{"id":13346,"date":"2022-08-30T19:39:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T19:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=13346"},"modified":"2022-11-18T22:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T22:49:54","slug":"wordpress-6-0-2-security-and-maintenance-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2022\/08\/wordpress-6-0-2-security-and-maintenance-release\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 6.0.2 Security and Maintenance Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
WordPress 6.0.2<\/strong> is now available!<\/p>\n\n\n\n This security and maintenance release features 12 bug fixes on Core<\/a>, 5 bug fixes<\/a> for the Block Editor, and 3 security fixes. Because this is a security release<\/strong>, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. All versions since WordPress 3.7 have also been updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WordPress 6.0.2 is a short-cycle release. You can review a summary of the main updates in this release by reading the RC1 announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next major release will be version 6.1<\/a> planned for November 1, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have sites that support automatic background updates, the update process will begin automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can download WordPress 6.0.2 from WordPress.org<\/a>, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click \u201cUpdates\u201d, and then click \u201cUpdate Now\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information on this release, please visit the HelpHub site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The security team would like to thank the following people for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities, and allowing them to be fixed in this release:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The WordPress 6.0.2 release was led by @sergeybiryukov<\/a> and @gziolo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WordPress 6.0.2 would not have been possible without the contributions of more than 50 people. Their asynchronous coordination to deliver several enhancements and fixes into a stable release is a testament to the power and capability of the WordPress community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alex Concha<\/a>, Andrei Draganescu<\/a>, annezazu<\/a>, Anton Vlasenko<\/a>, Ari Stathopoulos<\/a>, Ben Dwyer<\/a>, Carolina Nymark<\/a>, Colin Stewart<\/a>, Darren Coutts<\/a>, Dilip Bheda<\/a>, Dion Hulse<\/a>, eMKey<\/a>, Fabian K\u00e4gy<\/a>, George Mamadashvili<\/a>, Greg Zi\u00f3\u0142kowski<\/a>, huubl<\/a>, ironprogrammer<\/a>, Jb Audras<\/a>, John Blackbourn<\/a>, Jonathan Desrosiers<\/a>, jonmackintosh<\/a>, Jonny Harris<\/a>, Kelly Choyce-Dwan<\/a>, Lena Morita<\/a>, Linkon Miyan<\/a>, Lovro Hrust<\/a>, marybaum<\/a>, Nick Diego<\/a>, Nik Tsekouras<\/a>, Olga Gleckler<\/a>, Pascal Birchler<\/a>, paulkevan<\/a>, Peter Wilson<\/a>, Sergey Biryukov<\/a>, Stephen Bernhardt<\/a>, Teddy Patriarca<\/a>, Timothy Jacobs<\/a>, tommusrhodus<\/a>, Tomoki Shimomura<\/a>, Tonya Mork<\/a>, webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK<\/a>, and zieladam<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WordPress 6.0.2 is now available for download. This security and maintenance release features several updates since WordPress 6.0.1 in July 2022. You can review a summary of the key changes in this release by visiting https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2022\/08\/23\/wordpress-6-0-2-rc1-is-now-available\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18680468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[14,15],"tags":[431,469,437,409],"class_list":["post-13346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","category-security","tag-6-0","tag-6-0-2","tag-minor-releases","tag-releases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-3tg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13346","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=13346"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13420,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13346\/revisions\/13420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Security updates included in this release<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Thank you to these WordPress contributors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n