WordPress 5.6 Beta 3 is now available for testing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This software is still in development,<\/strong> so we recommend that you run this version on a test site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can test the WordPress 5.6 beta in two ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The current target for the final release is December 8, 2020. This is just five weeks away<\/strong>, so your help is needed to ensure this release is tested properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you to all of the contributors that tested the beta 2 <\/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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since beta 2, 20 bugs<\/a> have been fixed. Here is a summary of a few changes included in beta 3:<\/p>\n\n\n\n To see all of the features for each Gutenberg release in detail, check out the release posts: 8.6<\/a>, 8.7<\/a>, 8.8<\/a>, 8.9<\/a>, 9.0<\/a>, 9.1<\/a>, 9.2<\/a>, and 9.3<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WordPress 5.6 has lots of refinements to the developer experience as well. To keep up, subscribe to the Make WordPress Core blog<\/a> and pay special attention to the developers\u2019 notes<\/a> for updates on those and other changes that could affect your products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you think you\u2019ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha\/Beta area<\/a> in the support forums. We\u2019d love to hear from you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Props to @<\/span>hellofromtonya<\/a> for help and @<\/span>chanthaboune<\/a>\u00a0 for final review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WordPress 5.6 Beta 3 is now available for testing! This software is still in development, so we recommend that you run this version on a test site. You can test the WordPress 5.6 beta in two ways: Try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (choose the \u201cbleeding edge nightlies\u201d option). Or download the beta here (zip). The current target for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17810800,"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":[334],"class_list":["post-9234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-releases","tag-5-6","mentions-chanthaboune","mentions-hellofromtonya"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-2oW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234","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\/17810800"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9234"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9245,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/revisions\/9245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Some Highlights<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Authorization<\/code> header is working as expected for Application Passwords (see #51638<\/a>).<\/li>Developer notes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How to Help<\/h2>\n\n\n\n