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19.3.0 RC1
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Changelog

Features

Zoom Out

  • Remove experimental flag. (65404)

Enhancements

  • Create Block: Update the minimum required PHP version to 7.2. (65166)
  • DataViews: remove unused .dataviews-view-table__cell-content-wrapper:Empty style rule. (65084)
  • Media Utils: Add TypeScript support and export more utils. (64784)
  • Media placeholders: Add "drag" to the text. (65149)
  • Restore: Move to trash button in Document settings. (65087)
  • Inspector Controls: Use custom block name in inspector controls when available. (65398)
  • Icons: Adds bell and bell-unread icons. (65324)
  • Editor topbar: Reorder the actions on the right. (65163)
  • Patterns: Add opt out preference to the 'Choose a Pattern' modal when adding a page. (65026)
  • Locked Templates: Blocks with contentOnly locking should not be transformable. (64917)
  • Block Locking: Add border to Replace item in content only image toolbar. (64849)

Components

  • Styling: Apply elevation scale in components package. (65159)
  • Tabs: Improve Tabs indicator animation and related utils. (64926)
  • Modal
    • Add exit animation. (65203)
    • Decrease close button size. (65131)
  • Navigator Screen: Warn if path doesn't follow a URL-like scheme. (65231)
  • Card: Update Card radius. (65053)
  • Combobox Control: Add placeholder attribute. (65254)

Block Library

  • Allow dropping multiple images to the image block. (65030)
  • Categories List block: Add dropdown for taxonomies. (65272)
  • Image: Adds the block controls for uploading image. (64320)
  • Remove colons from control labels. (65205)
  • Terms List block: Add Categories-specific variation. (65434)

Zoom Out

  • Add Zoom Out toggle to editor header when experiment enabled. (65183)
  • Add prompt for drag and drop in Patterns tab in Zoom Out mode. (65115)
  • Close inserter on exiting Zoom Out to edit. (65194)
  • Show top level sections in List View. (65202)
  • Try vertical displacement when dragging a pattern between existing patterns/sections. (63896)

Block Editor

  • Link Editing: Automatically add tel to phone number when linking URL. (64865)
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  • Drag and Drop: When dragging a mix of video, audio, and image blocks, create individual blocks as appropriate. (65144)
  • URLInput: Replace input with InputControl. (65158)
  • Normalize block inspector controls spacing. (64526)

Post Editor

  • Add new Media section to preferences modal. (64846)
  • DocumentBar: Replace icon with post type label. (65170)
  • Page editor: Double-click to edit template part. (65024)
  • Post publish upload media dialog: Handle more block types. (65122)

Block bindings

  • Populate block context with inherited post type from template slug. (65062)
  • Try gap 0 on attribute items. (65277)
  • Use post meta label from register_meta in block bindings workflows. (65099)

Global Styles

  • Refactor site background controls and move site global styles into Background group. (65304)
  • Spacing control: Replace sides dropdwon with link button. (65193)

Data Views

  • DataViews Sidebar: Display item count on DataViews sidebar. (65223)
  • DataViews: Improve UX of bundled views for Pages. (65295)

Interactivity API

  • Refactor context proxies. (64713)
  • Update: Rephrase "Force page reload" and move to Advanced. (65081)

REST API

  • Global Styles: Allow read access to users with edit_posts capabilities. (65071)
  • Query loop / Post template: Enable post format filter. (64167)

New APIs

  • Add @wordpress/fields package.
    • Introduce the package. (65230)
    • Make the package private. (65269)

Bug Fixes

  • Align popover alt variant styling with block toolbar. (65263)
  • Compose: Correctly call timer cleanup in 'useFocusOnMount'. (65184)
  • Fix some docblock types related to the Template Registration API. (65187)
  • Fix the issue where block spacing control not shown. (65371)
  • Fix unintentional block toolbar shadow. (65182)
  • Fix: Moving a page to the trash on the site editor does not goes back to the pages list. (65119)
  • Fix: Moving the last page item to the the trash causes a crash. (65236)
  • Preferences: Fix back button on mobile. (65141)
  • Post Summary Panel: Restore height:Auto for toggle buttons. (65362)
  • Fix Tabs styling in Font Library modal. (65330)
  • E2E: Change deprecated social icons for standard in end-to-end. (65312)
  • Typography: Make title blocks apply typographic styles consistently. (65307)
  • Target Hints REST API: Add missing param sanitization. (65280)
  • Interactivity API: Update iterable signals when deepMerge() adds new properties. (65135)
  • Navigation Menus: Typography styling support to the navigation submenu block. (65060)
  • Grid: In RTL languages, the resize handles point in the opposite direction. (64995)
  • Block Locking: Fix Content Only Toolbar icon focus style. (64940)
  • Image: Fix resizing to max width in classic themes. (64819)
  • Meta Boxes: Try split content view. (64351)
  • Distraction Free: Fix blurry edge along editor header. (64277)

Block Library

  • Comments Pagination: Fix warning returned by comments pagination blocks. (65435)
  • Cover: Explicitly set isUserOverlayColor to false when media is updated. (65105)
  • Disallow setting grid block rows/columns to zero. (65217)
  • Fix image block crash. (65222)
  • Fix: Buttons block: Block spacing value does not apply to both vertical and horizontal alignment. (64971)
  • Fix: Embed blocks: Figcaption inserted via toolbar not nested within figure element - #64960. (64970)
  • Image cropping: Skip making an API request if there are no changes to apply. (65384)
  • Comments Pagination: Pass the comments query paged arg to functions get_next_comments_link and get_previous_comments_link. (63698)
  • Query Loop: Default to querying posts when on singular content. (65067)

Block Editor

  • Inserter: Fix loading indicator for reusable blocks. (64839)
  • Normalize spacing in Layout hook controls. (65132)
  • Pattern Inserter: Fix pattern list overflow. (65192)
  • Remove reset styles RTL from the iframe. (65150)
  • Revert "Block Insertion: Clear the insertion point when selecting a d…. (65208)

Components

  • BoxControl: Unify input filed width whether linked or not. (65348)
  • ComboboxControl: Add more unit tests. (65255)
  • Fix: Button Replace remaining 40px default size violations [Edit widgets]. (65367)
  • Tabs: Fix vertical indicator. (65385)

Block bindings

  • Fix empty strings placeholders in post meta bindings. (65089)
  • Prioritize existing placeholder over bindingsPlaceholder. (65154)
  • Revert "Block Bindings: Prioritize existing placeholder over bindingsPlaceholder". (65190)

Zoom Out

  • Force device type to Desktop whenever zoom out is invoked. (64476)
  • Hide toolbar icon on smaller viewports. (65437)
  • Remove zoom out toggle when editor is not iframed. (65452)

Accessibility

  • A11y: Add script-module. (65101)
  • Interactivity API: Use a11y Script Module in Gutenberg. (65123)
  • Script Modules API: Print script module live regions HTML in page HTML. (65380)
  • Post Editor: Support keyboard resizing of meta boxes pane. (65325)
  • DatePicker: Better hover/focus styles. (65117)
  • Form Input: Don't use flex-direction: Row-reverse for checkbox field. (64232)
  • Navigation Menus: Remove Warning and add notice for Navigation. (63921)
  • Global Styles: Fix the shadows Range control accessibility and usability. (63908)
  • Block Editor: Fix accessibility of the hooked blocks toggles. (63133)

Performance

  • Core Data: Batch remaining actions in resolvers. (65176)
  • Block Editor: Use static access for selector in 'useZoomOutModeExit'. (65337)
  • Editor: Optimize global styles permission check. (65177)

Experiments

  • Block bindings REST API: Bring bindings UI in Site Editor. (64072)

Documentation

  • Add JSDoc block for getSectionRootClientId in block editor package. (65219)
  • ButtonGroup: Fix story to show what the component does. (65336)
  • DataViews storybook
    • Better styles for combined fields story. (65078)
    • Enable all layouts for combined fields storybook. (65082)
  • Docs: Fix minor typos in Build your first block tutorial. (64961)
  • Docs: Update the content of the API version 3 section in the Block API Reference. (65375)
  • Fix typo in Slot Fills documentation. (65275)

Code Quality

  • Components: Transition to the new 40px default size.
    • Button:
      • Add __next40pxDefaultSize for files in editor 3. (65139)
      • Add __next40pxDefaultSize for files in editor 4. (65140)
      • Add props for buttons in editor 1. (65068)
      • Add props for buttons in editor 2. (65083)
      • Fix: Replace remaining 40px default size violations [Block Editor 4]. (65257)
      • Fix: Replace remaining 40px default size violation [Block library 3]. (65110)
      • Fix: Replace remaining 40px default size violation [Block library 4]. (65143)
      • Fix: Replace remaining 40px default size violation [Block library]. (65075)
      • Fix: Replace remaining 40px default size violation [Edit Site 2]. (65258)
      • Fix: Replace remaining 40px default size violations [Block library 1]. (65033)
      • Fix: Replace remaining 40px default size violations [Block Editor 1]. (65034)
    • BoxControl
      • Add lint rule for 40px size prop usage. (65341)
    • DimensionsPanel: Apply 40px default size to UI when no spacing preset is available. (65300)
  • Add useEvent and revamped useResizeObserver to @wordpress/compose. (64943)
  • DataViews: Use Dropdown for views configuration dialog. (65314)
  • Platform docs: Upgrade dependencies. (65445)
  • Rename edit-post__fade-in-animation and unify keyframe definitions. (65377)
  • Update minimum required version in PHP. (65301)
  • Editor: Use hooks instead of HoC in BlockManager. (65349)
  • Data Views Fields: Migrate store and actions from editor package to fields package. (65261)
  • Plugin: Remove 'function_exists' checks for methods with 'gutenberg' prefix. (65260)
  • Global Styles: Update REST controller override method and backport changes from Core. (65259)
  • Patterns: Remove unused method returned from 'mapSelect'. (65073)
  • Embed: Convert EmbedPreview component to functional component. (51325)

Components

  • BoxControl: Fix critical error when null value is passed. (65287)
  • Composite:
    • Deprecate legacy, unstable version. (63572)
    • Remove store prop and useCompositeStore hook. (64723)
    • Stabilize APIs. (63569)
  • @wordpress/components: Add local copy of use-lilius. (65097)

Block bindings

  • Always prioritize using context in post meta source logic. (65449)
  • Improve getRegisteredPostMeta resolver. (65450)
  • Remove extra filtering of empty sources. (65447)

Block Editor

  • Remove the 'PrivateInserter' component. (65111)
  • Use the tooltip from a button in 'ButtonBlockAppender'. (65113)
  • Remove unused css selectors. (65276)

Tools

  • Scripts: Update stylelint dependency and the default configuration. (64828)
  • Styleling config: Fix stylelint configuration missing files for npm. (65313)

Build Tooling

  • Build Plugin: Simplify and improve zip contents. (65232)
  • Build zip artifact on release and wp production branches. (65471)
  • Build: Include Core blocks' render and variations files. (63311)
  • Script Modules
    • Prepare build for more script modules. (65064)
    • Remove babel from script-modules build. (65279)
    • Remove es-module shims and importmap-polyfill. (65210)
  • Correctly generate PHP files for server-side rendering of blocks on Windows OS. (65248)
  • Packages: Only add polyfills where needed. (65292)
  • Switch from UglifyJS to Terser to build the polyfill script. (65278)

Testing

  • Unit tests: Mock matchMedia to enforce prefers-reduce-motion. (65438)
  • Upgrade Playwright to v1.47. (65156)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @AKSHAT2802 @Aljullu @andrewserong @carolinan @cbravobernal @ciampo @colorful-tones @creativecoder @DaniGuardiola @DAreRodz @devansh016 @dhruvang21 @ellatrix @farid-hadi @getdave @gigitux @greenworld @gziolo @hbhalodia @jameskoster @jasmussen @javierarce @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @kevin940726 @louwie17 @madhusudhand @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @mikeybinns @mirka @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @peterwilsoncc @rahulharpal1603 @ramonjd @richtabor @rohitmathur-7 @SantosGuillamot @scruffian @sgomes @sirreal @stokesman @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @vipul0425 @zaguiini

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