The first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 6.0 is now available!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is an important milestone on the 6.0 release cycle journey. \u201cRelease Candidate\u201d means that this version of WordPress is ready for release! Before the official release date, time is set aside for the community to perform final reviews and help test. Since the WordPress ecosystem includes thousands of plugins and themes, it is important that everyone within the WordPress community check to see if anything was missed along the way. That means the project would love your help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WordPress 6.0 is planned for official release on May 24th, 2022, three weeks from today. <\/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 RC1 on a test server and site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can test WordPress 6.0 RC1 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 release candidate version here (zip)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Option 3:<\/strong> When using WP-CLI to upgrade from Beta 1, 2, 3, or 4, on a case-insensitive filesystem, please use the following command: Additional information on the full 6.0 release cycle is available here<\/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 4, various items have been addressed, including (but not limited to): <\/p>\n\n\n\n WordPress 6.0 is the second major release for 2022, following 5.9 which became generally available in January. This release includes nearly 1,000 fixes and enhancements spanning most areas of the WordPress platform. Some key highlights within the content creation and site-building feature sets include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n All plugin and theme developers should test their respective extensions against WordPress 6.0 RC1 and update the \u201cTested up to\u201d<\/em> version in their readme file to 6.0. If you find compatibility problems, please be sure to post detailed information to the support forums<\/a>, so these items can be investigated further prior to the final release date of May 24th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Review the WordPress 6.0 Field Guide<\/a><\/em>, for more details on what\u2019s contained in this release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you speak a language other than English? Help translate WordPress into more than 100 languages.<\/a> This release also marks the hard string freeze<\/a> point of the 6.0 release cycle.<\/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 Release candidate Thank you to the following contributors for collaborating on this post: @<\/span>dansoschin<\/a>, @<\/span>webcommsat<\/a>, and @<\/span>annezazu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WordPress 6.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available for testing! You canwp core update --version=6.0-RC1<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat\u2019s in WordPress 6.0 RC1?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Plugin and Theme Developers<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Translate WordPress<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
How to Help Test WordPress<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nHaiku Fun for RC 1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Our journey nearly done
Get ready, WordPress<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\ndownload and help test RC1 in three ways. You can also help translate WordPress to 100+ languages.<\/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-12799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-releases","tag-6-0","tag-development","tag-releases","mentions-annezazu","mentions-dansoschin","mentions-webcommsat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-3kr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12799","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=12799"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12852,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12799\/revisions\/12852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}