Version 5.4.0 Changes
2024/11/08:
Background
In September I had no intention of creating v5.4 at all; v6.0 was nearly ready for public Beta testing and I was 100% focused on that.
Then in October and seemingly out of nowhere, the WP vs. WPE drama started. For a while it looked like anything with "WP" in the name was at risk, so I paused work on v6.0 and started building v5.4 - just in case.
Although it turned out that an emergency release wasn't needed, the WordPress environment is now fundamentally and permanently different.
The changes in v5.4 directly address the new reality. <Read more>