WordPress/gutenberg v10.2.0-rc.1

10.2.0 RC1

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Features

• Template part block: Add category panel. (29159)

Enhancements

• Add check for button text before rendering button block. (29717)
• Skip CSS minification via PHP. (29624)
• Restore the margins of blocks relying on the figure element. (29517)
• Add Columns transform from Media & Text. (29415)
• Fix: Invert gallery gravity. (29367)
• Components: Try to make the order of fills stable in regular slots. (29287)
• Add expandOnFocus, showHowTo and validateInput experimental props to FormTokenField. (29110)
• Hide writing prompt from subsequent empty paragraphs. (28275)

New APIs

• Plugins: Add scoping functionality to the Plugins API. (27438)

Bug Fixes

• Reusable Blocks:
  • Fix editor crash when converting block with visible styles to reusable (after a save and page reload). (29059)
  • Fix reusable block crash when converting a just created reusable block to blocks. (29292)
• Buttons Block:
  • Buttons: Fix links inside links. (29273)
  • Fix legacy button center alignments inside the buttons block. (29281)
• Cover Block:
  • Fix cover block content position not migrating correctly from deprecated version. (29542)
  • Fix solid-color only cover has small gray border in the editor only. (29499)
• Social Icons and Links:
  • Fix social icons vertical spacing issue. (29657)
  • Yelp: Fix foreground color, make background transparent. (29660)
  • Social Links: Replace CSS variables with block context approach. (29330)
• Table of Contents block:
  • Fix links when in archive loop or when using "Plain" permalink structure. (29394)
  • Fix class attribute. (29317)
• Add theme styles in the site editor. (29704)
• Fix broken links to the block editor developer handbook. (29663)
• Fix in between inserter edge case. (29625)
• Fix the button component styles when used with a dashicon. (29614)
• Revert moving is-typing class. (29608)
• Fix inline block styles minification issues with calc(). (29554)
• Packages: Update the publishing command for npm with next dist tag. (29379)
• Ignore build folders when native unit tests. (29371)
• Fix mobile issue template label. (29344)
• Interface: Fix React warnings triggered in ActionItem component. (29340)
• Search block: Add missing space to provide valid HTML. (29314)
• Blocks: Ensure that metadata registered on the server for core block is preserved on the client (try 2). (29302)
• Fix off-center appender in some themes. (29290)
• Add enableCustomSpacing to block editor settings. (29277)
• Border Radius Support: Fix application of zero radius values. (28998)
• Fix Document Outline mouse click. (28589)

Performance

• Revert "Block edit: Avoid memoized block context in favour of useSelect". (29621)

Experiments

• Global Styles:
  • Do not add padding sub-properties if there's no values in theme.json. (29712)
  • Fix specificity conflict of blocks with single classes as selectors. (29378)
  • Fix specificity issue between theme and user styles. (29533)
  • Custom Link Color: Do not apply to buttons. (29557)
  • Implement skip serialization for color key in style att. (29253)
• Full-Site Editing:
  • Site Title: Add text decoration and text transform controls. (29622)
  • Make border work on the site editor. (29618)
  • Prevent clicking on tag and category links in the site editor. (29583)
  • Print nothing in the front end if there are no results in Query block. (29521)
  • [Query block] Remove exclusion of current page id. (29432)
  • Handle missing categories/tags in Query block. (29424)
  • Query block setup with block patterns integration. (28891)
  • Update template descriptions for clarity and humanity. (29531)
  • i18n: Fix the template area unassigned type string. (29617)
  • Template Part: Prevent infinite recursion. (28456)
  • Update title, description, and icon of Post Categories. (29400)
  • Show Site Logo's block toolbar when selected, after the editor loads. (29336)
  • Remove delete toolbar option from Site Logo. (29331)
• Navigation Editor and Block:
  • Allow very thin menus. (29555)
  • Refactor and simplify navigation block CSS. (29465)
  • Make navigation placeholder state visible in dark themes. (29366)
  • Update navigation editor menu selection dropdown. (29202)
  • Make Spacer block width adjustable and add it to Navigation block. (29133)
  • Navigation: Try adding navigation link variants via server. (29095)
  • Navigation Editor: Allow menu renaming. (29012)
• Group Block: Add support for custom border settings. (29591)
• Pass block settings to the client for all blocks. (29474)
• Button block: Add color support via block.json. (29382)
• Add/new nav link icon. (29369)
• Temporary hack to render blocks in customizer. (29365)
• Fix shortcode not showing in the widgets screen. (29282)
• Fix: More resilient appender CSS. (28908)

Documentation

• Add block variations page to Block API summary. (29725)
• Update Readme of Animate Component to remove todo comment. (29702)
• Docs; Organize contributors section using READMEs. (29688)
• Remove mid-paragraph newlines. (29674)
• Update Versions in WordPress to include release notes. (29532)
• Extract block variations API into its own handbook page. (29515)
• Docs: Fix deprecation message to be clear. (29451)
• Fix typo in block-based-themes.md. (29410)
• Fix typo in modularity. (29405)
• Fix typos in git workflow documentation. (29324)
• Docs: Table of contents - fix typos. (29319)
• Add NVDA instructions to the accessibility testing documentation. (29312)
• Component Systems: Update references to external module. (29233)
• Docs: Add info about npm release types and their schedule. (29028)
• Docs: Update slug for block-based theme tutorial. (25839)

Code Quality

• Rename load_separate_block_styles to load_separate_block_assets. (29703)
• Update the minimum WordPress version required by the gutenberg plugin too 5.6. (29701)
• Components: Ensure that SlotFill does not use portals in React Native. (29631)
• Remove the subheading block. (29627)
• useFocusFirstElement: Include useRef. (29435)
• Include PHP: Replace dirname( __FILE__ ) with __DIR__. (29404)
• Run phpcbf to fix PHP CS issues. (29368)
• Register style attribute when any color property is supported. (29349)
• Block context:
  • Remove unused onFocus block context. (29318)
  • Reduce memoized block context: Class names. (29186)
  • Remove obsolete block context. (29313)
  • Block edit: Avoid memoized block context in favour of useSelect. (29333)

Tools

• Scripts:
  • Fork jest-environment-puppeteer to use puppeteer-core directly. (29418)
  • Add TypeScript support to linting command. (27143)
• Needs Info / Stale bot
  • Add stale issues bot to help triage efforts. (29321)
  • Do not automatically close message, update stale message. (29310)
• Tests:
  • Temporary skip flaky test. (29601)
  • Paragraph block: Add test to ensure unwrapped editable paragraph. (29299)
  • Testing: Use snapshot-diff serializer to remove noise in snapshots. (29270)
  • Inserter: Add end-to-end test to make sure last inserted block is being focused. (29187)
• Blocks: Preprocess validation log with util.format instead of sprintf. (29334)
• Docs: Update release.md. (29091)
• Docs/Tools/CI: Update references from master to trunk. (28433)

Various

• Full-Site Editing
  • Site Editor: Browsing sidebar templates menu restructure. (28291)
  • Site Editor: Persistent List View. (28637)
  • Template part block: Add variations based on areas. (29122)
  • Template Part: Update switching trigger. (29257)
  • Template part 'area' term - reword confusing 'type' terminology. (29679)
  • Add i18n support for template part variations' descriptions. (29612)
  • Multi entity save panel - remove dynamic copy. (29637)
• Table of Contents block
  • Add Table of Contents block (dynamic rendering + hooks version). (21234)
  • Deregister TOC block until issues are resolved. (29718)
• Components:
  • Add next Button, ButtonGroup. (29230)
  • Add Card. (29350)
  • Add Divider. (29433)
  • Add Popover. (29084)
  • Add TooltipButton. (29523)
  • Add Tooltip and Shortcut. (29385)
  • Do not use ViewOwnProps for Portal. (29345)
  • Update Elevation story. (29454)
• Component System:
  • Add basic tests for style system. (29320)
  • Add tests for color utils. (29301)
• Types
  • api-fetch: Add incremental type checking. (29685)
  • docgen: Add TypeScript support. (29189)
  • docgen: Incrementally add types. (29684)
  • Dom: Add type-checking to data-transfer. (29682)
  • Components: Add types to Shortcut. (29633)
• Button Block: Removes "Link settings" panel. (29664)
• Add regression test for editor JS crash caused by rtlcss parsing exception, take 2. (29598)
• Reset all WP Admin styles in the wrapper of the editor styles. (29590)
• Revert "[Mobile] - Fix splitting/merging of Paragraph and Heading". (29587)
• Try updating the minimum required WordPress version for the plugin. (29579)
• Documents how the widgets editor works. (29572)
• Drop zone: Fix media lib duplicate issue. (29567)
• Update the category icons. (29553)
• Try: Remove important on disabled switcher state. (29552)
• Remove base control negative help text margin. (29550)
• Navigation: Re-enable navigation block end-to-end tests. (29543)
• Accessibility improvement on #29530 issue. (29534)
• Pin SHA values as version numbers for 3rd party GHAs. (29485)
• Update the visual design of the Sidebar Menu. (29476)
• Focus on block selection: Skip inner blocks. (29434)
• Use correct classname for nested Navigation Link container. (29380)
• Integrate AztecEditor-iOS 1.19.4. (29355)
• Block context: Separate native context. (29315)
• Focus input when InputControl spinner arrows are pressed. (29305)
• WP Block Styles: Only load in the editor if a theme opts in. (29252)
• Add new overlay text icon, and use for image. (29215)
• Add Missing URL state to Navigation Link Block. (28861)
• Improve dropcap behavior. (28685)
• Improve the block editor handbook table of content. (28665)
• RN: Add Bottom Sheet Select Control component. (28543)
• RichText: Bypass paste filters for internal paste. (27967)
• Block Directory: Update search results list UI. (25521)