WordPress/gutenberg v18.4.0-rc.1

18.4.0 RC1

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Changelog

Features

Site Editor

• Adds "Template Parts" command to site editor. (61287)

Enhancements

Global Styles

• Add aspect ratio presets support via theme.json. (47271)
• Background images: Remove required "file" prop. (61387)
• Change "Solid" tab to "Color". (61366)
• Improve panel title and description for palette. (61365)
• Tweak palette panel spacing and empty message. (61368)
• Update color variations. (61334)

Zoom Out

• Editor: Enable Zoom-out mode in the post editor. (61293)
• Keep original viewport width (single scale). (61424)
• Open inserter sidebar when clicking on inserter buttons on zoom-out mode. (61434)
• Remove experimental zoom out control. (61509)
• Zoomed Out View: Don't close the inserter. (61004)

Data Views

• Dataviews: Add: Bulk actions toolbar. (59714)
• Align list and table layout visuals. (61157)
• DataViews: Add actions to list layout. (60805)
• Make pattern preview click area larger. (61250)
• Post Type Actions: Unify the list of available actions. (61520)

Post Editor

• Editor: Add global styles to settings using existing context code. (61556)
• Post Actions: Display a notice after moving a post into the trash. (61670)
• Post Publish Flow: Simplify status term. (61386)

Layout

• Check child layout exists before generating classname. (61392)
• Hide Image block resizer when inside a grid layout. (61603)
• Stabilise grid layout visualiser and resizer. (61640)

Block Library

• Add block class name to the list block. (56469)
• Embeds: Add Bluesky variation. (61352)
• Site Logo: Add setting labels via the 'register_setting' method. (61351)

Components

• Do not render FormTokenField label when not defined. (61336)
• Placeholder: Tweak placeholder style. (61590)

Patterns

• Only add the selected pattern category in metadata during insertion. (61557)

Block Editor

• Block editor: Add a keyboard shortcut to create group from the selected blocks. (46972)
• Enhance block outlines and selection interactions. (60757)
• Tiny tweak to position close button properly in the inserter. (61461)

Extensibility

• PluginSidebar: Show pin/unpin button on the site eitor. (61448)

Site Editor

• Redirect /wp_template_part/all to /patterns. (61446)
• Moves "Patterns" command to site editor main navigation. (61416)

Navigation Menus

• Remove default entry into Navigation Menu focus mode but retain ability to access via "Edit". (61275)

Synced Patterns

• Add content only descriptions in dropdown menus for patterns and templates. (61127)

Block Styles

• Add extended version of register block style functions. (61029)

Editor

• Editor: Unify Header component. (61273)
• Editor: Unify the sidebar between the post and site editors. (61507)
• Editor: Update and simplify the Post Summary and Post Card section in the document sidebar. (61624)
• Improve success messages of some post actions. (61539)
• Try: Improve date-wrapping in prepublish flow. (61490)
• Update: Implement the new discussion panel design. (61357)

New APIs

Extensibility

• Make BlockPopover component public. (61529)

Bug Fixes

Layout

• Fix grid item resizing in non-iframed editor. (61636)
• Fix resizing items to top and left with GridItemResizer. (60986)
• Grid Visualizer: Fix grid item resizing in site editor. (61641)
• Grid Visualizer: Fix resize not ending when mouse is released outside grid's bounds. (61668)
• GridItemResizer: Fix resizing when List View is open. (61643)
• Only show grid resizer if grid block allows resizing on children. (61552)

Zoom Out

• Block editor: Scroll block into view on insert. (61418)
• Fix double scrollbars in site editor with zoom out view enabled. (61548)
• Fix zoom out UI scale. (61265)
• Add bottom and top inserters. (61473)
• Add patterns loading state. (61513)
• Don't allow dropping outside section root. (61512)
• Don't select last block. (61484)
• Pass the section root ID to the inserter. (61464)
• Zoom-out: Fix iframe ref error. (61200)

Block Library

• Add list item wrapper to social links when used in navigation block. (61396)
• Fix: Remove font weight on toolbar tab button - #61254. (61308)
• Fix: Time to Read block showing "this block has encountered an error" - #61459. (61614)
• Image Block: Enable crop action when image has a link. (61470)
• Shortcode Block: Fix layout margin override. (55028)

Global Styles

• Background image: Explicitly set background repeat value in user styles. (61526)
• Background image: Size controls should show when an image is set. (61388)
• Make sure to replace all instances of :Where(body) instead of just …. (61602)
• Reduce specificity of global styles body margin reset rule. (61340)
• Remove Post Template background override. (61545)

Block Editor

• Editor styles: Fix cache (by wrapper selector). (61397)
• Fix Truncate component for long unbreakable text. (61137)
• Fix focus loss due to filtering blocks. (61558)
• Fix: The issue of appender button not clickable in row/stack group. (61585)
• Writing Flow/Rich Text: Unify split logic. (54543)

List View

• Account for text fields in shortcut handler. (61583)
• Add a special case for shortcuts coming from modals. (61606)
• Standardize List View feature name to use title case capitalization. (61535)

Components

• Fix inconsistent complementary header styles. (61331)
• Fix sticking “Reset” option in ToolsPanel. (60621)
• RadioControl: Fix shrinking radio controls. (61476)

Interactivity API

• Interactivity API: Allow multiple event handlers for the same type with data-wp-on-document and data-wp-on-window. (61009)
• Interactivity API: Prevent empty namespace or different namespaces from killing the runtime. (61409)
• Interactivity API: Prevent wrong written directives from killing the runtime. (61249)

Site Editor

• Fix user capabilities check for the Site Editor. (61444)
• Preserve the wp_theme_preview query arg when navigating in Site Editor. (61394)
• Trigger sidebar animations only on cross-route navigations. (61402)
• Site Editor: Restore the hover zoom effect when hovering the editor frame. (61647)

Data Views

• Fix regression on keyboard navigation. (61478)
• fix: Improve dataview types. (61586)

Patterns

• Fix blocks in unsynced patterns can enable overrides. (61639)

Synced Patterns

• Revert "Use contentOnly locking for pattern block, remove hard-coded block check in block inspector". (61517)

Widgets Editor

• Hide the close button on the inserter for widgets editor. (61510)

Post Editor

• Edit Post: Fix the 'usePaddingAppender' error. (61500)

Accessibility

Block Editor

• Focus currently selected block when entering canvas. (61472)
• Focus inserter toggle when closing the inserter sidebar. (61467)

Components

• ComboboxControl supports disabled items. (61294)
• Remove usage of aria-details from InputControl and BaseControl. (61203)

Post Editor

• Post Actions: Correctly disable dropdown trigger. (61625)

Block Library

• Fix the RRS block placeholder labeling and improve spacing. (61576)

Zoom Out

• Inserter: Add close button. (61421)

Performance

• Calculate and report quartiles in performance results. (60950)
• Refactor InserterTabs to use children and remove re-memoizing. (61295)
• Tests: Improve collection and reporting. (61450)
• Performance tests: Fix results file path. (61686)
• Revert "useBlockSync: Remove isControlled effect". (61480)

Experiments

Layout

• Grid interactivity: Improve max attribute logic. (61420)
• Grid interactivity: Improve how grid resizer handles 0-width and 0-height cells. (61423)
• Grid interactivity: Show grid visualizer when block inspector is closed. (61429)

Documentation

• Update old document URLs to new ones. (61595)
• Add a section about block_editor_settings_all to the Filters and Hooks doc. (61597)
• Add link to VS Code Playwright Extension. (61505)
• Added check for duplicated slugs during manifest.json generation. (61332)
• Block Editor: Remove multiline prop from Richtext doc. (61592)
• Docs: How-to Guides > Meta Boxes - Update metabox.md. (61314)
• Docs: Interactivity API - Add viewScriptModule as a requirement to work with the Interactivity API. (61355)
• Docs: Interactivity API : New pages - About and FAQ. (61323)
• Docs: Interactivity Api - Small fixes. (61403)
• Docs: Remove list of keyboard shortcuts from FAQ page. (61591)
• Docs: Update theme-json-living.md to fix little issue. (61354)
• Fix WP versions for theme.json v3 migration in inline documentation. (61328)
• Several Typo Correction in Inline doc. (61379)
• Small fixes as per feedback received. (61445)
• Theme.json: Update schema with working create theme link. (61306)
• Update @wordpress/a11y README.md. (61635)
• Update Node.js requirement in create-block docs. (60962)
• Update and restructure the Editor Hooks doc. (61596)
• Updated links to developer resources on README.md. (61525)
• theme.json schema: Remove duplicate key. (61523)
• Several Typo Corrections in Inline Documentations. (61662)

Code Quality

• PHP load: move rest template controller 6.6 import to "REST" area. (61564)
• Background images: Remove lingering "file" prop. (61469)
• Replace classnames with clsx. (61138)
• Fix JS lint error for clsx. (61380)

Data Views

• DataViews: Expand typing more components. (61654)
• Add end-to-end tests for keyboard interactions in DataViews ListView. (61648)
• DataViews: Add types to the ViewGrid component. (61667)
• DataViews: Type the BulkActions component. (61666)
• DataViews: Type the ItemActions component. (61400)
• DataViews: Type the ViewList component. (61246)
• Remove onActionPerformed & onActionStart from the ActionModal API. (61659)

Block bindings

• Remove not needed breaks in gutenberg_block_bindings_replace_html. (61660)
• Simplify the HTML replacement logic until the HTML API is ready. (61236)

Post Editor

• Edit post: Do not consider sidebars mutually exclusive. (61468)
• Editor: Move the sidebar component to the editor package. (61497)

Components

• Assess stabilization of Theme. (61077)
• Upgrade @types/react package and @types/react-dom. (60796)
• Fix problem with gradient-parser types. (61679)

Interactivity API

• Interactivity API: Add types for warn helper. (61687)
• Interactivity: Strict type checking. (59865)

Block Editor

• Improve LineHeightControl unit tests. (61337)

Site Editor

• Site Editor sidebar: Provide explicit backPaths, remove the getBackPath helper. (61286)

Patterns

• Pattern overrides: Use block binding editing API. (60721)

Editor

• Editor: Move the starter template options to the editor package. (61665)
• Post Actions: Don't export duplicatePostAction for now. (61407)

Tools

Testing

• Convert FocalPointPicker tests to TypeScript. (61373)
• E2E: Fix artifacts handling in CI. (61338)
• Interactivity API: Fix flaky tests for attribute hydration. (61615)
• Lightbox UI block override tests. (61414)
• Playwright Utils: Silence some of the warnings coming from Firefox. (61451)
• Test: Fix failing style linting error. (61649)
• Tests: Fix flaky interactivity deferred test. (61359)

Build Tooling

• Add stylelint rule to disallow the order CSS property. (61243)
• Enforce @since tags in /packages/block-serialization-default-parser/ and other files. (60007)
• Bug: False positives for react-hooks/exhaustive-deps. (61599)
• Scripts: Add RTLCSS to wp-scripts. (61540)
• WP-ENV: Fix return type and tests. (61631)
• Create Block: Match specified engines with Gutenberg and Core. (61430)
• Set prefer-dedupe as the default. (61630)
• build: Suggest workaround if tsc --build fails. (61501)
• build:package-types: Run silently to reduce user confusion. (61530)
• GitHub Actions: Fix PHP file change detection filter pattern. (61183)
• Dedupe packages. (61532)
• Patch react-autosize-textarea for updated types. (61570)
• Upgrade @use-gesture/react. (61503)
• Upgrade framer-motion. (61572)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @amitraj2203: Embeds: Add Bluesky variation. (61352)
• @jpstevens: Convert FocalPointPicker tests to TypeScript. (61373)
• @kovshenin: Update Node.js requirement in create-block docs. (60962)
• @mrmurphy: Upgrade @types/react package and @types/react-dom. (60796)
• @scheinercc: Update @wordpress/a11y README.md. (61635)
• @StyleShit: Bug: False positives for react-hooks/exhaustive-deps. (61599)
• @vipul0425: Fix: The issue of appender button not clickable in row/stack group. (61585)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @ajlende @amitraj2203 @anton-vlasenko @artemiomorales @bacoords @carolinan @cbravobernal @colinduwe @DaniGuardiola @DAreRodz @desrosj @draganescu @ellatrix @fullofcaffeine @geriux @getdave @gigitux @hbhalodia @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jffng @johnhooks @jorgefilipecosta @jpstevens @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @kevin940726 @kovshenin @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @mcsf @mrmurphy @ndiego @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ramonjd @retrofox @richtabor @ryelle @SantosGuillamot @scheinercc @scruffian @shail-mehta @sirreal @stokesman @StyleShit @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla @vipul0425 @WunderBart @youknowriad