Keeping up with Gutenberg: Index 2026

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This page is the one place you can bookmark for GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/-related team posts of CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., Core-Editor, Core-js, Core-css, Design, MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress., and Themes, and other teams, when relevant. It’s a chronological listing, not topical. Latest on top.

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March 2026

2026-03-25 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 22.8? (25 March) (u)

2026-03-16 #core-editor Pattern Overrides in WP 7.0: Support for Custom Blocks  📘

2026-03-15 #core-editor Pattern Editing in WordPress 7.0 📘

2026-03-15 #core-editor Block Visibility in WordPress 7.0 📘

2026-03-15 #core-editor Dimensions Support Enhancements in WordPress 7.0 📘

2026-03-15 #core-editor Custom CSS for Individual Block Instances in WordPress 7.0 📘

2026-03-15 #core-editor New Block Support: Text Indent (textIndent) 📘

2026-03-13 #core Twenty Twenty-Seven default theme: Call for Volunteers

2026-03-11 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 22.7? (11 March)

2026-03-09 #core-editor Pseudo-element support for blocks and their variations in theme.json 📘

2026-03-04 #core-editor Breadcrumb block filters 📘

2026-03-04 #core-editor Customisable Navigation Overlays in WordPress 7.0 📘

2026-03-04 #core-editor DataViews, DataForm, et al. in WordPress 7.0 📘

2026-03-03 #core-editor PHP-only block registration 📘

February 2026

2026-02-25 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 22.6? (25 February)

2026-02-24 #core-editor Iframed Editor Changes in WordPress 7.0

2026-02-23 #core Changes to the Interactivity API in WordPress 7.0 📘

2026-02-06 #playground wp-env now runs WordPress with Playground runtime (r)

2026-02-04 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 22.5? (04 February) (u)

2026-02-03 #core-ai Content Guidelines: A Gutenberg Experiment (u)

2026-02-01 #core-ai AI Guidelines for WordPress (u)

January 2026

2026-01-30 #core WordPress 6.9.1 RC1 is now available (u)

2026-01-28 #core-test Call for Testing – Customizable Navigation (“Mobile”) Overlays (r)

2026-01-22 #core-editor What’s new in Gutenberg 22.4? (20 January) (u)

Happy New Year! 🎆 🙌 🎉🥂 Welcome to the 7th year of the Gutenberg Index.


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  • (m) = Meeting Summaries/Notes, check here for meeting days and times
  • (r) = general resource
  • (u) = indicates an update to software, methods, processes, or discussions
  • We use universal date format in yyyy-mm-dd to indicate publication date.
  • Separators divide the list by weeks
  • This page started in January 2021. The index started in July 2020

Big thanks to Anne McCarthy @annezazu and William Patton @williampatton for support and review.

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