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WordPress Names 5.5 Release Leads, Plans All-Women Release Squad for 5.6
WordPress’ Executive Director, Josepha Haden, announced the names of the leaders who will be coordinating releases for the remainder of 2020. Version 5.5, expected to be released in August, will be led by Matt Mullenweg, with Jake Spurlock as the coordinator and David Baumwald on Triage. Haden also named tech and design leads for the editor, media, accessibility, and documentation.
WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks (2020)
WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks is designed to create a consistent set of benchmarks showing which web hosting companies offer best in class performance. The focus of these tests is performance, not support, not features, not any other dimension. That said, for the performance conscious, these benchmarks should be a good guide.
WordPress 5.4.2 RC 1
WordPress 5.4.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC 1) is now available for testing!