Bedrock 1.12.2 has been released with support for WordPress 5.1.
WordPress 5.1 was released today and includes a new site health feature to notify users running outdated versions of PHP, performance improvements to the new editor, and some minor development updates.
Version | Loading Time | KeyPress event (typing) |
Gutenberg 4.8 (WordPress 5.1) | 13.6 seconds | 158.2ms |
Gutenberg 4.7 (WordPress 5.0) | 15.1 seconds | 203.5ms |
Source: What’s New in Gutenberg?
Development updates in WordPress 5.1
Some of the development updates in WordPress 5.1 include:
-
Multisite metadata in a new database table called
wp_blogmeta
withget_site_meta
,update_site_meta
,add_site_meta
,delete_site_meta
- Cron API updates including new filters for modifying cron storage
-
WP_DEBUG_LOG
now accepts a file path as a value (see #18391) - New plugin action hooks:
plugin_loaded
,network_plugin_loaded
,mu_plugin_loaded
(see #41346)
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