WordPress released 5.6 

This is an important breakthrough in the community’s course toward the final release of WordPress 5.6.

Release Candidate signifies that the new version is ready for release but with millions of users and thousands of plugins and themes, it’s possible that something was missed WordPress 5.6 slated for release on December 8, 2020, but we need your help to get there—if you haven’t tried 5.6 yet, now is the time!

You can test the WordPress 5.6 release candidate in two ways:

• Try the WordPress Beta Tester plugins (choose the Bleeding edge channel and Beta/RC Only stream options)
• Or download the release candidate here (zip).

What in WordPress 5.6 

The ultimate release of 2020 remains the yearly culture of a new default theme that is custom created to showcase the latest features and functionality of the software. 

Continued development on the block editor is especially clear in this release, which begins more blocks to more places, and fewer clicks to achieve layouts.

WordPress 5.6 also has lots of refinements to clean the developer experience. To learn more, subscribe to the Make WordPress Core blog and spend specific consideration to the developer notes tag for updates on those and other advances that could transform products.

Plugins and theme developers

Please examine your plugins and themes toward WordPress 5.6 and modernise the Examined to the version in the readme file to 5.6 If you discover adaptability problems, please be assured to post to the support forums, so those can be figured out before the ultimate release.

The WordPress 5.6 Field Guide, due very quickly, will provide a more specific dive into the major changes.

WordPress 5.6 Features

• Automatic updates for major WordPress Core releases (opt-in)
• Update Gutenberg to the latest version with new features.
• A new default theme, Twenty Twenty-One.
• PHP 8 support.
• The public beta of full site editing.
• oEmbed changes.
• Additional Block Patterns.

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