WordPress/gutenberg v13.3.0-rc.1

13.3.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

• Avoid persisting preference every time the sidebar tab is changed. (40923)
• Editor preferences: Update order and copy. (40981)
• Update the block overlay to rely on useDisabled hook. (40649)
• dependency-extraction-webpack-plugin: Calculate vendor hash from file output rather than Webpack internal state. (34969)

Components

• BorderControl: Fix focus styling. (40951)
• BorderControl: Make border color consistent with other controls. (40921)
• BorderControl: Make height consistent with other controls. (40920)
• BorderControl: Make reset to default button only display when required. (40917)
• ButtonGroup: Convert to TypeScript. (41007)
• CheckboxControl: Convert component to TypeScript. (40915)
• CircularOptionPicker: Fix focused styles. (40990)
• Refactor the Popover component to use the floatingUI library. (40740)

Block Library

• Add an explicit error message if an image block fails to load the image. (40982)
• Add transform between cover and media & text. (38458)
• Post Terms: Add dynamic variations of custom taxonomies. (39837)
• Query Loop: Add parents filter. (40933)

Design Tools

• BorderRadiusControl: Add tooltips to split border radius controls. (40983)
• Color Controls: Merge color dropdown components. (40084)

CSS & Styling

• BorderRadiusControl: Tweak spacing between input and range control to line up with BorderControl. (40958)
• Table of Contents block: Remove editor-only wrapper <div>. (40899)

Template Editor

• Use the label 'Clear customizations' when changes are revertable. (40935)

npm Packages

• Packages: Add command to publish to npm targeting WP major release. (40927)

Post Editor

• DevicePreview: Remove unnecessary div tag. (40911)

List View

• Block list: Add option in editor settings to show open list view as default. (40757)

Bug Fixes

• Add missing styling panels for uncontrolled navigation. (41114)
• DOM: Allow copying text from non-text input elements. (40192)
• DOM: Deprecate isNumberInput and fix its handling of value=0. (40896)
• Dependency Extraction Webpack Plugin: Use OpenSSL provider supported in Node 17+. (40503)
• FlatTermSelector: Avoid errors when returned terms aren't iterable. (41099)
• Provide translators comment for Font size and Letter Case. (40879)

Block Library

• Add missing "type" to the search field on the editor. (40782)
• Comments Title: Fix post title translation. (40972)
• Comments Title: Make non-editable. (40817)
• Cover: Update background type when using featured image. (40873)
• Fix Comments Form Title text alignment. (40795)
• Fix external styles leaking into Warning component. (40868)
• Image Editor: Remove HTML from error messages. (40812)
• Post Comments Block: Allow placeholders to reorder items in translations. (40849)
• Post Comments: Fix invalid date format in placeholder. (40929)
• Quote: Fix the embed discovery. (41134)
• Return immediately from Avatar block's render_callback if $comment is null. (40835)
• Use get_the_post_thumbnail function in the cover block.. (40853)
• List v2: Fix outdent on empty list item if we press enter. (40939)
• List v2: Focus new list item added from sibling inserter. (41051)
• List v2: Fixes an issue where pressing enter deletes innerblocks. (41109)

Site Editor

• Avoid previous content flash when a new template is created. (40841)
• Decode entities in the site title. (40956)
• Fix opinionated block styles loading in editor. (40937)
• Post Comments: Fix Older/Newer comments links styling. (40948)
• Template List: Fix word break for the 'Added by' column. (40959)
• Template editor: Show the inserter if the template part is empty. (41024)

Accessibility

• Prevent navigation on URL input suggestion selection via enter key. (40906)
• Table block: Fix focus loss after Create Table button is selected. (40399)
• Block Library - Latest Posts: Prevent opening the links in editor. (40593)

Global Styles

• Fix: Global Styles are always resettable. (40887)
• Fix: Global Styles: Impossible to open welcome guide if global styles are empty. (40888)
• Site editor: Preset custom color duplicates. (40837)
• Reduce active tab accent weight. (40998)

Post Editor

• Fix typo in the test description didPostSaveRequestSucceed. (41064)
• Post saved draft button: Overwrite default button component margin. (40834)

Themes

• Theme Export: Use a better method to determine the theme name. (40829)
• Theme Export: Use basename when determining the theme slug. (41058)

Template Editor

• Create single template via site editor if not existing. (40830)
• Templates: Only allow renaming user-created and non-default templates. (40881)

Components

• Fix Storybook builds. (41089)

Design Tools

• Layout: Remove double output of align-items in horizontal layouts. (41018)

Code Editor

• Fix save shortcut. (40848)

Performance

Block Library

• Ensure that post thumbnail is cached in latest post block. (40571)
• Ensure that post thumbnail is cached in post template block. (40572)
• Navigation link: Prime caches for all posts in menu items. (40752)
• useShortCodeTransform: Fetch media data in single request. (40945)

Experiments

• Style Engine: Add typography and color to frontend. (40665)

Block Library

• List v2: Indent multiple list items. (40991)
• List v2: Outdent list item when pressing Backspace at the start. (40962)

Documentation

• Add "How To Get Your Pull Request Reviewed?" to developer handbook. (40589)
• Add link to npm release details to the release documentation. (40867)
• Corrected the order in the code tabs. (40569)
• Docs: Git.io deprecation - Replace links. (40734)
• Document useEntityRecord/s in README.md and CHANGELOG.md. (40932)
• Fix typo in Panel readme. (41111)
• Remove mid-paragraph line breaks from 2-building-a-list-of-pages.md markdown. (41025)
• Typo - enqueue to enqueued. (40880)
• Update broken links. (41071)
• [Gutenberg Data Tutorial] Part 4: Building a new record form. (39261)

Components

• Use TypeScript and controls for DateTimePicker's stories. (40986)

Code Quality

• Convert core-data selectors from jsDoc annotations into TypeScript type signatures. (40025)
• Dependency extraction: Improve calculation of contentHash. (40930)
• Dependency extraction: Respect hashDigestLength option for version field. (40977)
• Improve function name for finding navigation links that use the featured image. (40904)
• Interface: Fix deprecation messages. (40825)
• Make the useDisabled hook stable. (40890)
• Packages [Dependency Extraction Webpack Plugin]: Add new line at the end of *.assets.php. (40753)
• Remove unreachable inserter component. (41103)
• Styles hook: Swap out lodash methods with their JS equivalents. (40918)
• Update react-resize-aware with use-resize-observer. (40509)
• useRefEffect: Replace undefined with void in callback return type. (40798)
• Remove Flyout leftovers. (41129)
• Send registered patterns in HTML and combine them with REST ones. (40818)

Block Library

• Cover: Refactor controls. (40832)
• Cover: Correct resizeable spelling to US resizable. (41100)
• Post Terms: Add wp_kses_post to prefix/suffix for consistency. (40803)
• Replace hardcoded core/paragraph with getDefaultBlockName in onSplitAtEnd callbacks. (40954)
• Post Terms: Insert defaultBlock on suffix end split. (40934)
• Query Loop: Move sticky control to separate file. (41101)

Components

• Add jest-console typings and convert DateTimePicker tests to TypeScript. (40957)
• Rewrite DatePicker, TimePicker and DateTimePicker in TypeScript. (40775)
• Update react-dates to 21.8.0. (40801)
• Stabilize useEntityRecord and useEntityRecords. (40162)

Plugin

• Declare blocks as __experimental in block.json to automate syncing Gutenberg packages to WordPress. (40655)
• Tools: Improve configuration for formatting files. (40994)

Code Editor

• Don't commit 'non-dirty' changes. (41092)

Media

• Media Utils: Don't convert error messages into an array. (39448)

Block Editor

• Add constants for link entry types. (36490)

Tools

• Fix pull-request-automation CI check (temporarily until an upstream fix lands). (41044)
• Update package-lock.json. (41045)
• env :: Support ssh protocol for github repos. (40451)
• Add @fabiankaegy as a code owner for the docs/ directory. (41057)

Testing

• Add eslint warning about use of waitForTimeout to playwright eslint. (40802)
• Comment Template: Reorganize block tests to ease backport process. (40739)
• Fix: Env unit test fails on Windows. (41070)
• Migrate 'block-locking' to Playwright. (41050)
• Migrate and refactor image block end-to-end tests to Playwright. (40804)
• Migrated popovers.test.js to Playwright. (39910)
• Reorganize playwright utils and make canvas utils usable in the site editor. (40815)
• Setup user-event inline once per test. (40839)
• Test block insertion after title post blur. (32944)
• Tests: Remove comment template unit tests. (40965)

npm Packages

• Packages: Add GitHub workflow for publishing to npm. (40976)
• Packages: Add more npm release types to the GitHub workflow. (41046)

Build Tooling

• Build Tools: Update actions/setup-node GitHub action. (40816)

Block Library

• Add: Raw handling to the new list block. (39954)
• Add: Space to indent list item. (39949)
• Gallery block: Fix bug with initial image size. (41079)
• Gallery block: Include image caption when converting a classic block gallery. (40872)
• Heading block - add font family support. (40970)
• Mark Table of Contents block as experimental using block.json flag. (40905)
• Only allow template part to be replaced if its a header or footer. (40787)
• Post Author block: Hide select author controle if there is no postId. (40910)
• Search Block: Remove id attribute from svg. (40828)
• Separator Block: Add border property for dots style to editor stylesheet. (40855)
• ToC block: Re-enable + use static markup and only support core Heading and Page Break blocks. (29739)
• Try a single icon for title blocks. (40596)

Data Layer

• Add suspense support to the data module. (37261)
• useSelect: Add unit tests for usage without deps. (40732)

Components

• Select Component: Remove the lineheight setting to fix issue with font descenders being cut off. (40985)

Global Styles

• Theme Json: Don't output double selectors for elements inside blocks. (40889)

Design Tools

• Button: Add text transform control. (40858)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @anomiex: dependency-extraction-webpack-plugin: Calculate vendor hash from file output rather than Webpack internal state. (34969)
• @damiencarbery: Typo - enqueue to enqueued. (40880)
• @JessicaGosselin: Fix typo in Panel readme. (41111)
• @luminuu: Create single template via site editor if not existing. (40830)
• @n3f: env :: Support ssh protocol for github repos. (40451)
• @SavPhill: Update broken links. (41071)
• @shanjidah: Migrated popovers.test.js to Playwright. (39910)
• @tomjdv: Corrected the order in the code tabs. (40569)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamziel @Addison-Stavlo @alexstine @amustaque97 @andrewserong @anomiex @aristath @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @ciampo @damiencarbery @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @draganescu @fabiankaegy @fluiddot @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @gziolo @jameskoster @JessicaGosselin @jffng @jhnstn @jorgefilipecosta @jostnes @jsnajdr @kevin940726 @luisherranz @luminuu @Mamaduka @mauriac @mchowning @mcsf @michalczaplinski @mikachan @n3f @noisysocks @ntsekouras @ockham @ramonjd @SavPhill @scruffian @shanjidah @SiobhyB @Soean @spacedmonkey @t-hamano @talldan @tomasztunik @tomjdv @walbo @youknowriad @ZebulanStanphill