WordPress/gutenberg v16.3.0-rc.1

16.3.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

Site Editor

• Add delay and fade-in animation to loading spinner. (51902)
• Make "My patterns" category permanently visible. (52531)
• Remove "Theme patterns" heading in Pattern library. (52570)
• Remove sidebar group descriptions. (52453)
• Show warning on removal of Post Template block in the site editor. (52666)
• Swap pattern creation options. (52726)
• Update Dashboard button tooltips in the site editor. (52465)
• Update Site Editor frame z-index. (52180)
• Update locked pattern tooltips. (52497)
• Update navigation menu title size & weight in detail panels. (52477)
• Update pattern library copy. (52340)
• Show more intuitive archive titles on Query Title block. (52521)
• Adapt template part hint copy. (52527)

Patterns

• Add hint to show template part move. (52395)
• Add renaming, duplication, and deletion options. (52270)
• Add sync tooltip. (52458)
• Display all custom template part areas in sidebar nav. (52355)
• Don't override the rootClientID in create menu - only set if undefined. (52713)
• Enable focus mode editing. (52427)
• Remove reusable text from menu once rename hint has been dismissed. (52664)
• Stop endless snackbars appearing. (52012)
• Sticky header and pagination on Patterns page. (52663)
• Update manage pattern links to go to site editor if available. (52403)
• Separate sync status into a filter control. (52303)

Components

• Adding support for defined IDs in TextControl component. (52028)
• Updated "position" default value. (52148)

Interactivity API

• Add filter to turn off Interactivity API for a block. (52579)
• Add runtime support for the wp-style directive. (52645)

Block Library

• Add back old Navigation and File blocks JavaScript implementation when Gutenberg is not installed. (52553)
• Home link block: Add 'current-menu-item'. (51478)
• Use next40pxDefaultSize on RangeControl components. (52257)

Block Editor

• Add maxLength to LinkControl search item URLs. (52523)
• Make the tab labels of ColorGradientSettingsDropdown component translatable. (52669)
• Add support for arrays to setImmutably util. (52280)
• Stabilize defaultBlock, directInsert API's and getDirectInsertBlock selector. (52083)

NUX

• Restore @wordpress/nux to trunk. (52455)

Bug Fixes

Patterns

• Alternative grid layout to improve keyboard accessibility. (52357)
• Add handling of sync status to the wp-admin patterns list page. (52346)
• Add missing decoding entities processing in Patterns and Template/Parts pages. (52449)
• Add option to set sync status when adding from wp-admin patterns list. (52352)
• Avoid copying global style presets via the styles compatibility hook. (52640)
• Command Palette: Update label and icon for Patterns. (52742)
• Ensure that the unsaved title is not persisted when reopening the modal. (52473)
• Fix bug with Create Patterns menu not showing in site editor page editing. (52671)
• Fix renaming in Site View sidebar rename saves all edits for Template Parts and Navigation Menus. (52373)
• Fix: Patterns & template parts: Remove "apply globally" option from block settings. (52160)
• Rename edit label to Edit Block Pattern to resolve edge case in Chrome. (52496)
• Show uncategorized patterns on the Editor > Patterns page. (52633)
• Site Editor Patterns: Filter out patterns that are not available in the inserter. (52675)
• Update the title of Pattern block in the block inspector card. (52010)

Site Editor

• Fix the pattern with the post types becomes the placeholder pattern when editing template part. (52503)
• Fix "Manage all patterns" link appearance. (52532)
• Fix document title icon appearance. (52424)
• Fix entering edit mode in site editor. (52406)
• Fix missing Add Template Part button in Template Parts page. (52542)
• Fix undo/redo in site editor code editor's mode. (52695)
• Remove status icon. (52457)
• Reset device preview type when exiting the editing mode. (52566)
• ResizableFrame: Fix styling in Firefox. (52700)
• Site Editor Pages: Load the appropriate template if posts page set. (52266)
• Site Editor Patterns: Ensure sidebar does not shrink when long pattern titles are used. (52547)
• Use lowercase p in "Manage Patterns". (52617)
• Do not navigate to the styles pages unless you're in a random listing page. (52728)
• Fix multiple navigation blocks in pattern template. (52707)
• Don't allow creating template part on the Patterns page for non-block themes. (52656)
• Exit template focus when opening the W menu. (52235)

Block Library

• Fix console warning by improving error handling in Nav block classic menu conversion. (52591)
• Fix importing classic menus. (52573)
• Fix: Focus loss on navigation link label editing on Firefox. (52428)
• List block: Fix selected numbering style option. (52472)
• Post Title: The changes should be reflected when previewing a post. (52369)
• Quote block: Add transform to paragraph. (51809)
• Remove synced blocks from lastBlockInserted. (52558)
• Rich Text/Footnotes: Fix getRichTextValues for useInnerBlocksProps.save. (52682)
• Search block: Enqueue view script through block.json. (52552)
• Use _get_block_template_file function and set $area variable. (52708)
• Cover Block: Fix block deprecation when fixed background is enabled. (51612)

Accessibility

• Change Delete page menu item to Move to trash. (52641)
• Change password input to type text so contents are visible. (52622)
• Do not autofocus page title field in the 'Draft a new page' modal dialog. (52603)
• Fix Shift+Tab to Block Toolbar. (52613)
• Unify focus style and add default font styles. (52495)
• Navigation block: Add notice on reduced accessibility. (52251)
• Password protected field: Remove autofocus and improve placeholder text consistency. (52634)
• ResizableFrame: Make keyboard accessible. (52443)
• Site Editor: Fix navigation menu sidebar actions order and label. (52592)

Block Editor

• Add 'reusable' keyword to Pattern blocks. (52543)
• Avoid errors in Dimension visualizers when switching between iframed and non-iframed editors. (52588)
• Ensure synced patterns are accounted for in 'getAllowedBlocks'. (52546)
• Fix: Remove link action of Link UI for draft pages created from Nav block does not correctly remove link. (52415)
• LinkControl: Add width to ensure ellipsis truncating works. (52575)
• LinkControl: Fix mark highlight to bold. (52517)
• Post Content link color should not be applied to placeholder component links. (52367)
• Fix highlight change when using transform menu. (52752)
• Fix: Apply text color selection to link color. (52379)

Components

• Block Editor: Display variation icon in the 'BlockDraggable' component. (52502)
• Copy tweak for the reusable block rename hint. (52581)
• Fix react-dropdown-menu version to avoid breaking change from one of …. (52356)
• FormTokenField: Fix token overflow when moving cursor left or right. (52662)
• Site Editor: Make sidebar back button go back instead of up if possible. (52456)
• Top Toolbar: Move the preferences selection into the main useSelect. (52332)

Post Editor

• Remove a block select button from the multi-entity saving flow. (52753)
• Fix Site editor page when JS support is disabled. (52376)
• Fix initial block parsing. (52417)
• Simplify the code editor of edit-post. (52751)

Global Styles

• DimensionsPanel: Fix unexpected value decoding/encoding. (52661)
• Global font sizes: Ensure sizes are unique. (52483)
• Spacing Sizes: Fix zero size typo and to be output directly. (52711)

Themes

• Fix admin_url() for preview link of block themes. (52399)

Fonts API

• Deprecate and make Fonts API non-functional. (52485)
• Fix font printing regression when metabox exists. (52343)

Extensibility

• Page Content Focus: Ignore page content within a Query Loop block. (52351)

Performance

Post Editor

• Fix performance regression for isEditedPostEmpty selector. (52759)

Patterns

• Add client side pagination to patterns list. (52538)

Site Editor

• Fix entity cache misses for single posts due to string as recordKey. (52338)

Block Library

• Experimental: Disable TinyMCE compat with classic editor. (52325)

Experiments

Interactivity API

• Prevent scripts from loading if behaviors are not used. (52140)

Fonts API

• Font Face: To generate and print font-face styles for theme.json fonts. (51770)

Documentation

• Document the new process for releasing point releases for old release branches. (49968)
• Add layout API documentation. (52673)
• Added README for the "caption" component. (52033)
• Added documentation text-transform component #52072. (52243)
• Block Editor: Add README for BlockControls. (52366)
• Lodash: Remove completely. (52571)
• Removed line break within the code block. (46920)
• Theme JSON schema: Add missing block names and unify block properties. (51293)
• Update layout architecture documentation after stabilisation. (52316)

Code Quality

Block Editor

• Add missing @emotion/react dep to block-editor. (52475)
• Lodash: Remove remaining _.get() from block editor and deprecate. (52561)
• Make use of accessing private APIs from thunks directly. (52214)

Block Library

• Footnotes: Backport core changes to excerpt trim. (52709)
• Navigation: Simplify the useSelect for useNavigationMenus. (51977)
• Query Pagination: Set 'clientId' as useSelect dependency. (52358)
• Search: Remove unnecessary useEffect. (52604)
• Template Parts: Set attributes 'area' as useSelect dependency. (52330)

Global Styles

• Lodash: Refactor away from _.set() in PushChangesToGlobalStylesControl. (52404)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.set() in getNodesWithSettings(). (52278)
• Lodash: Refactor away from _.set() in global styles. (52279)
• Lodash: Remove completely from site editor. (52480)

Post Editor

• EntityRecordItem: Fix ESLint warnings and remove unnecessary memoization. (52630)
• PostPreviewButton: Rewrite to functional, avoid state transitions in lifecycles. (44971)
• correct a typo: Sapce -> space. (52578)

Site Editor

• Fix incorrect 'useSelect' usage. (52683)
• SiteHub: Combine site data selector hooks. (52567)

Reusable Blocks

• Update package to use relative path. (52712)

Core Data

• Core Data: Fix ESLint warning for 'useEntityProp' hook. (52757)

Tools

Testing

• Iframe: Silence style compat warnings when in a BlockPreview. (52627)
• Make query optional in visitAdminPage. (52413)
• Migrate Adding Inline Token test to Playwright. (52020)
• Migrate site editor multi-entity save flow tests. (52372)
• Move request utils reset to global setup. (52412)
• Nav block: Link text color inheritance fixes and tests. (51710)
• Refactor and split navigation block end-to-end tests into separate files. (52647)
• Try fixing block context end-to-end test failure. (52513)
• Use posts instead of template parts for navigation color tests. (52654)
• end-to-end Test Utils: Improve test reliability in plugins/themes and login procedures. (52144)
• Enable jest-watch-typeahead for native tests. (51869)
• Expand mobile editor tests. (52446)

Build Tooling

• Backport tools: Sort PRs to be cherry picked by merged/closed date. (52667)
• Create block interactive template. (52612)
• Fix Webpack to watch the interactivity package files. (52642)
• Update caniuse-lite, browserslist and core-js. (52420)
• Lodash: Deprecate _.set(). (52407)

Project Management

• Update issue gardening automation with new label. (52173)
• Revert "Update Changelog for 16.1.2". (52433)
• Github workflow: Add a PHP backport changes action. (52096)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @andrewhayward: Adding support for defined IDs in TextControl component. (52028)
• @ghorivipul97: Post Content link color should not be applied to placeholder component links. (52367)
• @sethrubenstein: Stabilize defaultBlock, directInsert API's and getDirectInsertBlock selector. (52083)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @andrewhayward @andrewserong @anomiex @arthur791004 @BenjaminZekavica @bfintal @carolinan @Clorith @dcalhoun @derekblank @diegohaz @draganescu @ellatrix @fluiddot @fullofcaffeine @geriux @getdave @ghorivipul97 @glendaviesnz @hellofromtonya @jameskoster @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @kevin940726 @luisherranz @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @michalczaplinski @mirka @noisysocks @ntsekouras @peterwilsoncc @pooja-muchandikar @Presskopp @priethor @ramonjd @richtabor @SantosGuillamot @SavPhill @SaxonF @scruffian @sethrubenstein @spacedmonkey @swissspidy @t-hamano @tellthemachines @tyxla @walbo @westonruter @youknowriad