The third beta release of WordPress 3.5 is now available for download and testing.
Hey, developers!?We expect to WordPress 3.5 to be ready in just a few short weeks.?Please, please test your plugins and themes against beta 3. Media management has been rewritten, and we’ve taken great pains to ensure most plugins will work the same as before, but we’re not perfect. We would like to hear about any incompatibilities we’ve caused so we can work with you to address them?before release, rather than after. I think you’ll agree it’s much better that way. ??
To test WordPress 3.5, try the?WordPress Beta Tester?plugin (youโll want โbleeding edge nightliesโ). Or you can?download the beta here?(zip).?For more on 3.5,?check out the extensive Beta 1 blog post, which covers whatโs new in version 3.5 and how you can help. We made more than 300 changes since?beta 2.?At this point, the Add Media dialog is complete, and we’re now just working on fixing up inserting images into the editor. We’ve also updated to jQuery UI 1.9.1, SimplePie 1.3.1, and TinyMCE 3.5.7.
The usual warnings apply: We can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but this is software still in development, so we donโt recommend that you run it on a production site. Set up a test site to play with the new version.
As always, if you think youโve found a bug, you can post to the?Alpha/Beta area?in the support forums. Or, if youโre comfortable writing a reproducible bug report,?file one on the WordPress Trac. There, you can also find?a list of known bugs?and?everything weโve fixed?so far.
Beta three is out
Soon, a release candidate
Three point five is near