WordPress/gutenberg v14.3.0-rc.1

14.3.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

Post Editor

• Optimize legacy post content layout. (44506)
• Refactor PluginPostPublishPanel tests to use RTL render. (44667)
• Refactor AutosaveMonitor tests to @testing-library/react. (44492)
• Refactor PostPreviewButton tests to @testing-library/react. (44470)
• Remove right border when sidebars are closed. (44613)

Block Library

• Comment Pagination Numbers: Add background color. (43902)
• Navigation Submenu: Use get_queried_object_id when setting current-menu-item classes. (44474)
• Post Author: Include option to link author archive. (42670)
• Post Terms: Add spacing support. (43646)
• Query Loop: Hide instructions for FormTokenField. (44641)
• Tag Cloud: Remove strtolower around taxonomy name. (16112)
• Video: Update placeholder style. (44215)

Components

• FontSizePicker: Make control take up full width. (44559)
• Placeholder: Remove unnecessary background color. (44497)
• Placeholder: Update placeholder style. (44190)
• Refactor AlignmentMatrixControl tests to use @testing-library/react. (44670)
• ToggleGroupControl: Fix unselected icon color. (44575)
• ToolsPanel: Add subheadings and reset text to tools panel menu. (44260)

Block API

• Blocks: Deprecate non-string descriptions. (44455)
• Tag Processor: Document and test XSS prevention in set_attribute. (44447)
• Tag Processor: Throw error when supplied with unacceptable attribute names. (44431)
• Tag Processor: Use (start,length) values for tracking tag name. (44479)
• Tag processor: Update 'since' version tags to 6.2.0. (44432)

Global Styles

• Hide the done button of the Global Style palette editor when there aren't colors to edit. (44372)
• Use ToolsPanel in Global Styles → Typography. (44180)

Block Editor

• Allow dropping an image on an empty paragraph block to create an image block. (42722)
• Refactor BlockSwitcher tests to @testing-library/react. (44493)
• Refactor ResponsiveBlockControl tests to use @testing-library/react. (44669)
• Writing flow: Implement Alt+Arrow. (44081)

Site Editor

• Allow drag and drop for blocks and patterns in zoom-out mode. (44402)

Block Directory

• Use 'tertiary' in missing block warning. (44368)

New APIs

Block Library

• WP_HTML_Tag_Processor: Inject dynamic data to block HTML markup in PHP. (42485)

Bug Fixes

• Add a correct TS signature for useEntityRecords. (44448)
• BlockDraggable: Change prop name passed to children when dragging is disabled. (44371)
• Fix Lint warning/errors in cherry-pick script. (44662)
• Fix typo from in writing flow spec. (44358)
• Fix typo in WP_Navigation_Page_Test. (44685)
• Fix: Content blocks with nested blocks always appear as top level. (44098)
• Hide the Classic block in the Site Editor. (44554)
• PHP 8.2: Remove deprecated callable in Style Engine value functions. (44561)
• Persisted preferences: Fix context property of user meta configuration. (44489)
• Resizable editor: Fix height setting bug. (44637)
• Style engine: Kebab case preset slugs in the editor. (44406)
• Add submenu block href only if URL is not empty. (44337)
• Update Theme JSON $schema to allow pseudo selectors on button property. (44303)
• Preserve the generic signature of getEntityRecord and getEntityRecords through currying. (44453)
• Template editor: Fix crashes due to undefined vars. (44482)
• Add missing value to CSS font-display descriptor in theme.json. (44622)
• Rich text: Avoid updating partial selection unnecessarily. (44330)
• useMergeRefs: Don't call/mutate refs passed if unused. (44629)

Block Library

• Code Block: Add box-sizing to fix inconsistent layout. (44580)
• Comment Author: Fix empty links created for the author's name. (44650)
• Comments: Support nested comments settings in the comments blocks. (44351)
• Group: Legacy Group inner block wrapper should work with a constrained layout. (44660)
• Image: Fix rotated image crop area aspect ratio. (44425)
• Image: Upgrade react-easy-crop to bring in fix for site editor iframe. (44408)
• Navigation: Fix console error. (44594)
• Navigation: Fix semitransparent burger icon. (44525)
• Navigation: Try fixing link color in some TT2 contexts. (44578)
• Paragraph: Disable drop cap control if text is aligned. (42326)
• Post Featured Image: Fix borders after addition of overlay feature. (44286)
• Post Featured Image: Fix application of default border style in editor. (44520)
• Query Loop: Fix condition for displaying 'parents' control. (44630)
• Query Loop: Rename Query Loop variations allowControls to allowedControls. (44523)
• Quote block: Stop slash inserter popup showing in the citation. (44634)
• Site Title: Fix link color not being applied in editor #37071. (44333)
• Template part: Prevent adding block in post editor or inside post template or content blocks. (44480)
• Video: Don't display placeholder SVG when Video block selected. (44564)

Global Styles

• Fix empty color indicator with a custom style. (44364)
• Re-add styles that were removed for classic themes. (44334)
• Remove border from Global Styles previews. (44556)
• Spacing presets: Modify the styling of the input controls when in unlinked mode in order to better differentiate sides. (44141)
• Style cards: Fix focus style. (44612)
• Theme.json: Fix some shadow properties not working properly in the site editor. (44569)
• Use color hex + index as key in the Palette component color indicator. (44344)

Design Tools

• Fix padding/margin visualizer accuracy. (44485)
• Fix padding/margin visualizer placement. (44484)
• Fix spacing property generation in flow layout type. (44446)

Components

• BorderBoxControl: Ensure the most common unit selection is maintained. (44565)
• Popover: Fix limitShift logic by adding iframe offset correctly (and a custom shift limiter). (42950)
• Popover: Refine position-to-placement conversion logic, add tests. (44377)
• Navigator Screen: Fix bug where focus moved erroneously. (44239)

Block Editor

• Fix block search for non-Latin characters. (44652)

Widgets Editor

• Add extra guarding against legacy widget preview errors. (44635)

Themes

• Theme export: Fix broken spacingScale export. (44555)
• Theme export: Stop slugs being cast to integers when a theme is exported. (44589)

Accessibility

• TokenInput field: Try alternative approach to fix screen reader focus issue. (44526)

Patterns

• Fix patterns drag and drop in Safari. (44366)

Testing

• End-to-end Test Utils: Don't use hardcoded login credentials. (44331)

Post Editor

• Add layout styles from Post Content block to post editor. (44258)

Performance

• Compose: Introduce an in-house throttle() utility, deprecate Lodash version. (44225)

Components

• Improve Slot/Fill performance. (44642)

Lodash

• Lodash: Remove completely from @wordpress/compose package. (44568)
• Lodash: Remove completely from @wordpress/library-export-default-webpack-plugin package. (44571)
• Lodash: Remove completely from @wordpress/list-reusable-blocks package. (44567)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.flow(). (44500)
• Lodash: Remove completely from @wordpress/block-directory package. (44206)
• Lodash: Remove completely from @wordpress/rich-text package. (44204)

Documentation

• Add documentation for extending the Query Loop block via variations. (44137)
• Add more details about possible values for block assets in block.json. (44199)
• Add missing import statement for useBlockProps. (44607)
• Instruct people to keep using wp-scripts even when extending webpack. (44348)
• Style engine: Updating and fleshing out documentation. (44405)
• Style engine: Update readme. (44308)
• Add callout for experimental packages. (44056)
• Expand class-level documentation for WP_HTML_Tag_Processor. (44478)
• Experiments: Add README.md and CHANGELOG.md. (44457)
• Remove the package name from the sub-menu item for clarity. (44643)

Code Quality

• Avoid calling get_blocks_metadata in WP_Theme_JSON constructor. (44658)
• Block Popover: Use placement instead of position; move to useBlockToolbarPopoverProps hook. (44323)
• CS/QA: Various minor fixes. (44551)
• CS: Always use parentheses when instantiating objects. (44550)
• CS: Remove redundant parentheses for include/require statements. (44544)
• CS: Use pre-increment instead of post-increment. (44549)
• Fix comment typo in document generation tools. (44583)
• I18n: Use consistent string: 'Link rel'. (20162)
• PHP 8.2 | Fix deprecated embedded variables in text strings. (44538)
• PHP 8.2 | Fix for partially supported callback. (44537)
• PHPCS: Use PHPCompatibilityWP. (44542)
• QA: No control structures with empty body. (44548)
• Style engine: Add JS unit tests for outline properties. (44518)
• Script loader: Remove 6.1 wp actions. (44519)

Components

• Components refactor Mobile to ignore exhaustive-deps. (44207)
• Convert FontSizePicker to TypeScript. (44449)
• FontSizePicker: Replace SCSS with Emotion + components. (44483)
• Popover: Convert unit tests to TypeScript and modern RTL assertions. (44373)
• RangeControl: Remove unused UseDebouncedHoverInteractionArgs type. (44411)
• Refactor Notice to pass exhaustive-deps. (44157)
• Refactor ResizableBox to pass exhaustive-deps. (44370)
• Refactor Sandbox to pass exhaustive-deps. (44378)
• Refactor SearchControl native files to ignore exhaustive-deps. (44381)

Block Library

• Archive Block: Remove unnecessary spaces from class attributes. (44440)
• Archive: No need to escape class variable. (44468)
• Gallery: Remove unnecessary caption state. (44383)
• Remove unnecessary view.js file from navigation-submenu block. (44570)

Plugin

• CS: All methods must declare visibility. (44543)
• Move wp_enqueue_block_view_script to experiments. (44414)

Layout

• Backport code quality changes from core to Gutenberg. (44661)

Parsing

• Block Serialization Default Parser: Bring back no-more-tokens type. (44459)

Global Styles

• Add blocks to the list of valid origins for theme.json. (44363)

Tools

• Scripts: Use default value for process.env.WP_SRC_DIRECTORY. (44367)
• Limit access to experimental APIs to WordPress codebase. (43386)

Testing

• Autocomplete Component: Add end-to-end tests (take two). (42905)
• Fix failing quote to reusable block conversion end-to-end test. (44350)
• Add strict meta schema validation test for block.json. (44423)
• Migrate iframed block test to Playwright. (44164)
• Add theme.json schema tests. (44252)
• Remove enzyme completely. (44494)

Build Tooling

• Upgrade Lerna to the latest version. (44456)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @alecgeatches: Add theme.json schema tests. (44252)
• @BenoitZugmeyer: Use get_queried_object_id when setting current-menu-item classes. (44474)
• @blindingstars: Update Theme JSON $schema to allow pseudo selectors on button property. (44303)
• @imanish003: Add missing import statement for useBlockProps. (44607)
• @loxK: Scripts: Use default value for process.env.WP_SRC_DIRECTORY. (44367)
• @Lucisu: Fix empty links being created for the author's name comment. (44650)
• @philwp: Post Author block now includes option to link author archive. (42670)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamziel @ajlende @alecgeatches @andrewserong @anton-vlasenko @BE-Webdesign @BenoitZugmeyer @blindingstars @carolinan @chad1008 @ciampo @derekblank @dmsnell @ellatrix @getdave @glendaviesnz @gziolo @imanish003 @inc2734 @jameskoster @jasmussen @javierarce @jorgefilipecosta @jrfnl @kevin940726 @loxK @Lucisu @luisherranz @Mamaduka @michalczaplinski @ndiego @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @pagelab @philwp @ramonjd @Rink9 @ryanwelcher @SantosGuillamot @scruffian @Soean @sunyatasattva @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla @vcanales @youknowriad