WordPress/gutenberg v14.9.0-rc.1

14.9.0 RC1

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Changelog

Features

Global Styles

• Site Editor: Add new 'Push changes to Global Styles' button. (46446)

Patterns

• Add: Template types to the patterns API. (45814)

Enhancements

• Post editor: Iframe for block-based themes. (46212)
• Move word count to the top of the outline. (46648)
• Update: Remove need for template prefix in gutenberg_get_template_hierarchy. (46257)
• Update: Use offsite navigation editor on the navigation inspector sidebar. (46440)

Site Editor

• Add the template title and type to the site hub. (46736)
• Increase the width of the site editor sidebar. (46769)
• Move the edit button in the site editor sidebar to a contextual widget. (46700)

Block Library

• Adds page list as child of submenu. (46414)
• Bring back the heading and the menu selector in the ellipsis menu. (46622)
• Template Parts: Add an option to import widgets from the sidebars. (45509)

Design Tools

• Page List: Add typography supports. (43316)
• Style Engine: Add support for text columns (column-count). (46566)

CSS & Styling

• Edit-post site logo: Fix focus style. (46733)
• Base Styles: Extract long-content-fade to its own file so it can be imported and reused. (46485)

Components

• TextareaControl: Add new opt-in prop. (46559)

Colors

• Remove clearable from link ColorPanel item. (46507)

Global Styles

• Shadow: Add shadow presets support via theme.json. (46813)
• Fluid typography: Add configurable settings for minimum font size to theme.json. (42489)
• Inline preview: Center align block in global styles inline preview. (46727)

Bug Fixes

• DOM: Fix findNext/findPrevious tabbable if target is not in findFocusable list. (46580)
• Fix: Bug on withSafeTimeouts. (46595)
• Fixed incorrect CHANGELOG link. (46609)
• Fixed table block footer section issue. (46567)
• Iframe: Restore typewriter effect in post editor. (46745)
• Parse the attributes in a case-insensitive way to comply with the HTML parsing spec. (46748)
• Update: Guard against null block in off canvas editor. (46594)
• docgen: Add function to handle list of types for theme.json schema. (46375)
• Post editor: Fix title margin. (46698)

Accessibility

• Block editor: iframe/writing flow: Change tab index to 0. (46323)
• Fix region navigation in the site editor. (46525)
• Keycodes: Fix tilde (~) character isn't displayed correctly. (46826)
• useNavigateRegions: Use closest to determine the next region to navigate to. (44883)

Block Library

• Fix Off Canvas Editor add submenu item option. (46562)
• Make table of contents label in placeholder translatable. (46788)
• Query Loop: Fetch terms suggestions dynamically. (46649)

Components

• FocalPointPicker: Fix layout misalignment when placed in the BlockInspector. (46631)
• Storybook: Fix crash when parameters is undefined. (46670)
• Toolbar: Fix duplicate focus style on anchor link button. (46759)

Widgets Editor

• Revert "[customize-widgets/utils/widgetToBlock] Initialize a widget's raw_content.content to an empty string if it's undefined". (46600)
• [customize-widgets/utils/widgetToBlock] Initialize a widget's raw_content.content to an empty string if it's undefined. (46487)

Nested / Inner Blocks

• Inner Blocks: Fix provides context condition. (46729)

Global Styles

• Allow content/wide widths when unfiltered_html is not allowed. (46712)

CSS & Styling

• Fix nav list alignment. (46682)

Block Editor

• Inserter: Try fix media tab when upload of media types has been disabled. (46676)

Build Tooling

• Restore gutenberg_ prefix to function calls in PHPUnit tests. (46662)

Patterns

• Pattern Setup: Fix full heights during transition. (46615)

Design Tools

• Verse: Prevent default styles overriding theme.json font family. (46560)

Block Variations

• Block Variation Picker: Adds support to declared icon with source. (46373)

Themes

• theme.json schema: Allow object type on style properties. (45897)

Performance

• Add a performance metric to measure typing within containers. (46529)
• Block Editor: Optimize useAvailableAlignments performance. (46655)
• Reset the page between every performance test. (46646)
• Lodash:
  • Refactor block editor away from _.find(). (46577)
  • Remove omit usage from RN test mocks. (46660)
  • Remove dependency from server-side-render. (46746)
  • Remove from block editor reducer. (46656)

Widgets Editor

• Lodash: Remove dependency from customize-widgets. (46747)

Block Library

• Gallery: Avoid creating new layout objects on every render. (46715)

Site Editor

• Memoize sidebar component. (46604)

Components

• Lodash: Refactor components away from _.find(). (46537)

Experiments

• Add rough animation to navigation and links. (46342)
• Tag Processor: Fix a problem backing up too far after updating HTML. (46598)

Block Library

• Improve empty menu state in nav off-canvas editor. (46602)
• Nav offcanvas - handle non-direct insert block inserter. (46503)
• Navigation list view: Use smaller lock icon. (46578)

Documentation

• Add missing prefix in PHPDoc comment. (46808)
• Clarifying the npm package release process for the RC release. (46555)
• Doc: Fix missing link to Block Styles page. (46695)
• Fix: Missing links in block.json schema. (46694)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.omit(). (46674)
• Update PHPDoc for gutenberg_get_global_stylesheet. (46817)
• Added a note to register_block_pattern_category(). (46628)

Code Quality

• Block Editor:
  • Improve ImageSizeControl tests. (46765)
  • Make URLPopover tests more precise. (46654)
• Chore: Remove Inexistent parameter from function call in categories block. (46804)
• ESLint: Enable testing-library/no-node-access rule. (46703)
• Fix return type of getSpacingPresetSlug function. (46805)
• Iframe: Simplify/reactify compat styles logic. (46732)
• Mobile BlockToolbar: Improve useSelect for fewer rerenders. (46697)
• Remove leftover pattern. (46701)
• Remove the nux package. (46110)
• Remove: __experimentalHasMultipleOrigins prop from colors and gradients. (46315)
• Use <> instead of Fragment. (46633)
• package-lock.json: Dedupe the scheduler package. (46605)
• withFilters tests: More precise act() calls. (46630)
• Jest config: Use real timers by default. (46714)
• Element: Export new React 18 APIs. (46610)

Block Library

• Comments Block: Remove unnecessary editorStyle prop in legacy metadata. (46514)
• Extract hook for offcanvas inserted block. (46618)
• Try making page list a controlled block. (46416)

Components

• BorderControl: Improve popover waiting. (46713)
• Improve PanelBody tests. (46659)

Data Layer

• Data: Fix no-node-access violation in suspense tests. (46657)

Testing

• Always run initialization code before Playwright end-to-end tests. (46459)
• E2E: Fix confirmValidDropZonePosition() when dropzone not ready. (46677)
• E2E: Refactor global inserter utility. (46366)
• Fix CORS error in the demo end-to-end test. (46668)
• Migrate Font Size Picker tests to Playwright. (46591)
• Migrate Toolbar roving tabindex tests to Playwright. (46634)
• Migrate quote end-to-end tests to playwright. (46549)
• Post a summary of the flaky tests to the commit. (45798)
• Update performance tests to work with themes that load editor into an iframe. (46665)

Block Library

• Update OffCanvasEditor to use clientids tree. (46541)
• Update copy of off canvas editor 'add submenu item' option. (46564)
• Page List:
  • Remove duplicate code. (46620)
  • Update the icon to demonstrate that the pages are automatically updated. (46438)
• Query Loop:
  • Only show the Filters panel when there are allowed controls that need to be displayed. (45869)
  • Connect scoped block variation to inserter variations. (46410)
  • Show pattern titles in setup. (46688)

Components

• Icon: Remove knobs in stories. (46517)
• Refactor Dropdown component to TypeScript. (45787)
• Theme component: Remove public export. (46427)
• ToolTip: Remove knobs in stories. (46515)

Block Editor

• BlockListAppender: With custom appender, don't react to nested list settings changes. (46461)
• Paste: Reuse file transforms for file pasting. (45891)
• Site Editor: Don't show block inserter when the canvas is view mode. (46763)

Data Layer

• Data: Recreate listeningStores set for every markListeningStores call. (46607)
• useSelect: Add unit tests for static select mode. (46606)

Navigation Menu Sidebar

• Navigation Sidebar: Hide behind the experiment flag. (46710)

Icons

• Update the update icon. (46575)

Accessibility

• Change SpacingSizesControl ARIA from region to group. (46530)

Global Styles

• Inline block preview: Add preview block in nested global style panels. (46401)

Typography

• Typography block supports: Sync with 6.1 backport. (43928)

Webfonts

• Change architecture to use Core's Dependencies API. (43492)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @gigitux: Block Variation Picker: Adds support to declarated icon with src. (46373)
• @marekdedic: Fixed incorrect CHANGELOG link. (46609)
• @viralsampat-multidots: Fixed table block footer section issue. (46567)
• @vykes-mac: Base Styles: Extract long-content-fade to its own file so it can be imported and reused. (46485)
• @websitegenii: Added a note to register_block_pattern_category(). (46628)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamziel @ajlende @alexstine @artemiomorales @brookewp @danielbachhuber @DAreRodz @dmsnell @draganescu @ellatrix @fluiddot @fullofcaffeine @geriux @getdave @gigitux @hellofromtonya @jasmussen @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @kevin940726 @kienstra @madhusudhand @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @marekdedic @mikachan @mirka @mmtr @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ramonjd @richtabor @ryanwelcher @scruffian @t-hamano @talldan @tyxla @viralsampat-multidots @vykes-mac @websitegenii @WunderBart @youknowriad