WordPress/gutenberg v12.6.0-rc.1

12.6.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

• New block: Add post author biography block. (38269)
• New block: Add new Read More block (post link). (37649)
• Transforms: Add transform between Tag Cloud and Categories. (38566)
• Transforms: Add transform between Calendar and Archives. (38324)
• Transforms: Add transform to row variation. (36202)
• Code: Add core/paragraph in transforms object. (38295)
• Heading: Omit anchor when transforming to paragraph. (38604)
• Images: Try moving responsive rule to common.scss. (38399)
• Navigation: Try removing "Add all pages" from placeholder. (36775)
• Featured Image: Prompt to keep or replace Featured Image when replacing Image block media that is set as the Featured Image. (34666)
• Quote: Remove the Large style option from the quote block. (37580)
• Social Icons: Add the ability to show/hide labels. (38152)

Components

• Dropdown: Tweak prop destructuring to be TypeScript friendly. (38431)
• Tools Panel: Only show header ➕ icon when all items are optional. (38262)
• Update the Spinner design. (37551)
• Navigator: Add focus restoration. (38149)
• Navigator: Rename push/pop to goTo/goBack. (38582)
• Migrate Edit Navigation screen "Delete menu" button from confirm() …. (37492)

Post Editor

• Export FlatTermSelector and HierarchicalTermSelector. (38419)
• Migrate post privacy confirmation from confirm() to ConfirmDialog. (37602)
• Most Used Terms: Update show terms condition. (38513)

Block Editor

• [Inserter]: Prioritize core blocks over core block variations when they have the same rank. (38616)

Design Tools

• Block Support: Update color panel default controls. (38511)
• Duotone: Allow users to specify custom filters. (38442)

Site Editor

• Update footer breadcrumb text. (38477)

Developer Experience

• Plugins: Add error boundary. (38397)
• Adding the "env" script when --wp-env or wpEnv is present. (38530)

Widgets Editor

• Add tools slot on the navigation and widgets page settings menu. (37928)

Styles

• Color Block Support: Switch to ToolsPanel for displaying UI. (34027)
• Allow child classes to use the private methods and constants. (38625)
• Add mechanism to keep styles during block transforms. (37596)
• Use the theme.json classes defined by the plugin in the REST controller. (38663)

Icons

• Add Tip icon to library and use in the Tip component. (38424)
• Update pagination icons, add new query title and post terms icons. (38521)

New APIs

• Introduce the customScripts property to allow templates to define additional scripts in package.json. (38535)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Block Library: Remove unnecessary usages of RawHTML. (38527)
• Audio: Avoid error when locked. (38282)
• Comment Template: Improve UX of inner block selection. (38263)
• Cover :Add back missing styles. (38362)
• Gallery: Copy all attributes when transforming to Image blocks. (38642)
• Gallery: Fix bug with link destination default option not being set. (38310)
• Gallery: Fix bug with uploaded images being replaced with same image during selection phase. (38259)
• Gallery: Ensure last image takes up all available space. (38189)
• Navigation: Try fixing issue with submenu button in dark contexts. (38270)
• Navigation: Try inheriting orientation in setup state. (36778)
• Navigation: Remove blobs that look like a loading state. (37099)
• Navigation: Try always showing appender even when child is selected. (37637)
• Read more: Fix filtering of content when rendering read more block. (38650)
• Separator: Remove width from wide style. (38635)
• Search: Fix border radius reset. (38478)
• Search: Fix search block html handling for label and button text. (38649)
• Site Tagline: Disable line breaks. (38475)
• Tag Cloud: Add the style to the block.json file. (38403)

Components

• Add cx as a dependency of useMemo across @wordpress/components package. (38541)
• Fix Slot/Fill Emotion StyleProvider. (38237)
• UnitControl: Add __unstableInputWidth to prop types. (38429)
• ComboBox: Fix reset button's height. (38020)
• DateTimePicker: Fix date format when switching to 12-hour time format. (37465)

Block Editor

• Don't ignore legitimate files when pasting mixed content. (38459)
• Handle the absence of href attrib in links. (37034)
• Block preview: Fix resize listener. (38516)
• Guard against undefined entity in site editor page setter. (38503)
• Page for Posts: Display notice in template panel. (38607)
• Editor store: Remove createUndoLevel and refreshPost actions. (38585)

Template Editor

• Fix horizontal scrollbar. (38612)
• Improve compat with 3rd party Customizer links. (38598)
• Remove extra div on post content. (38451)

Scripts

• Wp-scripts command does not generate assets on Windows OS. (38348)
• Ensure that start works when React Fast Refresh scripts missing. (38318)
• Fallback to src/index.js when no valid scripts in metadata for build command. (38367)
• Improve the handling for build entry points. (38584)

Apps

• Declare package visibility to query URL handler apps. (38377)
• Drop jcenter repository from react-native Android projects. (38142)
• Mobile - Rich Text - Validate link colors. (38474)

Accessibility

• Accessibility improvements for List View Part 2. (38358)
• Contrast Checker: Check link color. (38100)
• Block Manager: Announce search results. (38654)
• Ensure placeholder description is read by VoiceOver. (38366)
• Remove role attributes on SVGs meant for "decoration" to improve a11y. (38301)
• TreeGrid accessibility: Improve browser support for Left Arrow focus to parent row in child row. (38639)

Performance

Block Library

• Latest Posts: Avoid unnecessary re-renders. (38402)
• Site Logo: Avoid unnecessary re-renders. (38316)

Post Editor

• Avoid unnecessary Post Formats re-renders. (38285)
• Avoid unnecessary Template panel re-renders. (38292)

Documentation

• Add a block supports chapter to the block creation tutorial. (38210)
• Add a block supports for dynamic blocks chapter to the block creation tutorial. (38249)
• Add a high-level intro to styles in the block editor. (38208)
• Add contributing information to packages. (38122)
• Add documentation for schema in block API. (36839)
• Add the Gutenberg data tutorial to the block editor handbook. (38587)
• Fix components package README contributing link and duplicate footers. (38605)
• Fix relative links in main package READMEs so that they work in npm. (38609)
• Fix: npm script error on Windows (api-docs:Ref). (38326)
• Move design documentation to user interface explanations. (37807)
• Move backward compatibility documentation under Contributors Guide. (37654)
• Provide proper path to image in the handbook. (38480)
• Remove reference to upcoming WordPress 5.9 release. (38272)
• Scripts: Fix copypasta typo in README file. (38531)
• Show the block supports for static blocks tutorial in the handbook. (38452)
• ToolsPanel StoryBook: Removing knobs in favour of controls. (38308)
• Tutorial: Create your First App with Gutenberg Data. (38250)
• Update attributes.md. (38626)
• Update core/archive block schema to reflect no block-level settings support. (37778)
• Update explanation of block.json file scanning. (38379)
• Update theme support documentation. (38514)
• Update Contributing Guidelines to reflect Dual-License. (38303)
• Update version required before gutenberg_safe_style_attrs filter can be removed. (38359)
• Updated changelog to reflect new tip icon. (38450)
• Use a fixed link to the latest release in readme.txt. (38550)
• VisuallyHidden: Remove stray readme file. (38641)

Components

• Add CHANGELOG entries for recent TreeGrid improvements. (38661)
• Add missing changelog entry. (38325)
• Changelog: Add missed entries for recent typing fixes and tweaks. (38469)
• Fix missing link in @wordpress/components's CHANGELOG. (38611)

Code Quality

• Chore: Fix: Remove isReversed usage. (38484)
• Remove APIs deprecated on WordPress 5.4. (38564)
• Update the minimum supported version to WordPress 5.8. (38273)

Plugin

• Bump bl from 4.0.2 to 4.1.0. (38396)
• Bump follow-redirects from 1.14.1 to 1.14.7. (38371)
• Bump jszip from 3.6.0 to 3.7.1. (38410)
• Bump ssri from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2. (38382)

Components

• ColorIndicator: Add ts-nocheck to color indicator. (38433)
• ColorPicker: Fix typing errors. (38430)
• Refresh object-keys version in package-lock. (38645)

Block Library

• Consolidate select menus dropdown in Nav block code. (38179)
• Cover block: Background element's classname consistency. (38392)
• Image Block: Explicitly check for false from strpos(). (38505)

npm Packages

• Remove unused dependencies. (38388)

Tools

Testing

• Add: End to end test for the block transforms. (38300)
• Add: End to end tests for style variations. (38485)
• E2E: Fix flakey gallery and template end-to-end specs. (38342)
• First Time Contributor check: Update args for getByUsername. (38467)
• Include tests-mysql port in dev:Start output. (38590)
• Minor retouches to test-create-block script. (38482)
• Refactor Site Editor test utils to the e2e-test-utils package. (38463)
• Scripts: Update Puppeteer to v13. (37078)
• Silence editor initialization act warnings triggered by asynchronous resolvers during unmount. (38344)
• Test Create Block with more OS and Node versions. (38368)
• Tests: Enable post type UI for templates and template parts. (38486)

Build Tooling

• Build workflow: Don't update version in readme.txt. (38596)
• Changelog: Append a generated list of first time contributors by PR label. (38372)
• Rename GUTENBERG_PHASE to IS_GUTENBERG_PLUGIN. (38202)
• Bump axios from 0.21.1 to 0.21.4. (38369)
• Bump hosted-git-info from 2.7.1 to 2.8.9. (38327)
• Bump addressable from 2.7.0 to 2.8.0 in /packages/react-native-editor/ios. (38234)
• Bump shelljs from 0.8.4 to 0.8.5. (38370)
• Update kotlin version for react-native Android projects to 1.5.32. (37970)
• ESLint Plugin: Add flanking whitespace and hyphenated range rules. (38225)
• Avoid first time contributor workflows for bots. (38393)
• WP Env: Fix infinite redirection with custom site URL. (38352)

People

• Add @ryanwelcher as code owner to three packages and docs. (38532)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contrbutors:

• @JeffMatsonPagely: Scripts: Fix copypasta typo in README file. (38531)
• @angelistudio: Update attributes.md. (38626)
• @sunyatasattva: Refactor Site Editor test utils to the e2e-test-utils package. (38463)