WordPress 3.9 Beta 2 is released and ready for testing now with more than 100 changes since beta 1.  WordPress 3.9 is due for release in April 2014 and most of the expected changes were made clear during the beta 1 release.

Changes in WordPress 3.9 Beta 2

• Rendering of embedded audio and video players directly in the visual editor.
• Visual and functional improvements to the editor, the media manager, and theme installer.
• Various bug fixes to TinyMCE, the software behind the visual editor.
• Lots of fixes to widget management in the theme customizer.

Rendering of embedded audio and video in the visual editor will be something really useful feature as most of the bloggers use video and audio files with their blog posts, now you will have the preview of the video while editing.

As already mentioned this release primarily includes bug fixes, if you are going to test the software, run it on a test site as the product is still under development.

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