Gutenberg Changelog Gutenberg Changelog #127 – WordPress 7.0 Beta and Gutenberg 22.6
Mar 1, 2026
Jessica Lyschik, WordPress core contributor and default theme co-lead who builds products for agencies, walks through WordPress 7.0 Beta and Gutenberg 22.6. They cover real-time collaborative editing, a visual revisions revamp, responsive block visibility, navigation block improvements, new blocks like Icon and Breadcrumbs, gallery lightbox updates, and developer-facing changes.
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Test Betas On Staging Before Release
- Test WordPress betas early to avoid last-minute breaks when clients update their sites.
- Use the Beta Tester plugin or WP-CLI on staging environments and never run betas on live sites.
Real-Time Collaboration Changes Workflow
- Real-time collaboration removes the "someone else is editing" blocker and enables simultaneous editing with avatars and cursors.
- It's opt-in in Beta 2 (Settings → Writing) and may become opt-out in later releases.
Visual Revisions Make Rollbacks Intuitive
- Visual revisions replace raw HTML diffs with block-aware red/green/yellow highlights inside the editor.
- A slider with dates appears and the publish button becomes a restore button for quick rollbacks.