WordPress/gutenberg v13.8.0-rc.1

13.8.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

• Image: Add border block support for color, width, and style. (31366)
• Merge Comments and Post Comments blocks. (41807)
• Social Icon: Added WhatsApp icon to the Social Icon Block. (42137)
• Template Part: Swap block action places. (42221)
• Template Part: Add search to replacement modal. (42459)

General UI

• Equalize modal content padding. (42370)
• Remove top margin on the first paragraph in a modal. (42369)

Components

• BorderControl: Render border color/style dropdown as UnitControl prefix. (42212)
• ColorPicker: Cleanly implement large size. (42002)
• InputControl: Decrease large default padding if has prefix/suffix. (42166)
• SelectControl: Add flag for larger default size. (42456)
• ToggleGroupControl: Add size variants. (42008)
• UnitControl: Update unit select's focus styles. (42383)
• CustomSelectControl: Use styles from SelectControl. (42460)
• Dropdown: Add wrapper for custom padding. (42595)
• InputControl: Add padding wrapper for prefix/suffix. (42378)
• ScrollLock: Improve Storybook story for documentation view. (42344)
• ColorPalette: Display checkered preview background when value is transparent. (42232)

Global Styles

• Add layout content size controls to global styles. (42309)
• Core CSS support for root padding and alignfull blocks. (42085)
• Theme.json: Add block support feature level selectors for blocks. (42087)
• Theme.json: Add support for heading / caption elements in theme.json schema. (42433)

Document Settings

• Make 'Move to trash' button full width. (42577)

Block Editor

• Add setting to display rich text toolbar inline. (42399)
• Add block variations for individual template parts. (42454)
• Enable onEnter support for group block. (40724)

Site Editor

• On template creation, don't show search if not needed. (42357)

Icons

• Add shuffle icon to library. (42193)

Nested / Inner Blocks

• Quote: Use nested blocks. (25892)

Colors

• Update color palette popover style. (41900)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Button Block: Change text-decoration style to low specificity. (42545)
• Cover Block: Prevent transform to Group block when featured image is set. (42638)
• Cover block: Adding background-size and background-repeat properties to the block CSS. (42470)
• Fix tab/focus order issue in Media & text block. (40806)
• Page List: Fetch items with 'view' context. (42559)
• Post title: Fix single line paste. (42321)
• Social Icons Block: Fix button opacity in template parts. (42641)
• Group block: Add context to the word "Row". (42255)
• Post terms: Hide prefix and suffix placeholders in post terms. (42418)

Components

• AnglePickerControl: Fix gap between elements in RTL mode. (42534)
• ColorPalette: Fix background image in RTL mode. (42510)
• Context System: Don't explicitly set undefined value to children. (42686)
• MaybeCategoryPanel: Update category selector. (42663)
• Popover: Fix width on expandOnMobile. (42635)
• RangeControl: Clamp initialPosition between min and max values. (42571)
• Tooltip: Avoid unnecessary re-renders of <select> child elements. (42483)
• Tooltip: Fix positioning by anchoring to child element. (41268)
• Fix condition bug on BoxControl. (42402)

Post Editor

• Avoid 403 errors for users with low permissions. (42413)
• Display post template selection for non-admin users. (42705)
• Fix typo in translation string. (42673)

Block Editor

• Prevent link control popover from going offscreen. (42389)
• Writing flow: Fix caret movement for multiple lines. (42423)
• Writing flow: Fix caret placement in corners. (42437)
• Writing flow: Esc should enter Nav mode consistently, avoid focus loss when clearing selection. (42530)

Global Styles, CSS & Styling

• Elements: Buttons: Fix the path with the css to style the cursor for all button elements. (42129)
• Link elements: Add a :where selector to the :Not to lower specificity. (42669)
• Element styles: Adding stylesheet to load in the editor. (42132)
• Elements: Fix heading and caption element selectors. (42479)
• Layout content size controls: Add left alignment to line up with description and other elements. (42576)
• Theme.json: Fix schema for button elements. (42431)

Widgets Editor

• Add configuration option to skip autop on freeform blocks when parsing blocks. (42623)

Rich Text

• Annotation API: Fix __experimentalGetPropsForEditableTreePreparation. (42596)

Site Editor

• Fix typo in default category template's description. (42586)
• Fix Reakit warning on creation template component. (42392)
• Remove leftover class. (42591)

Themes

• Remove core/post-comments-form block styles that are overriding button element styles. (42053)

Icons

• Icons Package: Fix line icons styling. (40315)

Accessibility

• BorderControl: Update labelling, tooltips and wrap with fieldset and legend. (42348)
• Add aria-hidden to query pagination arrows. (42583)
• Fix labelling and semantics of the paragraph block Left to right control. (42324)
• Fix mismatching label and visible text on the Toggle block inserter button. (42359)
• Fix the description text of block movers for horizontal movement. (42393)
• Replace clickable div elements with buttons in the Add template modal. (42668)

Experiments

Style Engine

• Style Engine Rules & Store objects. (42222)
• Add a WP_Style_Engine_Processor object. (42463)
• Add elements to the frontend. (41732)
• Allow removing CSS declarations from the WP_Style_Engine_CSS_Declarations object. (42428)
• Style engine: Check item value validity. (42487)

List v2

• Add forward delete. (42564)
• Improve paste handling. (42524)
• Merge with nested items. (42551)
• Switch to default block type on Backspace from start. (42633)
• Remove quote transforms as removed by Quote v2. (42700)

Global Styles

• Block supports: Add fluid typography. (39529)

Documentation

• Add examples to core/blocks selectors. (42572)
• Consolidate editor filters and actions. (42356)
• Correct the documented return type for WP_Block_Parser::Render(). (42642)
• Doc: Update getEntityRecord/s param description. (42488)
• Docs: Add variations key to block.json JSON schema definition. (42539)
• Docs: Add missing data module references. (42651)
• Fix: Repetition of wrong word in string. (42621)
• Flex: Remove experimental from documentation and storybook. (42301)
• Include section on how to test code for a given WP major. (42390)
• Marking internal action as @ignore to remove them from the documentation. (42163)
• Theme JSON Docs: Clarify null, true, and false values for blockGap setting. (42447)
• ToolsPanel: Add a readme section related to laying out a ToolsPanel. (42615)

Components

• Improve documentation for the SpaceInput type. (42376)
• BorderControl: Add missing changelog for accessibility enhancements. (42411)

Code Quality

• Base Styles: Apply long-content-fade gradient from transparent to color. (42401)
• Fix jsx-a11y label-has-associated-control configuration. (42671)
• Two code issues on navigation link edit missing text. (42440)
• Remove deprecated eslint rules. (42654)

Style Engine

• Rename WP_Style_Engine_CSS_Rule->set_declarations to add_declarations. (42464)
• Update return PHP doc comment and other nitpicks. (42453)

Componentes

• ComboboxControl: Refactor onKeyDown to use keyboardEvent.code. (42569)
• Elevation: Convert component to TypeScript. (42302)
• ScrollLock: Covert component to TypeScript. (42303)
• Shortcut: Covert component to TypeScript. (42272)
• Divider: Complete TypeScript migration of component. (41991)
• Lodash: Refactor a few components away from _.isEmpty(). (42468)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.compact(). (42438)
• Lodash: Refactor PageAttributesParent away from _.deburr(). (42429)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.snakeCase(). (42427)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.fromPairs(). (42217)

Global Styles

• Dimensions Global Styles: Split props into separate hooks to tidy up the panel component. (42620)

Block Library

• Remove unnecessary React Fragments. (42529)

Tools

Testing

• Added unit test for cover block render function. (42108)
• Migrate hooks api test to playwright. (42584)
• Skip flaky navigation block permissions test. (42693)
• end-to-end Tests: Tweak Comments block tests after migrating to Playwright. (42406)
• Utilize WordPress PHPUnit Test Library Included By wp-env. (41852)

Build Tooling

• Update to reflect change in Documentation label. (42395)
• Add inline documentation on building API documentation to commit block API verify error message. (42432)
• Scripts: Exit error code 1 when status value is null. (42396)
• Env: Download WordPress PHPUnit Into Container. (41780)
• Env: Restrict WP_TESTS_DOMAIN constant to just hostname and not home URL. (41039)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @kkmuffme: Remove deprecated eslint rules. (42654)
• @paulopmt1: Added WhatsApp icon to the Social Icon Block. (42137)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @ajlende @amustaque97 @andrewserong @arcangelini @aristath @bph @carolinan @chad1008 @ciampo @danielbachhuber @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @ellatrix @fabiankaegy @geriux @getdave @gziolo @jameskoster @johnbillion @jorgefilipecosta @kkmuffme @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mirka @ndiego @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ObliviousHarmony @paulopmt1 @pedro-mendonca @pooja-muchandikar @ramonjd @ryanwelcher @scruffian @SiobhyB @sunil25393 @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla @vcanales @walbo @westonruter @zaguiini