WordPress Core and Gutenberg updates from Week 11, 2021.

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Dropping support for IE11:
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/04/discussion-dropping-support-for-ie11/

Dual licensing Gutenberg:
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/05/dual-licensing-gutenberg-next-steps/

WordPress 5.7 Stats:
https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/a496c333-7e64-412c-9299-9ea2c84e5d2c/page/rpy5B

Default Colors, Theme Colors, and Custom Colors:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29568

Matias’ Thoughts on Hybrid Themes:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29024#issuecomment-792796711

Full Site Editing Alignments:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/29335

Content Width theme.json property:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/25160

Block Supports Mechanism:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/28913

Block Based Widgets in the Customiser:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29285

Mobile Responsive Navigation Menu Support:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/22824

Persistent List View Tracking Issue
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29736

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Week 11, 2021

WordPress Core and Gutenberg updates from Week 12, 2021.

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High level feedback from the FSE Program 
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/16/high-level-feedback-from-the-fse-program-march/

FSE Program Testing Call #3: Create a fun & custom 404 page
https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/03/09/fse-program-testing-call-3-create-a-fun-custom-404-page/

Native TypeScript support in Gutenberg
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/18/proposal-native-typescript-support-in-gutenberg/

A WordPress Project Contributor Handbook
https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2021/03/16/proposal-a-wordpress-project-contributor-handbook/

Consistent minor release squad leaders for each major branch
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/16/trial-run-consistent-minor-release-squad-leaders-for-each-major-branch/

WebP support
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35725

IE11 BrowseHappy notice
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/48743

What’s New in Gutenberg 10.2
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/17/whats-new-in-gutenberg-10-2-17-march/

Post Schedule
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/29716

Changes to theme.json
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29891

Global Styles Sidebar Design
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/27473

Issue of the week: Suggest Block Patterns
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/29602

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Week 12, 2021

WordPress Core and Gutenberg updates from Week 13, 2021.

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WordPress 5.7.1 maintenance release schedule 
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/22/wordpress-5-7-1-maintenance-release-schedule/

Early Bug Schedule for 5.8
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/24/early-bug-schedule-for-5-8/

Gallery Block Update – Call for Testing
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/23/gallery-block-update-call-for-testing/

Separator Block: Add top and bottom margins
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/29363

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Week 13, 2021

WordPress Core and Gutenberg updates from Week 14, 2021.

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WordCamp Europe 2021
https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/wceu-launch-7-june-2021/

WordPress Mega Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/SF-WordPress-Users/events/277019024/

Patterns Directory
https://make.wordpress.org/design/2021/03/30/wordpress-org-patterns-directory/

Darker Grey in Description Text Colour
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/52760

5.8 Pre-planning
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/30/5-8-pre-planning/

Gutenberg 10.3 Release
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/releases/tag/v10.3.0

Gutenberg Issue of the Week: Short Writing Prompt
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/29611

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Week 14, 2021

WordPress Core and Gutenberg updates from Week 15, 2021.

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Wix Marketing Campaign
https://www.secret-update.com/from-wp

5.7.1 RC1 Release
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/07/wordpress-5-7-1-rc-1/

Gutenberg 10.3.1
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/releases/tag/v10.3.1

Gutenberg 10.3.2
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/releases/tag/v10.3.2

Gutenberg 10.4 RC1
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/releases/tag/v10.4.0-rc.1

Update placeholder text across blocks
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/30404

Add site icon and name to the publish flow
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/30231

Update the small Close icon
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/30014

Full Site Editing focus over the next week
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/07/editor-chat-summary-7-april-2021/

Allow creating custom block templates in classic themes
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/30438

FSE Onboarding Figma Prototype
https://www.figma.com/proto/LZiM9diybGa4WKM44zRcIq/Appearance-Menu?node-id=575%3A2302&viewport=132%2C325%2C0.047380756586790085&scaling=min-zoom

Accordion block
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/21584

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Week 15, 2021

WordPress Core and Gutenberg updates from Week 6, 2021.

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WP Notify on Github: https://github.com/WordPress/wp-notify
WP Notify meeting: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/04/wp-notify-meeting-february-8-2021/

Week 6, 2021

WordPress Core and Gutenberg updates from Week 7, 2021.

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Rollback Failure Update feature plugin:
https://github.com/afragen/rollback-update-failure

What’s new in Gutenberg 9.9:
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/05/whats-new-in-gutenberg-9-9-5-february/

Gutenberg 10.0 RC1:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/releases/tag/v10.0.0-rc.1

Visual modal for changing page templates:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/28390

List view hover states:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/27395

Make the Quote block a group of nested blocks:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/25892

Full Site Editing Milestones:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/24551

Block Based Widgets Call for Testing:
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/11/bringing-the-power-of-blocks-to-widgets/

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Week 7, 2021

WordPress Core and Gutenberg updates from Week 8, 2021.

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Elementor Price Hike:
https://wptavern.com/elementor-to-roll-out-significant-pricing-hike-for-new-customers

Semantic Versioning:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43495

5.6.2 RC1 Available:
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/17/wordpress-5-6-2-rc1/

5.7 beta 3 Available:
https://wordpress.org/news/2021/02/wordpress-5-7-beta-3/

Gutenberg 10.0.0:
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/17/whats-new-in-gutenberg-10-0-february/

<Surface> component:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/28596

Hybrid Themes:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29024

Redesigned “Insert Link” UI:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/28755

Duotone filters:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/26361

Gallery refactor:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/25940

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Week 8, 2021

WordPress Core and Gutenberg updates from Week 9, 2021.

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FSE Program Testing Call #2
https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/02/18/fse-program-testing-call-2-build-a-homepage-with-site-editing-blocks/

Hosting page on WordPress.org
https://robertjacobi.com/wordpress-org-hosting-and-trademark-rumors-answered.html

Additional functions to check if a post is publicly viewable
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/18/introducing-additional-functions-to-check-if-a-post-is-publicly-viewable-in-wordpress-5-7/

Lazy-loading iframes
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/19/lazy-loading-iframes-in-5-7/

Robots Meta Tag API
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/19/robots-api-and-max-image-preview-directive-in-wordpress-5-7/

Send reset password links
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/22/send-reset-password-links-in-wordpress-5-7/

One-Click HTTPS Migration
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/22/improved-https-detection-and-migration-in-wordpress-5-7/

Standardisation of WP-Admin colours
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/23/standardization-of-wp-admin-colors-in-wordpress-5-7/

Script Tag Functions
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/23/introducing-script-attributes-related-functions-in-wordpress-5-7/

Gutenberg 10.1 RC Updates
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/releases/tag/v10.1.0-rc.1

Full Site Editing Update
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29024

Global Styles Update
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/28913

Gutenberg Issue of the Week: Query Block Wizard
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/28891

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Week 10, 2021

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