WordPress/gutenberg v18.6.0

18.6.0

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Changelog

Enhancements

Design Tools

• Post content block: Add background image and padding support. (62499)
• Quote blocks: Add background image and minimum height support. (62497)
• Verse block: Add background image and minimum height support. (62498)

Block Library

• Post Date & Comment Date: Add relative date format. (62298)
• Replace "Add new post" link text with more meaningful Label (v2). (62277)

Block Editor

• LinkControl: Refined the display of the link preview title and URL when both are same. (61819)
• Update URL to uppercase. (62231)

Block bindings

• Change bindings panel title, add description. (62489)

Site Editor

• Template inspector: Small visual adjustments. (62537)
• Unify DataViews Header Title & Subtitle. (62429)

Document Settings

• FlatTermSelector: Update the term suggestion limit. (62359)

Global Styles

• Update custom CSS handling to be consistent with block global styles. (62357)

Post Editor

• Try: Re-enable React StrictMode. (61943)

New APIs

Extensibility

• DataViews: Bootstrap Actions Extensibility API. (62052)

Bug Fixes

• Core Data: Fix errors when the entities list doesn't contain configuration key. (62346)
• Data Views: Bulk toolbar covering other clickable elements. (62333)
• Fix: Omit default parameters from pages, template parts, and patterns. (62372)
• Fix: Show homepage link on frontpage instead of the slug. (62279)
• Fix: Unquoted file argument in declaration check script. (62482)
• List: Fix pasting. (62428)
• MediaUpload: Remove dialog markup on close. (62168)
• Revert CSS removal for interface footer breadcrumbs. (62309)
• Revert test data for WithSlug variation. (62579)
• Scripts: Pin the @wordpress/scripts version to a version supported by 6.5. (62234)
• Site Editor Hub: Simplify. (61579)
• Style Book: Allow activation when the canvas mode is "view". (62212)
• Top toolbar: Fix half a pixel artifacting of the bottom border. (62225)
• Try: Contextual frame bg color to avoid artifacting. (62223)
• Try: Fix mover positioning. (62226)
• Update instances of text-wrap: Pretty to fall back to balance. (62233)

Global Styles

• Add default-spacing-sizes and default-font-sizes options for classic themes. (62252)
• Add custom CSS for block style variations. (62526)
• Color Variations: Use Grid rather than VStack. (62445)
• Don't apply the background and text colors to typography previews. (62578)
• Fix UI appearing on blocks that don't support text alignment. (62376)
• Fix UI order for theme.json spacing sizes. (62199)
• Fix registration of theme style variation defined block styles. (62495)
• Only use single property variations as color/type presets. (62469)
• Section Styles: Register block style variations on init. (62461)
• Section styles: Consolidate variation name. (62550)
• Section styles: Support i18n for variations declared in theme.json or theme style variations. (62552)
• Sort spacing sizes when all slugs begin numerically. (62567)

Site Editor

• Change Site Editor to Edit site. (62501)
• Fix "insert before/after" not showing for blocks in site editor. (62530)
• Site Export: Ensure that the export endpoint uses Gutenberg theme classes. (61561)
• Update old document URLs to new ones. (62206)
• Update sidebar title + icon + site title alignment. (62191)

Block Editor

• Inserter: Allow focus to move to the toggle when opening the inserter. (62513)
• Inserter: Return the same items when the state and parameters don't change. (62263)
• Remove 'rootClientId' argument for block lock selectors. (62547)
• Update fetchLinkSuggestions to sort results by relevancy. (62397)

Block Library

• Fixed Media Text Block Issue : When crop image to fill is enabled, the image in nested media & text blocks does not show. (62182)
• Media & Text block: Fix nested Media & Text block media position issue with increased CSS specificity. (62184)
• Query: Adjust the position of sticky search field in Patterns modal. (62370)

Post Editor

• Editor: Avoid remounts of DocumentBar. (62214)
• Editor: Make revisions more prominent. (62323)
• Editor: Refine availability of rename post action. (62248)
• Fix move CONTENT_ONLY_BLOCKS into component body to ensure the editor.postContentBlockTypes filter gets called whenever the values are used. (62292)

Components

• Ensure that openref is defined before accessing to .current. (62508)
• Fix: Update styles for checkbox and radio controls. (61696)
• Tabs: Prevent accidental overflow in indicator. (61979)

List View

• Fix home and end key behaviour in very long lists. (62312)
• Respect default shortcuts in modals. (62479)
• Show context menu for content-only blocks in posts. (62354)

Block bindings

• Fix applying bindings or pattern overrides to button blocks with empty text. (62220)
• Fix site editor breaking when user selects bound and non-bound blocks at the same time. (62268)
• Revert changes to bindings replacement logic to not use regex. (62355)

Synced Patterns

• Block Bindings / Pattern Overrides: Prevent normal attribute updates when a __default binding exists. (62471)
• Fix showing double icons for connected blocks in pattern editor. (62317)

Data Views

• DataViews: Fix unnecessary horizontal scrollbar in list layout. (62448)
• Page creation and duplication: Decode HTML entities in success notices. (62313)

Patterns

• Fix increasingly big canvas in the post editor when editing patterns. (62360)
• i18n: Patterns: Disambiguate singular & plural uses of 'Synced' & 'Unsynced'. (62375)

Data Layer

• Data: Add error handle to the 'registry.batch' method. (62322)

Block Variations

• Compare objects based on given properties. (62272)

Block Styles

• Remove core block style variations filters and action. (62090)

Accessibility

• Add lint rule for inaccessible disabled Button. (62080)
• Placeholders: Fix contrast. (62416)

Global Styles

• Display tooltips for pagination buttons on styles revision. (62395)

Site Editor

• Make edit site pagination buttons accessibly disabled. (62267)

Performance

• reporter: Print the stdout/stderr from the worker. (62316)

Block bindings

• Only run block bindings Gutenberg logic for sites using WordPress versions below 6.5. (62363)

Interactivity API

• Use data-wp-on-async directives in core blocks when handler does not need synchronous access to event. (62160)

Experiments

Posts/Tags/Categories Screen

• Bootstrap the dashboard layout. (62409)
• Posts Dashboard: Add a new experimental empty page. (62406)

Documentation

• Add @global PHP documentation. (60539)
• Add documentation for PostSticky and PostStickyCheck component. (62100)
• Add documentation for WordCount component. (62217)
• Added documentation for PostTrash & PostTrashCheck TimeToRead TextEditorGlobalKeyboardShortcuts PostPublishButtonLabel Component. (62116)
• Better changelogs for the JSX transform upgrade. (62265)
• Corrected @SInCE Order in Php documentation. (61992)
• Docs: Explicitly mention new behavior coming in WP 6.6 for block variations. (62399)
• EntitiesSavedStates editor component. (62377)
• Fix @since tag in docblock in WP_Theme_JSON_Data_Gutenberg. (62425)
• Fix: Invalid link on explanations documentation. (62487)
• Fixing minor syntax in DataView example code. (62560)
• Interactivity API template create block: Removed warning for generated README from template. (62324)
• PostPublishButton, PostPublishButtonLabel editor components. (62379)
• PostPublishPanel editor component. (62380)
• PostSwitchToDraftButton editor component. (62381)
• PostSyncStatus editor component. (62382)
• PostTaxonomies, PostTaxonomiesCheck, PostTaxonomiesFlatTermSelector, PostTaxonomiesPanel related editor components. (62384)
• Several typo correction in documentations. (62433)
• TableOfContents editor component. (62385)
• ThemeSupportCheck editor component. (62387)
• Update React API reference links in @wordpress/element reference-guides. (62475)
• Update: Slotfill documentation samples (links, code, and rephrase). (62271)
• UseEntitiesSavedStatesIsDirty editor component. (62388)
• block.json schema: Add supports.splitting field. (62209)

Code Quality

• Add support for local keyframes through a PostCSS plugin. (62476)
• Block style variation: Rename hook. (62464)
• Chore: Simplify a padding style on global styles. (62291)
• Convert autop package to TS. (62583)
• Convert blob package to TS. (62569)
• Convert escape-html package to TS. (62586)
• Convert token-list package to TypeScript. (62584)
• Convert warning package to TS. (62557)
• Editor: Cleanup styles and classnames. (62237)
• Editor: Deprecate PostSwitchToDraftButton. (62402)
• Editor: Introduce the Editor component and use it in the site editor. (62274)
• Fix unintended overwrite of eslint no-restricted-syntax. (62301)
• Fix: Add network-active to valid options in PluginStatus Type definition. (62450)
• Fix: Flakey deferred store test. (62571)
• Fix: Remove unused code from dataviews styles. (62275)
• Fix: Remove unused typography panel styles. (62295)
• Fixed : Disambiguate "Cover" translatable string in the context of background-panel.js. (62440)
• Move the template part menu items to the editor package. (62366)
• Shortcut Help modal: Remove CSS hack for Internet Explorer 11. (62564)
• Use stable reference for getEntityActions action. (62536)

Global Styles

• Global styles code quality refactoring. (62299)
• Migrate theme.json based on origin. (62305)
• Send theme object to setUserConfig. (61805)

Synced Patterns

• Extract the pattern overrides toolbar indicator from the block-editor package. (62514)
• Remove unused syncDerivedUpdates action. (62229)

Post Editor

• Editor: Combine selector in provider component. (62407)
• Editor: Use the Editor component in the post editor. (62339)

Site Editor

• Remove editor specific classes from shell wrapper. (62389)
• Remove unused code. (62286)

Icons

• Fix React warning error for offline icon. (62353)

Data Views

• Chore: Simplify a padding style on dataviews. (62276)

Block Editor

• Use border instead of hr for filtered block list separator. (62249)

Block bindings

• Use preview instead of publishing post in block bindings tests. (62235)

Block API

• Parser: Update validateBlock to use fixedBlock. (62178)

Tools

Testing

• Fix flaky Site Editor command center end-to-end test. (62454)
• Perf Tests: Use backward-compatible locators. (62362)
• Test using Node.js 22.x. (62341)
• Try: Fix flaky DataViews end-to-end test. (62413)
• Update Node version for flaky test reporter. (62401)
• end-to-end Utils: Add retry mechanism to the REST API discovery. (62331)

Build Tooling

• Build JS module only in development mode. (62398)
• Speed up check-build-type-declaration-files. (62538)

wp-env

• Add JSON Schema for .wp-env.json files. (36276)
• Add WP_ENV_TESTS_MYSQL_PORT / .wp-env.json .env.tests.mysqlPort option etc. (61057)

Various

• Update all ConfirmDialogs in the codebase to be size=medium. (62532)

REST API

• Themes REST API endpoint: Add stylesheet_uri and template_uri fields to the response (WP 6.6). (62211)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @aaronware: Fixing minor syntax in DataView example code. (62560)
• @BrianHenryIE: Add WP_ENV_TESTS_MYSQL_PORT / .wp-env.json .env.tests.mysqlPort option etc. (61057)
• @carstingaxion: Replace "Add new post" link text with more meaningful Label (v2). (62277)
• @up1512001: Change Site Editor to Edit site. (62501)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @aaronware @afercia @ajlende @akasunil @amitraj2203 @andrewserong @BrianHenryIE @carolinan @carstingaxion @cbravobernal @colorful-tones @DaniGuardiola @desrosj @ellatrix @fabiankaegy @geriux @gigitux @gziolo @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @joemcgill @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @kevin940726 @Mamaduka @mcsf @mirka @narenin @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @ramonjd @richtabor @SantosGuillamot @scruffian @shail-mehta @sirreal @stokesman @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tjcafferkey @up1512001 @vipul0425 @westonruter @WunderBart @youknowriad