The first release candidate for WordPress 5.6 is now available!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is an important milestone in the community\u2019s progress toward the final release of WordPress 5.6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRelease Candidate\u201d means that the new version is ready for release, but with millions of users and thousands of plugins and themes, it\u2019s possible something was missed. WordPress 5.6 is slated for release on December 8, 2020<\/strong>, but we need your<\/em> help to get there\u2014if you haven\u2019t tried 5.6 yet, now is the time<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can test the WordPress 5.6 release candidate in two ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you to all of the contributors who tested the Beta releases and gave feedback. Testing for bugs is a critical part of polishing every release and a great way to contribute to WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final release of 2020 continues the annual tradition of a new default theme that is custom built to showcase the new features and functionality of the software. Continued progress on the block editor is especially clear in this release, which brings more blocks to more places, and fewer clicks to implement your layouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WordPress 5.6 also has lots of refinements to polish the developer experience. To learn more, subscribe to the Make WordPress Core blog<\/a> and pay special attention to the developer notes<\/a> tag for updates on those and other changes that could affect your products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please test your plugins and themes against WordPress 5.6 and update the Tested up to<\/em> version in the readme file to 5.6. If you find compatibility problems, please be sure to post to the support forums<\/a>, so those can be figured out before the final release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The WordPress 5.6 Field Guide, due very shortly, will give you a more detailed dive into 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> This release also marks the hard string freeze<\/a> point of the 5.6 release schedule.<\/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":" WordPress 5.6 Release Candidate is now available!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10573955,"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-9258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-releases","tag-5-6"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-2pk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258","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\/10573955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9258"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9266,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions\/9266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What\u2019s in WordPress 5.6?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Plugin and Theme Developers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How to Help<\/h2>\n\n\n\n