WordPress/gutenberg v11.7.0-rc.1

11.7.0 RC1

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Enhancements

Accessibility

• Adjust wording for post format suggestions. (14124)
• Add a visually hidden label for the Search block. (35034)
• Add accessible label to Back button in preferences. (35340)

Block Directory

• Migrate store actions to thunks. (35031)

Block Editor

• Block Editor: Allow other blocks to use the slash inserter. (35196)
• Enable ability to create Pages from the inline Link UI. (35083)
• Polish quick inserter. (35339)
• Migrate the toggleFeature action to a thunk. (35075)
• Remove visual clue from alignment toolbar. (35080)
• Remove native block inserter onboarding tooltip. (35150)

Block Library

• Add duotone to site logo. (35344)
• Add tooltip to navigation items in a setup state. (35139)
• File Block: Only display PDF preview height RangeControl when embed is enabled. (35207)
• Navigation: Add transformations from a link to other allowed nav blocks. (34978)
• Query Loop: Include a Query Pagination option on the block variations. (35347)
• Show "none" as an alignment option and use contextual text to clarify settings. (34710)
• Social links: Add block gap support. (35236)
• Site title: Add option to toggle home link. (31540)
• Site title: update block description. (34474)
• Transform Nav Links with children into Submenus. (34831)
• Add an option for displaying the label inside the Navigation Link block. (34952)
• Add typography settings for the Navigation Link block. (35324)
• Add option to remove/clear logo from the Site Logo block. (34820)

Core data

• Add 'context' to the query parts type definition. (35069)

Components

• Add new Navigator components and use them in the global styles sidebar. (34904)
• Use _builtin property of classes in navigation link PHP. (35166)
• Item:  Remove isAction and use onClick to decide if it should render as button. (35152)
• Make tooltip delay configurable with a property. (35246)

Design Tools

• Columns block: Enable blockGap and vertical margin support. (34630)
• Format library: Add background color. (34680)
• Update: Custom gradient picker design. (34712)

Documentation

• Adding example readme template to contributing guidelines. (34847)

Global Styles

• Add Padding to the root level of global styles. (35241)
• Add duotone theme.json styles support. (34667)
• Block gap: Only render CSS variable if corresponding theme setting is enabled. (35209)
• Extract the color palette to its own global styles screen. (35109)
• Update the rules to hide/show blocks in the global styles sidebar. (35178)

Icons

• Add color icon. (35187)
• Rename globe icon to url. (35032)

Navigation Screen

• Insert Navigation Link blocks by default in Navigation block. (34899)
• Migrate resolvers to thunks. (35044)

Site Editor

• Remove warning box from post terms. (35242)

Template Editor

• Add back button for isolated template part editor. (34732)
• Add template areas to template details. (35202)

Widgets Editor

• Add missing doc blocks for the exported members of edit-widgets store. (35263)
• Migrate edit-widgets store to thunks. (35110)

Bug Fixes

Accessibility

• Global Styles: Add accessible label to Back button. (35325)
• Template title: Include a button and label text when there is no post/page title. (35148)

Block Editor

• Block Editor: Fix duplicate clientIds when dragging patterns. (35124)
• Disallow creation of empty links using Link UI directly. (35060)
• Fix Link UI when hyperlink has an empty href value. (35043)
• Fix missing border in the quick inserter. (35307)
• Fix toggle off for Duotone control and Post Date block’s date picking control. (35024)
• useMultiSelection: Avoid crashing editor when block refs aren't available. (35177)

Block Library

• Embed: Remove meetup-com from variations. (35146)
• Featured image block: Remove descendent space. (35273)
• Fix: Broken disabled select style in the editor area. (35135)
• Fix native BlockAlignmentControl. (35191)
• Fix: Adding nav items from existing menu. (34837)
• Gallery block: Fix Safari image sizing issue. (35309)
• Gallery block: Fix problem with caption showing encode tags when not selected. (35131)
• Gallery block: Unset alignment on new images to prevent it breaking layout. (35132)
• Post Template: Remove margins from the block. (35193)
• Post Title: Always use blockProps. (35286)
• Post Title: Only render link element if we have a post. (35284)
• Query Pagination: Don't render an empty container. (35092)
• Fix PHP notice in the Navigation Link block. (34984)
• Fix Post Comment Content block's edit function. (35190)

Components

• Color Picker: Match figma metrics. (35039)
• Remove shift-stepping from range in RangeControl. (35020)

Design Tools

• ToolsPanelItem: Add panelId check before calling toggle methods. (35375)

Documentation

• Fix erroneous usage of the word master. (35392)
• Update doc block in block editor to fix documentation generation lint error. (35295)

Media

• MediaUpload: Ensure current images in a gallery are selected after opening media library. (35070)

Navigation Screen

• Fix gap regression in navigation screen. (35234)
• Truncate long menu names. (35188)

Post Editor

• Fix missing save label. (34948)
• Keyboard shortcut: Prevent post saving through keyboard if post saving locked. (35361)

REST API

• API Fetch: Improve isMediaUploadRequest check. (34417)
• Fix slashing when creating or updating a menu item. (35147)

Testing

• Fix not archiving failure artifacts for flaky tests. (35379)

Template Editor

• Fix the styling of template details. (35285)

Widgets Editor

• inspector-section: Track isOpen to make a better isContextuallyActive() function. (35055)

Performance

• Edit Site: Optimize useSelect calls. (35213)
• Memoize entity records selectors properly. (34323)
• Widgets: Optimize useSelect calls. (35256)

Experiments

Block Library

• Polish responsive navigation modal, inherit justifications, fix submenu direction. (35077)
• Polish submenu indicator button. (35030)

Global Styles

• Add a beta indicator for the global styles sidebar. (35219)
• Polish global styles preview. (35244)
• Update text descriptions in global styles panels. (35319)

Navigation Screen

• Remove i18n of help link in navigation editor. (35313)

Full Site Editing

• Remove extra styling around "Post content" placeholder. (35243)

Documentation

• Docs: Add instructions for installing plugins/themes with wp-env. (35064)
• Docs: Update testing overview with minor fixes. (35232)
• Fix typos, grammar in contributors release doc. (35268)
• MediaUpload: Reflect the correct filter name in the readme. (35240)
• Update LinkControl documentation with additional examples. (35199)
• Update nvm to latest 0.38.0 version. (35125)

Code Quality

Block Editor

• Add colord package to block editor; Replace tinycolor2 with colord on duotone. (34603, 34616, 34605, 35165, 35164)

Block Library

• Post Title: Fix argument numbering in 'sprintf'. (35338)
• Replace tinycolor2 with colord on block library package. (35184

Components

• Refactor Navigator* folder structure, rename Navigator to NavigatorProvider. (35160)
• Replace tinycolor2 with colord. (35185)
• ToolsPanel component: Refactor to typescript. (34028)
• UnitControl component: Refactor utils to TypeScript. (35138)
• Do not export SimpleColorSwatch in Storybook examples for Item Group. (35179)
• Refactor Navigator to TypeScript. (35214)

Global Styles

• Simplify code that deals with user data for clarity. (35248)
• Simplify how we register preset metadata. (35228)
• Global Styles: Reorganize the global styles UI code base. (35218)

Post Editor

• Keyboard Shortcuts: Use a new selector getter method. (35385)

Navigation Component

• Refactor the preferences modal to use the new Navigator components. (35142)
• Navigation Editor: Remove duplicated stripHTML. (35189)

Tools

Build Tooling

• Remove polyfills from view.js block scripts. (35038)

Components

• Add tests for Navigator*. (35163)

Testing

• Enable flaky tests reporter bot in PRs. (35029)
• Replace tinycolor2 with colord on getMostReadableColor util. Add unit test. (34625)
• Try fixing flaky navigation test. (35380)

Plugins

• Add oandregal and tellthemachines to codeowners file. (35233)