{"id":3083,"date":"2014-03-11T13:42:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T13:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=3083"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:01:04","slug":"wordpress-3-9-beta-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2014\/03\/wordpress-3-9-beta-1\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 3.9 Beta 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited to announce that the <strong>first beta of WordPress 3.9<\/strong> is now available for testing.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress 3.9 is due out next month &#8212; but in order to hit that goal, <strong>we need your help<\/strong> testing all of the goodies we&#8217;ve added:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We updated TinyMCE, the software powering the visual editor, to the latest version. Be on the lookout for cleaner markup. Also try the new paste handling &#8212; if you paste in a block of text from Microsoft Word, for example, it will no longer come out terrible. (The &#8220;Paste from Word&#8221; button you probably never noticed has been removed.) It&#8217;s possible some plugins that added stuff to the visual editor (like a new toolbar button) no longer work, so we&#8217;d like to hear about them (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/24067\">#24067<\/a>). (And be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/\">open a support thread<\/a> for the plugin author.)<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve added <strong>widget management to live previews<\/strong> (the customizer). Please test editing, adding, and rearranging widgets! (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/27112\">#27112<\/a>) We&#8217;ve also added the ability to upload, crop, and manage header images, without needing to leave the preview. (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/21785\">#21785<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>We brought 3.8&#8217;s beautiful new theme browsing experience to the <strong>theme installer<\/strong>. Check\u00a0it out! (<a title=\"View ticket\" href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/27055\">#27055<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Galleries<\/strong> now receive a\u00a0live\u00a0preview in the editor. Upload some photos and insert a gallery to see this in action. (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/26959\">#26959<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>You can now <strong>drag-and-drop<\/strong> images directly onto the editor to upload them. It can be a bit finicky, so try it and help us work out the kinks. (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/19845\">#19845<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Some things got improved around <strong>editing images<\/strong>. It&#8217;s a lot easier to make changes to an image after you insert it into a post (<a class=\"closed\" title=\"View ticket\" href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/24409\">#24409<\/a>) and you no longer get kicked to a new window when you need to crop or rotate an image (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/21811\">#21811<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>New <strong>audio\/video playlists<\/strong>. Upload a few audio or video files to test these. (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/26631\">#26631<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>If you think you\u2019ve found a bug<\/strong>, you can post to the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/forum\/alphabeta\">Alpha\/Beta area<\/a> in the support forums. We&#8217;d love to hear from you! If you\u2019re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/reports\/\">file one on the WordPress Trac<\/a>. There, you can also find <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/tickets\/major\">a list of known bugs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/query?status=closed&amp;group=component&amp;milestone=3.9\">everything we\u2019ve fixed<\/a> so far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This software is still in development,<\/strong> so we don\u2019t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 3.9, try the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wordpress-beta-tester\/\">WordPress Beta Tester<\/a> plugin (you\u2019ll want \u201cbleeding edge nightlies\u201d). Or you can <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/wordpress-3.9-beta1.zip\">download the beta here<\/a> (zip).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>DEVELOPERS!<\/strong> Hello! There&#8217;s lots for you, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please test your plugins and themes!<\/strong> There&#8217;s a lot of great stuff under the hood in 3.9 and we hope to blog a bit about them in the coming days. If you haven&#8217;t been reading the awesome <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/tag\/week-in-core\/\">weekly summaries<\/a>\u00a0on the <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/\">main core development blog<\/a>, that&#8217;s a great place to start. (You should definitely follow that blog.) For now, here are some things to watch out for when testing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>load process in multisite<\/strong> got rewritten. If you notice any issues with your network, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/27003\">#27003<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We now use the <strong>MySQL Improved (mysqli) database extension<\/strong> if you&#8217;re running a recent version of PHP (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/21663\">#21663<\/a>). Please test your plugins and see that everything works well, and please make sure you&#8217;re not calling <code>mysql_*<\/code> functions directly.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Autosave<\/strong> was refactored, so if you see any issues related to autosaving, heartbeat, etc., let us know (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/25272\">#25272<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Library updates, in particular Backbone 1.1 and Underscore 1.6 (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/26799\">#26799<\/a>). Also Masonry 3 (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/25351\">#25351<\/a>), PHPMailer (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/25560\">#25560<\/a>), Plupload (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/25663\">#25663<\/a>), and TinyMCE (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/24067\">#24067<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>TinyMCE 4.0 is a <em>major<\/em> update. Please see TinyMCE&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinymce.com\/wiki.php\/Tutorial:Migration_guide_from_3.x\">upgrade guide<\/a> and our <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/24067\">implementation ticket<\/a> for more. If you have any questions or problems, please <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/forum\/alphabeta\">open a thread in the support forums<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy testing!<\/p>\n<p><em><em>Lots of improvements<br \/>\nLittle things go a long way<\/em><br \/>\nPlease test beta one<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited to announce that the first beta of WordPress 3.9 is now available for testing. WordPress 3.9 is due out next month &#8212; but in order to hit that goal, we need your help testing all of the goodies we&#8217;ve added: We updated TinyMCE, the software powering the visual editor, to the latest version. 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