There have been 36 major versions of WordPress released since the platform’s inception.  WordPress’ open-source style development ensures the newest and best-performing plugins and themes. Here are some facts that will help you keep an eye when the next update will happen: 

• Major versions of WordPress get released every 152 days on the average. 
• WordPress gets the most of its downloads on Wednesdays, while Fridays are the least popular. 
• 22% of WordPress sites are running on the latest version of WordPress. 
• WordPress 5.2 has been downloaded nearly 37 million times already. 
• WordPress 5.x is used by 58.3% of all WordPress websites, while WordPress 4.x is still used by 39.2%.
• 56 – the number of official translations of WordPress. 
• WordPress 4.1 features 394,243 lines of code (96,924 of those lines are comments.). In comparison with the previous major release, 17,599 lines were added. 
• Around 21% of the whole WordPress code are comments. 

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