WordPress 5.9 is here, as always, right on schedule — January 25th, 2022. The name is “Joséphine,” in honor of acclaimed international jazz singer Joséphine Baker. She is known for her versatility, which is a quality that can also be associated with WordPress 5.9. In addition to the incredible number of amazing features and improvements, WordPress 5.9 continues the Full Site Editing journey. Continuing to go strong, version 5.9 of the CMS comes along with tons of improvements.
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WordPress 5.9 New Features
The most important feature that comes in full with WordPress 5.9 is, of course, Full Site Editing (FSE). Many of the 5.9 features are available only when you use a theme that supports FSE. Naturally, one of those themes is Twenty Twenty-Two.
WordPress 5.9 gets us to the center of the Gutenberg Roadmap, namely the Customization phase. That phase is again mostly focused on Full Site editing, Block Patterns, Block Directory, and Block-based themes.
As Matt Mullenweg says, with 5.9, we are at the MVP (the Minimum Viable Product) of this customization phase of Gutenberg. These words are probably the best summarization of the key features of the upcoming WordPress release.