{"id":3522,"date":"2015-03-26T18:32:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T18:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:01:01","slug":"wordpress-4-2-beta-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2015\/03\/wordpress-4-2-beta-3\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 4.2 Beta 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 4.2 Beta 3 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-beta3.zip\">download the beta here<\/a> (zip).<\/p>\n<p>For more information about what\u2019s new in version 4.2, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2015\/03\/wordpress-4-2-beta-1\/\">Beta 1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2015\/03\/wordpress-4-2-beta-2\/\">Beta 2<\/a> blog posts. Some of the changes in Beta 3 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Removed <strong>Shiny Installs<\/strong> functionality due to concerns about the activation workflow. Please test the remaining &#8220;Shiny Updates&#8221; functionality from both the Plugins > Add New and Plugins screens to ensure in-line updating still works as well as before.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed an issue with the <strong>Comments Quick Edit<\/strong> layout breaking on smaller screens. Please test on your mobile devices.<\/li>\n<li>Improved <strong>accessibility of login screen errors<\/strong>. Screen reader users: please let us know if you encounter any issues.<\/li>\n<li>Refined the <strong>emoji compatibility<\/strong> script to only load on the front- and back-end if the browser requires it. If you&#8217;re using a legacy web browser, please test.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed several issues in <strong>Press This<\/strong> with inserted images being improperly linked to locations other than the source site. Go ahead, &#8220;press&#8221; a site with images on the page and tell us if the image links aren&#8217;t working as you&#8217;d expect.<\/li>\n<li>Standardized the <strong>time display format<\/strong> in a variety of admin screens, switching to 24-hour notation where a.m. or p.m. are not specified. Please let us know if you notice you notice anything amiss!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Various other 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=31901&amp;stop_rev=31835&amp;limit=100\">more than 65 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>Emoji loader<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Shiny Updates&#8221; still stand firm<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Beta 3, please test!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 4.2 Beta 3 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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