WordPress/gutenberg v10.5.0-rc.1

10.5.0 RC1

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Enhancements

• Block Library:
  • Buttons:
    • Add Typography support. (30394)
    • Explicitly add text-align-center to legacy buttons. (30525)
    • Update to use color support utils to retrieve classes and styles. (30870)
  • Columns: Add column count to the column block label. (30248)
  • File: Add support for embedding PDFs. (30857)
  • List: Add placeholder attribute. (30958)
  • Post Comments Link: New block added. (29564)
  • Site Logo:
    • Update the site logo description to be more illustrative. (30909)
    • Add an initial value to the Site Logo block. (30907)
  • Site Title:
    • Normalize the toolbar. (30999)
    • Normalize the toolbar (II). (31032)
  • Social Links:
    • Add text placeholder next to appender. (29851)
    • Remove obsolete hardcoded focus style from Social Links. (30721)
  • Template Part: Add active block variation information in Block Parent Selector. (30731)
  • Term Description: Don't output if there's no description. (30564)
  • Verse: Add support for custom colors. (27736)
  • Video: Add uploading state. (30837)
• Block Patterns:
  • Revisit the bundled block patterns. (29973)
  • Suggest block pattern transformations that are contextual to the currently selected 'simple' blocks (no InnerBlocks). (30469)
  • Query Patterns:
    • Try more opinionated query block patterns. (30763)
    • Add the small image and title pattern back in, fix excerpt length.. (30817)
• Components: Add create-styles. (30509)
• Design Tools:
  • Add border color, style and width support. (30124)
  • BoxControl: Allow configurable sides. (30606)
  • Color Block Support: Add utilities to retrieve color classes and styles. (30869)
• General Interface:
  • Animate the canvas transitions. (30802)
  • Include block title into block switcher label. (30808)
  • Inspector Controls: Rephrase, polish, and make consistent color labels. (30075)
  • Move the template mode edit and new links to a dedicated template panel. (30900)
  • Update design of the resize handles. (30339)
• Icons: Update icons for text overlay and crop. (30673)
• i18n: Add resetLocaleData method. (30419)
• Publishing Flow: Show post events in the post schedule calendar. (29716)
• Template Editing Mode:
  • Allow creating custom block templates in classic themes. (30438)
  • Replace the document tab with a template tab in template mode. (30860)
  • Unify saving flow between template mode and default mode. (30793)
  • Updates the template mode canvas padding and adds a backlink. (30658)
• Site Editor:
  • Add 'area' selection to convert to template part flow. (30395)
  • Add do_block_template_part function. (30345)
  • Add skip link to block templates. (30336)
  • Remove single-post from the default templates set. (29668)
  • Themes: Fix template-hierarchy fallbacks. (30599)
• Writing Flow: Scroll selected block only if it has no focus. (30924)

Bug Fixes

• API Fetch: Make preloaded OPTIONS requests use parse setting. (28862)
• Block Library:
  • Duplicate media types to avoid bad imports. (30973)
  • Image Block: Disable media buttons in the uploading state. (30863)
  • Query: Fix max-height to query pattern preview. (30757)
  • Post Title: Fix warnings for RichText in inline containers. (30666)
  • Site Title Add default block after pressing enter at the end of Site Title. (30996)
• Block Editor:
  • Bring back imageDefaultSize shim for WP 5.7. (30955)
  • Fix the position of vertical add a new block in RTL mode. (31035)
  • Template part: Fix PHP notice for placeholder block. (30928)
• Components:
  • Add a StyleProvider to support CSS-in-JS components inside iframes. (31010)
  • Fix "RadioControl: checked" style outside of Gutenberg. (30670)
  • Fix Post Date component. (30790)
  • Fix Post Publishing Popover moving when certain dates are clicked. (30298)
  • Fix useForceUpdate Memory Leak: Only setState if the component is still mounted. (30667)
• General Interface: Fix is-link style to take colors from wp-admin theme. (30823)
• Inserter: Stop event propagation for the select element's onBlur to fix the behavior in iOS when selecting a pattern category. (30717)
• Site Editor:
  • Focus save button when entities save states panel is opened. (30873)
  • Remove call to wpautop that unintentionally alters block markup in template parts. (30552)
• Template Editing Mode: Hide the template selector and template mode from non-viewable post types. (30861)

Experiments

• Block-based Widgets:
  • API:
    • Don't use deprecated widget_class property. (30429)
    • Fix null instance property when instance settings are empty. (30713)
    • Remove deprecated properties. (30853)
  • Customizer Integration:
    • Add media uploader capabilities to block-based widget customize screen. (30954)
    • Add move to widget area dropdown in customizer. (30896)
    • Add rich text formats. (30952)
    • Fix editing performance in Widgets Customizer. (30654)
    • Fix block-based widget customizer initializing too soon. (30864)
    • Refactor the inspector in Widgets Customizer to use core's controls. (30431)
  • Legacy Widget: Improve backwards compatibility. (30709)
  • Widget editor:
    • Add a toolbar button to move between widget areas. (30826)
    • Fix the undo/redo buttons in the standalone block-based widgets editor. (30989)
• Navigation Editor and Block:
  • Fix navigation placeholder height issue. (30824)
  • Fix alignment issue on the nav screen manage locations buttons. (30441)
  • Limit navigation nesting depth to 5. (30199)
  • Nav-created drafts should not render on frontend. (29692)
  • Page List: Add ability to convert to navigation links. (30390)
  • Show justification controls for vertical variant. (30351)
  • Use theme locations description instead of the slug for navigation screen location labels. (30797)
• Global Styles:
  • Absorb editor settings transformation in WP_Theme_JSON. (30610)
  • Clean cached data when switching themes. (30830)
  • Extract sanitize method. (30809)
  • Fix: CSS variable reference mechanism regression. (31015)
  • Make the dependency of the star matcher explicit when translating theme.json. (30604)
  • Only remove the default font family in the editor from themes with theme.json file. (30895)
  • Refactor how we iterate over the tree. (30801)
  • Remove no longer needed translations handled in PHP for settings. (30605)
  • theme.json: Add util to transform from a v0 schema to the latest. (30600)

Documentation

• docgen:
  • Add support for TS exported static non-function variables. (30971)
  • Add support for assignment patterns. (30681)
  • Add support for object-destructuring. (30675)
  • Find parameters by index rather than name and handle array destructuring. (29945)
• Handbook:
  • Add documentation for border block supports. (31039)
  • Add documentation for border styles. (31040)
  • Add fix to suggested prefixes of the branch. (30953)
  • Change references from Block Style Variations to Block Styles. (30911)
  • Fix Block Editor Accessibility link. (30569)
  • Fix more example for register_block_type - apiVersion to api_version. (30819)
  • Fix PHP example for register_block_type - apiVersion to api_version. (30818)
  • Fixed a type and made the whole explanation more clear. (30487)
  • Fixes broken GitHub links to commonly used labels. (30875)
  • Improve semantics in the block-based theme guide. (30946)
  • Include a note about is_default property for register_block_style. (30792)
  • Organize Block API Reference. (30980)
  • Packages: Further clarify the npm publishing process. (30733)
  • Update getting started with code. (30447)
• Libs:
  • Blocks: Fix PHPDocs of gutenberg_block_has_support. (31050)
  • Query Utils: Fix return type of construct_wp_query_args(). (30611)
• License: Interim dual license license of future contributions. (30383)
• Packages:
  • Block Library - Social Links: Update param type. (30652)
  • Components: Add documentation for the text prop on the Button component. (30796)
  • Core Data: Fixes return type for getEntitiesByKind. (30639)
  • Block Editor: Update import statement of ImageSizeControl component. (30704)
  • Hooks: Add namespace param clarification. (30501)

Code Quality

• Block Editor:
  • Simplify focus capture. (31036)
  • Standardize loading default block editor settings. (30245)
• Block Library:
  • Button Block: Use hook-based border support. (30194)
  • Cover: Rename isBlogUrl to isUploadingMedia. (30435)
  • Cover: Use ALLOWED_MEDIA_TYPES shared constant. (30977)
• Block Patterns: Clean up bundled pattern titles & categories. (30998)
• Components: Remove create-styles in favor of vanilla emotion. (31048)
• dom:
  • Add types to caret placement functions. (30750)
  • Add types to document-has-selection. (30386)
  • Add types to is-edge and dependencies. (30546)
  • Add types to miscellaneous files. (30774)
  • Add types to removeInvalidHTML and stripHTML. (30752)
  • Only assert defined in development. (30807)
  • Type the remaining files. (30841)
• Drop zone: Rewrite without provider. (30310)
• Gutenberg Plugin:
  • Account for editor styles file removal on WP trunk. (30894)
  • Format all markdown files using Prettier formatter. (30715)
  • Format all JSON files using Prettier formatter. (30714)
  • Updated .editorconfig files to work with automatic file formatting. (30794)
  • Update WP compatibility check in gutenberg_pre_init(). (29938)
• Improve get_merged_data() code. (30612)
• Remove unnecessary semicolons in PHP. (30780)
• Replace older-style PHP type conversion functions with typecasts. (30531)

Tools

• Testing:
  • Block Library - Cover Block:
    • Add edit media integration tests. (30270)
    • Replace media end-to-end test. (30306)
  • Fix end-to-end test failure screenshots not capturing at the right time. (28449)
  • Fixture regeneration: Infer tabs use from prettier configuration. (30813)
  • Skip unstable template part end-to-end test. (30748)
  • Trim block fixture HTML when generating other test fixture files. (30981)
  • Wire PHP tests for block editor settings. (30984)
• wp-env:
  • Better errors when Docker is not started. (30882)
  • Bump tt1-blocks dependency to v0.4.5. (30045)
  • Disable Xdebug for php < 7.2. (30651)
  • Fix chown cannot access 'wp-config.php'. (30053)
  • Fix issue with unquoted paths in docker-compose call. (30692)
  • Remove platform-specific destroy commands. (30638)
  • Set default environment type to local. (28808)
  • Update changelog and CI. (30646)
• Build Tooling:
  • Add comments to webpack entrypoint function. (30629)
  • Create frontend entry points for block-library, outputting code loadable from the browser.. (30341)
  • Perf Workflow: Trigger upon release publishing. (30628)
  • Pull trunk before pushing. (30615)
  • Remind about required cherry-picks after npm publishing. (30868)
  • Update development tools to work with PostCSS (try 2). (30347)
  • Use consistently latest keyword for npm publishing. (30866)
• Scripts:
  • Allow CSS modules in the build commands. (29182)
  • Include YAML files in prettification. (30240)