WordPress/gutenberg v13.9.0

13.9.0

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Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

• Archives: Add a control to make block's dropdown label invisible. (43025)
• Media&Text: Add help to ImageSizeControl. (40642)
• Navigation: Move overlay colors to the responsive wrapper. (42875)
• Navigation: Extract navigation block utils. (42865)
• Navigation: Fix link inheritance in overlay. (42929)
• Post Author: Rendering html for the author description at the editor. (42109)
• Post Featured Image: Add link target and rel attributes. (42853)
• Post Title: Do not add rel attribute if empty. (42855)
• Query Pagination: Correctly position the "next" link on the first page. (42764)
• Query Title: Add a search title variation. (42662)
• Quote: Unwrap on Backspace at start. (42808)
• Search Block: Remove margins from the input. (42959)
• Transforms: Add group unwrap. (42685)

Components

• BaseControl: Add box-sizing reset. (42889)
• BorderControl: Add box-sizing reset. (42754)
• BoxControl: Export applyValueToSides util function. (42733)
• ComboboxControl and FormTokenField: Enhance components with custom render callback for options. (42597)
• ComboboxControl: Add support for uncontrolled mode. (42752)
• Flex: Convert component to TypeScript. (42537)
• FontSizePicker: Add 40px size variant. (42716)
• List View Expander: Fix icon in RTL mode. (42997)
• Placeholder: Convert component to TypeScript. (42990)
• Popover: Rewrite Storybook examples using controls. (42903)
• Popover: Tidy up code, add more comments. (42944)
• ResizableBox: Change tooltip background to match other tooltips. (42800)
• Storybook: Add global CSS switcher. (42747)
• StyleProvider: Convert component to TypeScript. (42541)
• Swatch: Convert component to TypeScript. (42162)
• Tooltip (Experimental), CustomSelectControl, TimePicker: add missing font sizes which were necessary in non-WordPress contexts. (42844)
• Typography Panel: Fix font appearance control width. (42795)
• UnitControl: Update unit dropdown design. (42000)
• Update control labels to the new uppercase styles. (42789)

Reusable Blocks

• Make template part and reusable block creation language consistent. (43032)

CSS & Styling

• Rename solid color. (42918)
• Tab style subpixel fix. (42892)
• Navigation: Try to keep :Where just for paddings. (42967)

Global Styles

• Layout: Add a disable-layout-styles theme supports flag to opt out of all layout styles. (42544)
• Enable alpha (opacity) in Global Styles color pickers. (43045)
• Add block spacing to root block support UI. (42797)
• Elements: Update the load order of the CSS in the Site Editor. (42863)
• Heading element UI controls. (42176)
• Theme JSON: Add a static $blocks_metadata data definition to the Gutenberg instance of WP_Theme_JSON. (42776)
• Upsize typography panel components. (42718)

Design Tools

• Cover: Show Resize Tooltip on Drag. (23522)
• Update color button style. (41838)
• Add explicit bypass for fluid font size calculation. (42757)

Post Editor

• Post Template: Update template title selector. (42091)

Site Editor

• Add author nicename template creation ability. (42165)
• Add fallback template content on creation. (42520)
• Add a 'View Site' link in the site editor. (42331)
• Update clear customizations copy for templates. (41765)

Widgets Editor

• Format Library: Add missing keyboard shortcut description in customizer widget. (43044)

Block Editor

• Rich text: Add character shortcuts for wrapping selection. (42469)

Block Directory

• Modernize DownloadableBlockListItem tests. (43026)

Bug Fixes

Accessibility

• Fix issue where changing the id of the recursion provider can result in focus loss. (42916)
• Site Editor: Don't disable the Save button. (42842)

Components

• Block Styles: Truncate long button labels. (42975)
• ColorGradientControl: Fix awkward padding in popover. (43018)
• ColorPicker: Fix layout overflow. (42992)
• External link component: Add a check for on page anchor links. (42259)
• Icons: Fix storybook library icon names. (43034)
• InputControl: Fix acceptance of falsy values in controlled updates. (42484)
• InputControl: Fix incorrect size prop passing to Text. (42793)
• Popover: Anchor correctly to parent node when no explicit anchor is passed. (42971)
• Popover: Fix arrow placement and design. (42874)
• Popover: Improve iframe offset computation. (42417)
• Popover: Make sure that ownerDocument is always defined. (42886)

Block Library

• Disabled blocks passed to BlockTypesList are no longer draggable. (42751)
• Fix drag and drop performance when dragging over the insertion point. (42806)
• LatestPost: Fix issue with floated featured images overflowing focus style. (40663)
• List v2: Fix Cmd+A. (42858)
• Media&Text: Round position attribute on focal point save. (33915)
• Navigation: Fix current-menu-item class logic. (42849)
• Navigation: Fix invalid permissions warning by avoiding using trashed wp_navigation posts (JS implementation). (42982)
• Separator: Fix the block CSS classes in the editor. (42769)
• Social Link: add missing 'width' and 'height' attributes. (41373)
• Social: Include has-visible-labels on edit component. (42791)
• Tag Cloud: Fix alignment issue when align center. (43017)
• Writing flow: Fix Shift+Arrow partial selection for lists & quote. (42885)

CSS & Styling

• Layout: Fix flex direction column. (42939)
• Layout: Merge CSS rule for block gap. (43052)
• Style Engine: Include 6.1 CSS filter, ensure style engine can output CSS functions like clamp. (43004)
• Style engine: Disable stylesheet optimization temporarily. (43051)
• Style Engine: Defensive guarding for when style does not define 'individual' property. (43122)

Global Styles

• Fix styles declarations returning before all properties output. (42954)
• Fluid typography: Migrate fluid typography algorithm to JS for site editor. (42688)
• Spacing presets: Prevent % spacing size units being stripped by sanitize_title. (43101)
• Specify priority in remove_action. (43073)

Block Editor

• Inserter: Avoid warning when CRA is displayed. (42723)
• Pasting: Dismiss pasted image if file:// schema detected. (42785)
• Prevent multiselection via dragging when already dragging blocks. (42877)
• Quote: Fix raw transform handler. (43093)
• Rich text: Fix error when attempting to remove placeholder on composition start. (42821)
• Paste from Slack: Interpret paragraph markup. (43114)

Post Editor

• Decode the post URL for the button label. (42930)

Site Editor

• Internalization fixes for site editor template creation. (42762)
• Fix error in compileStyleValue. (43116)

RichText

• Firefox: Fix issue where it selects a nearby contentEditable. (42777)

Build Tooling

• Fix: CSS files don't build in dev mode on Windows. (42041)
• Fix: Script name error in main package.json. (43089)

Testing

• Fix: Just another end-to-end test. (42947)

CreateBlock

• Remove i18n references from save properties. (43035)

Accessibility

• Shortcuts: Add Ctrl+Y for redo on Windows. (42627)
• Change shortcut text for redo tooltip on Windows. (42830)

Performance

• Lodash: Refactor away from _.isMatch(). (42271)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.zip(). (42926)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.delay(). (42966)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.startsWith(). (43019)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.isPlainObject(). (42508)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.maxBy(). (42914)
• Lodash: Refactor Calendar block away from moment. (43029)
• Lodash: Remove completely from @wordpress/dom package. (42912)
• Lodash: Remove completely from @wordpress/element package. (42898)

Experiments

Style Engine

• Enqueue block support styles. (42452) (42880)
• Prettify combined selectors. (43003)
• Prettify output. (42909)
• Rename global function. (42719)
• Combine style-engine stores for block-supports. (42970)
• Add optimize flag and combine functions into wp_style_engine_get_stylesheet. (42878)

Documentation

• Add examples for core/blocks actions. (42637)
• Add examples for core/viewport package. (42921)
• Added the allowedFormat details in richtext readme. (42426)
• Adding @example entries to the public API exposed in core/blocks. (42745)
• Cover: Fix rendered content PHPDoc type. (43099)
• Create Block: Update document links in templates. (42839)
• Fix return type of home link attribute function. (42901)
• Fix textual consistency about block attributes. (43075)
• Link plugins GitHub release pages. (42736)
• Document the cherry-picking automation. (42932)
• Fixed broken external link to Mozilla Developer documentation. (43065)
• Release Docs: Troubleshooting failed "Bump version" job. (42936)
• Release docs: Update performance test instructions. (43015)
• Remove the emoji characters to fix the handbook rendering. (43028)
• Update broken internal link. (43094)
• Update theme-json.md to include new element support and :Ref. (42412)
• Gutenberg Data Tutorial: Adjust the image URLs and whitespace to render correctly in the Handbook. (42969)

Code Quality

• Add mutations data and helper functions to useEntityRecord. (39595)
• Remove old WordPress 5.8 code. (42818)

Block Library

• Add separate callbacks for selecting a classic or navigation menu in the nav block. (43057)
• Avoid reliance on status constants when consuming useCreateNavigationMenu hook. (42704)
• Home Link: Use 'sprintf' in the render callback. (43024)
• Nav block: Extract hook for inner blocks. (42743)
• Nav block: Normalize to function expressions. (42744)
• Normalize usage of Notifications in Nav block. (42706)
• Remove duplicate speak calls from navigation block. (43079)
• Site Title: Use home_url instead of get_bloginfo. (42857)
• Page List: Fix indentation in PHP file. (42852)
• Query Loop: Try filters with ToolsPanel. (42629)

Site Editor

• Navigation Menu Sidebar: Remove unnecessary Fragment. (43021)

Style Engine

• Tweak Declarations filtering logic slightly. (43215)
• Minor tweaks. (43111)

Global Styles

• useGlobalStylesOutput: Use memo for derived values. (42917)

Tools

Env

• Use git for wp-env's default WordPress version. (42826)

Testing

• Migrate deprecated node matcher tests to playwright. (42759)
• Migrate group block tests to Playwright. (42801)
• Migrate missing block tests to Playwright. (41680)
• Migrate Convert Block Type test to Playwright. (42760)

Build Tooling

• Lodash: Refactor away from _.flatMap(). (42360)
• Standardize script naming in main package.json. (42368)

First time contributors

• @fellyph: Rendering html for the author description at the editor. (42109)
• @merkys7: Fix social-link block missing 'width' and 'height' attributes. (41373)
• @Smit2808: Added the allowedFormat details in richtext readme. (42426)
• @theminaldiwan: Fixed alignment issue of tagcloud block when align center. (43017)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release: @aaronrobertshaw @adamziel @andrewserong @aristath @carolinan @chad1008 @ciampo @derekblank @dougwollison @ellatrix @fellyph @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @hellofromtonya @ItsJonQ @jameskoster @jasmussen @jorgefilipecosta @JustinyAhin @kjohnson @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @matiasbenedetto @mcsf @merkys7 @mikachan @mirka @ndiego @noahtallen @ntsekouras @pavanpatil1 @pooja-muchandikar @ramonjd @ryanwelcher @SavPhill @scruffian @shimotmk @SiobhyB @Smit2808 @Soean @stokesman @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @theminaldiwan @tyxla @walbo