{"id":292,"date":"2010-12-26T13:11:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T05:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/?p=292"},"modified":"2010-12-26T13:12:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T05:12:13","slug":"wordpress-3-1-rc1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/26\/wordpress-3-1-rc1\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 3.1 RC1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2010\/12\/wordpress-3-1-release-candidate\/\">WordPress 3.1 RC1<\/a> has been released. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An RC comes after the beta period and before final release. That means we think we&#8217;re done. We currently have no known issues or bugs to squash. But with tens of millions of users, a variety of configurations, and thousands of plugins, it&#8217;s possible we&#8217;ve missed something. So if you haven&#8217;t tested WordPress 3.1 yet, now is the time! Please though, not on your live site unless you&#8217;re extra adventurous.<\/p>\n<p>Things to keep in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With <a href=\"http:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/milestone\/3.1\">nearly 700 tickets closed<\/a>, there are tons of changes. Plugin and theme authors, <strong>please test your plugins and themes now<\/strong>, so that if there is a compatibility issue, we can figure it out before the final release.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Users<\/strong> are also encouraged to test things out. If you find problems, let your plugin\/theme authors know so they can figure out the cause.<\/li>\n<li>If any known issues crop up, you&#8217;ll be able to <a href=\"http:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/report\/5\">find them here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are testing the release candidate and think you&#8217;ve found a bug, there are a few ways to let us know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Post it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/forum\/alphabeta\/\">Alpha\/Beta area in the support forums<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Report it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.automattic.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/wp-testers\">wp-testers mailing list<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Join the development IRC channel and tell us live at irc.freenode.net #wordpress-dev<\/li>\n<li>File a bug ticket on the <a href=\"http:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/\">WordPress Trac<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To test WordPress 3.1, try the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wordpress-beta-tester\/\">WordPress Beta Tester plugin<\/a> (you&#8217;ll want &#8220;bleeding edge nightlies&#8221;). Or you can <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/wordpress-3.1-RC1.zip\">download the release candidate here<\/a> (zip).<\/p>\n<p>We <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2010\/11\/wordpress-3-1-beta-1\/\">released<\/a> WordPress 3.1 Beta 1 on Thanksgiving, so it&#8217;s only fitting that the release candidate comes as a Christmas present. Happy holidays and happy testing!<\/p>\n<p><em>If you&#8217;d like to know which levers to pull in your testing, <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2010\/11\/wordpress-3-1-beta-1\/\">check out a list of features<\/a> in our Beta 1 post.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/wordpress-3.1-RC1.zip\">WordPress 3.1 RC1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 3.1 RC1 has been released. An RC comes after the beta period and before final release. That means we think we&#8217;re done. We currently have no known issues or bugs to squash. But with tens of millions of users, a variety of configurations, and thousands of plugins, it&#8217;s possible we&#8217;ve missed something. 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