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To get this version, update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area or visit https:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/release-archive\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For step-by-step instructions on installing and updating WordPress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are new to WordPress, we recommend that you begin with the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3 security issues affects WordPress versions between 5.4 and 5.8. If you haven\u2019t yet updated to 5.8, all WordPress versions since 5.4 have also been updated to fix the following security issues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to these issues, the security team would like to thank the following people for reporting vulnerabilities during the WordPress 5.8 beta testing period, allowing them to be fixed prior to release:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you to all of the reporters for privately disclosing the vulnerabilities<\/a>. This gave the security team time to fix the vulnerabilities before WordPress sites could be attacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WordPress 5.8.1 Release Candidate 1 features 41 bug fixes<\/a> on Core, as well as 20 bug fixes<\/a> for the Block Editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The following core tickets from Trac are fixed:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, browse the full list of changes on Trac<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fixed Block editor issues from GitHub:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The 5.8.1 release was led by Jonathan Desrosiers<\/a> and Evan Mullins<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to the security researchers and release squad members mentioned above, thank you to everyone who helped make WordPress 5.8.1 happen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2linctools<\/a>, Adam Zielinski<\/a>, Alain Schlesser<\/a>, Alex Lende<\/a>, alexstine<\/a>, AlGala<\/a>, Andr\u00e9<\/a>, Andrei Draganescu<\/a>, Andrew Ozz<\/a>, Ankit Panchal<\/a>, Anthony Burchell<\/a>, Anton Vlasenko<\/a>, Ari Stathopoulos<\/a>, Bruno Ribaric<\/a>, Carolina Nymark<\/a>, Daisy Olsen<\/a>, Daniel Richards<\/a>, Daria<\/a>, David Anderson<\/a>, David Bi\u0148ovec<\/a>, David Herrera<\/a>, Dominik Schilling<\/a>, Ella van Durpe<\/a>, Enchiridion<\/a>, Evan Mullins<\/a>, Gary Jones<\/a>, George Mamadashvili<\/a>, Greg Zi\u00f3\u0142kowski<\/a>, H\u00e9ctor Prieto<\/a>, ianmjones<\/a>, Jb Audras<\/a>, Jeff Bowen<\/a>, Joe Dolson<\/a>, Joen A.<\/a>, John Blackbourn<\/a>, Jonathan Desrosiers<\/a>, JuanMa Garrido<\/a>, Juliette Reinders Folmer<\/a>, Kai Hao<\/a>, Kapil Paul<\/a>, Kerry Liu<\/a>, Kevin Fodness<\/a>, Marcus Kazmierczak<\/a>, Mark-k<\/a>, Matt<\/a>, Michael Adams (mdawaffe)<\/a>, Mike Schroder<\/a>, moch11<\/a>, Mukesh Panchal<\/a>, Nik Tsekouras<\/a>, Paal Joachim Romdahl<\/a>, Pascal Birchler<\/a>, Paul Bearne<\/a>, Paul Biron<\/a>, Peter Wilson<\/a>, Petter Walb\u00f8 Johnsg\u00e5rd<\/a>, Radixweb<\/a>, Rahul Mehta<\/a>, ramonopoly<\/a>, ravipatel<\/a>, Riad Benguella<\/a>, Robert Anderson<\/a>, Rodrigo Arias<\/a>, Sanket Chodavadiya<\/a>, Sergey Biryukov<\/a>, Stephen Bernhardt<\/a>, Stephen Edgar<\/a>, Steve Henty<\/a>, terraling<\/a>, Timothy Jacobs<\/a>, tmatsuur<\/a>, TobiasBg<\/a>, Tonya Mork<\/a>, Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)<\/a>, Vlad T<\/a>, wb1234<\/a>, and WFMattR<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On September 8, 2021, WordPress 5.8.1 was released to the public. Installation\/Update Information To get this version, 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: Updating WordPress If you are new to WordPress, we recommend that you begin with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8670591,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false},"helphub_major_release":[69],"class_list":["post-14848481","helphub_version","type-helphub_version","status-publish","hentry","helphub_major_release-5-8"],"revision_note":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wordpress-versions\/14848481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wordpress-versions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/helphub_version"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8670591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wordpress-versions\/14848481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14848481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"helphub_major_release","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/helphub_major_release?post=14848481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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wp_editor_set_quality<\/code> for both loaded and saved mime_type<\/code>s<\/li>IMAGETYPE_WEBP<\/code> and IMG_WEBP<\/code><\/li>grunt clean:css<\/code> does not clean the css\/dist<\/code> folder<\/li>get_template_directory_uri<\/code> instead of get_stylesheet_directory_uri<\/code><\/li>Thanks and props!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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