What’s Coming in WordPress 4.9

As y’all might remember, I’m currently co-leading the release of WordPress 4.9. Since we’re winding down toward release, I wanted to take the opportunity to walk through some of the key features of the release. Drafting and scheduling changes in the Customizer
In WordPress 4.9, you’ll be able to draft your customizations before publishing them, or schedule them to go live in the future.
Imagine you’ve just started a new site — you have an introduction post up, but otherwise you’re still working on finishing up the design of your site. Now you can draft your changes and come back to them later, so when you are ready to go live, your site looks perfect.
Another scenario: let’s say your store is having a holiday sale. Rather than staying up until midnight to add a banner about the sale to your homepage, now you can add that new section to your homepage and schedule it to go live later. Once the sale is live, you can hop back in and schedule it’s removal after the holidays. Much less of a hassle!
Additionally, these new features includes a quick way to share a link to preview your changes on the front-end that anyone can view, not just
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/16441/what-s-coming-in-wordpress-4-9

source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/whats-coming-in-wordpress-4-9-2/