Changelog
Features
Navigation Menu Sidebar
- Add focus mode for Navigation Menus. (39286)
- Allow renaming, duplication and deleting of Navigation menus from Browse Mode Sidebar. (50880)
Block Library
- Add Navigation Menus to Template Parts screen sidebar in Browse Mode. (51492)
- Add Footnotes block to text blocks. (51201)
Patterns
- Allow for filtering of block patterns by source. (51672)
- Reusable blocks: Rename to 'Patterns' and add option to also add a non-synced Pattern. (51144)
- Site Editor: Add Library for Template Parts & Patterns Management. (51078)
Themes
- Remove the experiment option for Block Theme Previews. (50983)
Site Editor
- Add distraction free to site editor 51173
Enhancements
Site Editor
- Edit Site: Make admin background consistent with layout. (51741)
- Edit Site: Remove first loading spinner. (51736)
- Edit Site: Use global background color while loading. (51709)
- Improve guidance to editing template when focused on editing a page. (51366)
- Only show view site link in view mode. (51279)
- Page Details View: Show featured image only if there is one. (51649)
- Page Details View: Show parent only if there is one. (51648)
- Site editor sidebar: Home template details. (51223)
- Navigation on Browse Mode: Move the action to the leaf menu. (50843)
- Remove Taxonomy as an option in the add template flow. (51586)
- Remove shadows in Site Editor sidebar. (51546)
- Show warning on critical block removal. (51145)
- Site editor navigation: Use chevron left in RTL mode. (51588)
- Add ability to set status, publish date and password in site editor. (51408)
- Add table view to manage templates page. (50766)
- Update Library panel footer. (51652)
- Update page list footer. (51438)
- List draft navigations in Browse mode Navigation section. (51422)
- Show actions for empty menus in Navigation on Browse mode. (51420)
- Unify welcome guides labels casing. (51700)
- Site editor sidebar: Add footer to template part and ensure nested template areas display. (51669)
- Update colors in 'Site view'. (51856)
- Site Editor: Make string to add Template parts and Patterns consistent and translatable 51743
Components
- ItemGroup: Update button focus styles to be more consistent. (51576)
- Toolbar: Use Ariakit instead of Reakit. (51623)
- Update: Adjust modal radius to be between frame and buttons. (51254)
- UnitControl: Revamp support for changing unit by typing. (39303)
- Move HeadinglevelDropdown to its own component. (46003)
- Button: Introduce size prop 51842
Block Editor
- List View: Try showing blocks that are dragged (no longer hide them). (51724)
- Updated unstyled Button hover selector to change fill of svg and path element. (50819)
- Writing Flow: Allow Escape key to deselect blocks and selection during multiselection. (48904)
- Change "Copy block" to "Copy". (51532)
- Limit Copy/Paste Styles menu item. (51503)
- Force disable suggestions until URL field is dirty in Link Control. (51354)
- Top toolbar: Refine the icons on the right. (51735)
- Improve LinkControl Edit UI. (51712)
Block Library
- List block: Add numbering type selection. (51186)
- Patterns: Removes the pattern experiment. (51719)
- Remove
accordion
from details block keywords. (51597) - Add init modules to details and post-time-to-read blocks. (51606)
- Improve logic in
render_block_core_template_part
. (50636) - Indicate Draft status of menus in Nav block menu selector. (51427)
- Mobile - Image block - Fix issue with set width and height images. (51463)
- Navigation: Remove destructive colors from modal. (51691)
- Pass the block to the onGoToPage function. (51699)
- Post Author - don't show 0 in inspector controls. (51345)
- Remove anchor support from dynamic blocks. (51288)
- Site Tagline Block: Remove unnecessary square path from block icon SVG. (51611)
- Add image block aspect ratio control 51545
- Updating social link attributes 51997
Accessibility
- Autocomplete: Announce results to screen readers when first becoming visible. (51018)
- List View: A11Y focus enhancements for edit-site based on modifications to edit-post. (51404)
- Add a description key to theme.json style variations. (45242)
- Focus first focusable on Link UI. (51105)
- BlockLockModal: restore focus on fallback toolbar button when original button is not rendered 51666
- Site Editor Sidebar: improvements to buttons 51762
Interactivity API
- Add missing tests for image block. (51305)
- Image block: Add animation toggle to lightbox behavior. (51357)
Global Styles
- Accept transforms in gutenberg_get_global_styles context params. (50484)
- Split styles menus in revisions and everything else. (51318)
Icons
- Tweak icons for improved HiDPI devices. (51511)
Plugin
- Remove Details block setting field from the experiments page. (51372)
Templates API
- Return post modified datetime in response. (51362)
List View
- Style Book: Close list view when opening the style book. (50438)
Design Tools
- List View: Add an indicator of when a position type is set for a block. (49122)
- Sticky Position: Try re-enabling non-root sticky position. (49321)
- Clarify error message if duotone color values is incorrect. (51397)
- List all the font families and font sizes from all the theme.json origins in the font picker. (51488)
Post Editor
- Adjust the name of the custom field button labels. (47407)
- Block manager: Display a 'Reset' button when blocks are hidden to quickly enable all. (51200)
Media
- Prepublish: Suggest uploading external images. (46014)
Patterns
- Block Options: Use consistent capitalization on template parts and patterns. (51761)
CSS & Styling
- Update editor UI modal width. (51733)
Commands
- Add commands to access template, template parts and styles. (51501)
- Add global styles related commands. (51637)
Themes
- Block Theme Previews: Change the URL query string for more safety. (51312)
- Update the Save Button label when you're previewing a theme. (51361)
Navigation
- Ensure there is always a Navigation available in the browse mode sidebar via fallback algorithm 50321
Bug Fixes
Block Library
- Fix navigation error in library. (51589)
- Fix site editor rendering of Categories block. (51329)
- Gallery block - Add default value for innerBlockImages. (51443)
- Latest posts: Make more link consistent between frontend and editor. (51190)
- Navigation: Don't interfere with pointer events. (51378)
- Post editor: Make the Post Content block available as a child of the Query block. (51405)
- Search Block: Fix problem with buttons not outputting primary status. (51529)
- Try providing a non-zero value for client width in image editor. (51285)
- Query Loop: Properly initialize and update
perPage
when we inherit from global query. (51641) - Avatar block: Fix not 1:1 between the editor and the front-end. (49963)
- Spacer block: Fix invalid markup when set to fill. (51317)
- Buttons Block: add support for orientation-based block movers 51831
- Rename navigation fallback classes from WP_ to Gutenberg_ 51959
Commands
- Show pages with any status in the command center. (51324)
- Add manage all custom patterns command 51845
- Add another batch of commands to the site editor 51832
- Add UI commands to the post editor 51900
- Add preferences and keyboard shortcuts commands 51862
Core Data
- Core Data: Fix ESLint warning for the 'useEntityRecord' hook. (51562)
- useEntityRecord: Fix destructure error when
enabled
option isfalse
. (51534)
Block Editor
- Fix blocks autocompleter 'rootClientId' selector. (51673)
- Inserter: Fix arrows in RTL mode. (51622)
- Link Format: Don't return focus on the selected text 'onFocusOutside'. (51684)
- ListView: Update drop indicator line positioning to support rtl languages. (51284)
- Page Content Focus: Default insertion point to the Post Content block. (51773)
Site Editor
- Add 'Edit template' and 'Back to page' commands. (51364)
- Fix template display in page details with a custom template. (51638)
- Page details: Fix displaying slugs with non-latin characters. (51679)
- Prevent block overlay on blocks with a 'contentOnly' editing mode. (51780)
- Fix gradient background color repeats. (51374)
- Global styles: Fix back button tooltip. (51725)
- Site editor header: Fix document title back and shortcut color contrast. (51442)
- Site editor sidebar: Fix the heading hierarchy. (51696)
- Disable the revision button if there is no clickable menu 51851
- Library: Fix misalignment of description in custom template parts 51868
- Library: Fix delete shortcut incorrectly bound to non-user patterns 51830
- Fix toolbar overlap in site editor 51810
- Increase space between page meta and details section 51858
- Fix missing MenuGroup segment in Site Editor header more menu 51860
- Update the add template modal design 51806
- Update text color of site editor menu item hover/active states 51847
- Fix library command path 51837
- Restore sidebar in focus mode on Pattern click through in Browse Mode Library 51897
Accessibility
- Distraction Free: Avoid focus loss when enabling/disabling distraction free mode via the more menu. (51627)
- Library: Add an explicit label to the search control. (51781)
- Site editor: Add a navigable region for content area of Library and Template views. (51782)
- Fix shift+tab behavior to move to toolbar when the preceding block has a form element. (51548)
Global Styles
- Color Panel: Fix rendering of tabs with no color. (51498)
- Remove custom padding on style revisions button. (51269)
Components
- MediaPlaceholder: Fix position of URLPopover. (51363)
- Popover: Allow legitimate 0 positions to update popover position. (51320)
- Button: Remove unnecessary margin from dashicon. (51395)
- Keep framer-motion from updating minor version 51894
- ConfirmDialog: Fix affirmative action being triggered an extra time when selecting a button via keyboard 51730
- Tweak more icons for high-resolution devices 51768
- ZStack: fix component bounding box to match children 51836
Patterns
- Library: Reinstate sidebar navigation menu editing for template parts. (51825)
Interactivity API
- Image block: Remove Lightbox markup if is set as disabled. (51692)
Block Locking
- Fix regression in selectors. (51541)
Typography
- Fluid typography: Custom font-sizes should use max viewport width. (51516)
Widgets Editor
- Fix fixed toolbar in customize widgets. (51092)
Navigation Menu Sidebar
- Hide the hidden navigation block. (50662)
Block Variations
- [Block Library - Post Terms]: Custom taxonomies do not show icons when transforming from the toolbar. (51476)
Page Content Focus
- Switch to Page panel when deselecting a block 51881
- Don't show 'Back to page' notification when navigating away from page 51880
- useBlockSync(): Reset inner blocks when component unmounts 51783
- Fix black pixel appearing when block toolbar is empty 51779
- Only show Page Content Focus commands when in edit mode 51888
Performance
Site Editor
- Edit Site: Add a loading timeout. (51049)
- Improve DocumentActions performance. (51432)
- Prevent BlockBreadcrumb from re-rendering unnecessarily when typing. (51628)
- Reduce number of List View re-renders while typing. (51518)
- Improve PagePanels performance. (51319)
Block Editor
- Improve getBlockEditingMode() and useAppender() performance. (51675)
Experiments
Global Styles
- Color Randomizer: Fix an error when the theme has no color palette. (51539)
Documentation
- Docs: Fix incorrect import of useEntityRecords in code example. (51630)
- Fix broken links in editor documentation. (51321)
- Fix grammar in the Create a Block > WordPress Plugin page. (51663)
- Fix grammar on the Create a Block tutorial page. (51662)
- Fix grammar on the Getting Started page. (51661)
- Update broken link. (41758)
- Update components README.md. (51557)
- Update wp-env changelog. (51614)
- Updated getEntityRecord doc by using selector instead of dispatch. (51298)
Code Quality
General
- Adopt lock-unlock.js and private-apis.js convention. (51322)
- Formats: Avoid rerendering language edit component when typing. (51440)
- Keyboard Shortcut: Clean up shortcut names. (51739)
- Lodash: Refactor away from
_.kebabCase()
in block editor. (51687) - Lodash: Refactor away from
_.mergeWith()
. (51483) - Lodash: Remove from blocks package. (51703)
- Remove pattern directory categories endpoint. (51340)
- Require relocated class files for back-compat in WordPress releases. (51670)
Block Library
- Add tests for WP_Classic_To_Block_Menu_Converter class. (51410)
- Details: Set 'clientId' as useSelect dependency. (51634)
- Move Navigation fallback files to 6.3 directory. (51572)
- Navigation: Fix ListView deprecation notice. (51094)
- Navigation: Just a simple refactor. (51382)
- Remove legacy isTopLevelLink attribute from Navigation block tests. (51759)
- Search Block: Write "Button Only" label in sentence capitalization. (51629)
Site Editor
- Browse Mode: Move CSS to more generic selector. (51547)
- DRY up ContentBlocksList and BlockInspectorLockedBlocks. (51281)
- Edit Site: Refactor the NavigationMenuContent component and fix the deprecation notice. (51469)
- PageContent: Fix unlock import. (51360)
- Refactor Site Editor block editor code. (51524)
Block Editor
- Lodash: Replace
_.mergeWith()
withdeepmerge
in blocks. (50637) - useInsertionPoint: Add missing dependency for useCallback. (51682)
- Block Editor: Improve data selector for BlockQuickNavigationItem. (51429)
- Block Editor: Remove redundant memoization from 'ImageURLInputUI'. (51658)
- Block Editor: Simplify filtering condition for
getBlockParentsByBlockName
selector. (51439) - Block Editor: Remove unused selectors. (51674)
Navigation Menu Sidebar
- Extract nav editor component in Nav in Browse mode. (51436)
- Remove custom button and (conditionally) show single menu on Navigation route in Browse Mode. (51565)
Design Tools
Layout
- Move layout definitions out of theme.json. (50621)
- Try stabilising layout and its associated APIs. (51434)
Global Styles
- Global styles revisions: Move from experimental to 6.3. (51474)
Post Editor
- Fix refactor flat term selector to use data api for creating new terms. (50952)
Data Layer
- Private actions and selectors: Return stable references, expose to thunks. (51051)
Themes
- Block Theme Previews: Rename GET variable and prepare for core compat. (51738)
Interactivity API
- Remove the hydration console log of the Interactivity API. (51571)
- Use interactivity API for Navigation and File blocks only in Gutenberg. (51694)
- Behaviors: Move behaviors code to experimental folder. (51654)
Components
- Convert
ClipboardButton
to TypeScript. (51334) - Use internal context system to apply toolbar variant to toolbar dropdowns. (51154)
Parser
- Split each class in
parser.php
to a separate file. (48693)
Tools
Testing
- Add 'Mamaduka' as one of the code owners for Playwright tests. (51470)
- Combine Site Editor list view tests into a single file. (51635)
- Consolidate duplicate block tests. (51352)
- Fix flaky 'Keep styles on block transforms' end-to-end test. (51593)
- Fix flaky 'Push to Global Styles' end-to-end test. (51636)
- Fix flaky 'Switch to Draft' action in preview end-to-end tests. (51564)
- Fix flaky 'hooks API' end-to-end test. (51592)
- Fix flaky Image block interactivity end-to-end test. (51573)
- Fix the flaky site editor list view tests. (51598)
- Migrate 'Allowed Blocks Setting on InnerBlocks' tests to Playwright. (51677)
- Migrate block hierarchy navigation tests to Playwright. (51517)
- Playwright Utils: Change preference update method in setIsFixedToolbar. (51659)
- Playwright Utils: Simplify editor preference updates in createNewPost. (51560)
- Styles Navigation Screen: Close style book using location. (51365)
- Update BlockEditorProvider tests. (51497)
- Update E2E test sharding on CI, make Playwright tests faster, Puppeteer tests slower. (50362)
- Update the 'Iframe block' test and fix flakiness. (51631)
- end-to-end tests: Try fixing 'networkidle' timeout errors. (51826)
- test: Re-enable native integration tests. (51706)
- Migrate Navigable toolbar test to Playwright. (51514)
- Mobile unit tests: Remove custom waitFor implementation. (46735)
- Set fixedToolbar to false after each top toolbar test to ensure proper cleanup. (51600)
- Fix performance test failure on trunk. (51407)
- Performance tests: Make theme versions consistent cross-env. (50905)
- Performance tests: Update base point to compare. (51381)
Build Tooling
- Babel config: Enable useSpread option for JSX transform to reduce transpilation. (51574)
- Lodash: Remove from lint staged type check. (51698)
- Performance Tests: Update the base point to compare against. (51689)
- wp-env: Try to fix failing PHP Github actions. (51513)
- npm lockfile: Hoist reakit and date-fns packages to the top. (51500)
Plugin
- Add script to compile usage of experimental APIs. (51341)
First time contributors
The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:
- @bangank36: Update components README.md. (51557)
- @samnajian: Accept transforms in gutenberg_get_global_styles context params. (50484)
- @xerpa43: Avatar block: Fix not 1:1 between the editor and the front-end. (49963)
Contributors
The following contributors merged PRs in this release:
@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @alexstine @andrewserong @aristath @artemiomorales @aurooba @bangank36 @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @ciampo @dcalhoun @derekblank @diegohaz @draganescu @ellatrix @fabiankaegy @fluiddot @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jhnstn @jsnajdr @juanfra @kozer @luisherranz @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mcliwanow @mcsf @mikachan @n2erjo00 @noahtallen @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @okmttdhr @paulopmt1 @pbking @peterwilsoncc @pooja-muchandikar @ramonjd @richtabor @samnajian @SantosGuillamot @SavPhill @SaxonF @scruffian @shimotmk @Sidsector9 @SiobhyB @spacedmonkey @stokesman @sunyatasattva @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla @walbo @WunderBart @xerpa43 @youknowriad @priethor @ajlende @mirka