I’m excited to announce the availability of WordPress 3.5 Beta 1.<\/p>\n
This is software still in development and\u00a0we really<\/em>\u00a0don\u2019t recommend that you run it on a production site<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 set up a test site just to play with the new version.\u00a0To test WordPress 3.5, try the\u00a0WordPress Beta Tester<\/a>\u00a0plugin (you\u2019ll want \u201cbleeding edge nightlies\u201d). Or you can\u00a0download the beta here<\/a>\u00a0(zip).<\/p>\n In just three short months, we’ve already made a few hundred changes to improve your WordPress experience.\u00a0The biggest thing we’ve been working on is overhauling the media experience from the ground up. We’ve made it all fair game: How you upload photos, arrange galleries, insert images into posts, and more. It’s still rough around the edges and some pieces are missing \u2014 which means now is the\u00a0perfect<\/em> time to test it out, report issues, and help shape our headline feature.<\/p>\n As always, if you think you\u2019ve found a bug, you can post to the\u00a0Alpha\/Beta area<\/a>\u00a0in the support forums. Or, if you\u2019re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report,\u00a0file one on the WordPress Trac<\/a>. There, you can also find\u00a0a list of known bugs<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0everything we’ve fixed<\/a>\u00a0so far.<\/p>\n Here’s some more of what’s new:<\/p>\n Developers:\u00a0<\/strong>We love you. We do. And one of the things we strive to do with every release is be compatible with all existing plugins and themes. To make sure we don’t break anything, we need your help. Please,\u00a0please test your plugins and themes against 3.5.<\/strong> If something isn’t quite right, please let us know. (Chances are, it wasn’t intentional.) And despite all of the changes to media, we’re still aiming to be backwards compatible with plugins that make changes to the existing media library. It’s a tall task, and it means we need your help.<\/p>\n Here’s some more things we think developers will enjoy (and should test their plugins and themes against):<\/p>\n We’re looking forward to your feedback.\u00a0If you break it (find a bug), please report it, and if you\u2019re a developer, try to help us fix it.\u00a0We’ve already had more than 200 contributors to version 3.5 \u2014 come join us!<\/p>\n\n
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3.5.6<\/del> 3.5.7. SimplePie 1.3<\/del> 1.3.1. jQuery 1.8.2<\/del> 1.8.3. jQuery UI 1.9 (and it’s not even released yet)<\/del> 1.9.2. We’ve also added Backbone 0.9.2 and Underscore 1.3.3<\/del> 1.4.2, and you can use protocol-relative links when enqueueing scripts and styles. (#16560<\/a>)<\/li>\npost__in<\/code>. (#13729<\/a>)<\/li>\nAnd as promised, a bonus:<\/h3>\n