{"id":3106,"date":"2014-03-29T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:01:04","slug":"wordpress-3-9-beta-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2014\/03\/wordpress-3-9-beta-3\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 3.9 Beta 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third\u00a0(and maybe\u00a0last) beta of WordPress 3.9 is now available for download.<\/p>\n<p>Beta 3 includes more than\u00a0200\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/log?rev=27850&amp;stop_rev=27639&amp;limit=300\">changes<\/a>, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New features like live widget previews and the new theme installer are now more ready for prime time, so check &#8217;em out.<\/li>\n<li>UI refinements\u00a0when editing images and when working with media in the editor. We&#8217;ve also brought back some of the advanced display settings for images.<\/li>\n<li>If you want to test out audio and video\u00a0playlists, the links will appear in the media manager once you&#8217;ve\u00a0uploaded an audio or video file.<\/li>\n<li>For theme developers, we&#8217;ve added HTML5 caption support (<a class=\"reopened ticket\" title=\"task (blessed): HTML5 captions (reopened)\" href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/26642\">#26642<\/a>) to match the new gallery support (<a class=\"closed ticket\" title=\"enhancement: HTML5 Galleries (closed: fixed)\" href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/26697\">#26697<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>The formatting function that turns straight quotes into smart quotes (among other things) underwent\u00a0some changes to drastically speed it\u00a0up, so let us know if you see anything weird.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>We need your help<\/strong>.\u00a0We&#8217;re still aiming\u00a0for an April release, which means the next week will be critical for\u00a0identifying and squashing bugs. If you&#8217;re just joining us, please see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2014\/03\/wordpress-3-9-beta-1\/\">the Beta 1 announcement post<\/a>\u00a0for what to look out for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you think you\u2019ve found a bug<\/strong>, you can post to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/forum\/alphabeta\">Alpha\/Beta area<\/a>\u00a0in the support forums, where friendly moderators are standing by.\u00a0<b>Plugin developers<\/b><strong>,<\/strong> if you haven&#8217;t tested WordPress 3.9 yet, now is the time \u2014 and be sure to update the &#8220;tested up to&#8221; version for your plugins so they&#8217;re listed as compatible with 3.9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This software is still in development,<\/strong>\u00a0so we don\u2019t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. 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