WordPress/gutenberg v20.9.0-rc.1

20.9.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

• Base Styles: Update to modern Sass module system. (70135)
• Post Publish Panel: Open view post links in a new tab. (70127)
• Revert Admin bar: Update the Edit Site link. (69974)

Block Library

• Custom HTML: Add role attribute to content in block.json. (70154)
• HTML Block: Remove space below textarea. (70055)
• Post Navigation Link: Reverse order of variations. (70149)
• RSS: Add role attribute to content in block.json. (70166)
• Search Block: Move search setting to inspector. (70144)

Write mode

• Details block: Add role attribute to summary. (70124)
• Enable Code block content editing in contentOnly. (70111)
• Enable More block's "Read more" text editing in contentOnly mode. (70100)
• Post blocks: Enhance contentOnly editing experience. (70148)
• Table Block: Enhance contentOnly Editing Experience. (70114)

Components

• ColorPicker: Add a visual cue when the value is copied. (70083)
• Snackbar: Add support to open links in new tab. (69905)

Block Transforms

• Block Library: Add missing transforms between Verse and Preformatted blocks. (70101)

Global Styles

• Remove "global" from styles variation in schema descriptions. (70089)

Site Editor

• Move Styles to top of sidebar navigation. (68582)

Bug Fixes

• DOM: Add summary element to focusable elements. (70051)
• Site Editor: Fix PHP warnings in gutenberg_get_site_editor_redirection. (70062)
• URL: Handle HTML entities and ampersand in 'cleanForSlug'. (70078)
• Workflows: Persist git credentials when publishing packages via Lerna. (70058)

Block Library

• Button: Limit scope of width style for link. (70054)
• Image: Provide 'defaultValue' for 'ResolutionTool' component. (70122)
• Post Template: Don't rely on the default 'ignore_sticky' REST API value. (70020)

Components

• Fix Styling for TextControland TextAreaControl in dark themes. (69640)
• Fix URLPopover input handling to properly update value. (70156)

Post Editor

• Editor: Honor rich/code editor settings when deriving the editor mode. (70080)
• Hide "Create template part" menu from block settings dropdown for classic themes. (65568)

Block Editor

• MediaPlaceholder: Fix potential error in 'handleBlocksDrop'. (70090)

Accessibility

• Editor: Add label inTextareaControl in CollabSidebar. (70133)

Global Styles

• Background Image Panel: Fix focus loss. (69813)
• Move Randomize colors button to Edit Palette panel. (70128)

Documentation

• Add example doc comment. (70116)
• Docs: Clarify versions in WordPress page title. (70112)
• Docs: Fix PEG.js link. (70082)
• Docs: Interactivity API Block removed. (69513)
• Modify the spinner example code. (70084)
• Popover: Update Popover component documentation. (70106)
• RichText Readme - Fix 404 URL To Mozilla documentation. (70171)
• Updated backticks to quotes. (70070)

Code Quality

• ServerSideRender: Colocate delayed spinner logic. (70147)
• Stylelint: Customise warning for CSS variables used outside components package. (70108)
• Stylelint: Customise warning message for flex-direction warning. (70057)

Block Library

• Blocks: Remove TODO for post comment block conversion. (70110)

Components

• withIgnoreIMEEvents: Update documentation for clarity. (70098)

Font Library

• Fix missing trailing period in user message. (70132)

Tools

Build Tooling

• Workflows: Add option for publishing the latest npm packages. (70079)

Testing

• end-to-end Tests: Add test suite for columns block template lock. (69089)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @jasalt: Docs: Fix PEG.js link. (70082)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@carolinan @himanshupathak95 @igorradovanov @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @jasalt @karthikeya-io @Mamaduka @Mayank-Tripathi32 @peterwilsoncc @SainathPoojary @shimotmk @SirLouen @StevenDufresne @Sukhendu2002 @t-hamano @unscripted @yogeshbhutkar