The number of items in the queue for plugin review is going down as WordPress businesses step-up and sponsor team members.

Wordfence is adding features to their command line interface. Now in addition to malware scanning, they are starting to add automatic remediation.

Crocoblock has 5 plugins that work with Bricks and they just released a dedicated page highlighting the integration.

Gutenberg 17.5 has been released. It mainly focuses on a couple of refinements in preparation for WordPress 6.5 in March. The main refinement is the unification of preferences for the content editor and the site editor.

A maintenance release of 6.4.3 is being prepared and is currently targeted for January 30th.

The Core Framework team has just opened their marketing place for UI kits and templates. At launch there are two offerings for Oxygen.

The Theme Handbook is undergoing a significant overhaul in 2024, with a focus on modern block theme development. The project aims to refresh the handbook content and has made substantial progress, publishing or drafting almost two-thirds of the new material.

Miriam Schwab, who is on the Elementor team, mentioned on Twitter that Elementor has crossed the 15 million active install mark.

Bricks 1.9.5 just dropped. The major feature of this release is a new Global Class Manager. There is also the ability to run a JavaScript function after an interaction has been triggered, along with some accessibility improves and fixes.