WordPress/gutenberg v13.0.0-rc.3

13.0.0 RC3

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Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

• Archives: Add yearly, weekly and daily archive settings to the archives block. (38440)
• Avatar: ncrease the size of the Avatar image to be 2x of the width chosen. (39728)
• Code: Preserves source of unrecognized blocks inside of Code Editor. (39523)
• Column Block: Add blockGap support. (40122)
• Comment blocks: Update block descriptions. (39735)
• Comments Query Loop:
  • Always inherit from core Discussion settings. (39664)
  • Update default template. (40165)
• Cover: Makes cover block dynamic and adds featured image binding. (39658)
• Gallery: Add css var to enable theme authors to set a default gallery gap. (40008)
• Group:
  • New Group, Stack, Row block descriptions. (40176)
  • Add the stack block variation to the group block. (39690)
  • Add group block variations to Group toolbar. (39920)
  • Block Variations Transforms: Display as icon buttons if each block variation has a unique icon. (40036)
  • Improve Stack and Row setup states. (39935)
  • Turn the wrap to multiple lines option off by default on the row block. (40171)
• List: Add a box-sizing border-box to lists. (39895)
• Navigation:
  • Avoid automatic saving of uncontrolled Nav blocks. (39883)
  • Auto set first Navigation Menu as current if only 1 exists. (39880)
  • Enable navigation nesting to be filtered and manually set. (38621)
  • Improve feedback on Nav Menu deletion. (39677)
  • Skip text decoration support serialization and apply as CSS class. (36345)
  • Navigation Link: Add support for navigation-link descriptions. (39808)
• Post Comments: Deprecate the Post Comments block. (40167)
• Post Tags: Update the Post Tags block icon. (40096)
• Query Loop: Update query block creation and replacement flows. (38997)
• Query page numbers block: Add same supports that next/prev page have. (39835)
• Quote: Add color support to the quote block. (39899)
• Read more: Add support for text color. (39796)
• RSS:
  • Add missing classnames. (39716)
  • Try prepending HTTP to a URL. (39758)
  • Update max items. (39819)
• Site Logo and Featured Image: Add duotone to placeholders. (40085)
• Social Links: Disable vertical alignment controls for navigation and social links. (40182)
• Template Part: Adjust the layout of thumbnails in the template part replacement modal. (39766)

Components

• Borders: Add new BorderControl component. (37769)
• Borders: Add BorderBoxControl component. (38876)
• BorderControl: Add ability to apply custom CSS classes to popover content. (39753)
• BorderControl: Fix vertical alignment of inner slider control. (39750)
• Card: Adjust border radius size. (40032)
• ColorPalette: Add SlotFillProvider to story to correct tooltip positioning. (39674)
• UnitControl: Forward onBlur prop as expected. (39589)
• Add ToggleGroupControlOptionIcon component. (39760)
• CustomSelectControl: Make chevron consistent with SelectControl. (40049)

Styles Sidebar

• Add search in block types list. (39117)
• Add labels to the global styles variations. (39322)
• Show translated strings coming from global styles variations. (39960)
• Adjust icon vertical alignment with labels. (39982)
• Tweak preview box. (39978)
• Update Other styles to Browse styles. (39752)
• Wrap the preview box in the CardMedia component. (39980)

Block Editor

• BlockToolbar: Show Group button in toolbar when multiple blocks are selected. (39710)
• Improvements to use-focus-first-element and utils (dom). (39461)
• Multi-selection: Allow partial block selection. (38892)
• Order ids in getClientIdsOfDescendants and getClientIdsWithDescendants selectors. (39985)
• Revert Try: Summary panel excerpt max-height.. (40127)
• Link directly to files stored in the Media Library using the Link UI. (39701)
• Partial multi-select: Fix error with dead key. (39850)

Post Editor

• Document Settings: Summary panel excerpt max-height. (40090)
• Migrate editor package isPublishSidebarEnabled to preferences store. (39707)
• Migrate post editor panels state to preferences store. (39604)
• Migrate interface enableItems data to preferences package. (39449)
• Try: Remove iframe 100% width rule. (38614)

Site Editor

• Add dedicated sidebar for managing layout of navigation menus. (39290, 40083)

Block Locking

• Add the useBlockLock hook. (40210, 40220)
• Display lock status in List View. (40088)
• Styling changes for modal. (39998)
• Try: Reusable block edit locking. (39950)

Reusable Blocks

• Make the Cancel button tertiary. (39872)
• Use the symbol icon for Reusable Block menu item. (40020)

CSS & Styling

• Revert Global styles: Remove block gap control. (39845)
• Block Styles: Revert changing default overflow-wrap to all headers, lists, and paragraphs. (39846)
• Style Engine:
  • Add margin support. (39790)
  • Block supports backend. (39446)

Design Tools

• Add vertical alignment to blocks using flex control. (40013)
• Block Supports: Allow skipping serialization of individual features. (36293)

Block API

• Allow multiple view scripts per block. (36176)

Patterns

• Option to pick a pattern on page creation. (40034)
• Translate pattern metadata (title & description). (40047)
• Remove batch support declaration from block patterns REST, fix navigation areas. (39834)

Theme Export

• Change the schema URL. (40106)
• Convert spaces to tabs in theme.json. (39751)
• If the theme declares a version number then add a schema. (39775)
• Remove default theme.json properties on export. (39848)
• Restore appearanceTools when exporting a theme. (39840)
• Sort theme.json properties. (39842)
• Backport changes for Theme Export from 6.0. (40215)

Webfonts

• Do not trigger warning on already enqueued font families. (40060)
• Register webfonts defined in styles variations. (39886)
• Register and enqueue fonts by font-family. (39559)
• Return font family slug when registering a webfont. (40120)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Avatar:
  • Do not show User Selection inside Comments Loop, on the Site Editor. (40100)
  • Fix wrong aligment. (39794)
• Buttons: Fix focus on insert. (39684)
• Comments Query Loop: Fix pagination setting not being applied on frontend. (40146)
• Group: Fix variation isActive check to cover case where type is not set, but inherit is. (40065)
• Post Author: Fix duplicate Additional CSS classes post author, etc. (39759)
• Post Comments Form: Allow to add it to the Site Editor. (40108)
• Post Template: Add missing wp-block-post class in the editor. (40010)
• Post Terms: Use variation title in placeholder. (40092)
• Query Loop: Fix some missing term sanitizations. (39970)
• RSS: Add missing self-URL check. (39756)
• Site Logo:
  • Correctly reset the site icon. (40046)
  • Fix duplicate Additional CSS classes site-logo Block & social-link Block. (39777)
  • Fix adding the site icon. (40041)
• Template Parts: Limit slug to Latin chars. (38861)

Components

• Components utils: Use Object.assign instead of { ...spread } syntax. (39932)
• ToggleGroupControl: Reintroduce backdrop animation. (40021)

Block Editor

• List View:
  • Only show ellipsis on first selected item or when focused. (40174)
  • Wrap title of block in <ListView> in a span. (39687)
  • Disable dragging when block movement is locked. (40086)
  • Fix list-view focus radius. (39969)
• MultiSelectSidebar: Fix spacing of color panel items. (40071)
• Fix Block Editor Iframe component to render in standards mode. (38855)
• Fix collapsing issue with the URL input suggestion container. (40147)
• Try: Fix regression with mover and block control sizes. (40037)

Site Editor

• Add block styles slot to the site editor so block style previews can be rendered. (40245)

Block Locking

• Reusable Blocks: Hide Convert to Blocks when locked. (39939)
• Template Parts: Hide Detach blocks when locked. (40000)
• Stabilize settings. (40145)
• Display block title when no switcher is available. (40207)

Styles Sidebar

• Fix global style variations previews not showing correct height. (39737)
• Restore defaultPalette/defaultGradients to only hide UI. (39966)
• Global Styles: Fix alignment of Global Styles color controls. (40081)
• Global Styles: Fix black inconsistencies in sidebar. (40055)

Design Tools

• Block gap: Check for splitOnAxis in the onChange callback. (39788)
• Duotone: Backport changes made to duotone in core. (40067)
• Layout: Only show inherit toggle in default layout (hide on Row block variation). (39665)

Meta Boxes

• Fix incorrect meta box position when switching device preview. (38910)

Other packages

• Data: Exclude all meta-selectors, handle selectors without resolvers. (39976)
• Date: Fix ordinal token (S), RFC2822 token (r), and timezone offset handling. (39670)
• RichText: Fix splitValue with undefined selection. (39822)
• Scripts: Add vendor/ to .markdownlintignore. (39724)

Plugin

• Fix REST API class redeclaration. (40265)

Accessibility

• Add select-parent button to block toolbar More options menu. (40105)
• Hide block movers in new navigation sidebar. (40039)
• Accessibility improvements to the query pagination block. (39536)

Performance

• Optimize getClientIdsOfDescendants and getClientIdsWithDescendants selectors. (40054)
• Try to optimize getClientIdsOfDescendants using createSelector memoization. (40112)

Developer Experience

• create-block: Add npmDevDependencies as a template variable. (39723)
• Schemas, block.json:
  • Add ancestor prop to schema. (39894)
  • Add supports.lock to schema. (40161)
• Schemas, theme.json:
  • Add Avatar to schema. (40189)
  • Add title key to i18n schema. (39936)
• Scripts: Add new flag to allow customization of the src directory. (39618)

Experiments

• List v2:
  • Add migration from v1 to v2. (39799, 39892)
  • Add new list item icon. (39929)
  • Avoid using global select. (39821, 39849)
  • Handle Enter in empty list items. (39858)
  • Outdent and Indent actions for the list block v2. (39773)
• Quote v2:
  • Add __experimentalEnableQuoteBlockV2 flag. (40089)
  • Add align feature to have feature parity with v1. (39876)
  • Add innerblocks support. (39704)
  • Add migration. (39844)
  • Add transforms. (39718)
  • Bootstrap flag in experiments page. (39703)
  • Retain selection after transform. (39838)
  • Revert markup changes. (39824)
  • Fix how attributes are registered. (39729)
• __experimentalBlockPatterns: Load them with REST API. (39185)

Documentation

• Add missing props mediaPreview in the ReadMe. (38114)
• Add note to Handbook themes page about FSE eligible themes. (39662)
• Adds links to contributing pages to README file. (39959)
• Block-Editor Docs: Link to component readme. (37975)
• Components: Add changelogs for new border control components. (39747)
• Components: Add more prominent documentation around popover use. (39709)
• Disabled: Add documentation for Disabled.Context. (39627)
• Docs: Update README.md for FormToggle component. (36932)
• Docs: Update block-filters.md. (38462)
• FIX missing images of Gutenberg Data Apps document. (39499)
• Fix grammar error in documentation. (40009)
• Fix linguistic error in theme-json.md. (39995)
• Import the Notice package in the example. (40022)
• Sidebar: Update post editor help links to use newer documentation. (39688)
• Style Engine: Remove since 6.0 comment. (40006)
• Update typo in the code comment. (39429)
• Updating versions in WordPress to add 5.9.x & 6.0. (39866)

Code Quality

Block Library

• Avatar: Two unneeded spaces removed. (39902)
• List: List block indent outdent naming. (39956)
• HTML: Use Disabled.Context. (39669)
• Gallery: Use wp_unique_id() instead of uniqid() in block_core_gallery_render(). (39983)

Block Editor

• Block Lock toolbar remove leftovers. (39881)
• List View: Remove unwanted default false in ListView branch component. (39719)

Components

• BaseControl: Migrate to TypeScript. (39468)

Plugin

• Add the missing class-wp-style-engine-gutenberg.php in the plugin build (40191)
• Block Editor: Stabilize generateAnchors setting. (40143)
• Correctly classify functionality in the lib folder. (39972)
• Consolidate WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver changes in both lib/compat/wordpress-6.0 and lib/experimental. (40140)
• Don't run preg_match() on null values. (39927)
• Guard code from redeclaration errors after WP core merge. (39888)
• Move files from lib to the compat subfolder. (39904)
• Move changes from #38681 and #39966 to compat 6.0. (40123)
• Plugin: Ensure that PHP code for blocks is correctly assigned to WP releases. (40179)
• Remove the experimental Progressive Web Apps (PWA) integration. (38810)
• Revert Plugin: Remove the experimental Progressive Web Apps (PWA) integration. (39930)
• Theme JSON compat: Refer to static instead of self for ROOT_BLOCK_SELECTOR const. (39921)

Packages

• Core Data:
  • Migrate entities.js to Typescript. (39547)
  • Rename core-data/src/selectors.js to selectors.ts (TypeScript). (40026)
  • Fixes necessary for converting to TypeScript. (39211)
  • Create type for undo state and initialize atomically. (39659)
  • Expand type signature of useQuerySelect. (39656)
  • Fix minor type issue in onSubKey. (39655)
• Data:
  • Mark/data apis unstable. (40028)
  • Two code improvements. (39975)
• Scripts: Fix typo in the webpack configuration. (39867)

REST API

• Block patterns REST endpoint: Use snake case for field names. (40254)
• Update patterns REST controllers namespace to stable. (40252)

Styles

• Rename name to title in the global style variations. (39715)

Tools

Linting

• Revert unwanted breaking changes in eslint-plugin. (39745)
• UseBlockDisplayTitle fix ESLint warning. (39815)
• UseEntityRecord(s) fix ESLint warning. (39852)

Testing

• ActivateTheme wait for the user to switch. (39873)
• Add a unit test for wp_recursive_ksort. (40149)
• Check for missing figcaption before clicking gallery image again from list view. (39666)
• Comments Query Loop: Add end-to-end tests for the block. (39502)
• waitForNavigation in Comments Query Loop test. (39818)
• Fix flaky issue reporter not splitting ... separator. (40129)
• Fix flaky test results overflowing the character limits of GitHub's issue. (39928)
• ListView: Fix end-to-end flakiness. (39742)
• Migrate customizing-widgets to Playwright. (39540)
• Migrate cut-copy-paste-whole-blocks to Playwright. (39807)
• Migrate new-post to Playwright. (39539)
• Navigaton block: Fix flaky test by finalising request resolution in Nav block end-to-end test. (39633)
• Navigation Editor: Skip failing navigation editor tests. (39746)
• Style variations: Apply style variations using labels. (39725)
• Template Mode: Try fix flaky tests. (39711)
• Template parts: Try fixing template part tests again. (40007)
• Use a description that matches the filename for the annotations end-to-end tests. (40011)
• Use templates endpoint to delete templates. (39965)

Build Tooling

• Add peer deps for postcss and end-to-end tests. (39080)
• Plugin: Pin dependencies that slipped into trunk. (39865)
• Mark new blocks to be included in WordPress core. (40186)
• Style engine: Move backend scripts to package. (39736)
• Scripts: Add .jsx file extension to Webpack. (39613)
• Tooling: Escape quotes in npm scripts. (39447)

Project management

• Remove Antonis as codeowner. (39697)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @arcangelini: Sidebar: Update post editor help links to use newer documentation. (39688)
• @chintu51: Import the Notice package in the example. (40022)
• @dali-rajab: Fix linguistic error in theme-json.md. (39995)
• @EliezerSPP: Scripts: Add .jsx file extension to Webpack. (39613)
• @imangm: Docs: Update README.md for FormToggle component. (36932)
• @jakeparis: Docs: Update block-filters.md. (38462)
• @jezemery: Docs: Update typo in the code comment. (39429)
• @kadimi: Fix grammar error in documentation. (40009)
• @karolinakulinska: Add missing props mediaPreview in the ReadMe. (38114)
• @mburridge: Adds links to contributing pages to README file. (39959)
• @shimotmk: Fix duplicate Additional CSS classes post author, etc. (39759)
• @sunil25393: Site Logo: Correctly reset the site icon. (40046)
• @tomasztunik: Fix Block Editor Iframe component to render in standards mode. (38855)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamziel @ajlende @alexstine @andrewserong @annezazu @arcangelini @aristath @arthur791004 @atachibana @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @chintu51 @ciampo @dali-rajab @DAreRodz @dd32 @delowardev @dmsnell @draganescu @EliezerSPP @ellatrix @fluiddot @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @grappler @gwwar @gziolo @HILAYTRIVEDI @hypest @imangm @jakeparis @jameskoster @jasmussen @jezemery @jorgefilipecosta @jostnes @jsnajdr @JustinyAhin @kadimi @karolinakulinska @kevin940726 @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @mburridge @mchowning @michalczaplinski @mirka @ndiego @NekoJonez @noahtallen @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @ramonjd @ryanwelcher @scruffian @shimotmk @SiobhyB @sunil25393 @t-hamano @talldan @tomalec @tomasztunik @westonruter @youknowriad @zaguiini @ZebulanStanphill