WordPress/gutenberg v20.6.0-rc.1

20.6.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

• Feature: Adding support for more granular controls over the ToC block. (69063)
• Navigation Block: Add transparency slider for submenu background. (69379)
• Query Total: Add interactivity.clientNavigation block support. (69661)
• RSS Block: Add option to open links in new tab/window and control rel attributes. (69641)

Block Editor

• Add keyboard shortcut (cmd(ctrl)+option(alt)+v) to paste styles. (69196)
• BlockPatternsExplorer: Hide scrollbar from sidebar if not scrollable. (69706)

Post Editor

• Editor: Revert new default rendering mode for Pages. (69680)

Bug Fixes

• BlockBreadcrumb: Wrap text node in span tag. (69605)
• Fix Media & Text block preview alignment on larger devices. (67097)
• Format Library: Ensure inline image with updates persist after removing the 'width'. (69683)
• Include blocks manifest build process in Webpack configuration to fix create-block bug with missing blocks manifest file. (69578)

Block Library

• Featured Image Block: Prevent default action on image click to fix linking to post. (69716)
• Fix Category List Block: Add optional chaining to taxonomy name. (69703)
• Fix(embed-block): Only call setAttributes() when attrs change. (68141)
• Fix: Correct 'Displaying 1 – 0 of 0' issue when no results are found. (69666)
• Image block: Omit max width observer element in galleries. (69601)
• PostCommentsForm: Fix submit button width regression. (69651)

Components

• ComboboxControl: Replace undefined variable usage with color-mix for disabled selection. (69621)
• CustomSelectControl: Use dynamic fill color for check icon. (69626)
• Fix autocomple UI flicker when deleting trigger prefix. (69562)
• Update NumberControl stepping to match HTML number input stepping. (34566)

Block Editor

• LinkControl: Fix visually Duplicative label and placeholder. (69620)
• PatternsExplorerModal: Fix empty patterns in starter content category. (69629)

Post Editor

• Post Template Panel: Render create-new-template-modal over post-template-panel. (69713)

Global Styles

• Site Editor: Make the text "Custom Styles" translatable. (69677)

Site Editor

• Set IFRAME_REQUEST constant for classic theme site preview. (69535)

Document Settings

• PostStatus: Prevent form submission from refreshing the page. (69526)

Accessibility

Document Settings

• Post Template Panel: Preserve parent modal when closing template creation dialog. (69724)

Block Library

• Site Title: Prevent saving and rendering a value made of only spaces. (69628)

Block Editor

• Fix shift+tab from post title. (69520)

Components

• Global Styles: Prevent Unwanted ItemGroup List Rendering in Border Panel. (68633)

DataViews

• Display Checkbox by default in dataviews. (67874)

Performance

Block Library

• Image: Don't subscribe to current post changes. (69630)
• Navigation Link: Don't check validity when block editing is disabled. (69627)
• Navigation Link: Improve performance by only requesting entities when selected. (69633)
• Navigation Link: Optimize 'getBlockParentsByBlockName' selector call. (69631)

Documentation

• Developer Documentation: Update VS Code settings in the contribution guide. (69670)
• Editor: Clarify icon prop behavior in README. (69672)
• Fix: Missing comma in DataView documentation example. (69721)
• Modify the AnglePickerControl example code. (69673)
• Modify the RangeControl example code. (69591)
• Reference splitTask from interactivity package in documentation. (69602)
• Storybook: Update ToolbarItem and ToolbarDropdownMenu exports. (69618)
• Update the list of Gutenberg versions in WordPress versions. (69700)
• scripts: Fix broken changelog link. (69654)

Code Quality

Components

• Component: Extract getNodeText to its own file and add unit tests. (69135)
• Fixed broken className test for NumberControl. (69540)

Post Editor

• PreviewDropdown: There's no need to unlock the 'getRenderingMode' selector. (69682)

Font Library

• FontLibraryModal: Remove temporary margin-bottom override. (69674)

Site Editor

• Update old URLs to new path-based URLs. (69585)

Tools

Testing

• Fix end-to-end and performance tests. (69690)
• Fix flaky Typewriter end-to-end test. (69623)
• Refactor 'Template hierarchy' end-to-end tests. (69692)
• Upgrade Playwright to v1.51.1. (69622)
• e2e: Fix taxomomies test. (69723)

Build Tooling

• Fix Tests: Update browserslist and caniuse-lite to latest versions. (69669)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @gmovr: Feature: Adding support for more granular controls over the ToC block. (69063)
• @im3dabasia: Fix Media & Text block preview alignment on larger devices. (67097)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@bph @chrisbellboy @dhruvikpatel18 @felixarntz @gmovr @himanshupathak95 @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @karthick-murugan @Mamaduka @Mayank-Tripathi32 @Rishit30G @SainathPoojary @shimotmk @Sourav61 @StevenDufresne @stokesman @t-hamano @westonruter @yogeshbhutkar