WordPress/gutenberg v19.6.0-rc.1

19.6.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

• BlockGroupToolbar: Better i18n context for toolbar labels. (66211)
• Core Data: Add the 'getEntitiesConfig' resolver. (65871)
• Create Block: Adds --target-dir flag to allow the tool to target where to scaffold. (53781)
• Editor Interface: Remove small header from global styles/plugin sidebar. (64474)
• Remove purple coloring from DocumentBar and PostCard. (66451)
• Scripts: Add BlueOak-1.0.0 license to GPL2 compatible. (66139)
• WP Scripts: Add a --root-folder argument to the plugin-zip command. (61375)

Components

• Add elevation tokens to storybook. (66122)
• Add foundations:Elevation to storybook. (66124)
• Add radius foundation and tokens to storybook. (66219)
• Combobox, FormTokenField: Show message when no matches found. (66142)
• Storybook: Organizes components under 'Utilities'. (66210)
• Tabs: Expose active tab item props, use ariakit prop types. (66223)
• Tabs: Remove custom logic. (66097)
• DropdownMenuV2: Rename to Menu. (66289)

Block Library

• Add Transformation from Separator to Spacer. (66230)
• Add lightbox option in gallery block link control. (64014)
• Archives: Add border block support. (63400)
• Border support added to comments. (66354)
• Cover Block: Add Image Resolution options. (62926)
• HTML Block: Force HTML preview in view mode. (66440)

Zoom Out

• Add keyboard shortcut in editor. (66400)
• Iterate zoom out shuffle into a more visual control. (66194)
• Use the zoom-level value to scale the iframe. (66280)

Site Editor

• Remove synchronization of canvas mode into store. (66213)
• Style Book: Clean up layout. (66255)
• Update site icon and title position. (66171)

Data Views

• Fix alignment of action items in list layout. (66273)
• Templates: Hide media field in list view. (66573)

Global Styles

• Backport: Caching of global styles for blocks from core. (66349)
• Style Book: Add color tab. (65692)

Real-time Collaboration

• Inline Commenting: Disable comments on published posts for now. (66583)

Post Editor

• Set ResizableEditor height based on border-box. (66342)

Icons

• Add align-item related icons. (66242)

REST API

• Backport from WordPress core: Improvements for the post format query loop filter. (66037)

New APIs

• Stabilize isPreviewMode flag. (66149)
• scripts: Add build-blocks-manifest command. (65866)

Bug Fixes

• Create block: Ensure $slug is replaced with passed slug. (66528)
• Fix extraneous scrollbar in device previews. (66494)
• GH-66090: Self nesting and circular nesting block fix. (66121)
• Global styles: Move preload paths filter to 6.7 (previously 6.8). (66543)
• Miscellaneous i18n fixes. (66510)
• Remove most of the occurrences of the verb toggle. (66371)
• SpacingSizesControl: Use generic label for linked button. (66304)

Zoom Out

• Disable zoom out toggle button when Style Book is open. (66228)
• Don't switch editor mode when changing entities. (66452)
• Fix scaling animation for device previews. (66132)
• Fix zoom out not persisting while switching between editor and code editor. (65932)
• Fix zoom out shortcut on Windows. (66506)
• Fix: Activate zoom out on large viewport. (66308)
• Hide slots and grouping buttons. (66243)
• Remove zoom-out toolbar. (66039)
• Resets the Zoom on viewed/edited entity change. (66232)
• Revise zoom layout shift fix. (66390)
• Zoom-out: Rely on zoom-level instead of zoom-out mode. (66141)

Block Editor

• Block inserter: Prevent editor from crashing if blockType.parent is a string. (66234)
• Block toolbar: Account for scrollable blocks that affect the position of the block toolbar. (66188)
• Fix extra scrollbar appearing when searching in the inserter. (66229)
• Fix: Show paragraph block variations in rich text inserter. (66318)
• Group: Fix padding select. (65857)
• Link Shortcut: Only trigger the link shortcut if there's a text selection. (66056)
• Remove relative position from sidebar tabpanel. (66267)
• Rich text: Remove empty file. (66553)
• Zoom Out: Fix bouncy drop zones. (66399)

Components

• ColorPalette: Prevent overflow of custom color button background. (66152)
• Fix: Text overflow in Patterns filter. (66504)
• RadioGroup: Fix arrow key navigation in RTL. (66202)
• Tabs and TabPanel: Fix arrow key navigation in RTL. (66201)
• Tabs and ToggleGroupControl: Round indicator size. (66426)
• Tabs: Fix animation timings. (66198)
• Tabs: Override tablist's tabindex only when necessary. (66209)
• Tabs: Restore vertical alignment for tabs content. (66215)
• Tabs: Update indicator more reactively. (66207)

Post Editor

• Always force iframe in pattern editor. (65887)
• Editor: Multi-entity saving: Show correct count of entities to be saved. (66482)
• Fix : "Set featured image" button border flashes on focus. (66092)
• Fix Parent Check Condition in buildTermsTree. (66006)
• Fix: Improve the DocumentBar post type label for the Homepage and Posts Page cases. (66355)
• PostTaxonomiesFlatTermSelector: Restore space between tag list and most used tags. (66566)

Block Library

• Block registration: Normalize blockType.parent to array. (66250)
• Button Block: Apply Stretch Styles Correctly. (64770)
• Buttons: Fix the initial white space in nofollow rel. (66303)
• Fix - Image block: Aspect ratio not responding when dimensions are not set. (66217)
• Navigation block: Fix block appender size. (66153)

Site Editor

• Edit Site: Fix canvasMode var. (66316)
• Fix button hover style in sidebar navigation screen. (66505)
• Remove toggle verb from post list data views 'Toggle details panel'. (66334)
• Revert 66431 (Site editor: Remove "default" admin CSS). (66540)

Meta Boxes

• Typo metabox pane is a meta box panel. (66502)

REST API

• Preload: Fix multiple regressions around global styles. (66468)

Style Book

• Fix comment output in styles. (66439)

Saving

• Site editor: Fix save shortcut. (66423)

CSS & Styling

• Fix the navigation issue inside cover blocks. (66093)

Accessibility

• Update the speak messages when switching editor modes. (66278)

Post Editor

• Add featured image alt text. (66189)
• Fix : Badge Color contrast. (66360)

Block Editor

• ImageSizeControls: Replace ButtonGroup with ToggleGroupControl. (65386)
• Improve the link preview accessibility and labels. (60908)

Block Library

• Search: Replace ButtonGroup usage with ToggleGroupControl. (65340)

Global Styles

• Global styles menu: Avoid visible labels and accessible names mismatch. (65124)

Site Editor

• Fix Global styles panel header buttons text overlap for 'Show button text labels'. (63243)

Performance

• Backport from Core: Reuse block metadata in WP_Theme_JSON::Get_valid_block_style_variations() for better performance. (66539)
• tests : - Fix/compare performance with correct branch. (66196)

Site Editor

• Remove "default" admin CSS. (66431)
• Remove content styles outside canvas. (66432)

Block bindings

• Use getEntityConfig instead of getPostTypes to get available slugs. (66101)

Experiments

• Add Inline comment experimental flag. (60622)
• QuickEdit: Add slug field control. (65196)

Data Views

• Quick Edit: Fix JS error when bulk editing pages. (66358)
• QuickEdit: Add Featured Image Control. (64496)
• QuickEdit: Add Parent field. (66527)

Documentation

• BaseControl: Auto-generate readme. (66500)
• Components: Prevent generated readmes duplicating h1 elements when published. (66180)
• Correct documentation on display type in flow layouts. (66224)
• Docs: Interactivity API - Add documentation for getServerState() and getServerContext(). (66104)
• Fix undo/redo Button size in Storybook playground. (66538)
• Fix: JSON Schema Docgen doesn't work on Windows OS. (66414)
• ItemGroup: Improve stories to default to bordered and separated. (66191)
• README: Add Storybook badge. (66529)
• Remove meetings that no longer occur from Contributor Guide. (66421)
• Site editor routes: Add documentation for areas and prevent edit area from rendering when canvas is edit. (66309)
• Update documentation about build process changes. (66428)
• docs: Example for getSelectedBlock. (66108)

Code Quality

• Block editor: Remove reusable blocks stylesheet from iframe. (66285)
• Compose: Fix React Complier error for 'useCopyToClipboard'. (66444)
• Composer: Fix React Compiler errors for 'useDropZone'. (66469)
• Fields: Fix React Compiler mutation errors. (66464)
• Interface: Remove duplicate 'withComplementaryAreaContext' file. (66348)
• Interface: Remove unused private API support. (66565)
• Interface: Use plugin context hook instead of HoC. (66362)
• Remove clip & -webkit-clip-path for downloadable-block-list-item style.scss. (66147)
• Scripts: Refactor to extract license logic. (66179)
• Theme JSON: Get_block_nodes - relocate $selectors assignment. (66265)
• Update a few function definitions. (66315)

Block Editor

• ESLint: Remove explicit react-hooks/exhaustive-deps disabling. (66461)
• ESLint: Remove various React Compiler mutation violations. (66327)
• Fix 'useInstanceId' hook reference. (66406)
• Fix React Compiler error for Duotone. (66492)
• Fix React Complier error for 'useEventListeners'. (66495)
• Import only the actually used PostCSS exports. (66379)
• No need to unlock public actions. (66260)
• Remove patterns UI stylesheet from iframe. (66306)
• Remove unnecessary Tooltip component from radius control linked button. (66274)
• Rich Text: Fix React Complier error for 'useEventListeners'. (66460)
• Storybook: Add BlockPatternsList story. (66227)

Components

• BorderBoxControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (65752)
• BorderControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (65755)
• DrodownMenuV2: Rename folder to menu. (66473)
• ESLint: Stop disabling react-hooks/exhaustive-deps rule. (66324)
• Fix React Compiler error for 'useAutocomplete'. (66496)
• PaletteEdit: Use ItemGroup and Item, and avoid custom styles. (66164)
• TabPanel: Add 40px size prop to tab Button. (66557)
• Tabs: Align to standard compound components structure. (66225)
• Tabs: Simplify styled components code. (66208)

Zoom Out

• Bundle behavior in block-editor and add story. (66240)
• Editor: Handle zoom out state via the 'switchEditorMode' action. (66262)
• Fix/html scale code quality. (66181)
• Make useZoomOut hook private. (66374)
• Remove double click to exit hook from the block-editor package. (66335)
• Remove viewport check from useZoomOut hook. (66341)

Post Editor

• Editor: No need to reset mode when changing device preview types. (66261)
• Editor: Use plugin context hook in 'PluginMoreMenuItem'. (66351)
• Editor: Use plugin context hook in 'PluginPreviewMenuItem'. (66350)
• Fix typo after #63669. (66396)
• Remove leftover JS code from 66451. (66472)

Block Library

• Cleanup unnecessary notice removal. (66409)
• ESLint: Fix a couple of React Compiler reassignment errors. (66331)
• Footnotes: Remove extra callback when parsing content. (66370)
• Gallery: Fix React Compiler reassignment error. (66408)
• Table Block: Remove hasArrowIndicator prop. (66204)

Style Book

• Avoid state/effect combo when generating values. (66446)
• Fix React Compiler error. (66445)

Global Styles

• Clean up: Adjust reusable-blocks dependencies. (66302)
• Fix React Compiler variable mutation error. (66410)

Interactivity API

• iAPI: Add comments to the deepMerge() function. (66220)
• iAPI: Add tests for handling arrays in deepMerge(). (66218)

Navigation in Site View

• Navigation: Improve trigger for fallback navigation. (66478)

Plugins API

• Plugins: Deprecate 'withPluginContext' HOC. (66363)

Site Editor

• Prepare route registration by refactoring the site editor router. (66030)

Tools

• Add theme type to the bug report issue template. (63851)
• Pull request automation: Use full npm install. (66314)
• Use npm workspaces for packages (second attempt). (66272)

Testing

• Fix [Flaky Test] Entering zoomed out mode zooms the canvas. (66212)
• Fix end-to-end test for padding appender. (66080)
• Upgrade Playwright to v1.48. (66296)

Build Tooling

• Add new private vips package. (64845)
• Revert "Use npm workspaces for packages". (66270)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @AhmarZaidi: Remove toggle verb from post list data views 'Toggle details panel'. (66334)
• @mediaformat: Remove clip & -webkit-clip-path for downloadable-block-list-item style.scss. (66147)
• @nicolasgalvez: WP Scripts: Add a --root-folder argument to the plugin-zip command. (61375)
• @poojabhimani12: Add Inline comment experimental flag. (60622)
• @rinkalpagdar: Border support added to comments. (66354)
• @rudrakshi-gupta: Add Transformation from Separator to Spacer. (66230)
• @SH4LIN: GH-66090: Self nesting and circular nesting block fix. (66121)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @AhmarZaidi @akasunil @andrewserong @carolinan @cbravobernal @ciampo @dhruvang21 @ellatrix @getdave @gigitux @hbhalodia @jameskoster @jeryj @jsnajdr @juanfra @madhusudhand @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @mattrwalker @mcsf @mediaformat @michalczaplinski @mirka @mreishus @ndiego @nicolasgalvez @ntsekouras @oandregal @PARTHVATALIYA @peterwilsoncc @poojabhimani12 @prajapatisagar @ramonjd @renatho @rinkalpagdar @rudrakshi-gupta @ryanwelcher @SantosGuillamot @SH4LIN @sirreal @stokesman @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @torounit @troychaplin @tyxla @vipul0425 @Vrishabhsk @vykes-mac @youknowriad @zaguiini