WordPress 6.0 is scheduled for release next week on May 24, 2022! This RC3 release is the final opportunity for you to test and help contribute to making the 6.0 release great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can view changes since the RC2 release via Gutenberg<\/a> and Trac<\/a>.<\/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 production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommended that you install RC3 on a test server and site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can test WordPress 6.0 RC3 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 (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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n All plugin and theme developers are encouraged to complete testing of their respective extensions against WordPress 6.0 RC3 and update the \u201cTested up to\u201d<\/em> version in their readme file to 6.0 this week. 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 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Review the WordPress 6.0 Field Guide<\/em><\/a>, for more details on this release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Review additional information on the full 6.0 release cycle<\/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 upcoming changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you speak a language other than English? Help translate WordPress into more than 100 languages.<\/a><\/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 It\u2019s near time for six Thank you to the following contributors for collaborating on this post: @<\/span>dansoschin<\/a>, @<\/span>webcommsat<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WordPress 6.0 Release Candidate 3 is now available for testing! You can\u00a0download and help test RC3 in three ways. 6.0 is planned for general release on May 24, 2022.<\/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-12866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-releases","tag-6-0","tag-development","tag-releases","mentions-dansoschin","mentions-webcommsat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-3lw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12866","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=12866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12868,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12866\/revisions\/12868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Installing RC3<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
wp core update --version=6.0-RC3<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nPlugin 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\nRC3, An (Almost) Final Haiku<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The reward is the journey
Just one week to go<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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