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18.7.0 RC1
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Changelog

Enhancements

  • Add: Content panel for template parts. (62034)
  • Move Sticky toggle to status popover. (62782)
  • Rename yieldToMain to splitTask and export from @wordpress/interactivity. (62665)
  • Update: Check assignable properties on the duplicate action. (62590)
  • Update: Followups to the template and template_lock rest api addition. (62696)
  • Update: Reverse backport changes on post type REST API changes. (62751)
  • Align naming modals. (62788)
  • Add writing mode support to other blocks. (62727)
  • Display the DocumentBar for Style Book and Style Revisions. (62669)
  • fetchLinkSuggestions: Allow for partial matching. (62570)
  • DataViews: Support passing the registry to actions callbacks. (62505)
  • Add tooltip on hover of color and typography presets. (62201)
  • Revert change that removes the social link block when pressing backspace in the URL Popover. (61344)

Bug Fixes

  • Add context in post actions API. (62443)
  • Add html to reset styles for the .editor-styles-wrapper container. (62350)
  • Cherry pick script: Make authenticated requests. (62473)
  • Editor: Fix blocked Post Publish Panel buttons on mobile. (62736)
  • Fix cherry-pick script, add missing --repo arg. (62643)
  • Fix rawHandling, pasteHandling for mixed content with blocks and classic. (62545)
  • Fix: Active template is not highlighted properly in list view. (62811)
  • Fix: Check Capability to create pages on DataViews add new page button. (62592)
  • Fix: Check ability to create patterns on the add new pattern modal. (62633)
  • Fix: Check create capability on duplicate post action. (62620)
  • Fix: Check permissions on duplicate pattern and template part actions. (62757)
  • Fix: Comments and Pingbacks get cleared out when a pattern is edited. (62507)
  • Fix: DataViews: Active page is not highlighted properly in list view. (62378)
  • Fix: Include permission management on permanently delete, rename, and restore. (62754)
  • Fix: List view renders an empty menu when no actions are eligible. (62786)
  • Fix: Post_type template is not used when creating a page in site editor. (62488)
  • Fix: Resetting template part causes notification saying it's been delete. (62521)
  • Fix: The trash post action doesn't take into account user capabilities. (62589)
  • Inspector: Improve handling of long words in post titles. (62691)
  • Revert "Revert test data for WithSlug variation (#62579)". (62587)
  • Show publish panel only in edit mode. (62813)
  • Site Editor: Improve the frame animation. (62676)
  • DataViews: Remove selection correcting, set initial state. (62796)
  • Pattern overrides: Disallow override for image with caption/href. (62747)
  • Editor: Make VisualEditor a stacking context. (62681)
  • Fix toggle active font logic. (62614)
  • Save Panel: Remove connections icon and fix padding. (62542)
  • Editor: Render editPost slots only in the post editor (same for site editor). (62531)
  • Fix: Don't allow synced patterns to be inserted on shuffling. (62422)
  • Fix ExcerptPanel decode issue. (62336)

Block Library

  • Add letter spacing inheritance for the navigation block. (62745)
  • Caption utility component: Allow the main CSS Class Name to be excluded from the markup. (62485)
  • Fix: Empty style attribute issue in navigation block. (62600)
  • Image Block: Fix Aspect Ratio button position. (62776)
  • Media & text: Update the image replacement logic. (62030)
  • Post Date Block: Fix PHP warning error. (62783)
  • Template Part: Improve how the tag name attribute is handled. (62785)
  • fix: Update block category to design and build documentation. (61905)

Global Styles

  • Allow children of alignfull flow layouts to have root padding. (62670)
  • Prevent duplicate block style variations CSS. (62465)
  • Remove obsolete hook resolving shared block style variations. (62808)
  • Section Styles: Switch away from using init for variation registration. (62640)
  • Skip registration of variation styles when unsupported. (62529)
  • Styles: Lower specificity of figcaption style to allow theme.json override. (62689)

Components

  • CustomSelectControl V2: Fix setting initial value and reacting to external controlled updates. (62733)
  • CustomSelectControlV2: Handle long strings in selected value. (62198)

Block Editor

  • Raw handling: Fix too aggressive indented list removal. (62622)
  • Writing flow: Split heading into default block. (61891)

Accessibility

  • Fix custom color palette. (62753)
  • Fix lock modal dialog accessibility and semantics. (62795)
  • Image block: Fix focus style not around whole image when linked. (62556)
  • Pages data view: Update view icons. (62136)
  • Make the fonts management modal dialog more discoverable. (62129)

Performance

  • Improve performance of compute_style_properties method. (62522)
  • Run block variation hook only for matches. (62617)
  • Section Styles: Improve performance and conceptual consistency. (62712)

Experiments

  • Grid interactivity: Allow blocks to be positioned in manual mode using drag and drop. (61025)

Documentation

  • Add VisualEditorGlobalKeyboardShortcuts documentation. (62710)
  • Add changelog entry for splitTask export from @wordpress/interactivity. (62805)
  • Add documentation for PostSlug and PostSlugCheck component. (62102)
  • Adds comment on blocks resource referencing wp_block post type. (62722)
  • Changelogs: Standardize sections. (58268)
  • Correct documentation for WP_Block_Parser_Frame class. (62598)
  • Create Block: Add missing changelog entries. (62791)
  • Docs/iAPI: Fix wrong code snippet in data-wp-run example. (62835)
  • Docs/iapi warnings new directives wp 6 6. (62789)
  • Fix async directives API documentation. (62759)
  • Fix: Remove inexistent link from the documentation. (62624)
  • Interactivity API docs: Add wp-async directives doc. (62663)
  • Query Loop block: Clarify explanation around query loop variation example. (62605)
  • Small Typo correction in block-library.md file. (62765)
  • Update link to API section in block-editor README.md. (62671)
  • Update old links in @wordpress/babel-preset-default. (62616)
  • Updates the reference links in @wordpress/compose documentation. (62593)
  • [Developer Documentation] fix link URL. (62725)

Code Quality

  • Autoformat changelogs. (62650)
  • Autoformat e2e-tests package JavaScript. (62572)
  • Edit site: Do not autoformat edit-site/lib. (62573)
  • Move dep to dev deps. (62673)
  • Rename readme file with uppercase extension. (62697)
  • Site Editor: Don't render empty body tag. (62769)
  • Change grid-visualizer folder name to grid. (62810)
  • Add lib-font credits and license in source code. (60973)

Components

  • Remove Framer Motion from DropZone. (62044)
  • CustomSelectControlV2: Fix handling of extra attributes passed to options in the legacy adapter. (62255)

Tools

  • Dependencies: Upgrade @octokit/webhooks. (62666)
  • Rename the wp-env schema to not be a dotfile. (62634)
  • env: Ignore \$schema key in environment configuration parsing. (62626)

Testing

  • Add end-to-end test to ensure block bindings work well with symbols and numbers. (62410)
  • CustomSelectControl: Align v1 and legacy v2 unit tests. (62706)
  • Fix end-to-end tests in dev mode. (62642)
  • Improve maintainability of theme json class tests. (62463)
  • Release automation: Try cherry-picking automation. (62716)
  • Remove changelog checks for branches other than trunk. (62645)
  • Skip failing image block test. (62781)
  • Skip test: Create a new page, edit template and toggle page template preview. (62799)
  • Tests: Simplify test set up in WP_Block_Supports_Block_Style_Variations_Test. (62637)
  • Theme JSON resolver: Read theme.json files from the styles/ folder only once. (62638)

Build Tooling

  • Generic name for previous version of WP tests. (62853)
  • Github PHP changes workflow: Remove it. (62609)

Various

  • Update Private API opt-in string for WP 6.6. (62635)
  • Update caniuse-lite dependency to latest version. (62611)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @aatanasovdev @afercia @ajlende @akasunil @amitraj2203 @artemiomorales @carolinan @cbravobernal @ciampo @creativecoder @DaniGuardiola @dilipbheda @ellatrix @fullofcaffeine @geriux @graylaurenm @gziolo @itzmekhokan @ivan-ottinger @jameskoster @jorgefilipecosta @juanmaguitar @kevin940726 @luisherranz @MaggieCabrera @matiasbenedetto @michakrapp @mirka @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @peterwilsoncc @ramonjd @sabernhardt @SantosGuillamot @saulyz @shail-mehta @sirreal @snehapatil2001 @spacedmonkey @stokesman @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @up1512001 @vcanales @vipul0425 @westonruter @youknowriad

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