We now know the roadmap for WordPress 7.2 — what’s being planned for this release, and what shouldn’t make it in.

While WebMCP is still a proposed Internet standard, it’s already been integrated into WordPress Playground for use with the ChatGPT desktop app, which supports it.

The icons that have displayed WordPress since version 3.8 appear set to disappear in WordPress 7.2, where they’ll be replaced with vector graphics.

WordPress is working on an encryption system for credentials stored in the system, both for connector APIs and those used by other plugins and tools.

We now have a prototype of the upcoming Accessibility Lab plugin, in the style of what the AI and Performance plugins do.

A new controversy has surfaced regarding accessible themes, with the WordPress community taking a very clear stance.

Following the emergency release of WordPress 7.0.2 for wp2shell, now comes WordPress 7.0.3 as a security maintenance release with 12 security patches heavily affecting the login screen.

WordPress 7.1 is about to enter release candidate phase, and the calendar still points to August 19 for the final version. With most updates confirmed, it’s time for a complete rundown of this feature-packed release.

WordPress 7.1 will include two new blocks: Playlist, an expansion of a media list, and Tabs, which after several iterations achieves enough maturity to be released.

A security release has been published for versions 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, and 7.1-beta that fixes 2 critical security issues in WordPress core.