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You may have noticed the new shiny icons in the admin screens in WordPress 7.2 Beta.

Here is the agenda for the upcoming Test Team Voice Chat scheduled for Thursday, 05 November at 18:00 GMT+3, which will be held in the #core-test Slack channel.

Maybe not your content per se, but the ability to discover it is with the introduction of the /random/ endpoint in WordPress 7.2.

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack.

WordPress 7.2 Beta 4 is ready for download and testing!

X-post from +make.wordpress.org/marketing: Updates to the WordPress Marketing Repository

AI 1.5.0 introduces six new Experiments, including Text to Speech, Content Verification, MCP Access, and WebMCP, alongside improvements to content...

This week's AI Contributor meeting focused on the WordPress for the Agentic Web strategy, a proposed shared abilities package, upcoming AI plugin...

This security release features fixes for multiple issues.

WordPress 7.2 Beta 2 is ready for download and testing!

X-post from +make.wordpress.org/updates: Test Team Update: 23 October, 2026

X-post from +make.wordpress.org/core: WordPress Contributor Toolkit 2.0: A redesigned app, in your language

Your October guide to WordPress development: the 7.2 roadmap, the Ipsum theme, new block APIs, and what to test before Beta 1.

X-post from +make.wordpress.org/meta: Heads up: HelpScout to FreeScout Migration

Gutenberg 23.8 and 23.9 bring declarable block keyboard shortcuts, theme.json schema fixes for responsive states, and a batch of new deprecations.

We’re launching an automated security review for every plugin release.

WordPress 7.1 introduces a public API for custom icons.

The Plugins Team is aware of an issue currently affecting plugin releases and is actively investigating it.