Download WordPress 4.1 Beta 1

The first beta release of WordPress version 4.1 has been released. With this program, which is made available under a GPL license, it is possible to set up and maintain a weblog. WordPress is easy to set up and can be up and running in under five minutes if a server with PHP and MySQL is already available. There are possibilities to further extend the functionality of WordPress, in addition to blogging, and improve the appearance with plugins and themes to adjust. Version 4.1 includes a new default theme. Furthermore, there is an option that makes all toolbars disappear when you enter text, something that should make you concentrate better. The complete release notes can be found below.

WordPress 4.1 Beta 1

WordPress 4.1 is due for release next month, so we need your help with testing. Here are some highlights of what to test:

• Our beautiful new default theme, Twenty Fifteen. It’s a clean, mobile-first, blog-focused theme designed through simplicity.
• A new distraction-free writing mode for the editor. It’s enabled by default for beta, and we’d love feedback on it.
• The ability to automatically install new language packs right from the General Settings screen (available as long as your site’s filesystem is writable).
• A new inline formatting toolbar for images embedded into posts.

There have been a lot of changes for developers to test as well:

• Improvements to meta, date, comment, and taxonomy queries, including complex (nested, multiple relation) queries; and querying comment types (#12668).
• A single term shared across multiple taxonomies is now split into two when updated. for more, see this post, #5809and #30335.
• A new and better way for themes to handle title tags.
• Several improvements to the Customizer APIincluding contextual panels and sections, and JavaScript templates for controls.

If you want a more in-depth view of what changes have made it into 4.1, check out the weekly review posts on the main development blog.

If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. We’d love to hear from you! If you’re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, file one on the WordPress Trac. There, you can also find a list of known bugs and everything we’ve fixed so far.