WordPress 5.6: The Good, the Meh and the Ugly
WordPress 5.6 is rolling out with dozens of improvements but security researchers discovered an exploitable feature.
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The substance of what’s new in WordPress 5.6 can be described as mostly good, some meh and one issue that’s ugly.
The Good
Enable jQuery Migrate Plugin Updated
The last two updates were somewhat rocky due to millions of websites breaking or accidentally updating with a beta version of WordPress.
The biggest potential issue was with the jQuery Migrate deprecations and updates.
WordPress 5.6 managed to avoid the legacy jQuery plugin issues experienced with the WordPress 5.5 update in August 2020. That was the update that caused websites to stop functioning in myriad and unexpected ways.