WordPress/gutenberg v11.5.0-rc.1

11.5.0 RC1

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Features

Design Tools

• Block Support: Add gap block support feature. (33991)

Enhancements

Accessibility

• Font weight screen reader description. (34312)

Block Editor:

• Media Placeholder: Change media URL input type to allow a local URL path. (29138)

Block Library

• Columns Block: Use blockGap between Columns blocks. (34456)
• Group Block: Add a row variation. (34535)
• Heading Block: Vertical heading levels menu. (32926)
• Navigation Block: Allow Site Title and Logo inside Navigation block. (33316)
• Navigation Block, List View: Do not show appender and avoid closing the modal on block select. (34337)
• Navigation Block: Remove horizontal and vertical navigation block variations from inserter. (34614)
• Navigation Block: Use gap instead of margin. (32367)
• Post Author Block: Add duotone suport. (34408)
• Query Pagination Next/Previous: Add an arrow attribute and sync next/previous block's arrow. (33656)
• Site Logo Block: Update block description to be concise. (34471)
• Site Title Block: Update block description to be concise. (34475)
• Social Links Block: Use the new flex layout. (34493)
• Video Block: Use existing video poster image on insert. (34415)

Components

• MenuItem: Add right padding for unchecked radio and checkbox items. (34406)
• ToggleGroupControl: Update stories to use knobs. (34497)

Core Data

• Add isRawAttribute to entity configuration. (34388)

Design Tools

• Add wide alignment control only if theme provides layout.wideSize. (34586)
• ToolsPanel: Change icon from horizontal to vertical ellipsis. (34369)

Full Site Editing

• Limit FSE admin notices to the Themes screen. (34353)

Global Styles

• Allow disabling text and background color via theme.json. (34420)
• Make global styles available to all themes. (34334)

i18n

• Add context to 'none' strings for better translations. (34341)
• Make permalinks documentation URL translatable. (34282)

Post Editor

• Expose ThemeSupportCheck component. (20506)
• Title block gap. (34570)

Themes

• Add default editor styles applied to themes without theme.json and without editor styles. (34439)

Widgets Editor

• Add 'Widget Group' block to widgets screens. (34484)
• Legacy widget rendering endpoint. (34230)

New APIs

Design Tools

• Allow themes with theme.json to opt-out of block gap styles. (34491)

Bug Fixes

Accessibility

• Fix button block focus trap after a URL has been added. (34314)

Block Editor

• Fix menu item padding regression. (34435)
• Fix text-menu min widths. (34532)
• Keep id on paste if internal link points to it. (31107)
• Fix caret position on block merging. (34169)

Block Library

• Heading Block, Paragraph Block: Fix long strings of text without spaces overflow the block. (34222)
• Gallery Block: Fix bug with stalled upload when image size too large. (34371)
• Gallery Block: Fix media placeholder height in site editor. (34629)
• Gallery Block: Fix problem with overflowing captions on new gallery block format. (34402)
• Latest Posts: Fix various React warnings in development log. (34428)
• Navigation: Fix navigation block classname issues. (34344)
• Navigation: Fix Page List styles inside responsive Navigation. (34517)
• Navigation: Fix responsive menu height regression. (34488)
• Navigation: Fix submenu layout in navigation page list. (34342)
• Navigation: Fix submenus to only take up space when visible. (34382)
• Navigation: Fix undo/redo 'trap' in navigation link block. (34565)
• Site Title: Allow empty title in edit mode. (34274)
• Video Block: Fix TypeError when removing poster. (34411)

Components

• Align labels on focal point picker position controls above the inputs. (34209)
• Check if in browser env before calling CSS.supports. (34572)
• Combobox Component: Only force expanded state if the input has focus. (34090)
• CustomSelectControl: Add describedBy fallback. (34385)
• DateTime Component: Fix sizing of help info. (34370)
• Fix ToggleGroupControlBackdrop not updating size when isAdaptiveWidth prop changes. (34595)
• Fix selected value computation in CustomSelectControl when no initial value is set. (34490)
• Fix subheadings from wrapping. (34319)

Design Tools

• Border Controls: Display color indicator and check selected color. (34467)
• Border Support: Fix check for displaying border support panel. (34516)
• Gap block support: Force gap change to cause the block to re-render (fix Safari issue). (34567)
• Letter Spacing: Group letter spacing correctly under typography supports. (34515)

Global Styles

• Fix block-level global styles color panels. (34293)
• Font Appearance Control: Fix error in global styles for Site Title in TT1-Blocks. (34520)

Meta Boxes

• Change default value of enableCustomFields to undefined. (33931)
• Fix metabox reordering. (30617)

Packages

• Blocks: Register block when invalid value provided for the icon. (34350)
• Core Data: Add 'include' to the query key. (34583)
• Core Data: Use resolveSelect instead of select in saveEntityRecord. (34584)
• Interface: Block Toolbar & Popover component - Prevent sticky position from causing permanently obscured areas of the selected block. (33981)
• Scripts: Only use svgr/webpack in js files. (34394)

REST API

• Default batch processor: Respect the batch endpoint's maxItems. (34280)

Widgets Editor

• Fix Block Settings sidebar unexpectedly collapsing. (34543)
• Legacy widget's preview functionality is broken when the page is moved. (34384)
• Prevent focus trap in Legacy Widget block’s preview iframe. (33614)

Performance

Block Editor

• Improve the getBlock and getBlocks performance. (34241)
• Remove duplicated useValidAlignment hook. (34593)

Core Data

• Move locks state from store to local variable. (34374)

Global Styles

• Remove colors classes from the packages that are already provided by global styles. (34510)

Experiments

Navigation Editor

• Add undo redo buttons in navigation editor. (34533)
• Decode entities in the menu names. (34263)
• Disable "block-nav-menus" feature for the purposes of removing the "experimental" status on the Navigation Editor. (34444)
• Preload menu REST API requests on new navigation editor. (34364)
• Update navigation editor placeholder. (34568)

Documentation

Handbook

• Replace withSelect references with useSelect. (34549)
• Updated Template Section copy. (34383)
• Update block variations documentation about block scope. (34455)

Packages

• Blocks: Correct typo in Blocks Documentation. (34396)
• Componentes: Fix/update documentation alignment matrix control. (34624)
• Componentes: Update DuotonePicker documentation for accuracy. (34494)
• Eslint: Add no-unsafe-wp-apis to rules list in the documentation. (34416)
• Prettier: Correct syntax in README.md for prettier-config. (34600)

Code Quality

Block Editor

• Code cleanup to the getBlock refactoring. (34326)
• Ensure that blockType is defined when accessing apiVersion. (34346)
• Migrate lightBlockWrapper support to apiVersion for blocks. (34459)
• Fix Animated warning log. (34197)
• Rich Text: Replace global event handlers with local ones. (34492)
• Rich text (core): OnFocus method can be replaced with HTMLElement.focus. (32054)
• Use Setting: Consolidate the PATHS_WITH_MERGE constant to one instance. (34407)

Block Library

• Gallery Block: Add docblock comments to the new gallery hooks. (34562)
• Gallery Block: Remove IE specific CSS hacks. (34372)
• Button Block: Replace global shortcut event handlers with local ones. (34498)
• Navigation Block: Refactor to use generic classnames. (34171)
• Navigation Link Block: Replace global shortcut event handlers with local ones. (34500)
• Gallery Block: Remove redundant css selector. (34277)

Components

• CustomGradientBar: Replace global shortcut event handlers with local ones. (34505)
• Guide: Replace global shortcut event handlers with local ones. (34503)
• Navigate regions: Use React events for shortcuts (portal bubbles & contextual). (33633)
• Rename PolymorphicComponent* types to WordPressComponent*. (34330)
• Simplify Modal with hooks. (34412)
• Simplify & polish heading levels. (34378)

Core Data

• Fix linting errors. (34596)
• Fix linting error in trunk. (34464)
• Migrate canUser resolver to thunks. (34580)
• Migrate entities.js to thunks. (34582)
• Migrate getAutosaves resolver to thunks. (34581)
• Migrate getEntityRecord resolver to thunks. (34576)
• Migrate getEntityRecords resolver to thunks. (34578)
• Migrate resolvers to thunks: GetAuthors, _getCurrentUser, __getCurrentTheme, __getThemeSupports. (34579)
• Refactor deleteEntityRecord to use thunks instead of generators. (34386)
• Refactor editEntityRecord, undo, and redo to be thunks instead of generators. (34387)
• Remove the PROCESS_PENDING_LOCK_REQUESTS action. (34343)
• Refactor saveEntityRecord from redux-rungen to async thunks. (33201)
• Remove extraction of raw values in saveEntityRecords. (34502)

Other Packages

• Compose, useDropZone: Ensure drag event targets HTMLElement. (34272)
• Editor: Replace hardcoded store key. (34296)
• Env: Clarify config error within parse-config.js. (34322)
• Post Editor: Fix gray W menu color. (34318)
• URL: Add getFilename method to the URL package. (34313)

Tools

Build Tooling

• ESLint: Add useSelect to direct function calls list. (34301)
• ESLint: Update error message for @emotion/css with info about the useCx hook. (34418)
• Fix build hang on Windows 10. (23589)
• Linting: Remove global event listener warning. (34528)
• More work on the stability of the performance metrics. (34229)

Plugin

• Added janw-me to the Codeowners for the PHP FSE folder. (32990)
• Fix title missing in bug report form. (34504)
• Update bug form to use drop downs. (34458)
• Update the minimum supported WordPress version to 5.7. (34536)

Testing

• Add unit tests for edit site editor utils. (34401)
• Debug e2e-tests in vscode. (29788)
• Jest Preset: Restore the default setting for the verbose option. (34327)
• Make Test_Widget compatible with WP_Widget. (34355)