WordPress/gutenberg v11.4.0-rc.1

11.4.0 RC1

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Enhancements

• Accessibility
  • Cover Block: Allow alt text in Cover blocks. (33226)
  • Add aria-describedby to custom select control component to describe currently-selected font size. (33941)
• Block Editor
  • Block Lists: improve iframe block, pattern and template previews. (28165)
• Block Library
  • Query Loop: Update Post Template sub-block icon. (34204)
  • Convert Gallery block to use Image blocks. (25940)
  • Post Featured Image: add duotone block supports. (34113)
  • Post Featured Image: add contextual help text to the scaleproperty. (34158)
  • File block: update transform from image to use image filename if caption is empty. (34256)
  • Post date Block: add font weight support to the block. (34070)
  • Post terms: add font weight support to the block. (34142)
  • Site Tagline: Add font weight support. (33983)
  • Button: update spacing support to use axial padding. (33859)
• Components
  • Add deprecated props adapter for ColorPicker. (34014)
  • Wrap SegmentedControl in a BaseControl with an added help property. (34017)
  • Combobox: update the current selection if the list of suggestions is filtered. (33928)
• Design Tools
  • Add layout default value support for blocks. (34194)
  • Dimensions Panel: Add padding tool as default for blocks where this is common setting. (34026)
• Packages
  • Updates the "settings" icon, which toggles the display of additional controls in an interface. (34165)
• Post Editor
  • Migrate post editor feature preferences to the interface package. (34154)
• Widgets Editor
  • Migrate customize widgets feature preferences to interface package. (34135)
  • Refactor editor 'feature' preferences to interface package. (33774)

Bug Fixes

• Block API
  • Spacing/Dimensions Supports: Separate spacing from dimensions for compatibility purposes. (34059)
• Block Editor
  • Font-size adjustment for tablet and mobile device previews. (33342)
  • Fix single block selection by holding shift key. (34137)
  • Fix unwanted additional spaces added around pasted text on Windows. (33607)
  • Inserter: prevent non-deterministic order of inserter items. (34078)
  • Try: Fix multiselect toolbar indent and reformat BlockContextualToolbar(). (34038) (34173)
• Block Library
  • Latest Comments: use site locale in the editor. (33944)
  • Navigation: fix vertical layout on the frontend. (34226)
  • Navigation: add z-index value to responsive menu overlay. (34228)
  • Navigation: enable flex on nav container to fix space between. (34258)
  • Navigation: fix submenu icon positioning. (34168)
  • Navigation block: add missing </ul> closing tag. (34077)
  • Post Excerpt: remove interactive formatting. (34083)

  • - Post Title: Use rich text hook and updating tag to `h1` ([31569](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/31569))
    

  • RichText: fix Space key for button and summary elements. (30244)
  • Search Block: add space between generated border class names. (34025)
• Components
  • Fix RTL on Flex component. (33729)
  • NavigationSidebar: fix template content for content-navigation-item preview. (34203)
  • Remove deprecated import style for storybook/addon-docs. (34095)
  • ToolsPanel: Add tools panel item deregistration. (34085)
  • Post Title: Remove wrapper div & fix border style. (34167)
• Core Data
  • GetEntityRecords return items even if some included IDs don't exist. (34034)
• Design Tools
  • Allow zero values for Theme JSON styles. (34251)
• Global Styles
  • Site editor: Fix for how CSS Custom Properties are generated. (33932)
• Packages
  • Rich Text: add check to toTree() in replacements before accessing its type. (34020)
• Post Editor
  • Fix selector params in isPluginItemPinned() selector. (34155)

Performance

• Data Layer
  • Data: Add a batch function to the data module to batch actions. (34046)

Experiments

• Block API
  • Block Editor: Absorb parent block toolbar controls. (33955)
  • Block Editor: Use groups for InspectorControls. (34069)
• Block Library
  • Add generic classnames to children of Navigation. (33918)
• Global Styles
  • Add slashes back to the Theme JSON. (33919)
  • Add block spacing gap configuration to theme.json and add support for this CSS variable to the "flow/default" layout. (33812)
• Navigation Screen
  • Update navigation screen topbar. (34166)

Documentation

• Packages
  • Add documentation for mobile components directory. (33872)
• Handbook
  • Alphabetize glossary entries. (34058)
  • Correct minor typos in wp-plugin.md (34185)
  • Remove extraneous params from block_type_metadata hook. (34151)
  • Update incorrect Settings examples in "Global Settings & Styles". (34084)
  • Use block.json to add attributes in create block tutorial. (33978)
  • Fix typo in block gap documentation in theme-json.md. (34231)
  • Fix broken mobile testing documentation link in testing-overview.md . (34187)
  • Fix typo in legacy-widget-block.md. (34103)
  • Update spelling and fontSize examples in create-block-theme.md. (34152)
• Library
  • Bump mobile version in experiments page for gallery. (34220)

Code Quality

• Block Editor
  • Render head and body with single portal for block previews. (34208)
  • BlockList: refactor element context for style/svg appending. (34183)
  • BlockList: Use InnerBlocks internally. (29895)
• Site Editor
  • Remove extra dom element used for template part overlay. (34012)
• Components
  • Unit Control: add unit tests for getValidParsedUnit utility method. (34029)
  • Rename SegmentedControl to ToggleGroupControl. (34111)
  • Dropdown Menu: remove min-width from the dropdown component and add whitespace rule to avoid wrapping (33995)
• Core Data
  • Allow passing store definitions to controls. (34170)

Tools

• ESLint
  • Eslint plugin: Use @typescript-eslint/no-duplicate-imports in TS projects. (34055)
• GitHub Contributor Templates
  • Issue Forms: Simplify the bug report form template. (34007)
• Logs
  • Hide deprecation logs under a console group. (34163)
• Testing
  • Emulate reduced-motion in end-to-end tests. (34132)
  • Re-enable Android end-to-end tests. (34243)
  • Remove extra props from Cover deprecations. (34066)
  • Remove the ENVIRONMENT_DIRECTORY env variable that was added to the performance jobs. (34086)
  • Add snapshot test for changelog formatting. (34049)
  • Experiment with using REST API in end-to-end tests to build up states. (33414)
• Build Tooling
  • Automated Changelog: force group all documentation tasks under Documentation. (34042)
  • Automated Changelog: rename "Editor" grouping to "Post Editor" to avoid ambiguity with other editors. (34093)
  • Automated Changelog: sort feature groups by issue name. (34071)
  • Automated Changelog: use nested headings for feature groups instead of indenting lists. (34040)
  • Automated Changelog: remove Uncategorized header in output and place items at top. (34037)
  • Add Typescript extensions to watched files. (34094)
  • Remove obsolete step that pushes tags in npm publishing flow. (34114)
  • Webpack: Fix watch on .json and .php files. (34024)