WordPress 6.0 release time is approaching, and before that time comes, we’re going to go over some interesting elements for hosting teams.
First, the calendar.
- 2022-05-03: RC1
- 2022-05-10: RC2
- 2022-05-17: RC3
- 2022-05-23: Dry run
- 2022-05-24: WordPress 6.0 is released
Now that WordPress 6.0 has entered the Release Candidate phase, the following policies are in place.
Everything starts with the WordPress 6.0 Release Candidate 1
With the Release Candidate 1 officially shipped, it’s time to explore the next major release, WordPress 6.0. This release introduces Style variations, the Block Locking UI, various writing improvements, more design tools, new hooks, updated external libraries, and more!
WordPress 6.0, planned for May 24, 2022, is now ready to be translated on translate.wordpress.org!
Related to the Hosting team
As part of the release of WordPress 6.0, the new Performance team has been working on several improvements to the core. There are a few new additions to the WordPress Caching API.
As part of the 6.0 release of WordPress, the new performance team has been hard at work to improve the performance of term queries. There are many term queries on the average page load, and improving these, improves the performance of WordPress in general.
In WordPress 6.0, websites with more than 10,000 users will see improvements in handling users. Before changes, sites with more than 10,000 users would suffer from slow page loading time in the user and post list screens.
Changes in PHP – MySQL/MariaDB
At this time there are no changes to WordPress 6.0 compatibility with respect to PHP or MySQL/MariaDB, so WordPress 5.9 compatibility should remain the same as WordPress 6.0.
In case there are changes, they will be announced in this post or in a later post.