WordPress 7.0 shipped on May 20, 2026, later than its original April target after the core team extended the release cycle to complete additional architectural work. The headline addition for developers is a matured Gutenberg block editor built on React, with improved extensibility and performance improvements throughout the editor layer. Real-time collaboration (RTC) — the most anticipated feature for editorial teams — was removed from 7.0 late in the cycle after testing revealed race conditions, excessive server load under concurrent edits, and memory efficiency problems. WordPress powers roughly 43% of the web, so the shipped release still represents a significant rollout event for React-based editor integrations, plugin authors, and hosting providers who will need to qualify themes and plugins against the new major version.