Lots of features and new pricing tiers.

This article from the Meta Box team looks at the pros and cons and also provides some benchmarks to help in deciding when to you one or the other.

Some results among others: 90% likely to continue building with WordPress. 62% use version control. Elementor, Bricks, Divi, and WPBakery are the most popular page builders.

This is another research article from Katie Keith of Barn2. It shows some interesting things about WooCommerce numbers in relation to WordPress numbers and suggests why Shopify is gaining two sites for every site that self-hosted ecommerce looses.

The GeneratePress team has released their AI integration. GeneratePress AI is built on the WordPress MCP adapter and the Abilities API, the open standards WordPress is adopting for AI.

Phox Elements now includes support for Elementor. It include 150+ premium elements for Elementor, such as charts, hotspots, tables, calculators, filters, and more. This also includes support for the other addons, such as Phox Studio, Framework, Form Guard, Vault, Product Addons, and Wireframes. As such, you might want to grab the bundle.

A security release of WordPress core with a number of fixes.

This is a wonderful video looking at experiments in how the Gutenberg editor experience can be refined.

It looks like the economy and perhaps other issues are hitting Automattic hard.