WordPress 7.0.1 is now available. As the first maintenance release of the 7.0 cycle, it\u2019s strictly a bug-fix release: every included ticket addresses either a regression introduced during 7.0 development or an issue intentionally deferred at the end of the cycle.<\/p>\n
The release ships fixes for 17 core Trac tickets and 14 Gutenberg PRs. Because this is a maintenance release, sites with automatic background updates enabled will update to 7.0.1 automatically \u2014 everyone else should update as soon as possible. Here\u2019s what stands out for each audience.<\/p>\n
Kudos to release lead Aaron Jorbin and his team for pushing this release over the finish line and getting it into hands of WordPress users quickly. <\/p>\n
Registration page spam is shut down (#63085<\/a>).<\/strong> The account registration page could be abused to send \u201cLogin details\u201d spam emails from your site. This is arguably the most impactful fix in the release for anyone running a site with open registration \u2014 it protects both your users\u2019 inboxes and your domain\u2019s email reputation.<\/p>\n The 7.0 admin reskin gets its rough edges sanded off.<\/strong> WordPress 7.0\u2019s refreshed admin design shipped with a handful of visual glitches that this release cleans up:<\/p>\n Emoji behave correctly again.<\/strong> Two related fixes: the emoji detection script is once more printed in the admin (#65310<\/a>), and certain characters are no longer incorrectly replaced by Twemoji images (#64318<\/a>).<\/p>\n Accessibility improvements to the new revisions experience.<\/strong> The Visual History \/ Revisions feature introduced in 7.0 receives several accessibility fixes: focus now moves to the revisions slider when entering revisions mode, and changed blocks are marked with a CSS outline as a secondary, non-color indicator \u2014 important for users with low vision or color blindness (#65122<\/a>, Gutenberg #77530<\/a>, #78393<\/a>, #79691<\/a>).<\/p>\n PHP 8.5 compatibility fix in A removed Navigation function returns as a deprecated shim (Gutenberg #78484<\/a>).<\/strong> Editor state management fixes reduce false \u201cunsaved changes\u201d warnings.<\/strong> Two Gutenberg fixes matter here: <\/p>\n Together these should mean fewer spurious dirty states and a cleaner undo history \u2014 a quality-of-life improvement if you build with template parts and navigation blocks.<\/p>\n Block Visibility: \u201chide everywhere\u201d keeps working after a block opts out of visibility support (#65389<\/a>).<\/strong> If you register blocks that disable visibility support, previously hidden instances now stay hidden as expected.<\/p>\n You can update directly from Dashboard \u2192 Updates<\/strong> in your site\u2019s admin, run The full ticket list is available in the release candidate announcement<\/a>, Trac report 4, and the 7.0.x editor tasks board on GitHub.<\/p>\n\n
The most important fixes for developers<\/h2>\n
wp_kses()<\/code> no longer corrupts valid CSS (#65270<\/a>).<\/strong> Since 7.0 RC4, wp_kses()<\/code> could mangle legitimate background-image: url(\u2026)<\/code> declarations into a broken style=\")\"<\/code> attribute. If your theme or plugin outputs inline background images through KSES-filtered content, 7.0.1 restores expected behavior \u2014 any workarounds you shipped can now be removed.<\/p>\nglobal-styles-inline-css<\/code> can be dequeued again (#65336<\/a>).<\/strong> Since 7.0, developers were unable to remove the global styles inline stylesheet. If your build pipeline or performance optimization strips this and re-serves it another way, that control is back.<\/p>\nwp_get_attachment_image_src()<\/code> (#64742<\/a>).<\/strong> An incorrect array access triggered issues under PHP 8.5. If you\u2019re testing sites on newer PHP versions, this removes one blocker.<\/p>\nblock_core_navigation_submenu_render_submenu_icon()<\/code> was removed in 7.0, breaking themes and plugins that called it directly. It\u2019s restored as a deprecated shim \u2014 but treat this as your migration notice, not a reprieve. Update any code that references it.<\/p>\n\n
How to update<\/h2>\n
wp core update<\/code> with WP-CLI, or download WordPress 7.0.1 from WordPress.org and install it manually. Sites that support automatic background updates for minor releases will begin updating on their own shortly.<\/p>\nWhat\u2019s next: WordPress 7.1<\/h2>\n