WordPress/gutenberg v18.1.0

18.1.0

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Changelog

Enhancements

Block Editor

• Zoom out: Invoke zoom out mode when opening the patterns tab, and move the code to do so to a shared hook. (59775)
• Block Previews: Update shadows in different contexts. (60161)
• Update: Move post actions to the editor package. (60092)
• Try: Show copy shortcut in block options. (60339)
• Update image role description text to fix spacing. (60338)

Site Editor

• Add rename page action. (60230)
• Center the document title. (59134)
• Consolidate when showing revisions link or action. (60194)
• Editor: Update hover color of editor document title. (60113)
• Improve the frame animation. (60363)
• Try selecting closest editable block when clicking on a disabled block. (60016)
• Update index view for pages. (59950)

Patterns

• Add content schema to pattern editing view. (59977)
• Close inspector on pattern category select. (60004)
• Focus block selection button only in navigation mode. (60207)
• Pattern Shuffling: Make the results deterministic. (60074)
• Patterns page: Enable table layout. (60337)
• Prevent reordering of header and footer template parts when zoomed out. (60054)
• Remove manage all of my patterns link. (60345)

Block Library

• Add __next40pxDefaultSize to Image block Title Attribute. (60117)
• Add support "HTML Element" to Site Tagline. (59654)
• Image: Remove temporary image check for rendering controls. (60212)
• Quote block: Button for cite add/remove. (59073)
• Quote block: Remove appender. (60307)
• Reduce specificity of block library styles conflicting with block supports. (59457)
• Update navigation blocks to use consistent link UI labels and field sizes. (60116)
• Summary: Polish featured image. (60110)

Post Editor

• Block Editor: Deprecate __experimentalGetReusableBlockTitle selector. (60278)
• Editor: Move PluginPostPublishPanel and PluginPrePublishPanel to editor package. (60344)
• Editor: Move publish panel handling to editor store. (60340)
• Editor: Unify publish sidebar preference. (60334)

Global Styles

• Add background to global styles changes output. (60229)
• Background UI controls. (59454)
• Follow up design tweaks for global styles presets. (60031)
• Try reducing specificity of global styles selectors only. (60106)

Data Views

• DataViews: Add a utility to share filtering, sorting and pagination logic. (59897)
• Data views: Remove the enumeration type as redundant. (60084)
• Data views: Update template actions. (60075)
• Data views: Add confirmation modal for clearing customizations in templates. (60119)
• Data views: Make trash a quick action again. (60165)

List View

• Add keyboard shortcut to collapse list view items other than the focused item. (59978)
• Adjust the List View close icon to resemble the Inspector close icon. (59999)
• Update "Actions" string to "Options" in List View. (60136)

Templates

• Add filter to allow extending the list of post content blocks. (60068)
• Render non-editable preview of template part when user does not have capability to edit template part. (60326)
• Template Parts: Remove pattern title from sidebar. (60160)
• Template Parts: Update replace flow to separate template parts from patterns. (60203)
• Template Parts: Update the 'Replace' label to 'Design'. (60156)

Zoom Out

• Add a delete control to toolbar on zoomed out mode. (60214)
• Media dialog push content in zoomed out mode. (60170)

Components

• Popover / ToggleGroupControl: Use useReducedMotion() from @wordpress/compose. (60168)
• date-fns: Bump to v3.6. (60163)

REST API

• Allow view access of template rest endpoint to anyone with the edit_post capability. (60317)

Commands

• Polish Command Palette. (60134)

Page Content Focus

• Allow selecting template parts in page content focus mode. (60010)

Inspector Controls

• Add: PostCardPanel component. (59870)

Package and utility updates

• Router: Update history package to 5.3.0, fix query string generation. (60271)
• Create block: Add new namespacePascalCase template variable. (60223)

New APIs

Extensibility

• Extensibility: Support PluginBlockSettingsMenuItem in the site editor. (60033)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Fix enqueuing block theme styles when separate asset loading is enabled. (60098)
• Fix lightbox UI disallow editing. (59890)
• Fix navigation link ui close focus management. (59925)
• Removed pointer-events none inline style due it blocking crop action. (60305)
• Search Block: Apply font-related style inheritance to input field. (60321)
• Columns block: Fix arrow up into it. (55197)

Site Editor

• Fix rendering PluginTemplateSettingPanel when we're editing a template. (60215)
• Fix: Use viewportWidth in pattern preview data view. (60315)
• Templates: Fix deferred rendering. (60361)
• Site Editor: Consolidate save button functionality. (60077)
• Revert #60300: Make sure the CSS class id-dark-theme is added to the editor iframe body. (60616)

Block Editor

• Make sure the CSS class is-dark-theme is added to the editor iframe body. (60300)
• Raw handling: Preserve class. (60331)
• Raw handling: Preserve empty paragraphs. (59476)
• Wiriting flow: Backspace at beginning of first paragraph block prevents block from being deleted. (56329)
• DOM: Fix return types of focus.tabbable methods. (60274)

Components

• CustomSelectControlV2: Fix hint behavior in legacy. (60183)
• InputControl: Ignore IME events when isPressEnterToChange. (60090)
• TextControl: Apply zero margin to input element. (60282)

Global Styles

• Fix missing class for Global Styles > Colors. (60094)
• Reset specificity of body selector when processing with postcss. (60266)
• Shadow: Revert shadow default presets opt-in to opt-out. (60204)
• Global Styles: Make strings translatable. (60127)
• Skip outputting base layout rules that reference content or wide sizes if no layout sizes exist. (60489)

Zoom Out

• Fix zoom out mode toggling between pattern category selection. (60225)

Data Views

• Fix focus outline visibility and truncation in data view record titles. (60191)

Layout

• Fix horizontal flex layout in classic themes. (60154)

Post Editor

• Editor: Memoize 'getInsertionPoint' selector. (60015)
• Fix block toolbar dropdown separator color. (60336)
• Backport r57868 (Editor: Prevent font folder naive filtering causing infinite loops) from WordPress-Develop. (60141)

Block templates

• Add null check to prevent errors in get_block_template filter. (60491)

Utilities

• URL: Return early in getFilename where URL argument is falsy. (60265)

Accessibility

Data Views

• Add click-to-select behavior on table rows. (59803)
• Data views list layout: Apply focus styles to items on focus-visible rather than focus. (60253)
• Update field display in grid layout. (60083)
• Data Views: Updating keyboard navigation in list layouts. (59637)

Site Editor

• Restore Style book close button tooltip. (60177)

Block Library

• Remove CSS order property from social icons placeholder UI. (60032)

Performance

Block Editor

• Avoid fetching all reusable blocks (user patterns) on post/site editor load. (58239)
• Block editor: Optimize hasSelectedInnerBlock selector. (60330)
• Templates performance: Resolve patterns server side. (60349)

Block Library

• Template part: Avoid pattern fetch on mount. (60297)

Block Editor

• Inserter: Cache search normalization results. (60080)
• Format library: Improve unknown format performance. (48761)

Experiments

Site Editor

• Zoom-out view: Disable canvas resizing. (60104)

Documentation

• Add auto generated API documentation for editor package. (60356)
• Add component props documentation. (60350)
• Add php @global documentation. (59931)
• Change heading level on troubleshooting section. (60233)
• CustomSelectControlV2: Match v1 stories to test legacy component. (60182)
• Docs (general): Fix some typos. (60260)
• Fix @todo tags to follow standards in WordPress comments. (60148)
• Fix Font Collection JSON schema definition. (60285)
• Fix: Invalid documentation link to load JavaScript. (60181)
• Fix: Invalid links to the block supports api. (60199)
• Fix: Non existent link to submitting to the block directory. (60389)
• Interactivity API: Variable name correction in the documentation. (60056)
• Create Block: Update external template documentation to include variants. (60095)

Code Quality

Block Editor

• Add comment for unmemoized context. (60272)
• Fix ESLint warning in BlockListBlock component. (60064)
• RichText: Switch from disableEditing to standard html readonly attribute. (60327)
• Site Editor: Reuse inserter search term normalization. (60218)
• canInsertBlockType: Extract helper for selector dependants. (60235)
• Fix editor canvas overflow on search results with position: Relative. (60287)
• Editor: Move template areas to editor package. (60179)

Components

• CustomSelectControlV2: Rename for consistency. (60178)
• Navigator: Fix two nits. (60273)
• NavigatorProvider: Move all state management to one reducer. (60190)
• Components: Try obviating Popover pointer event trap. (59449)

Post Editor

• Memoize the getTemplateInfo selector. (60200)
• Update: Remove template summary component. (60351)
• Update: Use getPostIcon selector on document bar. (60128)
• Distraction free: Remove unwanted space from string. (60108)

Global Styles

• Additional CSS: Add code comments contextualising tranformStyles for clarity. (60267)
• Global styles: output :root selector for CSS custom properties. (42084)
• Style Engine: Continue get_classnames loop after adding the default classname. (60153)

Font Library

• Add test for Font Library and Theme Style Variations. (60250)
• Update google fonts font collection data URL to the latest version available. (60079)

Block Library

• Image: Use the new 'useUploadMediaFromBlobURL' hook. (60208)
• Navigation Block: Add test coverage to check that post content is not removed. (60189)

Site Editor

• DataViews: Don't memoize every callback 'PagePages' component. (60103)
• History: Simplify the push and replace methods. (60112)

Rich Text

• RichText: Separate fallback instance ID for selection retrieval. (60277)

Block Locking

• E2E: Test BlockSwitcher availability in l-post-ul-group CPT. (60254)

Data Views

• DataViews: Fix react warning error in list layout. (60101)

Tools

Testing

• Automated Testing: Remove Puppeteer CI Job. (59311)
• CustomSelectControlV2: Stabilize tests. (60133)
• E2E: Fix flaky Site Editor pages end-to-end test. (60109)
• Font Library: Add upload font test. (60221)

Build Tooling

• Blocks: Fix double gutenberg_ prefix in built dynamic blocks PHP. (60288)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors 🎉 :

• @interdevel: Fix @todo tags to follow standards in WordPress comments. (60148)
• @mikeybinns: Add component props documentation. (60350)
• @nirav7707: Editor: Update hover color of editor document title. (60113)
• @steveariss: Interactivity API: Variable name correction in the documentation. (60056)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @andrewhayward @andrewserong @artemiomorales @bph @draganescu @ellatrix @fabiankaegy @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @interdevel @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @madhusudhand @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mcsf @mikachan @mikeybinns @mirka @mujuonly @n2erjo00 @nirav7707 @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @okmttdhr @pedro-mendonca @peterwilsoncc @ramonjd @richtabor @ryanwelcher @scruffian @shail-mehta @Soean @steveariss @stokesman @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @torounit @tyxla @youknowriad