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WordPress 5.7 will be the first major release of 2021.

Matt Mullenweg is the Release lead, Tonya Mork is the Triage Lead, Ebonie Butler is the Release Coordinator, Sergey Biryukov is the Core Tech Lead, Robert Anderson is the Editor Tech Lead, Sarah Ricker is the Accessibility Lead, Tim Hengeveld is the Design Lead,  JB Audras is the Docs Lead, and Monika Rao the Test Lead.

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 5.7.

Release Schedule

17 November 2020Trunk is open for business.
15 December 2020Bug Scrub #1 (Slack archive) and #2 (Slack archive)
21 December 20205.7 Roundup Post
22 December 2020Bug Scrub #3 (Slack archive) and #4 (Slack archive)
23 December 20205.7 Kickoff chat
29 December 2020Bug Scrub #5 (Slack archive) and #6 (Slack archive)
6 January 2021Bug Scrub #7 (Slack archive) and #8 (Slack archive)
12 January 2021Bug Scrub #9 (Slack archive) and #10 (Slack archive)
21 January 2021Bug Scrub #11 and #12 (Slack archive)
27 January 2021Bug Scrub #13 (Slack archive) and #14 (Slack archive)
01 February 2021Bug Scrub #15 (Slack archive)
02 February 2021Beta 1, begin writing Dev Notes and About page, and last chance to merge feature projects. (Slack archive, Zip download)
From this point on, no more commits for any new enhancements or feature requests in this release cycle, only bug fixes, and inline documentation. Work can continue on enhancements/feature requests not completed and committed by this point and can be picked up for commit again at the start of the WordPress 5.8 development cycle.
04 February 2021Bug Scrub #16 (Slack archive)
08 February 2021Bug Scrub #17 (Slack archive)
09 February 2021Beta 2, continue writing Dev Notes and About page. (Slack archive, Zip download)
15 February 2021Bug Scrub #18 (Slack archive)
16 February 2021Beta 3, continue writing Dev Notes and About page, soft string freeze. (Slack archive, Zip download)
22 February 2021Bug Scrub #19
23 February 2021Release candidate 1, publish Field Guide with Dev Notes, commit About page, begin drafting release post, and hard string freeze. (Slack archive, Zip download)
25 February 2021Bug Scrub #20
01 March 2021Bug Scrub #21
02 March 2021Release candidate 2, update About page images and continue drafting release post. (Slack archive, Zip download)
8 March 2021Dry run for release of WordPress 5.7 and 24-hour code freeze
9 March 2021WordPress 5.7 is released!

To get involved in WordPress core development, head over to Trac, and pick a 5.7 ticket. Need help? Check out the Core Contributor Handbook.

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 😉

If you want to dive deeper into 5.7, join the weekly meetings in the #core Slack channel, which occur next at Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 05:00 AM UTC and Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 08:00 PM UTC.

Wish us luck!