ACF 6.2 Pro will include the ability to create an admin page within the UI. The ability to create bi-directional relationships in the UI is also coming, though I’m not sure it will be in 6.2.

Gutenberg 15.9, the plugin version, has been released. It seems to be mainly refinements, except for the new command tool.

A lot happening for the 20th Anniversary of the first release of WordPress. Happy Birthday WordPress! Sarah Gooding has a nice review of the history and milestones of the project.

JetEngine 3.2 beta is adding the ability to use ChatGPT to help in creating SQL queries.
To me it seems like an interesting idea but at this point somewhat experimental.

Many of us are using MariaDB and a new health check plugin was created at CloudFest Germany. This plugin displays information about the health of your database and optimizations you can run.

Automattic has released a local development environment that runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows. It is called “wp-now” and it can launch a new development site in seconds. It uses NodeJS, WebAssembly, and SQLite to run WordPress in the browser.

The Meta Box team has released a new feature. Sometimes you are in a chicken / egg situation where say, for example, you have 2 related post types “book author” and “book.” If you are adding a new book and the author doesn’t exist then you can’t add the relation until you create a record in both Custom Post Types. This new feature allows you to add a new record in a popup to lessen workflow interruption.

Gutenberg 15.8 (the plugin version) has some new features. They added the pages menu to the site editor, the revisions UI to the global styles interface, and Theme Previews for block themes. These features will be included in WordPress 6.3 in August.

The 6.2.2 minor release addresses 1 bug and 1 security issue related to Block themes parsing shortcodes in user-generated data. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. All versions since WordPress 5.9 have also been updated.