{"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

Security updates included in this release<\/h2>\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