This security and maintenance release features 7 security fixes and 4 bug fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download WordPress 7.1.3 from WordPress.org, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click “Updates”, and then click “Update Now”. If you have sites that support automatic background updates, the update […]
Performance Chat Summary: 6 October 2026
The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets @westonruter shared that prefetching has finally been committed in changeset 64120. The next step is to default script and style concatenation to off outside development environments in PR #13090. After that, the plan is to remove load-scripts.php and load-styles.php, along with the concatenation and […]
WordPress Version 7.1.3 Released
On October 6, 2026, WordPress 7.1.3 was released to the public. WordPress Version 7.1.3 Details Installation/Update Information To get this version, update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area or visit https://wordpress.org/download/releases/. For step-by-step instructions on installing and updating WordPress: Updating WordPress If you are new to WordPress, we recommend that you begin […]
Presence API: What’s new
An update on the Presence API feature plugin, announced in April. Here’s everything that’s shipped since then. Current version: 0.14.0. Requires WordPress 7.0 and PHP 7.4. Post locks live in the presence table, so refreshing one no longer bumps the posts cache key. In this post What’s new since April Recording and privacy Multisite Post locks Every post […]
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