- Plugins removed;
- Akismet – never used, comments handled by third party services.
- DCT WordPress Editorial Calendar – no longer used.
- Elas – to be replaced by ElasticPress. No longer compatible with Elasticsearch 5.x.x and above.
- ESIO3 XMLServices – no longer used, GN3 integration no longer required.
- Mail From – no longer needed and has been removed from WordPress.org Plugin Directory.
- The Events Calendar – known to cause significant performance issues and is incompatible with ElasticPress.
- The Events Calendar: Community Events
- The Events Calendar: iCal importer
- The Events Calendar PRO
- Syndicate Importer – Press Association have moved to a new REST API system.
- WordPress Editorial Calendar – no longer in use.
- Clean-up statistics;
- 33MB of files removed from git.
- 2,297 files removed.
- 883,093 lines of code removed.
PR : https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/872