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.

I’m excited about the possibilities of the Fediverse. This is an interesting development, a foundation to promote a decentralized web and promote the use of ActivityPub, a protocol developed by W3C.

Bricks Builder beta 1.11 was released. It includes phase 2 of Query Filters, a new Back to Top element, a new Rating element, accessibility improvements for accordion and tab elements, and more.

The public alpha of Divi 5 has been released. It is not yet feature complete and has not been bug checked, but it is the first opportunity to give Divi 5 a spin on a testing site.