#144 – WordPress 6.4 Releasing Today, 2024 Major Release Timings

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WordPress 6.4 is set to arrive later today with a new default theme, features, and fixes. The end-user documentation tasks for WordPress 6.4 are still open.

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WordPress 6.4 Release Candidate 4 released

This unplanned RC4 release does not impact the general WordPress 6.4 release date, which is set to arrive later today.

  • WordPress 6.4 Accessibility Improvements: This release addresses numerous issues that affect accessibility and general UI consistency, including many long-standing wp-admin bugs, such as a six-year-old issue adjusting the relative proximity of interface buttons โ€œDelete Menuโ€ and โ€œSave Menu.โ€
  • Proposal: 2024 Major release timing: The proposed dates for 2024 releases are Feb.13 for WP 6.5 Beta 1,  Jun. 4 for WP 6.6 Beta 1, and Sep. 24 for WP 6.7 Beta 1.
  • Hallway Hangout: Issues Triage Extending Gutenberg: The upcoming Hallway Hangout on November 10th, will involve Tammie Lister, Fabian Kรคgy, and Birgit Pauli-Haack where they will be discussing what the stage is on getting more extensibility features, hooks, and filters into the block editor.
  • Calling all WordPress Meetup Organizers around the world!: The post talks about the possibility of hosting an exciting in-person watch party event for the upcoming State of the Word which will be held in Madrid, Spain on December 11, 2023.
  • Design Share: Oct 23-Nov 3: The design team has shared an update on a few projects they have worked on over the past couple of weeks.
  • OpenAI introduces GPT-4 Turbo, Custom GPTs, Assistants API, and more:  OpenAI announced several new products and enhancements at the OpenAI DevDay event. This includes GPT-4 Turbo which offers 128k context windows, Assistants API, updates to GPT-3.5 Turbo, and more.

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 There were 109 vulnerabilities disclosed in 102 WordPress Plugins.

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Jetpackโ€™s lazy loading feature deprecation

The changes introduced in the upcoming WordPress 6.4 and Gutenberg 16.6.0 release have led to conflict issues with the lazy loading feature. As a result, the feature will be disabled automatically with the update to WordPress 6.4+ or Gutenberg 16.6.0+.

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