Katie Keith answers the question if lifetime licenses really cost more to support by digging into real data from Barn2’s sales and support history.

Here is Matt’s Town Hall presentation and question and answer session from WordCamp Canada.

Congratulations to Julian Song, who has been recognized for his contributions to the WordPress community.

This is an interesting idea, maybe it should be part of WordPress org. You know how you can quickly launch an in-browser version of WordPress called Playground based on a blueprint config file. This is a blueprint creator, and the platform allows you to share your blueprints with others.

Matt reports that the court has dropped a number of the claims.

Imran Siddiq speaks out about the echo chambers and cliques in WordPress. He suggests that we can improve.

Jamie Marsland suggests that it is time for the WordPress project to shift direction and become something like an open source Lovable.

Apparently CERN hosts a lot of websites, more than 600. In a win for WordPress, they have moved from Drupal to WordPress.

I watched this interview with Carrie Dils and Karim Marucchi on the WP Minute. It provides a nice overview of the new FAIR Package Manager and also a lot of what is going on behind the scenes.