A bug fix release for 6.3 is being prepared. 6.3.1 RC1 is available for testing.

The Roadmap to 6.4 has been published and man is it full of features. There are plans for core font library functionality, new blocks, image lightbox, building out theme.json for spacing presets, a box shadow component, a new Twenty Twenty four theme, enhancements to the Query Loop Block, the Footnote Block, rollback option for theme and plugin automatic updates, foundational work on Phase 3, and more.

This is a long awaited update to the WordPress coding standards rule set checker.

I’ve often thought that there would someday be an API we could use to “clean” blocks of custom CSS when we move from one Gutenberg add-on to another, or when core is so good that we don’t need add-ons. This comprehensive look at the HTML API confirms that, but it also gives a view on a tool that developers and power users will be able to use with WordPress in the future.

Tom McFarlin on the difference between a foundation and a framework.

Part of Gutenberg phase 3 is a redesign of the WordPress admin. Contributors are starting to propose designs.

There were a number of WordPress performance enhancements in 6.3, which is due to be released tomorrow. This article reviews the enhancements and the changes related to them.

WordPress org will be moving to Matrix for chat and group discussions. The move has started now with single sign on using your WP org login and a Slack / Matrix bridge so that you can login on either side. There are several Matrix clients, so there will be some choice. This is discussed in this post on the Make blog.

In this chat summary of the core performance team they discuss the impact of loading translations. I had no idea of the performance impact, but it makes sense

I wonder that their possible solutions have no mention on the future Guteberg stage, though maybe that is too far in the future for consideration?