{"id":3129,"date":"2014-04-08T21:05:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T21:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:01:04","slug":"wordpress-3-9-release-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2014\/04\/wordpress-3-9-release-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 3.9 Release Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2014\/04\/wordpress-3-8-2\/\">As teased earlier<\/a>, the first release candidate for WordPress 3.9 is now available for testing!<\/p>\n<p>We hope to ship WordPress 3.9 <em>next week<\/em>, but we need your help to get there.\u00a0If you haven\u2019t tested 3.9 yet, there\u2019s no time like the present. (Please, not on a production site, unless you\u2019re adventurous.)<\/p>\n<p>To test WordPress 3.9 RC1, try the\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wordpress-beta-tester\/\">WordPress Beta Tester<\/a>\u00a0plugin (you\u2019ll want \u201cbleeding edge nightlies\u201d). Or you can\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/wordpress.org\/wordpress-3.9-RC1.zip\">download the release candidate here<\/a>\u00a0(zip).\u00a0If you\u2019d like to learn more about what\u2019s new in WordPress 3.9, visit the work-in-progress About screen in your dashboard (<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i0.wp.com\/core.svn.wordpress.org\/branches\/3.6\/wp-content\/themes\/twentyten\/images\/wordpress.png?w=692\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/>\u00a0\u2192 About<\/strong>\u00a0in the toolbar) and check out <a title=\"WordPress 3.9 Beta 1\" href=\"\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2014\/03\/wordpress-3-9-beta-1\/\">the Beta 1 post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Think you\u2019ve found a bug?\u00a0<\/strong>Please post to the\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/forum\/alphabeta\/\">Alpha\/Beta area in the support forums<\/a>. If any known issues come up, you\u2019ll be able to\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/report\/5\">find them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;re a plugin author<\/strong>, there are two important changes\u00a0in particular to be aware of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TinyMCE received a major update, to\u00a0version\u00a04.0. Any editor plugins written for TinyMCE 3.x might require some updates. (If things broke, we&#8217;d like to hear about them so we can make adjustments.)\u00a0For more, see TinyMCE&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinymce.com\/wiki.php\/Tutorial:Migration_guide_from_3.x\">migration guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinymce.com\/wiki.php\/api4:index\">API documentation<\/a>, and the notes on\u00a0the <a href=\"\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2014\/01\/18\/tinymce-4-0-is-in-core\/\">core development blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>WordPress 3.9 now uses\u00a0the MySQLi Improved extension for sites running\u00a0PHP 5.5. Any plugins that made direct calls to <code>mysql_*<\/code> functions will experience some problems on these sites. For more\u00a0information, see the notes on the <a href=\"\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2014\/04\/07\/mysql-in-wordpress-3-9\/\">core\u00a0development blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Be sure to follow along the core development blog, where we will be continuing to post <a href=\"\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/tag\/3-9-dev-notes\/\">notes for\u00a0developers for 3.9<\/a>. (For example, read <a href=\"\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2014\/03\/27\/masonry-in-wordpress-3-9\/\">this<\/a> if you are\u00a0using Masonry in your theme.) And please, please update your plugin&#8217;s <em>Tested up to<\/em>\u00a0version in the readme to 3.9 before April 16.<\/p>\n<p><em>Release candidate<br \/>\nThis haiku&#8217;s the easy one<br \/>\n3.9 is near<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As teased earlier, the first release candidate for WordPress 3.9 is now available for testing! We hope to ship WordPress 3.9 next week, but we need your help to get there.\u00a0If you haven\u2019t tested 3.9 yet, there\u2019s no time like the present. (Please, not on a production site, unless you\u2019re adventurous.) 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