WordPress/gutenberg v15.4.0-rc.1

15.4.0 RC1

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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 in theme.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 is all. (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() in EditorHelpTopics. (48776)
• Lodash: Refactor away from edit-post package. (48786)

Site Editor

• Improve the Navigation panel's menu query. (48908)
• Improve Site Editor performance tests. (48138)

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 from lodash.kebabCase. (48637)
• QueryControls: Refactor away from lodash.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 from package.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

• Env: Fix typo / grammar README.md. (48952)
• ci: Add Rich Text code owner. (48727)

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