Hey y’all,
Lots of updates since our last email. WP Composer has been renamed to WP Packages and has gotten several improvements — dev-trunk support with SVN revision pinning and a public status page (120k installs in less than a month, thanks y’all for the support 
). We also shipped Acorn v6 (Laravel v13), Vite v8 support across the stack, and a theme.json partials feature in our Vite plugin.
Here’s everything else that’s new:
Recent blog posts
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WP Composer is now WP Packages — Learn why we rebranded
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Roots Vite Plugin Adds Vite v8 Support — Upgrade guide for the move to Vite v8 and laravel-vite-plugin v3
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WooCommerce CSV Exports Are Silently Broken with S3 Uploads — A gotcha when using WooCommerce with S3-based media storage
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Acorn v6 Released — Laravel v13, PHP 8.3 minimum, and an upgrade guide
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WP Packages Now Supports dev-trunk with SVN Revision Pinning — Install development versions of plugins and themes from the WordPress.org SVN repos
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WordPress Plugins That Assume Your Directory Structure — Common issues with plugins that hardcode paths instead of using WordPress functions
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WP Sec Adv: WordPress Security Advisories for Composer — Integrating Wordfence vulnerability data into Composer’s audit system
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WP Packages Now Has a Public Status Page — Monitor uptime and incident history for WP Packages
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Roots Vite Plugin Now Supports theme.json Partials — Split your theme.json into modular partial files
Roots project updates
Acorn v6.0.0 — v6 brings Laravel v13 with PHP 8.3 minimum.
Sage v11.1.0–v11.2.0 — Vite v8 support (v11.1.0) and Acorn v6 / PHP 8.3 minimum (v11.2.0).
Trellis v1.30.0–v1.31.0 — PHP OPcache JIT disabled by default (memory corruption bugs with PHP 8.3), Composer custom-headers authentication, replaced ssmtp with msmtp, and Subversion installed by default for WP Packages dev-trunk support.
Trellis CLI v1.18.0 — Linux support for trellis vm commands via Lima + QEMU with TAP networking.
Vite Plugin v2 — Vite v8 support, theme.json partials, and modular plugin refactor. Replaced ESLint with oxlint/oxfmt.
Radicle v2.5.0–v2.6.0 — Acorn v6 / Laravel v13 / Vite v8 upgrade, Oxfmt and Oxlint for formatting/linting, Mago for PHP formatting/linting.
wp-config v2.0.0-beta.1 — Complete rewrite with a fluent, chainable API and automatic env type coercion. PHP 8.3 minimum. Check out the README for a preview.
New docs
WordPress news
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Query Monitor 4 released — Client-side Preact rendering, new timeline view, zero external dependencies, and a self-contained 100KB bundle
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@wordpress/build — Next-generation plugin build tooling using esbuild, replacing the webpack/Babel pipeline with convention-based bundling
WordPress projects, Composer packages, and community posts
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WP Sec Adv — Composer repository for WordPress security advisories using Wordfence vulnerability data
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WP Org Closed Plugin — Composer plugin that marks packages as abandoned when closed on WordPress.org
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Composer Compatibility Enforcer — MU plugin that removes conflicting namespaces from plugin Composer autoloaders in Bedrock projects
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AI Valve — Control, meter, and permission-gate AI usage from plugins connecting through the WordPress 7 AI connector
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Private Packages (coming soon) — Managed SatisPress alternative for distributing premium WordPress plugins via private Composer repositories (built by @tombro)
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Taxonomist — AI-powered WordPress category taxonomy optimizer
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Superpowers Sage — AI-powered workflow automation agent for the Roots ecosystem
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ACF Options Snapshot Performance — How to reduce SQL queries from 393 to 85 by snapshotting ACF option page data
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Log Viewer for Bedrock/Acorn — Implementing Log Viewer in a Bedrock + Acorn stack
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Veloria — Code search for all WordPress plugins, themes, and core
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