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WordPress 6.3 Planning Proposal & Call for Volunteers
After the successful launch of WordPress 6.2, it’s time to start planning for WordPress 6.3, and for WordPress 6.4’s women and non-binary-led release. In preparation, this post includes WordPress 6.3 proposed target dates and a call for its release squad.
Experimental APIs in WordPress Core Have Largely Been Tamed
Last year’s proposal to stop merging experimental APIs from Gutenberg to WordPress Core is now mostly implemented. After a long discussion and discovery process, Gutenberg introduced a distinction between Plugin-only APIs and Private APIs.
WordPress Contributors Continue Exploring Migration of Public and Private Messages from Slack to Matrix
In early 2023, WordPress and Matrix contributors proposed a new Meta team subproject to explore replacing Slack communication with Matrix, an open source federated chat system. After the team’s most recent meeting, Automattic-sponsored contributor Alex Kirk published an update on the status of recent experiments in migration.
