Gutenberg 23.3 makes the modal-based media editor the default cropping tool and upgrades the editor to React 19, alongside a customizable dashboard experiment.
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A growing pattern in the WordPress ecosystem sees lifetime license holders losing access to core features as vendors spin them into new subscription tiers.
Shadow DOM isolation and a jQuery-free frontend distinguish PicPoints, a new free WordPress plugin for building interactive image maps, from the jQuery-dependent tools that currently dominate the space.
The flaw, rated CVSS 8.1 (High), affects only sites connected to UpdraftCentral and allows unauthenticated attackers to gain full admin access. Update to 1.26.5 immediately.