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The release candidate for WordPress 4.6 is now available.

We’ve made a few refinements since releasing Beta 4 a week ago. RC means we think we’re done, but with millions of users and thousands of plugins and themes, it’s possible we’ve missed something. We hope to ship WordPress 4.6 on Tuesday, August 16, but we need your help to get there.

If you haven’t tested 4.6 yet, now is the time!

Think you’ve found a bug? Please post to the Alpha/Beta support forum. If any known issues come up, you’ll be able to find them here.

To test WordPress 4.6, you can use the WordPress Beta Tester plugin or you can download the release candidate here (zip).

For more information about what’s new in version 4.6, check out the Beta 1, Beta 2, Beta 3, and Beta 4 blog posts.

Developers, please test your plugins and themes against WordPress 4.6 and update your plugin’s Tested up to version in the readme to 4.6. If you find compatibility problems please be sure to post to the support forums so we can figure those out before the final release – we never want to break things.

Be sure to read the in-depth field guide, a post with all the developer-focused changes that take place under the hood.

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Happy testing!

Der Sommer ist da,
Zeit für ein neues Release.
Bald ist es soweit.

WordPress 4.6 Beta 4 is now available!

This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.6, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip).

For more information on what’s new in 4.6, check out the Beta 1, Beta 2, and Beta 3 blog posts, along with in-depth field guides. This is the final planned beta of WordPress 4.6, with a release candidate scheduled for next week.

Some of the fixes in Beta 4 include:

• Media: alt attributes are now always added to images inserted from URLs (#36735).
• Object subtype handling has been removed from register_meta(). Details about this change are explained in a post for developers.
• Resource hints are now limited to enqueued assets (#37385).
• A regression with query alterations introduced by the new WP_Term_Query has been fixed (#37378).
• The Ajax searches for installed and new plugins have been enhanced to fix several accessibility issues and to improve compatibility with older browsers. (#37233, #37373)
• The media player MediaElement.js has been updated to 2.22.0 to fix YouTube video embeds (#37363).
• The Import screen was overhauled, improving accessibility and making it much easier to install and run an importer (#35191).
• Emoji support has been updated to include all of the latest Unicode 9 emoji characters (#37361). 🤠🥕🥓🕺🏽🤝🏿
• Various bug fixes. We’ve made more than 60 changes during the last week.

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If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. Or, if you’re comfortable writing a bug report, file one on the WordPress Trac. There, you can also find a list of known bugs and everything we’ve fixed.

Happy testing!

This is Beta 4,
The last before RC 1.
Please test all the things.

WordPress 4.6 Beta 3 is now available!

This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.6, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip).

For more information on what’s new in 4.6, check out the Beta 1 and Beta 2 blog posts, along with in-depth field guides on make/core. Some of the fixes in Beta 3 include:

• Revisions: Autosaves can now be restored when revisions are disabled (#36262).
• An improved handling of PHP’s memory limit which doesn’t lower the limit anymore (#32075).
• TinyMCE has been updated to 4.4.0 (#37327).
• HTTP API: Proxy settings weren’t honored by the new HTTP library. This has been fixed (#37107).
• Improved handling of UTF-8 address headers for emails (#21659).
• Various bug fixes. We’ve made more than 65 changes during the last week.

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If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. Or, if you’re comfortable writing a bug report, file one on the WordPress Trac. There, you can also find a list of known bugs and everything we’ve fixed.

Happy testing!

Beta 3 is here,
The more testing, the better.
Gotta catch ‘em all!

WordPress 4.6 Beta 2 is now available!

This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.6, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip).

Notable changes since WordPress 4.6 Beta 1:

• Meta: The fallback authentication for the previous registration method has been restored. Also, retrieving registered metadata now works and non-core object types are no longer forcibly blocked. See #35658.
• REST API: The order of setting sanitization and validation has been reversed; validation now occurs prior to sanitization. Previously, the sanitization callback ran before the validation callback. See #37192.
• Customize: The order of setting sanitization and validation has been reversed; validation now occurs prior to sanitization. See #37247.
• HTTP API: WP_Http::request() returns an array again. See #37097.
• Various bug fixes. We’ve made just over 50 changes in the last week.

For more of what’s new in version 4.6, check out the Beta 1 blog post.

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If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. Or, if you’re comfortable writing a bug report, file one on the WordPress Trac. There, you can also find a list of known bugs and everything we’ve fixed.

Happy testing!

Teenage Beta 2
Thirteen years of pressing words
Rejoice with testing!