The long-awaited release v2.5.0 of WP-CLI is scheduled to be published on Wednesday, May 19th, 2021.
I won’t go into too much detail about why the release was so long in the making, but let me nevertheless add a link to an article in which Juliette Reinders Folmer eloquently talks about some of the reasons: https://24daysindecember.net/2020/12/21/a-perfect-storm/. Add to this the fact that the pandemic situation has drastically reduced the pool of contributors, as well as Travis CI deciding to effectively drop OSS support (forcing me to switch both testing and deployments to GitHub Actions), and we’re in a situation that I’m glad will finally be resolved again soon.
Thanks to all the sponsors of the project that make it possible to work on WP-CLI with the persistence and staying power it requires.
Also big thanks to the contributors to the project that kept helping me figure out bugs and come up with solutions! I truly appreciate all your assistance.
And in case you’re one of the many people who created an issue in recent times that hasn’t been resolved yet, know that getting v2.5.0 out was an absolute priority, but I’ll slowly work off the backlog again once the pressing compatibility issues have been taken care of.