In a post on the Automattic website it was confirmed that contributions to the WordPress project will resume.

Automattic Resumes Core Contributions
Automattic @ automattic.com • 4 days ago
Automattic @ automattic.com • 4 days ago
In a post on the Automattic website it was confirmed that contributions to the WordPress project will resume.
Misha Rudrastyh • 4 weeks ago
In this tutorial Misha Rudrastyh does a deep dive into WordPress admin dashboard widgets. He shows how to remove them and create them.
Aaron Jorbin @ make.wordpress.org • 1 month ago
A bug fix release of 6.8.1 is scheduled for April 30. Here are the current tickets being targeted for inclusion.
Shahjahan Jewel @ community.wpmanageninja.com • 1 month ago
A lot goes into a WordPress release. Md Shahjahan shared a retrospective analysis of the WordPress 6.8 release showing contributor stats. It is an interesting look at what it takes and the fact that it is a world-wide effort involving many people and companies.
Peter Wilson @ make.wordpress.org • 2 months ago
This is info for plugin and theme developers: There were some changes in the 6.8 release to how core caches and uses WP_Query. The core team is suggesting developers check their code to see if they need to make any changes.
Rob Marlbrough @ presswizards.com • 2 months ago
Speculative loading is now enabled in WordPress 6.8 by default, but this may require some tweaks such as using full-page HTML caching to avoid additional server load. Rob Marlbrough shares what it means for SEO and your site performance, and how to set it up on your site easily.
Jeffrey Paul @ wordpress.org • 2 months ago
WordPress 6.8 is rolling out. I updated a dozen sites without issue. Also, I don’t see any 6.8 problem chatter on WP org. Here is the release post.
Mary Hubbard @ make.wordpress.org • 2 months ago
Core committers met a week ago to discuss the upcoming release schedule in light of there being fewer sponsored resources available. We now have a summary of that meeting. One of the outcomes is that WordPress 6.8 will be last major release for this year.
Birgit Pauli-Haack @ gutenbergtimes.com • 2 months ago
WordPress 6.8 is currently scheduled for release in about 3 weeks on April 15th. Despite it being a “maintenance” release, there are some nice enhancements. This overview of 6.8 has summaries of the new features.