WordPress/gutenberg v17.9.0-rc.1

17.9.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

Data Views

• Apply hover styles to filter chip while being configured. (59236)
• Display all checkboxes when a single item is selected. (59233)
• Pages data view: Make 'View' button open a new tab. (59554)
• Reposition pattern detail icon. (59363)
• Update 'Add filter' button in data views. (59433)
• Update empty/loading states. (59437)
• Update filter control position. (59231)
• Update page selector appearance. (59284)
• Update pages dataview icons, add 'drafts' icon. (59285)
• Update sidebar titles for Template and Page management data views. (59011)

Global Styles

• Add background image to top-level theme.json styles. (59354)
• Add color and typography presets to Global Styles. (56622)
• Create a shared component for typography previews. (59503)
• Enqueue block custom CSS only when block renders on the page. (58991)
• Style Book: Should persist when browsing global styles panels. (59261)

Block Library

• Introduce the 'useUploadMediaFromBlobURL' utility hook. (59350)
• Remove redundant copy from PanelBody titles. (59278)
• Template Parts: Add a replace flow to the inspector controls. (55128)

Site Editor

• Zoomed-Out Mode: Don't show blocks in zoomed out view. (59245)
• Block Theme Previews: Remove "Looking for Template Parts?" hint. (59092)
• Remove the site editor sidebar navigation edit button. (59335)
• Scale the zoomed out mode to fit available space. (59342)
• View full zoomed out mode canvas while inserting patterns. (59337)
• Add: Shuffle button in zoom out mode. (59573)

Font Library

• Add option to revoke access to Google Fonts. (59205)
• Make font collection fields translatable. (59256)
• Update the spacing in the font collection panel. (59357)

Post Editor

• Editor: Standardize header button size to 32px. (58532)
• Tweak: Sidebar categories panel. (59495)

Patterns

• Add Shuffle option to sections via pattern category. (59251)
• Use block naming for marking blocks as overridable in patterns. (59268)

Components

• Storybook: Add mechanism to redirect moved stories. (59181)

Nested / Inner Blocks

• InnerBlocks: Support insert before/after block actions when using allowedBlocks. (59162)

Plugin

• Update cherry pick script to add Backported to WP Core label for backports. (58970)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Columns: Correctly recalculate column widths when the column count is increased by more than 2 at once. (59301)
• Group: Fix alignment of Group block placeholder text. (59271)
• Query Loop: Don't show publicly non-queryable taxonomies. (59458)
• Image: Remove scrolling of empty image blocks. (59305)
• Search: Use font size for search icon. (59159)
• Site Logo: Update URL for site icon settings with fallback for WP core versions earlier than 6.5. (59485)
• Site Logo: Update capitalization of Use as Site Icon toggle. (59383)
• Title & Featured Image: Hide non content controls when block editing mode is 'contentOnly'. (59295)

Font Library

• Avoid creating font families without font faces. (59436)
• Avoid loading theme fonts twice and assume they were already resolved by the font face resolver. (59421)
• Changed installFont to installFonts so that multiple font families can be installed at once. (59451)
• Fixed the font family modal to open in state when a font is already selected. (59379)
• Font collection pagination: Add min height to avoid infinite number. (59241)
• Hide UI elements when user lacks permissions. (59332)
• Load/Unload the font face in browser when toggling the variants. (59066)
• Use SearchControl component for search input. (59589)

Interactivity API

• Fix navigate() issues related to initial state merges. (57134)
• Fix context object proxy references. (59553)
• Improve context merges using proxies. (59187)
• Navigation: Add missing empty space to print out valid HTML. (59255)
• Prevent unwanted subscriptions to inherited context props. (59273)
• Rename data_wp_context function. (59465)

Components

• Button: Fix focus outline in disabled primary variant. (59391)
• Button: Place children before the icon when iconPosition is "right". (59489)
• Fix tooltip font. (59307)
• HStack, VStack: Stop passing invalid props. (59416)
• URLPopover: Restore min-width style. (59274)

Block Editor

• Fix Navigation link control overlapping issue. (59065)
• List: Copy wrapper when multi selecting items. (59460)
• Refactor: UseBlockTools hook. (58979)
• Rich text: Fix typing into empty flex element. (59473)
• URLPopover: Fix a problem with the layout of link settings. (58906)
• Fix issue with appender jumping when creating a new pattern. (59582)
• Allow event bubbling even if keydown is passed. (59474)

Custom Fields

• Block Bindings: Fix console error when selecting a bound block. (59598)
• Change default "Connected to a custom field" message in bindings. (59434)
• Fix inserting button block when pressing enter in a block with bound text attribute. (59361)
• Fix query loop with block bindings not working in the editor as expected. (59283)

Data Views

• DataViews: Don't use combobox when there are few available options. (59341)
• DataViews: Set color for primary field/a element when focused. (58814)
• Dataviews: Fix sticky table headers. (59467)

Site Editor

• Ensure ResizableFrame does not force Cover blocks within the editor to show drag handles. (59262)
• Iframe: Scale html instead of iframe element for zoomed out mode. (59334)
• Zoom out mode: Only apply grey background for mode. (59377)
• Site Editor: Fix Global Styles outdated output. (59628)

Global Styles

• Dynamically set border panel label based on the controls available. (59358)
• Shadow: Fix layout collapse when indicator is selected. (59309)
• Theme JSON: Check for null values to cater for blockGap. (59258)

Post Editor

• Command Palette: Prevent mode switching if only one editor mode is available. (59299)
• Editor: Fix post type check in isEditingTemplate selector. (59105)
• Top Toolbar: Fix 'collapsed' state synchronization. (59267)

Block hooks

• Display toggle for hooked blocks added via filter. (59396)
• Navigation Block: Fix erroneous escaping of ampersands. (59561)

Patterns

• Disable image caption if part of synced pattern. (58916)
• Disable selection checkbox if no bulk actions are eligible. (58950)

Block bindings

• Fix Enter on disabled rich text. (59320)

Page Content Focus

• Fix DisableNonPageContentBlocks behavior. (59297)

Design Tools

• Cover block: Clear aspect ratio value when toggling full height. (59296)
• Disable core shadow presets by default, let themes opt-in. (58766)

Layout

• Fix MarginVisualizer and PaddingVisualizer. (59227)

Block Conversion

• Preserve bindings metadata in block transforms. (59179)

Typography

• Fluid typography: Pass theme.json settings to override merged theme data. (58362)

Data Layer

• Ignore HTML Elements in ReduxDevTools. (57497)

Accessibility

Data Views

• Conditionally display filter reset button. (59432)
• Use aria-disabled on disabled checkboxes and add tooltips. (59364)

Design Tools

• Shadows: Improve accessibility of shadows dropdown. (58828)

Block Editor

• Fix canvas iframe button accessibility and silent tab stops. (59317)
• Fix: Disable 'Open save panel' when there are no changes to save, while navigating with keyboard. (59543)

Block Library

• List block: Allow tab to indent/outdent at selection start. (59199)

Custom Fields

• Add visual indicator if a block is connected to block binding source. (59185)

Performance

Block Editor

• Block Bindings: Do not use useSource hook conditionally. (59403)
• Block Preview: Optimize default additional styles. (59556)

Experiments

Layout

• Add Grid interactivity experiment to allow canvas interaction with grid layout. (59052)

Components

• Tabs: Rename initialTabId prop to defaultTabId. (59035)

Font Library

• Fix infinite loop when calling wp_get_upload_dir in a function that's used to filter font_dir. (58839)

Documentation

• Add hyperlink to media-upload documentation. (57170)
• Add title and link for data-wp-each-child. (59505)
• Adds import statement to code usage example. (59327)
• Core Block Reference: Add allowedBlocks field. (59424)
• Core Block Reference: Add ancestor status and refactor generation logic. (59390)
• Create block interactivity: Fix minimum versions. (59375)
• Docs: Fix typo in Tutorial. (59581)
• Docs: Fix typo in blocks attributes guide. (59571)
• Docs: Remove TOC, update formatting, and fix grammar in Interactivity API reference. (59406)
• Fix @wordpress/interactivity module ID in documentation. (59419)
• Fix: Multi line comment format on footnotes block. (59312)
• Format PHP inline comments correctly. (59452)
• Interactivity API Docs: Add async actions documentation. (59401)
• Interactivity API Docs: Add initial version of getContext and getElement. (59293)
• Interactivity API Docs: Add server functions documentation. (59373)
• Interactivity API Docs: Add withScope description. (59542)
• Interactivity API Docs: Fix code not closing. (59395)
• Interactivity API Docs: Update image with WordPress Make Core source. (59281)
• Interactivity API Docs: Merge Interactivity documentation to keep consistency with other packages. (59270)
• Fix comma in block-registration.md. (57248)
• Update Gutenberg versions in WP for 6.5. (59446)
• theme.json schema: Fix styles.background definition. (59595)
• theme.json schema: Update appearanceTools description. (59499)

Code Quality

• Add @global to PHP doc comments. (59522 and 59287)
• ESLint: Enable react/jsx-boolean-value for the Gutenberg codebase and fix. (59557)
• Editor: Remove MoreDropdownMenuComponent. (59096)
• Interface: Remove unused MoreMenuFeatureToggle component. (59095)
• Remove old templates list code. (59558)
• Replace Navigator isSmall prop #53560. (59304)
• Theme JSON Tests: Refactor base styles to a static variable. (58975)
• Update: Simplify code and use capture events instead of pointer-events hack. (59565)
• l10n: Unify terminology to screen size. (59456)

Block Library

• BlockPopover: Remove __unstableCoverTarget and __unstableRefreshSize in favour of BlockPopoverCover. (59228)
• Blocks: Refactor deletion warnings dialog. (58952)
• Navigation Block: Remove unnecessary @param annotation. (59559)
• Site Title Block: Rename and move edit file. (56357)

Font Library

• Replace deprecated isSmall prop with size="small" prop. (59530)
• Update font collection JSON schema to accommodate the changes made in wp_register_font_collection. (59314)
• Use NavigatorProvider in Font Library Modal. (59036)

Components

• CustomSelectControlV2: Remove legacy adapter layer. (59420)
• Remove unused useLatestRef() hook. (59471)
• SnackbarList, Snackbar: Add unit test. (59157)

Global Styles

• Create a style preview component. (59498)
• Global styles variations: Refactor directory structure. (59491)

Post Editor

• Editor: Use hooks instead of HoCs in DocumentOutline. (59209)
• EditorInitialization: Fix ESLint warnings for internal hooks. (59118)

Block Editor

• getDirectInsertBlock: Remove 'directInsert' as a callback handler. (59172)
• mergeBlocks: Remove unused MERGE_BLOCKS action. (59125)

Typography

• Remove Gutenberg font face tests. (59402)

Site Editor

• Global styles: Rename typography elements file. (59355)

Synced Patterns

• Remove unneeded pattern overrides translation strings. (59269)

Navigation Menus

• Revert removal of Nav fallback auto embed. (59220)

Tools

Testing

• Add a fixture for the wp/block pattern block current version with overrides. (59492)
• E2E: Refactor setup method to support class inheritance in RequestUtils. (59362)
• Migrate 'autosave' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (58171)
• Playwright: Pass the payload to createPost in data instead of query params to avoid URI too long errors. (59463)
• Restore patterns end-to-end tests. (59024)
• Rich text: Run end-to-end tests in Firefox and Webkit. (56030)
• Writing flow: Add multi select end-to-end test for firefox and webkit. (53513)

Build Tooling

• Project: Update the '.git-blame-ignore-revs' list. (59615)

Security

Custom Fields

• Block Bindings: Don't show protected fields that are bound to blocks. (59326)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @huzaifaalmesbah: Docs: Fix typo in Tutorial. (59581)
• @mattgrshaw: Editor: Fix post type check in isEditingTemplate selector. (59105)
• @shail-mehta: Add @global to PHP doc comments. (59287)
• @TeresaGobble: Docs: Fix typo in blocks attributes guide. (59571)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@afercia @ajlende @alanjacobmathew @andrewserong @annezazu @arthur791004 @bacoords @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @chad1008 @creativecoder @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @desrosj @draganescu @ellatrix @fluiddot @getdave @glendaviesnz @huzaifaalmesbah @inc2734 @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanfra @kevin940726 @madhusudhand @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mattgrshaw @michalczaplinski @mikachan @mirka @ndiego @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @pbking @ramonjd @retrofox @samueljseay @SantosGuillamot @scruffian @shail-mehta @SiobhyB @sirreal @sunil25393 @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @TeresaGobble @torounit @tyxla @WunderBart @youknowriad