Changes in WordPress Development: Reduction of Pepts and New Strategies

WordPress management discussed changes in development due to reducing the contributions from organizations. They decided that WordPress 6.8 would be the last main release of 2025, and the minor kernel releases would continue if necessary.

🚀 There was no official obligation to future major releases after 2025, but it hints that future major releases are limited to one year while the current level of participation remains at this low level.

💡 The number of tickets for Gutenberg and Core TRAC has remained unchanged over the last six months, which means that the total number of tickets (the number of unresolved questions) remains almost the same, signaling the stagnation in development, not forwarding.

🧠 The development of new functions in Gutenberg has significantly decreased since January, which means that the creation of new blocks, opportunities and improving the custom experience has also slowed down. This causes concern because the decline in the development of new functions indicates that the editor does not acquire new opportunities as quickly as it was in the previous months, which leads to fewer improvements, less innovations and, potentially, less progress in the direction of the long -term goals of the block editor project.

• 📌 Reduction of WordPress Development rates
• 📌 Leaving the number of tickets on Gutenberg and Core TRAC without changes
• 📌 Suppress in the development of new features in Gutenberg
• 📌 Discussion of release automation capabilities
• 📌 Focus on canonical plugins WordPress.org