What's new for developers? April 2025

[troychaplin]

As Justin prefaced the February issue:

This is a rolling discussion for a monthly series that is intended to keep track of the items, PRs, Trac tickets, and Make blog posts that are interesting/important for developers. The goal is to publish a post on the 10th of each month with the previous month's updates.

Everyone is welcome to contribute to this monthly document. If you find something interesting, just create a new reply to this discussion below.

Here's the Google Doc for commenting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11CHI2rp0H1vZHiv7HND9by2MxYsXJ-J3fZ22RQ7xTOs/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.fs1z09gf7igl

[github-actions[bot]]

Heads-up @bph @adamziel @bgrgicak @pbking @mikachan @kathrynwp @jonathanbossenger @alexapeduzzi: To include your project's news for developers, please add the information or a link as a comment to this issue. Deadline 8th of next month

[zzap]

This is ready for the first review: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11CHI2rp0H1vZHiv7HND9by2MxYsXJ-J3fZ22RQ7xTOs/edit?usp=sharing

cc @marybaum @troychaplin

[github-actions[bot]]

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[troychaplin]

This is ready for the first review: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11CHI2rp0H1vZHiv7HND9by2MxYsXJ-J3fZ22RQ7xTOs/edit?usp=sharing

cc @marybaum @troychaplin

Hey @zzap, thank you for writing this! It's been through two reviews and ready to publish :)

[zzap]

Social copy:

Bringing you important news about the only #WordPress release in 2025. Don't miss the April edition of "What's new for developers?" https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/04/whats-new-for-developers-april-2025/

[zzap]

Published: https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/04/whats-new-for-developers-april-2025/