Scoping what’s involved in Gutenberg stage 3 continues with a discussion of considerations for track edit history and revisions. This does seem to be a very ambitious project.

Matias Ventura, thinking about phase 3 of Gutenberg relating to real-time collaboration, shares a long list of things to be considered.

The Pattern Manager plugin adds some features and restriction abilities that enhances block pattern management.

Reusable Blocks are becoming Patterns with a sync option. The change will be included in WordPress 6.3.

Just as Matt gives a keynote at WordCamp US, so too Drupal founder Dries Buytaert presented the State of the Drupal Project at DrupalCon North America 2023. Drupal was focusing on the importance of innovation and had a contest where project proposals were shared and voted. One of the top projects involves working on Gutenberg for Drupal. In a surprise move, Matt Mullenweg donated funds and personal to help.

Version 16.0 of Gutenberg, plugin version, was released with the ability to manage pages in the Site Editor, the new command center with an open API, and other enhancements. This version of Gutenberg will be included in the upcoming 6.3 release of WordPress.

For Developers: This is a very cool video by Brian Coord showing how to add custom settings to an already existing block. The example shown walks-through adding some responsive block settings to do different visibility options at different sizes.

Gutenberg 15.9, the plugin version, has been released. It seems to be mainly refinements, except for the new command tool.

Jamie Marsland poses the question, has the plugin version of Gutenberg served its purpose and is it time now to close it out and move on?