WordPress 7.1 enters beta on July 15 with a final release scheduled for August 19, 2026. Key developer-facing changes include: responsive styling now available for testing with a deprecated useResizeCanvas() hook, a merge proposal for expanding the Core Abilities API with read-only abilities, a new wp_knowledge custom post type proposal, React 19 compatibility testing via an experimental Gutenberg flag, hard-deprecation of the __next40pxDefaultSize prop across ~20 components, breaking icon color changes in @wordpress/icons v15, Unicode email address support, AI Client streaming and embeddings primitives, and WordPress Studio now available on Linux. WordPress Playground gained MCP support, WebRTC remote access, and Blueprint v2 infrastructure. WordPress 7.0.1 shipped with 13 Core and 13 Gutenberg bug fixes.
