WordPress/gutenberg v15.0.0-rc.1

15.0.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

Site Editor

• Allow resizing the sidebar and frame of the site editor. (46903)
• Remove the editor notices from the site editor frame. (46931)
• Synchronize the canvas mode with the site editor URL. (47002)
• Site Editor: Enable copy/cut shortcut. (45752)

Block Library

• Add paste styles to the block settings. (45477)
• Prevent the image from being resized larger than its container. (45775)
• Replace block settings menu with a custom menu in off canvas editor. (46675)
• Add help text on the HTML element for the Comments and Query Loop blocks. (46989)
• Navigation: Add an icon to the add submenu item option. (46884)
• Navigation: Remove ghost inserter. (46919)
• Navigation: Show the loading indictor when users add a new navigation menu. (46855)
• Page List Block: Fix warning error when the parent page has no child pages. (46829)
• Page List Item: Disable block toolbar. (46950)
• Template Parts: Avoid duplicate titles on creation. (46996)
• Navigation: Add more explicit labels to the Navigation Menu Selector. (47015)

Block Editor

• URLInput: Deprecate bottom margin. (46692)
• Block editor: Move content styles to avoid triggering iframe compat mode. (46728)
• Iframe: Preload style assets to avoid flash of unstyled content. (46706)

Inspector Controls

• Sidebar Tabs: Add text only mode for block inspector tabs. (46968)
• Sidebar Tabs: Stabilize the block inspector tabs experiment. (47045)
• Remove Block Inspector Button. (46709)

Global Styles

• Update push changes to global styles label text to "apply globally". (46965)
• Edit block style variations from global styles. (46343)

Accessibility

• TabPanel: Add prop to allow disabling of a tab button. (46471)

Components

• SelectControl: Remove margin overrides and add new opt-in prop. (46448)
• Use data URI for FocalPointPicker video story. (42377)

List View

• Update template part children background color. (46708)
• Update template part hover style in list view. (46707)

Bug Fixes

Block Editor

• Align labels on Link Control. (46936)
• Remove the border property from the body element on previews. (46946)
• [Inserter]: Don't show empty reusable tab if not allowed to insert reusable blocks. (46922)
• [Inserter]: Hide empty pattern categories. (46923)
• Fix offsite navigation editor component loading issue. (46937)
• Iframe: compat styles: Check for ownerNode === null. (46932)

Block Library

• Navigation Block: Properly decode URL-encoded links. (46435)
• RSS: Correctly output 'datetime' string. (47027)
• [Social Icon]: Fix React warning when adding link label. (46905)

Components

• ComboboxControl: Fix unexpected behaviour in IME Composition. (46827)
• Fix TreeGrid keyboard nav skipping Edit Block button in off canvas editor. (46998)
• [Placeholder]: Set fixed right margin for label's icon. (46918)
• Tabs in preferences: Fix regression from horizontal tabs. (46796)

Global Styles

• Fix the 'test_remove_invalid_element_pseudo_selectors' test case. (47049)
• Fixed Global Styles variables for colors, font family, gradient, fontSize. (46944)

Inspector Controls

• Block Inspector: Fix browser warning error when block is not selected. (46875)

Performance

Post Editor

• Lodash: Remove _.pickBy() from editor hooks. (46982)
• Lodash: Remove _.pickBy() from template deletion. (46975)
• Lodash: Remove _.pickBy() from block editor and deprecate. (46999)
• Optimize keydown event handlers. (46653)

Global Styles

• Lodash: Remove _.pickBy() from getNodesWithStyles(). (46980)

Block Library

• Lodash: Remove _.pickBy() from latest posts block. (46974)

Experiments

• WP_HTML_Tag_Processor: Add get_attribute_names_with_prefix() method. (46840)

Block Editor

• Update last inserted block state to track multiple blocks. (46885)

Block Library

• Alternative Nav Offcanvas show link UI for submenu creation. (46857)
• Nav offcanvas disable direct insertion. (46898)

Layout

• Design Tools: Add a Position block support (including sticky), decoupled from layout. (46142)

Documentation

• Adds "fluid" field inside settings.typography. (45705)
• Docs: Add recommendation for developers to use GH CLI. (46847)
• Quick update to versions in WordPress doc for 6.1.1. (46850)
• ReactDOM.render deprecated, update Element README. (46925)
• Remove stack exchange from new issue templates. (36158)
• Revise NPM to npm. (46963)
• Update legacy-widget-block.md. (44343)
• Updating missing shortcut in FAQ section. (44968)
• [RFC] Add documentation for snapshot testing in Playwright end-to-end tests. (45709)
• Update copyright year to 2023 in license.md. (46910)
• Docs: Fix typos. (46912)

Code Quality

Components

• Dashicon: Remove unnecessary type for className prop. (46849)
• ItemGroup: Migrate Storybook to controls, refactor to TypeScript. (46945)
• Toolbar: Move all subcomponents under the same folder. (46951)
• ColorPicker: Remove knobs in stories. (46772)
• Guide: Remove knobs in stories. (46773)
• Notice: Remove knobs in stories. (46956)
• Panel: Remove knobs from stories. (46958)
• ResizableBox: Remove knobs in stories. (46774)
• ResponsiveWrapper: Convert to TypeScript. (46480)
• SandBox: Convert to TypeScript. (46478)
• SlotFill: Remove knobs in stories. (46957)
• useSelect: Implement with useSyncExternalStore. (46538)

Block Library

• Navigation Link: Fix PHP notices in unit tests. (47070)
• Video Block: Fix browser warning error when settings are toggled. (46835)
• Adds an identifier prop to the RichText component for captions, allowing annotation. (46917)
• Fix: Use of array index instead of post id on latest posts. (46911)

Block Editor

• Simplify the way we create a link UI control in the offcanvas editor. (46744)
• Fix number of arguments passed to hasBlockMetadataSupport. (46842)

Tools

Testing

• Block inserter search end-to-end test: Scope list item lookup to the inserter panel. (47066)
• Migrate Manage Reusable Block to Playwright. (45621)
• Migrate Post Visibility Test to Playwright. (44488)
• Navigation block end-to-end tests: Default to a list of pages if there are no menus. (45070)
• Only use a single comment for the flakiness report on PRs. (46785)
• Mobile - Move the gutenberg-editor-block-insertion-2 end-to-end tests to integration tests. (46882)
• Chore: Fix incorrect usage of map instead of forEach. (46853)
• Chore: Remove unreachable line from phpunit/fixtures/mock-provider.php. (46843)

Build Tooling

• package.json: Add script to profile unit tests. (46909)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @BogdanUngureanu: Fixed Global Styles variables for colors, font family, gradient, fontSize. (46944)
• @cameronjonesweb: Update legacy-widget-block.md. (44343)
• @d-alleyne: Prevent the image from being resized larger than its container. (45775)
• @kozer: Navigation Block: Properly decode URL-encoded links. (46435)
• @mhkuu: Adds an identifier prop to the RichText component for captions, allowing annotation. (46917)
• @tekapo: Revise NPM to npm. (46963)
• @TonyGravagno: ReactDOM.render deprecated, update Element README. (46925)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @alanjacobmathew @alexstine @andrewserong @annezazu @apeatling @BogdanUngureanu @brookewp @cameronjonesweb @ciampo @d-alleyne @draganescu @ellatrix @geriux @getdave @jameskoster @jasmussen @jorgefilipecosta @joshuatf @jsnajdr @juanfra @kevin940726 @kozer @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @mateuswetah @mhkuu @mirka @ntsekouras @ockham @pooja-muchandikar @scruffian @Soean @stokesman @t-hamano @talldan @tekapo @tellthemachines @tomjn @TonyGravagno @tyxla @youknowriad