WordPress Core Release Roadmap Sets React 19 Upgrade

Originally published at https://monstermegs.com/blog/wordpress-core-release/ WordPress just gave site owners its clearest signal yet about where the platform is heading, and the headline is a big one. On June 19, 2026, the core team published the roadmap for version 7.1, confirming that the next WordPress core release will ship on August 19, 2026, built on a full upgrade from React 18 to React 19. For software that runs a huge slice of the internet, a framework jump of that size is not quiet hou