WordPress 6.0 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This version of the WordPress software is under development<\/strong>. Please do not install, run, and test this version of WordPress on a production or mission-critical website. Instead, it is recommended that you test Beta 1 on a test server and site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can test the WordPress 6.0 Beta 1 in three ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The current target for the final release is May 24, 2022, which is about six weeks away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional information on the full 6.0 release cycle is available<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Check the Make WordPress Core blog<\/a> for 6.0-related developer notes<\/a> in the coming weeks which will detail all upcoming changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Testing for issues is critical for stabilizing a release throughout its development. Testing is also a great way to contribute. If you have never tested a beta release before, this detailed guide<\/a> will walk you through how to get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Testing helps make sure that this and future releases of WordPress are as stable and issue-free as possible. And anyone can do it \u2013 especially great WordPress community members just like you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Want to know more about testing releases like this one? Read about the testing initiatives<\/a> that happen in Make Core. You can also join a publicly-accessible channel<\/a> on the Making WordPress Slack workspace<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you think you have run into an issue, please report it to the Alpha\/Beta area<\/a> in the support forums. If you are comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, you can file one on WordPress Trac<\/a>. This is also where you can find a list of known bugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To review features in the Gutenberg releases since WordPress 5.9 (the most recent major release of WordPress), access the What\u2019s New In Gutenberg<\/em> posts for 13.0 (release pending), 12.9<\/a>, 12.8<\/a>, 12.7<\/a>, 12.6<\/a>, 12.5<\/a>, 12.4<\/a>, 12.3<\/a>, 12.2<\/a>, 12.1<\/a>, and 12.0<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Beyond the noted changes, which include more than 400 updates and 500 bug fixes for the editor, contributors have fixed 189 tickets for the WordPress 6.0<\/a> core, including 91 new features and enhancements<\/a>. More fixes are on the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Want to know what\u2019s new in version 6.0? Read on for some highlights.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The WordPress 6.0 release will be packed with all kinds of improvements. Here are just a few:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you to the following contributors for collaborating on this post: @<\/span>annezazu<\/a>, @<\/span>chanthaboune<\/a>, @<\/span>marybaum<\/a>, @<\/span>priethor<\/a>, and @<\/span>webcommsat<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WordPress 6.0 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18680468,"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":[5,14],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-12644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-releases","tag-6-0","mentions-annezazu","mentions-chanthaboune","mentions-marybaum","mentions-priethor","mentions-webcommsat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-3hW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644","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\/18680468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12644"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12682,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions\/12682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}wp core update --version=6.0-beta1<\/code>.
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