WordPress/gutenberg v12.5.0-rc.1

12.5.0 RC1

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Features

• Allow switching global styles variations. (35619)
• Add: Code editor to edit site. (37765)
• [Post Featured Image]: Show all the controls when inside a Query Loop. (37945)

Enhancements

Block Library

• Add transform between core/site-logo and core/site-title blocks. (37920)
• Allow using a text label instead of an icon on overlay menu toggle button. (36149)
• Post Featured Image: Add size selector. (38044)
• [Query Loop]: Add multiple authors support. (38024)
• [Query Loop]: Add support for custom taxonomies filtering. (38063)
• Comments Query Loop: Add discuss options to the block. (37297)
• Fetch classic Menus and Pages using view (readonly) context. (37884)
• Gallery block: Move add/edit media to block toolbar. (38036)
• Navigation Block : Try not using css variable for block gap support. (37543)
• Paragraph: Try to avoid a trailing word in the description. (37483)
• Rename next and previous to newer an older. (38143)
• Show menus selection in placeholder only if available. (37980)
• Unset inherited backgrounds on Posts Lists. (37941)
• Unset inherited backgrounds on social icons. (37940)

Components

• CustomSelectControl: Add hints example to storybook. (38056)
• ToolsPanel: Add CSS classes to first and last displayed ToolsPanelItems. (37546)
• Navigator: Add basic location history. (37416)
• Add: Hover and Selected states to the palette editor. (37962)
• Update gray color palette to match base styles. (38109)

Post Editor

• Post Lock Modal: Update avatar size. (38040)
• Post Lock: Adjust avatar design and update message. (37979)
• Block styles: Remove box-sizing rule on Post Editor container to achieve editor/frontend parity. (37902)

Block Editor

• Buttons: Preserve styling from adjacent button blocks when inserting a new button block. (37905)
• Identify the site frontpage in link UI search results. (36493)
• Rich text: Use file on internal dependencies. (38005)
• Transform pasted div tags to p tags. (38042)

Site Editor

• Update template home, front-page, and search template descriptions. (38132)
• Add: Copy all content to edit site. (37781)

Global Styles

• Load the global styles before the theme styles in the editor. (37885)
• Duotone: Allow users to specify custom filters. (38055)
• Enable alpha on Block Inspector Color ToolsPanel. (37731)

Internationalization

• i18n: Create new function addLocaleData to merge domain configuration. (37704)

REST API

• [Global Styles]: Add REST API endpoint to fetch variations. (38124)

WP ENV

• wp-env: Add install-path command. (35638)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Add classic menus to menu switcher. (38168)
• Always allow accessing edit.php?post_type=wp_navigation page. (38170)
• Fix Post Date block escaping of date HTML. (38023)
• Fix duotone render in non-fse themes. (37954)
• Social Icons: Fix color picker bug when set to Logos Only. (38006)
• Temporarily remove text decoration from Nav block. (37963)
• [Query Loop]: Reorganise inspector controls + order selection bug. (37949)
• Revert "Late escape RSS block (#37878)". (38117)
• Fix missing default align-items when items are oriented vertically in flex layout. (38069)
• Update micromodal to 0.4.10 to fix navigation close button. (38032)

Site Editor

• Fix empty gray circle when site has no logo on template list page. (37474)
• Fix hiding the bottom of tablet/mobile preview in Site Editor. (38019)
• Fix resizable box scrollbars in blocks. (38123)
• Override Site Editor URLs to use plugin page. (38232)
• Restore ?styles=open functionality. (38093)
• Site Editor: Fix Inserter classes. (38112)

Block Editor

• Fix pattern preview expanding height and scrollbar issues. (38175)
• Remove warning for enqueued styles in Editor. (37937)
• Fix draft previews. (37952)
• Add context to font style and font weight related translation strings. (37939)

Post Editor

• Editor: Fix post lock data inconsistency. (37914)
• Fix template queries. (38070)

Block Library

• Latest Posts: Fix featured image alignment label position. (38125)

Components

• Increase ConfirmDialog overlay's z-index to render above popovers. (37959)
• Label components: Improve consistency by setting to 8px margin-bottom. (37844)
• RangeControl: Fix space between icons and rail. (36935)
• SelectControl: Mark the children prop as optional. (37872)
• ToggleGroupControl: Remove animated backdrop. (38008)

Design Tools

• Fix: Double border on palette editor. (38035)
• Fix: PanelColorSettings renders an empty when a color setting is falsy. (38029)

Accessibility

• Make sure when on last block focus cannot enter the block. (37965)
• Tree Grid: Fix keyboard navigation for expand/collapse table rows in Firefox. (37983)

Data API

• Load the entities list using the view context. (37685)
• Fix inconsistent response when preloading OPTIONS type requests. (38051)

Widgets Editor

• Fix empty secondary sidebar overlapping widget editor content on mobile viewports. (38017)

Developer Tooling

• Docgen/stop crashing on missing return types. (37929)
• Add temporary workaround to fix broken common js import of mini-css-extract-plugin. (38004)
• Fix back button aria name in customizing widgets tests. (38195)

Mobile

• Mobile - Highlight text - Force format for some edge cases. (37915)
• Send non-deprecated language tags from Android in initialProps. (37565)
• Wrap long cell labels on Android. (37993)

Performance

Plugin

• Don't use WP_Query::Get_posts directly. (38104)

Components

• ToolsPanel: Memoize callbacks and context to prevent unnecessary rerenders. (38037)

Documentation

• Add anchors to all terms of the glossary. (38073)
• Add documentation for useBlockEditContext hook. (36299)
• Add note about "local styles" in the glossary. (38083)
• Add some terms related to styles to the glossary. (38076)
• Add theme.json v1 reference and v1 to v2 migration documentation. (37886)
• Block API Reference: Fix 'isSelected' property type. (38161)
• Capitalise the GitHub wordmark correctly in the Wordpress Gutenberg project. (38092)
• Component: Update color-picker documentation. (38010)
• Document that __experimentalSelector requires server-side block registration. (37984)
• Document the Global Styles Presets. (38129)
• Fix documentation regression. (38235)
• Include partialRight import from lodash in DimensionControl example. (38088)
• Multiple typos fixed. (38071)
• Scripts: Corrected "npm start:Hot" in the README file. (38178)
• Update Block Supports Documentation to better reflect how it works. (37847)
• Update BlockPreview component readme. (38209)
• Update versions for 5.8.2 and 5.8.3. (37924)
• Use consistent punctuation, capitalization in templateParts documentation. (38193)
• [Type] Documentation Updating Faq.md typo. (38154)

Code Quality

• Compose: Rework types of createHigherOrderComponent for closer match to API. (37795)
• Docblock typos. (38067)
• Fix two inline typos. (38048)
• Testing: Upgrade Jest to v27. (33287)
• Add a missing @since tag. (38151)
• Ignore local environment .tool-versions configuration file. (38013)
• Add allowed-plugins in composer configuration. (38085)
• Site editor - try redirecting to homepage before the react render. (37248)

Block Library

• Allow for HTML in get_the_title. (38145)
• Fix double escaping in blocks. (37985)
• Late escape Latest Posts block. (37866)
• Late escape Navigation blocks. (37870)
• Late escape Post blocks. (37876)
• Late escape Social block. (37881)
• Late escape comment blocks. (37860)
• Late escape comments link block. (37875)
• Late escape latest comments block. (37865)
• Late escape post author blocks. (37874)
• Late escape site blocks. (37880)
• Spacer: No need to use withDispatch HOC. (38206)

Tools

• Bump dot-prop from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1. (38101)
• Bump ini from 1.3.5 to 1.3.8. (38106)
• Bump tar from 4.4.13 to 4.4.19. (37917)
• Bump tree-kill from 1.2.0 to 1.2.2. (38102)
• Bump trim-off-newlines from 1.0.1 to 1.0.3. (38095)
• Update MiniCSSExtractPlugin to version 2.5.1. (38027)
• Bump follow-redirects from 1.14.1 to 1.14.7. (37957)
• Bump handlebars from 4.7.6 to 4.7.7. (38054)
• Bump path-parse from 1.0.5 to 1.0.7. (37990)
• Bump tmpl from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5. (37916)
• Add '.git-blame-ignore-revs' to the project. (37822)
• Require stylelint v14 for stylelint configuration and scripts. (38091)
• Tested up to WP 5.9. (38162)

Testing

• Fix flaky Nav block user permissions end-to-end test. (38025)
• Fix flaky classic block conversion undo test. (37933)
• Improve flaky draft creation navigation block end-to-end test. (37931)
• Skip flaky nav permissions test until fixed. (38099)
• [docgen] Refactor code to use require() instead of JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync()). (38148)
• end-to-end Tests: Add coverage for reusable blocks save button state regression. (33151)
• Add new Testing Instructions section to PR template. (38147)