On December 12, 2013, WordPress Version 3.8, named for Charlie Parker, was released to the public. For more information on this enhancement and bug-fix release, read the WordPress Blog, the Release Post, and see the Changelog for 3.8.

For Version 3.8, the database version (db_version in wp_options) changed to 26691, and the Trac revision was r26861.

Introduces a new, modern admin design A fresh, uncluttered design Clean typography with Open Sans Superior contrast and large, comfortable type Responsive interfaces throughout Refined, theme management Smoother, click-to-add widget management

New Default Theme – Twenty Fourteen Easily create a responsive magazine website with a sleek, modern design. Feature your favorite homepage content in either a grid or a slider. Use the three widget areas to customize your website, and change your content’s layout with a full-width page template and a contributor page to show off your authors.

For Developers External Libraries have been updated. Better RTL support



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Replace PNG-based plugins ratings stars with Dashicons for performance gains

Improved help tab text in various screens

Clicking “Check Again” on the Updates screen now provides more immediate feedback

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Consolidate several Dashboard widgets to improve readability

Replace the ‘Right Now’ widget with the new and improved ‘At a Glance’ widget

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Introduce 8 new admin color schemes

Improved readability throughout using Open Sans typeface (where supported)

Responsive Toolbar for smaller-screen devices

Leverage Dashicons instead of icon sprites for crisper experience on all resolutions

Big RTL improvements throughout

Make the dashboard more usable on any size device with responsive all the things

Improve the login screen experience for Internet Explorer 8 users

Improve Quick Edit experience for non-English users

Improve the Menus experience for mobile users

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New Default Theme — Twenty Fourteen

Make it possible to check for any post format assigned to a post with has_post_format()

Better custom background theme support defaults, can now specify ‘default-repeat’, ‘default-position-x’, and ‘default-attachment’ arguments for background images.

Tags for width changed to layout: responsive-layout, fluid-layout, and fixed-layout

New tag: accessibility-ready to denote a theme is aware of accessibility best practices such as color contrast, keyboard navigation, and form/link focus. See WP theme accessibility guidelines.

Theme screenshots’ size have increased from 600 × 450 to 880 × 660.

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New click-to-add interface for adding widgets to sidebars

Improved interface for devices of all resolutions

Better drag-and-drop experience

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Make list table row actions keyboard accessible

Improve color contrast throughout the admin

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Improved performance when deleting users in Multisite

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Under The Hood # Under The Hood

Heartbeat performance and API improvements

A $taxonomy argument was added to each of the adjacent post functions.

Define $is_nginx in vars.php

Apply capital_P_dangit() to the wp_title filter

Make sure ajaxurl is defined in the Customizer

validate_active_plugins() now checks the manage_network_plugins capability instead of is_super_admin()

Allow passing false for the meta_box_cb argument in register_taxonomy() to turn off the meta box display entirely

Make it easier to target video shortcodes by adding a wp-video class to the parent container

Add CSSMin, SASS, CSSJanus, and jsHint to build tools for core development

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Bug Fixes # Bug Fixes

Fix bug where top-level categories were only redirecting if they had no children

Fix bug in wp_get_object_terms() where returned were strings not integers

Fix a bug where passing a null value to meta_query resulted in wonkiness with the comparison operator

Fix “‘wp_signups’ already exists for query” error after updating a Multisite network

Fix bug in get_bookmarks() caused by missing parentheses

Fix comment_notification_recipients filter behavior so that it is still respected even on comments left by the post author

Fix a date comparison error in dashboard_relative_date()

Fix keyboard accessibility for row actions in list tables.

Fix no-js and accessibility modes in in the Widgets screen

Fix a bug where menus could still be assigned to a non-existent theme location

Silence jQuery Migrate errors in the General settings page

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External Libraries # External Libraries

Add a copyright notice to zxcvbn (password strength meter) script

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