The Roadmap to 7.1, published June 19, 2026, listed AI Client streaming, embeddings, connector authentication work and a Guidelines system. The 7.1 field guide of August 5, 2026 documents none of
Embeddings missed the 7.1 Beta 1 cutoff and are now targeted at WordPress 7.2, per the AI team's contributor summary of August 20, 2026.
The canonical AI plugin shipped 1.2.0 on July 21, 2026 and 1.3.0 on August 18, 2026. User-facing AI features are arriving there, not in core.