WordPress/gutenberg v20.5.0-rc.1

20.5.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

• Admin bar: Update the Edit Site link. (69271)
• Enhance create-block package to support blocks manifest and relevant Core APIs by default. (69446)
• Remove trailing periods from Show or hide settings panel. (69356)
• Site Editor: Make current theme and editor settings available to route area resolvers. (69299)

Block Library

• Button Block: Add draft page creation capability. (69368)
• Query Total: Update the block color support settings. (69500)

Block Editor

• BlockEditor: Resolve MediaReplaceFlow UI text inconsistency. (69546)

Site Editor

• Add period to Desgin description. (69537)

Post Editor

• Pre-publish panel: Do not show suggestions for tags and categories if there are none. (69453)

DataViews

• DataView Actions Modal: Allow customizable modal size through props. (69302)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Archives Block: Fix showLabel default state. (69469)
• Comment Template: Use fallback when there's an HTTP error. (69422)
• Fix: Show the author and author name examples in the Stylebook. (69436)
• Image block: Unwrap img element in editor. (68666)
• Latest Posts: Make Latest Posts block consistent with sticky posts display. (69428)
• Query Total: Prevent stricted type fatal errors on post per page. (69508)
• Social Icons: Disable edit as HTML support. (69374)
• Spacer: Revert height defaults to 100px if left unset. (69450)
• SpacerControls: Default the height to 100px if left unset. (68819)
• Table Of Contents: Include headings exclusively within the core/post-content block. (69366)

Site Editor

• Classic themes: Prevent access to parts of the Site Editor. (69473)
• Hide admin bar in classic theme site preview. (69514)
• Prevent access to the Design/Styles screen from classic themes without StyleBook support. (69377)
• Show save panel in mobile layout. (69448)
• Site Editor Sidebar: Fix header scrolling in mobile layout. (69413)

Global Styles

• Shadow, Duotone: Fix reset button style. (69471)
• ShadowsPanel: Remove Flex Wrapper from Subtitle. (69541)

Post Editor

• Autocompleters: Change user slug color. (69003)
• Editor: Fix 'slug' editing in 'template-locked' mode. (69516)

Document Settings

• Editor: Use disabled state for 'Change template' menu item. (69558)

Style Book

• Classic theme site preview: Make all interactive elements unclickable. (69522)

Document Outline

• Disable selection for non-content headings. (69506)

Block Editor

• Fix error from popover scroll hook. (69479)

REST API

• Add additional default template data fields for the active theme. (69417)

Block Directory

• Fix installations for 'template-locked' mode. (69394)

Layout

• Layout Support: Replace incremental IDs with hashes. (68210)

Accessibility

Post Editor

• Editor: Refactor the 'PostVisibility' component. (69451)
• Make password protected input fields consistent. (69440)

Components

• Button: Remove fixed width from small and compact buttons with icons. (69378)
• Remove non translatable additional info from font size picker visual label and improve labeling. (69011)

Block Editor

• ARIA: Fix invalid DropdownMenu children structure. (69441)

Block Library

• Site Title: Fix logic for 'aria-current' attribute. (68909)

Performance

Post Editor

• Editor: Optimize queries for 'useAllowSwitchingTemplates' hook. (69560)
• Editor: Optimize selector queries for Homepage and Posts Page actions. (69461)
• Editor: Preload template lookup. (69454)

Site Editor

• Fix template lookup preloading for non-draft pages. (69400)

Experiments

• Added Missing Trailing periods in Experiment Settings Page. (69395)

Documentation

• Docs/update reference to JS build setup 404 in scripts README, fix absolute links. (69495)
• Fix: Update invalid JSON Schema link in README.md. (69505)
• Update documentation about wp-scripts build-blocks-manifest in relation to new WordPress 6.8 function. (69445)

Code Quality

• Alignment note with Wordpress report 62426. (69519)
• Core Data: Update '__unstableBase' entity types. (69556)

Block Library

• Audio Block: Refactor setting panel to use ToolsPanel. (69324)

Global Styles

• Removed color.__experimentalDuotone from core blocks. (58241)

Tools

Testing

• Restore post preview end-to-end tests. (69447)
• Skip failing post preview end-to-end tests. (69429)
• Template UI mu-plugin: Run filter after the setup_theme action. (69542)

Various

Plugin

• Update hierarchical data compat directory. (69550)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @Anuj-Rathore24: Fix: Update invalid JSON Schema link in README.md. (69505)
• @bschneidewind: Site Title: Fix logic for 'aria-current' attribute. (68909)
• @dontfeedthecode: Docs/update reference to JS build setup 404 in scripts README, fix absolute links. (69495)
• @sabbir1991: Removed color.__experimentalDuotone from core blocks. (58241)
• @SirLouen: Alignment note with Wordpress report 62426. (69519)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@afercia @Anuj-Rathore24 @bschneidewind @carolinan @cbravobernal @DAreRodz @dhruvikpatel18 @dontfeedthecode @felixarntz @HILAYTRIVEDI @himanshupathak95 @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @Mamaduka @sabbir1991 @SainathPoojary @shail-mehta @shimotmk @SirLouen @stokesman @t-hamano @yogeshbhutkar