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On 2 Aug, 2018, WordPress 4.9.8 was released to the public.
To download WordPress 4.9.8, update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site's admin area or visit https://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/.
For step-by-step instructions on installing and updating WordPress:
If you are new to WordPress, we recommend that you begin with the following:
The primary focuses of 4.9.8 are:
“Try Gutenberg” is an opportunity for WordPress users to try out the Gutenberg block editor before it is released in WordPress 5.0. In WordPress 4.9.8, users will see an invitation on their WordPress Admin Dashboard to try Gutenberg.
“Try Gutenberg” Callout in WordPress 4.9.8 contains more information about the callout, including which users will, by default, be shown the callout and the hooks it provides for site administrators to modify that default behavior.
This version includes 18 Privacy fixes focused on ensuring consistency and flexibility in the new personal data tools added in 4.9.6, including:
In addition to the primary focuses another notable change in 4.9.8 is that developers can now register meta keys for object subtypes:
With WordPress 4.9.8, the register_meta() function supports registration of metadata not only for an entire object type (posts, terms, comments, users), but also for a specific object subtype (such as a specific post type or taxonomy).
From the WordPress 4.9.8 release post: This maintenance release fixes 46 bugs, enhancements and blessed tasks, including updating the Twenty Seventeen bundled theme.
See the full list of closed tickets in Trac:
Administration
Bundled Theme
Comments
Customize
Editor
Emoji
Filesystem API
I18N
Login and Registration
Media
Options, Meta APIs
Posts, Post Types
Privacy
REST API
Role/Capability
Taxonomy
TinyMCE
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