WordPress/gutenberg v16.7.0-rc.2

16.7.0 RC2

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Changelog

Features

Typography

• Font Library: Font Collections frontend. (54566)

Enhancements

Interactivity API

• Query block: Start prefetching on first click to next/previous. (54781)

Collaborative Editing

• Try bundling sync package. (54738)

Patterns

• Memoize useSelect for usePatterns. (54588)

Design Tools

• Improve background image control. (54439)

List View

• Try directing focus to the list view toggle button when closing the list view. (54175)

Typography

• Font Library: Load collection JSON data from a URL in the collection configuration. (54067)

Bug Fixes

• Block Editor: Fix 'isBlockSubtreeDisabled' private selector. (54618)
• Make sure sync code only runs when experiment is enabled. (54710)

Patterns

• Add My patterns back to post editor inserter categories. (54767)
• De-emphasise pattern filters in inserter. (54681)
• Fix All Patterns category default display. (54721)
• Fix bug with new categories not showing. (54768)
• Fix bug with pattern categories not saving sometimes. (54676)
• Fix category type for back link. (54753)
• Fix duplication of uncategorized patterns. (54755)
• Inject the theme name into the block attributes. (54595)
• Reinstate my patterns category in site editor. (54726)
• Require a title in the creation modal. (54717)
• Use slug as fallback for empty title. (54731)

Typography

• Font Face: Get name from "fontFamily" setting, not "name". (54615)
• Font Library: Fix modal width on mobile viewport. (54518)

Block Editor

• Reset page after changing pattern filters or search value. (54774)

Interactivity API

• Query Loop: Select first anchor inside Post Template with "enhanced pagination" enabled. (54730)

Plugin

• Update cherry-pick script to correctly verify GitHub CLI setup. (54720)

Block API

• Block Hooks: Avoid processing empty content for loaded templates. (54719)

Site Editor

• CreateTemplatePartModal: Disable the 'Create' button while saving. (54716)

Design Tools

• Background Image control: Use consistent button, ensure descriptive text accounts for no image selected. (54711)

Block Library

• Replace the gutenberg_ prefix with wp_ in image block. (54678)

Components

• DateTimePicker: Fix onChange callback check so that it also works inside iframes. (54669)

Fonts API

• Font Library: Fix space above theme fonts in font library modal. (54598)

Accessibility

Components

• Allow Modal to place focus on first element within contents via new API. (54590)
• Improve the placeholder instructions accessibility. (45801)

Documentation

• Add missing global declaration in DocBlock of interactivity files. (54683)

Code Quality

Site Editor

• Prune store constants. (54585)
• Use constants rather than hard coded template strings. (54586)

Patterns

• Fix sidebar nav screen fallback category. (54754)

Typography

• Font Library: Refactor logic to disable font library in the frontend. (54748)

Plugin

• Ensure that Block Hooks work correctly after landing in WP core. (54651)
• Update uuid package to 9.0.1. (54725)

Tools

Testing

• Font Library: Use resolvable domain in test. (54763)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @andrewserong @ciampo @DAreRodz @getdave @glendaviesnz @gziolo @hellofromtonya @kevin940726 @luisherranz @madhusudhand @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mikachan @ramonjd @richtabor @SaxonF @scruffian @t-hamano @tellthemachines