{"id":8681,"date":"2020-07-14T17:24:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=8681"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:02:01","slug":"wordpress-5-5-beta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2020\/07\/wordpress-5-5-beta-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 5.5 Beta 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"block-000046ff-d8e6-40a8-9869-2dd39e50f270\"><br>WordPress 5.5 Beta 2 is now available!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-81bd56b9-ea44-43ad-ab36-a5ae78b54375\"><strong><strong>This software is still in development,<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>so it\u2019s not recommended to run this version on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with the new version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-7cc1bbc6-17f9-44c5-8f67-da4e3059ad69\">You can test WordPress 5.5 beta 2 in two ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"block-4840af57-f44b-4d9f-aa64-c6a452392e42\"><li>Try the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordpress-beta-tester\/\">WordPress Beta Tester<\/a>&nbsp;plugin (choose the \u201cbleeding edge nightlies\u201d option)<\/li><li>Or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/wordpress-5.5-beta2.zip\">download the beta here<\/a>&nbsp;(zip).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-a40528cb-eb3b-4c8a-8f5e-aa700f1ba086\">WordPress 5.5 is slated for release on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/5-5\/\">August 11th, 2020<\/a>, and <strong>we need your help to get there<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to all of the contributors that tested the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2020\/07\/wordpress-5-5-beta-1\/\">beta 1<\/a> development release and provided feedback. Testing for bugs is an important part of polishing each release and a great way to contribute to WordPress. Here are some of the changes since beta 1 to pay close attention to while testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-15d6d57f-905d-4a47-9f66-839468a5375a\">Some highlights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-85da84ec-c841-42f9-8d3b-1a4537a61d10\">Since <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2020\/02\/wordpress-5-4-beta-1\/\">beta 1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/query?status=closed&amp;changetime=07%2F08%2F2020..07%2F14%2F2020&amp;milestone=5.5&amp;group=component&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=owner&amp;col=type&amp;col=priority&amp;col=component&amp;col=version&amp;order=priority\">48 bugs<\/a> have been fixed. Here is a summary of a few changes included in beta 2:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>19 additional bugs have been fixed in the block editor (see <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WordPress\/gutenberg\/pull\/23903\">#23903<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WordPress\/gutenberg\/pull\/23905\">#23905<\/a>).<\/li><li>The Dashicons icon font has been updated (see <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/49913\">#49913<\/a>).<\/li><li>Broken widgets stemming from changes in Beta 1 have been fixed (see <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/50609\">#50609<\/a>).<\/li><li>Query handling when counting revisions has been improved (see <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/34560\">#34560<\/a>).<\/li><li>An alternate, expanded view was added for <code>wp_list_table<\/code> (see <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/49715\">#49715<\/a>).<\/li><li>Some adjustments were made to the handling of default terms for custom taxonomies (see <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/43517\">#43517<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Several updates have been made to the block editor. For details, see <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WordPress\/gutenberg\/pull\/23903\">#23903<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WordPress\/gutenberg\/pull\/23905\">#23905<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-76156b2b-0a52-4502-b585-6cbe9481f55b\">Developer notes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-3fe5e264-0a95-4f12-9a18-0cb9dc5955d1\">WordPress 5.5 has lots of refinements to polish the developer experience. To keep up, subscribe to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/\">Make WordPress Core blog<\/a>&nbsp;and pay special attention to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/tag\/5-5+dev-notes\/\">developers\u2019 notes<\/a>&nbsp;for updates on those and other changes that could affect your products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-bc89fd56-47b0-439f-8e2c-4a642c80a616\">How to Help<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-3ff83a77-8b54-4061-ae2d-45fc984cbd76\">Do you speak a language other than English?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/translate.wordpress.org\/projects\/wp\/dev\/\">Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-9d871099-ec49-446c-8322-9e49b7498c10\">If you think you\u2019ve found a bug, you can post to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/forum\/alphabeta\/\">Alpha\/Beta area<\/a>&nbsp;in the support forums. We\u2019d love to hear from you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-bd71c1d3-39d9-4b2a-8193-3486497b45fd\">If you\u2019re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/newticket\">file one on WordPress Trac<\/a>,&nbsp;where you can also find a list of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/tickets\/major\">known bugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 5.5 Beta 2 is now available! This software is still in development,&nbsp;so it\u2019s not recommended to run this version on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with the new version. 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