WordPress 3.6 Beta 2 is now available!
This is software still in development and?we really?don’t recommend that you run it on a production site?— set up a test site just to play with the new version.?To test WordPress 3.6, try the?WordPress Beta Tester?plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can?download the beta here?(zip).
The longer-than-usual delay between beta 1 and beta 2 was due to poor user testing results with the Post Formats UI. Beta 2 contains a modified approach for format choosing and switching, which has done well in user testing. We’ve also made the Post Formats UI hide-able via Screen Options, and set a reasonable default based on what your theme supports.
There were a lot of bug fixes and polishing tweaks done for beta 2 as well, so definitely check it out if you had an issues with beta 1.
Plugin developers, theme developers, and WordPress hosts should be testing beta 2 extensively. The more you test the beta, the more stable our release candidates and our final release will be.
As always, 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 reproducible bug report,?file one on the WordPress Trac. There, you can also find?a list of known bugs?and?everything we’ve fixed?so far.
We’re looking forward to your feedback.?If you find a bug, please report it, and if you’re a developer, try to help us fix it.?We’ve already had more than 150 contributors to version 3.6 — it’s not too late to join in!