WordPress 6.0 Maintenance Releases
WordPress 6.0 was released in May 2022. There have subsequently been three maintenance releases:
- WordPress 6.0.1 – July 12th, 2022
- WordPress 6.0.2 – August 30th, 2022
- WordPress 6.0.3 – October 17th, 2022.
Release information can be found here if you want further details on any of them.
WordPress 6.1
This version was launched on November 1st, 2022. See the WordPress 6.1 Release Post which includes a short video. For more technical information see the WordPress 6.1 Field Guide.
As with WordPress 6.0, it is difficult to categorise this release. If pushed, I would say that it continues to refine the user interface. It includes a new default theme, Twenty Twenty-three, which is in essence a stripped-back version of Twenty Twenty-Two with 10 style variations which allow you to modify the look-and-feel of the theme. It is tagged as Accessibility Ready.
Significant work has also been carried out in the areas of both performance and accessibility on this release.
What Next?
Phase two of the Gutenberg project is yet to be finished. This should happen in 2023, although no information is yet available on planned releases for 2023. I will add the information when it becomes available.
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