WordPress 5.8

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WordPress 5.8 Beta 1 is now available for testing!

WordPress 5.8 Beta 1

WordPress 5.8 Beta 1 is now available for testing!

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Notable changes:

Discover several new blocks and expressive tools, including blocks for Page Lists, Site Title, Logo, and Tagline. A powerful Query Loop block offers multiple ways for displaying lists of posts and comes with new block patterns that take advantage of its flexibility and creative possibilities.

Themes can now control and configure styling with a theme.json file, including layout configuration, block supports, color palettes, and more.

New design tools and enhancements to existing blocks, including more color, typography, and spacing options, drag and drop for Cover backgrounds, additions to block transformation options, ability to embed PDFs within the File block, and more.

You can now use any block in your theme’s widget areas using the all new Widgets screen and updated Customizer.

Introducing the Global Styles and Global Settings APIs: control the editor settings and available customization tools and style blocks using a theme.json file.Template editor opens inside an iframe to more accurately resemble the front end.

Added capability to set the default format for image sub-sizes as well as WebP support