{"id":3498,"date":"2015-03-19T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:01:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:01:02","slug":"wordpress-4-2-beta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2015\/03\/wordpress-4-2-beta-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 4.2 Beta 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 4.2 Beta 2 is now available!<\/p>\n<p><strong>This software is still in development,<\/strong> so we don\u2019t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.2, try the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordpress-beta-tester\/\">WordPress Beta Tester<\/a> plugin (you\u2019ll want &#8220;bleeding edge nightlies&#8221;). Or you can <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/wordpress-4.2-beta2.zip\">download the beta here<\/a> (zip).<\/p>\n<p>For more information about what\u2019s new in version 4.2, <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2015\/03\/wordpress-4-2-beta-1\/\">check out the Beta 1 blog post<\/a>. Some of the changes in Beta 2 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added support for entering FTP and SSH credentials when <strong>updating plugins in-place<\/strong>. FTP and SSH users, please test!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Improved cross-browser support for emoji<\/strong> throughout WordPress. If you&#8217;re using an older web browser, please tell us if you have problems using emoji.<\/li>\n<li>Further <strong>refined Press This authoring<\/strong> with auto-embedded media and better content scanning. We&#8217;d love to know how auto-embeds work for you.<\/li>\n<li>Added a constructor and improved method consistency in <code>WP_Comment_Query<\/code>. Developers: if you&#8217;re extending <code>WP_Comment_Query<\/code>, please let us know if you run into any issues.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Various bug fixes<\/strong>. We&#8217;ve made <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/log?action=stop_on_copy&amp;mode=stop_on_copy&amp;rev=31834&amp;stop_rev=31763&amp;limit=100\">more than 70 changes<\/a> in the last week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you think you\u2019ve found a bug, you can post to the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/forum\/alphabeta\">Alpha\/Beta area<\/a> in the support forums. Or, if you\u2019re comfortable writing a bug report, <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/\">file one on the WordPress Trac<\/a>. There, you can also find <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/tickets\/major\">a list of known bugs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/query?status=closed&amp;group=component&amp;milestone=4.2\">everything we\u2019ve fixed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Test some emoji<\/em><br \/>\n<em>FTP and SSH<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Let&#8217;s &#8220;Press&#8221; some embeds!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 4.2 Beta 2 is now available! This software is still in development, so we don\u2019t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.2, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you\u2019ll want &#8220;bleeding edge nightlies&#8221;). 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