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Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

  • Columns: Add border support. (31737)
  • Comment Template: Fix comment pagination with nested replies. (38187)
  • Comments Query Loop: Show placeholder comments on site editor. (38072)
  • Group Blocks: Add margin support (top/bottom). (37344)
  • Navigation: Try unifying submenu arrow positioning. (37003)
  • Page List: Simplify loading state. (38983)
  • Submenu: Add revert button. (38203)

Components

  • FocalPointPicker: Allow updating its value while dragging. (38247)
  • General Interface: Simplify site icon animation on hover. (38783)
  • Navigator: Add NavigatorButton and NavigatorBackButton components. (38634)
  • Type Refactor: Use forwardedRef type for all forwarded refs in @wordpress/components. (38948)

Block Editor

  • Block Editor: Add settings to enable/disable auto anchor generation. (38780)
  • Block Transforms: Keep additional HTML classes during a block transform. (38964)
  • LineHeightControl: Enhance interactions by migrating internals to NumberControl on Style options. (37160)
  • List View: Add multi-select behaviour for blocks when shift key is selected. (38314)
  • Quick Inserter: Prioritize showing patterns instead of blocks. (38709)
  • Template Parts: Show existing template parts and a list of block patterns at creation flow. (38814)

Styles

  • Add initial version of the style engine. (37978)
  • Style engine: Refine Box type. (38894)

Post Editor

  • Enable tooltip for the main dashboard button. (38790)

Themes

  • Lowered specificity of alignment rules for support layout so wide alignments work. (38947)
  • Remove data-align divs for themes that support layout. (38613)
  • Remove the div wrapper from the aligned image blocks. (38657)

Patterns

  • Allow pattern registration from directory with theme.json. (38323)

List View

  • Expand block list tree on selection. (35817)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

  • Block Transforms: Fix Image and Video to Cover block transformations. (38959)
  • Cover: Fix gradient overlay (remove black background color) (38765)
  • File: Fix PDF file block full content fixture. (38725)
  • Latest Posts: Add missing class to post title. (38740)
  • Logo: Avoid division by zero in site logo. (38808)
  • Post navigation link: Use correct closing tag. (38976)
  • Query Loop: Display nothing if we want only sticky posts but no stickies exist. (38909)
  • Template Parts: Decode entities in labels. (38805)
  • Social Links: Only apply the social links block migration if there's a need for a migration. (38561)

Block Editor

  • Backport from core: Global styles duotone not rendering in post editor. (38897)
  • Block Editor: insertDefaultBlock should not trigger an error if the default block is not registered. (38886)
  • Inserter: Fix focus loss after closing patterns explorer from modal. (38884)
  • Multi-selection: avoid RichText instances becoming disabled after multi selection. (38821)
  • Rehabilitate drag gesture in LineHeightControl. (38930)
  • RichText: Fix wrong block merging when pressing delete consecutively. (38991)

Site Editor

  • Add site editor initial redirect error handling. (38655)
  • Add template check to 'setPage' action. (38656)
  • Adds additional check to guard against incompete presets. (38902)
  • Limit template part slugs to Latin chars. (38695)
  • Template List: Decode entities in record titles. (38863)

Styles

  • Allow child classes to be called instead of the parents. (38857)
  • Backport: Allow for classic themes using default presets. (38701)
  • Fix global styles loading logic. (38745)

Components

  • Fix unexpected dragging triggered on spinner buttons on hover in Safari. (38840)
  • Show tooltip on toggle custom size in FontSizePicker. (38985)

List View

  • Fix error triggering after duplicating a block making it unselectable. (38760)
  • Fix UI broken due to error when deleting first item in canvas. (38775)

CSS & Styling

  • Fix button width on Widgets Editor. (38846)
  • Load block support styles in the <head> for block themes. (38750)
  • Change location of block support styles in <head>. (39164)
  • Reduce the margin of the block toolbar. (38746)

Block Directory

  • Fix the block activation when metadata registered on server. (38697)

Colors

  • Strip double # char on HexInput. (38335)

Packages

  • Core Data: CanUser resolver always use the OPTIONS method. (38901)
  • Dom: Avoid RangeError in findPrevious method. (38961)

Apps

  • Fix Custom Palette colors and support multiple origins and theme cache issues. (38417)

Accessibility

  • Adds aria-label to the search button, as accessibility enhancement. (38136)
  • Avoid duplicate labels for "Save Draft" and "Save as pending" buttons. (38776)
  • RichText: Reverse disableLineBreaks to determine aria-multiline state. (38652)
  • TreeGrid: Add Home/End keys to jump to start/end of grid. (38679)

Performance

CSS & Styling

  • Use wp_unique_id() instead of uniqid() to generate CSS class names. (38891)

Experiments

New APIs in Core Data

  • Propose useEntityRecords (experimental). (38782)
  • UseEntityRecord (experimental). (38522)

Documentation

Handbook

  • Add documentation for deprecating styles. (38540)
  • Add documentation about the patterns field of theme.json. (38700)
  • Add more info about contextual patterns and pattern transformations. (38809)
  • Add semantic patterns documentation. (38778)
  • Clarify deprecations documentation. (38683)
  • Fix hyperlink in block Metadata page. (38941)
  • Improve point release documentation to include even more detail. (38631)
  • Increase support for experimental-link-color until WordPress 5.9 is the minimum version. (38711)
  • Group: Update block supports. (38962)
  • Links changed for Developer.wordpress.org on block editor section. (38841)
  • Removing comma so that the code snippet of theme.json represents standard JSON. (38938)
  • theme.json Update version section docs to v2 (38937)
  • Update Getting Started with more granular options. (38682)

Block Library

  • Add instructions on how to add new core blocks to block-library. (38868)

Components

  • FormFileUpload: Add Storybook stories. (38734)
  • Storybook: Move experimental components to correct section. (38640)
  • Storybook: Remove story for Typography Panel. (38867)
  • wp-env: Document some caveats when using xdebug with VSCode. (38882)

Code Quality

Block Library

  • Cover: Remove unnecessary temporaryMinHeight. (38887)
  • Cover block: Update deprecated gradient fixture. (38728)
  • Gallery: Register gallery in block_names dynamic block array. (38689)
  • Navigation: Improve consistency of block hook. (38705)
  • Navigation: Select dropdown encapsulation and further consolidation. (38627)
  • Navigation: Update wp_kses usage to be consistent (use wp_kses_post). (38732)
  • Post Navigation Link: Prefer kses to blanket esc_html on label. (38696)
  • Remove data-controls mock from Image block RN tests. (38852)

Components

  • Block Supports: Improve image block regex. (38742)
  • Block Supports: Load Styles on <head> backport to core. (38880)
  • Context: Omit as prop in types. (38844)
  • Core Data: Remove fallback for OPTIONS response headers in canUser resolver. (38881)
  • Core Data: TypeScript definitions for entity records. (38666)
  • Data: Normalize selector args when handling metadata selectors/actions. (38945)
  • Edit Site: Migrate store to thunks. (38812)
  • Icons: Deprecate duplicate icons. (38849)
  • PostTrash: Call trashPost action with no arguments, rewrite to hooks. (38615)

npm Packages

  • Packages: Automate cherry-picking to trunk commits created during publishing. (38977)
  • Packages: Ensure that private packages do not update when publishing to npm. (38946)

Tools

Testing

  • Add end-to-end test for merging paragraphs and soft line break afterwards. (39009)
  • Post Visibility end-to-end test: Improve XPath selector to avoid reliance on DOM structure. (38717)
  • Replace no-shadow eslint rule with @typescript-eslint/no-shadow. (38665)
  • Remove client ID from fixtures. (38685)
  • Remove originalContent from fixtures. (38638)
  • RichText: Add test for merging and then splitting paragraphs. (39007)
  • Site Editor Tests: Use REST API to delete templates and template parts. (38524)
  • TreeGrid: Add tests for callback functions. (38942)

Build Tooling

  • Build separate full contributors list. (38777)
  • Bump @svgr/webpack from ^5.5.0 to ^6.2.1 (38866)
  • Generate full release contributors list in release changelog. (38704)
  • Generate sourcemap for production plugin builds. (33718)
  • Mobile: Improve npm clean scripts for react-native-editor. (38752)
  • PWA: Fix URL query param issue. (38755)
  • Scripts: Do not exit build when no entry found in src directory. (38737)
  • Scripts: Fix Entry points are not detected in Windows OS. (38781)
  • Scripts: Copy PHP files from src into build. (38715)

Components

  • BaseControl: Refactor stories to use Controls. (38741)
  • Migrate Post Template Delete button from confirm() to ConfirmDialog. (37535)
  • Migrate the Post 'Switch to draft' button to ConfirmDialog component. (37491)
  • Storybook: Ensure rerender for RTL switcher. (38963)

Post Editor

  • Edit Post: Migrate store actions to thunks. (36551)
  • Editor store: Remove a noop SETUP_EDITOR action. (38622)
  • Migrate editor store to thunks. (35929)

Styles

  • Allow to extend the WP_Theme_JSON_Gutenberg class. (38671)
  • Global Styles: Fix PHP warning in WP_REST_Global_Styles_Controller. (38888)
  • Update Global Styles code to continue adding settings & styles. (38883)

Block Library

  • Change Gallery block code ownership. (38722)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contrbutors:

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamziel @ajlende @Alex-Kostov @alexstine @andrewserong @annezazu @audrasjb @bph @c4rl0sbr4v0 @chad1008 @ciampo @DAreRodz @delowardev @dmsnell @ellatrix @fluiddot @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @gziolo @HasnainAshfaq @jasmussen @jeherve @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @KevinBatdorf @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @mchowning @michalczaplinski @mirka @mjstoney @mkevins @ndiego @noahtallen @ntsekouras @oandregal @ocean90 @PatelUtkarsh @ramonjd @razwan @ryanwelcher @sanzeeb3 @Sisanu @stokesman @t-hamano @talldan @twstokes @webmandesign @westonruter @youknowriad

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