WordPress 5.6 Beta 4 delayed from November 10th to November 12th, 2020

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During the November 4th core chat, some questions were raised about the readiness of the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. auto-update feature, scheduled to land in WordPress 5.6. Questions ranged from the implementation of it to the scope of the output desired. A separate post is coming with more information on that discussion and the planned next steps.

In order to allow some more time to refine the work done so far, WordPress 5.6 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 4 will be delayed from today, November 10th, to Thursday, November 12th, 2020.

At this moment, no delay is expected on the release: everyone is working to make WordPress 5.6 available on December 8th.

Thank you to @francina who helped me craft this draft. 🙂

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