Today there was a post on WordPress.org’s Make WordPress Core Blog called Introducing Twenty Nineteen that introduced some information about the upcoming default WordPress theme Twenty Nineteen that will possibly be released late November 2018 unless it gets held back to be worked on some more:
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/16/introducing-twenty-nineteen/
After what felt like half a year the free default WordPress theme Twenty Seventeen has finally been released on WordPress.com over Four (4) months late, which as far as I know is the longest that it has ever taken for a default WordPress theme to be released on WordPress.com after it had already been released on WordPress.org, but I could be wrong.
The Twenty Seventeen theme is probably the first free WordPress.com theme to ever have a video header option.
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