WordPress 5.3.1 Release Candidate 1 Available for Testing!

A quick update, WordPress 5.3.1 Release Candidate 1 is now available and you can start testing. The new update includes a total of 44 enhancements and fixes.

WordPress 5.3.1 Release Candidate 1 contains enhancements regarding the block editor, the new default Twenty Twenty theme, accessibility focus, Admin CSS, internationalization, media, and many more.

To test WordPress 5.3.1 Release Candidate 1, you can use the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want to select the “point release nightlies” option) or you can also directly download the release candidate here (zip).

As mentioned earlier, WordPress 5.3.1 Release Candidate 1 has a total of 44 fixes. They are:

1. #30429: wp.newPost gets non-GMT date calculation wrong
2. #31245: Replace alloptions with a key cache
3. #42437: Thumbnails can overwrite other uploads if filename matches
4. #48271: Media Library: Tab structure does not use tab semantics
5. #48313: Administration email verification uses the site locale instead of the user’s locale
6. #48324: Undefined index: full in/wp-includes/media.php on line 214
7. #48334: Allow the remind interval for the admin email verification to be filtered
8. #48355: Media: add a semantic indication for the buttons group active state
9. #48371: Update sodium_compat to v1.12.1
10. #48376: Update kses safecss_filter_attr function to allow gradient backgrounds
11. #48406: Dashboard: Some links can be identified as such only by their color
12. #48409: Menus: form controls disabled only visually when creating a new menu
13. #48420: Admin CSS: standardize form controls heights, alignments, etc.
14. #48550: Twenty Twenty: Customizer option to show or hide author bio
15. #48551: Twenty Twenty: Replace JS-based smooth scroll with CSS
16. #48582: Better to have some hover effects on credits list
17. #48585: Color contrast changes impact color schemes negatively
18. #48588: Unable to Replace Image in Image widget is using “Insert from URL”
19. #48592: About display of tag cloud widget
20. #48598: :active button color issue in all color schemes except for “Default”
21. #48601: Twenty Twenty: document.body is null
22. #48606: Some date formats get incorrectly output in Italian
23. #48619: Twenty Twenty: Author bio and bottom post meta misaligned on mobile
24. #48623: WP 5.3 time problem causes day number shifts in permalinks
25. #48624: Twenty Twenty: Duplicate array key/value in TwentyTwenty_Non_Latin_Languages::get_non_latin_css
26. #48652: Twenty Twenty: Input wp-comment-cookies-consent Checkbox in Comment Form is Too Small
27. #48674: Typo in wp_credits_section_title documentation
28. #48675: mysql2date adding timezone offset when given GMT time
29. #48688: TwentyTwenty: Issue with instagram oembed css
30. #48692: Add PHP time zone check to Site Health
31. #48696: Remove the CollegeHumor oEmbed provider
32. #48704: Twenty Twenty: Spelling correction of a variable and inline documentation.
33. #48725: Additional Capabilities list displayed in user-edit broke after 5.3 update
34. #48736: Exclude PNG images from scaling after upload
35. #48763: Twenty Twenty: SmoothScroll is broken
36. #48815: Select comment checkbox is partially hidden on pending comments in mobile
37. #48866: TwentyTwenty: Paginated comments don’t work
38. #48876: Twenty Twenty: High input fields are misaligned in Firefox
39. #48884: Update WordPress packages with fixes targeted for 5.3.1
40. #48906: Twenty Twenty: Add context for twentytwenty_start_of_post_meta_list and twentytwenty_end_of_post_meta_list
41. #48907: Media Editor: Consistent width for Scale and Crop inputs
42. #48918: Twenty Twenty: echoing bloginfo()
43. #48599: Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in ../wp-admin/includes/plugin.php on line 1392
44. #47069: Twenty Nineteen: the admin bar on the front end has reduced functionalities and bugs due to jQuery not being used