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WordPress 4.5 RC2 The second release candidate for WordPress 4.5 is now available. We’ve made 91 changes since the first release candidate. 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 4.5 on Tuesday, April 12, but we need your help to get there. If you haven’t tested 4.5 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 4.5, 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 4.5, check out the Beta 1, Beta 2, Beta 3, and Beta 4 blog posts. Developers, please test [ more… ]

Contributor Weekend: Global WordPress Translation Day Global WordPress Translation Day is a one-day contributor initiative organised by the WordPress project’s Polyglots team that is dedicated to helping new contributors who would like to translate WordPress in one of the 160 languages WordPress is available in. Global WordPress Translation Day will be on Sunday, April 24th, starting at 0:00 UTC and will go on for 24 hours covering all time zones. What are we doing? Live training: A 24h live streaming of tutorials about translating WordPress in different languages and making your code translatable (30min/1h sessions in different languages including a general instruction and specifics for that particular language). The internationalization sessions will be in English. The sessions will be presented by some of the most experienced WordPress translators and internationalization experts. The Schedule can be found on the website. Local translation contributor days: Groups of [ more… ]

WordPress 4.5 Release Candidate The release candidate for WordPress 4.5 is now available. We’ve made 49 changes 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 4.5 on Tuesday, April 12, but we need your help to get there. If you haven’t tested 4.5 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 4.5, 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 4.5, check out the Beta 1, Beta 2, Beta 3, and Beta 4 blog posts. Developers, please [ more… ]

WordPress 4.5 Beta 4 WordPress 4.5 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 4.5, 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 4.5, check out the Beta 1, Beta 2, and Beta 3 blog posts, along with in-depth field guides on make/core. This is the final planned beta of WordPress 4.5, with a release candidate scheduled for next week. Some of the changes in Beta 4 include: Add support for oEmbed moments and timelines from Twitter (#36197). More changes to better support HHVM with Imagick. Please test with HHVM setups and resizing/rotating images (#35973). Tightened up the Inline Link feature [ more… ]

WordPress 4.5 Beta 3 WordPress 4.5 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 4.5, 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 4.5, 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: Many Theme Logo Support (#33755) fixes, including support for bundled Twenty Fifteen (#35944). Add Responsive Preview to theme install previewer (#36017). Support Imagick in HHVM (#35973). Whitelist IPTC, XMP, and EXIF profiles from strip_meta() to maintain authorship, copyright, license, and image orientation (#28634). Support Windows shares/DFS roots in wp_normalize_path() [ more… ]