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What’s new for developers? (July 2024) written by Justin Tadlock (July 10, 2024)
**taken from here**: [https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/07/10/whats-new-for-developers-july-2024/](https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/07/10/whats-new-for-developers-july-2024/)
cit: **covering: Blocks, Plugins, Themes**
WordPress 6.6 is just days away, and it’s always an exciting time for developers when a new major release ships. There are lots of new features to tinker with and handy updates to make extending and using WordPress just a little nicer. Officially, version 6.6 is expected to ship on July 16, 2024 (read the development cycle timeline for more information).
If you haven’t already done so, now is a great time to test your plugins and themes against the latest changes. WordPress 6.6 RC 3 is the most up-to-date version to check out.
Also, be sure to read the Field Guide, which covers all the major changes you should know about. It has links to all the Developer Notes and a breakdown of what happened during the development cycle.
As usual, this post will contain a list of development-related changes in the past month. Be sure to test them while using WordPress and Gutenberg trunk. Some of the features and changes listed below, unless otherwise noted, are under development and won’t be released until WordPress 6.7.
**mehr Infos, Hintergründe**
WordPress 6.6 with Anne McCarthy
[https://youtu.be/MRUAzefDhjI](https://youtu.be/MRUAzefDhjI)Plugins and tools – WordPress 6.6 developer notes
There are several dev notes for WordPress 6.6 that cover new features, updated APIs, and progress on experimental features:
**Custom post type actions with Data Views**
A new API in Gutenberg 18.6 lets you register and unregister post type actions when building custom Data Views. Currently, these actions appear in two places in the UI:
Site Editor views
Sidebar in the Post or Site Editor
The API is currently a part of the Editor package but will likely be moved to a dedicated package in the future.
**JSON Schema for .wp-env.json**
.wp-env.json files now have JSON Schema support, which you can define via the standard $schema property. This should make it easier to validate your JSON code in your preferred code editor.
Block Bindings API bug fixes
Several important bug fixes landed for the Block Bindings API:
Reverted a change that caused values beginning with a number to break.
Applied a fix for the Site Editor breaking when selecting bound and unbound blocks.
Corrected an issue where Button blocks with empty content would not work within bindings.
**Themes**
WordPress 6.6 developer notes
That latest WordPress release will include many theme-heavy features and enhancements. Be sure to read through the dev notes to catch up before 6.6 goes live:
**WordPress 6.6 is changing the game for Custom Fields**
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNtHywyxWdc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNtHywyxWdc)WordPress is bringing Custom Fields to blocks. The Block Bindings API is going to change the way we code for postmeta, and WordPress 6.6 is our first glimpse.
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