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A few of the major changes in this new version include:
- Finer points: Customizer improvement
- Finer points: Visual Editor improvement
- Finer points: Comment refinement
- Finer points: Optimization of image generation
- Developers: Selective refresh
- Developers: Backbone and underscore update
- Developers: Embed templates
- Developers: Term edit page changes
What's new?
- Posts: Inline link editing
- Posts: Additional editor shortcuts
- Comments: Moderate comment screen refresh
- Comments: Max length for comment form fields
- Comments: Comment error page navigation
- Appearance: Responsive preview of your site
- Appearance: Theme logo support
- Appearance: Selective refresh
- Appearance: Easy of use
Under the hood:
- Bug fix: Support Windows shares/DFS roots in wp_normalize_path()
- Bug fix: OPTIONS request to REST API does not return correct Accept header
- Smart Image resizing
- JavaScript library updates
- Script Loader improvements
You can learn more information about this release in the WordPress blog.
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