WordPress/gutenberg v15.5.0-rc.1

15.5.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

• Add Post Date block variation for Post Modified Date. (49111)
• Add typography support to time to read block. (49257)
• Allow the time to read block to be inserted multiple times. (49253)
• Image Block: Don't render if there is no URL set. (45220)
• Media & Text: Switch default alignment to none. (48404)
• Update alternative text labels and help text. (49416)
• Navigation Submenu: Refactor to use the block supports function. (48936)
• Replace "Image size" with "Resolution" in image size controls. (49112)
• Update Gallery block to use consistent 40px components. (49101)

Components

• FormTokenField: Add prop to remove bottom margin. (48609)
• ImageSizeControl: Remove the "Image Dimensions" label. (49414)
• ImageSizeControl: Use large 40px sizes. (49113)
• Tooltip: Refine existing tests. (48397)
• Update tests from fireEvent to userEvent. (44952)
• CustomGradientPicker: Improve initial state UI. (49146)
• Storybook: Declare stylesheet dependencies explicitly. (49099)
• AnglePickerControl: Style to better fit in narrow contexts and improve RTL layout. (49046)

Design Tools

• Add spacing tools to time to read block. (49392)
• Position Panel: Open by default if a position type is set. (49151)
• Revert: Make sticky block action on template part block. (49219)
• Sticky Position: Add a "Make sticky" action to the Template Part block. (49085)

Testing

• Adds focus management test for entity undo. (49236)
• Adds navigation submenu tests. (49351)
• Cover block: Add integration tests. (45409)
• test: Expand mobile end-to-end test helpers. (48978)

Layout

• Make grid layout Group variation an experiment. (49359)
• Try adding a grid layout type. (49018)

Icons

• Add unseen icon to library. (49254)

Plugins API

• Plugins: Refactor the 'PluginArea' component to use the sync store. (49220)

Global Styles

• Add: Story for the full global styles UI. (49031)
• Caption element UI controls for color and typography. (49141)

Block Editor

• Rich text: Only consider a format active if active at every selected index. (48789)
• Update border color on color panel items. (42283)
• i18n: Add context to labels related to CSS position properties. (49135)

Site Editor

• Add: Patterns to the template start modal. (47322)

List View

• Allow the component to show a custom "more" menu. (48097)

Block API

• Block.json: Refactor and stabilize selectors API. (46496)

Bug Fixes

Block Editor

• BlockHTML: Use correct type when setting 'html' state onBlur. (49191)
• Duotone: Pass filters to the Post Editor. (49239)
• Duotone: Use WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver_Gutenberg instead of WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver. (49199)
• Fix typo (overriden -> overridden). (48711)
• Writing flow: Prevent default browser behaviour on input when editable. (49370)

General Interface

• Invalid Page address displayed when a future page is first scheduled. (49092)

Patterns

• Block patterns: Use WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver_Gutenberg instead of WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver. (49197)

Block Library

• Buttons: Disable edit as HTML support. (49097)
• Fix center alignment on the dropdown in the categories block. (44013)
• Fix sprintf() arguments. (49439)
• Fix: Navigation block width constricted on large viewports. (49302)
• Group Block: Allow blocks to be dragged onto it in its placeholder state. (49361)
• Group: Fix the 'double div' deprecation 'templateLock ' attribute. (49250)
• Group: Fix the 'templateLock' attribute type in deprecations. (49205)
• Navigation: Fix bug in calculating the active menu item. (49195)
• Post excerpt: Fix JavaScript error and other misc. bug fixes. (48730)
• Query Loop: Constraint list item(li) styles to the direct children of the main list. (49303)
• Query Loop: Show Featured Image placeholders in all posts. (49301)
• Query Title: Changes filters for removing archive title prefixes. (49306)
• Quote: Disable edit as HTML support. (49426)
• Revert "Make sure the directly inserted block in the Nav block is a Page link". (49126)
• Search block: Fix overflow width. (49192)
• Changes image size description, as it causes confusion. (48478)
• Post Excerpt Block: Fix unexpected commas in certain site languages. (49123)
• columns block: Add support for templateLock attribute. (49132)

Components

• CircularOptionPicker: Force swatches to visually render on top of the rest of the component's content. (49245)
• Fix TabPanel initial rendering. (49368)
• Fix misaligned textarea input control. (49116)
• LineHeightControl: Make spin buttons adjust from placeholder value. (49150)
• ToolsPanel: Make menu item order consistent for SlotFill use cases. (49222)

Layout

• Fix unstableDisableLayoutClassNames in Group block. (49385)
• Get orientation for Spacer block from parent layout. (49322)
• Remove inner wrapper for grid Groups in classic themes. (49387)

Post Editor

• Fix breaking distraction free. (49317)
• Post Lock: Fix the avatar position. (49421)

Site Editor

• Fix site editor redirection after creating new template or template part. (49364)
• Show the created template title in success notice and not the slug. (49366)
• Template parts: Use WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver_Gutenberg instead of WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver. (49198)
• Fix typo in utils.js. (49178)

Media

• Image: Don't create an external image 'blob' when a user can't upload files. (49300)
• MediaReplaceFlow: Check permissions before displaying the 'Media Library' menu item. (49298)

Global Styles

• Selectors API: Fix for global styles hook, style variations, and duotone. (49393)
• Fix typo for the word accross. (49295)
• Duotone: Limit SVG filter output to used filters. (49103)

List View

• Show close button in List View on mobile. (49200)
• Add private appender prop. (49137)

History

• Bring back revisions button for template parts. (49163)

Data Layer

• useSelect: Incrementally subscribe to stores when first selected from. (47243)
• Data: Refuse to register an already registered store. (49134)

Tools

• babel-plugin-makepot: Fix non-existing translation handling. (49431)

Performance

Post Editor

• Avoid UI shifting when selecting blocks. (47177)
• Lodash: Remove _.groupBy() from buildTermsTree() in editor. (49224)

GitHub Actions

• Fix performance testing themes installation. (49063)
• Speed up npm ci by caching node_modules. (45932)

Testings

• Fix running performance tests locally via CLI. (49068)
• Refactor performance tests artifacts handling. (48684)

Babel Preset

• Polyfills: Exclude web.immediate. (49234)

Experiments

Navigation Screen

• Remove 'edit-navigation' package leftovers. (49183)

Documentation

• Add a missing filter documentation. (44342)
• Add missing pseudo-selectors to theme.json schema and documentation. (49202)
• Add readme.txt FAQ entry for filing security bugs. (49148)
• Adds issue template for the plugin release process. (49345)
• Adds message about usage of block-editor components. (49400)
• Block Editor Handbook: Improved the readability and phrasing and corrected mistakes. (48756)
• Docs: Fix incorrect import of apiFetch. (49432)
• Docs: Put more structure to Architecture page. (49184)
• Fix failing CI documentation check. (49378)
• Fix/missing template header. (49348)
• FlexItem: Fix typo line 19 of README. (49284)
• Mention "testsPort" .wp-env.json setting. (49388)
• Remove errant line break in versions-and-building documentation. (49353)
• Theme JSON schema: Add defaultPresets property to shadow. (49204)
• Theme JSON schema: Add position.sticky and dimensions.minHeight properties to settings. (49335)
• Update @api-fetch README.md with query args. (49318)
• Update README.md for @wordpress/element. createRoot not available until WordPress 6.2. (49309)
• docs: Update end-to-end test device documentation. (49441)

Code Quality

Components

• Animate: Refactor to TypeScript. (49243)
• ColorPicker: TypeScript refactor. (49214)
• CustomGradientPicker: Refactor to TypeScript. (48929)
• DuotonePicker, DuotoneSwatch: Convert to TypeScript. (49060)
• GradientPicker: Refactor to TypeScript. (48316)

Block Library

• Home Link Block: Remove leading spaces in class names. (49397)
• Add column-gap and row-gap as allowed CSS properties for compatibility with WP 6.0. (49118)

Block Editor

• Duotone: Remove Safari rerender hack. (49232)
• Replace regex with tag processor for duotone class render. (49212)
• Use immutableSet utility to set style properties. (49365)

Plugins API

• Plugins: Add unit tests for the 'PluginArea' component. (49138)

Global Styles

• Extract a ColorPanel component as a reusable component between Global Styles and Block Inspector. (48893)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.groupBy() from compileCSS(). (49227)

Webfonts

• Tests: Fix typos in fonts API. (47288)

Compose

• Refactor useMediaQuery with useSyncExternalStore. (48973)

Patterns

• Add gutenberg_get_remote_theme_patterns function. (49307)

Element

• Element: Narrow createInterpolateElement param type. (49182)

Tools

Testing

• Fix flaky Site Editor title end-to-end tests. (49203)
• Upgrade Playwright to 1.32. (49296)

Build Tooling

• Upgrade wp-prettier to 2.8.5. (49258)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @enderandpeter: Mention "testsPort" .wp-env.json setting. (49388)
• @hareesh-pillai: Site Editor: Fix typo in utils.js. (49178)
• @helgatheviking: Update @api-fetch README.md with query args. (49318)
• @janboddez: Fix sprintf() arguments. (49439)
• @renintw: icons: Add unseen icon to library. (49254)
• @richiecarey: FlexItem: Fix typo line 19 of README. (49284)
• @sque89: columns block: Add support for templateLock attribute. (49132)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @ajlende @andrewserong @aristath @brookewp @carolinan @chad1008 @ciampo @corentin-gautier @dcalhoun @draganescu @ellatrix @enderandpeter @felixarntz @fluiddot @glendaviesnz @gziolo @hareesh-pillai @helgatheviking @janboddez @jeryj @jhnstn @johnbillion @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @kevin940726 @madhusudhand @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @mburridge @mirka @ntsekouras @oandregal @renintw @richiecarey @richtabor @ryanwelcher @scruffian @sgomes @shreyasikhar @SiobhyB @Soean @sque89 @stokesman @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tomdevisser @tyxla @WunderBart @youknowriad @ZebulanStanphill