The third release candidate for WordPress 5.3 is now available!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WordPress 5.3 is currently scheduled to be released on November 12 2019<\/a><\/strong>, but we need your<\/em> help to get there\u2014if you haven\u2019t tried 5.3 yet, now is the time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are two ways to test the WordPress 5.3 release candidate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n For details about what to expect in WordPress 5.3, please see the first<\/a> and second<\/a> release candidate posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Release Candidate 3 contains improvements to the new About page, bug fixes for the new default theme, Twenty Twenty (see #48450<\/a>), and 9 fixes for the following bugs and regressions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please test your plugins and themes against WordPress 5.3 and update the Tested up to<\/em> version in the readme to 5.3. If you find compatibility problems, please be sure to post to the support forums<\/a> so we can figure those out before the final release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The WordPress 5.3 Field Guide<\/a> has also been published, which details the major changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you speak a language other than English? Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you think you\u2019ve found a bug<\/strong>, you can post to the Alpha\/Beta area<\/a> in the support forums. We\u2019d love to hear from you! If you\u2019re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, file one on WordPress Trac<\/a>, where you can also find a list of known bugs<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The third release candidate for WordPress 5.3 is now available! WordPress 5.3 is currently scheduled to be released on November 12 2019, but we need your help to get there\u2014if you haven\u2019t tried 5.3 yet, now is the time! There are two ways to test the WordPress 5.3 release candidate: Try the\u00a0WordPress Beta Tester\u00a0plugin (choose the \u201cbleeding edge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4552240,"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":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-releases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-1VZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439","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\/4552240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7442,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions\/7442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}date_i18n()<\/code> has been fixed (see #28636<\/a>).<\/li>Plugin and Theme Developers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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