WordPress/gutenberg v14.8.0

14.8.0

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Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

• Add a current-menu-ancestor class to navigation items. (40778)
• Page List Block: Adds a longdash tree to the parent selector. (46336)
• Page List Block: Hide page list edit button if no pages are available. (46331)
• Page List: Add convert panel to Inspector Controls when within Nav block. (46352)
• Page List: Prevent users from adding inner blocks to Page List. (46269)
• Reusable block: Pluralize the message "Convert to regular blocks" depending on the number of blocks contained. (45819)
• Add page list to Link UI transforms in Nav block. (46426)
• Heading Block: Don't rely on the experimental selector anymore. (46284)
• Media & Text Block: Create undo history when media width is changed. (46084)
• Navigation block: Add location->primary to fallback nav creation for classic menus. (45976)
• Navigation block: Update fallback nav creation to the most recently created menu. (46286)
• Navigation: Add a 'open list view' button. (46335)
• Navigation: Removes the header from the navigation list view in the experiment. (46070)
• Query: Remove color block supports. (46147)
• Table block: Make figcaption styles consistent between editor and front end. (46172)
• List/quote: Unwrap inner block when pressing Backspace at start. (45075)

Inspector Controls

• Sidebar Tabs: Refine the use of inspector tabs and disable filters for Nav blocks. (46346)
• Sidebar Tabs: Use editor settings to override display. (46321)
• Summary panel: Try improving spacing and grid. (46267)

Global Styles

• Add Style Book to Global Styles. (45960)
• Add block preview component in global styles. (45719)
• Move border from layout to own menu. (45995)
• Add a css style to theme.json to allow setting of custom css strings. (46255)
• Expose before filter hook in useSettings for injecting block settings in the editor. (45089)
• Global styles: Add custom CSS panel to site editor. (46141)

Site Editor

• Reorganize the site editor to introduce Browse Mode. (44770)
• Allow adding new templates and template parts directly from the sidebar. (46458)
• Synchronize the sidebar state in the URL. (46433)
• Try template drill down on the shell sidebar (browse mode). (45100)

Block Editor

• Update the synced block hover styles in Inserter. (46442)
• Add new selector getLastInsertedBlockClientId. (46531)
• Block editor: Hide fixed contextual toolbar. (46298)
• Inserter: Pattern title tooltip. (46419)
• useNestedSettingsUpdate: Prevent unneeded syncing of falsy templateLock values. (46357)
• Design: Augmented shadows for modals and popovers. (46228)

Components

• Tabs: Try a simpler tab focus style, alt. (46276)
• BaseControl: Add convenience hook to generate id-related props. (46170)
• Dashicon: Refactor to TypeScript. (45924)
• Lighten borders to gray-600. (46252)
• Popover: Check positioning by adding and testing is-positioned class. (46429)

Icons

• Icons: Update the border icon. (46264)

Testing

• Tests: Fix toBePositionedPopover matcher message function. (46239)

Plugin

• Update the Gutenberg plugin to require at least the WP 6.0 version. (46102)
• PHP: Backport changes from core theme resolver. (46250)
• Update: Move gutenberg_register_core_block_patterns from 6.1 to 6.2. (46249)
• Upgrade React packages to v18. (45235)

Themes

• Empty Theme: Add the $schema property in theme.json and rename template directories. (46300)

Mobile

• Mobile: Disable Unsupported Block Editor Tests (Android). (46542)
• Mobile: Inserter - Remove .done() usage. (46460)
• Mobile: Update Heading block end-to-end test. (46220)
• Mobile: Updates packages to not use Git HTTPS URLs. (46422)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Fix Nav Submenu block Link UI text control. (46243)
• Fix auto Nav menu creation due to page list inner blocks. (46223)
• Handle innerContent too when removing innerBlocks. (46377)
• Image Block: Ensure drag handle matches cursor position when resizing a center aligned image. (46497)
• Navigation Block: Add social link singular to list of blocks to be allowed. (46374)
• Navigation Block: Fixes adding a submenu. (46364)
• Navigation Block: Prevent circular references in navigation block rendering. (46387)
• Navigation Block: Recursively remove Navigation block’s from appearing inside Navigation block on front of site. (46279)
• Navigation link: Use stripHTML. (46317)
• Page List Block: Fix error loading page list parent options. (46327)
• Query Loop Block: Add migration of colors to v2 deprecation. (46522)
• Site Logo: Correctly set the image's natural height and width. (46214)
• Strip markup from link label data in inspector. (46171)
• Template Parts: Fix modal search stacking context. (46421)
• Video: Avoid an error when removal is locked. (46324)
• Layout child fixed size should not be fixed by default and should always have a value set. (46139)

Blocks

• Paste handler: Remove styles on inline paste. (46402)
• Improve performance of gutenberg_render_layout_support_flag. (46074)

Global Styles

• Allow indirect properties when unfiltered_html is not allowed. (46388)
• Fix Reset to defaults action by moving fills to be within context provider. (46486)
• Fix duplication of synced block colors in CSS output. (46297)
• Make style book label font size 11px. (46341)
• Style Book: Clear Global Styles navigation history when selecting a block. (46391)
• • Global Styles REST API endpoint: Check custom CSS is included before attempting to validate. (46561)
• Reverts the custom CSS to an experiment while we resolve the handling of unfiltered html capabilities. (46663)

Block Editor

• Block Editor: Fix content locked patterns. (46494)
• Block Editor: Fix memoized pattern selector dependant arguments. (46238)
• Block Editor: Restore draggable chip styles. (46396)
• Block Editor: Revert deoptimization useNestedSettingsUpdate. (46350)
• Block Editor: Fix some usages of useSelect that return unstable results. (46226)
• useInnerBlockTemplateSync: Cancel template sync on innerBlocks change or unmount. (46307)

Patterns

• Add new pattern categories. (46144)
• Block Editor: Add initial view mode in BlockPatternSetup. (46399)

Site Editor

• Do not remount iframe. (46431)
• Fix the top bar 'exit' animation. (46533)
• Keep edited entity in sync when Editor canvas isn't mounted. (46524)
• [Site Editor]: Add default white background for themes with no background color set. (46314)

Components

• InputControl: Fix Flex wrapper usage. (46213)
• Modal: Fix unexpected modal closing in IME Composition. (46453)
• MaybeCategoryPanel: Avoid 403 requests for users with low permissions. (46349)
• Rich text: Add button to clear unknown format. (44086)

Document Settings

• Fix template title in summary panel and requests for low privileged users. (46304)
• Permalink: Hide edit field for users without publishing capabilities. (46361)

Patterns

• Content lock: Make filter hook namespace unique. (46344)

Layout

• Child Layout controls: Fix help text for height. (46319)

Widgets Editor

• Shortcuts: Add Ctrl+Y for redo to all editor instances on Windows. (43392)

Block API

• HTML block: Fix parsing. (27268)

Mobile

• Social Links mobile test: Wait for URL bottom sheet to appear. (46308)

Performance

Components

• Avoid paint on popover when hovering content. (46201)
• CircularOption: Avoid paint on circular option hover. (46197)
• Lodash: Replace _.isEqual() with fastDeepEqual. (46200)
• Popover: Avoid paint on popovers when scrolling. (46187)
• Resizable Box: Avoid paint on resizable-box handles. (46196)
• ListView: Avoid paint on list view item hover. (46188)

Code Quality

• Lodash: Refactor blocks away from _.find(). (46428)
• Lodash: Refactor core-data away from _.find(). (46468)
• Lodash: Refactor edit-site away from _.find(). (46539)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.orderBy(). (45146)
• Lodash: Refactor block library away from _.find(). (46430)
• Remove usage of get_default_block_editor_settings. (46112)

Post Editor

• Lodash: Refactor editor away from _.find(). (46464)
• Lodash: Refactor post editor away from _.find(). (46432)

Block Editor

• Avoid paint on inserter animation. (46185)
• Improve inserter search performance. (46153)
• Block Editor: Refactor the "order" state in the block editor reducer to use a map instead of a plain object. (46221)
• Block Editor: Refactor the block-editor parents state to use maps instead of objects. (46225)
• Refactor the block-editor "tree" state to use maps instead of objects. (46229)
• Refactor the block-editor byClientId redux state to use maps instead of plain objects. (46204)
• Fix typing performance issue for container blocks. (46527)

Testing

• E2E: Fix performance tests by making inserter search container waiting optional. (46268)

Mobile

• Columns mobile block: Avoid returning unstable innerWidths from useSelect. (46403)

Experiments

Block Library

• Navigation List View: Remove empty cell when there is no edit button. (46439)

Web Fonts

• WP Webfonts: Avoid duplicated font families if the font family name was defined using fallback values. (46378)

Documentation

• Adds clarifications and clears up inaccuracies. (46283)
• Adds details of how to find the .zip file. (46305)
• Doc: Fix description and documentation for link color support. (46405)
• Docs: Add missing useState import in BorderBoxControl documentation. (42067)
• Docs: Add missing useState import in color picker docs. (42069)
• Docs: Add missing useState import in confirm dialog docs. (42071)
• Docs: Adds reminder to use Node.js v14 in Quick Start. (46216)
• Docs: Fix missing link to primitives package. (46290)
• Docs: Update reference to IE 11. (46296)

Code Quality

• Block Editor: Fix no-node-access violations in BlockPreview. (46409)
• Block Editor: Fix no-node-access violations in BlockSelectionClearer. (46408)
• Columns mobile edit: Remove unused updateBlockSettings action bind. (46455)
• ESLint: Fix warning in getBlockAttribute documentation. (46500)
• List View: Use default parameters instead of defaultProps. (46266)
• Removed: Remove small APIs marked to be removed in WP 6.2. (46106)
• Site Editor: Remove invalid CSS. (46288)

Block Library

• Group Block: Remove placeholder leftovers. (46423)
• Group: Remove unnecessary 'useCallback'. (46418)
• Navigation Block: Add tests for Nav block uncontrolled blocks dirty state checking. (46329)
• Navigation Block: Update attribute test for are-blocks-dirty.js. (46355)
• Page List Block: Move shared "convert" description to constant. (46368)
• Page List Block: Simplify Page List convert to links function API. (46365)
• Query: Cleanup variation picker component. (46424)
• RNMobile: Add an inline comment to clarify usage of 'hard' limit vs. unbounded query. (46245)
• Shared standard Link UI component between Nav Link and Submenu blocks. (46370)
• Template Parts: Remove unnecessary 'useCallback'. (46420)

Components

• AlignmentMatrixControl: Refactor to TypeScript. (46162)
• Also ignore no-node-access for some components. (46501)
• Fix no-node-access violations in FocalPointPicker tests. (46312)
• Fix no-node-access violations in Popover. (46311)
• Fix no-node-access violations in Theme. (46310)
• Fix no-node-access violations in ToolsPanel tests. (46313)
• withFilters: Use 'act' from React Testing Library. (46237)

Data Layer

• Data: Add ability to subscribe to one store, remove __unstableSubscribeStore. (45513)
• ESLint: Fix warnings in the data package. (46499)

Global Styles

• Add "custom-css" as an acceptable value in the documentation for gutenberg_get_global_stylesheet. (46493)
• PaletteEdit: Add changelog. (46095)

Block Editor

• Inserter: Update mobile tab navigation styles. (46186)

Layout

• Clarify inline comment about switching to safecss_filter_attr. (46061)

Tools

Build Tooling

• Adds Github Action to validate Gradle Wrapper. (46247)
• Prevent api-fetch and core-data from being imported in the block editor package. (46302)
• Serialize the map objects properly in the Redux dev tools. (46282)

Testing

• E2E: Fix flaky Block Switcher tests. (46406)
• end-to-end tests: Add width and color test to button block. (46452)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@andrewserong @glendaviesnz

= 14.8.0-rc.1 =

Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

• Add a current-menu-ancestor class to navigation items. (40778)
• Page List Block: Adds a longdash tree to the parent selector. (46336)
• Page List Block: Hide page list edit button if no pages are available. (46331)
• Reusable block: Pluralize the message "Convert to regular blocks" depending on the number of blocks contained. (45819)
• Add page list to Link UI transforms in Nav block. (46426)
• Heading Block: Don't rely on the experimental selector anymore. (46284)
• Media & Text Block: Create undo history when media width is changed. (46084)
• Navigation block: Add location->primary to fallback nav creation for classic menus. (45976)
• Navigation block: Update fallback nav creation to the most recently created menu. (46286)
• Navigation: Add a 'open list view' button. (46335)
• Navigation: Removes the header from the navigation list view in the experiment. (46070)
• Page List: Add convert panel to Inspector Controls when within Nav block. (46352)
• Page List: Prevent users from adding inner blocks to Page List. (46269)
• Query: Remove color block supports. (46147)
• Table block: Make figcaption styles consistent between editor and front end. (46172)
• List/quote: Unwrap inner block when pressing Backspace at start. (45075)

Inspector Controls

• Sidebar Tabs: Refine the use of inspector tabs and disable filters for Nav blocks. (46346)
• Sidebar Tabs: Use editor settings to override display. (46321)
• Summary panel: Try improving spacing and grid. (46267)

Global Styles

• Add Style Book to Global Styles. (45960)
• Add block preview component in global styles. (45719)
• Move border from layout to own menu. (45995)
• Add a css style to theme.json to allow setting of custom css strings. (46255)
• Expose before filter hook in useSettings for injecting block settings in the editor. (45089)
• Global styles: Add custom CSS panel to site editor. (46141)

Site Editor

• Allow adding new templates and template parts directly from the sidebar. (46458)
• Synchronize the sidebar state in the URL. (46433)
• Try template drill down on the shell sidebar (browse mode). (45100)

Block Editor

• Update the synced block hover styles in Inserter. (46442)
• Add new selector getLastInsertedBlockClientId. (46531)
• Block editor: Hide fixed contextual toolbar. (46298)
• Inserter: Pattern title tooltip. (46419)
• useNestedSettingsUpdate: Prevent unneeded syncing of falsy templateLock values. (46357)
• Design: Augmented shadows for modals and popovers. (46228)

Components

• Tabs: Try a simpler tab focus style, alt. (46276)
• BaseControl: Add convenience hook to generate id-related props. (46170)
• Dashicon: Refactor to TypeScript. (45924)
• Lighten borders to gray-600. (46252)
• Popover: Check positioning by adding and testing is-positioned class. (46429)

Icons

• Icons: Update the border icon. (46264)

Testing

• Tests: Fix toBePositionedPopover matcher message function. (46239)

Accessibility

• Reorganize the site editor to introduce Browse Mode. (44770)

Plugin

• Update the Gutenberg plugin to require at least the WP 6.0 version. (46102)
• PHP: Backport changes from core theme resolver. (46250)
• Update: Move gutenberg_register_core_block_patterns from 6.1 to 6.2. (46249)
• Upgrade React packages to v18. (45235)

Themes

• Empty Theme: Add the $schema property in theme.json and rename template directories. (46300)

Mobile

• Mobile: Disable Unsupported Block Editor Tests (Android). (46542)
• Mobile: Inserter - Remove .done() usage. (46460)
• Mobile: Update Heading block end-to-end test. (46220)
• Mobile: Updates packages to not use Git HTTPS URLs. (46422)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Fix Nav Submenu block Link UI text control. (46243)
• Fix auto Nav menu creation due to page list inner blocks. (46223)
• Handle innerContent too when removing innerBlocks. (46377)
• Image Block: Ensure drag handle matches cursor position when resizing a center aligned image. (46497)
• Navigation Block: Add social link singular to list of blocks to be allowed. (46374)
• Navigation Block: Fixes adding a submenu. (46364)
• Navigation Block: Prevent circular references in navigation block rendering. (46387)
• Navigation Block: Recursively remove Navigation block’s from appearing inside Navigation block on front of site. (46279)
• Navigation link: Use stripHTML. (46317)
• Page List Block: Fix error loading page list parent options. (46327)
• Query Loop Block: Add migration of colors to v2 deprecation. (46522)
• Site Logo: Correctly set the image's natural height and width. (46214)
• Strip markup from link label data in inspector. (46171)
• Template Parts: Fix modal search stacking context. (46421)
• Video: Avoid an error when removal is locked. (46324)
• Layout child fixed size should not be fixed by default and should always have a value set. (46139)

Blocks

• Paste handler: Remove styles on inline paste. (46402)
• Improve performance of gutenberg_render_layout_support_flag. (46074)

Global Styles

• Allow indirect properties when unfiltered_html is not allowed. (46388)
• Fix Reset to defaults action by moving fills to be within context provider. (46486)
• Fix duplication of synced block colors in CSS output. (46297)
• Make style book label font size 11px. (46341)
• Style Book: Clear Global Styles navigation history when selecting a block. (46391)
• Global Styles REST API endpoint: Check custom CSS is included before attempting to validate. (46561)
• Reverts the custom CSS to an experiment while we resolve the handling of unfiltered html capabilities. (46663)

Block Editor

• Block Editor: Fix content locked patterns. (46494)
• Block Editor: Fix memoized pattern selector dependant arguments. (46238)
• Block Editor: Restore draggable chip styles. (46396)
• Block Editor: Revert deoptimization useNestedSettingsUpdate. (46350)
• Block Editor: Fix some usages of useSelect that return unstable results. (46226)
• useInnerBlockTemplateSync: Cancel template sync on innerBlocks change or unmount. (46307)

Patterns

• Add new pattern categories. (46144)
• Block Editor: Add initial view mode in BlockPatternSetup. (46399)

Site Editor

• Do not remount iframe. (46431)
• Fix the top bar 'exit' animation. (46533)
• Keep edited entity in sync when Editor canvas isn't mounted. (46524)
• [Site Editor]: Add default white background for themes with no background color set. (46314)

Components

• InputControl: Fix Flex wrapper usage. (46213)
• Modal: Fix unexpected modal closing in IME Composition. (46453)
• MaybeCategoryPanel: Avoid 403 requests for users with low permissions. (46349)
• Rich text: Add button to clear unknown format. (44086)

Document Settings

• Fix template title in summary panel and requests for low privileged users. (46304)
• Permalink: Hide edit field for users without publishing capabilities. (46361)

Patterns

• Content lock: Make filter hook namespace unique. (46344)

Layout

• Child Layout controls: Fix help text for height. (46319)

Widgets Editor

• Shortcuts: Add Ctrl+Y for redo to all editor instances on Windows. (43392)

Block API

• HTML block: Fix parsing. (27268)

Mobile

• Social Links mobile test: Wait for URL bottom sheet to appear. (46308)

Performance

Components

• Avoid paint on popover when hovering content. (46201)
• CircularOption: Avoid paint on circular option hover. (46197)
• Lodash: Replace _.isEqual() with fastDeepEqual. (46200)
• Popover: Avoid paint on popovers when scrolling. (46187)
• Resizable Box: Avoid paint on resizable-box handles. (46196)
• ListView: Avoid paint on list view item hover. (46188)

Code Quality

• Lodash: Refactor blocks away from _.find(). (46428)
• Lodash: Refactor core-data away from _.find(). (46468)
• Lodash: Refactor edit-site away from _.find(). (46539)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.orderBy(). (45146)
• Lodash: Refactor block library away from _.find(). (46430)
• Remove usage of get_default_block_editor_settings. (46112)

Post Editor

• Lodash: Refactor editor away from _.find(). (46464)
• Lodash: Refactor post editor away from _.find(). (46432)

Block Editor

• Avoid paint on inserter animation. (46185)
• Improve inserter search performance. (46153)
• Block Editor: Refactor the "order" state in the block editor reducer to use a map instead of a plain object. (46221)
• Block Editor: Refactor the block-editor parents state to use maps instead of objects. (46225)
• Refactor the block-editor "tree" state to use maps instead of objects. (46229)
• Refactor the block-editor byClientId redux state to use maps instead of plain objects. (46204)
• Fix typing performance issue for container blocks. (46527)

Testing

• E2E: Fix performance tests by making inserter search container waiting optional. (46268)

Mobile

• Columns mobile block: Avoid returning unstable innerWidths from useSelect. (46403)

Experiments

Block Library

• Navigation List View: Remove empty cell when there is no edit button. (46439)

Web Fonts

• WP Webfonts: Avoid duplicated font families if the font family name was defined using fallback values. (46378)

Documentation

• Adds clarifications and clears up inaccuracies. (46283)
• Adds details of how to find the .zip file. (46305)
• Doc: Fix description and documentation for link color support. (46405)
• Docs: Add missing useState import in BorderBoxControl documentation. (42067)
• Docs: Add missing useState import in color picker docs. (42069)
• Docs: Add missing useState import in confirm dialog docs. (42071)
• Docs: Adds reminder to use Node.js v14 in Quick Start. (46216)
• Docs: Fix missing link to primitives package. (46290)
• Docs: Update reference to IE 11. (46296)

Code Quality

• Block Editor: Fix no-node-access violations in BlockPreview. (46409)
• Block Editor: Fix no-node-access violations in BlockSelectionClearer. (46408)
• Columns mobile edit: Remove unused updateBlockSettings action bind. (46455)
• ESLint: Fix warning in getBlockAttribute documentation. (46500)
• List View: Use default parameters instead of defaultProps. (46266)
• Removed: Remove small APIs marked to be removed in WP 6.2. (46106)
• Site Editor: Remove invalid CSS. (46288)

Block Library

• Group Block: Remove placeholder leftovers. (46423)
• Group: Remove unnecessary 'useCallback'. (46418)
• Navigation Block: Add tests for Nav block uncontrolled blocks dirty state checking. (46329)
• Navigation Block: Update attribute test for are-blocks-dirty.js. (46355)
• Page List Block: Move shared "convert" description to constant. (46368)
• Page List Block: Simplify Page List convert to links function API. (46365)
• Query: Cleanup variation picker component. (46424)
• RNMobile: Add an inline comment to clarify usage of 'hard' limit vs. unbounded query. (46245)
• Shared standard Link UI component between Nav Link and Submenu blocks. (46370)
• Template Parts: Remove unnecessary 'useCallback'. (46420)

Components

• AlignmentMatrixControl: Refactor to TypeScript. (46162)
• Also ignore no-node-access for some components. (46501)
• Fix no-node-access violations in FocalPointPicker tests. (46312)
• Fix no-node-access violations in Popover. (46311)
• Fix no-node-access violations in Theme. (46310)
• Fix no-node-access violations in ToolsPanel tests. (46313)
• withFilters: Use 'act' from React Testing Library. (46237)

Data Layer

• Data: Add ability to subscribe to one store, remove __unstableSubscribeStore. (45513)
• ESLint: Fix warnings in the data package. (46499)

Global Styles

• Add "custom-css" as an acceptable value in the documentation for gutenberg_get_global_stylesheet. (46493)
• PaletteEdit: Add changelog. (46095)

Block Editor

• Inserter: Update mobile tab navigation styles. (46186)

Layout

• Clarify inline comment about switching to safecss_filter_attr. (46061)

Tools

Build Tooling

• Adds Github Action to validate Gradle Wrapper. (46247)
• Prevent api-fetch and core-data from being imported in the block editor package. (46302)
• Serialize the map objects properly in the Redux dev tools. (46282)

Testing

• E2E: Fix flaky Block Switcher tests. (46406)
• end-to-end tests: Add width and color test to button block. (46452)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @corentin-gautier: Avoid paint on popover when hovering content. (46201)
• @ingeniumed: Expose before filter hook in useSettings for injecting block settings in the editor. (45089)
• @janusqa: Reusable block: Pluralize the message "Convert to regular blocks" depending on the number of blocks contained. (45819)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @ajlende @andrewserong @aristath @chad1008 @chintu51 @corentin-gautier @derekblank @draganescu @ellatrix @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @hideokamoto @ingeniumed @jameskoster @janusqa @jasmussen @jffng @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @madhusudhand @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mburridge @mikachan @mirka @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @oguzkocer @ramonjd @scruffian @SiobhyB @spacedmonkey @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla @WunderBart @youknowriad