4.0-beta Release Notes¶

Building on 4.0-alpha1, this beta brings user-editable plugin definitions, better stability and support for WordPress 4.7 & 4.8.

Released 9 July 2017. Announcement blog post.

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Notable changes¶

• For plugin definitions, the WP_CONTENT_DIR/.versionpress/plugins/<plugin-slug> location is now supported and actually preferred #1176
• Filterable action priorities #1232
• Support for serialized arrays inside serialized arrays, a.k.a., inception #1234
• Most actions now use the verb 'update' rather than 'edit' #1120
• Schema updates for WordPress 4.7 (#1164) and 4.8 (#1217)
• Fixed many bugs reported in 4.0-alpha1
• Updates to Plugin-Support.md based on feedback (current state)
• Dockerized development environment and tests #1041
• Both backend and frontend dependencies updated after a while
• We've adopted GitHub projects to manage the development process
• 'Developer Preview' is now used instead of 'Early Access' #1201
• Docs have been merged into the main repo (used to be versionpress/docs) #1218

See all 120+ issues and PRs resolved in 2.0-beta or the GitHub project.

Upgrade notes¶

To upgrade from 4.0-alpha1 and earlier, uninstall (delete) the previous version and install again.

System requirements¶

• WordPress 4.8+
• PHP 5.6+
• Git 1.9+ (2.13 or newer recommended)
• proc_open() enabled