Remember that Google recently sold their domain business to Squarespace? WordPress com will pay the transfer fee for you and guarantee that prices are the same or lower than what you were paying Google.

You can now send your blog content as a newsletter from your WordPress site using Jetpack subscriptions and the new newsletter feature. It is free, but if you charge your subscribers then you pay a percentage for the service.

The WordPress Gutenberg team is working on adding a new interactivity API so that developers can create blocks that support users content interactions. The project has progressed to the initial testing stage and those interested are invited to help.

WordPress org will be moving to Matrix for chat and group discussions. The move has started now with single sign on using your WP org login and a Slack / Matrix bridge so that you can login on either side. There are several Matrix clients, so there will be some choice. This is discussed in this post on the Make blog.

NASA has used WordPress for its blogs. Now they are moving their main site to WordPress. Here is the beta version.

The latest version of the Gutenberg plugin, 16.3, added some features for working with patterns. These won’t be included in the forthcoming 6.3 release of WordPress, but will be in 6.4

Bricks 1.8.4 has been released. One cool new features is the Bricks Elements Conditions API. You can use it to do display condition filtering sever-side so that elements are not included in the frontend output, which is good for membership and other sites where content needs to be restricted.

Justin Tadlock released a new plugin for displaying breadcrumbs. The intent is that the block can be used in the Site Editor when making theme templates. Here is a discussion and walk-through.

Here is the “Field Guide” for WordPress 6.3 that is released with the first release candidate. This is a comprehensive list and there are a number of things that have been shared previously and some others that I haven’t I hadn’t noticed.