WordPress/gutenberg v15.8.0

15.8.0

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Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

Changelog

Features

• Add the command center to the post editor. (50128)
• Add revisions UI. (50089)
• Add Theme Previews for block themes. (50030)

Enhancements

Global Styles

• Fluid typography: Use layout.wideSize as max viewport width. (49815)
• Global styles revisions: Remove human time diff and custom author fields from the API response. (50234)
• Unify the global block styles panel with the block inspector panels. (49428)

Post Editor

• Add <ViewLink> component. (50260)
• Update background color of post editor when viewing mobile or tablet viewports, or in template mode. (50361)
• Display device icon on "preview" and "view" buttons. (50218)
• Improve "switch to draft" placement. (50217)
• Post Featured Image: New design for Replace and Remove buttons. (50269)

Block Library

• More intuitive Details block with summary and innerBlocks content. (49808)
• Simplify cover block description. (50355)
• Cover: Only show overlay controls when color support enabled. (50115)
• Navigation: Hide color controls when color support is disabled. (50368)
• Post Featured Image: Hide overlay controls when color support is disabled. (50331)
• Social Icons: Hide color controls when color support is disabled. (50275)

Fonts API

• Separate BC Layer. (50077)

Site Editor

• Add the pages menu to the site editor. (50463)
• Introduce new PluginTemplateSettingPanel slot. (50257)
• Add chevrons to the templates and template parts in site editor. (50076)

Components

• Button: Add opt-in prop for next 40px default size. (50254)
• Consolidate and add documentation to Storybook. (50226)
• DimensionControl: Use WordPress package instead of react in code example. (50435)
• FormTokenField, ComboboxControl: Add opt-in prop for next 40px default size. (50261)
• Global Styles: Fix palette color popovers. (49975)
• Relax link pattern matching in CHANGELOG CI check. (50248)
• Remove custom padding for tertiary buttons. (50276)
• Update Autocomplete usage example. (49965)
• Update default accent color. (50193)
• Update has-text has-icon button spacing. (50277)

CSS & Styling

• Polish confirm dialog padding. (50283)

Template Editor

• Remove start blank option in template pattern suggestions and add skip button. (50099)
• Templates: Sort by the rendered title instead of the slug. (50353)

Block Editor

• List View: Allow dragging to all levels of the block hierarchy. (49742)
• Allow dragging-and-dropping images from the inserter to image blocks. (49673)
• Try always showing the dimensions controls. (50305)
• Adds a renderAdditionalBlockUI prop to ListView. (50465)
• Update the expanded text color so that it works in both a dark and light context. (50434)
• Enable Loginout block in Nav block. (49160)
• Mark related selector as resolved when sideloading Navigation fallback. (50324)
• Update Template Parts icon to use the symbol. (50410)
• Use Core Data for Nav fallbacks and side load resulting entity into state. (50032)
• Tweak copy for block settings menu "Insert..." to "Add...". (50444)
• Block settings menu: Rearrange items. (50453)

Rest API

• Update image editor to use new REST API. (28530)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Center align button text in editor. (50228)
• Comment Template Block: Set commentId context via filter. (50279)
• Cover: Use overflow: clip, falling back to overflow: Hidden to allow sticky children (technically). (50237)
• Ensure imported Classic Menu dirty state to include in Editor entity changes list. (50318)
• File Block: Defer hiding PDF embeds for unsupported browsers until the page has loaded. (50113)
• Fix template part area variation matching. (49500)
• Fix the pocket casts embed variation. (50132)
• Gallery: Fix inner block selection. (50363)
• Post Terms: Use publicly_queryable to query taxonomies used to register variations. (50244)
• Remove extraneous "Link" copy from PanelBody components. (50186)
• Remove Quote transform from Group (50424)
• [Post Featured Image]: Revert maxWidth addition. (50427)
• [Post Title]: Insert default block on Enter at end. (50312)
• Ensure that view scripts are correctly registered for core blocks. (50364)

Global Styles

• Close stylebook if the editor canvas container slot is not filled. (50086)
• Fix positioning of gradient palette popovers on mobile. (50233)
• Fix/wp get global styles for custom props returns internal variable. (50366)
• Revisions controller: Fix author and date fields. (50117)
• Fix hover/focus styles for style variation buttons. (50056)
• Use bundled files for enqueuing global styles. (50310)

Block Editor

• Fix issue with margin collapsing when selecting blocks. (50215)
• List View / Block Draggable: Fix scroll to top issue when dragging the second last block in the list. (50119)
• Multi-select: Capitalise B in blocks. (50356)
• URLInput: Update the 'ENTER' key down event handler. (50158)
• Update OffCanvas component's more menu to get clientId from block rather than passed in as prop. (50473)
• Block Toolbar: Don't use effects for focus management. (50497)
• Don't remount the block when the 'templateLock' is set to 'contentOnly'. (50292)

Themes

• Refactor theme previews. (50338)
• Remove gutenberg plugin mention in schema. (50207)
• Theme Preview: Restrict to admin users. (50335)
• Theme Previews: Fix refactor. (50354)

Site Editor

• Display conditionally the styles in sidebar main navigation screen. (50329)
• Remove canvas box shadow. (50374)
• Save Button: Fix the label in the disabled state. (50284)
• Remove white background on Site Editor 'Frame'. (48970)
• Update some visual details in the add-template modal(s). (50143)

Components

• Spacing: Fix reset of spacing sizes control. (50455)
• NavigableContailer: Do not trap focus in TabbableContainer. (49846)
• Remove fill="none" from levelUp icon. (50264)

Accessibility

• Add missing tooltip to Site Editor navigation Back icon button. (50104)
• Fix Multiple Tooltips from Focus Toolbar Shortcut on Widget Editor. (50344)
• Site Editor Keyboard Navigation Flow. (50296)
• Small improvements for the sidebars and Close buttons labeling. (49614)

Design Tools

• Changed so that borders and radius are maintained when Duotone is changed. (50088)
• LineHeightControl: Fix application of zero values in editor. (48917)

Fonts API

• [Font API] Do not print in admin using 'admin_print_styles' for themes with theme.json. (50259)

Widget Editor

• Fixes fixed block toolbar in widgets editor. (50371)

Performance

• Improve Site Editor loading experience(50222)

Experiments

Interactivity API

• Add Interactivity API runtime. (49994)
• Navigation block with the Interactivity API. (50041)
• Fix building plugin zip to include interactive blocks. (50598)

Command Center

• Update the experiment label. (50467)
• Add an API to open/close the command center. (50423)
• Fix a style glitch on Safari. (50138)
• Add a button to open it from the site editor view mode. (50425)
• Do not show dynamic add new post, add new page commands. (50221)
• Extract the WordPress reusable commands to a dedicated package. (49956)
• Fix command menu not re-opening after closing it. (50213)

Documentation

• Add changelog for eslint-plugin validating dependencies in useSelect and useSuspenseSelect hooks. (50247)
• Add client-side filter reference to Curating the Editor doc and fix links. (50203)
• Add missing closing parenthesis in code example. (50253)
• Adds example to change the permalink structure. (50251)
• Adds links to REST-API reference. (50070)
• Create-block script includes link to documentation in render.php file. (50206)
• Block API > Registration: Switch markdown to a-tags. (50110)
• Don't use markdown in the callout section. (50437)
• Remove mention of perf testing from release documentation. (50345)
• Update Callout documentation on links. (50131)
• Fix incorrect label in contributor docs. (50201)
• Fix minor formatting issues in Performance doc. (50202)
• Fixes incorrect URLs in doc blocks. (50123)
• Use alert callout in the block deprecation documentation. (50286)
• Improve CardMedia documentation. (50074)
• Update README of TreeGrid with data-expanded attribute usage. (50026)

Code Quality

• Block Editor: Directly import useShouldContextualToolbarShow hook. (50506)
• BlockControls, InspectorControls: Remove useSlot, unify behavior on bad group. (50198)
• Enqueue registered block assets and resolve iframe styles end-to-end failure. (50185)
• Make eslint-plugin validate dependencies in useSelect and useSuspenseSelect hooks. (49900)
• Save Hub: Reuse the save button component to save code. (50145)
• Use apiFetch instead of window.fetch. (50043)
• Add types to dispatch and select. (49930)
• Remove duplicate comment. (50304)

Lodash removal

• Remove from blocks store reducer. (50471)
• Remove _.mapValues() from getBlockContentSchemaFromTransforms. (50096)
• Refactor away from _.mapValues(). (50285)
• Remove _.mapValues() from blocks reducer. (50097)

Components

• Fix incorrect focus style widths. (50127)
• Refactor/toolbar item component to typescript. (49190)
• SlotFill: Several code cleanups. (50098)
• SlotFill: Some code cleanups of the bubblesVirtually version. (50133)
• Convert NavigableContainer to TypeScript. (49377)

Block Editor

• Block Editor: Add names for the 'editor.BlockListBlock' filter HoCs. (50513)
• Refactor around missing dependency in Link Control internal value sync effect. (49509)
• Don't export Slot/Fill constants separately. (50274)

Block Library

• Centralize constants for the navigation block. (50191)
• Move deprecated Nav block functions to bottom of render file. (50328)
• Refactor BlockList uses Hooks. (50293)

List View

• Replace OffCanvasEditor in browse mode with the List View component. (50287)
• Use block select button class for retaining colors when expanded or hovered. (50155)

Global Styles

• Global styles revisions: Ensure the revisions endpoint permissions match the global styles controller. (50270)
• Simplify CustomCSS UI. (49721)

Plugin

• Update REST API Controller PHPUnit tests. (50120)
• Update the Gutenberg plugin to require at least the WP 6.1 version. (50079)
• Update the tested up to version for the gutenberg plugin. (50360)

Native

• Add a few import required for the React Native wrapper distribution as iOS XCFramework. (50009)

Site Editor

• Extract the Router APIs and context into a dedicated package. (50100)
• Move loading logic to a separate hook. (50511)

Tools

wp-env

• Add wp-env After Setup Command. (50196)
• Fix wp-env destroy. (50445)
• Refactored wp-env configuration Parsing. (50071)
• Wp-env fix exec command in CI. (50411)
• wp-env: Add better default PHPunit settings, fix Xdebug, and update documentation. (50490)
• wp-env: Improve run command execution speed. (50007)
• Cleaned up Port Validation and Removed Unnecessary Default Ports. (50300)
• Match Container's User and Group to Host. (49962)

Testing

• Add end-to-end test for editing the title of a new custom template part. (50195)
• Add test to verify image appears on frontend. (50472)
• Add tests coverage for the navigation block frontend interactivity. (50462)
• Migrate Adding Patterns Test to Playwright. (50083)
• Migrate Keep Transform Block Test Case to Playwright. (49719)
• Migrate PullQuote test case to playwright. (50085)
• Migrate undo to Playwright. (48701)
• Prerelease end-to-end Test Utils for Playwright. (43998)
• Skip creating flaky issues on PRs. (50146)
• end-to-end tests: Try to fix flaky global styles revisions tests. (50454)
• Add BlockList text coverage. (50252)

Build Tooling

• Changelog automation: Apply proper top-level categorization precedence to meta PRs. (50208)
• Do not include first time contributors section in changelog if there are not any. (50291)
• Publish rich text build types. (49651)
• Rich text: Rename index.js > index.ts for type-only exports. (50212)
• Remove PHPUnit and Composer packages. (50408)

Repository Maintainance

• Add ndiego as codeowner for docs. (50289)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @johnhooks: feature(data): Add types to dispatch and select. (49930)
• @margolisj: Refactor/toolbar item component to typescript. (49190)
• @n2erjo00: Create-block script includes link to documentation in render.php file. (50206)
• @samnajian: Fix/wp get global styles for custom props returns internal variable. (50366)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @ajlende @alexstine @andrewserong @apeatling @artemiomorales @aurooba @bph @chad1008 @ciampo @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @draganescu @ecgan @fluiddot @fullofcaffeine @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @gziolo @hellofromtonya @ironprogrammer @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jhnstn @johnhooks @jsnajdr @juanfra @kevin940726 @kienstra @Mamaduka @margolisj @mburridge @mirka @mokagio @mtias @n2erjo00 @ndiego @noahtallen @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ObliviousHarmony @ocean90 @ockham @pavanpatil1 @pooja-muchandikar @priethor @ramonjd @richtabor @samnajian @SantosGuillamot @scruffian @SiobhyB @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @torounit @tyxla @westonruter @youknowriad