WordPress/gutenberg v10.6.0

10.6.0

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Enhancements

• Block Library:
  • Stabilize some theme blocks for WP 5.8 release. (31423)
  • Mark Log In/Out block as stable for 5.8 release. (31499)
  • Post date: Add link color option. (30827)
  • Table:
    • Add border block support. (31265)
    • Add colors block support. (30791)
  • Query Block:
    • Add semantic wrapper element. (31421)
    • Add wrapper and align support. (30804)
    • Show a spinner instead of the Loading text message. (31095)
  • Unify the post tags and post categories block under a unique post terms block. (31458)
• Components:
  • Add component system context. (30877)
  • Use UnitControl for font-size. (31314)
  • Use vanilla emotion for view. (31099)
  • Promote Heading. (31299)
  • Promote Text to full components export. (31291)
  • Promote ui/Flex and deprecate isReversed prop. (31297)
  • Promote VisuallyHidden from ui into full components. (31244)
• Core Data: Add experimental util to allow fetch remote URL data from REST API. (31085)
• Design tools:
  • Add Block Border Support. (31264)
  • Add duotone block supports. (26752)
  • Spacing Support: configurable sides for padding support. (30607)
• General Interface:
  • Display most used terms in term selector. (30598)
  • Rename "Modes" to "Tools" in the header. (31430)
  • RTL support for redo/undo icons. (31219)
  • Update "trash" icon. (31463)
• Patterns: Suggest block patterns in block placeholder states. (29602)
• Site Editor:
  • Add show more settings to block toolbars. (31305)
  • Check whether the data is loaded. If the data is loaded and the template is still unknown, give appropriate feedback. (30664)
  • A11y: Constrain tabbing inside them multi-entity save panel. (31136)
  • Iframe the template editor. (31375)
  • Save panel - decouple Site Entity items for individual saving. (30816)
  • Template part:
    • Add patterns placeholder selection. (31155)
    • Register block variations and area selection inputs from original area definitions. (30821)
  • Site Tagline: Letter casing and padding. (31042)
  • Site title: Add padding. (31125)
  • Try: Blue parents. (31196)
  • Verify if php template exists for a hybrid/universal theme with a block-based parent. (31123)
• Template Editing Mode: Use a darker frame for template mode and previews. (31044)

New APIs

• Core Data: Add batched variants for start and finish resolution actions. (31005)
• Block API: Allow "array of attributes to be compared" for isActive property in block variations. (30913)
• Blocks: Introduce registerBlockTypeFromMetadata API. (30293)

Bug Fixes

• Block Editor:
  • Block Support: Fix server-side border color support check. (31020)
  • Create useBlockRef and useBlockElement for better access. (29573)
  • Fix focus handler in Safari. (31103)
  • Fix selection clearer ref passed to motion.div. (31469)
  • Left-align query patterns in the carousel. (31233)
  • Persistent List View: Fix the list stealing focus from the canvas on item mount. (31058)
  • Try: Toolbar gap. (30983)
• Block Library:
  • Allow for group and columns blocks to specify an unlocked template. (29916)
  • Button Block: fix 100% width buttons alignment with other buttons. (29794)
  • Image Block: Hide controls while in upload state. (30891)
  • Fix: Make media playable on video and audio block backend. (31257)
  • Prevent PostDate as link to load inside an iframe. (31350)
  • Post Content: Prevent infinite recursion. (31455)
• Components:
  • Fix bug with color picker input state for falsy values. (30799)
  • Fixed imports that resulted in build failing. (31106)
  • Stop auto-memo antipattern and remove senseless default values. (31246)
• Compose: Fix parameter name typo in useRefEffect. (30597)
• General Interface:
  • Remove tools dropdown menu from medium viewport when text labels mode is active. (31431)
• Plugin:
  • Call deprecated hooks only when new filters not present. (31027)
  • Fix core-block-patterns support on GB. (31546)
  • Use require_once instead of require when registering blocks. (31148)
• Site Editor:
  • Fix popover/inspector scrolling. (31395)
  • List view improvements. (31092)
  • Render out HTML characters in post and category titles. (30661)
  • Use EditorNotices component for notices. (31303)
• Themes:
  • Hook maybe_inline_styles in the footer. (31072)
  • Inlined core block styles should not override user-added inline styles. (31268)
• Writing flow:
  • Fix edge detection in Chrome. (31150)
  • Fix RTL issues. (31159)

Performance

• Improve the typing performance by render hooks panels for selected blocks only. (31381)

Experiments

• Block-based Widgets:
  • API:
    • Remove widget screen dead code. (31411)
    • Set order of Widgets submenu item. (31214)
    • Use gutenberg_get_block_categories for getting block categories. (31486)
  • Customizer:
    • Add white background. (31487)
    • Fix adding new legacy widget. (31490)
    • Fix Legacy Widget block. (31405)
    • Fix toolbar so that it overlaps preview. (31077)
    • Fix unable to publish edited legacy widgets. (31484)
    • Fix unable to get block refs in widgets customizer. (31262)
    • Focus control in widgets customizer. (31308)
    • Make the entire sidebar have a white background. (31492)
    • Show blocks from plugins. (31406)
  • Legacy Widget:
    • Add 'Convert to blocks' button for text widgets. (31215)
    • Implement design iterations. (30889)
    • Ensure the control form's IDs have a consistent number. (31485)
    • Refactor Form to not use React. (31444)
  • Widget Editor:
    • Ensure Hello Dolly plugin text doesn't overlap the widgets screen UI. (30729)
    • Fix entity deletion in widgets screen. (31404)
    • Fix move to widget area item checkmark. (31494)
    • Improve theme switching experience. (31407)
    • Move to widget area iterations and fixes. (31445)
• Global Styles:
  • Add a new endpoint that exposes block editor settings through the REST API. (29969)
  • Add theme origin to getStyle. (31267)
  • Block Supports: Allow skipping serialization of font size. (30879)
  • Create block metadata for all blocks. (31590)
  • Cover against a block being unregistered. (31588)
  • Fix Possible CSS units not passed to useCustomUnits. (31057)
  • Make the configuration resilient to changes to safecss_filter_attr(). (30888)
  • Preset classes for site editor: Generate them like in the front-end. (31218)
  • Remove specificify for link color. (31497)
  • Remove tests and make utility methods private. (31224)
  • Rename experimental-theme.json to theme.json and add a fallback for backwards-compatibility. (29981)
  • Site Editor:
    • Fix generation of preset class for border color. (31217)
    • Fix preset class specificity. (31204)
  • Target global styles to the body element instead of :root. (31302)
  • Themes: only split block styles loading for block themes. (31309)
  • Update shape of theme.json. (30541)
• Navigation Editor and Block:
  • Block placeholder: fix font inheritance. (31410)
  • Correctly display menu used on location text. (31500)
  • Fix issue with missing styles for Page List in navigation. (31368)
  • Fix navigation screen collapsing regression. (31228)
  • Fix navigation screen padding again. (31372)
  • Fix nav color regression. (31495)
  • Fix nav editor links to correctly persist new tab target attribute. (30956)
  • Fix padding and cursor for nav menu item placeholder. (31275)
  • Fix submenu direction justification regression. (31414)
  • Fix submenu hover issue. (31195)
  • Fix vertical alignment. (31376)
  • Indicate unsaved changes. (31119)
  • Move selected menu ID to the store. (31320)
  • Move the delete menu button at the bottom. (31026)
  • Standardise and fix parsing and serialization of blocks and nav menu items. (31004)
  • Sync menu name updates. (31093)
  • Try: Remove padding from menu items when no background. (30805)
  • Use ajaxurl global in batchSave action. (31028)

Documentation

• Docs
  • Add in more high level overviews of major FSE projects. (31295)
  • Create a Full Site Editing overview document. (31065)
  • Fix the broken links of register block type documentation. (31285)
  • Global Styles: Update documentation for theme.json. (31507)
  • Link to CSS that wp-block-styles include. (30433)
  • Minor design updates using callout. (31398)
  • Organize and update block theme documentation. (31167)
  • Packages: Drop suppport for IE 11 and non-LTS Node.js versions. (31270)
  • Remove broken links to gutenberg-core team. (31161)
  • Update Versions in WordPress to include 5.7.1 & 5.8. (31439)
  • Update contributing documentation with callout notice usage. (31202)
• Handbook:
  • Add a deprecation notice to meta block attribute sources. (31389)
  • Block Patterns Doc Updates. (31060)

Code Quality

• Block Editor:
  • BlockList: Normalise useSelect selectors for callbacks. (31078)
  • Default appender: Try editable paragraph instead of text area. (30986)
  • In-between inserter:
    • Use useRefCallback and showInsertionPoint. (30285)
    • On hover: Preserve original behaviour. (31266)
  • Move block tools components and styles to separate folder. (31313)
  • Multi-selection:
    • Move shift+click logic to hook. (31358)
    • Move handlers to block ref callback. (31334)
  • Simplify insertion point. (30301)
  • Writing flow: Move selector calls to event handlers. (31332)
• Block Library:
  • Remove no longer necessary render_callback for Cover block. (31503)
  • Move translatable fields to block.json files. (31120)
• Components:
  • Remove all remnants of wp-g2. (31292)
  • Remove wp-g2 from scrollable. (31207)
  • Remove G2 portal and refactor Popover to no longer use G2. (31209)
  • Remove wp-g2 fontsize control. (31287)
  • Remove wp-g2 from flex, vstack, hstack, spinner and contr…. (31243)
  • Remove wp-g2 from surface. (31238)
  • Remove wp-g2 from form-group and control-label. (31234)
  • Remove wp-g2 from tooltip. (31232)
  • Remove wp-g2 imports from elevation. (31230)
  • Remove wp-g2 imports from shortcut. (31229)
  • Remove wp-g2 imports from ui/divider. (31212)
  • Remove wp-g2 imports from visually-hidden. (31210)
  • Remove ui/button and ui/button-group. (31205)
  • Deprecate the heading prop for the CheckboxControl component. (30594)
• Compose: Add types to createHigherOrderComponent, ifCondition and pure. (30881)
• Core Data: Specify context=edit only when needed. (30482)
• Data: Update redux dependency to the latest version. (31318)
• Mark the __experimentalBlockSettingsMenuFirstItem slot as unstable. (31420)
• Remove the block wrapper component. (31419)
• General Interface: Fix typo - toogle / toggle. (31225)
• Packages:
  • Fix linting warnings for core/block-editor store. (31146)
  • Update lodash to the latest patch version. (31686)
• Plugin:
  • Add missing textdomains. (31131)
  • Cleanup unused function parameters. (31130)
• Rich text:
  • Extract undo automatic change. (31449)
  • Move format boundaries to ref callback and separate file. (31409)

Tools

• Build Tooling:
  • Also rebuild block-specific styles in dev mode. (31274)
  • Remove support for IE11. (31110)
  • Fix recursive filewatching on linux. (31102)
• Testing:
  • end-to-end wpDataSelect: Explain why it returns undefined sometimes. (31227)
  • end-to-end testing: Use JSON serialization for getAllBlocks. (31199)
  • end-to-end tests for Widgets Customizer. (31185)
  • end-to-end Site Editor: Evaluate getEditedPostContent on the page. (31121)
  • Fix entity saving intermittent test failure. (31157)
  • Fix tests failing on expected site tagline snapshot. (31473)
  • Fix not getting correct computedName with labels in chromium 91. (31175)
  • Fix snapshots broken in trunk. (31247)
  • Fix undo end-to-end test. (31160)
  • Stabilise typewriter end-to-end test. (31472)
  • Use puppeteer-testing-library in end-to-end tests. (28380)
  • Use jest-circus in unit tests. (31178)
  • Upgrade puppeteer-testing-library version. (31133)
• Scripts:
  • Add .prettierignore, use in format script. (30844)
  • Add postcss as a dependency to ensure a correct version is used. (31364)
  • Update puppeteer-core to the latest version. (31138)
  • Update PostCSS minimum version to ensure it is secure. (31685)
• Workflows:
  • Run tests on release branches. (31354)
  • Adds reporter that shows JS test errors on GitHub. (31041)
• wp-env: fix can't checkout git repositories of a specific tag. (31271)
• Native:
  • Moves hermes and react-native mirror to S3. (31441)
  • Publish android artifacts to s3. (30421)
• Storybook: Update BoxControl stories. (31029)

Various

• Plugin: Tweaks to accommodate latest changes in core for styles loading. (31702)
• Site Logo: Rename sitelogo to site_logo. (31511)