WordPress 5.6 “Simone” Released

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WordPress 5.6 Released
WordPress 5.6 “Simone” was released on December 8, 2020. This is a feature release that requires manually updating.

Updates Include

  • Twenty Twenty-One – New default WordPress theme. Every year WordPress releases a theme named after the upcoming year. This one is an aesthetically simple theme built to work well with the block editor.
  • Block Editor improvements
  • Option to turn on automatic updates for major releases.
  • Better video captioning – you can now upload subtitles or captions to videos within pages and posts.

Learn more at https://wordpress.org/news/2020/12/simone/