After a few rounds of doing releases at live events, first at State of the Word 2025 and most recently with WordPress 7.1 at WordCamp US, it’s time to iterate and move towards a live-streamed zoom option. Doing in-person live releases has been a good experiment to bring WordPress’s big moments onto the big stage. Tying releases to events has also come with a range of constraints and downsides in terms of complex logistics, managing people power at events, and limits in how many members of a release squad can attend the event itself. Release squad feedback has echoed this—running
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