Performant Translations – Yet another set of features slated to be included in WordPress 6.5 are a number of big performance improvements with internationalization. Up to now these improvements have been being tested via a feature plugin.

Also included in this article on the Make blog is information on a new translation file format which you may begin seeing.

The 8G Firewall has been beta tested for more than a year and now is ready for use on production sites. 8G is a lightweight (only 17KB) strong firewall that provides site security and peace of mind. Plus, 8G is open source and 100% free for everyone.

Pods 3.1 was released with a focus on hardening security. The release notes include documentation on access rights and Pods settings.

Native support for AVIF is coming in WordPress 6.5. AVIF images can be up to 50% smaller than a JPG image with the same or better image quality. Can I use says there is about 89% browser support.

Here is another good developer feature coming to WordPress 6.5, it is the merge of the Plugin Dependencies project. This provides a standard method for plugins to declare plugin prerequisites and is useful on plugin activation and deactivation.

A new Elementor beta 3.20 has been released and Paul Charlton takes a look at the features. The main one is more visibility conditions.

Themify has updated its Builder and addons to allow nesting, flexbox, and more features, making the platform more flexible.

jQuery is getting a big update, as beta 4.0 is now in beta. This Tavern article is pretty far ranging and considers a lot of angles, and the point is … what? That WordPress doesn’t need it anymore but it will be included for legacy purposes?