Transitioning To Rulesets In The Gutenberg Repository

As of ~16:00UTC today (8 July 2026), all rules configured to enforce the desired contributor workflows and quality requirements in the Gutenberg repository have been converted from branch protection rules to repository rulesets. This was done to fix a broken step in the plugin release process where the GitHub app responsible for pushing version bump commits to trunk was unable to do so.

This post was originally published on Make Core by Jonathan Desrosiers.

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