WordPress/gutenberg v14.2.0-rc.1

14.2.0 RC1

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Changelog

Deprecations

• Officially deprecate the children and node block attribute sources. (44265)

Enhancements

Components

• Link/Unlink buttons: Add more polished styling and UX. (43802)

Global Styles

• Allow setting Letter case and Decoration to 'None' and add Letter case to Global Styles. (44067)
• Block supports: Allow overriding prettify options for enqueued CSS. (44248)
• Show Letter Spacing in Global Styles -> Typography -> Headings. (44142)
• Spacing presets: Switch to using numbers instead of t-shirt sizes for labels. (44247)

Block Editor

• Hide all floating block UI when typing. (44083)
• Update animation for line and sibling inserter. (44269)
• Warning component: Align the action buttons. (44328)

Block Library

• Calendar block: Add color supports and polish styles. (42029)
• Embed block: Mark which attributes should be considered content. (44039)
• List Item block: Improve writing flow. (43954)
• Post Navigation Link block: Add arrows. (40684)

Patterns

• Add a new category for block patterns called "Banners". (44203)
• Add a new category for block patterns called "Footers".
  (44200)

Bug Fixes

Components

• BlockMover: Clean up focus styles. (44241)
• Fix animation running in loop while dragging an image on a dropzone. (44264)
• Fix popover stacking in the customize widgets editor. (44282)
• Link autocompleter: Enable for all blocks. (44078)
• Remove unexpected has-text class when empty children are passed to Button. (44198)

Block Library

Bugfixes to blocks:

• Cover block: Fix preview. (44321)
• Freeform block: Hide "Convert to blocks" when the block locked.
  (44288)
• Group block: Change default variation in inserter. (44176)
• Missing block: Fix HTML block check. (44327)
• Navigation block: Fix submenu colors for imported classic menus.
  (44283)
• Navigation block: Remove ellipses as menu icon options for now. (44222)
• Pullquote block: Fix transform to quote crash.
  (44315)
• Post Featured Image block: Fix height/scale overwriting img inline styles. (44213)
• Query Loop block: Fix broken preview in specific category template. (44294)
• Query Loop block: Fix variation with declaredicon object with src.
  (44270)
• Query Loop block: Suggest active variation patterns.
  (44197)

Bugfixes not related to a specific block:

• Avoid showing the recursion warning in previews when replacing template parts. (44256)
• Ensure replacing a template part using a pattern doesn't update the existing entity. (44221)
• Fix demo content cover block text color. (44174)

Block Editor

• Block Toolbar: Update position when moving blocks. (44301)
• Capture state changes scheduled between render and effect. (38509)
• Writing flow: Fix partial selection when dragging in between blocks. (44230)

Accessibility

• Add role=application to List View to prevent browse mode triggering in NVDA. (44291)
• Block label and title don't consider variations. (44250)
• Make inline toolbar navigable by arrow keys. (43645)
• Text Selection in Safari: Try new fix for recent version. (44148)

Global Styles

• Block supports: Prioritize prettify options over SCRIPT_DEBUG. (44254)
• Fix padding on the post editor when RootPaddingAwareAlignments setting is enabled. (44209)
• Remove the beta label from global styles header. (44251)

Site Editor

• Make template names and descriptions dynamic. (43862)
• Prevent editor from creating multiple templates when multi-clicking the
  "create" button. (44146)

Keycodes

• Keyboard Shortcuts: Fix settings sidebar toggle shortcut. (43428)

Performance

• Avoid calling redux actions constantly when moving the mouse or scrolling. (44325)
• Batch container block settings action calls. (43958)
• Prevent resize observer loops in BlockPreview. (44319)

Documentation

• Include information about multiple scripts support added in WP 6.1. (44155)
• Popover: Write better documentation regarding the recent API changes. (44195)
• RangeControl component: Clarify rail vs track difference. (44057)
• Update links in the Development Platform document. (44181)
• Updating versions in WP for 6.0.2. (43826)

Code Quality

• Backport template creation changes from Core.
• Enforce coding guideline regarding the usage of quotation marks. (44305)
• Fix missing TS types for a11y in packages/components. (44277)
• Preferences-persistence: Remove @wordpress/compose dependency. (44202)
• Refactor style engine border styles. (43594)
• Removes whitespace from l18n-strings. (44314)
• Renaming functions to match their naming in Core. (44266)
  (44299)
• useInstanceId: Convert to typescript. (43790)

Updating dependencies

• Update fast-average-color library to latest version. (44175)
• Update json2php to v0.0.5. (44313)
• Remove wp-editor from wp-edit-blocks dependencies. (33496)

Block Library

• Comments Pagination blocks: Rename for consistency. (44287)
• Embed block: Remove incorrect comments about block variations. (43834)

Components

• Refactor NavigationMenu to ignore exhaustive-deps. (44090)
• Refactor RangeControl to pass exhaustive-deps.
  (44271)
• Popover: Add anchor prop which supersedes all previous anchor-related props. (43691)
• UnitControl: Fix exhaustive-deps warnings. (44161)
• UnitControl: Use hideHTMLArrows prop to hide spin buttons. (43985)
• useSetting: Minor refactor. (44267)

Refactoring tests to use @testing-library/react

• Refactor BlockControls tests to @testing-library/react. (44122)
• Refactor ColorPalette tests to @testing-library/react. (44108)
• Refactor KeyboardShortcutHelpModal tests to @testing-library/react.
  (44077)

Work to remove dependency on lodash

• Compose: Introduce in-house compose and pipe utils. (44112)
• Compose: Introduce in-house debounce() utility, deprecate Lodash version. (43943)
• Lodash: Remove dependency from @wordpress/widgets package. (44201)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.flowRight().
  (44188)

Testing

• Storybook: Set up local visual regression testing.
  (43393)

Tooling

• Ensure all packages get minor/major version bump when requested. (44317)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @kkoppenhaver: Update RangeControl documentation to clarify rail vs track. (44057)
• @pagelab: Enforce coding guideline regarding the usage of quotation marks. (44305)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @ajlende @annezazu @apmatthews @aristath @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @chad1008 @ciampo @dcalhoun @draganescu @ellatrix @geriux @glendaviesnz @gziolo @jasmussen @jorgefilipecosta @kebbet @kkoppenhaver @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mcsf @michalczaplinski @mirka @mtias @noisysocks @ntsekouras @pagelab @ramonjd @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla @walbo @youknowriad