WordPress/gutenberg v14.5.0-rc.1

14.5.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

• Create Block: Update templates to use APIs introduced in WP 6.1. (44185)
• Style Engine: Add support for dimensions.minHeight property. (45334)

Block Library

• Comment Template: Add spacing support. (45101)
• Post Comment Count: Add spacing support. (45150)
• Post Comments Form: Add spacing support. (45091)

Components

• Block mover button: Do not show focus styles on pointer interactions. (45126)
• BorderControl, BorderBoxControl, BorderRadiusControl: Update control components to allow 40px height. (41860)
• Button: Change the color on the destructive button focus state. (44427)
• ColorPalette: Convert to TypeScript. (44632)
• NumberControl: Add custom spin buttons. (45333)
• BoxControl, Card, ToolsPanel: Remove unnecessary wrappers in stories. (45305)
• SelectControl: Add onChange, onBlur, and onFocus to storybook actions. (45432)
• FontSizePicker: Update design when withSlider is set. (44598)

Post Editor

• Edit Post: Improve distraction-free mode notices. (45348)
• Move document information and outline to list view panel. (44788)

Patterns

• Add block pattern categories' descriptions to the REST API and update the descriptions. (45244)

Design Tools

• Spacing visualizer: Add option to trigger with mousover as well as value change. (44955)

Bug Fixes

• Fix distraction free shortcut typo. (45186)
• Fix resizeable editor scrolling. (45189)
• Hide insertion point when moving out of the canvas. (45420)
• I18n: Fix handling of nullish pot comments. (45414)
• Prevent unexpected copying of the post title. (41284)
• Typo in id in URL. (45232)

Components

• AutocompleteUI: Close popup when click happens outside of the popover. (44795)
• Button component: Fix RTL alignment when containing icon and text. (44787)
• ColorPalette: Fix transparent checkered background pattern. (45295)
• Fix UnitControl disabled style is overridden by WP forms.css. (45250)
• Fix popover deprecations. (45195)
• InputControl: Allow inline styles to be applied to wrapper instead of inner input. (45340)
• ItemGroup: Fix RTL text alignment when item is clickable. (45280)
• Set AnglePickerControl Storybook Label Control type to text. (45122)
• TabPanel: Add tests and changelog for onSelect behavior change. (45211)
• Update ExternalLink to support onClick handler. (45214)
• BorderControl: Await floating-ui state changes when rendering/opening popover to fix unit test failures. (45241)

Block Library

• Allow direct selection of nested Page List block by avoiding dual rendering within block. (45143)
• Fix Nav uncontrolled blocks saving/loading experience. (45486)
• List v2: Fix migration when nested list is invalid. (44822)
• Navigation block: Add padding to buttons when Submenus Open on click is enabled. (44605)
• Site Tagline: Fix user permission HTTP errors. (45140)
• Site Title: Avoid 403 errors for users with low permissions. (45093)

Design Tools

• Fix control widths for Cover, Search, and Spacer blocks. (45329)
• SpacingSizesControl: Remove UnitControl inline style use. (45412)

Testing

• Fix uploading artifacts even when the tests are successful. (45187)
• Migrate Gallery tests to Playwright. (45202)

Patterns

• Fix PHP warning in categories REST API controller. (45410)

Build Tooling

• ESLint: Exclude Playwright tests from testing library rules. (45366)

Layout

• Ensure block content is always returned as a string after processing. (45330)

Plugin

• Fix failing PHPUnit tests. (45265)

Post Editor

• Visual Editor: Fix permission error. (45262)

Global Styles

• Fix: Site editor clips body background style. (45261)

Meta Boxes

• Metaboxes save: Perform hasMetaBoxes check on every save. (45145)

Webfonts

• Web Font: Fix ascent/descent-override property typo. (45125)

Accessibility

• fix: Image caption supports Voice Control. (44850)

Document Settings

• PublishDateTimePicker: Retrieve all future posts in a given month. (44540)

Site Editor

• Only mark the 'Site' menu item active when editing a home template. (42807)

Performance

• Lodash: Refactor @wordpress/blocks away from _.includes(). (45311)
• Lodash: Refactor @wordpress/keycodes away from _.includes(). (45306)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.kebabCase() in site editor. (45192)
• Lodash: Refactor block editor away from _.some(). (45335)
• Lodash: Refactor blocks away from _.some(). (45338)

Post Editor

• Lodash: Refactor @wordpress/edit-post away from _.includes(). (45310)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.castArray(). (45098)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.escape(). (45282)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.includes(). (45316)
• Lodash: Refactor editor away from _.some(). (45342)

Block Library

• Lodash: Refactor @wordpress/block-library away from _.includes(). (45307)
• Lodash: Refactor away from a few similar _.pickBy(). (45312)
• Lodash: Refactor block library away from _.some(). (45337)

Components

• Lodash: Refactor away from _.some(). (45367)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.without(). (44980)

Block Editor

• Lodash: Refactor away from _.words() - take 2. (45281)

Documentation

• Add a readme to the letter spacing component. (45308)
• Add changelogs for internal refactorings using inert. (45269)
• Add storybook intro. (45115)
• Character Swap. (45355)
• Code Quality: Fix some misspelled words. (45222)
• LinkControl: Use Popover new placement prop instead of legacy position prop in README. (44388)
• Updating curation document to include content lock ability. (44908)
• useAnchorRef: Update deprecation message. (45302)

Components

• Disabled: Update documentation to clarify the absence of inert polyfill. (45272)

Code Quality

• Block Editor: Improve MediaReplaceFlow tests. (45424)
• Block Editor: Refactor align tests to RTL. (45152)
• Block switcher preview Popover: Use new placement prop instead of legacy position prop. (44387)
• Button block Popover: Use placement prop instead of legacy position prop. (44392)
• Fix indent and quote in dependbot.yml. (45167)
• Fix: PHP 8.1 Deprecation - strncmp(): Passing null to parameter. (44829)
• Format Toolbar Popover: Use new placement prop instead of legacy position prop. (44389)
• Image format popover: Use placement prop instead of legacy position prop. (44398)
• Link format Popover: Use placement prop instead of legacy position prop. (44399)
• Navigation Link Popover: Use placement prop instead of legacy position prop. (44394)
• Navigation Submenu Popover: Use placement prop instead of legacy position prop. (44395)
• Replace the MainDashboardButton slot with a setting in the site editor. (45149)
• Run script loader test. (45288)
• Site Editor: Move the save view state to the edit site store. (45200)
• Small follow-ups to the distraction free mode PR. (45151)
• Tests: Use container instead of container.firstChild for snapshots. (45278)
• URL Input Popover: Use new placement prop instead of legacy position prop. (44390)
• useFocusOutside: Rewrite hook to TypeScript, rewrite tests to model RTL and user-event. (45317)
• useFocusableIframe: Refactor to TypeScript. (45428)

Components

• Add a popover variant prop and refactor popovers to use it, deprecate isAlternate. (45137)
• Add parseQuantityAndUnitFromRawValue tests. (45260)
• Autocompleter Popover: Use placement prop instead of legacy position prop. (44396)
• FontSizePicker: Rewrite unit tests to use userEvent and be more comprehensive. (45298)
• Improve BorderBoxControl tests. (45208)
• Refactor ContextSystemProvider and the useUpdateEffect util to ignore exhaustive-deps. (45044)
• Refactor SlotFill to pass exhaustive-deps. (44403)
• Refactor Snackbar to pass exhaustive-deps. (44934)
• Refactor TabPanel to pass exhaustive-deps. (44935)
• Remove unnecessary .firstChild from tests. (45419)
• Update some React 18 related types. (45279)

Global Styles

• Add wp_theme_has_theme_json as a public API to know whether a theme has a theme.json. (45168)
• Deprecate WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver:Theme_has_support(). (45380)

Post Editor

• Editors: Refactor icon tests to follow no-container rule. (45422)

Tools

Testing

• Add end-to-end tests for Drag-and-Drop in the inserter. (44631)
• Cleanup after the writing flow end-to-end tests. (45119)
• Migrate Fullscreen mode test to Playwright. (43963)
• Migrate New Default Post Content Test to Playwright. (45267)
• Migrate Splitting Merging test to Playwright. (44916)
• Migrate site-editor-inserter end-to-end test to Playwright. (44507)
• Migrate templates end-to-end test to Playwright. (45393)
• Migrate columns test case to Playwright. (43964)
• Re-enable skipped Gallery block end-to-end test. (45266)
• Try fixing Site Title flaky end-to-end tests. (45160)
• Update Playwright to v1.27. (45193)

Build Tooling

• ESLint: Add and enable eslint-plugin-testing-library. (45103)
• Remove comments from compiled styles. (43177)
• Upgrade rtlcss to v4.0.0. (43208)
• build: Native demo editor supports Xcode 14. (45120)

Various

• Add :Visited to theme.json schema. (45236)
• Add Playwright Compatibility-classic-editor Test. (43979)
• Add rel attribute for Social Icons. (45469)
• Add: Do not use in production to content locking experimental API's. (45291)
• Migrate iframe-rendering test case. (44535)
• Post comments link: Add spacing support. (45184)
• PostTextEditor test: Wrap .blur calls in act(). (45243)
• Revert "Lodash: Refactor away from _.kebabCase() in site editor". (45206)

Components

• Button: Refactor Storybook to controls and align documentation. (44105)
• DateTimePicker: Add __next* props in Storybook. (45164)
• Font Size Picker: Update changelog for #45041. (45180)
• FormFileUpload: Remove unused story file. (45286)
• RadioGroup: Mark as deprecated. (45389)
• Revert "Navigator: Remove overflow styles from NavigatorScreen". (45303)
• Storybook: Addon to wrap stories in max-width div. (45134)
• TextControl: Set Storybook control types on help, label and type. (45405)
• ToggleGroupControl: Add de-selectable variant. (45123)
• ToggleGroupControl: Remove invalid props from types. (45114)

Block Library

• Gallery: Register styles with style engine. (43070)
• Navigation block: Return undefined from useEffect. (45239)
• Reset background-image property for outline button style. (45234)
• [Audio]: Add toolbar button to add/remove caption. (45112)
• [Video]: Add toolbar button to add/remove caption. (45113)
• [Video]: Update tracks editor icon to text button. (45245)

Global Styles

• Embed: Add deprecation for the caption element. (45166)
• File Block: Add a deprecation for the button element class name. (45159)
• Gallery: Add a deprecation for captions in the gallery block. (45173)
• Table Block: Add a deprecation for the figcaption element class name. (45161)
• Video: Add a deprecation for the caption element. (45169)

Meta Boxes

• setAvailableMetaBoxesPerLocation: Merge new metaboxes into existing. (45156)

Post Editor

• hasChangedContent: Remove obsolete blocks check. (45090)

Block Editor

• Raw handling: Markdown: Also convert bulleted list with bullet characters. (45017)

Layout

• Try adding layout classnames to inner block wrapper. (44600)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @alvitazwar: Migrate iframe-rendering test case. (44535)
• @GeoJunkie: PublishDateTimePicker: Retrieve all future posts in a given month. (44540)
• @Initsogar: Components: Update ExternalLink to support onClick handler. (45214)
• @jornp: Button component: Fix RTL alignment when containing icon and text. (44787)
• @pkorzelius: Character Swap. (45355)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @alvitazwar @andrewserong @annezazu @aristath @BE-Webdesign @bph @brookewp @carolinan @chad1008 @ciampo @dcalhoun @ellatrix @fluiddot @GeoJunkie @georgeh @getdave @glendaviesnz @gziolo @Initsogar @jorgefilipecosta @jornp @jsnajdr @kevin940726 @KevinBatdorf @kienstra @Mamaduka @mikachan @mirka @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @pkorzelius @pooja-muchandikar @ramonjd @SavPhill @scruffian @SiobhyB @Soean @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla @walbo @youknowriad