WordPress 6.1: Enhanced Database Peformance and More
The WordPress Core Performance Team has done some incredible work to make the platform faster in the 6.1 release. This team, comprising members from Google, 10up, XWP, and Yoast, was formed in 2021 to monitor, enhance, and promote performance in WordPress core and its surrounding ecosystem. Without them, these improvements wouldn’t have been possible.
PHP 7.4 Will Be End of Life in November 2022. What Does this Mean for Your WordPress Site?
PHP 7.4 End of Life is on the horizon as the PHP version will stop receiving any security updates from November 28, 2022. With over 60% of all websites written in PHP still using the final version of the PHP 7 release branch, this is particularly huge for the whole internet community.
