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18.0.0 RC1
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Changelog

Enhancements

  • Core Data: Update method generating plural names. (59881)
  • Expand main content area to viewport when zoomed out. (59512)
  • Update 'sidebar card' appearance. (59997)

Data Views

  • Add: Command click to select item on table view. (59563)
  • DataViews: Add AND logic operators to filters. (59953)
  • DataViews: Add default getValue for fields. (59810)
  • DataViews: Implement multiple selection for filters. (59610)
  • DataViews: Make list layout stable. (59858)
  • Pages data view: Update quick-actions. (59551)
  • Reduce visual prominence of primary actions in table data views, and consolidate primary + secondary actions in ellipsis menu. (59128)

Site Editor

  • Patterns: Add a title to the category delete flow and increase line height. (59645)
  • Standardize block tools toggle button size to 32px. (59625)
  • Update index page for templates. (59792)
  • [Site Editor]: Move featured image at the top of the inspector controls. (59783)

Block Library

  • Add featured image to Media & Text block. (51491)
  • Social Icons: Update Medium icon. (57073)
  • Table Block: Fixed width table cells on by default. (49672)
  • Update Reddit social icon to latest brand guidelines. (59438)

Components

  • Add typing for date and time typing for TextControl. (59666)
  • Add: Support for menu group to the Dropdown. (59723)
  • Update the line height for components. (60028)

Design Tools

  • Add Box Shadow support for featured image. (59616)
  • Background block supports: Move block support defaults to gutenberg_render_background_support and revert gutenberg_get_background_support_styles. (59889)

Layout

  • Add Column Start and Row Start controls to Grid children. (59483)
  • Allow blocks to be grouped as a Grid. (59853)

Global Styles

  • Remove preset headers. (59504)
  • Try color and typography presets in Site View. (59594)

Block API

  • Display settings 'label' defined by the 'register_setting' method. (59243)

Rich Text

  • RichText: Add non breaking space shortcut on Windows. (43150)

New APIs

  • Support the PluginDocumentSettingPanel slot in the site editor. (59985)
  • Add pre 6.5 compat for viewStyles. (59322)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

  • Add filter for duotone to account for gutenberg_restore_image_outer_container in classic themes. (59764)
  • Add richText identifier to blocks. (59056)
  • Close navigation link ui on escape. (59838)
  • Code block: Preserve newlines. (59627)
  • Do not focus new navigation block menu until loading is finished. (59801)
  • File: Add center alignment editor class for classic themes. (59975)
  • Fix create menu after menu switch. (59630)
  • Fix image layout shift from placeholder to selected placeholder. (59857)
  • Fix overlay issue when empty featured image is used in Cover Block. (59855)
  • Media & Text: Remove the duplicate Media width control. (59776)
  • Prevent default on primary+k to prevent command center from opening on navigation link. (59845)
  • Quote: Show as active when deeply nested child block is selected. (59662)
  • RichText: Document the identifier prop. (60036)
  • Social icons: Only render label container when there's a label. (60060)
  • Template Parts: Fix typo in translatable string. (59816)
  • Ensure consistent return type in WP_Navigation_Block_Renderer::Get_markup_for_inner_block(). (59820)
  • Return early from saving meta data for the navigation without a $post->ID. (59875)

Font Library

  • Avoid auto-removing font families without font faces. (59910)
  • Ensure that errors reported from uploading font files are not duplicated. (59564)
  • Fix JS errors when activating or deactivating system fonts. (59935)
  • Fix typo in upload text. (59655)
  • Polish Google Fonts consent box. (59631)
  • Refactors the upload handler in order to check if files being uploaded are valid font files. (59648)
  • Reset notices when navigating away from the collection. (59981)

Interactivity API

  • Backport fixes from Core. (59903)
  • Fix interactivity api end-to-end tests. (59836)
  • Interactivity: Ensure stores are initialized on client. (59842)
  • Interactivity: Restore scope when yielded promise rejects. (59708)
  • Prevent non-object state from being added. (59886)
  • Re-introduce data_wp_context() with _deprecated_function() call. (59834)

Site Editor

  • Don't display welcome guide in hybrid theme. (55865)
  • Editor: Fix loading templates using a top level pattern block that includes a template part. (59900)
  • Fix opening of save panel when using the save shortcut. (59647)
  • Fix selected featured image when opening media library. (59769)
  • Make the delete navigation menu confirm dialogs consistent. (59825)
  • Restore the back button when navigating to the template from the home page. (59639)

Block Editor

  • Fix allow mouse users to edit link text when Link UI is active. (59635)
  • Fix crash when unmounting an editor iframe. (59992)
  • Handle when attributes param passed into hasStickyOrFixedPositionValue is nullish. (59800)
  • List view: Fix stuck moving animation on Enter. (59644)
  • Shadow support enable skip serialization for dynamic blocks. (59887)
  • FlatTermSelector: Invalidate optimistic update if term creation fails. (59945)

Global Styles

  • Fix retrieval of referenced preset values in editor. (59811)
  • Global Syles: Apply fallback background color to typography elements. (59347)
  • Presets: Show the default empty variation as well as the other presets. (59717)
  • Remove filter for same number of settings. (59590)
  • Site editor: Find font families for typography presets crashes editor. (59806)
  • Force root min-height of 100% for backgrounds. (59809)

Patterns

  • Add pattern title in create modal in post editor. (59550)
  • Implement pattern overrides behind IS_GUTENBERG_PLUGIN flag. (59702)
  • Pattern Explorer: Pass 'rootClientId' to the pattern list. (60014)
  • Pattern Shuffling: Don't assume that patterns have categories. (60070)

Data Views

  • Ensure the 'select all' checkbox appears on hover. (59799)
  • Fix: Regression: Default templates and template parts views do not work. (59794)
  • Ignore cmd-click when row not selectable. (59697)
  • [DataViews]: Fix item actions. (59748)

Components

  • DateTimePicker: Change day button size back from 32px to 28px. (59990)
  • Fix unwanted ToggleGroupControl backdrop vertical animation. (59642)
  • PaletteEdit: Fix order numbers. (52212)

Layout

  • Experiments: Fix label typo: "Grid interactivity". (59796)
  • Show inherit toggle in the absence of settings.layout object. (59580)
  • Use correct layout type to display controls. (59979)

List View

  • Block Bindings: Remove Block Bindings icon from List View, fixes and CSS updates. (59477)
  • Heading Block: Show default block name in list view when content is empty. (59827)
  • Blocks: getBlockLabel: Use RichTextData.toPlainText if available. (58524)

Data Layer

  • Fix getEntityRecordsTotalPages when per_page is not provided. (59983)

Icons

  • Fix return icon viewbox. (59669)

Accessibility

  • Add tooltip to several Back buttons. (59760)
  • Make save panel a dialog with proper labels, fix site editor focus loss after save. (59622)
  • Fix labeling of the navigation links in the list view. (59370)

Documentation

  • Block JSON schema: Add layout.allowCustomContentAndWideSize field. (59736)
  • Components: Fix headline hierarchy in README. (59726)
  • Components: Hide private READMEs from handbook. (60003)
  • Dataviews: Improve story. (59773)
  • Docs/fix typo in metadata reference guide. (59577)
  • Docs/fix typos and clarify wording in blocks supports guide. (59721)
  • Docs/fix typos in block context. (59575)
  • Docs/fix typos in block registration guide. (59720)
  • Docs/fix typos in block supports. (59919)
  • Docs/fix typos in edit and save reference guide. (59576)
  • Docs: Flex - Fix headline hierarchy. (59686)
  • Docs: List all minor versions on Versions in WordPress page. (58003)
  • Docs: Remove alert callout on block selectors page. (60020)
  • Docs: Update Interactivity API package readme. (59763)
  • Fix broken links in Interactivity API documentation. (59715)
  • Fix sample code on InputControl documentation. (59517)
  • Fix typo in platform-docs. (60042)
  • Fix: Invalid links to getting started with JavaScript. (59927)
  • Fixes pseudo code doc block to use real PHP. (60012)
  • HeadingLevelDropdown: Fix JSDoc and documentation. (59727)
  • Improve Gutenberg platform documentation homepage. (59749)
  • InputControl: Make onChange observable in Storybook. (60055)
  • Interactivity API Docs: Clarify that getElement()'s ref can be null. (59868)
  • Platform Docs: Fix JSX error. (59967)
  • Plugin short description less than 150 characters. (59661)
  • RadioControl: Update deprecated suggestion in readme. (60002)
  • Replace screenshots of Radio Control. (60024)
  • Replace “sidebar” with “panel” in README.md. (59664)
  • Update GitHub edit URL in docusaurus.config.js. (59969)
  • Update React documentation links for forms. (59657)
  • Update api-reference - data-bind--hidden is an incorrrect attribute - should be data-wp-bind--hidden. (59955)
  • Update block supports documentation for WordPress 6.5. (59862)
  • Update dependency-extraction-webpack-plugin documentation. (59973)
  • docs: Fix syntax in block filters example. (59636)
  • theme.json schema: Add settings.color.caption definition. (60017)

Code Quality

  • Add $schema to tsconfig files. (59861)
  • Added @global to PHP documentation Comments. (59725)
  • Consolidate template actions components. (59586)
  • Core Data: Clarify comments for entities' plural methods. (59946)
  • Fix Code Standards for RC 2 release. (59774)
  • Fix typo in Dataviews and Font Collection packages. (59656)
  • Fix: Typo correction tff to ttf. (59665)
  • Global styles utils: Remove unused vars. (59805)
  • Refactor zoom-out iframe scale. (59618)
  • Refine include/exclude patterns in phpcs.xml.dist. (59712)
  • Typography Presets: Use && rather to avoid a messy nested conditional. (59920)
  • synchronizeBlocksWithTemplate: Extract common functions. (59682)

Block Editor

  • Block tree reducer: Avoid nested update for insertUsage. (59681)
  • Block tree reducer: Avoid repetitive Map.get. (59672)
  • BlockSettingsDropdown: No need to cast 'clientIds' to an array. (59940)
  • BlockSettingsMenuControls: Remove '__unstableDisplayLocation' prop. (59942)
  • Don't memoize callbacks in 'BlockSettingsDropdown'. (59397)
  • Link dialog: Remove CSS hack. (59746)
  • Pattern Explorer: Remove leftover source filter state handlers. (60019)

Components

  • Button : Deprecate isSmall prop. (59734)
  • Button: Keep deprecated props in type definitions. (59913)
  • Replace isSmall prop with size in NavigationMenuSelector. (59667)
  • Replace isSmall prop #53560. (59302)
  • TextareaControl: Remove extra closing curly brace in inputStyleNeutral. (59744)
  • Update Snapshots for line height. (60041)

Block Library

  • Add explanatory comment to Nav Link block fix for Command Center. (59864)
  • Enforce @SInCE tags in block-library/src//.php files. (59700)
  • Refactor Enter keypress on Nav Link. (59848)
  • Update Nav block permissions variable naming accuracy. (59882)

Global Styles

  • Fetch the variations inside the component. (59588)
  • Theme JSON: Remove unused vars in layout class. (59938)
  • Use the preivew iframe to preview typography for consistency. (59587)
  • Background block supports: Move size defaults to hooks and block.json. (60008)

Plugin

  • Remove unnecessary 'IS_GUTENBERG_PLUGIN' check in 'load.php'. (59873)
  • Update PHP Sync Issue generation script to ignore PRs with given labels. (59549)

Data Views

  • Update: Dataviews do not use strings on isCustom props passed down. (59609)
  • [Data Views]: Remove separator in item actions. (59822)

Data Layer

  • Data: Deprecate the getIsResolving selector. (59679)

Tools

Build Tooling

  • Add inline comment denoting version for Ruby setup. (59640)
  • Build: Dedupe packages. (57800)
  • GitHub Actions: Fix PHP file change detection logic. (59653)
  • Improve likelihood of Cherry Picking script including all PRs. (59871)
  • Interactive template: Use wp_interactivity_data_wp_context function. (59995)
  • Test: Dynamically detect and set max-workers. (59904)
  • Update docusaurus to the latest version. (59866)

Testing

  • Remove @kevin940726 and @Mamaduka from end-to-end test codeowners. (60067)
  • Upgrade Playwright to v1.42. (59339)
  • Use viewScriptModule block.json field for interactivity end-to-end tests. (59705)
  • end-to-end theme switch: Match incoming theme slug, then optional folder. (59851)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @afragen @ajlende @alexstine @andrewfleming @anton-vlasenko @artemiomorales @bacoords @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @chrisbellboy @colinduwe @creativecoder @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @draganescu @ellatrix @enejb @enodekciw @flexseth @fluiddot @gaambo @georgestephanis @geriux @getdave @huzaifaalmesbah @inc2734 @J0n-92 @jaclync @jameskoster @jasmussen @Jayanth-Parthsarathy @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @kevin940726 @krokodok @luislard @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mattsherman @mcsf @megane9988 @michalczaplinski @mirka @mujuonly @mzahir @ndiego @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @pbking @ramonjd @rcoll @SahilThakur02 @Sam-Xronn @scruffian @shail-mehta @SiobhyB @sirreal @Soean @Strangehill @sunil25393 @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @TeresaGobble @tjcafferkey @tomepajk @tyxla @vcanales @youknowriad

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