WordPress.org now distrusts my commits by default. As a plugin author, I think that’s right. (opens in new tab)

I committed a new version of my plugin to SVN and got a message I hadn’t seen before: this version will reach sites in about 24 hours. My first thought was that I’d broken something. I hadn’t. What changed isn’t on my side at all. The system that distributes my plugin stopped trusting my commit by default, and the more I sat with that, the more I agreed with it. Here’s the part that matters, and it isn’t “updates are slower now.” The hold, in one line Since June 5, 2026, WordPress.org holds n...