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.

Roger Montti at the Search Engine Journal reports on the Q&A session with Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp Asia. Some of the answers seemed to reveal that there are no plans for WordPress other than Gutenberg.

Coming in WordPress 6.8 – The algorithm used for passwords is changing from phppass portable hashing to bcrypt.

Joost got more feedback on his blog than expected and ran into a problem with caching. This led him down a rabbit hole to understand how the WordPress comment system works and how he could make it work with his site caching.

WordPress 6.7.1 is scheduled for Thursday. There were some issues. Apparently a big one related to loading translations.

WordPress 6.7 has been released. I’ve updated 2 sites. It seemed slow and I got an error on one site about a bad gateway, but then retried and it succeeded.

Here is a great overview of 2025 theme and of a few useful features coming in WordPress 6.7.

There is a major update to the HTML Processor API coming in WordPress 6.7.

WordPress 6.7 is scheduled for November 12th. This post on the Make blog pulls together the list of features and enhancements currently targeted for 6.7.