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WordPress 5.1 “Betty”

WordPress 5.1 RC2

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WordPress 5.1 Release Candidate

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WordPress 5.1 Beta 3

WordPress 5.1 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 to play with the new version.

There are two ways to test the WordPress 5.1 beta: try the WordPress Beta Testerplugin (you’ll want to select the “bleeding edge nightlies” option), or you can download the beta here (zip).

WordPress 5.1 is slated for release on February 21, and we need your help to get there!

Site Health Check

One of the features originally slated for WordPress 5.1—the PHP error protection handler—will target WordPress 5.2 instead. Some potential security issues were discovered in the implementation: rather than risk releasing insecure code, the team decided to pull it out of WordPress 5.1. The work in #46130 is showing good progress towards addressing the security concerns, if you’d like to follow development progress on this feature.

Additional Changes

A handful of smaller bugs have also been fixed in this release, including:

• TinyMCE has been upgraded to version 4.9.2 (#46094).
• The block editor has had a couple of bugs fixed (#46137).
• A few differences in behaviour between the classic block and the classic editor have been fixed (#46062, #46071, #46085).
• When adding rel attributes to links, ensure the value isn’t empty (#45352), and that it works as expected with customizer changesets (#45292).

Developer Notes

WordPress 5.1 has many changes aimed at polishing the developer experience. To keep you informed, we publish developers’ notes on the Make WordPress Core blog throughout the release cycle. Subscribe to the Make WordPress Core blog for updates over the coming weeks, detailing other changes in 5.1 that you should be aware of.

How to Help

Do you speak a language other than English? Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages! The beta 2 release also marks the soft string freeze point of the 5.1 release schedule.

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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In just a few weeks
WordPress Five-One will be here.
Your testing helps us!

WordPress 5.1 Beta 3 was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2019/01/wordpress-5-1-beta-3/

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WordPress 5.1 Beta 2

WordPress 5.1 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 to play with the new version.

There are two ways to test the WordPress 5.1 beta: try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want to select the “bleeding edge nightlies” option), or you can download the beta here (zip).

WordPress 5.1 is slated for release on February 21, and we need your help to get there!

Over 110 tickets have been closed since beta 1, many of which are documentation and testing suite improvements. Here are the major changes and bug fixes:

• Several refinements and bug fixes related to the Site Health project have been made.
• The pre_render_block and render_block_data filters have been introduced allowing plugins to override block attribute values (#45451, dev note coming soon).
• get_template_part() will now return a value indicating whether a template file was found and loaded (#40969).
• A notice will now be triggered when developers incorrectly register REST API endpoints (related dev note).
• Bulk editing posts will no longer unintentionally change a post’s post format (#44914)
• Twemoji has been updated to the latest version, 11.2.0 (#45133).
• A bug preventing the Custom Fields meta box from being enabled has been fixed (#46028).
• The treatment of orderby values for post__in, post_parent__in, and post_name__in has been standardized (#38034).
• When updating language packs, old language packs are now correctly deleted to avoid filling up disk space (#45468).

Developer Notes

WordPress 5.1 has many changes aimed at polishing the developer experience. To keep you informed, we publish developers notes on the Make WordPress Core blog throughout the release cycle. Subscribe to the Make WordPress Core blog for updates over the coming weeks, detailing other changes in 5.1 that you should be aware of.

How to Help

Do you speak a language other than English? Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages! The beta 2 release als marks the soft string freeze point of the 5.1 release schedule.

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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Do you enjoy bugs?
I don’t. So, we fixed them all.
Well, not all. But close.

WordPress 5.1 Beta 2 was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2019/01/wordpress-5-1-beta-2/