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On 6 January 2016, WordPress 4.4.1 will be released to the public.
== Installation/Update Information ==
To download WordPress 4.4.1, 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 the following:
* [[New To WordPress - Where to Start]]
* [[First Steps With WordPress]] or [[Upgrading WordPress Extended]]
* [[WordPress Lessons]]
== Summary ==
WordPress 4.4.1 contains fixes for 52 bugs from [[Version_4.4|4.4]], including:
Administration
#34987 “Configure” link for dashboard widgets no longer displayed.
#35047 Notices are not moved to first header when header-elements are nested inside .wrap
#35057 bug in new default_hidden_columns filter
#35112 Screen Options in Appearance -> Menu not saved correctly sometimes
Bootstrap/Load
#34967 SHORTINIT and date_i18n: Call to undefined function _x()
#35013 WP4.4 function handle_404 yelds a fatal error on line 613 when trying to clone $wp_query->post if it’s not an object
Build/Test tools
#30787 Shrinkwrap NPM dependencies
Bundled Theme
#35270 Bump twentysixteen for 4.4.1
Canonical
#34890 Canonical meta tag for paginated posts incorrect with ugly permalinks
Comments
#34946 new comment redirects break anchors in Safari
#34997 preprocess_comment filter does not contain old user_ID field for user_id, instead it has new user_id field
#35006 Comments sent immediately to Trash for matching keyword blacklist should not generate email notifications
#35025 Performance regression in comments_template in 4.4
#35068 Comments not showing up when there are unapproved messages
#35175 Page parameter no longer works in wp_list_comments
Customize
#35081 Missing Change Theme button when there are only two themes available
Embeds
#35152 Remove Rdio embed support
#35194 Remove embed discovery tags from HTML header of static home pages
#35237 Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /wp-includes/embed-template.php on line 54
Emoji
#33592 Unicode 8.0 Emoji
External Libraries
#34948 Update random_compat for “Don’t instantiate COM if it’s a disabled class”
Filesystem API
#34976 Plug ins fail to update after WP 4.4 installed
Formatting
#35008 Ampersands in URLs are no longer converted to entities
#35058 PHP Fatal when map_deep tries to work on an object that has a property by reference
HTTP API
#34935 Removed SSL certificates causing errors in WP 4.4
Help/About
#35215 Setting help tab priorities fails to correctly order the tabs
Login/Registration
#34925 4.4 wp-login.php: no longer possible to use the login_post scheme
#35103 login_url Filter is now applied to Login Form Action Attribute
Mail
#35212 Update PHPMailer to 5.2.14
Media
#35045 Responsive images not added when effective scheme differs from image src scheme
#35101 image_default_link_type option not being respected
#35102 Responsive images support for external URLs
#35106 Responsive images break uploads with full path stored in metadata
#35108 Responsive images blurry – srcset attribute doesn’t include full size version
#35153 Default link target for media files is none
Menus
#34446 WordPress Notice after add support for post type archives in menu
#34449 Remove CPT if exists menu item
#35107 wp_nav_menu outputs tags without line breaks in 4.4, causes strange bug with justified text
Permalinks
#35084 check for post status in get_page_uri causes issues with permalinks
Query
#35031 wp_old_slug_redirect() in 4.4 redirecting existing posts
#35115 404 error when URL includes title=…
Shortcodes
#34939 Shortcode regex no longer matches [shortcode=XXX]
Taxonomy
#34723 Warning in get_the_terms() because of non-array
#35089 Query var on non-public taxonomy remains boolean true since [35333]
#35137 get_terms() with a meta_query filter returns duplicated terms
#35156 wp_list_categories() does not accept comma-separated IDs for exclude_tree parameter
#35180 In WordPress 4.4 the_tags() is displaying tags ordered by ID instead of alphabetically by name
Themes
#34962 Issues with wp_get_document_title function causing problems with document titles
Users
#34993 Deleting a user no longer asks what to do with their content
Widgets
#34978 Extra quotes in title in WP_Widget_RSS class, widget method
#34995 WP_Widget::widget not called
XML-RPC
#35053 XML-RPC when post with date_created_gmt, its post_date will gmt date not local date
#35185 Unable to create Post via XMLRPC after upgrading to 4.4
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