WordPress/gutenberg v16.8.0-rc.1

16.8.0 RC1

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Changelog

Features

Block Editor

• Adds 'nofollow' setting to Button block. (54110)

Site Editor

• Add 'Show template' toggle when editing pages. (52674)

Enhancements

• Update pattern import menu item. (54782)

Components

• Adding label/description to BlockEditor/DuotoneControl. (54473)
• Deprecating isPressed in Button component. (54740)
• Follow ariakit best practices. (54696)
• InputControl-based components: Add opt-in prop for next 40px default size. (53819)
• Modal: Add contentWidth prop to support a selection of preset modal sizes. (54471)
• Remove unused components from ui/. (54573)
• Update ariakit to 0.3.3. (54818)
• Update compact search control metrics. (54663)
• Wrapped TextareaControl in a forwardRef call. (54975)

Block Library

• Add a brief description to the Footnotes block. (54613)
• Footnotes: Use core’s meta revisioning if available. (52988)
• Login/out: Add spacing support. (45147)
• Query view.js: Code quality. (54982)
• Set custom color when applying initial background image. (54054)
• Use wp_get_inline_script_tag() in build_dropdown_script_block_core_categories(). (54637)

Block Editor

• Default suggested links to pages. (54622)
• Remove base URL from link control search results. (54553)
• Simplify BlockHTMLConvertButton. (54972)
• Update strings in blocks 'RenameModal' component. (54887)

Post Editor

• Edit Post: Use hooks instead of HoCs in 'PostStatus' components. (54951)
• Editor: Use hooks instead of HoCs in 'PostSticky' components. (54949)
• Editor: Use hooks instead of HoCs in 'PostSwitchToDraftButton'. (54695)
• Show confirmation dialog when moving a post to the trash. (50219)

Site Editor

• Add template replace flow to template inspector. (54609)
• [Site Editor]: Update copy of using the default template in a page. (54728)

Patterns

• Remove category description in inserter panel. (54894)

Typography

• Font Library: Refactor endpoint permissions. (54829)

Bug Fixes

• Fix the ShortcutProvider usage. (54851)
• Fix warning when a template calls a template area twice. (54861)
• Revert "Fix warning when a template calls a template area twice". (54926)

Block Library

• All Nav block items to break long titles. (54866)
• Fallback to Twitter provider when embedding X URLs. (54876)
• Fix Deleted Navigation Menu warning string. (55033)
• Fix Search Block not updating in Nav block. (54823)
• Fix left and right aligmnent in children of Post Template. (54997)
• Fix output of Navigation block classnames in the editor. (54992)
• Fix overwriting of published post meta when previewing footnote changes. (54339)
• Image: Ensure Expand on Click toggle is shown if block-level lightbox setting exists. (54878)
• Image: Fix layout shift when lightbox is opened and closed. (53026)
• Media & Text: Fix React warning. (55038)
• Search block: Allow space for input field only when form expanded. (54846)
• Search block: Update alignment and icon button width. (54773)

Site Editor

• Avoid same key warnings in template parts area listings. (54863)
• Avoid stale navigation block values when parsing entity record. (54996)
• Don't display the navigation section in template parts details when a menu is missing. (54993)
• Fix ToolSelector popover variant. (54840)
• Reset 'Show template' toggle when leaving edit mode. (54679)
• remove overflow: Hidden from the entity title in the site editor sidebar. (54769)

Components

• FormTokenField: Add box-sizing reset style and reset default padding. (54734)
• Popover: Fix the styles for components that use emotion within popovers. (54912)
• Remove hover style for secondary Button when aria-disabled is set. (54978)
• Reverting addition of aria-selected style hook in Button. (54931)
• SlotFill: Pass Component instance to unregisterSlot. (54765)

Block Editor

• Avoid double-wrapping selectors when transforming the styles. (54981)
• [Inserter]: Fix reset of registered media categories. (55012)

Typography

• Font Library: Changed the OTF mime type expected value to be what PHP returns. (54886)
• Font Library: Move font uploads to a new tab. (54655)

Global Styles

• Block custom CSS: Fix incorrect CSS when multiple root selectors. (53602)
• Image: Ensure false values are preserved in memory when defined in theme.json. (54639)

List View

• Fix performance issue when selecting all blocks. (54900)

Colors

• Format Library: Try to fix highlight popover jumping. (54736)

Interactivity API

• Image: Fix duotone not being applied to lightbox image. (54670)

Accessibility

Block Library

• Footnotes: Add aria-label to return links. (54843)
• Table of contents block accessibility improvements. (54322)

Components

• HTML block: Fix accessibility issues on back-end. (54408)
• Modal: Accessibly hide/show outer modal when nested. (54743)

Patterns

• Use list role instead of listbox in patterns list. (54884)

Post Editor

• Editor: Always render the 'Switch to Draft' button to avoid focus loss. (54722)

Block Editor

• Block Switcher: Use a different label for multi-selection. (54692)

Performance

• Tests: Support the Site Editor's legacy spinner. (54784)
• Use instanceOf over property_exists. (54835)

Block Editor

• Subscribe only to block editor store in useBlockSync. (55041)

Experiments

Site Editor

• al]: First version of pages list in site editor. (54966)

Block Editor

• Expose getDuotoneFilter() as private API. (54905)

Documentation

• Add a documentation page about the block editor settings. (54870)
• Add a page about the format library to the platform documentation site. (55037)
• Docs: Add a callout to the wp-now documentation to mention it's still experimental. (55044)
• Docs: Remove outdated info. (54707)
• Docs: Remove the Full Site Editing doc. (54516)
• Docs: Rename Block Hooks handbook page to Block Filters. (54862)
• Document the current state of the Real-Time collaboration experiment. (54932)
• Fix a broken MD link in callout. (54772)
• Platform Docs: Add a documentation page explaining how to use the block library. (54967)
• Update the documentation of the block editor and replace @wordpress/element with react. (54908)
• Update versions in WP for 6.4. (54890)

Code Quality

• Add a unit test for the "ValidBlockLibraryFunctionNameSniff" sniff. (53928)
• Move dependencies to the right place. (54597)
• Move mime-type collection generation to a function that can be tested…. (54844)
• Post Title block should use esc_url(). (53981)
• Rich text: Use getPasteEventData. (55048)
• Writing flow: Absorb clipboard handler. (55006)

Block Library

• Footnotes: Avoid regexes in entity provider. (54505)
• Image Block: Fix browser console error when clicking "Expand on Click". (54938)
• Removed unwanted space from the string. (54654)
• Update CODEOWNERS for core/image block. (54793)

Patterns

• Add a new spec for for adding an unsynced pattern. (54892)
• Add end-to-end tests for filtering and searching patterns. (54906)
• Add new end-to-end test for creating a pattern. (54855)
• Include pattern category in main end-to-end critical path test. (54923)

Components

• Consolidate utils to remove ui/. (54922)
• Move ContextSystemProvider out of /ui. (54847)
• SlotFill: Migrate to Typescript. (51350)
• Tidying CircularOptionPicker.Option. (54903)

Typography

• Font Library: Syntax refactor repace strpos with str_contains. (54832)
• Font Library: Use snake_case instead of camelCase on fontFamilies endpoint param. (54977)

Block Editor

• Rich text: Avoid shortcode logic, adjust paste handler instead. (55052)

Plugin

• Remove legacy logic for '__unstableResolvedAssets' setting. (54812)

Data Layer

• createResolversCacheMiddleware: Remove dependency on core/data store. (54733)

Site Editor

• Use constants rather than hard coded template strings (round 3). (54705)

Tools

• Label enforcer workflow: Make accessibility a focus instead of a type. (54941)
• Scripts: Update webpack and related dependencies to the latest version. (54657)
• Update changelog automation and test fixtures to match the last a11y label renaming. (54974)

Testing

• Don’t use TypeScript files in scripts package. (54856)
• ESLint: Update eslint-plugin-testing-library to v6. (54910)
• Fix end-to-end test: ”WP Editor Meta Boxes > Should save the changes”. (51884)
• Font Library: Avoid deprected error in test. (54802)
• Make editor.getBlocks to return only testing-related properties. (54901)
• Migrate 'Global styles sidebar' test to Playwright. (55045)
• Migrate 'iframed block editor settings styles' tests to Playwright. (55014)
• Migrate 'iframed inline styles' tests to Playwright. (55009)
• Migrate 'iframed masonry block' tests to Playwright. (55016)
• Migrate 'iframed multiple block stylesheets' tests to Playwright. (55003)
• Migrate keyboard-navigable-blocks end-to-end tests from puppeteer to playwright. (54944)
• Scripts: Properly use CommonJS for default Playwright configuration. (54988)
• Try fixing the flaky 'Toolbar roving tabindex' end-to-end test. (54785)
• end-to-end Tests: Revert temporary fixes. (54865)
• end-to-end Utils: Allow overriding username/password. (53267)

Build Tooling

• Add some @types packages as proper dependencies. (50231)
• Update the default JSX pragma to React instead of @wordpress/element. (54494)
• Upgrade wp-prettier to v3.0.3 (final). (54775)

Security

Data Layer

• Replace turbo-combine-reducers with combineReducers from Redux. (54606)

Various

• (chore) Revert the 16.7 RC2 release in order to release it again due to wrong changelog. (54744)

Design Tools

• Background image block support: Add tests, adjust injection logic slightly. (54489)
• Background support: Backport fix for undefined array key. (54850)

Typography

• Revert "Font Library: Avoid rendering font library ui outisde gutenberg plugin". (54947)

Commands

• Make the reset styles command consistent. (54841)

Patterns

• Use "Not synced" in place of "Standard" nomenclature for patterns. (54839)

Block Editor

• Simplify BlockPatternsSyncFilter with clearer labels and additional context. (54838)

Site Editor

• Use consistent capitalization for template parts in Site Editor constants. (54709)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @leemyongpakvn: Fix a broken MD link in callout. (54772)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamsilverstein @alexstine @andrewhayward @andrewserong @annezazu @anton-vlasenko @artemiomorales @aurooba @bangank36 @brookewp @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @chad1008 @ciampo @dcalhoun @derekblank @draganescu @ellatrix @fluiddot @fullofcaffeine @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @gziolo @jameskoster @jeryj @jsnajdr @juhi123 @kevin940726 @leemyongpakvn @madhusudhand @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @michalczaplinski @mirka @mtias @mujuonly @ndiego @noahtallen @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @pbking @priethor @ramonjd @richtabor @scruffian @SiobhyB @spacedmonkey @stokesman @swissspidy @t-hamano @tellthemachines @tellyworth @them-es @torounit @tyxla @westonruter @WunderBart @youknowriad