WordPress 5.5 has been released! Along with speed and block editor enhancements, this update adds plugin and theme auto-updates, XML sitemaps, image lazy loading, and over 500 bug fixes. For specifics, check out the changelog.
805 volunteers contributed to this release, lead by Matt Mullenweg, Jake Surlock, and David Baumwald. At the time of writing this, WordPress 5.5 has been out for about 5 hours, and has already been downloaded 1,028,975 times!
All users can safely update from Dashboard -> Updates or download and update manually, though you should probably backup first just in case, unless you’re already using Jetpack Backup, which you really should be.
If you run into any problems, stop by the known issues first, and please let us know if it’s not covered there!
2 responses
Hello James, had no issues upgrading and also had a few older plugins running at the time. Always have a backup available though but I’m using the free UpdraftPlus not Jetpack. Glad to see lazy loading images introduced, which will now allow me to delete another obsolete plugin.
Enjoy! 🙂