It has been months in the making. Issues opened, and issues resolved. Hundreds of collaborators, working on a single project to bring out the best of it. Most importantly, a production-ready system came out of it. WordPress 5.0 is finally released.
During the past few months, we have been patiently observing WordPress developing to become the fully-fledged Content Management System that it is today. Patience was rewarded on December 6, when the fifth major version was released into the wild.