WordPress 5.5.3 is now available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This maintenance release fixes an issue introduced in WordPress 5.5.2 which makes it impossible to install WordPress on a brand new website that does not have a database connection configured. This release does not affect sites where a database connection is already configured, for example, via one-click installers or an existing Earlier today — between approximately 15:30 and 16:00 UTC — the auto-update system for WordPress updated some sites from version 5.5.2 to version 5.5.3-alpha. This auto-update was due to an error in the Updates API caused by the 5.5.3 release preparations (see more here<\/a>). The 5.5.3-alpha version at this point was functionally identical to 5.5.2 as no development work had been started on 5.5.3; however, the following changes may have been made to your site:<\/p>\n\n\n\n These themes and plugins were not activated and therefore remain non-functional unless you installed them previously. It is safe to delete these features should you prefer not to use them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are not on 5.5.2, or have auto-updates for minor releases disabled, please manually update to the 5.5.3 version by downloading WordPress 5.5.3 or visiting Dashboard \u2192 Updates and click \u201cUpdate Now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more technical details of the issue, we\u2019ve posted on our Core Development blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to those who contributed to the 5.5.3 release: @<\/span>audrasjb<\/a>, @<\/span>barry<\/a>, @<\/span>chanthaboune<\/a>, @<\/span>cbringmann<\/a>, @<\/span>clorith<\/a>, @<\/span>davidbaumwald<\/a>, @<\/span>desrosj<\/a>, @<\/span>hellofromtonya<\/a>, @<\/span>jeffpaul<\/a>, @<\/span>johnbillion<\/a>, @<\/span>garubi<\/a>, @<\/span>metalandcoffee<\/a>, @<\/span>mukesh27<\/a>, @<\/span>otto42<\/a>, @<\/span>punitsoftac<\/a>, @<\/span>sergeybiryukov<\/a>, @<\/span>whyisjake<\/a>, and @<\/span>xknown<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WordPress 5.5.3 is now available. This maintenance release fixes an issue introduced in WordPress 5.5.2 which makes it impossible to install WordPress on a brand new website that does not have a database connection configured. This release does not affect sites where a database connection is already configured, for example, via one-click installers or an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1182764,"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":[14],"tags":[286,437],"class_list":["post-9212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","tag-5-5","tag-minor-releases","mentions-audrasjb","mentions-barry","mentions-cbringmann","mentions-chanthaboune","mentions-clorith","mentions-davidbaumwald","mentions-desrosj","mentions-garubi","mentions-hellofromtonya","mentions-jeffpaul","mentions-johnbillion","mentions-metalandcoffee","mentions-mukesh27","mentions-otto42","mentions-punitsoftac","mentions-sergeybiryukov","mentions-whyisjake","mentions-xknown"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-2oA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212","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\/1182764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9212"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9223,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions\/9223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}wp-config.php<\/code> file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n5.5.3-alpha Issue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thanks and props!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n