Changelog
Enhancements
Site Editor
- Adjust whileHover effect to be a bit subtler and less pronounced. (48928)
- Go direct to edit from manage all templates list. (48764)
- Move "Add Template"'s descriptions to tooltips. (48710)
- Add descriptions to all panels in the Site Editor's dark side. (48739)
- Add hover animation to site editor canvas. (48575)
- Fix non-us spelling in sidebar. (48976)
- Prevent the saving button from showing when renaming templates. (48399)
- Navigation Sidebar: Change the logic about which navigation gets selected for the sidebar. (48689)
- Add "Added by" description to template part navigation sidebar. (48732)
- Add border radius to off canvas navigation menu items. (48798)
- Add page details when viewing a specific page. (48650)
- Duotone: Limit SVG filter output to used filters. (48995)
- Hide navigation screen in site editor. (49043)
Block Library
- Open convert to links modal on select of a page item. (48723)
- Query Block: Add tests for
getValueFromObjectPath()
util. (48956) - Post Featured Image: Remove 16:10. (48969)
- Cover: Add constrained/flow layout. (45326)
Components
- FontSizePicker: Allow custom units. (48468)
Navigator
: Disable initial animation. (49062)- Try: Update Tertiary Button appearance. (48888)
- FormTokenField: Hide suggestions list on blur event if input value is invalid. (48785)
Design Tools
- Block Supports: Add text columns (column count) to typography block supports. (33587)
- Cover: Add text color block support. (41572)
Global Styles
- Move the global styles provider to the app level component. (49011)
- Add support for
:link
and:Any-link
intheme.json
. (48634) - Add compound class to layout wrapper for global spacing styles. (47952)
Block API
- Block Deprecations: Provide extra data for isEligible check. (48815)
Post Editor
- Provide static native editor help article slugs. (48802)
- Try getting Post Content layout on server before editor loads. (45299)
Packages
- Introduce prependHTTPS URL util. (47648)
Bug Fixes
Block Library
- Embed Block: Fix Aspect Ratio Classes #29641. (41141)
- Ensure aspect ratio is applied when Post Featured Image block is linked. (48495)
- Fix PostContent initial render by waiting for the canEdit request. (48642)
- Fix classic menu fallback race condition. (48811)
- Fix navigation block off-canvas appender for empty menus. (48907)
- Fixes extra UI in navigation block inspector. (48679)
- Import Classic Menu using the menu name as the block menu title. (48771)
- Navigation Link: Remove color generation code. (48927)
- Navigation: Fix missing state for MenuControls. (48921)
- Update missing translation from label. (48760)
- Widget Importer: Fix Widget Group block imports. (48669)
- Query Loop: Show variant patterns even if there are no patterns for the Query Loop block. (48793)
- Comments: Fix 'sprintf requires more than 1 params' error. (49054)
- Adjust Post Featured Image PanelBody label to "Settings". (49076)
- Add help text to Gallery Image Size control. (49074)
- Comments Block (Legacy): Update missing translation. (48820)
- I18n of created Navigation menu title. (48773)
- Make sure the directly inserted block in the Nav block is a Page link. (48740)
- Navigation Link: Don't remove 'block_core_navigation_link_build_css_colors'. (49064)
- Navigation: Don't save the level of the link in an attribute. (48219)
- Refactor away state in Nav menu selector. (45464)
- Revert: Navigation: Always create a fallback menu. (48602)
- Tweak Latest Posts block PanelBody labels. (49079)
- Tweak label for Latest Posts excerpt control. (49077)
- Page List Block: Show untitled pages on page list on the editor. (48772)
Site Editor
- Don't offer Classic block as a recovery action when not registered. (49051)
- Fix browser history when synchronising state with urls. (48731)
- Fix lingering insertion point within template parts. (48913)
- Fix template part actions in List View. (48905)
- Fix text alignment in the Site Editor sidebar. (48959)
- Fix typo in template parts description. (48781)
- Fix browse mode descriptions margin. (48778)
- Fix scrollbar in site editor. (48822)
- Site Editor Navigation panel: Update appearance of non-link blocks. (48933)
- Navigation sidebar shows a wrong submenu popover. (48941)
- Show creation popover on empty page links in the navigation sidebar. (48746)
- Site button metrics. (48918)
- Remove actions from SidebarNavigationScreenWrapper. (48935)
- Update template descriptions with more detail. (48934)
Global Styles
- Fix typo: Use WP_Theme_JSON_Gutenberg instead of WP_Theme_JSON class name. (48648)
- Fix: Crashes on getNodesWithSettings and getNodesWithStyles. (49023)
- Fix: Global Styles crash in updateConfigWithSeparator when not block styles are passed. (49045)
- Fix: Global Styles getNodesWithStyles expects an object with elements. (49044)
- Fix: Global Styles getPresetsClasses crashes if no selector is passed. (49024)
- Fix: Global styles forces a white background. (49042)
- Style Book: Move iframe to root of content area to support styles that overflow block previews. (48664)
WP_Theme_JSON
: Sync indirect properties changes from core. (48646)
Components
- Fix HStack and VStack alignment prop. (47914)
- ResizeTooltip: Use default.fontFamily on tooltip. (48805)
- ResponsiveWrapper: Use aspect-ratio CSS prop and support SVG elements. (48573)
Accessibility
- Make sure useFocusOnMount runs when all the children tabbable elements have mounted. (42187)
- Manage selection on block sync. (48979)
Post Editor
- Distraction Free Mode: Don't show the metaboxes. (48947)
- Don't add Post Content layout styles to title in the post editor. (48663)
- Fix animation and browser console error when returning from template edit mode. (48930)
Block Editor
- LinkControl: Remove HTML from suggestion title before passing it to TextHighlight component. (48685)
- Order initial block items in Navigation with PrivateInserter. (48752)
- BlockInvalidWarning: Prefer
canInsertBlockType
and refactor to hooks. (49052) - Fix grouping actions in List View. (48910)
- Fix typo in the media-categories component. (49047)
- Custom link UI does appears outside canvas on the sidebar navigation. (48633)
- Use proper color for block styles control. (46684)
- Update Welcome Guide article links to avoid redirect. (48582)
- Columns Block: Don't show the column count change UI when
templateLock
isall
. (48691) - Remove border from quick inserter child elements. (48794)
Inspector Controls
- Fix settings tab active state border in block inspector. (48945)
Testing
- Playwright Utils: Fix the 'publishPost' address locator. (48729)
CSS & Styling
- Fix duplication of block classname in feature selectors for style variations. (48662)
Experimental
- Fix KSES filter for un-prettified filters. (49004)
Packages
- Rich text: Fix range equality checks for Safari. (48733)
- Preferences Modal: Fix double focus outline in tab item. (48996)
Tools
- Scripts: Fix
render.php
isn't copied in Windows OS. (48735)
Mobile
- Mobile - Fix parsing of CSS units for null matched values. (48484)
Performance
Block Editor
- Rich text: useAnchor: Remove value dependency. (48715)
Post Editor
- Lodash: Refactor away from
_.kebabCase()
inEditorHelpTopics
. (48776) - Lodash: Refactor away from
edit-post
package. (48786)
Site Editor
Testing
- Lodash: Remove from e2e-tests package. (48775)
Themes
- Fix: Incorrect selector generated by
append_to_selector
method. (48759)
Block Library
- Lodash: Remove
_.get()
from various blocks. (48491)
Data Layer
- Lodash: Refactor away from
_.set()
in core-data. (48784)
GitHub Actions
- Prefer committer over author date for perf results timestamp. (48673)
Documentation
- Add links to hook documentation in curation doc. (48653)
- Add missing playwright end-to-end documentation to toc.json. (48447)
- Adding examples of how to programmatically remove the panels in Document sidebar. (48895)
- Adds link to post on the developer blog to the deprecation page. (49069)
- Add position: Sticky to the Opt-in into UI controls appearanceTools section. (48763)
- Fix broken Lerna documentation link. (48890)
- Table of styles keys with since versions. (48265)
- Fix URL mismatch. (48931)
- Theme JSON schema: Add sticky position to settings, minHeight to styles. (48948)
- Update the end-to-end tests documentation. (48951)
- jest-preset-default: Update README to reflect current status. (48925)
Code Quality
Components
- Autocomplete: Refactor to TypeScript. (47751)
- Navigation: Refactor to TypeScript. (48742)
- SelectControl: Improve prop types for single vs multiple selection. (47390)
DimensionControl(Experimental)
: Refactor to TypeScript. (47351)Guide
: Refactor to TypeScript. (47493)Icon
: Refactor tests to TypeScript. (49066)PaletteEdit
: Refactor away fromlodash.kebabCase
. (48637)QueryControls
: Refactor away fromlodash.groupBy
. (48779)- components/utils/font: Refactor away from lodash
.get
. (48629) - remove lodash from
context/getStyledClassName
:. (48688) - withSpokenMessages: Change js files to typescript. (48163)
Block Library
- Add Nav block files to those triggering error for exhaustive deps. (48821)
- Fix Nav block exhaustive deps warnings. (48680)
- Media Text: Refactored constants to it's designated file. (48480)
- Navigation: Simplify the method for finding the fallback menu. (48916)
- Duotone.php code cleanup. (48607)
- Revert "Duotone: Limit SVG filter output to used filters". (49102)
Block Editor
- Inserter: Remove outer scope values dependencies. (48961)
- Inserter: Remove unnecessary dependency 'delayedFilterValue'. (48960)
- Remove unused CSS from LinkControl Apply button. (48431)
- Custom Classname block support: Update code comments to remove reference to anchor id. (48709)
- List View: Remove unused selector from the 'useBlockSelection' hook. (48984)
- Renames parent selection boolean param and improves documentation. (48677)
- Tests: Cleanup unnecessary jest timers setup. (49030)
- Avoid declaring a function inside another function. (49049)
Global Styles
- Theme JSON: Clarify status of fixed position opt-in in appearance tools. (48660)
- Extract a BorderPanel component as a reusable component between Global Styles and Block Inspector. (48636)
Data Layer
- Data: Use real timers for private APIs tests. (49029)
Packages
- Preferences: Remove
types
field frompackage.json
. (49053) - Upgrade
typescript
to 4.9.5. (48299) - Compose: Remove useAsyncList from mobile exports. (48241)
- Animation: Refactor to TypeScript. (47042)
- PanelBody: Convert to TypeScript. (47702)
- Refactor ToolbarContext to TS. (49002)
- Refactor/toolbar button component to typescript. (47750)
PaletteEdit
: Convert to TypeScript. (47764)- navigateRegions: Convert to TypeScript. (48632)
- withFallbackStyles: Convert to TypeScript. (48720)
- withFilters: Convert to TypeScript. (48721)
- withFocusReturn: Convert to TypeScript. (48748)
- withNotices: Convert to TypeScript. (49088)
- Packages: Remove completely two deprecated webpack plugins. (48770)
Tools
Testing
- Add
pageUtils.pressKeys
to playwright utils. (49009) - Add artifacts upload for the performance tests. (48243)
- Fix flaky block hierarchy navigation test by better inserter selection. (48780)
- Migrate multi-block selection end-to-end tests to Playwright. (48035)
- Navigation block end-to-end tests: Default to my most recently created menu. (48132)
- Upgrade Jest from 27 to 29.5.0. (47388)
- Duotone: Style Engine: Add unit test and associated refactoring. (49033)
First time contributors
The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:
- @anver: Env: Fix typo / grammar README.md. (48952)
- @bhavz-10: withSpokenMessages: Change js files to typescript. (48163)
- @krishneup: Update missing translation from label. (48760)
- @mike-day: Refactor/toolbar button component to typescript. (47750)
- @shvlv: FormTokenField: Hide suggestions list on blur event if input value is invalid. (48785)
- @TylerB24890: Embed Block: Fix Aspect Ratio Classes #29641. (41141)
Contributors
The following contributors merged PRs in this release:
@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @ajlende @andrewserong @anver @aristath @bhavz-10 @brookewp @chad1008 @ciampo @DaisyOlsen @dcalhoun @draganescu @ellatrix @fabiankaegy @felixarntz @flootr @fluiddot @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @gvgvgvijayan @gziolo @hideokamoto @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @kevin940726 @kienstra @krishneup @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @mburridge @mike-day @mirka @mtias @ndiego @ntsekouras @oandregal @Rahmon @richtabor @ryanwelcher @SavPhill @scruffian @shvlv @SiobhyB @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tomdevisser @TylerB24890 @tyxla @WunderBart @youknowriad