{"id":4953,"date":"2017-10-19T05:18:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T05:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:01:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:01:42","slug":"wordpress-4-9-beta-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2017\/10\/wordpress-4-9-beta-3\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 4.9 Beta 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 4.9 Beta 3 is now available!<\/p>\n<p><strong>This software is still in development,<\/strong>\u00a0so 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 4.9, try the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordpress-beta-tester\/\">WordPress Beta Tester<\/a>\u00a0plugin (you\u2019ll want \u201cbleeding edge nightlies\u201d). Or you can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/wordpress-4.9-beta3.zip\">download the beta here<\/a>\u00a0(zip).<\/p>\n<p>For more information on what\u2019s new in 4.9, check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2017\/10\/wordpress-4-9-beta-1\/\">Beta 1<\/a>\u00a0blog post. Since the Beta 1 release, we\u2019ve made\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/log\/trunk\/?action=stop_on_copy&amp;mode=stop_on_copy&amp;rev=41846&amp;stop_rev=41777&amp;limit=100&amp;sfp_email=&amp;sfph_mail=\">70 changes<\/a>\u00a0in Beta 2 and <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/log\/trunk\/?action=stop_on_copy&amp;mode=stop_on_copy&amp;rev=41938&amp;stop_rev=41847&amp;limit=100&amp;sfp_email=&amp;sfph_mail=\">92 changes<\/a> in Beta 3. A few of these newest changes to take note of in particular:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The plugin\/theme editors now show files in a scrollable expandable tree list. See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/24048\">#24048<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Backwards compatibility has been improved for MediaElement.js, which is upgraded from 2.2 to 4.2. See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/42189\">#42189<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>When you create post stubs in the Customizer (such as for nav menu items, for the homepage or the posts page), if you then schedule your customized changes or save them as a draft, then these Customizer-created posts will\u00a0appear in the admin as \u201cCustomization Drafts\u201d; these\u00a0drafts\u00a0can be edited before your customized changes are published, at which time these posts (or pages) will also be automatically published. See <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/42220\">#42220<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Theme browsing and installation experience in the Customizer has seen some bugfixes (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/42215\">#42215<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/42212\">#42212<\/a>), with some known remaining issues outstanding <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/42052\">in Safari<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There is now a callout on the dashboard to install and activate Gutenberg. See <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/41316\">#41316<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Menus in the Customizer have seen additional usability improvements.\u00a0See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/36279\">#36279<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/42114\">#42114<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you speak a language other than English?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/translate.wordpress.org\/projects\/wp\/dev\">Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you think you\u2019ve found a bug<\/strong>, you can post to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/forum\/alphabeta\">Alpha\/Beta area<\/a>\u00a0in the support forums. We\u2019d love to hear from you! If you\u2019re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/reports\/\">file one on WordPress Trac<\/a>, where you can also find\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/tickets\/major\">a list of known bugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Many refinements<br \/>\nExist within this release;<br \/>\nCan you find them all?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 4.9 Beta 3 is now available! This software is still in development,\u00a0so 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 4.9, try the\u00a0WordPress Beta Tester\u00a0plugin (you\u2019ll want \u201cbleeding edge nightlies\u201d). Or you can\u00a0download the beta here\u00a0(zip). 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