{"id":12787,"date":"2022-05-02T16:46:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T16:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=12787"},"modified":"2022-05-02T18:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T18:33:36","slug":"wordpress-6-0-beta-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2022\/05\/wordpress-6-0-beta-4\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 6.0 Beta 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
WordPress 6.0 Beta 4 is now available for testing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beta 4 was not part of the originally published development cycle. It is aimed at providing an opportunity for testing some specific issues that were resolved since Beta 3. WordPress will continue with the regularly scheduled release milestones on May 3rd, 2022, with the RC1 release.<\/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 4 on a test server and site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can test WordPress 6.0 Beta 4 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>Direct download the beta version here (zip)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Option 3:<\/strong> Use WP-CLI to test: wp core update –version=6.0-beta4. The current target for the final 6.0 release is May 24, 2022, which is in less than a month! <\/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 Since Beta 3, various items have been addressed, including (but not limited to):\u00a0<\/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 to WordPress. If you are new to testing, check out this detailed guide<\/a> that will walk you through how to get started.<\/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 Beta four, surprise! Thank you to the following contributors for collaborating on this post: WordPress 6.0 Beta 4 is now available for testing! You can download and help test Beta 4 in three ways.<\/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":[431,184,409],"class_list":["post-12787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-releases","tag-6-0","tag-development","tag-releases","mentions-annezazu","mentions-costdev","mentions-dansoschin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-3kf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12787","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=12787"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12797,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12787\/revisions\/12797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Do not use this option if your filesystem is case-insensitive.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nExplore What\u2019s in Beta 4<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How to Help<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAnother Haiku, Just for You<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Iterating all day long
Time to share and test<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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@<\/span>dansoschin<\/a>, @<\/span>annezazu<\/a>, and @<\/span>costdev<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"