WordPress/gutenberg v18.8.0-rc.1

18.8.0 RC1

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Changelog

Features

• DataForm: Implement first prototype using duplicate page action. (63032)

Enhancements

Components

• BaseControl: Forward ref on VisualLabel. (63169)
• CustomSelectControlV2: Allow wrapping item hint to new line. (62848)
• CustomSelectControlV2: Expose legacy wrapper through private APIs. (62936)
• CustomSelectControl V2: Keep legacy arrow down behavior only for legacy wrapper. (62919)
• CustomSelectControlV2: Collapse checkmark space when unchecked. (63229)
• CustomSelectControlV2: Keep item checkmark top aligned. (63230)
• DateTime: Create TimeInput component and integrate into TimePicker. (60613)
• FontSizePicker: Use CustomSelectControl V2 legacy adapter. (63134)
• Tabs: Add vertical indicator animation. (62879)
• TimeInput: Add label prop. (63106)
• TimePicker: Add dateOrder prop to sort day, month, and year. (62481)
• ToolbarButton: Deprecate isDisabled prop and merge with disabled. (63101)
• Tooltip Component: Add custom class name support. (63157)

Data Views

• Add padding around selected values in author filter. (63212)
• DataViews filterSortAndPaginate utility: Support sorting by number. (63187)
• DataViews: Make view.hiddenFields optional. (62876)
• DataViews: Remove Table Cells animation. (63079)
• DataViews: Replace supportedLayouts prop with defaultLayouts prop instead. (63287)
• Duplicate modal: Move to 40px components. (63246)
• Pages: Include avatar in Author field. (63142)
• Patterns Page: Hide preview column by default. (63213)
• Posts list powered by DataViews. (62705)
• Split layout / view options. Use active layout icon for the layout button. (63205)
• Use status icons in field display. (63289)

Block Library

• Add example for query block and posts list. (63286)
• Excerpt block: Add example of the block. (63010)
• Group: Add block support for shadow. (63295)
• Login/out block: Add example of the block. (62937)
• Post content block: Add example of the block. (62968)
• Post title: Add example of the block. (62955)
• Table Block: Add toolbar button to add a caption. (47984)

Block Editor

• Block position controls: Use V2 legacy adapter instead of V1 CustomSelectControl. (63139)
• DateFormatPicker: Use CustomSelectControl V2 legacy adapter. (63171)
• Fix inspector inner shadow border. (63245)
• FontAppearanceControl: Use CustomSelectControl V2 legacy adapter. (63179)
• Inserter: Remove the dialog behaviour. (63059)
• SpacingInputControl: Use CustomSelectControl V2 legacy adapter. (63190)

Global Styles

• Background image: Move controls into a popover. (60151)
• Block background UI controls. (60100)
• Tweak block background position preview height. (63225)

Extensibility

• DataViews: Register the deletePost action like any third-party action. (62913)
• DataViews: Register the export pattern action like any third-party action. (63046)
• DataViews: Register the reset template and template part action like any third-party action. (63017)

Design Tools

• Flex dimensions: Rename "Fill" to "Grow". (62779)
• List Item: Add color support. (59892)
• Uniform Focal point labels. (62438)

Font Library

• Font Library Modal: Enhance pagination appearance. (63210)
• Font Library: Store font subdirectory in post meta. (63000)
• Move font directory into uploads to match WP 6.5. (60354)

Layout

• Add justification to block toolbar in addition to sidebar. (62924)

Site Editor

• Align rename modals. (62874)

Block API

• block.json: Allow passing filename as variations field. (62092)

Template Editor

• Update: Move template areas into a panel. (62033)

Block Variations

• Automatically select group variation if there is only one available. (61871)

Zoom Out

• Add a vertical toolbar for zoom out mode. (60123)

New APIs

Block API

• Introduce "local" attributes and use it for the image block. (63076)

Bug Fixes

• Core Commands: Fix Pages command link. (63235)
• Docgen: Fix function param for const function expression. (63034)
• Enable save draft button for posts with custom post status. (63293)
• Ensure device previews extra scrollbar only appears when needed. (62952)
• Styles specificity: Allow comment form input overrides. (62960)

Components

• CustomSelectControl V2 legacy adapter: Fix trigger button font size. (63131)
• CustomSelectControl V2: Fix labelling with a visually hidden label. (63137)
• CustomSelectControl V2: Fix trigger text alignment in RTL languages. (62869)
• CustomSelectControl V2: Prevent keyboard event propagation in legacy wrapper. (62907)
• CustomSelectControlV2: Add root element wrapper. (62803)
• CustomSelectControlV2: Fix item styles. (62825)
• CustomSelectControlV2: Fix popover styles. (62821)
• CustomSelectControlV2: Fix select popover content overflow. (62844)
• CustomSelectControlV2: Tweak item inline padding based on size. (62850)
• Editor: Fix duplicate save panels. (62863)
• Fix UnitControl select disabled state colors. (62970)
• Fix extra scrollbar when a popover extends past the viewport. (62894)
• Fix the 'useUpdateEffect' hook in strict mode. (62974)
• ProgressBar: Fix indeterminate RTL support. (63129)
• RangeControl: Fix RTL support for custom marks. (63198)
• SelectControl: Fix disabled styles. (63266)
• Tabs: Fix "With tab icons" Storybook example. (63297)
• Tabs: Fix text-align when text wraps in vertical mode. (63272)
• TimePicker: Fix time zone overflow. (63209)
• UnitControl: Fix an issue where keyboard shortcuts unintentionally shift focus on Windows OS. (62988)

Block Library

• Add Aspect ratio control on Image blocks in Grids. (62891)
• Audio Block: Do not persist blob urls and fix undo. (63257)
• File block: Do not persist blob urls and fix undo. (63282)
• Fix Incorrect URL basename logic in EmbedPreview. (63052)
• Fix: Update "Link Text" label to "Text" on Social Icons block #60966. (61715)
• List: Maintain nested list on parent item removal. (62949)
• Patterns: Check for edited entity content property when exporting. (63227)
• Reduce specificity of social link icon specific colors. (63049)
• Refactor Post Date Relative Time Rendering for Future Dates. (62979)
• Site Editor: Fix template parts 'Reset' action. (62951)
• Video Block: Do not persist blob urls and fix undo. (63238)

Post Editor

• Editor: Do not truncate post excerpt if not editable. (63314)
• Fix: Background height and padding in non-iframe editor canvas. (63222)
• Fix: Crash when onActionPerformed is used with callback actions. (63120)
• Fix: Permanently delete post action does not calls onActionPerformed. (63121)
• Fix: Triple scrollbars in device previews. (62940)
• Post editor: Increase specificity of bottom padding. (63288)
• Actions: Translation should depend on number of items. (62857)

Data Views

• DataViews list layout: Fix action alignment. (62971)
• DataViews: Restore preview focus outline in grid layout. (62991)
• Fix buttonless table header alignment. (62877)
• Fix typo in string for trashing posts. (63119)
• Patterns: Avoid mapping template parts objects to patterns. (62927)

Block Style Variations

• Block supports: Ensure tools panel dropdown are visible on mobile. (62896)
• Section Styles: Fix error when blocks are deregistered. (63252)
• Section Styles: Prevent flash of variation styles in post editor. (63071)
• Section Styles: Resolve ref values in variations data. (63172)

Layout

• Only hide drop indicator when grid has isManualPlacement set. (63226)
• Remove dotted border from grid dropzone. (63162)
• Resizing in Auto mode shouldn't add columnStart and rowStart values. (63160)

Global Styles

• Global styles revisions: Ensure that user-defined variation styles CSS is generated. (62768)
• Root padding styles: Include alignwide in nested has-outer-padding logic. (63207)
• Remove letter-spacing from typography element preview. (60322)

Site Editor

• Make SiteHub available for Pages, Patterns, and Templates in mobile viewports. (63118)
• Patterns and templates cannot be edited from sidebar mobile view. (63002)
• Site Editor Sidebar: Hide horizontal scrollbar when navigating. (63194)

Synced Patterns

• Ensure disable overrides button is active for image blocks with captions or links. (62948)
• Fix second scrollbar when editing patterns in the post editor. (62909)
• Pattern overrides: Fix aspect ratio not working in image with overrides. (62828)

Block Editor

• Featured Image Panel: Align text and icons horizontally to avoid clipping. (62842)
• Zoom Out: Move the hook to the inserter component. (63315)

Block bindings

• Disable post meta editing in blocks inside a Query Loop. (63237)
• Image block: Ensure extenders that rely on media ids in block html are supported by block bindings. (63013)

Patterns

• Fix: Restrict export pattern action to user patterns. (63228)

Posts/Tags/Categories Screen

• Constrain is-fullscreen-mode admin body class to posts list. (63166)

Inspector Controls

• Fix button wrapping in the document Inspector. (63062)

Design Tools

• Duotone: Fix code typo, to ensure Duotone updates correctly in Safari. (62953)

Commands

• Fix issue of HTML entities rendering in command menu. (62606)

Typography

• Use available font weights and styles in FontAppearanceControl. (61915)

Accessibility

• Allow Escape key to move focus to editor region when in select mode. (62196)
• Focus Editor Region from Template Footer Click. (62595)

Components

• Button: Stabilize __experimentalIsFocusable prop. (62282)
• Fix inaccessible disabled Buttons. (62306)
• Make Tabs have a fluid height. (62027)
• ToolbarButton: Always keep focusable when disabled. (63102)

Global Styles

• Fix unlabeled Remove shadow buttons. (63197)

Block Library

• Make usage of the settings icon more consistent. (63020)

Data Views

• Add translation context for 'view options' label. (63031)
• Fix filter chip contrast. (62865)

Media

• Update URLPopover role and focus return. (61313)

Performance

• Core data: Batch receiveUserPermission. (63201)
• Perf tests: Make pages test compatible with base branch. (63204)

Block hooks

• Optimize selectors in the control component. (63141)

Experiments

Layout

• Allow inserting blocks directly in empty grid cells. (63108)
• Use manualPlacement attribute to set manual grid mode and allow responsive behaviour in both modes. (62777)

Documentation

• Add note about postcss-urlrebase package patch. (63015)
• Add RichText formatting example to the Editor curation documentation. (63065)
• Block supports: Add documentation for 'splitting'. (63016)
• Fix typo to be preposition, not verb, in some package comments and documentations. (62945)
• Fix urls to developer documentation. (63104)
• Interactivity API: Fix minor typos in code snippets. (62890), (63234)
• Interactivity API: Fix variable name in color directive example. (62912)
• Interactivity API: Include references to more examples from the documentation. (63025)
• Interactivity API: Recommend kebab-case in data-wp-class. (62817)
• Remove link to polyfill.io. (62883)
• Storybook: Fix links for block editor examples. (63132)
• ToolbarButton: Fix documentation for accessibleWhenDisabled. (63140)
• Update React dev docs rule hook URL. (62995)

Code Quality

• Add linguist-documentation attribute to docs/ directory. (62651)
• Conditionally call focus with getEditorRegion. (62980)
• Core Data: Remove entity configuration '__experimentalNoFetch' flag checks. (63303)
• Dependencies: Upgrades and deduplication. (62657)
• Format Library: Clean up 'Highlight' format components. (62965)
• Remove postcss-local-keyframes from dependencies. (63224)
• Upgrade postcss-urlrebase package. (63075)

Data Views

• DataViews: Fix double check in isTemplateRemovable. (63021)
• DataViews: Remove the AnyItem type. (62856)
• DataViews: Removing mapping of user patterns to temporary object. (63042)
• DataViews: Replace hiddenFields configuration with fields property instead. (63127)
• DataViews: Simplify selection setting. (62846)

Block Editor

• Remove CSS hack for Internet Explorer 11. (63220)
• Remove duplicate translator comment. (62860)

Components

• Allow ariakit and framer motion imports in the components package. (63123)
• Normalize focusable disabled ToolbarButton usage. (63130)
• Sidebar: Add a shared component for the inserter and list view. (62343)
• Tabs: Split animation logic into multiple separate composable utilities. (62942)

Global Styles

• Global Styles: Allow variations to be filtered by multiple properties. (62847)
• Global Styles: Simplify code to fetch color and typography variation. (62827)
• Make a shared component for typography and color preview. (62829)
• Section Styles: Clean up block style variation filters. (62858)

Block Library

• Gallery Block: Clean up v1 code. (63285)

Site Editor

• Clean up unused Table component. (63283)

Rich Text

• Raw handling: Remove IE11 fallback code. (63219)

Zoom Out

• Replace deprecated selector. (63144)

Block bindings

• Add comment about useSelect usage in withBlockBindingSupport. (63005)

HTML API

• Compat: Update HTML API with changes from 6.6. (63089)

Tools

• Dependency extraction: Map to regenerator-runtime instead of wp-polyfill. (63091)
• Env: Remove version field from docker-compose configuration. (63099)
• Eslint-plugin: Add method-signature-style TypeScript lint rule. (62718)
• Scripts: Ensure that typescript-eslint checks for unused vars. (62925)
• Update new release issue template to remove core editor chat item. (62864)

Testing

• Automatically sync backport changelog to issue. (62973)
• Block styles variations E2E: Wait for Save button before editing global styles. (62915)
• Cherry pick automation: Fix for forks. (62900)
• Cherry pick workflow: Improve message after conflict. (62826)
• DataViews: Add performance test for pages. (63170)
• Fix typo in column block fixture file. (63007)
• Performance tests: Fix for 6.5. (62871)
• Performance tests: Restore 6.5-compatible locator. (63041)
• Re-enable image block cropping test (#62781). (62854)
• Update method for changing the content in 'editor-modes' end-to-end test. (62957)
• Update the project-management-automationaction to use Node.js 20. (62851)
• Upgrade web-vitals package. (63019)

Plugin

• Add local version of wp-env schema to .wp-env.json. (63253)

Build Tooling

• Build: Enable TypeScript skipDefaultLibCheck. (63056)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @airman5573: Fix variable name in color directive example for Interactivity API. (62912)
• @aliaghdam: Tooltip Component: Add custom class name support. (63157)
• @bogiii: DateTime: Create TimeInput component and integrate into TimePicker. (60613)
• @Chrico: Scripts: Ensure that typescript-eslint checks for unused vars. (62925)
• @dhananjaykuber: Fix Incorrect URL basename logic in EmbedPreview. (63052)
• @iamibrahimriaz: Update iapi-about.md. (63234)
• @iworks: Translation should depend on number of items. (62857)
• @roygbyte: Fix typo to be preposition, not verb, in some package comments and documentations. (62945)
• @shreya0204: Add justification to block toolbar in addition to sidebar. (62924)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @airman5573 @akasunil @aliaghdam @amitraj2203 @bogiii @carolinan @Chrico @ciampo @costasovo @creativecoder @DaniGuardiola @desrosj @dhananjaykuber @dmsnell @ellatrix @fluiddot @geriux @hbhalodia @iamibrahimriaz @iworks @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jffng @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @kevin940726 @luisherranz @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @michalczaplinski @mikachan @mirka @ndiego @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @peterwilsoncc @ramonjd @richtabor @roygbyte @SantosGuillamot @scruffian @shail-mehta @shreya0204 @sirreal @stokesman @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla @vipul0425 @westonruter @youknowriad