{"id":7312,"date":"2019-10-08T20:58:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T20:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=7312"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:01:29","slug":"wordpress-5-3-beta-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2019\/10\/wordpress-5-3-beta-3\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 5.3 Beta 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WordPress 5.3 Beta 3 is now available!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This software is still in development,<\/strong>&nbsp;so we don\u2019t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with the new version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can test the WordPress 5.3 beta in two ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Try the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordpress-beta-tester\/\">WordPress Beta Tester<\/a>&nbsp;plugin (choose the \u201cbleeding edge nightlies\u201d option)<\/li><li>Or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/wordpress-5.3-beta3.zip\">download the beta here<\/a>&nbsp;(zip). <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress 5.3 is slated for release on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/5-3\/\">November 12, 2019<\/a>, and we need your help to get there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to the testing and feedback from everyone who tested <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2019\/09\/wordpress-5-3-beta-2\/\">beta 2<\/a> (and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2019\/09\/wordpress-5-3-beta-1\/\">beta 1<\/a>) over&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/query?status=closed&amp;changetime=10%2F01%2F2019..10%2F08%2F2019&amp;milestone=5.3&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=status&amp;col=milestone&amp;col=owner&amp;col=type&amp;col=priority&amp;order=priority\">60 tickets have been closed<\/a>&nbsp;in the past week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some highlights <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Fixes and enhancements in the admin interface changes introduced in previous 5.3 beta releases.<\/li><li>Wording changes in login screen (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/43037\">#43037<\/a>).<\/li><li>Improved accessibility in media upload modal (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/47149\">#47149<\/a>).<\/li><li>Changes in the way the new error handling with images works (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/48200\">#48200<\/a>).<\/li><li>MediaElement.js has been updated from 4.2.6 to 4.2.13 (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/46681\">#46681<\/a>). The script is now also being loaded in the footer again. This fixes a regression that happened two years ago, so might be worth noting (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/44484\">#44484<\/a>).<\/li><li>Update to the REST API media endpoint to allow resuming of uploads (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/47987\">#47987<\/a>).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to these, Beta 3 landed a number of small consistency and polish changes to the REST API, including an improvement to the permissions check used when editing comments, a fix for post type controller caching edge cases, and most importantly, the ability to use the _embed parameter to access the full data for a post using the \/wp\/v2\/search endpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Developer notes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress 5.3 has lots of refinements to polish the developer experience. To keep up, subscribe to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/\">Make WordPress Core blog<\/a>&nbsp;and pay special attention to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/tag\/5-3+dev-notes\/\">developer notes<\/a>&nbsp;tag for updates on those and other changes that could affect your products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Help<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you speak a language other than English?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/translate.wordpress.org\/projects\/wp\/dev\/\">Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you think you\u2019ve found a bug, you can post to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/forum\/alphabeta\/\">Alpha\/Beta area<\/a>&nbsp;in the support forums. We\u2019d love to hear from you! If you\u2019re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/newticket\">file one on WordPress Trac<\/a>&nbsp;where you can also find a list of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/tickets\/major\">known bugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 5.3 Beta 3 is now available! This software is still in development,&nbsp;so we don\u2019t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with the new version. 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