WordPress/gutenberg v12.8.0-rc.1

12.8.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

• Change copying PHP files to dist directory to opt-in via a CLI flag. (39171)
• Raise z-index of content div relative to sidebars. (38893)

Components

• Enhance/confirmdialog add custom button text. (38994)
• InputControl: Allow onBlur for empty values to commit the change, move reset behaviour to ESCAPE key. (39109)
• Update framer motion to 6.2.8. (38999)
• UnitControl: Tidy up utils and types. (38987)

Post Editor

• Add interface preferences modal to edit post. (39176)
• Migrate hidden block types (block manager data) to new preferences packages. (39132)
• Migrate post editor feature preferences to use new preferences package. (39115)

Block Library

• Improve create new UI feedback in Nav block. (39219)
• Media & Text: Display media while uploading. (39275)

Testing

• Add Home/End keyboard end-to-end test for List View. (39265)
• Improve switch to draft button end-to-end test robustness. (38971)

Site Editor

• Migrate site editor to use new preferences package. (39158)
• Resolve homepage template on server-side. (38817)

Widgets Editor

• Migrate customize widgets editor to use new preferences package. (39112)
• Migrate standalone widgets editor to use new preferences package. (39084)

Media

• MediaReplaceFlow: Add 'onError' prop to handle error notifications. (39197)

Accessibility

• Block settings dropdown: Use block display title in remove label. (39110)

Global Styles

• Site Editor: Add theme.json to export file. (39048)

npm Packages

• Packages: Update CLI publishing tool to run in CI mode. (38993)

Block Editor

• Add a link completer for inline links to posts. (29172)

New APIs

• Add new @wordpress/preferences package. (38873)
• Create Block: Add support for more plugin header fields. (39096)

Bug Fixes

• Compose: Avoid memory leak in use-drop-zone. (39038)
• Fix Global styles overriding block's element styles. (39012)
• Fix: Button highlight popover overflow conflict with link popover. (38771)
• Fixes block highlight after block move. (38915)
• Render SVG props that have dashes correctly. (38936)
• apiFetch preloading middleware: Handle urlencoded and rest_route query params. (38914)

Block Library

• Added aria label to the button block with icon. (38966)
• File: Check if 'fileId' exists before setting the attribute. (39088)
• File: Don't display loading animation on upload error. (39213)
• File: Fix the undo trap. (39215)
• Fix Comments Pagination Number with no pagination settings. (39204)
• Fix file block validation error by not outputting aria-describedby if there's no description. (39083)
• Fix navigation menu error when menus are not yet fetched. (39151)
• Hide border panel when all border features have been disabled. (36791)
• Hide current menu from dropdown list in Nav block. (38916)
• Image: Display errors after failed upload. (39178)
• Media & Text: Display errors after failed upload. (39245)
• Post Expert: Fix missing class in post excerpt. (38747)
• Post Terms: Unescape HTML entities in term names. (39216)
• Restructure code bock styling. (38712)
• Try: Fix image responsive rules. (39045)
• Widget Group: Make save() markup the same as render_callback markup. (38510)
• [Cover]: Fix keep selected unit on deleting minHeight value. (39145)

Global Styles

• Fix Blocks list ordering in Global Styles. (39093)
• Fix default duotone preset SVG and style generation. (38681)
• [Global Styles]: Fix header panel height. (39119)

Testing

• Fix performance tests by adding backwards compatibility to welcome guide utility. (39300)
• e2e-tests: Update preview test to wait for publish panel to appear before closing it. (39100)

Components

• Update drag gesture of InputControl-based controls with axial constraint. (38968)
• UnitControl: Fix controlled unit behavior. (39148)

Post Editor

• Avoid error when 'styles' settings are removed. (39091)
• URL: Fix code drift in the Editor package by removing duplicate cleanForSlug function. (39033)

Build Tooling

• Fix npm run docs:Build crashing when a block.json lacks supports key. (39241)

npm Packages

• Packages: Automatically acceppt all Lerna commands when run with CI flag. (39199)

CSS & Styling

• Fixes #38761 by removing obsolete ::Before pseudo element. (38762)

Documentation

• Add import useBlockProps. (39072)
• Docs: Emphasized requirement to enclose in quotation marks wp-env run…. (39101)
• Spelling error in JustifyContentControl example. (39234)
• [Gutenberg Data Tutorial] Part 3: Building an edit form. (38581)

Components

• Move recent CHANGELOG entry to Unreleased section. (39169)
• Storybook: Support proper extraction of TypeScript prop types. (38842)
• fix: Code example in flyout component. (39156)

Code Quality

• Core Data: Rename types directory to entity-types. (39225)
• Core data: Fix some typing issues. (39212)
• Core data: Fix some typing issues. (39214)
• Fix @wordpress/comment-case ESlint errors but without adding the disable-rule pragma. (37006)
• Refactor useSelect usages to useEntityRecords. (38827)

Post Editor

• useBlockEditorSettings: Remove unused unstableBase fetch. (39221)

Widgets Editor

• Delete widget editor redundant css for more menu. (39113)

Plugin

• Layout: Remove duplicate var declaration. (39111)

Global Styles

• Move editor settings code to compat folder. (39030)

Themes

• Don't filter 'theme_templates' when running WP 5.9. (39017)

Components

• TreeGrid: Update callback unit tests to use TreeGridRow and TreeGridCell sub components. (39002)

Block Library

• Improve Nav block loading and placeholder states. (38907)

Tools

• Code owners: Remove users without write access and fix typos. (39238)
• Simplify Pull Request template. (39229)

Testing

• Add end-to-end testing for experimental nav menu deletion. (38955)
• Add test case for post locking feature saving. (39022)
• Add tests for media replace flow. (39005)
• Block Test Fixtures: Add additional error message for serialized test fixtures that reserialize identically. (39039)
• Update 'clickMenuItem' test util to use full label matching. (39274)

Build Tooling

• Fix spelling of contributors in changelog script. (39029)
• Resolve peer dependency warnings. (39043)

npm Packages

• Packages: Automate npm publishing as part of Gutenberg release workflow. (39259)

Various

• Add a resolvable JavaScript entry point to base-styles. (39240)
• Add reusable preferences modal to interface package. (39153)
• Create Block: Add confirm prompt before showing the plugin options. (39105)
• Create Block: Improve custom project template configuration. (39049)
• Element: Add changelog notes for serialize attribute casing. (39141)
• Missing ,toggleFormat from last code block. (39146)
• Remove rename rn UI tests. (39042)

Block Library

• Adding a GIF badge to image blocks with gifs in them. (38996)
• Buttons: Don't set a placeholder text color. (39034)
• Post author name: Add "post" prefix to CSS class. (38320)
• Post comments form block show warning wrt to post/page. (38011)
• Refactor classic menu conversion process. (38858)
• Social Icons - Begin Automating Existing Manual Test Cases. (39027)
• Tag Cloud: Use flex for the Outline style. (38995)

Components

• FontSizePicker: Refactor stories to use Controls. (38727)
• Normalize font-family. (38969)
• Storybook: Add webpack loader for easier story descriptions. (39165)
• [Components]: Update changelog follow up for #38985. (39013)

Themes

• Theme Export: Add index.php and style.css. (39173)

Icons

• Update Pin icon, add new Post icon. (39139)

Block Conversion

• [Block Conversion]: Show group option in Group blocks. (39094)

Accessibility

• Try allowing tab into block placeholder. (39085)

Full Site Editing

• Expose plugin area to site editor's List page. (39078)

Data Layer

• Handle resolution errors in @wordpress/data. (38669)

Design Tools

• Webfonts API. (37140)

Global Styles

• Account for upcoming changes in styles metadata in WordPress 5.9. (36327)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @ahsanshaheen199: fix: Code example in flyout component. (39156)
• @alshakerM: Render SVG props that have dashes correctly. (38936)
• @awps: Missing ,toggleFormat from last code block. (39146)
• @francisei: Docs: Emphasized requirement to enclose in quotation marks wp-env run…. (39101)
• @ironprogrammer: Raise z-index of content div relative to sidebars. (38893)
• @joshuafredrickson: Add a resolvable JavaScript entry point to base-styles. (39240)
• @jostnes: Remove rename rn UI tests. (39042)
• @mashikag: Fix Blocks list ordering in Global Styles. (39093)
• @tomasztunik: Fix Global styles overriding block's element styles. (39012)
• @Tumas2: Spelling error in JustifyContentControl example. (39234)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@adamziel @ahsanshaheen199 @ajlende @alexstine @alshakerM @amustaque97 @andrewserong @aristath @awps @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @chad1008 @ciampo @delowardev @dmsnell @draganescu @fluiddot @francisei @getdave @gwwar @gziolo @illusaen @ironprogrammer @jasmussen @joshuafredrickson @jostnes @jsnajdr @Mamaduka @mashikag @mirka @ndiego @noahtallen @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ocean90 @opr @priethor @ramonjd @ryanwelcher @scruffian @Sidsector9 @SiobhyB @Sisanu @stokesman @talldan @tellthemachines @tomasztunik @ttahmouch @Tumas2 @walbo @webmandesign @zaguiini @ZebulanStanphill