WordPress 7.1.0 was released August 19, 2026. While the work of a major release team includes people filling many different positions, maintenance release teams generally are considerably smaller, often 1–3 people. Minor release managers are responsible for:
Triaging bugs in coordination with committers and component maintainers. Drafting announcements for the release. Preparing for and running release day activities. Updating the documentation on minor releases so that it gets better each time.
Members of the 7.1 release cohort are encouraged to stay on as release managers for maintenance releases, but it is not required to have been on a
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