Version 4.8 of WordPress, named “Evans” in honor of jazz pianist and composer William John “Bill” Evans, is available for download!

Main Changes

• Added Media Widgets
• Added Rich Text Widget
• Simplified Link Editing

Under the hood

• REST API: orderby normalization
• REST API: Add supports object to /types response
• New filter to disable auto-focus on the login screen
• Screencast.com was added as an oEmbed provider
• HHVM removed from the test matrix on Travis
• Bundled Themes now support the new media and updated text widget
• Popular plugins feed has been removed from the dashboard
• Support added for Bosnian locale (bs_BA) in remove_accents()
• Easily enqueue WP_Editor JavaScript files using the new wp_enqueue_editor()

New Action Hooks

• deleted_blog
• print_default_editor_scripts

New Filter Hooks

• file_mod_allowed replaces disallow_file_mods
• minimum_site_name_length
• nav_menu_submenu_css_class
• page_menu_link_attributes
• post_date_column_status
• signup_site_meta
• signup_user_meta
• wp_doing_cron
• widget_text_content
• rest_oembed_ttl
• widget_{$this->id_base}_instance

Modified Filter Hooks

• widget_text_content
• {$type}_template
• display_media_states
• media_library_show_audio_playlist
• media_library_show_video_playlist
• rest_pre_insert_comment
• wp_is_large_network

External Library Updates

• TinyMCE was updated from version 4.5.6 to version 4.6.2
• Twemoji was updated from version 2.2.2 to version 2.3.0
• zxcvbn was updated from version 1.0 to version 4.4.1

– Reed the tweet