WordPress 4.2 Powell is now available for download. What’s new in this final release?
New and improved Press This.
Now supports native Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters, musical and mathematical symbols, and hieroglyphs.
Added emoji support.
Browse and preview your installed themes from the Customizer.
embeds from Tumblr.com and Kickstarter.
smooth and simple plugin updates.
Database character encoding has changed from utf8 to utf8mb4.
now send audible notifications to screen readers in JavaScript with wp.a11y.speak().
Terms shared across multiple taxonomies will be split when one of them is updated.
Complex query ordering.
