WordPress/gutenberg v10.7.0-rc.1

10.7.0 RC1

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Enhancements

• Block Editor:
  • Standardize block styles cursor on hover. (31188)
  • Support scripts in iframed editors. (31873)
• Block Library:
  • Normalize theme block toolbars. (31952)
  • Buttons: Use column-gap for styling. (31386)
  • Column: Add color and padding support to individual column block. (31778)
  • Cover: Allow transforming from group block. (30890)
  • Media & Text: Add media width control. (31002)
  • Post Comments: Add basic CSS to the block. (30382)
  • Post Excerpt: Update read more placeholder text. (30959)
  • Post Featured Image: Change wrapper element to figure. (31595)
  • Query:
    • Add layout and color support. (31833)
    • Update bundled patterns to have inherit:False. (31856)
    • Allow term addition from user case-insensitive input. (31301)
  • Site Logo:
    • Add link toggle option. (31162)
    • Use custom_logo theme-mod instead of site_logo setting for the site-logo block. (31994)
  • Site Tagline:
    • Add margin block support. (31809)
    • Expand the site tagline block description. (31426)
  • Site Title:
    • Add additional text formatting options. (31734)
    • Add margin block support. (31728)
  • Social Links: Add some padding to the "click plus to add". (31927)
• Components
  • Add Spacer. (31509)
  • Improve display for multiple action buttons in notices. (31799)
  • Polish the switcher for horizontal blocks. (31645)
  • Promote Divider and use readable prop names. (31556)
  • Promote Grid. (31559)
  • Promote View. (31542)
  • Promote VStack and HStack. (31300)
  • UnitControl: Add support for unit step per unit type. (30376)
• Design tools:
  • Add margin block support with configurable sides. (30608)
  • Add option to disable duotone. (32002)
  • Add reset button to Layout controls. (30828)
  • Add server-side support for margins. (31808)
• Icons: Update icons. (31533)
• List View:
  • Display block anchor in List View when set. (31992)
  • Enable persistent List View in the post editor. (31047)
• Patterns: Load patterns from wordpress.org API. (28800)
• Template Editing Mode:
  • Add a welcome guide to the template editor. (31330)
  • Add a Delete template action. (31678)
• Word count: Adjust to count numbers as words. (27288)

New APIs

• Babel Preset Default: Configure @babel/preset-env preset to respect a local Browserslist configuration. (31898)
• Blocks: Deprecate registerBlockTypeFromMetadata in favor of registerBlockType. (32030)
• Global Styles: Rename and stabilize useEditorFeature as useSetting. (31587)
• Stacked/unified block toolbar. (31134)

Bug Fixes

• Block Library:
  • Cover:
    • Remove fixed background when previewed in patterns list. (31640)
    • Show placeholder only if it has no inner blocks. (31402)
  • Gallery:
    • Fix focus caption prop for native. (32029)
    • Fix identical images getting duplicated when moving. (30555)
  • Image: Remove figure margins consistently in image blocks. (31650)
  • Post Content: Apply the_content filter even if content is empty. (31997)
  • Post Comments Count: Fix attributes declaration. (31976)
  • Post Comment Form:
    • Fix stylesheet dependency. (31528)
    • Fix to allow post comment button to inherit button & global styles automatically. (31338)
  • Post Featured Image:
    • Fix non-interactive placeholder when outside of a post context. (31663)
    • Fix placeholder regression. (31709)
    • Fix selection scroll into view. (31835)
  • Site Logo:
    • Fix duplicate supports declaration. (31544)
    • Return nothing if logo is not set. (31513)
    • Only request media entity when a site logo has been chosen. (31673)
  • Template Part:
    • Don't show the currently used template part as an option in the 'replace' flow. (31720)
    • Fix template part selection searches to use title/area instead of slug/theme. (31520)
    • Use label and icon per variation when displaying placeholders. (31721)
• Block Editor:
  • Clear selection on iframe html element click, fix bottom click redirect. (31385)
  • Fix block ref when multiple useBlockProps hooks are called. (31906)
  • Fix moving animation for nested blocks. (31945)
  • Fix selecting aligned blocks. (31904)
  • Fix scrolling to the inserted block issue in the iFramed block editor. (31448)
  • Prevent rendering self also when the wrapper block matches the inserted block. (31592)
  • Toolbar:
    • Fix showing toolbar when caret enters formatting (and extract as implementation detail for the block editor). (31664)
    • Fix toolbar in device preview. (31600)
• Design tools:
  • BoxControl:
    • Filter out unit only values when checking values defined. (31779)
    • Fix tooltip display for unlinked box control inputs. (31741)
  • Color picker:
    • Fixes color picker segmented control rendering and scrolling issues. (30994)
    • Fix text. (30039)
  • Duotone:
    • Fix duotone transform not transferring settings between blocks. (31801)
    • Fix duotone padding crash. (31780)
  • Font-family: Fix typo in font-family supports for dynamic blocks. (31974)
  • Spacing Support:
    • Properly hide UI for disabled properties. (31726)
    • Fix custom units for margin. (31776)
• Inserter: Hide patterns tab if no patterns are available. (31687)
• Patterns:
  • Check for allowed blocks recursively in patterns. (30366)
  • Fix unregister_block_pattern notices. (32025)
• Post Editor: Fix template name displaying incorrectly. (32035)
• Server Side Rendering: Re-enable passing post_id query arg (#31786). (31787)
• Template Editing Mode: Fix wrapper block name for template mode. (31985)
• Writing flow, multi-selection:
  • Fix caret placing when the target is out of view. (31506)
  • Gradually 'select all' layers of nested blocks. (31859)

Performance

• Block editor styles: Memoize transform. (31553)
• Block editor async mode: Enable only for blocks out of view. (30995)
• Improve performance of term search. (31703)

Experiments

• Block Library: Hide the PostAuthor block behind the Gutenberg experimental flag. (31983)
• Block-based Widgets:
  • API:
    • Improve get_merged_data API so it requires less knowledge from the consumer. (31552)
  • Customizer:
    • Add 'more' menu. (31970)
    • Add undo redo to Widgets Customizer. (31653)
    • Add Welcome messaging. (31968)
    • Clear selected block when focusing on element outside the editor. (31530)
    • Fix removing legacy widget not working in customizer. (31535)
    • Implement mobile responsive block toolbar. (31589)
    • Remove Widgets Customizer experimental flag. (31876)
  • Widgets Editor:
    • Add default notices support. (31578)
    • Add more menu. (31926)
    • Add Welcome Guide. (31925)
    • Remove widget screen empty link in admin. (31408)
    • Update toolbar and notice positioning. (31582)
• Navigation Editor and Block:
  • Add home link block. (30926)
  • API:
    • Add locations to the menu response. (31656)
    • Change default to 100 menu items returned. (21243)
  • Allow space between on page list. (29771)
  • Bring implementations of convert nav menu items to blocks back into sync. (31602)
  • Editor:
    • "Add new pages" use menu entity. (31643)
    • Add padding for navigation screen. (31583)
    • Clear 'stub' navigation post edits on save. (31735)
    • Fix menu location assignment. (31594)
    • Fix editor margin. (31493)
    • On mobile viewports, reveal the block inspector when clicking the menu name button. (31220)
    • Update sidebar. (31821)
    • Warn the user about unsaved changes. (31197)
  • Enable justification for burger menu. (31877)
  • Extract Navigation Block data fetching and management to hook(s). (31825)
  • Fix nav block hover z index. (31929)
  • Fix nav placeholder colors and height. (31875)
  • Improve the navigation block setup state / placeholder. (31371)
  • Introduce useMenuEntityProp hook. (31132)
  • Normalize converting nav menu items to blocks between Editor and Block. (31606)
  • Responsive Navigation. (30047)
  • Submenus shouldn't take space unless they're actually open. (31881)
• Global Styles
  • Block Supports: Allow skipping serialization of typography attributes. (30880)
  • Fix condition for global styles on mobile. (31844)
  • Fix global styles settings retrieval for REST. (31534)
  • Make core color classes and custom properties always available. (31669)
  • Remove color.link from valid styles and alphabetize the rest. (31516)
  • Return consolidated global styles in REST Request. (31762)
  • Use elements mechanism for link color instead of a CSS variable. (31524)
  • Use mobile context in settings request & global styles. (31819)
  • Use wp_theme taxonomy for wp_global_styles cpt. (31436)
  • Theme.json:
    • Make the theme.json examples copy-pasteable. (32040)
    • Replace hardcoded CSS_UNITS and inherit units from theme.json. (31822)
• Full Site Editing:
  • Template Loader: Make templates arg required. (31671)
  • Simplify template loader logic. (31604)

Documentation

• Handbook:
  • Add dedicated Block Styles page under Block API directory. (31055)
  • Add info on how to connect to the WP ENV MySQL database. (31975)
  • Capitalize GitHub properly in contributors README. (31549)
  • Clarify 'Applying styles from a stylesheet' how-to guide. (31824)
  • First pass at the documentation for the Widgets Block Editor. (31577)
  • Fix link to ESNext in callout. (31512)
  • Update Glossary with more FSE terminology. (31525)
• Packages:
  • Add required “directory” prop to package.json template in packages documentation. (31570)
  • Fix typo: "packages" -> "package". (32036)
  • Improve packages documentation - document root package json and public API knowledge. (31598)
  • Remove duplicate 1.52.0 changelog entry. (31659)
  • Scripts: Fix the CHANGELOG for @wordpress/scripts package. (31532)
  • Typo in edit-navigation layout translators note. (31541)

Code Quality

• Block editor:
  • Block popover: Move scroll handling to block tools. (31611)
  • Log an error if styles are loaded through the compatibility layer. (31870)
• Block Library:
  • Post Comments: Make CSS less specific. (31711)
  • Image/Gallery: Remove use of unstableOnFocus. (31796)
• Linting:
  • Fix PHP lint issues. (32039)
  • Fix PHPCS warning for alignment. (31931)
  • Fix lint issues. (31790)
  • Ignore data-no-store-string-literals rule for native files. (31936)
• Components:
  • Add ToolbarDropdownMenu to render dropdown menus properly inside toolbars. (31460)
  • Don't pass down index through context. (31852)
  • Remove color() utility function, use values directly. (31661)
  • Remove config() utility function, use values directly. (31646)
• Compose:
  • Add types to withInstanceId and corresponding hook. (31341)
  • Add types useConstrainedTabbing. (31548)
  • Add types useAsyncList. (31523)
• Docgen:
  • Replace assertions for getIntermediateRepresentation unit tests with snapshots. (31547)
  • Split getIntermediateRepresentation unit tests in smaller tests. (31468)
• Inserter: Mark the inserter slot as unstable. (31417)
• Multi-select:
  • Use ref callback for focus out, merge native selection hooks. (31618)
  • Use writing flow container for focus. (31572)
• Rich text:
  • Build in isSelected check for children. (31802)
  • Consolidate applying from props. (31635)
  • Each hook should create its own ref. (31477)
  • Extract implementation-specific undo handling of automatic changes. (31676)
  • Extract internal delete handling. (31637)
  • Extract persistent change marking. (31760)
  • Extract splitValue to separate file. (31803)
  • Extract input and selection. (31631)
  • Extract indent list item on space. (31628)
  • Extract select object. (31627)
  • Extract paste handler. (31619)
  • Fix props on DOM element warnings. (31883)
  • Move autocomplete key handler to ref callback. (31770)
  • Move implementation specific attributes. (31674)
  • Move implementation specific delete and enter handling. (31644)
  • Remove avoiding setting selection on mount. (31788)
  • Remove dependency on block client ID. (31752)
  • Remove duplicate active formats state. (31771)
  • Remove old broken format prop. (31767)
  • Remove tag name dependency. (31679)
  • Simplify with hooks. (31718)
• Rename construct_wp_query_args to build_query_vars_from_query_block. (32041)
• Theme.json:
  • Remove unused code. (31666)
  • Remove declarations so API has coherence. (31596)
  • Remove: Declarations parameter from compute_style_properties. (31573)
• Writing flow:
  • Extract and simplify "select all". (31855)
  • Extract arrow nav. (31851)
  • Extract tab behavior to hook. (31834)

Tools

• End-to-end tests:
  • Add template loader unit tests. (31498)
  • Fix end-to-end test inserting cover block. (31866)
  • Fix flaky change detection tests causing intermittent failures. (31861)
  • Fix intermittent embeds failure. (31860)
  • Fix intermittent failure of rich text end-to-end test. (31864)
  • Increase test coverage for pattern transforms. (31689)
  • Navigation: Add unit tests for onChange handler and fix cases around custom links tags and post-format. (31259)
  • Remove i18n filters performance test. (32028)
  • Skip unstable end-to-end tests. (32031)
  • Try stabilizing customize widgets end-to-end tests. (32023)
  • Update skip failing template mode end to end test. (32017)
  • Update tests for changes in core logic. (31982)
• Gutenberg plugin: Update compatibility layer for loading separate core block assets. (31894)
• Workflow:
  • Replace the Cancel workflow with native GitHub Action functionality. (32016)
  • Remove Custom Properties PostCSS plugin. (31715)