{"id":4396,"date":"2016-07-20T18:49:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T18:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:00:56","slug":"wordpress-4-6-beta-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2016\/07\/wordpress-4-6-beta-4\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 4.6 Beta 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 4.6 Beta 4 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-beta4.zip\">download the beta here<\/a> (zip).<\/p>\n<p>For more information on what\u2019s new in 4.6, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2016\/06\/wordpress-4-6-beta-1\/\">Beta 1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2016\/07\/wordpress-4-6-beta-2\/\">Beta 2<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2016\/07\/wordpress-4-6-beta-3\/\">Beta 3<\/a> blog posts, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/tag\/4-6+dev-notes\/\">in-depth field guides<\/a>. This is the final <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/version-4-6-project-schedule\/\">planned beta<\/a> of WordPress 4.6, with a release candidate scheduled for next week.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the fixes in Beta 4 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Media<\/strong>: <code>alt<\/code> attributes are now always added to images inserted from URLs (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/36735\">#36735<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Object subtype handling has been removed from <code>register_meta()<\/code>. Details about this change are explained in <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2016\/07\/20\/additional-register_meta-changes-in-4-6\/\">a post for developers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Resource hints<\/strong> are now limited to enqueued assets (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/37385\">#37385<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>A regression with query alterations introduced by the new <code>WP_Term_Query<\/code> has been fixed (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/37378\">#37378<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>The Ajax searches for <strong>installed and new plugins<\/strong> have been enhanced to fix several accessibility issues and to improve compatibility with older browsers. (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/37233\">#37233<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/37373\">#37373<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The media player <strong>MediaElement.js<\/strong> has been updated to 2.22.0 to fix YouTube video embeds (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/37363\">#37363<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Import screen<\/strong> was overhauled, improving accessibility and making it much easier to install and run an importer (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/35191\">#35191<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emoji support<\/strong> has been updated to include all of the latest Unicode 9 emoji characters (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/37361\">#37361<\/a>). \ud83e\udd20\ud83e\udd55\ud83e\udd53\ud83d\udd7a\ud83c\udffd\ud83e\udd1d\ud83c\udfff<\/li>\n<li><strong>Various bug fixes<\/strong>. We\u2019ve made <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/log\/trunk\/src?action=stop_on_copy&amp;mode=stop_on_copy&amp;rev=38123&amp;stop_rev=38060&amp;limit=200&amp;verbose=on\">more than 60 changes<\/a> during the last week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you speak a language other than English? <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.wordpress.org\/projects\/wp\/dev\">Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages!<\/a><\/p>\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=4.6\">everything we\u2019ve fixed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy testing!<\/p>\n<p><em>This is Beta 4,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The last before RC 1.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Please test all the things.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 4.6 Beta 4 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 4.6, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you\u2019ll want \u201cbleeding edge nightlies\u201d). 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