The fourth release candidate for WordPress 7.1 (opens in a new tab) is ready for testing, with the final release day process (opens in a new tab) now documented. Developers can join the upcoming dev chat (opens in a new tab) to help finalise priorities.

Meanwhile, a Social Media Examiner (opens in a new tab) survey shows nearly three-quarters of small businesses now use AI daily, up from a third two years ago. Stripe (opens in a new tab) introduces multicurrency settlement tools to cut FX costs, and Webflow (opens in a new tab) publishes its AI content governance framework. Buffer (opens in a new tab) also launches a macOS app to summarise and queue articles for sharing.