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Polylang 3.8.6 Released
What’s new in Polylang 3.8.6
Released: (2026-07-20)
Active installations: 800,000
Tested up to WordPress 7.0.2
Requires PHP 7.4
Changelog
- Pro: Security: Ensure the user has the required capability for ACF fields when switching language in the editor #3029
- Security: Fix exposure of some private posts metadata to non-authorized users. Props Patchstack.
- Security: Fix server side default language encoding for the block editor
- Fix 404 for post type or taxonomy sitemap when its name ends with a language code #1909
Previous releases
3.8.5 — (2026-06-16)
- Pro: Fix language switcher block error in Widget screen #1905
- Pro: Fix “edit” button wrongly disabled in the languages sidebar in the block editor #3011
- Fix edited images files deleted when deleting the first media translation #1887
- Fix error in AJAX context when the parameter lang is passed a locale instead of a language code #1896
3.8.4 — (2026-05-18)
- Security: Fix an XSS in the multilingual biography
- Pro: Fix draft post translations not shown in the languages sidebar in the block editor #3006
- Pro: Fix compatibility with libxml 2.15.1 #2920
- Pro: Fix Allowed memory size exhausted with Divi 5 #3008
- Improve accessibility of the multilingual biography on user profile page #1869