There are a few improvements to Gutenberg that will be included in WordPess 6.8 in April.

If you want to have a simple option for using ACF custom fields in Gutenberg then you’ll find this video by Paul Charlton interesting. He looks at the free version of the Meta Field Block.

Dan Maby, founder of the Big Orange Heart and a London meetup organizer, recently participated in a Gutenberg Speed Build Challenge. In this post he reflects on the experience and how it changed his view of Gutenberg / WordPress.

The 200th version of the Gutenberg plugin was released and has updates that will be included in the next version of core in March. There were a number of enhancements including improvements to the Style Book and pattern suggestions. What caught my eye was the ability to include hooks in content, which has been a feature only of PHP based themes up to now.

There was a discussion and test of the sync protocol for collaborative editing, indicating progress on concurrent multi-user editing. The discussion notes indicate some of the possible issues.

The plugin version of Gutenberg, version 19.9 was released. By looking at the features released in the plugin we can see what will be included in the next WordPress release. Some of the new features include the Style Book is available for classic themes, you can now show the number of records returned when using the Query Loop block, and you can set the home page from within the Site Editor.

If you are into custom block development then you might find this YouTube live session with Ryan Welcher interesting.

Anne McCarthy reports on the status of Gutenberg stage 3 (collaboration) in this post. It sounds like some progress is being made and we may start to see more public previews soon.

As part of Gutenberg phase 3 a new inline commenting feature is being released in the Gutenberg plugin version of the block editor.