On 6 January, 2016, WordPress 4.4.1 was released to the public.
Installation/Update Information
To download WordPress 4.4.1, update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area or visit https://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/.
For step-by-step instructions on installing and updating WordPress:
If you are new to WordPress, we recommend that you begin with the following:
- New To WordPress – Where to Start
- First Steps With WordPress or Upgrading WordPress Extended
- WordPress Lessons
Summary
WordPress 4.4.1 contains fixes for 52 bugs from 4.4, including:
Administration
- #34987 “Configure” link for dashboard widgets no longer displayed.
- #35047 Notices are not moved to first header when header-elements are nested inside .wrap
- #35057 bug in new default_hidden_columns filter
- #35112 Screen Options in Appearance -> Menu not saved correctly sometimes
Bootstrap/Load
- #34967 SHORTINIT and date_i18n: Call to undefined function _x()
- #35013 WP4.4 function handle_404 yields a fatal error on line 613 when trying to clone $wp_query->post if it’s not an object
Build/Test tools
- #30787 Shrinkwrap NPM dependencies
Bundled Theme
- #35270 Bump twentysixteen for 4.4.1
Canonical
- #34890 Canonical meta tag for paginated posts incorrect with ugly permalinks
Comments
- #34946 new comment redirects break anchors in Safari
- #34997 preprocess_comment filter does not contain old user_ID field for user_id, instead it has new user_id field
- #35006 Comments sent immediately to Trash for matching keyword blacklist should not generate email notifications
- #35025 Performance regression in comments_template in 4.4
- #35068 Comments not showing up when there are unapproved messages
- #35175 Page parameter no longer works in wp_list_comments
Customize
- #35081 Missing Change Theme button when there are only two themes available
Embeds
- #35152 Remove Rdio embed support
- #35194 Remove embed discovery tags from HTML header of static home pages
- #35237 Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /wp-includes/embed-template.php on line 54
Emoji
- #33592 Unicode 8.0 Emoji
External Libraries
- #34948 Update random_compat for “Don’t instantiate COM if it’s a disabled class”
Filesystem API
- #34976 Plug ins fail to update after WP 4.4 installed
Formatting
- #35008 Ampersands in URLs are no longer converted to entities
- #35058 PHP Fatal when map_deep tries to work on an object that has a property by reference
HTTP API
- #34935 Removed SSL certificates causing errors in WP 4.4
Help/About
- #35215 Setting help tab priorities fails to correctly order the tabs
Login/Registration
- #34925 4.4 wp-login.php: no longer possible to use the login_post scheme
- #35103 login_url Filter is now applied to Login Form Action Attribute
- #35212 Update PHPMailer to 5.2.14
Media
- #35045 Responsive images not added when effective scheme differs from image src scheme
- #35101 image_default_link_type option not being respected
- #35102 Responsive images support for external URLs
- #35106 Responsive images break uploads with full path stored in metadata
- #35108 Responsive images blurry – srcset attribute doesn’t include full size version
- #35153 Default link target for media files is none
Menus
- #34446 WordPress Notice after add support for post type archives in menu
- #34449 Remove CPT if exists menu item
- #35107 wp_nav_menu outputs tags without line breaks in 4.4, causes strange bug with justified text
Permalinks
- #35084 check for post status in get_page_uri causes issues with permalinks
Query
- #35031 wp_old_slug_redirect() in 4.4 redirecting existing posts
- #35115 404 error when URL includes title=…
Shortcodes
- #34939 Shortcode regex no longer matches [shortcode=XXX]
Taxonomy
- #34723 Warning in get_the_terms() because of non-array
- #35089 Query var on non-public taxonomy remains boolean true since #35333
- #35137 get_terms() with a meta_query filter returns duplicated terms
- #35156 wp_list_categories() does not accept comma-separated IDs for exclude_tree parameter
- #35180 In WordPress 4.4 the_tags() is displaying tags ordered by ID instead of alphabetically by name
Themes
- #34962 Issues with wp_get_document_title function causing problems with document titles
Users
- #34993 Deleting a user no longer asks what to do with their content
Widgets
- #34978 Extra quotes in title in WP_Widget_RSS class, widget method
- #34995 WP_Widget::widget not called
XML-RPC
- #35053 XML-RPC when post with date_created_gmt, its post_date will gmt date not local date
- #35185 Unable to create Post via XMLRPC after upgrading to 4.4
List of Files Revised
/wp-admin/users.php /wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php /wp-admin/includes/screen.php /wp-admin/includes/class-wp-screen.php /wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpsockets.php /wp-admin/js/postbox.min.js /wp-admin/js/common.min.js /wp-admin/js/postbox.js /wp-admin/js/common.js /wp-admin/about.php /wp-login.php /wp-includes/class-wp.php /wp-includes/comment.php /wp-includes/class-IXR.php /wp-includes/functions.php /wp-includes/embed.php /wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-widget-rss.php /wp-includes/random_compat/random_bytes_dev_urandom.php /wp-includes/random_compat/random.php /wp-includes/query.php /wp-includes/class-wp-walker.php /wp-includes/taxonomy.php /wp-includes/certificates/ca-bundle.crt /wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php /wp-includes/customize/class-wp-customize-themes-section.php /wp-includes/widgets.php /wp-includes/comment-template.php /wp-includes/nav-menu-template.php /wp-includes/formatting.php /wp-includes/class-phpmailer.php /wp-includes/version.php /wp-includes/class-oembed.php /wp-includes/media.php /wp-includes/embed-template.php /wp-includes/class-smtp.php /wp-includes/link-template.php /wp-includes/update.php /wp-includes/post.php /wp-includes/js/wp-emoji-release.min.js /wp-includes/js/wp-emoji-loader.js /wp-includes/js/twemoji.min.js /wp-includes/js/autosave.min.js /wp-includes/js/wp-emoji.min.js /wp-includes/js/twemoji.js /wp-includes/js/autosave.js /wp-includes/js/media-views.min.js /wp-includes/js/wp-emoji-loader.min.js /wp-includes/js/wp-emoji.js /wp-includes/js/media-views.js /wp-includes/shortcodes.php /wp-includes/category-template.php /wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php /wp-includes/general-template.php /wp-config-sample.php /wp-content/plugins /license.txt /readme.html