WordPress 6.9 brings an abundance of quiet improvements to the HTML API. Updates in this release mostly represent applications of the HTML API to existing code in Core; these updates increase WordPress’ reliability, improve its security hardening, and reduce maintenance… Continue Reading →
WordPress 6.9 introduces the WP_Block_Processor class — a new tool inspired by the HTML API and designed for efficiently scanning, understanding, and modifying block structure in HTML documents. Continue on to learn about this new class, its use-cases, and how… Continue Reading →
Emails sent from WordPress will be more reliable in WordPress 6.9 thanks to a few updates and bug-fixes to the wp_mail() function. The sender address is extensibly configured. The sender address, also known as the Envelope-From, the MAIL FROM, the… Continue Reading →
A number of changes in WordPress 6.9 are coming which modernize WordPress’ text encoding and UTF-8 handling. These improvements establish more reliable and consistent text processing across WordPress’ widely-supported environments, benefiting plugins and themes that handle international content, emoji, diacritics,… Continue Reading →
After last year’s update, this post seeks to summarize what’s been completed, what’s in progress, and how to follow along or contribute. This post also seeks to set expectations going forward and answer reoccurring questions at a high level. As… Continue Reading →
This post is announcing the formation of the 6.9 release squad after a call for volunteers. Exciting News: The WordPress 6.9 Release Squad is assembled! Release Lead: Matt Mullenweg Release Coordination: Akshaya Rane, Amy Kamala Tech Leads: David Baumwald, Ella… Continue Reading →
As of July 2025, the WordPress Security Team will no longer provide security updates for WordPress versions 4.1 through 4.6. These versions were first released nine or more years ago and over 99% of WordPress installations run a more recent… Continue Reading →
The Ubuntu 20.04 runner image (ubuntu-20.04) for GitHub Actions will soon be deprecated as of April 1, 2025. In preparation for this upcoming change, there will be scheduled brownouts that will result in failed deployments. These scheduled brownouts will occur… Continue Reading →
