The third release candidate for WordPress 4.9 is now available.<\/p>\n
A release candidate (RC) means we think we\u2019re done, but with millions of users and thousands of plugins and themes, it\u2019s possible we\u2019ve missed something. In fact, we did miss some things in RC1 and RC2. This third release candidate was not originally scheduled, but due a number of defects uncovered through your testing of RC2 (thank you!), we are putting out another 4.9 release candidate.<\/p>\n
We hope to ship WordPress 4.9 on Tuesday, November 14<\/strong>\u00a0(that’s tomorrow<\/em>) at 23:00 UTC, but we still need your help to get there. If you haven\u2019t tested 4.9 yet, now is the time!\u00a0If there are additional defects uncovered through testing between now and the release time, we may delay the 4.9 release to the following day.<\/p>\n To test WordPress 4.9, you can use the WordPress Beta Tester<\/a> plugin or you can download the release candidate here<\/a> (zip).<\/p>\n We’ve made just over 20 changes<\/a> since releasing RC2 last week (as we did between RC1 and RC2). For more details about what\u2019s new in version 4.9, check out the\u00a0Beta 1<\/a>, Beta 2<\/a>, Beta 3<\/a>,\u00a0Beta 4<\/a>,\u00a0RC1<\/a>, and RC2<\/a> blog posts. A few specific areas to test in RC3:<\/p>\n Developers<\/strong>, please test your plugins and themes against WordPress 4.9 and update your plugin\u2019s Tested up to<\/em> version in the readme to 4.9. If you find compatibility problems please be sure to post to the support forums so we can figure those out before the final release \u2014 we work hard to avoid breaking things. Please see the summative\u00a0field guide<\/a> to the 4.9\u00a0developer notes<\/a>\u00a0on the core development blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n Do you speak a language other than English?\u00a0Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages!<\/a><\/p>\n If you think you\u2019ve found a bug<\/strong>, you can post to the\u00a0Alpha\/Beta area<\/a>\u00a0in the support forums. We\u2019d love to hear from you! If you\u2019re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report,\u00a0file one on WordPress Trac<\/a>, where you can also find\u00a0a list of known bugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Didn’t squash them all\u00a0\ud83d\udc1b<\/em> Thanks for your continued help testing out the latest versions of WordPress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The third release candidate for WordPress 4.9 is now available. A release candidate (RC) means we think we\u2019re done, but with millions of users and thousands of plugins and themes, it\u2019s possible we\u2019ve missed something. In fact, we did miss some things in RC1 and RC2. This third release candidate was not originally scheduled, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentation","category-releases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-1lC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5187,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions\/5187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nWe want to release Tuesday<\/em>
\nNew features not bugs \u2728<\/em><\/p>\n