Latest news: the new gTLD Guidebook was adopted

Just in case you missed:

1. The ICANN84 Governmental Advisory Committee Communiqué Now Available. 12 very exciting pages to read and even more exciting starting page 6 of the PDF (the rest is a transcript):
1. Applicant Support Program Implementation and New gTLD Next Round Outreach.
2. Additional Fee for Evaluation of Geographic Names During the Next Round of New gTLDs.
3. Latin Script Diacritics.
4. IGO Protections.
2. The ICANN Board just "adopted" the next round Applicant Guidebook (also called the "AGB"),
3. ICANN Request for Proposal: New gTLD Program: 2026 Round Background Screening Services,
4. ICANN Request for Proposal: Evaluator Panels for String Similarity and Variant Strings for the new gTLD Program: 2026 Round,
5. Collaboration Key to Delivering ICANN’s New gTLD Applicant Guidebook.

There is a new "Quick links" pages on the ICANN website here.