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WordPress 6.1 Release Candidate 1 is out and it’s time to take a look at what changes we can expect. Release squad and many contributors worked hard on both Trac and GitHub; with over 120 enhancements and feature requests, 241 bug fixes, 42 other blessed tasks, which makes it over 400 tickets in Trac; and 50 Trac pull requests bringing Gutenberg changes into core. In Gutenberg repo there were 1684 pull requests of which 425 new features and enhancements and 428 bug fixes, while the rest is tooling, testings, documentation, and code quality.
New release comes with massive performance improvements, accessibility enhancements, first default block based themes marked as accessibility ready, new hooks and functions, private functions being open for public use and many more.
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