WordPress 5.9 RC 2
The second Release Candidate (RC2) for WordPress 5.9 is now available! βRelease Candidateβ means the new version of the software is ready for release. It helps the community check that nothing is missed, given the thousands of plugins and themes and differences in how millions of people use the software. Thank you to everyone who has contributed thus far towards testing and filing bugs to help make WordPress 5.9 a great release. WordPress 5.9 is slated for release in just two weeks on January 25, 2022. There’s still time to help! Since RC1 was released, six bugs have been found and fixed. There were 13 bug fixes backported from Gutenberg. Testing the release You can test the WordPress 5.9 release candidate in three ways: Option 1: Install and activate the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (select the βBleeding edgeβ channel and βBeta/RC Onlyβ stream). Option 2: Direct download the beta version here (zip). Option 3: When using WP-CLI to upgrade from Beta 1, 2, 3, 4, or RC1, on a case-insensitive filesystem, please use the following command sequence: Command One: wp core update –version=5.9-RC2 Command Two: wp core update –version=5.9-RC2 –force Your help to test the second Release Candidate is vital:β¦
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