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| May 2025 | Tumblr user cyprozombiegirl alleges transphobic censorship, claiming her account is being unfairly targeted for posts about post-operational neovulva information, despite following platform guidelines. She suggests the platform has undisclosed content moderation practices that disproportionately affect certain users. |
| April 15 2025 | MySQL 9.3.0 reached general availability, showcasing ongoing innovation in the software. |
| April 15 2025 | MySQL version 8.0.42 was released with general availability planned until April 2026. MySQL version 8.4.5 was released with general availability planned until April 2032. |
| April 2025 | WordPress.com launched an AI-driven website creation tool that enables users to build fully functional websites through a conversational interface, targeting entrepreneurs, freelancers, and bloggers seeking an easy way to establish an online presence. |
| April 2025 | Automattic announced layoffs affecting 16% of its workforce, significantly reducing Tumblr staff. |
| April 2 2025 | The company announced a restructuring that resulted in the layoff of 16% of its workforce, or 281 positions. |
| March 10 2025 | During Oracle's Q2 earnings call, Larry Ellison announced that Newfold Digital (Bluehost's parent company) is transitioning to Oracle Cloud to enhance security and performance. |
| January 21 2025 | MySQL version 9.2.0 is planned for release in April 2025. |
| January 9 2025 | Thijs Buijs, representative of the WordPress Sustainability team, resigned via WordPress.org's Slack channel, citing concerns about Mullenweg's leadership. In response, Mullenweg disbanded the sustainability team and closed its Slack channel. |
| January 2025 | Matt Mullenweg stated that the Tumblr backend migration would 'unlock' ActivityPub access, including native support for the company's official ActivityPub plugin for WordPress. |
| 2024 | Announced a scholarship program on the 20th anniversary of WordPress' initial release, targeting children of significant open-source project contributors. |
| 2024 | Mullenweg engaged in a public dispute with a transgender Tumblr user, resulting in the user's ban and subsequent criticism from Tumblr and Automattic employees. |
| 2024 | Acquired Beeper. |
| 2024 | Chalkbeat added Healthbeat to its portfolio of specialized news platforms, further diversifying its news coverage. |
| 2024 | Ahead of the 2024 United States presidential election, Votebeat assembled nearly 100 voting experts in a Slack channel to answer journalists' questions. |
| 2024 | Wisconsin Watch partnered with Votebeat, making Wisconsin the fifth state in its coverage network. |
| 2024 | Tumblr announced the discontinuation of Tumblr Live 24, with options for users to migrate to MeetMe. |
| December 24 2024 | Mullenweg posted on Reddit titled 'What drama should I create in 2025?', which led to criticism from the WordPress Sustainability team. |
| October 2024 |
WooCommerce
W3Techs reported that WooCommerce is used by 9.2% of all websites globally.
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| October 15 2024 | MySQL version 9.1.0 is planned for release in January 2025. |
| September 2024 | Automattic was involved in a trademark dispute with WP Engine, claiming consumer confusion and lack of trademark royalty payments. Over 8 percent of staff resigned after CEO Matt Mullenweg's initial severance offer. |
| September 2024 |
Yoast SEO
Added AI features to automatically improve website SEO performance, marking a significant technological advancement for the company.
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| September 2024 | Matt Mullenweg initiates a dispute with hosting company WP Engine, leading to a lawsuit that causes widespread community concern. |
| September 2024 |
Yoast SEO
Introduced AI features designed to automatically improve website SEO performance.
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| August 2024 | Automattic announced the migration of Tumblr's backend to an architecture derived from WordPress to ease development and code sharing between platforms. |
| July 2024 | Amazon Pay became one of the top 10 UPI apps, accounting for 0.5% of all transactions in the Indian digital payments market. |
| July 23 2024 | MySQL version 9.0.1 is planned for release in October 2024. |
| June 1 2024 | Tumblr scheduled to remove the user tipping feature due to low usage. |
| April 2 2024 | WordPress Regina release, featuring Google Fonts management, Style Book with revision history, enhanced design tools, and new API features. |
| February 2024 | Mullenweg began a three-month sabbatical from his role as CEO of Automattic. |
| February 2024 | The company was reported to begin selling user data from Tumblr and WordPress.com to Midjourney and OpenAI. |
| February 2024 | Automattic announced plans to sell user data from Tumblr and WordPress.com to Midjourney and OpenAI, with users automatically opted-in by default. |
| January 2024 | Tumblr removed Post+ due to low usage. |
| January 16 2024 | MySQL version 8.3.0 was released in April 2024. |
| November 2023 | Most of Tumblr's product development and marketing teams were transferred to other groups within Automattic, with a shift in focus to core functionality and streamlining existing features. |
| November 29 2023 |
Accelerated Mobile Pages
Ghost announced the removal of AMP in a future update, citing reasons including advanced web development, Google no longer using it as a ranking factor, poor user experience, and decreased adoption.
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| October 31 2023 |
WooCommerce
WooCommerce changed its branding to Woo, with Automattic beginning to refer to the brand/company as Woo while maintaining WooCommerce as the open-source e-commerce platform.
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| October 25 2023 | MySQL 5.7.44 and 8.2.0 reached general availability, demonstrating continued evolution of the software. |
| October 25 2023 | MySQL version 5.7.44 was released with general availability in October 2023. Also, MySQL version 8.2.0 was released in October 2023. |
| October 10 2023 | Project Brazen published a story about Indian businessman Gaurav Srivastava, which was subsequently republished on Tumblr with a backdated timestamp. |
| October 8 2023 | A Tumblr account created a backdated post of the Project Brazen story, attempting to predate the original publication. |
| July 2023 | Bluehost launched WonderSuite, an AI-powered site-building guide product. |
| July 18 2023 | MySQL 8.1.0 was released, introducing new features and improvements to the database system. |
| July 18 2023 | MySQL version 8.1.0 was released in October 2023. |
| July 11 2023 | During an AMA, Tumblr's CEO revealed the company was losing $30 million annually. |
| February 2023 | Chalkbeat reorganized under a parent organization called the Civic News Company to clarify its relationship with Votebeat and allow for future growth. |
| 2022 | Mullenweg criticized GoDaddy for insufficient reinvestment in the WordPress project. |
| 2022 | MySQL shipped a final solution to address the 32-bit integer time representation limitation affecting functions beyond 19 January 2038. |
| December 2022 | Tumblr announced a livestreaming service called Tumblr Live, an adapted version of The Meet Group's Livebox. |
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