Version 3.8.1

On January 23, 2014, WordPress 3.8.1 was released to the public. This is a maintenance update for WordPress 3.8.

Installation/Update Information

To download WordPress 3.8.1, 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:

Summary

From the announcement post, this maintenance release addresses 31 bugs with version 3.8, including various fixes and improvements for the new dashboard design and new themes admin screen. An issue with taxonomy queries in WP_Query was resolved. And if you’ve been frustrated by submit buttons that won’t do anything when you click on them (or thought you were going crazy, like some of us), we’ve found and fixed this “dead zone” on submit buttons. It also contains a fix for embedding tweets (by placing the URL to the tweet on its own line), which was broken due to a recent Twitter API change.

For more, see the detailed summary.

List of Files Revised

readme.html
wp-admin/about.php
wp-admin/css/install-rtl.css
wp-admin/css/install-rtl.min.css
wp-admin/css/install.css
wp-admin/css/install.min.css
wp-admin/css/wp-admin-rtl.css
wp-admin/css/wp-admin-rtl.min.css
wp-admin/css/wp-admin.css
wp-admin/css/wp-admin.min.css
wp-admin/includes/class-wp-comments-list-table.php
wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php
wp-admin/includes/misc.php
wp-admin/includes/theme.php
wp-admin/js/common.js
wp-admin/js/common.min.js
wp-admin/js/dashboard.js
wp-admin/js/dashboard.min.js
wp-admin/js/theme.js
wp-admin/js/theme.min.js
wp-admin/post.php
wp-admin/themes.php
wp-admin/user-edit.php
wp-includes/admin-bar.php
wp-includes/class-oembed.php
wp-includes/css/admin-bar-rtl.css
wp-includes/css/admin-bar-rtl.min.css
wp-includes/css/admin-bar.css
wp-includes/css/admin-bar.min.css
wp-includes/css/buttons-rtl.css
wp-includes/css/buttons-rtl.min.css
wp-includes/css/buttons.css
wp-includes/css/buttons.min.css
wp-includes/css/dashicons.css
wp-includes/css/dashicons.min.css
wp-includes/css/media-views-rtl.css
wp-includes/css/media-views-rtl.min.css
wp-includes/css/media-views.css
wp-includes/css/media-views.min.css
wp-includes/css/wp-pointer-rtl.css
wp-includes/css/wp-pointer-rtl.min.css
wp-includes/css/wp-pointer.css
wp-includes/css/wp-pointer.min.css
wp-includes/fonts/dashicons.eot
wp-includes/fonts/dashicons.svg
wp-includes/fonts/dashicons.ttf
wp-includes/fonts/dashicons.woff
wp-includes/functions.php
wp-includes/query.php
wp-includes/version.php

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