After discussions with project leadership, the decision has been made to delay the 7.0 release by a few weeks to finalize key architectural details. WordPress 7.0 is shaping up to be a big release, with some great highlight features and a long list of improvements. I’m excited to get this in the hands of users.…

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WordPress 7.0 release is being delayed by a few weeks to finalize the architecture for real-time collaboration primitives. The key decision point is whether to use a custom database table for storing collaboration/sync data, with Matt Mullenweg requesting more time to design the best solution. The current approach stores content changes in postmeta and user presence data in transients. The feature will ship as opt-in to give hosts and plugin developers time to adapt, since collaborative editing introduces write-heavy workloads via HTTP polling. Plugins using metaboxes will have real-time collaboration disabled until they migrate to modern Gutenberg APIs.

Extending the 7.0 Cycle