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What’s New in Gutenberg 23.4? (June 17, 2026)
Gutenberg 23.4 brings resilient media uploads, continued media editor refinements, visual updates for the Site Editor and experimental dashboard, new Grid transforms, and developer-facing improvements for DataViews and design-system foundations and a whole lot more.
Core Committers Meeting – WordCamp Europe 2026
On June 5, 2026, Core Committers in attendance (including emeritus) at WordCamp Europe in Kraków, Poland gathered for a brief informal meeting. There was no formal agenda, but a few goals for the meeting were mentioned at the beginning.
WordPress Testing Opens for Long-Awaited Unicode Email Address Support
A call for testing of newly merged Unicode email address support in WordPress, introducing changes that allow WordPress accounts to use email addresses containing non-ASCII characters. The update enables is_email() and sanitize_email() to accept such addresses on sites using utf8mb4 databases and introduces a new WP_Email_Address class.
