wordpress announces gutenberg 7.1 - it's big!

While there is slowdown introduced in this version of Gutenberg, the scope of improvements may override those concerns..   This is feature for new users to help introduce them to Gutenberg block editing experience...   Editing mode allows you to edit inside the table and selection mode allows user to select element of the table..   This makes Gutenberg's functionality more useful and saves user from having to download plugin.   Here's example of the action from the WordPress GitHub page..   WordPress also trimmed PHP 5.2 compatibility code from RSS block.  This makes it more important for WordPress users to make sure they are using the most up to date version of PHP.   Upgrading the version of of PHP you're WordPress site is on is easy way to speed up your site and to harden your site against hacking events..   Among them was fixing CSS styles of ColorPicker component..   Of interest is the performance benchmarks that seem to indicate that using Gutenberg interface is becoming slower..   While the difference between version 7.0 and 7.1 is just under one second, it's not expectation that performance would at least stay static if not improve..   Read more