WordPress 6.4.1 RC 1 is available and a release is expected later today.

Patchstack has a new feature, Patchstack Priority. What I gather from the announcement is that it is another rating system in addition to the CVSS score. The Patchstack Priority is meant to indicate how likely the immediate threat is and how quickly you should respond.

I always update vulnerable plugins immediately, so I’m not sure how helpful this will be for me, though it is good to know if there are active exploits.

Ronald Huereca has created this free set of helpers for use with GenerateBlocks.

etPack Creator Package Launched – This has tools for monetizing site content and newsletters. It seems like a good move for them. I expect to see sites taking this route to become more popular due to AI content scraping.

This tutorial shows how to create a custom plugin for your Custom Post Types when using Meta Box.

Congratulations to the Spectra team for reaching 600K active installs.

Toolset has a compatibility update for 6.4. It also contains a few small enhancements. They recommend updating Toolset before updating to 6.4 if you are using Toolset Blocks or Toolset Forms.

GTMetrix is doing away with its guest mode and changing its plans.

Proposed WordPress core release schedule for 2024. Interesting that they are considering one of the releases be reserved for fixes and polishing.