WordPress/gutenberg v10.4.0-rc.1

10.4.0 RC1

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Enhancements

• Block Editor: Use proper insertion point for drop. (29933)
• Block Library:
  • Archives: Ensure frontend/editor parity. (30141)
  • Buttons: Improve spacing between custom-sized butons by using the column-gap property. (29165)
  • Latest Comments:
    • Remove editor styles. (30134)
    • Remove list padding and margin. (29402)
  • Post Date: Add option to make it a link. (30499)
  • Post Excerpt: Fix toolbar for post excerpt warning. (30280)
  • Post Title: Fix "'length' of undefined" error. (30208)
  • Preformatted block: Add color controls. (28396)
  • Query: Use a WordPress loop for the query block. (30405)
  • Quote: Ensure frontend/editor parity. (30190)
  • Reset wp admin styles for hr. (30235)
  • RichText:
    • Add min width to show caret for empty inline container. (30224)
    • Always show placholder on focus. (30393)
  • Search: Add border radius support using skip serialization feature. (30227)
  • Separator: Ensure frontend/editor parity. (30255)
  • Site Logo:
    • Delete sitelogo option when custom logo does not exist or was removed. (30427)
    • Style polishing. (30526)
  • Template Part: Add padding support to template parts. (29779)
  • Update placeholder text across blocks. (30404)
• General Interaface:
  • Add site icon and name to the publish flow. (30231)
  • Darker canvas color. (30282)
  • Update the save button label. (30439)
• Icons:
  • Polish media & text icons. (30239)
  • Update "close small" icon so that its shape matches the "add" icon dimensionally. (30014)
  • Update site-logo block icon. (30211)
• Inserter: Clarify that when the Inserter is open clicking the + button in the top bar will close it again. (29759)
• Make the default padding match the browser's default padding. (30277)
• Writing Flow: Shorter writing prompt. (29611)

Bug Fixes

• Block Editor: Show only the allowed patterns from top level blocks. (30300)
• Block Library:
  • Buttons:
    • Revert column-gap property for spacing between custom-sized buttons. (30449)
    • Prevent overlapping button blocks in the frontend. (30253)
  • Columns: prevent having a width > 100%. (30229)
  • Cover: Add 'object-position' to allowed inline style attributes list. (30243)
  • Fix fullwide regression. (30520)
  • Gallery: Set 'addToGallery' prop to false when images don't have IDs. (30122)
  • Image: Manually update resizable box state when we don't have dimenssions. (29919)
  • Query:
    • Fix undo trap during creation. (30203)
    • Pagination Numbers: Print nothing if content is empty. (30554)
  • RichText: Fix arrow navigation around emoji. (30206)
  • Search block: Fix alignment issues. (30444)
• Block List: Fix mover position. (30242)
• Code Editor: Revert save editors value on change (#27717). (30524)
• Editor:
  • Avoid focus attempt on a non-existent post title in code editor. (29922)
  • Use getAuthors for 'showCombobox' check. (30218)
• Gutenberg Plugin: Ensure that plugin does not error with older versions of WordPress. (30230)
• Inner blocks: Memoize allowedBlocks to prevent needlessly updating settings. (30311)
• Server side renderer: Fix errors in template part editor context. (29246)
• Writing Flow:
  • Fix copy pasting non textual blocks. (30225)
  • Fix horizontal caret placing for empty editable with placeholder. (30463)
  • Fix multi-selection copying in Safari. (30202)

Experiments

• Block Patterns: Remove scope from Query patterns and introduce blockTypes. (30471)
• Customizer
  • Add customize widgets inserter. (29549)
  • Add Legacy Widget block. (30321)
  • Fix adding blocks in the widgets customizer. (30221)
• Full-Site Editing:
  • Add allowedMimeTypes to site editor settings to fix media upload behaviour and error state. (30436)
  • Fix empty block templates output string. (30145)
  • Load block-editor scripts & styles. (30448)
  • Revert custom templates to their original theme-provided files. (28141)
  • Switch to proper settings tab based on the selection. (30387)
• Global Styles:
  • Add padding server-side block support. (30332)
  • Use "Custom Styles" title to signal there are global styles changes in the saving panel of the site editor. (30521)
• List View:
  • Update list view icon size and spacing. (30455)
  • Update the hover, focus, select colors. (30303)
• Navigation Editor and Block
  • Apply mover tweaks to navigation and widgets. (30284)
  • Add src/navigation-link/index to side effect whitelist. (30200)
  • Add post format variation to navigation link block. (30403)
  • Avoid creating a new array/object on every render. (30374)
  • De-emphasize "Link" block. (30172)
  • Fix arrow inheritance, polish. (30287)
  • Fix hardcoded color in navigation submenu icon. (30385)
  • Fix Navigation Link block constantly updating its inner block list settings. (30274)
  • Fix navigation link block dragging error. (30219)
  • Fix snackbar list component blocking clicks to UI it overlaps. (30381)
  • Flip orientation of submenus that are towards the right of the viewport. (30342)
  • Indicate when a menu is deleted and show the menu switcher afterwards. (29201)
  • Make the navigation placeholder clearer. (30281)
  • Polish navigation menu submenus. (30335)
  • Replace arrow with chevron. (30180)
  • Save theme location on button click. (30340)
  • Use same default implementation of __experimentalFetchLinkSuggestions in post, site, navigation, widget editor. (29993)
• Widgets Editor
  • Add manage with live preview link. (29839)
  • Handle when $instance is empty and use str_replace instead of sprintf in the Widget block. (30217)
  • Iterate on Legacy Widget block. (29960)

Documentation

• docgen:
  • Components: Add types to Draggable. (29792)
  • Export all types from api-fetch. (30539)
  • Fix arrow functions and TS index module support. (30028)
• Handbook:
  • Add description for templateParts in theme json. (30118)
  • Add instructions for finding attributes for use in templates. (30258)
  • Added a practical example of adding a component to the sidebar. (30379)
  • Clarify what is meant by "block wrapper". (30315)
  • Fix broken links to typescript documentation. (30188)
  • Fix code snippet for disabling the block directory. (30365)
  • Fix formatting. (30309)
  • Fix typos in block-controls-toolbar-and-sidebar.md. (30513)
  • Rename, changed URL Link. (30483)
  • Rich Text: Add section for disabling specific format types. (29383)
  • Updated documentation to reflect the output created currently by npx @wordpress/create-block gutenpride. (30353)
  • Update feature deprecation guide. (30220)
• Packages:
  • Api-fetch: Fix example code for apiFetch middlewares. (30534)
  • Block supports: Fix typos in layout supports comment. (30537)
  • Block Editor: Fix block-editor typo. (30401)
  • Components:
    • Remove references to __experimental* in the DateTimePicker component documentation. (29322)
    • Update CustomSelectControl component README.md. (29854)

Code Quality

• Block Library: Fix Post Excerpt warnings for RichText in inline containers. (30498)
• Components: Simplify ScrollLock, adding types. (29634)
• DOM:
  • Add types to clean-node-list. (30412)
  • Add types progressively to dom modules. (30103)
  • Add types to phrasing-content. (30102)
• Gutenberg Plugin:
  • Prettify YAML scripts. (30409)
  • Remove deprecations planned for 10.3 release. (30417)
  • Update the objectFitPolyfill vendor library. (30507)
• PHP Coding Standards fixes. (30346)
• Public API: Remove small APIs deprecated in WordPress 5.2. (30283)

Tools

• Add /packages/stylelint-config to CODEOWNERS. (30264)
• Build: Ensure non-JS changes are processed in the watch mode. (30343)
• Testing:
  • Added end-to-end tests for navigation menu name editor. (29774)
  • GHA workflow improvements when setting up NodeJS. (29078)
  • Include NodeJS version in the cache key. (30512)
  • Remove button from forbidden elements. (30223)
  • Remove cache restore-keys. (30510)
  • Skip flaky end-to-end tests. (30344)