WordPress/gutenberg v12.2.0-rc.1

12.2.0 RC1

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Enhancements

Block Library

• New block: Add Comments Pagination Numbers block. (36890)
• Comment Template block: Handle nested comments. (36065)
• Comments Query Loop: Improve context handling in inner blocks. (37196)
• Image: Reflect media deletion in the editor. (35973)
• Navigation:
  • Add navigation blocks post-processing after migration from menu items. (36950)
  • Refactor modal padding to be simpler and more flexible. (37323)
  • Remove Navigation Menus from the Appearance menu. (37212)
  • Add clearance for appender in submenus. (36720)
• Refactor handling of padding for group and column blocks. (37356)
• Template Part: Add actions that fire during the loading process of block template parts. (36884)

Styles and design tools

• Add the Welcome Guide option to the More Global Styles Actions dropdown. (37180)
• Make the Blocks section more distinguishable. (37293)
• Move the Edit colors button to a standard menu item. (36842)
• Move Duotone palette to the bottom of global styles gradients. (37253)
• Border controls: display border properties in the ToolPanel. (34061)

Components

• FontSizePicker: Use an incremental sequence of numbers as labels for the available font sizes at the segmented control (conditionally). (37038)
• ColorPalette: Improve accessibility and visibility. (36925)
• ToolsPanel: Standardize input control label margin. (36387)
• Unify styles for ColorIndicator with how they appear in Global Styles. (37028)
• Update PanelColorGradientSettings component to use dropdowns. (37067)

Site Editor

• Add the Customizer back to the Appearance menu. (37175)
• Add client-side routing for Site Editor. (36488)
• Add a new aria-pressed attribute to the Toggle navigation button. (37351)
• Template revert flow: Make label description source agnostic. (37004)

Packages

• Scripts: Enable React Fast Refresh for block development. (28273)
• List Reusable Blocks: Refactor ImportForm into a functional component and use hooks. (36938)

Widgets Editor

• Implement preview for blocks. (37012)

Post Editor

• Template Part block should not be available in the Post Editor inserter. (37157)

Bug Fixes

• Remove 4 instances of gutenberg text-domain from Core. (37229)

Block Library

• Fix return type in the DocBlock. (37352)
• Fix deprecated usage of passing null to explode function. (37392)
• Gallery:
  • Fix color issue for captions with hyperlinks in the Gallery block. (37033)
  • Fix documentation and function naming for gallery block registration in PHP. (37132)
  • Remove placeholder border. (37050)
• Post Comments:
  • Fix form-submit styles by adding button classes to the submit button in the post-comments block. (37245)
  • Fix width of the post comment form input. (37238)
  • Use block markup for the comment form button when using a block theme. (37315)
• Comments Pagination Block: Add default styling. (37057)
• Image:
  • Set image display mode to grid when no alignment is set to align caption onresize event properly. (35787)
  • Fix resizer controls being hidden in Safari when switching between alignments. (37210)
• Navigation:
  • Fix gutenberg_ prefixed function references in Core. (37021)
  • Fix navigation justifications. (36991)
  • Fix vertical alignment of page list in the modal. (37321)
  • Remove hardcoded typography units. (37349)
  • Fix vertical layout. (37009)
  • Switch to addEventListener event for load event in the navigation block view script. (37135)
  • Don't request the deprecated navigation areas endpoint outside of the Gutenberg plugin. (37187)
  • Navigation Link Control: Hide the Transforms component when no options are available. (37284)
  • Remove the deprecated navigation area block from the inserter. (37026)
• Query Loop: Add useBlockPreview component, fix alignment of the Query Loop block in the editor. (36431)
• Query Pagination: core/query-pagination-next and core/query-pagination-previous blocks: change the markup on the first and last pages of the pagination. (36681)
• Search: Fix application of border color class in the editor. (37242)
• Template Part:
  • Fix isMissing condition check. (37370)
  • Use Core version of template and template part post types and REST endpoints for WordPress 5.9, with backward compatibility for WordPress 5.8. (36898)
• Update the micromodal package to include a click-through fix. (36837)

Components

• Card: Support the extraSmall option for the size prop. (37097)
• Drop Zone: Fix HTML drop issues with the Windows browsers. (37151)
• Don't load Radio and RadioGroup components directly. (36934)
• DuotonePicker typo fix. (36662)
• Element: Ensure that the package uses the up-to-date React types. (37365)
• Fix incorrect rendering of ToggleGroupControl's active state. (37332)
• Hide the remove control point button because removing it would break gradient control. (37186)
• Import experimental Heading and Text Components. (37290)
• Make the color popover on the gradient picker appear as expected. (37115)
• Remove unused reakit-utils dependency from peer dependencies. (37369)
• Storybook: Fix deprecated disabled key. (37112)
• ToggleGroupControl: Fix extra update on incoming change. (37224)

Site Editor

• Allow global styles sidebar panels to fill vertical space. (36845)
• Display a notice if export fails. (37131)
• Fix edit template part link in header dropdown. (37249)
• Fix template resolution to give precedence to PHP templates defined in a child theme. (37074)
• Hide the block appender in the Template Part editor. (37213)
• Improve notification when saving content in the Site Editor. (36897)
• Improve handling of parsed requests. (37209)
• Sync Export API error codes. (37347)
• Template Editor Mode: Hide editor mode switcher. (37359)
• Use server definition for the Template Areas. (37215)

Styles

• Allow selector ordering to ensure theme.json root selector margin takes precedence. (36960)
• Custom keys from theme.json: Fix kebabCase conversion. (37380)
• Do not remove theme presets if defaults are hidden. (37008)
• Fix CSS Custom Properties for presets in the Site Editor. (36851)
• Fix how appearanceTools works. (37254)
• Fix styles for previews and patterns. (37296)
• Font sizes: Update default values. (37381)
• Remove CSS that causes conflict with theme.json. (36424)

Design Tools

• Border Style Control: Update styling for consistency with border width control. (37244)
• Border panel:
  • Don't restore deselected border color when width gets changed. (37049)
  • Update the value of the ColorPicker component when color is cleared. (37048)
• Gradients
  • Fix clearing a custom gradient from throwing a React warning. (37051)
  • Enable adding custom gradient when gradients are disabled. (36900)

Compatibility with Core and library code

• Fix array key warning in block supports layout. (37101)
• Templates: Search for old template names in the parent theme too. (36910)
• Fix theme requirement validation when using WordPress 5.8. (37226)
• Fix WordPress 5.9 check for conditionally running code. (37235)
• Fix mistake in the_remove_theme_attribute_in_block_template_content function. (37137)
• Gallery: Enable the new gallery block by default if running in Core. (37134)

Packages

• Core Data: Fix returning empty array in the getEntityRecords function for unknown entities. (36984)
• Include @babel/core as a dependency where applicable. (37328)
• Format library: Fix unsetting highlight color. (37062)

Block Editor

• Mark the last change as persistent on save. (36887)
• Fix content loss when ungrouping template parts or reusable blocks. (37280)
• Simplify the RESET_BLOCK action to fix the loss of content when using template part focus mode. (37283)

Post Editor

• Multi-Entity Saving: Decode HTML entities in item titles. (37353)

Documentation

• Update documentation related to schemas. (37294)

• Remove versioning in theme schema descriptions. (37165)

• Fix the broken link on the plugin description page. (37362)

• Handbook:

  • Add information about skip links to the block theme overview. (36555)
  • Add closing ticks for blockGap code example. (37338)
  • Add how-to guide documentation template. (36694)
  • Add link and details for npx in create block tutorial. (37376)
  • Consolidate React Native documentation. (36685)
  • Fix a link to the how-to guide template. (37191)
  • Move classes used in the navigation block from the component to the new readme. (37375)
  • Update Format API how-to guide. (37298)
  • Update broken links. (37121)
  • Improve formatting of headings in the contributors' guide. (36689)
  • Fix type for prefix transformation. (36362)
  • Fix broken links in the Resources section. (37307)
  • Remove the semicolons from the JSON examples. (37129)

• Packages:

  • Block Editor:
    • Add a documentation note about inner blocks and excerpts. (36405)
    • Update example of usage for suggestionsQuery component. (37281)
  • Componentes:
    • Add missing changelog entries. (37384)
    • Fix code formatting for card components. (37268)
    • Fix importing from the wrong package. (37192)
    • Fix missing link for shortcut documentation. (36800)
    • Update QueryControls README.md. (37233)
  • Site Editor: Update support documentation URL in the Welcome Guide. (37176)

Code Quality

Compatibility with Core

• Better synchronization between Gutenberg and Core code. (37141)
• Move WordPress 5.9 wp-admin menus compatibility code to lib/compat folder. (37257)
• Move the block page templates hook into compat/5.9 folder. (37142)
• Move template loader hooks and functions into lib/compat folder. (37149)
• Synchronize wp_is_block_theme function and block-templates block support with Core. (37218)

Global Styles

• Do not register Global Styles custom post type in WordPress 5.9. (37282)
• Port Global Styles code to lib/compat/wordpress-5.9:
  • CSS custom properties. (37334)
  • Front assets. (37335)
• Rename WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver methods to make them compatible with Core. (37393)

Packages

• Dependency Extraction Webpack Plugin: Sort externalized dependencies report. (37377)
• Block Editor:
  • Iframe component: Use block settings to pass assets. (37193)
  • Remove duplicate block styles. (37133)
  • Specify the WordPress versions where API is deprecated. (37150)
• Components
  • Refactor DatePicker into a functional component. (36835)
  • Storybook: Update to version 6.4. (37367)
• Data
  • Ensure that redux is listed as a dependency. (37364)
  • @wordpress/data: Refactor use-select component in preparation for adding types. (37017)
• Scripts: Update dependencies shared with other WordPress packages. (37395)

Site Editor

• Remove unused PHP code. (36997)
• Revert Site Editor: Set the <title> on the list page to be the same as the CPT name. (37270)

Block Library

• Remove gutenberg_ prefix from @wordpress/block-library. (37341)
• Block Library: Rename Query Pagination blocks. (37091)

Tools

Testing

• End-to-end Tests:
  • Increase delay in image block end-to-end test to fix intermittent failure when clearing URL field. (37136)
  • Update Multi-Entity Saving test to improve reliability. (37139)
  • Sanitize flaky test report file names. (37390)
  • Retry login again after a bad nonce request to prevent intermittent test failures. (37219)
  • Fix Multi-entity saving and Template parts related tests. (37333)
  • Fix Heading test. (37382)
  • Re-enable most of the navigation block end-to-end tests. (37214)
  • Use global transients for PHPUnit tests. (37122)
  • Fix usage of useSetting('color.palette'). (37108)
  • Add tests for the new gallery hooks. (36801)

Linting

• Add support for ESLint v8 (#35576). (36283)

Build Tooling

• Specify PHP version in Composer. (37007)
• Remove unused jest-serializer-enzyme dependency. (37373)
• Remove some labels from the Experiments section of the changelog. (37098)
• npm:
  • Fix package dependencies issues discovered with pnpm. (37396)
  • Use the latest minor version of webpack in Gutenberg. (37371)
• Fix build failure on Windows. (37189)