{"id":12050,"date":"2022-01-18T22:28:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T22:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=12050"},"modified":"2022-01-25T15:51:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T15:51:25","slug":"wordpress-5-9-rc3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2022\/01\/wordpress-5-9-rc3\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 5.9 RC3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The third Release Candidate<\/a> (RC3) for WordPress 5.9<\/a> is here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you to everyone who has contributed thus far toward testing and filing bugs to help make WordPress 5.9 a great release. WordPress 5.9 is slated to land in just<\/strong> one week\u2014on January 25, 2022.<\/strong> You still have time to help! Since RC2 arrived last week, testers have found and fixed two<\/a> bugs, 14 fixes<\/a> from Gutenberg. There has been one additional Gutenberg fix<\/a> today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Testing the release<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You can test the WordPress 5.9 release candidate in three ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Option 1<\/strong>: Install and activate the WordPress Beta Tester<\/a> plugin (select the \u201cBleeding edge\u201d channel and \u201cBeta\/RC Only\u201d stream).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Option 2<\/strong>: Download the beta version here (zip<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Option 3<\/strong>: When using WP-CLI to upgrade from Beta 1, 2, 3, 4, RC1, or RC2 on a case-insensitive filesystem, please use the following command sequence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Command One:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
wp core update --version=5.9-RC3<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Command Two:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
wp core update --version=5.9-RC3 --force<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Your help to test the third Release Candidate is vital: the more testing that happens, the more stable the release, and the better the experience for users, developers, and the WordPress community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you to all contributors who tested the RC2 release<\/a> and gave feedback. Testing for bugs is a critical part of polishing every release and is a great way to contribute to WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How to help<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Help test WordPress 5.9 features<\/a> \u2013 this post provides a guide to set up your testing environment, a list of testable features, and information about how to submit feedback you find as you go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Skilled in languages other than English? Help translate WordPress into more than 100 languages!<\/a> Thanks to every locale that is working on translations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Developers and those interested in more background to the features can find more in the Field Guide<\/a>. You can also follow the 5.9 development cycle<\/a> and timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you have found a bug, you can post the details to the Alpha\/Beta area<\/a> in the support forums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, you can file one on WordPress Trac<\/a>, where you can also check the issue against a list of known bugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For their help in compiling this post, props to <\/em>@<\/span>cbringmann<\/a>, @<\/span>webcommsat<\/a>, <\/em>@<\/span>psykro<\/a>,@<\/span>marybaum<\/a>, @<\/span>chanthaboune<\/a>, @<\/span>davidbaumwald<\/a>, and @<\/span>hellofromtonya<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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