WordPress/gutenberg v12.0.0

12.0.0

on GitHub

Enhancements

Block Library

• Move WP_REST_Block_Navigation_Areas_Controller from Gutenberg to Core. (36374)
• Change all the uses of "website" to "site". (36220)
• Featured Image: Let Featured Image block inherit dimensions, look like a placeholder. (36517)
• Navigation: Enable Previews for Navigation Link Blocks. (36412)
• Navigation: Apply i18n functions to Nav block menu drops when selecting existing Menu. (36301)
• Navigation: Refactor and simplify setup state. (36375)
• Navigation: Rename fse_navigation_area to wp_navigation_area. (36460)
• Navigation: Return wp error from wp_insert_post. (36483)
• Paragraph: Merge text settings into typography panel. (36334)
• Remove textdomain from calendar block. (36500)

Site Editor

• Add welcome guide. (36172)
• Update back button URL. (36313)
• Improve compatiblity with menu endpoints WordPress 5.9. (36372)
• React to any errors coming up in gutenberg_migrate_menu_to_navigation_post. (36461)
• Change edit links for templates and template parts. (36294)
• Update site editor title truncation. (36436)
• Add template_type guards. (36318)

Block API

• Update schema to require either a type or an enum. (36267)
• Add _wp_array_set and _wp_to_kebab_case to 5.8 compat. (36399)

Design Tools

• Letter spacing: Update label copy. (36385)

Style

• Add block icon next to blocks list. (36520)
• theme.json: Adds a setting property that enables some other ones. (36246)
  • This was incorrectly added to the 12.0.0 milestone.
• Block Styles: Show style preview when hovered or focused. (34522)

Icons

• Add the missing comment edit link icon. (36565)
• Remove hard coded color from query pagination icons. (35837)
• Remove hard-coded values on icons. (36564)

Components

• ToolsPanel: Allow additional props on ToolsPanel. (36428)
• Typography Panel: Make letter spacing jsDoc and prop use consistent. (36367)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Fix background colours in nested submenus. (36476)
• Fix colour rendering in Navigation overlay. (36479)
• Fix duplicate custom classnames in navigation submenu block. (36478)
• Fix submenu justification and spacer orientation. (36340)
• Group - Fix overzealous regex when restoring inner containers. (36221)
• Hide visilibility and status for navigation posts. (36363)
• Nav block menu switcher - decode HTML entities and utilise accessible markup pattern. (36397)
• Navigation: Fix click-button size, submenu directions, scrollbars. (36215)
• Page List block: Fix space before href attribute. (36505)
• Page List: Use core entities instead of direct apiFetch. (36531)
• Post Comments Form: Ensure typography styles are applied to child elements. (36425)
• Post title block default CSS: Add a break-word rule by default. (35703)

Block API

• Use firstChild and lastChild when parsing lists from MS Word. (36019)

Full Site Editing

• Add the ability to opt-out of Core color palette V2. (36492)
• Fix layout shift in core/post-featured-image block with isLink enabled. (36552)
• Template Part Block: Add some guards. (36324)
• Chore: Add rewrite false to global styles CPT. (36273)
• Revert "theme.json: Adds a setting property that enables some other ones". (36477)
• Update more references to __experimental menu endpoints to make them stable. (36386)

Site Editor

• Fix site editor reset styles in WP 5.9. (36390)
• Site Editor - prevent loading state from showing the admin menu. (36455)

Global Styles

• Replace get_theme_file_path in theme_has_support. (36398)
• Chore: Fix small typos on the rest endpoints. (36272)

Block Editor

• Strip meta tags from pasted links in Chromium. (36356)
• Add webp extension in filePasteHandler and getPasteEventData. (36361)
• Fix mobile horizontal scrollbar. (36567)
• Polish metabox container. (36297)

CSS & Styling

• Update theme styles for the code block. (36282)

Documentation

Handbook

• "npm install" suggestion provides a better learning experience. (36217)
• Added specific links to agenda and notes posts related to core editor meetings. (36199)
• Schemastore - $schema is VS Code-specific. (36179)
• Update GIF image in documentation with wp.org schema URL. (36456)
• Update Versions in WordPress to include 5.9. (36156)
• Update theme.json schema to refer to wp.org URL. (36332)

Components Package

• Update combobox-control component readme. (36413)
• Update @wordpress/components changelog. (36448)

Developer Experience

• Add block.json schema defintion to core blocks. (35900)
• Add pattern to name key in block.json Schema. (36343)
• Update schema URL to wp.org domain. (36316)
• Allow block.json attribute type to be an array. (36295)
• Fix schema to allow for custom blocks in theme.json. (36341)

Code Quality

• Change @Package to WordPress in block-library. (36494)
• postcss-themes: Fix PostCSS 8 deprecation warning. (36284)
• Data: Clean up registerGenericStore param names. (36300)
• Prepare navigation php code for core patch. (36336)
• Add comment to Remove filter to allow WP variables after min version is 5.8. (36281)
• Update: Centralize safe_style_css usages. (36280)
• DEWP: Fix deprecation warning. (36285)

Tools

Testing

• E2E: Add more Cover block tests. (36321)
• Fix Performance CI tests and make them always use the latest major as base branch. (36463)
• Fix failing tests and compatibility with 5.9. (36368)
• Add integration tests with core blocks schema validation. (36351)
• Skip flaky image block test. (36446)
• Theme switch on the global styles rest api unit test. (36277)

Build Tooling

• Add TypeScript for builds and tests. (36260)
• stylelint-config: Widen the acceptable version range for the 'stylelint' peerDependency. (36518)
• Update Babel packages to 7.16 version. (36244)
• Fix not transforming logical assignments for packages. (36484)