WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” has been released, with 62 rtCampers contributing to the update. This continues our streak for the 36th consecutive WordPress release.

A big thank you to Aakash Verma, Abhishek Kumar, Aditya Singh, Akshat Kakkad, Ankit Kumar Shah, Arkaprabha Chowdhury, David Levine, Deepak Kumar, Deepak Prajapati, Devanshi Joshi, Devasheesh Kaul, Dhruvik Malaviya, Eshaan Dabasiya, Gautam Mehta, Hilay Trivedi, Himanshu Pathak, Hit Bhalodia, Ishita Jagtap, Karthikeya Bethu, Khushal Sain S, Kushagra Goyal, Lakshyajeet Singh Goyal, Mayank Tripathi, Dev Mehta, Milind More, Mohammed Noumaan Ahamed, Mustafa Bharmal, Naman Khare, Nani Samireddy, Nirav Sherasiya, Prachi Garg, Pranjal Pratap Singh, Pranjal Wadhwani, Prasad Karmalkar, Rishabh Gupta, Rishit Gupta, Rithesh S, Rohit Mathur, Rutvik Savsani, Sainath Poojary, Saksham Sharma, Sanket Parmar, Sarthak Nagoshe, Shreya Shrivastava, Shreyas Ikhar, Sidhant Tomar, Sneha Patil, Soham Patel, Sourav Pahwa, Sukhendu Sekhar Guria, Suryakant Upadhyay, Swanand Mathekar, Takshil Kunadia, Tushar Bharti, Umesh Nevase, Utsav Patel, Utsav Ladani, Vedant Ere, Vedant Gandhi, Vrishabh Jasani, Yash Jawale, and Yogesh Bhutkar for their contributions to this release.

WordPress 7.1 adds responsive styling, custom breakpoints in theme.json, hover, focus, and active states for Button blocks. The admin bar now stays visible across every editor, and a media editor modal handles cropping, flipping, and rotation. New Audio Playlist and Tabs blocks ship alongside Notes with rich text and mentions, in-browser image processing, and a public SVG Icon API.

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