WordPress/gutenberg v13.7.0-rc.1

13.7.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

• Update the modal design. (40781)
• Themes: Adds text decoration support to post title block. (42328)
• Social Link: Automatically prepend emails with mailto protocol. (42186)
• Add better ARIA labels to toggle buttons in Summary panel. (42114)
• Start with featured image in media placeholder. (41722)

Components

• ColorPicker: Widen hex input field for mobile. (42004)
• ComboboxControl / FormTokenField: Add flag for larger default size. (40746)
• Try tabs instead of segmented control for switching between solid/gradient in color panels. (41937)

Document Settings

• Make Post Format, Slug and Author fields fill the sidebar. (42146)
• Post Template: Update fallback label. (42063)
• Rewrite URL (Permalink) panel as a popover. (42033)

Full Site Editing

• Expand the templates that can be added - custom taxonomies, specific term, specific category and tag. (41875)
• Expand the templates that can be added - specific pages. (42138)
• List View: Use heading content for button label text if available. (41855)
• Add New - Custom/General template. (42127)
• Add the 'Apply to inner blocks' option to Block locking (41876)
• Update: Wording on add generic template modal. (42379)

Post Editor

• Add estimated time to read to table of contents in editor. (41611)
• Add month and day as a suggest format to the date format picker. (42317)
• Post Editor: Preload templates post type permissions (REST-API). (42209)

New APIs

• JS Error Tracking: Allow custom error reporting logic to be called in Error Boundaries via a WP action hook. (42024)

Bug Fixes

• Enable shift in URLPopover component. (42214)
• Multi-selection: Fix select all in Safari. (42340)
• Playwright: Fix relative URLs. (42361)
• Document Settings: Fix tooltip appearing when opening popovers in Summary panel. (42381)
• MediaReplaceFlow: Fix UI showing stale URL by avoiding state duplication. (42116)
• Template Mode: Allow clearing name field while typing. (42065)
• Navigation: Prevent title and href props from being rendered as HTML attributes. (41833)
• Recurse into conditional CSS rules for Editor iframe stylesheets. (41110)

Block Library

• Comment template: Left, center and right alignments. (41892)
• Comments block: Remove stray legacy class from edit. (42335)
• Filter out images with no local id before loading media library. (42083)
• Fix undo trap in Gallery block when transforming from shortcode. (42001)
• Remove sticky posts setting when we inherit the query. (40656)
• Social Links: Set the default protocol to 'https' if not specified. (42167)

Components

• Add missing label to border radius range control. (42118)
• ComboboxControl: Use custom prefix when generating the instanceId. (42134)
• Popover: Pass missing anchor ref to the getAnchorRect callback prop. (42076)
• [Popover]: Fix regression of inbetween inserter in site editor. (42329)

Block Editor

• Fix Link Control 'Open in new tab' option not saving properly on committing link in buttons block. (42073)
• Fix list view drop indicator positioning. (42353)
• Make sure comments keep their location when inside paragraph. (31374)
• Handle cases when getBlockType returns undefined. (41884)

Site Editor

• Allow clearing template name field while typing. (42149)
• Template Parts: Disable block transformations. (42090)
• Update template details browse label. (42350)
• Fix pattern carousel / grid styling regression. (42194)

Accessibility

• Add aria-checked to the selected heading level menu item. (42273)
• Fix tabbing from first or last block in site editor. (42036)
• Navigation block: Only focus submenu trigger on escape key press. (41986)

Global Styles

• Filter block level styles before compiling global stylesheet. (42207)
• Fix link element hover bleeding into button element default styles. (42072)

Post Editor

• Editor: Fix term selector component exports. (41784)
• Post Template: Fix condition checks. (42038)

Build Tooling

• Tests: Ignore test files in build-types folder. (42260)
• Fix: IsEditedPostAutosaveable test case. (42280)

Performance

• Work on refactor away from Lodash to reduce build size continued

Documentation

• Add support for @ignore in the docgen tool. (42198)
• Button Component readme : Suggest label in case there is not text. (40639)
• New handbook page for curating the editor experience. (42022)
• Rename Templates page to Block Templates. (42276)
• Gutenberg Data Tutorial 5: Adding a Delete Button. (40940)
• Added new FAQ on disabling caching of theme.json. (42346)
• Update link to sample code in gutenberg-examples. (42208)
• Add @example for getNotices to create example in the handbook. (42023)
• Add examples for all actions/selectors for the @wordpress/notice package. (42077)
• Update versions in WordPress for upcoming 6.0.1 release. (42161)
• Fix code blocks for Block Transforms API. (42287)
• Fix formatting problems with curating handbook page. (42135)
• Fix link to meta box example. (42293)
• Update attributes example: Alter source children. (41016)

npm publishing workflow

• Simplify workflow with GitHub Actions (42189)
• Update details related to npm publishing. (42364)

Experiments

• Add a WP_Style_Engine_CSS_Declarations object. (42043)
• Style engine: Rename 'css_var' option property to 'convert_vars_to_classnames'. (42113)
• Style engine: Return declarations in array response. (42307)
• Layout: Use semantic classnames, centralize layout definitions, reduce duplication, and fix blockGap in theme.json. (40875)

Code Quality

• Block Editor: Use optional chaining in 'block-list' component. (42068)
• Blocks: Remove no longer used Block Content Context. (41395)
• Chore: Remove two empty unrequired object destructuring. (42279)
• Fix fix. (42160)
• Fix: Inexistent parameter passed to getBlockIndex on getBlockInsertionPoint. (42250)
• Fix: State type in automaticChangeStatus reducer. (42251)
• Style engine: Add unit test coverage for WP_Style_Engine_CSS_Declarations. (42306)
• Style engine: Rename main public function to reflect functionality. (42140)
• Update: Remove repeated and condition on useElevation. (42048)
• useSelect: Use useDebugValue to better display data in DevTools. (42225)

Migration to Typescript

• Grid: Convert component to TypeScript. (41923)
• HStack: Convert component to TypeScript. (41580)
• RangeControl: Convert component to TypeScript. (40535)
• RangeControl: Convert stories to TypeScript. (41444)
• RangeControl: Convert unit tests to typescript. (41445)
• Scrollable: Convert component to TypeScript. (42016)
• TextHighlight: Convert component to TypeScript. (41698)
• Tip: Covert component to TypeScript. (42262)
• VisuallyHidden: Convert component to TypeScript. (42220)
• Spacer: Complete TypeScript migration of component. (42013)

Components

• Add eslint to prevent SSR breakage. (42248)
• Fix typos in components changelog. (42244)
• Refactor ColorPicker to pass exhaustive-deps. (41294)
• Refactor Navigation to pass exhaustive-deps. (41612)
• RefactorFocalPointPicker to pass exhaustive-deps. (41520)

Block Library

• More Block: Remove duplicate block class. (42120)
• Page Break Block: Remove duplicate block class. (42121)
• Page List Block: Remove duplicate useBlockProps hook. (42123)
• Remove client side variation fallbacks. (42180)
• Site Logo: Remove unnecessary state. (42042)

Tools

• Automate the cherry-picking process for WordPress and Gutenberg releases. (40969)
• Update the minimum WP version to 5.9. (41306)
• Components: Remove duplicate CHANGELOG titles. (42334)
• Site Editor: Make Code Editor reflect block conversions. (42081)
• Remove the Template panel option from the Preferences modal (42030)
• Theme.json: Add spacing size presets. (41527)

Testing

• Fix: Multiple regex in packages/env/lib/config/test/config.js. (42249)
• Migrate Block Mover Test For Playwright. (42039)
• Migrate format API test for playwright. (42035)
• Migrate list block test to Playwright. (41555)
• end-to-end Tests: Migrate Comments block test to Playwright. (39826)
• fix: Update Image block native end-to-end test fixture. (42050)
• SelectControl: Use roles and @testing-library/user-event in unit tests. (42308)

Build Tooling

• Ignore *.d.ts files when running unit tests. (42304)
• Dependency Extraction: Output asset.php files for shared chunks too. (41002)

Create Block

• Create Block: Added prompt to continue when minimum system requirements not met. (42151)
• Create Block: More careful prompts to continue when minimum system requirements are not met. (42254)
• Create Block: Fix regression from _.size() refactoring. (42049)

Block Library

• Comments block: Change ID to core/comments. (40506)
• Elements: Buttons: Style the cursor for all button elements. (42102)
• Post Comments Form: Fix warning i18n. (42131)
• Theme.json Schema: Add support for button elements. (42133)
• Use more clear and inclusive language in comments. (42155)

Global Styles

• Add link element :Hover interactivity control to global styles UI. (41976)
• Add support for heading elements. (41981)
• Add visited to link element allowed pseudo selector list. (42096)
• Button Elements: Allow element styles in classic themes. (42012)

Accessibility

• Change the BoxControl ARIA role from region to group. (42094)
• Update site editor region labels to match post editor. (42037)

Block Editor

• Rich text: Remove placeholder on composition start. (41970)
• Rich text: Remove space handling (for BUTTON and SUMMARY). (41977)

Data Layer

• Enable useSelect autocompletion. (41911)
• Update wordpress/data documentation in order to prefer store object instead of store name to access the store. (41210)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @MarieComet: Button Component readme : Suggest label in case there is not text. (40639)
• @rflw: Update attributes example: Alter source children. (41016)
• @schutzsmith: Theme.json Documentation - Added new FAQ on disabling caching of theme.json. (42346)
• @welenofsky: Update link to sample code in gutenberg-examples. (42208)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamziel @afercia @alexstine @andrewserong @annezazu @aristath @bph @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @chad1008 @ciampo @dcalhoun @draganescu @ellatrix @fullofcaffeine @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @gziolo @hz-tyfoon @jameskoster @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @kevin940726 @Mamaduka @MarieComet @mcliwanow @mcsf @mikachan @mirka @ndiego @noisysocks @ntsekouras @ockham @oguzkocer @opr @pavanpatil1 @pooja-muchandikar @ralucaStan @ramonjd @renatho @rflw @ryanwelcher @schutzsmith @scruffian @SiobhyB @stokesman @t-hamano @talldan @torounit @tyxla @vdwijngaert @walbo @welenofsky @youknowriad