WordPress/gutenberg v16.0.0-rc.1

16.0.0 RC1

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Changelog

Features

• Add the ability to create a new page in the Site Editor. (50565)
• Add the ability to focus on editing a page's content vs the page's template. (50857)
• Add page details to the Site Editor sidebar. (50767)

Enhancements

Block Editor

• Block Controls SlotFill: Refactor to allow passing multiple contexts, including internal components context. (51264)
• Block Toolbar: Update the 'Unlock' button label. (51083)
• Iframe Editor if all blocks are v3. (48286)
• Improve (and relax) search vs direct URL entry detection in Link Control. (51011)
• Link Control require user to manually submit any changes. (50668)
• List View: Allow dragging outside the immediate area by passing down a dropZoneElement. (50726)
• List View: Append when dragging into collapsed blocks. (50936)
• Reinstate Text control outside of settings in Link Control. (50957)
• Update the document title in the template mode of the post editor. (50864)
• Use "Save" instead of "Apply" in Link Control. (50964)
• Use checkbox for Open in new tab within Link Control. (50961)
• Visually hide the LinkControl initial/results heading. (50977)

Site Editor

• Add delete action for pages in navigation sidebar. (51101)
• Add Paragraph prompt to Post Content when empty. (50623)
• Add template actions in site editor navigation sidebar. (51054)
• Directly save if only changing current context. (50567)
• Disable block supports derived design tools when Blocking Editing Mode is not default. (50912)
• DocumentActions: Animate between page and template mode. (51224)
• Site Editor sidebar: Refactor page details. (51093)
• Styles Screen: Add link to global styles revisions. (51149)
• Try adding dynamic page templates to pages section. (50630)
• Tweak edit site resizable frame handle. (50878)
• Update the bottom sticky section in the site editor details panel. (51274)

Block Library

• Details Block: Remove experimental flag and stabilize. (50997)
• Post Excerpt: Improve preview on the editor site. (50167)
• Post Title: Improve preview on the editor site. (50147)
• Query Pagination: Address feedback from #50779. (51165)
• Query Pagination: Allow hiding the label text. (50779)
• Search Block: Add button only with expandable input. (50487)
• Search block: Refactor to use HTML Tag Processor. (51273)
• Post Link: Update block variation icon to match the one used in the Link UI results. (50190)
• Post Template: Add block spacing and layout. (49050)

Components

• Button: Add opt-in prop for larger isSmall size. (51012)
• ListView: Converted additional content render into a component. (51163)
• ColorPalette: Improve color name readability. (50450)
• Spacing: Optimize and condense unlinked spacing controls. (50660)

Data Layer

• Merge selector-binding code (except resolvers) into a new bindSelector function. (51176)
• Move action-binding code to a bindAction function. (51161)

Accessibility

• Add TabPanel to document overview replacing fake tabs. (50199)
• BorderControl: Improve color code readability in aria-label. (51197)
• Handle isDraft or isInvalid Enter keypress via onKeyDown instead of a Keyboard Shortcut. (51021)
• ListView: Allow deleting blocks using keyboard. (50422)
• Site Editor: Add view site link to site editor nav. (50420)
• Use generic div instead of nav for the SidebarNavigationScreen component. (51111)

New APIs

• Command Center: Marks the selectors and actions of the commands store as a public API. (51169)

Bug Fixes

Block Editor

• Add inert attribute to disabled blocks that have only disabled descendants. (51079)
• Fix multi-entity multi-property undo redo. (50911)
• Iframe enqueuing: Add editorStyle and warning. (50091)
• Improvements to how blocks with a 'disabled' editing mode behave. (51148)
• Link Control: Add missing translation. (51081)
• Navigation: Memoize link value passed to the LinkControl. (51155)
• Hide the save draft button for published posts. (51193)

Site Editor

• Browse Mode: Remove horizontal scrollbar during screen transitions. (51189)
• Fix styling of actions in site editor navigation sidebar. (51153)
• Properly decode new template title in snackbar. (51057)
• Site Editor: Update untitled copy and rendering. (51074)

Widgets Editor

• Update the settings icon in Widgets Editor. (51029)

Block Library

• Freeform/Shortcode: Prevent blocks from converting HTML entities. (51123)
• Navigation: Apply color classes to the navigation container element. (50968)
• Post Template: Set block context via filter. (50313)
• Term Description: Handle default margin styles. (51137)

Global Styles

• DimensionsPanel: Fix site editor error on Columns block level screen. (51252)
• Fluid typography: Ensure max viewport width is used in the editor. (51146)
• SpacingSizesControl: Fix problem with the slider position being reset when saving global styles. (50956)
• Styles Screen: Ensure variations previews will render in mobile viewports. (51080)

Components

• Fix: Can't type space if RichText component is inside button/summary in Firefox. (50540)
• FontSizePicker: Fix control header spacing. (50855)

Themes

• Avoid changing non-theme-preview requests. (51221)

Data Layer

• Data: Fix a bug where private selectors on a store with resolvers are inaccessible. (51166)

Accessibility

• Add aria labels to the focal point picker component. (50993)
• Fix Navigable Toolbar initialIndex. (51181)
• Fix screen readers not announcing updated aria-describedby in Firefox. (51035)
• Link Control: Fix the 'Save' button's disabled state. (51117)
• Social Icons: Manually set Snapchat label color. (51237)

Performance

• Make getBlockEditingMode() return 'default' when parent is 'contentOnly'. (51185)
• Use static closures when not using $this. (50723)
• Add removeAllNotices action to allow all notices to be removed from a given context. (44059)
• Add a new action removeNotices which allows bulk removal of notices. (39940)

Experiments

Interactivity API

• Change label and description for the gutenberg-interactivity-api-core-blocks experiments setting. (51059)
• Disable Lightbox UI if link has an image. (51180)
• Experiment: Put directives on element and insert lightbox as its child. (51089)
• Image Lightbox: Add a reset button. (51239)
• Image Lightbox: Add support for external urls in the lightbox. (51278)
• Image Lightbox: Fix design of close button for the lightbox (correct PR). (51206)
• Image Lightbox: Improve image block lightbox escaping. (51061)
• Move the directives and markup needed for the lightbox to block supports. (51232)
• Navigation block: Set correct aria-expanded on hover. (50953)
• Remove experimental flag from navigation and file blocks to use the Interactivity API (as private). (51266)
• Rename directives suffix character and island directive in the Interactivity API. (51152)
• Remove not needed aria-hidden attribute in navigation block experiment. (51044)

DropdownMenu v2

• Change default placement to match the legacy DropdownMenu component. (51133)
• Render in the default Popover.Slot. (51046)
• Style tweaks. (50967)
• Tweak styles, add toolbar-specific styles. (51097)

Documentation

• Add documentation about the entities abstraction and the undo/redo stack. (51052)
• Fix code example error in the Curating the Editor doc. (51070)
• Fix formatting and use sentence case for titles in Scripts doc. (51069)
• Fix headings in the View component readme. (51157)
• Fix text in readme. (51268)
• Remove Block Grammar doc and all corresponding internal links. (51106)
• Remove Roadmap doc. (51062)
• Undo/Redo: Minor edits. (51085)
• Update README.md on SlotFills to add info + example about the prop fillProps. (51013)
• Update React documentation link for propTypes. (51208)

Code Quality

• Extract BlockThemePreviews-related code from the editor package. (50863)
• Fluid typography: Extract logic to derive fluid typography settings. (51188)
• Fonts API: Refactor Theme JSON global functions into WP_Fonts_Resolver. (50811)
• Iframe: Clarify how dependencies related to inline styles work. (51199)
• Iframe: Fix blob cleanup. (51004)
• Iframe: Remove obsolete readyState checks. (51003)
• Iframe: Remove obsolete styles HTML parsing. (51136)
• Lodash: Remove _.isEmpty(). (51096, 50974, 51098, 50917, 51168)
• mapSelectorsWithResolvers: Don't init hasResolver, mapSelectors already did it. (51160)
• mapValues: Use fromEntries, avoid re-creating object in each reducer call. (51159)
• Refactor code that adds resolver fulfillment to selector calls. (51009)
• Remove legacy logic for __unstableResolvedAssets. (51100)
• Remove outdated Babel spread optimization from selectors. (50987)
• Remove the insert.ref field from insertUsage data. (51130)
• Separate template screens in the Site Editor. (51040)
• Writing flow: Fix tab into iframe. (50955)

Block Editor

• Refactor Link Control Settings Drawer to avoid unnecessary prop drilling. (50963)
• ListView: Remove unused 'useSelect' dependency. (51134)

Components

• BlockDraggable: Use the getBlockType selector. (51174)
• PreferenceToggleMenuItem: Add missing useSelect dependency. (51158)

Tools

wp-env

• Fixed Docker Image Size Ballooning. (51034)
• Preferentially Execute Local wp-env. (50980)

Scripts

• Scripts: Optimize updating render paths when developing blocks. (51162)
• Fix: Build render.php when webpack watch in progress. (50939)

Testing

• Add tests to useIsDirty. (51036)
• Button: Add basic visual regression tests. (51000)
• Comment Template Block: Add test coverage for context setting. (50879)
• Comment Template Block: Retain inner blocks inserted via render_block_data filter. (50883)
• Fix flaky Behaviors UI end-to-end tests. (50954)
• Ignore framer-motion warning when running end-to-end tests locally. (50938)
• Link Control test migration: Should contain a label when it should open in a new tab. (51001)
• Link control: Migrate tests to Playwright. Can be created by selecting text and using keyboard shortcuts. (50996)
• End-to-end tests: Add an assertion to confirm that the URL changed. (50835)

Build Tooling

• babel-preset-default: Enable the bugfixes option for preset-env. (50994)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @okmttdhr: Extract BlockThemePreviews-related code from the editor package. (50863)
• @SaxonF: Directly save if only changing current context. (50567)
• @Takshil-Kunadia: fix: Build render.php when webpack watch in progress. (50939)
• @wayheming: Docs: Fix text in readme. (51268)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @alexstine @andrewserong @anton-vlasenko @artemiomorales @benlk @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @chad1008 @ciampo @derekblank @ellatrix @fluiddot @geriux @getdave @gigitux @glendaviesnz @gziolo @jameskoster @jeryj @jffng @jsnajdr @juanfra @kevin940726 @luisherranz @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @mcsf @michalczaplinski @mikachan @mirka @ndiego @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ObliviousHarmony @ockham @okmttdhr @opr @ramonjd @richtabor @rmorse @SantosGuillamot @SaxonF @scruffian @SiobhyB @t-hamano @Takshil-Kunadia @tellthemachines @tyxla @wayheming @westonruter @youknowriad