The WordPress core development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:
All release decisions will ultimately be this release teams’ to make and communicate while gathering input from the community. There will not be a new bundled theme included in 5.8.
Feature freeze/Bug Fixes period. During the following two weeks, there will be no commits for new enhancements or feature requests. Core contributors will focus on defect work (aka outstanding bugs)
8 June 2021
Beta 1. From this point on, core contributors will focus on testing and fixing bugs discovered during the three weeks of beta testing. Begin writing Dev Notes and the About page.
15 June 2021
Beta 2. Test the beta release, fix bugs discovered during beta testing, continue writing Dev Notes and the About page.
22 June 2021
Beta 3. Test the beta release, fix bugs discovered during beta testing, continue writing Dev Notes and the About page, soft string freeze.
24 25 June 2021
Beta 4. Test the beta release, fix bugs discovered during beta testing, continue writing Dev Notes and the About page. Note: This beta was not part of the original schedule and was added after beta 3.
Get your patches done and submitted as soon as possible, then help find people to test the patches and leave feedback on the ticket. Patches for enhancements will not be committed after the dates posted above so that we can all focus on squashing bugs and deliver the most bug-free WordPress ever 😉