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September 14, 2026

WordPress 7.1.1 RC Is Out: 16 Core Fixes, 22 Gutenberg PRs

WordPress 7.1.1 Release Candidate 1 is out, with the final bug-fix-only release set for 17 September. It covers 16 Core tickets and 22 Gutenberg pull requests, and it lands after Contributor Day surfaced a performance regression in 7.1.

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September 3, 2026

Gutenberg 23.9 Adds Parent-Selector Inserter and Site Editor v2 Groundwork

Gutenberg 23.9 adds a plus icon to the block toolbar's parent selector and a custom-style indicator in Global Styles, while about twenty pull requests quietly lay the groundwork for Site Editor v2.

Core & Releases

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August 20, 2026

Gutenberg 23.8 Ships a Faster List View and Shareable Revisions

Gutenberg 23.8 shipped on 19 August with shareable visual revision links, a code diff view and a List View select-all that drops from 16.8 to 0.4 seconds on large posts. Developers get inline inner-block templates and React 19 support.

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August 19, 2026

WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” Ships From WordCamp US

WordPress 7.1 "Mary Lou" closed out WordCamp US on 19 August 2026, merging ten Gutenberg releases into Core. Responsive styling and a new media editor lead the changelog.

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Developer's desk at night with monitors showing the block editor, illustrating the Gutenberg 23.7 release

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August 8, 2026

Gutenberg 23.7: Floated Blocks, Device Previews, and a Security Patch

Gutenberg 23.7 arrived on 5 August 2026 with smaller editor fixes and a Jest 30 bump. Two days later, 23.7.1 patched security issues in phpcs and wpcs.

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July 22, 2026

Gutenberg 23.6: Media Cropping, Stable Blocks, Icon API

Gutenberg 23.6 lands with cropping controls, Playlist and Notes out of experimental, and a new icon registration API. The release post says it can be considered roughly equivalent to WordPress 7.1.

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July 1, 2026

Gutenberg 23.5 Raises Minimum to WordPress 6.9: What Agencies on 6.8 Must Do

Gutenberg 23.5 raises the plugin minimum to WordPress 6.9, leaving agencies on 6.8 with a short window before the 7.1 beta cycle. Here is the checklist.

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