WordPress/gutenberg v15.6.0

15.6.0

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Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

• A margin option is added to the Embedded preview block. (39384)
• Add blockGap as a default control on Columns/Column blocks. (49526)
• Add color tools to the Time to Read block. (49496)
• Add spacing presets to the Spacer block. (44002)
• Cover: Add border support using ResizableBox via BlockPopover. (41153)

Block Editor

• Add support for hiding breadcrumbs in the Site Editor. (49518)
• Hide page list on single page list menus. (48725)
• Small improvements for the Document Overview labeling. (49555)
• Add a rootClientId prop. (49475)

Global Styles

• Add styles section to the browse mode sidebar. (49014)
• Show child layout controls by default. (49389)

Components

• Global Styles: Link to the block type panel when selecting a block with Styles open. (49350)
• TreeSelect: Remove margin overrides and add new opt-in prop. (47515)
• Update media and video icons. (49523)

Accessibility

• Add missing focus style to start template options previews. (49334)
• Consistent labels for the WP logo and back links. (49659)

Experiments

• Add a command center to the site editor. (49330)
• Add Details/summary block. (45055)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Columns: Prevent removal of locked columns from the column count change UI. (49530)
• Cover: Fixed background causes image to be zoomed in on Safari browser on iPad. (48981)
• Cover: Fix integration tests for ResizableBox via BlockPopover. (49497)
• Cover: Merge block and global styles. (49434)
• Fix exhaustive deps warning. (49291)
• Fix fallback not rendering. (49576)
• Image block: Fix image size control percentage selection. (49628)
• Post Featured Image: Don't display the scale control when the aspect ratio is original. (48894)
• Post Excerpt: Ensure the postId from the block context is used to get_the_excerpt. (49495)
• Shortcode: Prevent external styling of editing UI. (49723)
• Time To Read: Fix untranslated on the front end. (49704)
• Post Featured Image: Show all controls when in context without postId. (49609)
• Avoid empty Gallery block error. (49557)

Site Editor

• Decode the site title properly. (49685)
• Show UI to update custom links on the sidebar navigation. (48939)
• Navigate to editor when clicking Edit in a template part. (49604)
• Update the template title in the details panel. (49487)
• Use the keyboard shortcuts package for the command center. (49680)
• Fix the site editor loading in multi-site installs. (49861)

Global Styles

• Block Level Settings: Remove WP filters in Gutenberg. (49598)
• Border Panel: Move global styles forcing of split borders to relevant panel's onChange. (49603)
• Remove the pointer cursor on the style variation preview. (49573)
• Style Variation Picker: Restore pointer cursor when withHover is in use. (49596)

Block Editor

• DropZone: Smooth animation. (49517)
• List View: Allow dragging underneath collapsed non-empty container blocks. (49390)
• List View: Update drop indicator line to be 4px high with a white border. (49462)
• Tweak remove block label to make it simpler. (49529)
• Fix redirected links to user documents. (49537)
• Make InspectorControls tab labels translatable. (49665)
• Update redirected support link. (49533)
• Reusable Block: RTL styles don't get added to the wp-reusable-blocks stylesheet. (49632)
• Fix padding and margin visualizer accuracy. (49422)

Layout

• Only show alignment info when parent layout is constrained. (49703)
• Try reducing the specificity of layout margin rules. (47858)

Post Editor

• Allow root padding setting to affect padding of post title. (49460)
• Try fixing post editor layout for wide/full Post Content blocks. (49565)
• Allow horizontal scroll in panels in the post editor. (49611)

Components

• Fix inbetween-inserter position in RTL languages. (49683)
• Update Edit icon to be more consistent with other icons. (49512)
• Update search icon to be optically more balanced. (49425)
• Update some icons to address aliasing on high-res screens. (49381)

Performance

• Continued the work refactor away from Lodash usages to reduce the build size
  (49725, 49724, 49638, 49654, 49639, 49637, 49727)

Documentation

• Add section about integration testing to testing documentation. (49454)
• Add some documentation about the Styles UI components. (49720)
• Fix Create a Block Tutorial link on blocks package README.md. (49562)
• Fix end-to-end command typos. (49669)
• Fix line break issue in Schemas and Content Models section. (44768)
• Fixes some typos. (49472)
• Update outdated references in react-native-editor documentation. (49543)
• getBlockOrder() - use core/block-editor instead of core/editor. (49474)
• Fix Xcode spelling across the codebase. (49625)
• Remove the documentation for Playwright configuration override. (49660)
• Streamlining the New Release Issue Template. (49618)
• Update components package's CHANGELOG. (49586)
• Update documentation for setGroupingBlockName. (49670)

Code Quality

Components

• Ship TypeScript types. (49229)
• Simplify CustomGradientPicker's utility props. (49588)

Global Styles

• Refactor the effects panel as a generic UI Styles component. (49571)
• Refactor the filters (duotone) panel as a generic UI Styles component. (49577)

Block Library

• Add automated tests for Nav block editable list view. (49433)
• Cover: Avoid adding empty background image URL. (49477)
• Remove editor block styles leftovers. (49567)

Site Editor

• Remove unused keyboard shortcut registration code. (49553)
• Fix Site Editor isFeatureActive deprecation. (49545)

Tools

Testing

• Add tests for some of the drag and drop logic. (49631)
• Adds to gitignore a playwright.config.override.ts entry. (49329)
• Cover block: Fix failing test. (49455)
• Workflows: Run PHP unit tests also against current WP - 1. (46983)
• e2e: Fix flaky columns test. (49676)
• test: Add Writing Flow tests. (49352)

Build Tooling

• Add workflow to check for expected @wordpress/components CHANGELOG updates. (49443)
• Docgen: Replace line breaks with spaces and remove line-ending hyphens. (49635)
• Convert wp data controls to typescript. (49647)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @cawa-93: List View: Allow horizontal scroll in panels in the post editor. (49611)
• @DustyReagan: Cover Block: Fixed background causes image to be zoomed in on Safari browser on iPad. (48981)
• @eduwass: Docs: Fix end-to-end command typos. (49669)
• @HILAYTRIVEDI: A margin option is added to the Embeded preview block. (39384)
• @mokagio: Fix Xcode spelling across the codebase. (49625)
• @nefeline: Post excerpt > Ensure the postId from the block context is used to get_the_excerpt. (49495)
• @thealexandrelara: Docs: Fix Create a Block Tutorial link on blocks package README.md. (49562)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @andrewserong @aristath @aurooba @brookewp @carolinan @cawa-93 @chad1008 @ciampo @dcalhoun @derekblank @draganescu @DustyReagan @eduwass @fluiddot @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @hellofromtonya @HILAYTRIVEDI @imanish003 @jameskoster @jasmussen @jhnstn @jorgefilipecosta @Mamaduka @mirka @mokagio @nefeline @noahtallen @ntsekouras @ockham @ramonjd @richtabor @ryanwelcher @SavPhill @scruffian @Soean @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @thealexandrelara @tyxla @youknowriad