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To get this version, update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area or visit https:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/release-archive\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For step-by-step instructions on installing and updating WordPress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are new to WordPress, we recommend that you begin with the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3 security issues affect WordPress versions between 3.7 and 5.8. If you haven\u2019t yet updated to 5.8, all WordPress versions since 3.7 have also been updated to fix the following security issues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you to all of the reporters for privately disclosing the vulnerabilities<\/a>. This gave the security team time to fix the vulnerabilities before WordPress sites could be attacked. Thank you to the members of the WordPress security team for implementing these fixes in WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, browse the full list of changes on Trac<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This version of WordPress was led by Jonathan Desrosiers<\/a> and Evan Mullins<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On January 6, 2022, WordPress 5.5.8 was released to the public. Installation\/Update Information To get this version, update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area or visit https:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/release-archive\/. For step-by-step instructions on installing and updating WordPress: Updating WordPress If you are new to WordPress, we recommend that you begin with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","helphub_major_release":[66],"class_list":["post-15222935","helphub_version","type-helphub_version","status-publish","hentry","helphub_major_release-5-5"],"revision_note":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wordpress-versions\/15222935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wordpress-versions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/helphub_version"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wordpress-versions\/15222935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15222935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"helphub_major_release","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/helphub_major_release?post=15222935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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