Bedrock 1.12.2 and WordPress 5.1 Released

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WordPress 5.1 was released today and includes a new site health feature to notify users running outdated versions of PHP, performance improvements to the new editor, and some minor development updates.

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 with get_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)

Additional reading:

• WordPress 5.1 Field Guide
• Miscellaneous Developer Focused Changes in 5.1

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