Kudos to the wonderful group of people who contributed to the successful release of WordPress 5.5 yesterday! We now turn our focus to the final major release of the year with WordPress 5.6.
Release Squad
As @chanthaboune noted back in March, WordPress 5.6 will feature an all-women release squad with the hope of increasing the number of women who have experience on a release squad and return as contributors to Core and elsewhere. Then in May when the 5.5 release squad was announced it also noted many of the 5.6 release squad members who would shadow the 5.5 team and