WordPress has made a maintenance update publicly available that contains twenty changes to the core and fixes fifteen issues in the Gutenberg block editor. WordPress also announced that it is dropping security support for WordPress versions 4.1 to 4.6.

No Longer Offers Support for Versions 4.1 to 4.6

As mentioned, WordPress users with older versions, including 4.1 to 4.6, will not receive security updates as they did previously.

WordPress has announced that it will no longer provide support for versions 4.1 through 4.6. According to the official WordPress stats, only 0.9% of websites are using those versions of WordPress. This means that WordPress users should update their websites to the latest version (WordPress 6.8) or an earlier version as soon as possible.

Statement on release page:

“Dropping security updates for WordPress versions 4.1 through 4.6. This is not directly related to the 6.8.2 maintenance release, but branches 4.1 to 4.6 had their final release today. These branches won’t receive any security updates anymore.”

Another WordPress page offers more information:

“As of July 2025, the WordPress Security Team will no longer provide security updates for WordPress versions 4.1 through 4.6.

These versions were first released nine or more years ago, and over 99% of WordPress installations run a more recent version. The chances this will affect your site, or sites, are very small.”

WordPress 6.8.2 Maintenance Release Update

This minor release comprises fixes for 20 Core tickets and 15 Block Editor issues. For a comprehensive list of bug fixes, you can go through the release candidate announcement.