On June 5, 2026, Matt Mullenweg published “Protect The Shire” on the WordPress.org news blog, announcing that every new plugin release in the official directory will wait up to 24 hours before being distributed through auto-updates. The change applies by default to the 61,000+ plugins hosted in the directory; the post’s tl;dr summary also references theme releases under … Continue reading Protect The Shire: WordPress Adds a 24-Hour Default Delay to Plugin Auto-Updates