WordPress/gutenberg v16.5.0

16.5.0

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Changelog

Features

Interactivity API

• Allow passing optional afterLoad callbacks to store calls. (53363)

Enhancements

Commands

• Add block-related commands. (52509)
• Add support for registering commands without icons. (53647)
• Update the "Preview in a new tab" command to reuse the preview target tab when available. (53242)
• Update command palette styling. (53117)
• Improve command palette rendering on smaller viewports. (53661)
• Tweak existing commands to establish consistency with command language. (53496)
• End the command palette description with a period in the keyboard shortcut modal. (53635)

Components

• Button: Remove default border from the destructive button. (53607)
• LineHeightControl: Allow for more granular control of decimal places. (52902)
• Snackbar: Design and motion improvements. (53248)
• Modal:
  • Add headerActions prop to enable buttons or other elements to be injected in the header. (53328)
  • Enhance overlay interactions, enabling outside interactions without dismissal. (52994)
• ProgressBar: Update colors, including gray 300 for track color (53349), theme system accent for indicator color (53347), and the theme accent color variable. (53632).

Block Library

• Column block:
  • Add a stretch option to block's vertical alignment options. (53325)
  • Exit upon pressing enter in an empty paragraph at the end of the block. (53311)
• Classic block: Increase dimensions of modal and allow toggling fullscreen. (53449)
• Details block:
  • Add accordion and toggle keywords to improve block's discoverability. (53501)
  • Add layout and block spacing options. (53282)
• File block: Add block spacing options. (45107)
• Image block: Add aspect ratio support to lightbox. (52765)
• Post Content block: Add color controls. (51326)
• Remove "post" from block titles. (53492)

Patterns

• Open detail view when duplicating a pattern. (53214)
• Prevent the "create pattern" modal from closing the block options menu when it is closed. (53707)
• Skip migration logs in the patterns screen. (53626)
• Add missing full stop to string. (53544)

Global Styles

• Add a reset to default global styles revision (52965) and reduce visibility check from two to one revision (53281).

Media

• Adjust size of image previews in list view. (53649)
• Add media previews to list view for gallery and image blocks. (53381)

Site Editor

• Expose Theme via private APIs (53262), which was necessary to use the progress bar component for the site editor loading screen (53032).

Block Editor

• Add Opens in new Tab control into Link Preview. (53566)
• Dependencies: Bump remove-accents to 0.5.0. (53420)
• Top-align Publish row in the post panel. (53573)
• Allow layout controls to be disabled per block from theme.json. (53378)
• Fluid typography: Add min and max viewport width configurable options. (53081)

New APIs

Extensibility

• Make useBlockEditingMode() public. (52094)

Bug Fixes

Commands

• Style tweaks to fix metrics for resting and no results view in command palette. (53497)
• Order template results in Site Editor, to fix some templates not displaying. (53286)
• Don't allow access to Styles-related pages via the command palette in the hybrid theme. (53123)

Block Library

• Button block: Avoid losing user changes when the ButtonEdit component re-renders. (53507)
• Cover block: Fix flickering when inserted in templates and also fix isDark calculation bugs. (53253)
• Footnotes block:
  • Ensure autosave works and escapes quotes as expected. (53664)
  • Fix accidental override. (53663)
  • Fix recursion into updating attributes when attributes is not an object. (53257)
  • Remove Footnotes when interactive formatting is disabled. (53474)
• Image block:
  • Fix image stretching with only height. (53443)
  • Don't render DimensionsTool if it is not resizable. (53181)
  • Fix stretched images constrained by max-width. (53274)
  • Clear aspect ratio when wide aligned. (53439)
  • Change the conditions under which we display the scale control. (53334)
  • Reset height when selecting the original aspect ratio. (53339)
• Latest Posts block: Make categories handling more defensive to prevent multisite error. (53659)
• Media & Text block: Fix deprecation with isStackOnMobile default value changed. (49538)
• Inject theme stylesheet value as template part theme attribute. (53423)
• Block serialization: Correctly compare default attribute values. (53521)

Block Editor

• LinkControl: Prevent overflow when the title is a URL. (53356)
• Fix broken flows on Safari, including ArrowUp functionality in an empty paragraph (53341) and multi-selection upon shift plus click (53440).
• Restore focus after dragging out of the block repeatedly. (53429)
• Avoid merging paragraph into a Columns block. (53508)
• Prevent vertical arrow keys getting stuck in view. (53454)
• Set top toolbar size dynamically. (53526)
• Support container queries in editor CSS. (49915)
• Copy tag name on internal paste. (48254)

Site Editor

• Add missing i18n in HomeTemplateDetails. (53543)
• Add buttons for block settings and styles in smaller viewport. (53412)
• Ensure canvas edit mode button occupies the entire frame canvas. (53730)
• Fix document actions label helper method. (52974)
• Fix document title alignment in command palette button. (53224)

Post Editor

• Address crash by moving editor style logic into a hook with useMemo. (53596)
• Fix support of sticky position in non-iframed post editor. (53540)
• Correct typo when setting the preview device type to 'Desktop'. (53409)
• Avoid returning a different object on every call to getInsertionPoint. (53722)
• Fix top toolbar in the post editor with custom fields in Safari. (53688)
• Improve metrics on post publish view buttons. (53245)

Page Content Focus

• Fix missing Replace button in content-locked Image blocks. (53410)
• Fix BlockPreview in Template panel when editing a page in the site editor. (53550)
• Use template.blocks in BlockPreview if it exists. (53611)

Navigation Menus

• Make all the 'Loading' strings consistent. (52901)
• Fix title not being copied correctly when duplicating navigation. (53610)
• Remove "go to" for terms and posts. (53408)

Typography

• Fallback to default max viewport if layout wide size is fluid. (53551)
• Fix typo and add tests for fonts install endpoint. (53644)

Patterns

• Fix Synced Patterns' color in quick inserter. (53327)
• Hide pattern previews on hover in inserter. (53331)
• Ensure it's possible to delete draft patterns. (53405)
• Fix pattern creation button in list view dropdown menu. (53562)
• Prevent sync status overlapping for some languages in patterns. (53243)

Global Styles

• Fix push-to-global-styles clearing of attributes, border fallbacks, link hover colors, and behaviors. (51621)
• Preserve block style variations when securing theme json. (53466)

Layout

• Don't add root padding to children of flex and grid layout blocks. (53259)
• Include namespace in layout classname for non-core blocks. (53404)

Interactivity API

• Add short-circuit to useSignalEffect. (53358)
• Add support for underscores and leading dashes in the suffix part of the directive. (53337)
• Update deepsignal version. (53549)

Components

• Button: Add :Disabled selector to reset hover color for disabled buttons. (53411)
• Preferences Modal: Insert path and query args to form before submitting. (53324)

Accessibility

• Type labels GH Action: Fix accessibility issues in error message. (53371)
• Add accessible description of current Navigation block state. (53469)
• Implement accessible version of Navigation overlay preview toggle control. (53462)
• Search Block: Fix unintended wrapping of button text in "Button only" style. (53373)

Performance

• Compute presets from theme.json: Skip those without classes or variables. (53574)
• Switch performance tests to Playwright. (52022)
• Fix memory leaks in <Iframe>. (53406)
• get_root_layout_rules: Remove unnecessary call to sanitize_title. (53568)

Experiments

• Fonts Library: Backend. (52704)
• Add custom connections inspector control. (53241)
• Allow contents of Paragraph to be "connected" to a meta custom field. (53247)
• Bootstrap a minimal sync package. (52681)

Documentation

Project Docs

• Updating lib/PHP README.md. (53614)
• Add documentation for keyboard shortcut selecting text across multiple blocks. (43164)
• Add keyboard shortcut selecting text across multiple blocks on Windows. (53625)
• Docs/Gutenberg release process - Better table of contents. (53394)
• Add the auto-generated commands store documentation. (52562)

Getting Started

• Developer Environment: Refer to Node 16 instead of 14. (53523)
• Create Block:
  • Fix typo in finishing.md. (53609)
  • Fix outdated specification in the "Anatomy of a Block". (53581)

How To Guides

• Block Tutorial:
  • Adds import from @wordpress/i18n in code example. (53504)
  • Adds package.json configuration instructions to tutorial. (53689)
• Building a Custom Block Editor: Consolidate and update the guide. (53159)
• Curating the Editor Experience: Include starter patterns for templates. (53398)

Components

• Popover: Fix iframe story and add test. (53182)
• BlockCaption: Add README for component. (52535)
• useSetting: Add README for component. (53162)
• SelectControl: Update JSDoc. (53379)
• Card: Update Card component document. (53172)
• MenuGroup: Add Storybook stories. (53090)
• Edit Post: Update "PluginDocumentSettingPanel" documentation. (53393)
• Interface: Fix "complimentary" typo with "complementary". (53413)

Interactivity API

• Revamp of README to include API Reference among other indications. (53385)
• Add missing section in ToC and minor improvements to Getting Started Guide. (53362)
• Update Interactivity API package README with clear references to documentation. (53388)
• Add code requirements to Interactivity API documentation. (53342)
• Add JSDoc comments to the public API. (52469)

Packages

• Create Block: Update npx commands in README.md. (47150)
• Data: Add changelog entry for the latest useSelect enhancement. (53685)
• Style Engine: Update documentation for css_var. (53710)

Code Quality

• Remove @types/classnames deprecated package. (53478)
• Remove gutenberg_initialize_editor. (53527)
• Update package-lock.json to match 16.4.0 version number. (53499)

Block Library

• Button block: Replace the isSmall deprecated prop in the WidthPanel. (53472)
• Details block: Remove unnecessary comment attributes. (51610)
• Footnotes block:
  • Add some test coverage for footnotes logic in useEntityBlockEditor. (53376)
  • Checking type before using count(). (53660)
• LinkControl/LinkUI: Remove unused className prop. (53348)
• Remove unneeded block.json name-only imports. (53677)
• Template parts: Return a stable reference for the defined 'area'. (53675)

Components

• ESLint: Fix all storybook/prefer-pascal-case warnings. (53683)
• Remove unused components from /ui. (52953)
• MenuItem: Refactor to TypeScript. (53132)
• Move accent colors to theme context. (53631)
• Interface: Fix ESLint warnings. (53456)
• Plugins: Introduce the usePluginContext hook. (53291)
• Remove effect dep in Link Control. (53421)

Data Layer

• Data: Warn if the useSelect hook returns different values when called with the same state and parameters. (53666)

Site Editor

• Remove unnecessary as prop from SiteHub component. (53372)
• Create patterns package and share the create pattern modal between post editor and site editor. (53161)

Post Editor

• Migrate PostTypeSupportCheck usages from withSelect to hooks. (53330)
• UnsavedChangesWarning: Don't return a function from 'mapSelect'. (53672)
• Replace HoCs with hooks in:
  • PluginDocumentSettingPanel (53290)
  • PostPendingStatusCheck (53389)
  • PostPendingStatus (53387)
• Replace withPluginContext in PluginPostPublishPanel (53302) and PluginPrePublishPanel (53304).
• Block previews: Memoize example blocks. (53640)

Global Styles

• Try: Bundle WP_REST_Global_Styles_Controller class instead of inheriting per WordPress version. (53618)
• Remove empty usages of BlockPreviewPanel. (53681)

Block Editor

• Remove Firefox work-around to type Space in RichText components inside button/summary. (53014)
• Rich text: Small perf improvement for selection syncing. (53583)
• Auto-inserting blocks: Minor fixes to address feedback. (53183)

Tools

Project Management

• Remove automation that checks-in ANY issue without activity in 180 days. (53390)

Build Tooling

• Update minimal node version to 16 and npm to 8. (53426)
• Update to TypeScript 5.1. (52621)
• Update Lerna to 7.1.4. (53515)
• Update Storybook to v7. (53520)
• Update npm-package-json-lint to v6. (53636)
• Update mkdirp dependency. (53529)
• ESLint Plugin: Bring JSDoc plugin to the latest version. (53629)
• Add Storybook TypesSript plugin for compatibility with TypeScript 5. (53445)
• Update the "update plugin version" workflow step so that it also updates the nested package version for Gutenberg. (53503)
• Fix wp-scripts watch mode failing when block.json contains malformed JSON. (51971)
• Remove deprecated stable deep dependency. (53630)
• Add some missing internal peer dependencies. (53275)
• Add some missing package dependencies. (41486)

Testing

• Migrate 'Block variations' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (53266)
• Interactivity API: Add missing tests for body, init and on directives. (52952)
• Cover block: Add integration tests to check isDark settings. (53256)
• Writing flow: Add end-to-end tests for webkit and firefox. (53458)
• Add tests for fluid layout and typography. (53554)
• Block editor: Webkit e2e: Attempt to fix shift+click test. (53564)
• end-to-end Storybook: Fix for Storybook v7. (53658)
• Dependencies: Update @testing-library/react to v14. (53682)
• Multi-select: Restore pre-Playwright migration test for failed selection attempt. (53418)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @behoney: fix: Typo in finishing.md. (53609)
• @bengreeley: Add documentation for keyboard shortcut selecting text across multiple blocks. (43164)
• @doughamlin: Update npx commands in create-block README.md. (47150)
• @ducksblock: Fix: #52886 Make all the 'Loading' strings consistent. (52901)
• @rtro92: Adds import for internationalization. (53504)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @ajlende @alexstine @Aljullu @andrewserong @annezazu @anomiex @artemiomorales @atachibana @bangank36 @behoney @bengreeley @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @derekblank @doughamlin @draganescu @dsas @ducksblock @ellatrix @fabiankaegy @fluiddot @fullofcaffeine @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @gziolo @ingeniumed @jameskoster @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @kevin940726 @luisherranz @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mburridge @michalczaplinski @mikachan @mirka @ndiego @noahtallen @noisysocks @oandregal @ockham @pbking @priethor @ramonjd @richtabor @rtro92 @scruffian @SiobhyB @stokesman @swissspidy @t-hamano @tellthemachines @tjcafferkey @tomjn @tyxla @WunderBart @youknowriad