The WordPress team “forked” the free Advanced Custom Fields plugin and renamed it Secure Custom Fields. To continue with Advanced Custom Fields you can download the plugin from the ACF website.

Divi 5 has another update, now with public alpha version 1. It looks like they have been optimizing the builder and working on fixing migration bugs.

This new feature of MySQL version 9 allows database administrators to create their own functions using JavaScript.

Spectra reaches the 1 million active installs milestone! It is the first Gutenberg block collection to do so. Congratulations to the Spectra team and Brainstorm Force.

Advanced Themer 2.9 released. Incredible update with new features for working with CSS, variables, colors, code, AI, as well as new search and add functionality.

Mary Hubbard is the new Executive Director of the WordPress.org.

Jason Bahl, the author of WPGraphQL joins Automattic where he will be developing WPGraphQL into a canonical plugin.

An update is available for a security vulnerability. You need to follow instructions for updating due to the ACF team being unable to update the plugin on WordPress org.

Akshat Choudhary, founder of BlogVault, creates an open source WordPress update mirror called Morpheus.