Coming in ACF 6.2 are two new features: built-in bidirectional relationship fields and built-in option pages. Up until now these features required a code snippet to enable, but with ACF 6.2 they can be setup with the user interface.  

In acquisition news, Barn2 Plugins purchased the WooCommerce Product Tabs plugin.

This article addresses the recent supply chain vulnerability in plugins using the Freemius SDK. It also goes in depth to provide information about the process of reporting and the reporting authorities in the WordPress ecosystem.

Here are the results from Jonathan Bossenger’s WordPress developer survey focusing on tools used. It is short, but interesting. I was surprised by the huge number of Mac users.

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 Classic Press team is considering options for updating and maintaining compatibility with WooCommerce. It doesn’t sound like a happy situation.

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

In this video Paul C considers several solutions for custom fields that are ACF alternatives.