WordPress/gutenberg v10.8.0-rc.1

10.8.0 RC1

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Enhancements

• Block Editor:
  • Update Modal styling. (31639)
• Block Library:
  • Archives Block: Show the label for archives block dropdown. (30527)
  • Audio Block: Add an example preview. (32333)
  • File Block: Add an example preview. (32350)
  • Heading Block: Add support for font-weight. (27639)
  • List Block: Add font family to the list block. (27510)
  • Page list block: Add active page classes. (32134)
  • Site Logo: Use option instead of theme-mod. (32229)
• Components:
  • BoxControl: Add allowReset option. (32345)
    General Interface:
  • Remove opacity animation on canvas. (32266)
• Design tools:
  • Add Letter-spacing and enable this for site title and site tagline. (31118)
  • Block Supports: Allow skipping spacing support serialization. (31973)
• Reusable Block:
  • Add Convert to Regular Blocks button to ellipsis Dropdown. (32310)
• REST API:
  • Improve parsing and retrieve additional data in REST url-details endpoint. (31763)
• Template Editing Mode:
  • Don't display snackbar with the Welcome Guide. (32076)
  • Update the appearance of the template details popover. (32042)
  • Update the title area in the template editor. (32037)
• Block-based Widgets:
  • Customizer:
    • Add preferences menu group label to widgets and customize widget editor. (32259)
    • Display wide widgets as popovers in Customizer. (31736)
  • Editor:
    • Link to widgets.php instead of themes.php?page=gutenberg-widgets. (32299)

Bug Fixes

• Block Library:
  • Image Block: Fix image border radius. (32393)
  • List Block: Fix theme.json styles for the core/list block. (32343)
  • Latest Posts: Limit latest posts featured image width to 100%. (32245)
  • Legacy Widget Block:
    • Fix legacy widget block preview iframe. (32300)
    • Fix legacy widget previews. (32260)
  • Search block: Fix vertical alignment of the search button text. (32340)
• Block Editor:
  • Block Variation Transforms: Make focus style valid CSS. (32305)
  • Block Toolbar:
    • Always close the options menu after toggling the sidebar. (31921)
    • Fix toolbar alignment in widget block editor. (31991)
  • Iframe: Fix embed dimensions with missing wp-embed-responsive class. (32057)
  • Patterns: Fix allowed patterns check. (32376)
• Block-Based Widgets:
  • Editor:
    • Fix error when saving empty Legacy Widget block. (32359)
  • Customizer:
    • Center the welcome image in the narrow viewport of widgets customizer. (32264)
    • Fix aspect ratio of welcome image. (32302)
    • Fix deselecting block when inspector is opened. (32361)
    • Fix escape key events in customizer closing the editor. (32175)
    • Fix some smaller styling issues and bugs in Widgets Customizer. (32072)
    • Fix creating and replacing legacy widgets in customizer. (32005)
• Components:
  • SuggestionsList: Try to use a unique "key". (32344)
  • Update Dropdown’s close-on-blur logic to work inside dialogs. (32133)
• Editor:
  • Allow non-latin characters in slugs. (32232)
  • Post Preview Button: Prevent saving the post before previewing in locked/read-only mode. (32341)
• General Interface: Fix overlap of Notices and block toolbar. (32238)
• Template Editing Mode: Remove metaboxes from template mode. (32315)

Performance

• Buttons: Move options to constants to avoid unneeded renders. (32356)
• Experimental Layout: Pass the same object when no data changes. (32380)
• Navigation: Avoid rerendering when the placeholder does not change. (32357)
• Update Welcome Guides to use external image URLs. (32026)

Experiments

• Block Editor:
  • Block Navigation: Try using CSS for indentation with known max indent instead of spacer divs. (32063)
• Component System:
  • Add missing Divider, Heading type reference in tsconfig. (32104)
  • Adds a new ZStack component. (31613)
  • Adds new ItemGroup and Item components. (30097)
  • Add new BaseField Component. (32250)
  • Fix Shortcut polymorphism. (31555)
  • Promotes the Elevation component to a full export. (31614)
• Global Styles:
  • Bugfix: Generate classes from preset slugs in the same way (server & client). (32352)
  • Fix Logic to enable custom colors, gradients, and font sizes. (32200)
  • Fix incorrect useCustomUnits import. (32248)
  • Group typographic block supports under a typography key. (32252)
• Full Site Editing:
  • Align block hover and select styles across list view, site editor, select mode. (31277)
  • Alignment styles: Centre blocks using grid not margins. (32231)
  • Avoid duplicate skip-links in WP 5.8+. (32346)
  • Remove now-obsolete get_template_hierarchy(). (32116)
  • Templates: Remove now-obsolete gutenberg_get_template_paths(). (32066)
• Navigation:
  • Block:
    • Fix css bleed from navigation. (32384)
    • Fix collapsing regression of Navigation Menu. (32081)
    • Lock the document from scrolling when the modal is open. (32269)
    • Refactor Navigation block paddings/margins to inherit global styles. (31878)
  • Editor:
    • Allow block attributes passed to block renderer by way of wp_nav_menu. (31911)
    • Hide sidebar when a menu isn't selected. (32090)
    • Fix the visible widget area toolbar. (32262)
    • Fix block toolbar position after scroll. (32212)
    • Move modal state to ManageLocations component. (32078)
• Site Editor:
  • Fix broken template part converter modal styles. (32097)
  • Remove title attribute from NavigationItem inside the site-editor. (30744)

Documentation

• Handbook:
  • Fix broken contributors readme files. (32272)
  • Fix misspelling in the Widgets Block Editor section. (32242)
  • Mark all experimental components in the handbook. (32147)
  • Update the create a block theme tutorial. (31269)
  • Update iOS Simulator device command in React Native documentation. (32383)
• Packages:
  • Navigation Editor: Augment and improve Nav Editor (and block) documentation. (31891)
  • Components: Fixed documentation for units attribute in Unit Control. (31901)

Code Quality

• Block Editor:
  • Rich text:
    • Contextual default shortcut removal. (32327)
    • Remove inline display warning. (32013)
  • Colors: Remove __experimentalUseColors hook. (31438)
  • Remove usages of withState from edit-post and editor. (32349)
• Block Library:
  • List View: Simplify the BlockNavigation component. (31290)
  • Navigation: Simplify html selector in nav burger menu. (32303)
  • Remove "class=" wrapper to already wrapped attributes. (29214)
  • Query Block: Remove query context leftovers. (32093)
• Blocks Package: Make getBlockSupport support any lodash path.. (32322)
• Block Supports: Avoid a PHP Notice when render_block() is called without attributes. (32135)
• Components:
  • Button: Deprecate isPrimary, isSecondary, isTertiary and isLink props in favour of variant prop. (31713)
  • Combobox: Remove duplicated ComboboxControl component. (32397)
  • Dashicons: Add types to Icon . (32219)
  • Disabled: Add types to Disabled components. (32105)
  • Remove all withNext wrappers. (32205)
  • Rename ViewOwnProps to PolymorphicComponentProps. (32053)
  • Require explicit children prop for all components. (31817)
  • UI Context: Delete unused types from context. (32254)
  • UI Popover: Remove unused content property from types definitions. (32049)
• Compose:
  • Add types to useRefEffect and clipboard hooks. (31603)
  • Add Types to withGlobalEvents as any. (32290)
  • Add types to useWarnOnChange. (32288)
  • Add types to useViewportMatch. (32287)
  • Add types to useDropZone. (32286)
  • Add types to useDragging. (32285)
  • Add types to useThrottle and typecheck useFocusOutside. (32170)
  • Add types to useKeyboardShortcut. (32168)
  • Add types to useResizeObserver and type checking to useIsomorphicLayoutEffect. (32111)
  • Add types to useFocusReturn. (31949)
  • Add types to usePrevious. (31944)
  • Add types to useReducedMotion and useMediaQuery. (31941)
  • Add types to useMergeRefs. (31939)
  • Add test to useMergeRefs for disabling refs + better documentation. (32044)
  • Add types to useDebounce. (32015)
  • Deprecate withState in favor of useState. (32368)
  • Simplify compose function documentation and point to lodash documentation for it. (32324)
• Global Styles:
  • Avoid enqueuing global styles twice when running on WordPress 5.8. (32372)
• Keyboard Shortcuts:
  • Multi select: select all: Restore ref callback. (32318)
• Linting:
  • Fix eslint warnings in the core-data package. (32198)
  • Fix eslint warnings in the edit-navigation package. (32196)
  • Fix eslint warnings in the edit-post package. (32195)
  • Fix eslint warnings in the edit-site package. (32156)
  • Fix eslint warnings in the edit-widgets package. (32155)
  • Fix eslint warnings in the editor package. (32153)
  • Fix eslint warnings in the nux package. (32145)
  • Fix eslint warnings in the rich-text package. (32142)
  • Fix eslint warnings in the reusable-blocks package. (32141)
• Navigation Editor:
  • Fix React warning. (32165)

Tools

• Babel presets: Prefix build with node command for Windows environments. (#32258). (32329)
• Workflow:
  • Limit when workflows run on forks. (32114)
  • Only calculate the compressed size on pull requests when necessary. (32161)
  • Performance Tests Workflow:
    • Polish Bash script. (32284)
    • Run suite atop latest stable major WordPress version. (32244)
    • Use latest WP branch for release tests. (32277)
• End to End Tests:
  • Fix inserting cover block intermittent failure. (32014)
  • Navigation Editor:
    • Fix failing end-to-end tests. (32043)
    • Skip "Change detection" tests. (32151)
  • Move the Query and PostTitle end-to-end tests out of the experimental directory. (31691)
  • Multi select: Add end-to-end test for gruadual select all. (32304)
  • Remove redundant widget API endpoint tests. (32298)
  • Skip tests that are failing with the latest WordPress core. (32228)
• Eslint: Ignore some eslint rules in react-native folders. (32143)