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WordPress 5.0.2 Maintenance Release

WordPress 5.0.2 is now available!

5.0.2 is a maintenance release that addresses 73 bugs. The primary focus of this release was performance improvements in the block editor: the cumulated performance gains make it 330% faster for a post with 200 blocks.

Here are a few of the additional highlights:

• 45 total Block Editor improvements are included (14 performance enhancements & 31 bug fixes).
• 17 Block Editor related bugs have been fixed across all of the bundled themes.
• Some internationalization (i18n) issues related to script loading have also been fixed.

For a full list of changes, please consult the list of tickets on Trac or the changelog.

You can download WordPress 5.0.2 or visit Dashboard → Updates and click Update Now. Sites that support automatic background updates have already started to update automatically.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to WordPress 5.0.2:

Alexander Babaev, Alex Kirk, allancole, Andrea Fercia, Andrew Ozz, Anton Timmermans, David Binovec, David Trower, Dominik Schilling, Eduardo Pittol, Gary Pendergast, Greg Raven, gziolo, herregroen, iCaleb, Jb Audras, Joen Asmussen, John Blackbourn, Jonathan Desrosiers, khleomix, kjellr, laurelfulford, Jeff Paul, mihaivalentin, Milan Dinić, Muntasir Mahmud, Pascal Birchler, Pratik K. Yadav, Riad Benguella, Rich Tabor, strategio, Subrata Sarkar, tmatsuur, TorontoDigits, Ulrich, Vaishali Panchal, volodymyrkolesnykov, Weston Ruter, Yui, ze3kr, and のむらけい.

WordPress 5.0.2 Maintenance Release was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2018/12/wordpress-5-0-2-maintenance-release/

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WordPress 5.0.1 Security Release

WordPress 5.0.1 is now available. This is a security release for all versions since WordPress 3.7. We strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.

Plugin authors are encouraged to read the 5.0.1 developer notes for information on backwards-compatibility.

WordPress versions 5.0 and earlier are affected by the following bugs, which are fixed in version 5.0.1. Updated versions of WordPress 4.9 and older releases are also available, for users who have not yet updated to 5.0.

• Karim El Ouerghemmi discovered that authors could alter meta data to delete files that they weren’t authorized to.
• Simon Scannell of RIPS Technologies discovered that authors could create posts of unauthorized post types with specially crafted input.
• Sam Thomas discovered that contributors could craft meta data in a way that resulted in PHP object injection.
• Tim Coen discovered that contributors could edit new comments from higher-privileged users, potentially leading to a cross-site scripting vulnerability.
• Tim Coen also discovered that specially crafted URL inputs could lead to a cross-site scripting vulnerability in some circumstances. WordPress itself was not affected, but plugins could be in some situations.
• Team Yoast discovered that the user activation screen could be indexed by search engines in some uncommon configurations, leading to exposure of email addresses, and in some rare cases, default generated passwords.
• Tim Coen and Slavco discovered that authors on Apache-hosted sites could upload specifically crafted files that bypass MIME verification, leading to a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Thank you to all of the reporters for privately disclosing the vulnerabilities, which gave us time to fix them before WordPress sites could be attacked.

Download WordPress 5.0.1, or venture over to Dashboard → Updates and click Update Now. Sites that support automatic background updates are already beginning to update automatically.

In addition to the security researchers mentioned above, thank you to everyone who contributed to WordPress 5.0.1:

Alex Shiels, Alex Concha, Anton Timmermans, Andrew Ozz, Aaron Campbell, Andrea Middleton, Ben Bidner, Barry Abrahamson, Chris Christoff, David Newman, Demitrious Kelly, Dion Hulse, Hannah Notess, Gary Pendergast, Herre Groen, Ian Dunn, Jeremy Felt, Joe McGill, John James Jacoby, Jonathan Desrosiers, Josepha Haden, Joost de Valk, Mo Jangda, Nick Daugherty, Peter Wilson, Pascal Birchler, Sergey Biryukov, and Valentyn Pylypchuk.

WordPress 5.0.1 Security Release was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2018/12/wordpress-5-0-1-security-release/

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WordPress 5.0 “Bebo”

WordPress 5.0 RC3

The third release candidate for WordPress 5.0 is now available!

WordPress 5.0 will be released on December 6, 2018. This is a big release and needs your help—if you haven’t tried 5.0 yet, now is the time!

To test WordPress 5.0, you can use the WordPress Beta Tester plugin or you can download the release candidate here (zip).

For details about what to expect in WordPress 5.0, please see the first release candidate post.

This release candidate includes a fix for some scripts not loading on subdirectory installs (#45469), and user locale settings not being loaded in the block editor (#45465). Twenty Nineteen has also had a couple of minor tweaks.

Plugin and Theme Developers

Please test your plugins and themes against WordPress 5.0 and update the Tested up to version in the readme to 5.0. If you find compatibility problems, please be sure to post to the support forums so we can figure those out before the final release. An in-depth field guide to developer-focused changes is coming soon on the core development blog. In the meantime, you can review the developer notes for 5.0.

How to Help

Do you speak a language other than English? Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages! 

If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. We’d love to hear from you! If you’re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, file one on WordPress Trac, where you can also find a list of known bugs.

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WordPress 5.0 RC3 was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2018/12/wordpress-5-0-rc3/

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