{"id":4343,"date":"2016-06-30T01:22:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T01:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:00:56","slug":"wordpress-4-6-beta-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2016\/06\/wordpress-4-6-beta-1\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 4.6 Beta 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 4.6 Beta 1 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 4.6, try the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordpress-beta-tester\/\">WordPress Beta Tester<\/a> plugin (you\u2019ll want \u201cbleeding edge nightlies\u201d). Or you can <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/wordpress-4.6-beta1.zip\">download the beta here<\/a> (zip).<\/p>\n<p>WordPress 4.6 is slated for release on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/version-4-6-project-schedule\/\">August 16<\/a>, but to get there, we need your help testing what we have\u00a0been working on, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shiny Updates v2<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/changeset\/37714\">[37714]<\/a>) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/features\/shiny-updates\/\">Shiny Updates<\/a> replaces progress updates with a simpler and more straight forward experience when installing, updating, and deleting plugins and themes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Native Fonts in the Admin<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/36753\">#36753<\/a>) &#8211;\u00a0Experience faster load times, especially when working offline, a removal of a third-party dependency, and a more <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/features\/font-natively\/\">native-feeling experience<\/a> as the lines between the mobile web and native applications continue to blur.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Editor Improvements<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0A more reliable recovery mode (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/37025\">#37025<\/a>) and\u00a0detection of broken URLs while you type them (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/36638\">#36638<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There have been changes for developers to explore as well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Resource Hints<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/34292\">#34292<\/a>) &#8211; Allow browsers to prefetch specific pages, render them in the background, perform DNS lookups, or to begin the connection handshake (DNS, TCP, TLS) in the background.<\/li>\n<li>New <code>WP_Site_Query<\/code> (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/35791\">#35791<\/a>) and\u00a0<code>WP_Network_Query<\/code> (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/32504\">#32504<\/a>) classes to query sites and networks with lazy loading for details.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Requests<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/33055\">#33055<\/a>) &#8211; A new PHP library for HTTP requests that\u00a0supports parallel requests and more.<\/li>\n<li><code>WP_Term_Query<\/code> (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/35381\">#35381<\/a>)\u00a0is modeled on existing query classes\u00a0and provides a more consistent structure for generating\u00a0term queries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language Packs<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/34114\">#34114<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/34213\">#34213<\/a>) &#8211; Translations managed through <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.wordpress.org\">translate.wordpress.org<\/a> now have a higher priority and are\u00a0loaded just-in-time.<\/li>\n<li><code>WP_Post_Type<\/code> (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/36217\">#36217<\/a>) provides easier access to post type objects and their underlying properties.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Widgets API<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/28216\">#28216<\/a>)\u00a0was\u00a0enhanced to support\u00a0registering pre-instantiated widgets.<\/li>\n<li>Index definitions are now normalized by\u00a0<code>dbDelta()<\/code>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/changeset\/37583\">[37583]<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Comments<\/strong> can now be stored in a persistent object cache (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/36906\">#36906<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>External Libraries<\/strong> were updated to the latest versions &#8211;\u00a0Masonry to 3.3.2 and\u00a0imagesLoaded to 3.2.0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/32802\">#32802<\/a>), MediaElement.js to 2.21.2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/36759\">#36759<\/a>), and TinyMCE to 4.3.13 (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/37225\">#37225<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>REST API<\/strong> responses now include an\u00a0auto-discovery header (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/35580\">#35580<\/a>) and\u00a0a refreshed nonce when responding to an authenticated response (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/35662\">#35662<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Expanded <strong>Meta Registration API<\/strong> via\u00a0<code>register_meta()<\/code> (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/35658\">#35658<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Customizer<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Improved\u00a0API for <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2016\/05\/04\/improving-setting-validation-in-the-customizer\/\">setting validation<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/34893\">#34893<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/36944\">#36944<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want a more in-depth view of what major changes have made it into 4.6, <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/tag\/4-6\/\">check out posts tagged with 4.6 on the main development blog<\/a>, or look at a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/query?status=closed&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;milestone=4.6&amp;group=component&amp;order=priority\">list of everything<\/a>\u00a0that\u2019s changed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you think you\u2019ve found a bug<\/strong>, you can post to the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/forum\/alphabeta\">Alpha\/Beta area<\/a> in the support forums. 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