Title: Version 4.4.1
Author: Subrata Sarkar
Published: January 18, 2019

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# Version 4.4.1

## In this article

 * [Installation/Update Information](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-4-4-1/?output_format=md#installation-update-information)
 * [Summary](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-4-4-1/?output_format=md#summary)
 * [List of Files Revised](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-4-4-1/?output_format=md#list-of-files-revised)

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On 6 January, 2016, WordPress 4.4.1 was released to the public.

## 󠀁[Installation/Update Information](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-4-4-1/?output_format=md#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/](https://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/).

For step-by-step instructions on installing and updating WordPress:

 * [Updating WordPress](https://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress)

If you are new to WordPress, we recommend that you begin with the following:

 * [New To WordPress – Where to Start](https://codex.wordpress.org/New_To_WordPress_-_Where_to_Start)
 * [First Steps With WordPress](https://codex.wordpress.org/First_Steps_With_WordPress)
   or [Upgrading WordPress Extended](https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended)
 * [WordPress Lessons](https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons)

## 󠀁[Summary](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-4-4-1/?output_format=md#summary)󠁿

WordPress 4.4.1 contains fixes for 52 bugs from [4.4](https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.4),
including:

Administration

 * [#34987](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34987) “Configure” link for dashboard
   widgets no longer displayed.
 * [#35047](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35047) Notices are not moved 
   to first header when header-elements are nested inside .wrap
 * [#35057](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35057) bug in new default_hidden_columns
   filter
 * [#35112](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35112) Screen Options in Appearance-
   > Menu not saved correctly sometimes

Bootstrap/Load

 * [#34967](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34967) SHORTINIT and date_i18n:
   Call to undefined function _x()
 * [#35013](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/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](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/30787) Shrinkwrap NPM dependencies

Bundled Theme

 * [#35270](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35270) Bump twentysixteen for
   4.4.1

Canonical

 * [#34890](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34890) Canonical meta tag for
   paginated posts incorrect with ugly permalinks

Comments

 * [#34946](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34946) new comment redirects 
   break anchors in Safari
 * [#34997](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34997) preprocess_comment filter
   does not contain old user_ID field for user_id, instead it has new user_id field
 * [#35006](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35006) Comments sent immediately
   to Trash for matching keyword blacklist should not generate email notifications
 * [#35025](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35025) Performance regression
   in comments_template in 4.4
 * [#35068](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35068) Comments not showing up
   when there are unapproved messages
 * [#35175](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35175) Page parameter no longer
   works in wp_list_comments

Customize

 * [#35081](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35081) Missing Change Theme button
   when there are only two themes available

Embeds

 * [#35152](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35152) Remove Rdio embed support
 * [#35194](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35194) Remove embed discovery
   tags from HTML header of static home pages
 * [#35237](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35237) Invalid argument supplied
   for foreach() in /wp-includes/embed-template.php on line 54

Emoji

 * [#33592](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/33592) Unicode 8.0 Emoji

External Libraries

 * [#34948](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34948) Update random_compat for“
   Don’t instantiate COM if it’s a disabled class”

Filesystem API

 * [#34976](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34976) Plug ins fail to update
   after WP 4.4 installed

Formatting

 * [#35008](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35008) Ampersands in URLs are
   no longer converted to entities
 * [#35058](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35058) PHP Fatal when map_deep
   tries to work on an object that has a property by reference

HTTP API

 * [#34935](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34935) Removed SSL certificates
   causing errors in WP 4.4

Help/About

 * [#35215](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35215) Setting help tab priorities
   fails to correctly order the tabs

Login/Registration

 * [#34925](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34925) 4.4 wp-login.php: no longer
   possible to use the login_post scheme
 * [#35103](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35103) login_url Filter is now
   applied to Login Form Action Attribute

Mail

 * [#35212](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35212) Update PHPMailer to 5.2.14

Media

 * [#35045](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35045) Responsive images not 
   added when effective scheme differs from image src scheme
 * [#35101](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35101) image_default_link_type
   option not being respected
 * [#35102](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35102) Responsive images support
   for external URLs
 * [#35106](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35106) Responsive images break
   uploads with full path stored in metadata
 * [#35108](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35108) Responsive images blurry–
   srcset attribute doesn’t include full size version
 * [#35153](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35153) Default link target for
   media files is none

Menus

 * [#34446](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34446) WordPress Notice after
   add support for post type archives in menu
 * [#34449](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34449) Remove CPT if exists menu
   item
 * [#35107](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35107) wp_nav_menu outputs tags
   without line breaks in 4.4, causes strange bug with justified text

Permalinks

 * [#35084](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35084) check for post status 
   in get_page_uri causes issues with permalinks

Query

 * [#35031](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35031) wp_old_slug_redirect()
   in 4.4 redirecting existing posts
 * [#35115](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35115) 404 error when URL includes
   title=…

Shortcodes

 * [#34939](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34939) Shortcode regex no longer
   matches [shortcode=XXX]

Taxonomy

 * [#34723](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34723) Warning in get_the_terms()
   because of non-array
 * [#35089](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35089) Query var on non-public
   taxonomy remains boolean true since [#35333](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35333)
 * [#35137](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35137) get_terms() with a meta_query
   filter returns duplicated terms
 * [#35156](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35156) wp_list_categories() does
   not accept comma-separated IDs for exclude_tree parameter
 * [#35180](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35180) In WordPress 4.4 the_tags()
   is displaying tags ordered by ID instead of alphabetically by name

Themes

 * [#34962](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34962) Issues with wp_get_document_title
   function causing problems with document titles

Users

 * [#34993](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34993) Deleting a user no longer
   asks what to do with their content

Widgets

 * [#34978](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34978) Extra quotes in title 
   in WP_Widget_RSS class, widget method
 * [#34995](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34995) WP_Widget::widget not 
   called

XML-RPC

 * [#35053](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35053) XML-RPC when post with
   date_created_gmt, its post_date will gmt date not local date
 * [#35185](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35185) Unable to create Post 
   via XMLRPC after upgrading to 4.4

## 󠀁[List of Files Revised](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-4-4-1/?output_format=md#list-of-files-revised)󠁿

    ```wp-block-preformatted
    /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
    ```

First published

January 18, 2019

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