Features
Block Library
- New Block: Comment Reply Link. (35774)
- New Block: Comment Link. (35965)
- New Block: Comment Avatar. (35396)
- New Block: Comments Query Loop. (35231)
Enhancements
Block Library
- Buttons: Add flex layout and new layout type. (35819)
- Code: Add support for padding, color, and border styles. (27582)
- Columns: Add padding support. (35701)
- Comment Author Name: Add spacing to have same options as Post Author Name. (36213)
- Comment Edit Link: Add alignment option. (36033)
- Embed: Add Wolfram Cloud as an embed provider. (35656)
- Gallery: Replace gallery experimental setting with a check for use_balanceTags. (34979)
- Image: Add data-id attribute on server side render for core galleries. (35975)
- Navigation: Add create new menu button. (36245)
- Navigation: Add delete nav menu button. (35981)
- Navigation: Add featured transforms in Link Control for Navigation Link items. (35857)
- Navigation: Add flex layout. (36169)
- Navigation: Add missing menu item attributes. (35634)
- Navigation: Create nav menu on pattern insertion or when the block has uncontrolled inner blocks. (36024)
- Navigation: Migrate classic menus to block-based menus on theme switch. (36255)
- Navigation: Mobile responsive navigation by default. (35917)
- Navigation: Provide a way to manage wp_navigation posts from wp-admin. (36126)
- Navigation: Reword navigation color labels. (35916)
- Navigation: Save data to a wp_navigation post type. (35746)
- Navigation: Show the placeholder again when moving from a valid menu to non-existing menu. (36210)
- Navigation: Update block entity automatic name generation and refine naming UI. (36238)
- Navigation: Use a single placeholder for the block. (36023)
- Page List: Create a JS version for the editor. (31670)
- Post Author: Add spacing controls. (35963)
- Post Comment: Deprecate the block now that the Comment Query Loop block has been added. (36032)
- Post Comment Author: Add alignment options. (36045)
- Post Comments: Even out the top margin inside the block. (35887)
- Post Comments: Hide the "Comments Closed" message. (35743)
- Post Comment Form: Adds in basic styling for post comment form. (35704)
- Post Excerpt: Add spacing controls. (35959)
- Post Excerpt: Don't print the wrapper when there is no excerpt. (35749)
- Post Title: Return no markup if title is empty. (35861)
- Search: Add contextual defaults when inserted in Navigation block. (36125)
- Gallery block: Add a dismissible warning about the need for versions >=18.2 of the mobile app. (36012)
Accessibility
- Add announcement on formatting change for screen readers. (35896)
- Add aria-current to navigation link, submenu, page list. (35880)
- Link editing: Improve focus styles for Link UI preview title. (35853)
- Site Editor: Enable the "Save" keyboard shortcut. (36138)
- Try to communicate to screen readers that post title is textarea. (35898)
Block Editor
- Block toolbar: Remove visual clue from text alignment icon. (35922)
- Drag and drop: Show drag slot instead of hiding the block being dragged. (33950)
- Enable rich previews in the Link UI for the Site Editor. (35951)
- Link editing: Update Link UI design for preview action buttons to use icons for edit and unlink. (35833)
- Multi-Entity Saving UI Improvements. (35933)
- Use the block's name in the "remove block" menu item in the block settings dropdown. (35872)
- StripHTML: preserve leading and trailing spaces and strip script and on* attributes. (35539)
Full Site Editing
- Improve the initial loading of the site editor. (36044)
- Move the Site Editor menu item to sit under Appearance and rename to Editor. (36064)
- Remove navigation panel in site editor. (36194)
- Use Heading component on NavigationMenu and NavigationGroup components. (36009)
- Use SearchControl component inside nav menu. (36011)
Components
- ColorPicker: Implement new color palette editor component. (35783)
- Duotone: Add description to clarify that the underlying image will not be affected. (36018)
- Modal: Wrap the modal contents in a StyleProvider. (36261)
- ToolsPanel: Update typography panel layout. (35911)
- LinkControl: Split control for URL and Text within Link UI. (33849)
Template Editor
- Add resizer to template part focus mode. (35728)
- Auto resize the height of template part focus mode. (35974)
Global Styles
- Remove the duplicated title in background, text and link views. (35583)
- Typography: Switch to ToolsPanel for block support UI. (33744)
- Add a Global Styles endpoint and use it in the site editor. (35801)
- Migrate theme.json v1 to v2. (36155)
- Update: Show all color and gradient origins (core, theme, and user). (35970)
Design Tools
- Duotone: Enable transparency. (34130)
- Layout: Add
flex-wrap
control toflex
layout. (36003) - Typography block support: Add typography support and defaults. (34064)
Media
- Remove "security" verbiage from warning when filetype does not pass on upload. (36226)
Patterns
- Add an
inserter
flag to hide patterns from UI. (36108)
Themes
- Remove experimental feature notice for block themes. (36083)
General Interface
- Apply borders to canvas rather than other UI elements. (31081)
REST API
- Respect fields param for global styles REST API requests. (36206)
- URL Details: Update regex to include
og:Description
. (35875)
New APIs
Global Styles
- Add API to access global settings, styles, and stylesheet. (34843)
Block Library
- Inner blocks: Add
useInnerBlocksProps.save
function for edit/save symmetry, and stabilise API. (26031)
Bug Fixes
Block Library
- Buttons: Address deprecation issues from Buttons flex layout PR. (36192)
- Classic: Fix select all blocks side effect that overwrote paragraph block contents. (35999)
- Column: Only add flex-basis if width contains a number. (35831)
- Comment Template: Move inner blocks container to separate components. (36174)
- Blocks: Fix relative URLs for inlined styles. (35538)
- Navigation: Disable ability to edit wp_navigation menus via
Appearance -> Navigation Menus
for non-FSE themes. (36257) - Fix incorrect attributes definitions. (36264)
- Fix saving template parts in the site editor by fixing controlled inner blocks parent block attributes updates. (35827)
- Fix incorrect attributes definitions for Column, Cover, and Group blocks. (36140)
- Gallery: Make sure the mobile warning notice only runs when images are added to a new block. (36326)
- Gallery: Only show the gallery upload error message if mixed multiple files are uploaded. (35790)
- Gallery: Remove the arbitrary alt text that is added to gallery images. (35936)
- Heading: Avoid error on split when the paragraph isn't registered. (35871)
- Image: Make sure the Image block border radius is inherited if the image is linked. (36289)
- Navigation Submenu: Fix PHP notice caused by stale id reference. (35984)
- Navigation overlay menu: Fix submenu spacing. (35823)
- Navigation: Fix accessibility issues. (36292)
- Navigation: Fix dropdown indicator position. (36106)
- Navigation: Fix issues with responsive justifications. (35913) and (36105)
- Navigation: Fix padding for social links on mobile. (35824)
- Navigation: Fix submenus not opening on click. (36290)
- Pattern: Remove wrapping div. (36090)
- Post Comment: Handle the case where a comment does not exist. (35810)
- Post Navigation Link: Do not translate HTML tag. (35930)
- Post Template Block: Move inner blocks container to separate component. (35945)
- Post Terms: Prevent the block from breaking on pages. (35957)
- Site Logo: Fix center alignment. (35971)
- Site Logo: Fix fatal error in Site Logo block in WP 5.9. (36195)
- Prevent PHP notice in Elements block support for blocks with empty content. (35836)
Components
- AnglePickerControl: Use admin color scheme. (35908)
- BaseControl: Fix undefined Help text id if no id is passed to component. (35899)
- ColorListPicker: Fix spacing to accomodate the new color picker. (36017)
- ColorPalette: Fix className. (36016)
- ColorPicker: Fix unexpected movements, and closing on first click in the color picker. (35670)
- Popover: Check anchorDocument default view before removing events. (35832)
- RangeControl: Fix style issue in RTL. (35777)
- Storybook: Lazy load LTR/RTL styles for consistent specificity. (35771)
- Text: Fix text color value to use correct gray color value for Link UI preview description text. (35851)
Global Styles
- Fix navigation in global styles sidebar. (36203)
- Fix presets data for themes that do not provide any preset. (36054)
- Generate preset metadata for font-family in the site editor. (36022)
- Hotfix for leftovers of
WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver::Get_merged_data
. (36173) - Lower the specificity of border & padding styles for the outline block style in the button block. (35968)
- Theme.json: Remove custom prefixes from properties that did not land in 5.8. (34485)
- Fix Rest global styles controller accessing configuration that may not exist. (36047)
Block Editor
- Allow moving metaboxes to previously empty area. (25187)
- Change
console.error
toconsole.warn
for enqueued styles in the editor. (35914) - Fix inserter with block pattern categories. (36116)
- Fix navigation block link control zero value in it. (36198)
- Fix the update of link and suggestions in LinkControl. (32320)
- Make Link UI inactive if selection extends beyond format bounds or encounters new link. (35946)
- Fix selection by holding shift key for nested blocks. (35668)
- Fix shift+click on a child block with its parent selected. (35988)
- Fix: Crash when resetting user color palette. (36233)
- Fix: Show user colors on palette indicator. (36232)
- Fix
getPxFromCssUnit
test stability and test that memoized function works correctly. (35939) - Link editing: Account for link anchor no longer being present when generating unique link instance key. (36357)
- Preserve highlighted text selection when changing colors (36263)
Design Tools
- Font Appearance: Improve consistency of label in Typography panel. (35860)
- Font Family Support: Fix skip serialization check. (36073)
- Navigation: Force text decoration styles on nav item in editor. (35859)
Template Editor
- Clear selected block when clicking outside in the template part focus mode. (35816)
- Templates: Only include templates for the current post types. (35802)
Core Data
- Avoid showing deleted records in editor saving flow. (36027)
- Fix Core Data using hardcoded baseURL prefix for taxonomies and post types API requests. (35850)
- Make
saveEditedEntityRecord
use the entity key when available. (36212)
Patterns
- Update unsaved navigation block flow. (35976)
Full Site Editing
- Add fallback handling for plugins or themes using the Customizer. (35877)
- Unhook
_block_template_render_title_tag
to prevent duplicate title tags from rendering. (36133) - Theme resolver: Fix crash from calls to
undefined
functions. (36248)
Widgets Editor
- Fix layout styles not applying in widgets customizer. (35865)
CSS & Styling
- Editor defaults for themes with no editor styles and when user disables theme styles. (35736)
History
- Support disabling autosave for native Unsupported Block Editor. (35639)
Performance
List View
- Fix pagedown/pageup and improve scrolling. (36063)
- List View: Render a fixed number of items. (35230)
Block Editor
- Improve opening of the block inserter via manual token-based analysis of reusable blocks. (35763)
Widgets Editor
- List View: Avoid re-rendering all items on block focus. Enable persistent List View in the widget editor. (35706)
Experiments
Block Library
- Navigation Area block. (36178)
Full Site Editing
- Always display Customizer menu item. (36168)
- Revert "Always display Customizer menu item". (36189)
- Remove slug and status columns from templates list in Appearance > Templates. (35996)
REST API
Navigation Editor
- Show a warning when trying to save unsupported blocks. (35993)
Documentation
- Added link to Ways to keep up with Gutenberg & Full Site Editing. (36077)
Handbook
- Add Thunks Tutorial. (36051)
- Add a more detailed guide for react native development. (35529)
- Blocks: Add view script to block schema and documentation. (36175)
- Blocks: Document changes to style and editorStyle in
block.json
. (36218) - Add Getting Started level for documentation. (35891)
- Add section about using the schema during development. (35835)
- Fix a small typo in the "Getting started" documentation. (36109)
- Fix Typos in widgets/overview.md. (36078)
- Fix wording in the Authoring Experience documentation. (35969)
- Improve Getting Started landing page. (35893)
- Release Docs: Remove consecutive RCs warning. (35855)
- Theme.json - fix typo. (36139)
- Theme.json docs: Add missing settings & styles. (36137)
- Tweak organization for getting-started documentation. (34091)
- Update the recommendation for the cadence of npm releases. (35925)
Packages
- Components: Update Components CONTRIBUTING.md indentation. (35866)
- Create Block: Move create-block changelog entries back to Unreleased section. (35886)
- DOM: Backtick added around
<textarea>
input tag in readme file. (34813) - Env: Update wordpress-develop example to clarify src/build location. (35978)
- Rich Text: Add usage documentation for Rich Text package. (35885)
- Schemas: Fix schema file URL. (36157)
Code Quality
REST API
- Add Theme's base global styles endpoint. (35985)
- Improvements for the global styles endpoint. (36071)
- Remove "experimental" from URL details REST controller and promote to
v1
namespace. (35915)
Block Library
- Heading: Auto-generated anchors hide implementation details. (35747)
- Mark FSE blocks as non experimental. (35979)
- Mark Post Comments as stable and Comments Query Loop as experimental. (36132)
- Mark Post Navigation Link and Term Description blocks as stable. (36163)
- Remove
post-
prefix from Comment Template inner blocks. (36171)
Global Styles
- Linting: Fix WPCS lint errors in global styles. (36058)
- Refactor theme.json migrations to be a single class. (36182)
- Remove locations we do not translate from
theme-i18n.json
. (35881) - Update
theme.json
schema migrations. (36154)
Post Editor
- Migrate to thunks. (35720)
- Refactor FlatTermSelector into a functional component. (33459)
- ERemove GB prefixed functions from template part. (36180)
- Translated site properties. (36097)
Components
- ToolsPanel: Use Grid component to handle layout. (35621)
- Update spacing in CircularOptionPicker. (36014)
- Use small button on tools panel toggle. (35935)
Other Packages
- Create Block: Add block.json schema to generated file. (35843)
- Data: Rename types file from .d.ts to .ts. (36062)
- Url: Move getStablePath function into the wordrpess/url package. (35992)
- Schemas: Add schemas package. (35998)
- Schemas: Theme.json - Add
title
to templateParts. (36145)
CSS & Styling
- Remove invalid buttons block CSS property. (33793)
Tools
Plugin and backporting to WordPress core
- Updates
WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver
and tests to be equal to core. (36223) - Changes for FSE backport in core. (36201)
- Temporarily pin .wp-env.json to WP 5.8.1. (36333)
Workflows
- Remove @chrisvanpatten from CODEOWNERS. (35937)
- Add alexstine as code owner for post-title. (36056)
Testing
- Add a method to disable auto-accepting dialogs. (35828)
- Skip broken widgets test. (36239)
- Skip flaky test for loading block stylesheets in iframe. (35961)
- Tests: Run block fixtures through KSES. (35611)
- theme.json: Make sure tests are pure. (36253)
- theme.json: Update test data. (35883)
- Scripts: Increase timeout for end-to-end tests to 30 seconds. (35983)
- Improve unit test coverage for REST API menus endpoints. (36177)
- Update child theme.json merge test to match core. (36329)
Debugging
- Wp-env: Disable Xdebug by default unless specified by user. (34324)