{"id":11190,"date":"2021-09-09T03:11:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T03:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=11190"},"modified":"2022-11-18T22:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T22:49:54","slug":"wordpress-5-8-1-security-and-maintenance-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2021\/09\/wordpress-5-8-1-security-and-maintenance-release\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 5.8.1 Security and Maintenance Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
WordPress 5.8.1 is now available!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This security and maintenance release features 60 bug<\/a> fixes<\/a> in addition to 3 security fixes. Because this is a security release<\/strong>, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. All versions since WordPress 5.4 have also been updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WordPress 5.8.1 is a short-cycle security and maintenance release. The next major release will be version 5.9<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can download WordPress 5.8.1 by downloading from WordPress.org, or visit your Dashboard \u2192 Updates and click Update Now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have sites that support automatic background updates, they\u2019ve already started the update process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3 security issues affect WordPress versions between 5.4 and 5.8. If you haven\u2019t yet updated to 5.8, all WordPress versions since 5.4 have also been updated to fix the following security issues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to these issues, the security team would like to thank the following people for reporting vulnerabilities during the WordPress 5.8 beta testing period, allowing them to be fixed prior to release:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you to all of the reporters for privately disclosing the vulnerabilities<\/a>. This gave the WordPress security team time to fix the vulnerabilities before WordPress sites could be attacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, browse the full list of changes<\/a> on Trac, or check out the version 5.8.1 HelpHub documentation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 5.8.1 release was led by Jonathan Desrosiers<\/a> and Evan Mullins<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to the security researchers and release squad members mentioned above, thank you to everyone who helped make WordPress 5.8.1 happen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n WordPress 5.8.1 is now available! This security and maintenance release features 60 bug fixes in addition to 3 security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. All versions since WordPress 5.4 have also been updated. WordPress 5.8.1 is a short-cycle security and maintenance release. The next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4552240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[437],"class_list":["post-11190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","category-security","tag-minor-releases","mentions-mdawaffe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-2Uu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4552240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11190"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12501,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190\/revisions\/12501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Security Updates<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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