The beta for the big release, WordPress 5.2 Beta 1 was released yesterday on March 27, 2019. The major release, WordPress 5.2 has been scheduled to be released on April 30 this year.. Check out the big items to test to find as many bugs as in the coming weeks to make things easier for the developers.. Site Health Check is ongoing project aimed at improving the stability and performance of WordPress ecosystem. And the phase of this project which was scoped for WordPress 5.1 has now been included WordPress 5.2. This will be the time that WordPress would catch and pause the problem code. Visit Tools menu and click on Health Check to get information that can help improve the speed and security of your site.. For users convenience, WordPress 5.2 will display you warning and help you upgrade your PHP version.. Added the library, which provides compatibility for Sodium-based library added PHP 7.2.. As mentioned above, WordPress 5.2 is scheduled for release on April and the team can use all the help they can get.
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