WordPress/gutenberg v12.4.0

12.4.0

on GitHub

Enhancements

Accessibility

• Accessibility improvements for Block Inserter. (37357)
  • Try possibly better method for Block Inserter Search focus. (37793)
• Accessibility improvements for List View Part 1. (37798)
• Improve successful draft save notification for screen readers. (37683)

Block Library

• Audio: Add uploading state. (37739)
• Post Excerpt: Add to and from Post Content transformations. (37651)
• Search: Improve escaping on the search block. (37829)
• Page List: Add menu-item-home class to Navigation for front page. (37301)
• Tag Cloud: Add outline style. (37092)

Components

• ExternalLink: Update icon to be smaller, have no margin. (37859)

Post Editor

• PostLockedModal: Display preview link as part of the text. (37852)
• Try: Polish post takeover modal. (37821)
• Suggest picking a category on the pre-publish panel. (37703)

Block Editor

• Inserter: Update categories for theme blocks. (37723)

Site Editor

• Add keyboard shortcut help modal. (37650)
• Update copy on Snackbar that appears when a template is deleted. (37888)

Icons

• Add unlock icon. (37855)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Code: Remove color from code theme.scss. (37816)
• Code: Try: Polish code styles to properly apply border properties. (37818)
• Columns: Avoid using CSS variables for block gap styles. (37436)
• Comments Pagination Next: Fix accidental division by zero. (37788)
• Gallery: Pass any custom attributes through the gallery v2 migration script. (37812)
• Gallery: Remove warning notice about mobile version required. (37842)
• Navigation: HTML tags like inline images in nav links break submenu layout. (37665)
• Navigation: Set the default for --navigation-layout-align to "flex-start" when using vertical orientation. (37696)
• Navigation: Fix overlay menu errant focus style on scrim. (37824)
• Page List: Show UI warning if Pages cannot be retrieved in Page List block. (37486)
• Page List: Update page list flex variables to match navigation. (37718)
• Post Comments: Tidy up Post Comments default styling. (37709)
• Post Content: Check for nextpage to display page links for paginated posts. (37672)
• Post Excerpt: Fix previews. (37648)
• Query Loop: Use gap for the grid view. (37711)
• Query Loop: Check for zero queryId on initialization. (37867)
• Site logo: Fix range control on landscape logos. (37733)
• Simplify and unify a few modal dialogs. (37857)
• Fix enqueueing additional styles for blocks only when rendered. (37848)
• Fix typo (hanle -> handle). (37849)
• Revert "[Paragraph Block] add font family support". (37815)

Colors

• Coloring panel is unusable in RTL. (37644)
• Impossible to clear colors if color palettes are removed. (37791)
• Use useCallback hook from @wordpress/elements in color-picker. (37745)

Components

• BaseControl: Fix VisualLabel styles. (37747)
• ConfirmDialog: Use hooks from @wordpress/elements. (37771)
• CustomSelectControl: Stop keypresses being caught by other elements when they happen. (30557)

Post Editor

• Restore canvas padding for classic themes. (37741)

History

• Fix broken 'Redo' by removing faulty logic for discarding unsaved Logo changes. (37895)
• Fix redo after update/publish with transient edits. (37840)

Templates API

• Fix Home template description typo. (37843)
• Improve user experience with blocks editor when a block is not registered. (37646)

Block Editor

• Fix LinkPicker freeze when virtual keyboard is hidden. (37782)
• RichText: Fix dead key input on Windows. (37777)
• Link control: Translate empty link string. (36975)
• Add post-type-x classname to iframe. (37429)

Global Styles

• Reduce specificity of legacy font sizes defined by core. (37819)

Accessibility

• Fix aria-modal attribution with multiple navs on page. (37813)

Template Editor

• Template Mode: Trim long post titles in large viewports. (37720)

Site Editor

• Add the "Help" link to the tools menu. (37647)
• Contextualize "Export" string to differentiate it from other occurrences in WP Core. (37660)

Documentation

• Block.json Schema: Update fontSize and lineHeight props. (37853)
• Theme.json Schema: Fix appearanceTools in theme.json schema. (37762)
• Theme.json Schema: Update theme.json schema to allow for per-block management of settings. (36746)
• Add checkbox for updating schemas if appropriate. (37780)
  • Fix issue template typo. (37825)
• Add automated theme.json reference documentation. (37569)
• Add link to block source for reference. (37750)
• Add missing end tag for codetabs in stylesheet guide. (37827)
• Fix broken URL on block variation page. (37702)
• Fix type of saved $content. (37688)
  • Fix type of saved content - part two. (37740)
  • Fix PHPCS failure. (37742)
• Update create block type how to guide for block.json. (37674)
• Update stylesheets guide with using block.json file. (37679)
• OSX Setup guide: Wrap lts/* in quotes for nvm commands. (37722)
• Remove "experimental" from full site editing documentation. (37655)
• Update copyright year to 2022 in license.md. (37689)
• Update wp-plugin.md. (37846)
• Updated ColorIndicator readme. (37638)
• Update the Post Author block description. (37836)
• Fixing broken links and adding colon. (37664)
• Improve Gutenberg release documentation. (37898)

Code Quality

• Add the WP version in which some JS APIs will be removed. (37854)

Block Library

• Late escape Categories block. (37835)
• Late escape Page List block. (37873)
• Late escape Query blocks. (37877)
• Late escape RSS block. (37878)
• Late escape Table of Contents block. (37882)
• Late escape Search block. (37879)
• Move escaping to point of output in Archives block. (37834)
• Post Content: No need to pass default get_the_content args. (37701)

Post Editor

• PostLockedModal: Update action buttons markup. (37837)

Parsing

• Block API: Separate validation stage during block parsing. (37763)

Components

• Refactor SuggestionsList to use hooks and change class to function component. (36924)

Tools

Testing

• Allow type imports for React everywhere. (37862)
• Change the performance job folder structure to avoid nested node_modules. (37775)
• Fix flaky test by using waitForResponse to ensure the URL details request completes. (37901)
• Marking test that consistently fails as skipped. (37729)

Build Tooling

• wp-env: Replace TT1-Blocks with Empty Theme in the wp-env of gutenberg and CI. (37446)
• wp-env: Show --help when no subcommand is passed. (32755)
• Scripts: Scan block.json files to detect entry points for the build process. (37661)
• Scripts: Add plugin-zip command to create a zip file for a WordPress plugin. (37687)

Create Block

• Allow custom folder name for a block. (37612)
• Speed up scaffolding by omitting WordPress dependencies. (37639)