WordPress/gutenberg v17.4.0-rc.1

17.4.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

Components

• Refactor experimental dropdown menu usages to latest version. (55625)
• Replace TabPanel with Tabs in the Block Inspector. (56995)
• Replace TabPanel with Tabs in the editor Global Styles color palette. (57126)
• ToggleGroupControl: Update large button size to 32px. (57338)
• Update ariakit version. (57325)
• CustomSelect: Add WordPressComponentsProps. (56998)
• Modal: Improve application of body class names. (55430)
• • Components: Replace TabPanel with Tabs in the Block Inserter. (56918)

Site Editor

• Add Page Attributes panel. (57151)
• Add Post Taxonomies panel. (57049)
• Add View Link. (57153)
• Add the Discussion panel. (57150)
• Add the featured image panel. (57053)
• Editor: Unify revision panel between post and site editors. (57010)
• Social Link block: Obfuscate email address. (57384)

Design Tools

• Background image: Add backgroundSize and repeat features. (57005)
• Make sure theme color palette presets are output when appearance tools are enabled. (57190)
• Move tools panel to the left of the inspector. (55785)

Global Styles

• Global styles revisions: Add pagination. (56799)
• Global styles revisions: Integrate style book. (56800)

Bug Fixes

Components

• DropdownMenu V2: Add fallback styles for when subgrid is not supported. (57327)
• DropdownMenuV2: Do not collapse suffix width. (57238)
• Fix DayButton dot position and expand Button area. (55502)
• Fix logic of has-text class addition in Button. (56949)
• Palette Edit: Don't discards colors with default name and slug. (54332)
• PaletteEdit: Consider digits when generating kebab-cased slug. (56713)
• RadioControl: Fully encapsulate styles. (57347)
• Tabs: Make sure individual Tabs are linked to the correct TabPanels. (57033)
• Text selection: Show CSS hack to Safari only. (57300)
• Truncate: Improve handling of non-string children. (57261)
• FormTokenField: Handle disabled prop on internal Button. (57187)
• tab panel: Don't render hidden content by default. (57046)

Block Editor

• Exclude disabled buttons when setting initialIndex of NavigableToolbar. (57280)
• Fix BlockSwitcher checks for showing a Dropdown menu or not. (57047)
• Fix block lock toolbar item stealing focus when mounted with StrictMode. (57185)
• Fix content lock UI regression. (56974)
• Fix vertical overflow when inserter is open in post and site editor. (57127)
• Hide drop indicator where block isn't allowed to drop. (56843)
• InserterListItem: Use item.isDisabled to detect disabled item. (57161)
• More settings tip: Add explicit font size. (55835)
• Writing flow: Absorb partial multi selection dispatching. (47525)
• Fix the block 'edit' property validation. (57193)

Block Library

• Audio: Hide some controls when multi-editing blocks. (57376)
• Disable resizing when viewport is small and wide-aligned. (57041)
• Gallery: Hide some controls when multi-editing blocks. (57378)
• Image Block: Get lightbox trigger button ref via data-wp-init. (57089)
• Image: Hide caption control when multi-editing images. (57357)
• Video: Hide some controls when multi-editing blocks. (57375)
• Image Block: Fix deprecation when width/height attribute is number. (57063)

Patterns

• Fix: Viewport width not accounted for in the Site Editor > Patterns view. (55803)
• Override all the labels of the pattern categories taxonomy. (57094)
• Pattern Category: Change show_tagcloud to false. (57212)
• Patterns (unsynced): Prevent infinite loops due to recursive patterns. (56511)

Site Editor

• Fix image upload bug. (57040)
• Reduce clearance around the Frame in the site editor. (57023)
• Swap Template: Show the right templates for the right post type. (57149)
• Save Button: Fix the translation of the Activate button. (57147)
• SlotFill: Allow contextual SlotFillProviders. (56779)

Post Editor

• Editor: Use visibility selector for PostTemplatePanel. (57224)
• Fix: Code editor title width in classic theme. (56922)

Design Tools

• Allow default duotone styles in classic themes. (57191)
• StylesPreview: Fix endless loop of ratio calculations when on the threshold of a scrollbar. (57090)

Interactivity API

• Fix namespaces in nested interactive regions. (57029)
• Fix Interactivity not working on Classic Themes. (57396)

Collaborative Editing

• Collab editing: Ensure block attributes are serialisable. (57025)

Accessibility

• Font size picker: Fix Reset button focus loss. (57196)
• a11y: Apply focus style to revision items. (57039)
• [a11y] Fix: Use spans instead of headings on dataviews table view page title. (56956)

Performance

Block Editor

• Block: Combine store subscriptions. (56994)
• Combine selectors in the 'BackgroundImagePanelItem' component. (57159)
• InnerBlocks: overlay: Remove viewport size condition. (57135)
• Prevent layout re-rendering when changing selected block. (57136)
• Prevent re-rendering the editor header when the selected block changes. (57140)
• Rewrite moving animation for better load performance. (57133)
• Rich text: Avoid block editor subscription if not selected. (57226)
• Try removing extra memoization for individual style panels. (57160)
• hooks: Manage save props in one place. (57043)

Block Library

• Gallery: Combine useSelect calls. (57240)
• Image: Reduce 'block-editor' store subscriptions. (57358)
• List: Avoid useSelect in block render. (57077)
• Blocks: Simplify/optimise isUnmodifiedBlock. (56919)
• InnerBlocks: Combine store subscriptions. (57032)

Components

• Navigator: Use CSS animations instead of framer-motion. (56909)
• useSelect: Only invalidate on subscribe if store changed. (57108)

Experiments

Data Views

• Add hover style to table rows. (57058)
• Add: See revisions template action. (57175)
• Code Quality: Update: Reuse view revisions action on templates and pages. (57208)
• DataViews: Add list layout to templates. (57014)
• DataViews: Align filter implementations. (57059)
• DataViews: Centralize control of filter visibility in the Filters component. (57056)
• DataViews: Close actions menu upon switching layouts. (57015)
• DataViews: Display column header when the field is only filterable. (57051)
• DataViews: Fix bug on operators count for table layout. (57048)
• DataViews: Improve naming for easy identification in React devtools. (57385)
• DataViews: Improve preview. (57116)
• DataViews: Make deferredRendering prop optional. (57334)
• DataViews: Make getItemId optional. (57308)
• DataViews: Make filters footprint more condensed. (56983)
• DataViews: Mark the new Templates pages as stable. (57109)
• DataViews: Memoize onSelectionChange callback. (57390)
• DataViews: Remove paginationInfo prop from ViewComponent. (57306)
• DataViews: Remove reference to edit site class. (57075)
• DataViews: Rename operatorsFromField to sanitizeOperators. (57050)
• DataViews: Update onChangeView memoization. (57393)
• DataViews: Update documentation. (57305)
• DataViews: Use SelectControl for selecting a page. (57215)
• Dataviews: Simplify pagination. (57071)
• Fix: Empty dropdown(s) on the grid view. (57316)
• Fix: Template list title font styles. (57027)
• Sort order: Use unicode characters instead of svg icons. (56833)
• Update: Make secondary actions trigger always visible. (57174)
• Use default variants for Filter and View buttons. (57057)

Patterns

• Fix broken undo history stack for Pattern Overrides. (57088)
• Fix unsaved pattern not reflecting on pattern overrides. (57148)
• [Pattern Overrides] Use a single checkbox to turn on pattern overrides for all allowed attributes. (57009)

List View

• Allow right-click to open block settings dropdown, add editor setting. (50273)

Documentation

• Add new section on markup representation of a block. (57230)
• Added additional explanations to attributes and supports sections. (57120)
• Added documentation for the text-decoration-control component. (57184)
• CardHeader used instead of CardFooter. (45585)
• Components: Update TypeScript-related tips in Contributing Guide. (57267)
• Doc: Block Wrapper - enclose html tag, use correct keyword supports not support. (56906)
• Docs/getting started readme. (57223)
• Docs: Add new "Build your first block" tutorial to the Getting Started section of the BEH. (56931)
• Docs: Fundamentals block development/block in the editor -- add page to manifest (toc). (57179)
• Docs: Fundamentals of Block Development - block in the editor. (56488)
• Enforce heading sentence case throughout the BEH. (57143)
• Fix grammar and typos in the Block Development Environment doc. (57123)
• Fix incorrect links in ToggleGroupControl docs. (57236)
• Fix: Typo on footnotes docs. (57348)
• Fixes heading hierarchy in block filters. (57239)
• Minor heading to improve readability and reference. (57102)
• Platform Docs: Fix missing link. (57145)
• Remove Radix UI-related documentation. (57336)
• Remove links to excalidraw diagrams from images. (56980)
• Remove the "How to use JavaScript in the Block Editor" documentation. (57166)
• Remove unnecessary TOCs from documentation. (57087)
• Restore descriptions for deprecated button props. (37690)
• Small heading fix. (57098)
• Snackbar: Remove __unstableHTML prop from TS. (57218)
• Update block toolbar and settings sidebar image. (57203)
• fix: Updated the link for "Building a custom block editor". (57319)

Code Quality

• Add missing block/theme json $schema property. (57201)
• Add missing period in block descriptions. (57131)
• Fix code style in Gutenberg_HTML_Tag_Processor_6_5. (57030)
• Font size picker: Use Button API for keeping focus on reset. (57221)
• Mobile: Fix getPxFromCssUnit circular dependency. (57045)

Block Editor

• Editor: Move the Excerpt panel to the editor package. (57096)
• Refactor useCanContextualToolbarShow for simplicity and clarity. (56914)
• Remove unnecessary isDisabled option on useShortcut for BlockToolbarPopover. (56907)
• Replace block variation buttons with ToggleGroupControl. (45654)
• Replace isSmall prop #53560. (53599)
• Several little refactors. (57107)
• useBlockTypesState: Divide useSelect call into two. (57163)
• useInputRules: Remove unneeded check for inputRule. (57164)

Components

• Adding unit tests for useCompositeState to Composite component. (56645)
• Delete experimental radix-ui based DropdownMenu component. (55626)
• GradientPicker: Use index while iterating over gradient entries to avoid React "duplicated key" warning. (57361)
• TabPanel: Refactor unit tests to @ariakit/test. (57302)
• Tabs: Update styling to more closely match previous implementation. (57275)
• ToggleGroupControl: Fix snapshots. (57367)
• Move kebabCase() function from block-editor package and mark it as private API. (56758)

Block Library

• Gallery Block: Remove unused attributes property in shortcode transformation. (57356)
• Remove cruft in Button block editor styles. (30950)
• Tag Cloud: Replace 'withSelect' HoC with 'useSelect'. (57194)

Global Styles

• Global styles revisions: Refactor sticky pagination footer to use CSS. (57294)
• Relocate revisions from fill to sidebar component. (57034)
• Simplify the conditions in GlobalStylesEditorCanvasContainerLink. (57144)

List View

• Editor: Move and unify the inserter and list view states. (57158)
• Editor: Unify the list view shortcut registration and definition. (57200)
• ListView: Replace prop drilldown by a stable ref in store. (57198)

Typography

• Font Library: Consolidate existing API rest endpoints. (57282)
• Quality: Replace wpKebabCase function with kebabCase function from components package. (57038)

Site Editor

• Editor: Move the panel visibility state from the edit-post to the editor package. (57012)
• Remove isResizing variable from layout component as it is always false. (57119)
• Allow disabling and enabling comments. (57205)

Navigation Menus

• Add basic test coverage for Navigation Menu editing mode. (56871)
• Fix flaky Navigation focus mode test. (57016)

Plugin

• Implement proposal to remove the WordPress-Docs ruleset. (56982)
• i18n: Make menu and title labels in Gutenberg plugin translatable. (43500)

Modules API

• Refactor, tests, and final dependencies array structure. (57231)

Tools

• Dependency Extraction Webpack Plugin: Fix test issues. (57332)

Testing

• Add an end-to-end test to check image upload working in site editor. (57086)
• Components: Add unit test __experimentalExpandOnFocus unit tests for FormTokenField. (57122)
• Global styles revisions e2e: Tidy up selectors to open revisions panel. (57146)
• Migrate 'Comments Form' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (57337)
• Migrate Site Editor 'settings sidebar' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (57392)
• Migrate remaining 'block switcher' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (57381)
• e2e: Try to fix flaky font-library test. (57092)

Build Tooling

• DependencyExtractionWebpackPlugin: Drop webpack4 and node<18. (57303)
• Disable webpack perf hints when compiling packages. (57155)
• Update to Node.js 20.x. (56331)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @dotslashbit: fix: Updated the link for "Building a custom block editor". (57319)
• @koen12344: Restore descriptions for deprecated button props. (37690)
• @kurudrive: Fix DayButton dot position and expand Button area. (55502)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@andrewhayward @andrewserong @anton-vlasenko @arthur791004 @atachibana @bacoords @BenjaminZekavica @brookewp @c4rl0sbr4v0 @chad1008 @ciampo @colorful-tones @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @ddryo @derekblank @desrosj @dotslashbit @ellatrix @fluiddot @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @gvgvgvijayan @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @kevin940726 @koen12344 @kurudrive @luisherranz @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mcsf @mhimon @mirka @ndiego @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @ramonjd @richtabor @SiobhyB @sirreal @stokesman @t-hamano @tellthemachines @TimBroddin @youknowriad @yuliyan