WordPress 5.0 Development Cycle – When Gutenberg Will Appear…

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Release Schedule
November 15, 2017
Trunk is open for business. (Post-4.9)
TBD
5.0 Kickoff meeting.
TBD
Last chance to merge feature projects.
TBD
Beta 1 and feature project merge deadline.
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 WordPress 5.1.
TBD
Beta 2.
TBD
Beta 3.
TBD
Beta 4.
TBD
Release candidate and soft string freeze.
TBD
Final release candidate if needed and hard string freeze.
TBD
Dry run for release of WordPress 5.0 and 24 hour code freeze.
TBD
Target date for release of WordPress 5.0.
Contributing
To get involved in WordPress core development, head on over to Trac and pick a 5.0 ticket. Need help? Check out the Core Contributor Handbook. Get your patches done and submitted as
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