WordPress 4.7.3-RC1 is now available!

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The WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:

Found a bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.? Create a ticket in the bug tracker.

Want to contribute? Get started quickly with tickets marked as good first bugs for new contributors or join a bug scrub. There’s more on the reports page, like patches needing testing, and on feature projects page.

Other questions? Here is a detailed handbook for contributors, complete with tutorials.

Please help test! Here’s the build: https://wordpress.org/wordpress-4.7.3-RC1.zip

What’s in this release?

We made some improvements to media upload handling after the 4.7.1 release, so this is a good flow to test. Especially if you have the Disable Real MIME Check plugin installed, please remove it and re-test uploading your previously problematic files. See #39550 and #39552 for details.

Many of the changes are REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/.-related, in particular fixes to post and comment date handling, the wp-api.js client, and a few other miscellaneous parameters. There’s a full list on the REST API changelog page.

There are also a good number of CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. fixes and UXUX User experience improvements, and a few other changes in other components.

You can browse the full list of changes on Trac.

What’s next?

Committers: Please consider the 4.7.3 milestone and the 4.7 branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch". frozen, barring any major issues with RC1.

The 4.7.3 release is scheduled for Monday, March 6, 2017 (one week from today).

programmin 5:09 am on February 28, 2017

Will this include the code syntax highlighting or any other new features? If so how can we test?
- Weston Ruter 7:52 am on February 28, 2017
  
  @programmin No, there are no new features or enhancements in this release. I hope the media widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. will be ready for 4.7.4. Code syntax highlighting is dependent on resolving accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) issues.
- James Nylen 9:48 pm on February 28, 2017
  
  The full list of changes in this release is linked in the post above.
  
  You can test it by upgrading your site using WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/:
  
  wp core update https://wordpress.org/wordpress-4.7.3-RC1.zip
Luke Cavanagh 4:55 pm on March 1, 2017

Just updated WP on a live site to 4.7.3 RC1, no issues so far.
- James Nylen 5:06 pm on March 1, 2017
  
  Thanks for testing!

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