Anne McCarthy reports on the status of Gutenberg stage 3 (collaboration) in this post. It sounds like some progress is being made and we may start to see more public previews soon.

Google was found guilty of maintaining an illegal search and text advertising monopoly. Yesterday the US Department of Justice asked the court to require Google to divest of it Chrome browser. This will be decided in April.

The PeepSo community plugin is the latest to leave the WordPress plugin directory. The reasons given are due to the revelations about WP org ownership and handing of the WP Engine dispute, as well as issues with the management of the plugin directory in general.

WordPress 6.7.1 is scheduled for Thursday. There were some issues. Apparently a big one related to loading translations.

The free Image Optimizer plugin by Elementor just passed 800,000 active installs. Congrats to the Elementor team on reaching this milestone.

Mary Hubbard, the new director of the WordPress project has started in her new position.

WP Engine expanded their claims against Automattic and Matt to include recent activity, like the WP Engine Tracker.

If you are using Figma you may find this useful – a new WordPress component library from the WordPress Design Team.

Toolset released an update for WordPress 6.7 compatibility and with improvements for compatibility with newer PHP versions. They also mentioned they are working on an update to the Maps plugin.