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Velocity5.0

Appointment booking and scheduling plugin for WordPress

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A relentless patch train with a changelog that never says what shipped.

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◆Current state
LatePoint has pushed ten releases in six weeks, moving the core WordPress plugin from 5.6.3 to 5.6.10 while the paid Pro Features addon tracked it from 1.6.1 to 1.6.4. Alongside the core train, the Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar addons now ship on their own version lines. The feed itself carries almost no detail: bodies list only the change categories (New, Improvements, Fixes, Security) with no description of what actually changed for a site owner.
◆Where it's heading
The release surface is fragmenting into separately versioned pieces: core, a paid feature addon locked to core, and per-provider calendar integrations patching on their own schedule. Security shows up in four of the last ten releases, which reads as a routine line item rather than an incident response. The direction is broader integration coverage maintained at patch cadence, not new capability visible in the changelog.
◆Prediction
Expect 5.6.11 with a matching Pro Features 1.6.5 within a couple of weeks, and the calendar addons continuing to patch independently. What those releases contain cannot be predicted from this feed, because the entries never say.

◆Recent moves

  1. 13d ago

    Outlook Calendar addon 1.1.1: fix-only patch

    A fix-only patch to the Outlook Calendar addon, which now runs on its own version line separate from the core plugin. The entry lists a fix without describing it, consistent with the rest of this feed.

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  2. 14d ago

    Google Calendar addon 1.6.1: fix-only patch

    The Google Calendar addon takes a fix-only patch a day before its Outlook counterpart. The pairing shows the two calendar integrations are being maintained in parallel on independent tracks.

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  3. 15d ago

    Core 5.6.10 and Pro Features 1.6.4: additions, fixes, security

    Core 5.6.10 ships with Pro Features 1.6.4 in lockstep, carrying new items, fixes and security work. It continues the pattern of the paid addon versioning in step with core rather than on its own cycle.

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  4. 29d ago

    Core 5.6.9 and Pro Features 1.6.3: additions and fixes

    Another paired core-and-Pro release, this one covering new items, improvements and fixes. Two weeks separate it from 5.6.10, the widest gap in the current train.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Core 5.6.8: additions, improvements, fixes and security

    A core-only release spanning all four change categories, including security. It lands without a matching Pro Features bump, showing the lockstep is frequent but not absolute.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Core 5.6.7: fixes and security only

    A maintenance patch limited to fixes and security, three days after 5.6.6. It is the kind of release that makes the cadence look faster than the feature surface is actually moving.

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