WordPress shipped 34 commits on master this week, mostly around the 7.1 alpha line tracked in version.php. The meaningful work for data and platform engineers sits in three clusters: a maturing Abilities API with REST query filters, a new View Config endpoint for admin list views, and tighter content sanitization in the KSES and excerpt paths.

Drupal core activity this week focused on scaling the data layer for large field sets and improving the developer experience with a new CLI entry point. These changes address both low level database limits and high level operational workflows.

WordPress is standardizing the data contracts for the Abilities API by moving toward standard JSON Schema draft 04 compatibility. This shift improves how JavaScript clients validate capability data and continues the broader project effort to modernize the core PHP code base.

Drupal continues to refine its core data handling and performance characteristics through a series of significant updates to its SQL entity query implementation and cache management systems. Recent activity in the repository highlights a focused effort to reduce overhead in routing and file parsing while improving the efficiency of complex database joins for entity retrieval.