The first release candidate for WordPress 5.7 is now available! \ud83c\udf89<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please join us in celebrating this very important milestone in the community’s progress towards the final release!<\/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 5.7 is slated for release on March 9, 2021<\/strong>, but your<\/em> help is needed to get there\u2014if you haven\u2019t tried 5.7 yet, now is the time<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can test the WordPress 5.7 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 Please test your plugins and themes against WordPress 5.7 and update the Tested up to<\/em> version in the readme file to 5.7. 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 5.7 Field Guide<\/a> 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 5.7 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\n\n\n Props to @<\/span>audrasjb<\/a> for copy suggestions and @<\/span>davidbaumwald<\/a> for final review.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Test this test that The first release candidate for WordPress 5.7 is now available! \ud83c\udf89 Please join us in celebrating this very important milestone in the community’s progress towards the final release! \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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15440732,"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-9773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-releases","mentions-audrasjb","mentions-davidbaumwald"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-2xD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9773","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\/15440732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9773"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9841,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9773\/revisions\/9841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What\u2019s in WordPress 5.7?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Plugin and Theme Developers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How to Help<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Catch everything that you can
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