WordPress/gutenberg v12.3.0-rc.1

12.3.0 RC1

on GitHub

Features

Block Library

• Group/row blocks:
  • Add Gap support. (37459)
  • Add Typography support. (37456)
• New Author Name block. (36001)
• Comments Pagination:
  • New Comments Pagination Next block. (36562)
  • New Comments Pagination Previous block. (36912)

Enhancements

Block Library

• Navigation:
  • Enable even more compact setup state. (37089)
  • Use rems for padding. (37478)
• Site Logo: Add option to set site icon from the Site Logo block settings. (35892)
• Paragraph: Add font family support. (37586)
• Comments Template: Add comments pagination. (37610)
• Embeds: Simplify the embed loading state. (37548)
• Spacer: Add custom units for height and width. (36186)

Global Styles

• Make the global styles subtitles font smaller. (37600)
• Add support for nameless font sizes. (37410)

Colors

• Allow color gradient popover to be above the color toggle. (37430)
• Make color styles labels simpler. (37493)
• Use subtitle styles for the palette names. (37460)

Design Tools

• Border panel: Collapse color controls. (37425)

Document Settings

• Add class name to post author on edit post sidebar. (36269)

Site Editor

• Update save panel's cancel button from icon to visible text. (37310)

Accessibility

• Latest Posts: Add aria-label to featured links. (36251)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Navigation:
  • Restrict Navigation permissions and show UI warning if cannot create. (37454)
  • Ensure the overlay menu works when inserting navigation block patterns and that inner blocks are retained. (37358)
  • Fix navigation appender. (37447)
  • Revert all margins on navigation-item in editor. (37587)
  • Fix page list issues in overlay. (37444)
  • Show a UI warning when user does not have permission to update/edit an existing Navigation block. (37286)
  • Try cascading nav styles through classnames. (37473)
• Query Loop:
  • Fix editable post blocks in Query Loop with zero queryId. (37629)
  • Changed the letter case for Post Type to Post type. (37499)
  • Query Pagination Next: Hide block if custom query has no results. (37553)
  • Revert Query Pagination Next/Previous placeholder(36681). (37520)
• Site Logo: Fix block alignment issues. (36627)
• Gallery: Fix block registration hook priority. (37409)
• Post Content/Title: Reflect changes when previewing post. (37622)
• Post Excerpt: Specify paragraph as post excerpt tag name. (37412)
• Reusable Block: Fix embed handling. (37554)
• Site icon: Fix site icon styling to display non-square site icons within a square button. (37570)
• Template Part: Only display a missing notice in debug mode. (37404)
• ServerSideRender: Fix loading state. (37623)
• Comments Avatar Block: Show avatar drag handles only when selected. (37567)

Global Styles

• Color editor discards colors with default name. (37496)
• Gradients are not being applied by class. (37597)
• Impossible to edit theme and default colors. (37497)
• Blank site editor when theme name contains a period. (37167)
• Lower the specificity of font size CSS Custom Properties in the editor. (37526)
• Use inset shadow on color indicators and adjust spacing. (37500)

Block Editor

• Fix Enter handling for nested blocks. (37453)
• Restrict delete multi selected blocks shortcut. (37595)
• Avoid using CSS variables for block gap styles. (37360)

Themes

• Add comment-form and comment-list to default html5 theme support. (37536)
• Avoid Duplicated "Theme File Editor" menu. (37592)
• Fix conditional check "Theme File Editor" menu. (37616)
• Fix duotone theme cache. (36236)

Template Editor

• Avoid undo issues when reset parent blocks for controlled blocks. (37484)
• Change color of welcome dialog close icon so it is visible against black background. (37435)
• Template Editing Mode: Fix options dropdown. (37442)
• Try to fix auto resizing in template part focus mode. (37394)
• Update the template list action labels. (37576)

Site Editor

• Add customized indicator to plugin templates that have been customized. (37329)
• Register block editor shortcuts. (37577)
• Update regex to handle 404 template slug. (37579)
• Parse shortcode blocks outside the content. (37545)

Accessibility

• Editor: Focus when navigation toggle receives state false. (37265)
• Navigation: Only add dialog role when modal is open. (37434)

npm Packages

• Fix missing peer dependencies where React is used indirectly. (37578)

Testing

• Fix flaky Navigation block end-to-end test by mocking out URL details endpoint to avoid 404. (37501)

Post Editor

• Multi-entity saving: Allow publishing a post while not saving changes to non-post entities. (37383)

Components

• ToolsPanel: Allow items to register when panelId is null. (37273)

Design Tools

• Make block support tools panels compatible with multi-selection. (37216)

Documentation

Packages

• Add automated core blocks documentation. (36183)
• Added README for GradientPicker. (37614)
• Add link to meta-block example in gutenberg-examples repo. (37633)
• Fix parameter type in render function of file block. (36262)
• Add changelog entry for __experimentalIsRenderedInSidebar gradient components flag. (37457)

Handbook

• Switch code distinction to JSX & Plain. (37348)
• Fix a grammatical error in the Create Block tutorial. (37636)
• Fix plugin sidebar tutorial not publishing. (37505)
• Update plugin sidebar to new how to guide template. (37490)
• Update "Local by Flywheel" name and URL. (37512)
• Update Meta Boxes to a single page how to guide. (37621)

Code Quality

Compatibility with Core

• Adds missing block template class properties. (37556)

Formatting

• Fix lint issues. (37618)
• Move block patterns compatibility code to lib/compat folder. (37451)

Packages

• Data:
  • Block top level useSetting paths. (37428)
  • Deprecate receiveUploadPermissions. (37508)

Site Editor

• Remove dead code. (37581)

Components

• Storybook: Tweak configuration for v6.4 update. (37544)

Security

• Update yargs dependency for @wordpress/env to fix CVE-2021-3807. (37601)

Tools

Testing

• End to end:
  • Switch to using a $eval to fill user creation fields. (37469)
  • Fix and enable remaining navigation block end-to-end tests. (37437)
  • Add block editor shortcuts end-to-end tests. (37624)

Build Tooling

• Add npm-run-all package to simplify running scripts. (37558)
• Update caniuse to latest. (37588)
• Fix pre commit hook to build block documentation. (37613)