The release of WordPress 6.6 is about 3 week away and the release field guide is out. There are a large number of features and changes across a wide range of areas.

Elementor has started offering ecommerce hosting plans.

This update includes a fair number of security fixes found as the result of an external security audit. Kudos to the ACF team for having an external audit.

Congratulations to the Brainstorm Force and Sure Product teams on the launch of a new plugin, SureForms.

Meta Box is redoing its admin UI using block editor components. The goal is to achieve a more modern and more efficient yet more native look.

The WordPress dot org theme directory was refreshed and is now block based. There is no functionality differences to the previous version, but the post said that new features were coming.

Beta 1 for Oxygen 4.9 is available. It adds a right-click menu for common actions, the Advanced Query now supports multiple properties for the orderby parameter, and it is now possible to add arbitrary, custom query parameters using the Advanced Query option.

The theme.json file, which is used in block and hybrid themes, is getting a bump to version 3 in order to account for some default font and spacing size changes.

This looks very cool. Three plugins which together provide a deep integration with Mastodon for WordPress.