WordPress 5.4 is in development. This will be the biggest release of 2020. The goal of this core update? A new way to add menus and update the Gutenberg editor to the latest version. This year focuses Wordpress focuses entirely on site editing via this editor. The editor was built by volunteers and should make adding content easier and more fun. WordPress 5.4 rolls end of March 2020 from.
Phases
The following phases of the update cycle will follow this year:
| February 7 | Bug Scrub #3 |
| February 10 | Bug Scrub #4 |
| February 11 (+3w 6d) | beta 1 |
| February 18 | Bug Scrub #5 |
| February 18 (+1w) | beta 2 |
| February 25 (+1w) | beta 3 |
| February 27 | Bug Scrub #6 |
| March 3 (+1w) | Release candidate 1 |
| March 10 (+1w) | Release candidate 2 |
| March 17 (+1w) | Release candidate 3 |
| March 24 (+1w) | Release candidate 4 |
| March 30 (+6 day) | A test run of WordPress 5.3, after that no further changes take place |
| March 31 (+1 day) | The release date of WordPress 5.4. |