WordPress/gutenberg v10.3.0-rc.1

10.3.0 RC1

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New Features

• Add Log In/Out block. (29766)
• Add Term Description block. (29613)
• Customizer: Add widgets customize inspector. (29755)

Enhancements

• Add since versions to the deprecated features. (30072)
• Block Editor:
  • Add drag handle to select mode. (28815)
  • Improve block inserter keyboard navigation. (26938)
• Block Library:
  • Cover: Allow drag and drop media replacement. (29813)
  • File: Make the editor markup match the frontend. (30148)
  • Navigation: Enable list view. (29936)
  • Post Content: Add description field. (29971)
  • Social Links: Improve selected state of empty block. (29756)
  • Site Title: Add link color option. (29924)
  • Standardize the groups in the block toolbar. (30012, 29247, 29863)
  • Template Part: Identify template parts in error messages. (28398)
• Components: Allow multiple words in the autocomplete phrase matcher. (29939)
• Gutenberg Plugin: Improved cache bust without filemtime for assets. (29775)
• Icons: Hint the lowercase icon by 0.15px to correct the font weight appearance. (29754)
• List View:
  • Add visual support for multiple selected blocks. (29878)
  • Update hover, focus, highlight, select borders. (29636)
• Media: Use image default size from settings. (29966)
• Navigation Editor: Move theme location settings to navigation editor sidebar. (29458)
• Site Editor:
  • Always use full screen mode. (29489)
  • Close navigation panel after template selection. (29956)
  • Update template details popover. (29439)
• Themes:
  • Better CSS reset style loader order. (30034)
  • Translate custom templates in theme.json. (29828)

New APIs

• Compose: Add new useCopyToClipboard hook. (29643)
• Deprecated: Add since option to deprecated function. (30017)

Bug Fixes

• Block Editor:
  • Ensure that uncategorized block types are properly handled. (30125)
  • Fix mover width/size regressions. (29889)
  • Fix navigation mode focus. (30126)
  • Fix regression with multi select style. (30128)
  • Fix the issue with block style preview when example missing. (29894)
  • Fix sibling block inserter displaying at end of block list. (29920)
  • Revert showing empty paragraphs on fronted. (29809)
  • Show the active block variation's icon in Select mode. (30143)
• Blocks: Adding onRemove event to verse block. (30104)
• Block Library:
  • Cover: Improve disabled media buttons check for placeholder. (29858)
    • Embed:
    • Fix overzealous aspect ratio scaling for embeds. (29510)
    • Embed: Fix select on focus. (29431)
  • Gallery: Fix gallery item clicking. (29860)
  • Image:
    • Fix block reset sizes on external URL change. (26879)
    • Fix undo step with temporary URL. (30114)
  • Navigation Link:
    • Fix popover anchor. (30173)
    • Match Editor Markup to Rendered. (29935)
  • Social Link: More accessible labels. (29659)
  • Site Icon: Simplify focus style. (29872)
  • Video: Fix kind attribute missing subtitle value in video text track. (30040)
• Components:
  • Don't display Guide's page control if there is only one page. (29629)
  • Prevent PanelBody title from being overlapped by arrow. (29914)
• Compose: Call useMergeRefs when dependency changes after ref change. (29892)
• Copy:
  • Restore dot at the end of a sentence. (29897)
  • Update the layout alignment description for better clarity. (29974)
• Gutenberg Plugin: Update "requires at least" value to 5.6. (29646)
• E2E Tests: Stabilize randomly failing tests in trunk. (29836)
• Navigation Component: Align item text to the left/right. (30083)
• Post Editor: Keep post publishing popover open when a date is clicked. (29738, 29893)
• RichText: Fix inline display warning. (30193)
• Themes: Restore the default editor font for the non FSE themes. (30080)
• Raw Handling: Fix pasting special spaces. (28077)
• Site Editor:
  • Fix block toolbar from overlapping navigation panel. (29918)
  • Fix persistence of Preferences in site editor. (30019)
  • Polish site button focus/hover styles in post and site editor. (29888)
  • Prevent navigation panel focus when hidden. (29600)
  • Remove header toolbar transition in reduced-motion mode. (29764)
• Storybook: Fix block editor shortcuts. (29750)
• Writing Flow:
  • Fix caretRangeFromPoint. (30031)
  • Fix tab behavior. (30000)
  • Remove arrow nav limitations. (30057)

Performance

• Block Editor:
  • Optimise multi-selection select calls. (30140)
  • When inserting Block Patterns they get parsed when the browser is idle. (29444)
• Block Library: Use early return in the Button block to optimize save.js. (29781)

Experiments

• Components:
  • Add Heading. (29592)
  • Button: Add a default type of button. (29900)

• Fix padding issues with nav screen. (30183)
• Global Styles: Skip null when translating settings. (30171)
• Navigation Block: Increase importance of submenus staying open. (30169)
• Polish navigation editor menu settings styles. (30168)
• Fix minor styling issues with nav editor. (30129)
• Navigation: Consistently provide fallback variations. (30117)
• Fix Template Part Alignments behavior. (30099)
• Site Editor (Experiment): Automatically open the sidebar to the appropriate template sub-menu. (30098)
• Fix post editor layout regression. (30093)
• Optimistically continue with empty data when user data for global styles is not a JSON. (30088)
• Fix navigation screen font. (30085)
• Use a default sans serif font for the widget screen. (30084)
• Remove alignments from the root level of the site editor. (30079)
• Fix query loop margin. (30078)
• Add layout support to the template part block. (30077)
• Load block editor assets in the navigation and widget editors. (30076)
• Fix post comment count block attribute. (30056)
• Fix paragraph margin specificity inside layout containers. (30038)
• Block Supports: Allow skipping serialization of border. (30035)
• Expose Template part block variations to the Inserter. (30032)
• Fix edge case where the default layout could be undefined. (30024)
• Add "theme" category and better present template parts in the inserter. (30020)
• Use the interface package for the navigation screen. (30013)
• Unset font weight and text decoration inheritance in nav block. (30011)
• Try: Add line-height to Navigation block. (30010)
• Fix link items in navigation screen. (30009)
• GlobalStyles: Remove kebab-case camelCase transformations. (29986)
• Post Content: Add support for experimental layout. (29982)
• Navigation Block / Page List: Unify menu item styles. (29975)
• Fix navigation editor block toolbar not visible on small screens. (29967)
• Editor Layout: Open sidebar menu over editor on small screens. (29955)
• [Query block] Remove unused QueryProvider. (29947)
• Allow themes to use any styles in the theme.json whether or not the block supports it. (29941)
• Page List & Navigation Screen: Fix flyout bg color in page list. (29932)
• Fix navigation screen inserter horizontal scrollbar. (29930)
• Polish nav screen slightly. (29926)
• Navigation Editor: Improve default label of location select. (29908)
• Navigation Editor: Show all menus in manage locations. (29906)
• Block Editor: Add client ID trees selectors. (29902)
• Lighten the post content block. (29898)
• Navigation Menu: Show submenus only on select in the editor. (29869)
• Update post content icon, unuse justify. (29867)
• Fix template saving issue after switching themes. (29842)
• Add padding to link placeholder. (29832)
• Update Post Title markup so that editor and front match. (29824)
• Verse block: Add support for the padding to the verse block. (29820)
• List View: Visual and design improvements. (29769)
• Fix navigation editor saving. (29749)
• Fix navigation block styles in the navigation editor. (29748)
• Keep submenus open onselect in the editor. (29713)
• Fix navigation editor link search suggestions. (29707)
• Iterate on widget REST API endpoints. (29649)
• Query title block - Archive Title. (29428)
• Add a layout configuration to the group and theme.json and make alignments declarative. (29335)
• First step towards hybrid themes: Fallback to PHP templates. (29026)
• Fix Site title: Different markup in the editor and on the frontend. (29021)
• Try: Allow vertical inserter in the nav block. (28833)
• Add preload_paths filter for widgets screen and full site editing. (28701)
• Site Editor (Experiment): Automatically open the sidebar to the appropriate menu. (26964)

Documentation

• Block Editor: Fix renderAppender documentation. (29925)
• Docs: Fix broken image link in the documentation main README. (29857)
• Docs: Fix broken link to developer resources in README.md. (#29795). (29796)
• Docs: Fix link to native-mobile.md in pull request template. (29923)
• Docs: Fix rebase error. (29753)
• Docs: Remove superfluous sentence in create block tutorial. (30062)
• Docs: Update block design principles with a new section on how to group controls. (29816)
• Docs: Update broken link to Getting Started for the React Native based Mobile Gutenberg. (30162)
• Docs: Update the quick view image on the documentation homepage. (29808)
• Editor: Clarify the purpose of the @wordpress/editor package. (30136)
• I18n: Replace dead link in README.md. (29699)
• Interface: Fix typos in interface package. (29740)

Code Quality

• API Fetch: Type several of the middlewares. (29719, 30150, 29901)
• Block Editor:
  • Avoid isInsideRootBlock (DOM query) in useFocusFirstElement. (30178)
  • Focus mode: Fix opacity for inner blocks, move classes. (30130)
  • Move class for navigation mode. (30181)
  • Move is-typing and is-outline-mode classes up the tree. (30106)
  • Move nav mode exit from writing flow to block props. (30175)
• Block Library:
  • Refactor ServerSideRender to use React hooks. (28297)
  • Remove obsolete editor styles for List block. (30094)
  • Rename loginOut variable to logInOut. (29979)
• Blocks:
  • Ensure theme category is only added when not provided. (30089)
  • Rename getBlockContent to getBlockInnerHTML internally. (29949)
• Components: Fix React warning in Text Control. (29724)
• Date: Add types. (29789)
• DOM:
  • Add types to focusable. (29787, 30030)
  • Split into smaller modules to facilitate typing. (30044)
• Gutenberg Plugin:
  • Cleanup the blocks.php file. (29964)
  • Fix PHPCS warnings. (30022)
• RichText: Remove dead and deprecated setFocusedElement. (29877)

Tools

• Babel Preset: Update Babel to v7.13.x. (30018)
• Create block: Require WordPress 5.7 by default and source it from the main plugin file. (29757)
• E2E Tests:
  • Cover the case when using multiple words in the inserter. (29978)
  • Fix test plugin clash. (29744, 29745)
  • Set delay to zero in the reduce-motion mixin and tests. (29762)
• Eslint Plugin: Add TypeScript as peer dependency and make it optional. (29942)
• GitHub Workflows:
  • Release: Allow triggering manually. (28138)
  • Remove path ignore configs from CI. (30090)
  • Use Gutenberg token for version bump, changelog commits. (30212)
• Packages: Enforce version bump for production packages after WP major. (29903)
• Unit Testing: Allow TypeScript modules for transpiled packages. (29873)