From bc18c233d6b56dead1ae16054ad6353b36a3469b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Biryukov <sergeybiryukov.ru@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 10:02:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Docs: Document that `get_category_by_slug()` returns `false`
 if the category doesn't exist.

Props stevenlinx.
Fixes #50277.
Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@47863


git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@47639 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/category.php | 3 ++-
 wp-includes/version.php  | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/category.php b/wp-includes/category.php
index 42ac6227f3..e6bfe75d5f 100644
--- a/wp-includes/category.php
+++ b/wp-includes/category.php
@@ -175,10 +175,11 @@ function get_category_by_path( $category_path, $full_match = true, $output = OBJ
  * @since 2.3.0
  *
  * @param string $slug The category slug.
- * @return object Category data object
+ * @return object|false Category data object on success, false if not found.
  */
 function get_category_by_slug( $slug ) {
 	$category = get_term_by( 'slug', $slug, 'category' );
+
 	if ( $category ) {
 		_make_cat_compat( $category );
 	}
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index 7db2ff5942..cd93f92cae 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '5.5-alpha-47862';
+$wp_version = '5.5-alpha-47863';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.