WordPress/gutenberg v21.3.0-rc.1

21.3.0 RC1

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Changelog

Features

DataViews

• Add groupByField support to grid layout. (70752)

Components

• Add ValidateControls components. (70620)

Enhancements

• DataViews: Add date field type. (70657)
• wp-env: Add wp-cli configuration when creating environment. (70661)

Block Library

• Cover: Enable support for adding posters over video. (70816)
• Navigation Submenu Link: Add Open in new tab toggle to navigation block sidebar. (70687)
• Post Content Block: Add tagName selector. (70698)
• Video: Enable support for adding multiple tracks. (70689)
• Site tagline: update block description. (34473)

Write mode

• Allow add before/after on block toolbar menu dropdown when in write mode. (70827)
• Remove cover block content position and full height controls from write mode. (70826)

Block API

• Add attribute role-based filtering to 'isUnmodifiedBlock'. (70764)

List View

• Package blocks: Introduce a utility for getting the block image. (68910)

Layout

• Adds max limit to row span and column span in grid. (64895)

Bug Fixes

• Update @tannin/sprintf to resolve CommonJS error. (70799)
• wp-env: Don't overwrite wp-cli.yml if it already exists. (70677)
• wp-env: Fix Docker build errors with Debian Buster repositories. (70718)

Block Library

• Archives: Update padding for archives block to remain consistent with list. (69008)
• Fix: Preserve hasParallax when switching from video to image in Cover block. (70703)
• Media & Text: Fixed resetAll to return image resolution to default value. (70683)
• Navigation Block: Fix inconsistent padding in nested submenus when "Open on click" is enabled. (70471)
• Navigation Link: Fix URL deletion in Inspector Controls. (70749)
• Separator: Surfacing the HTML markup control. (70455)
• Sever Nav Link item entity link on URL change if ID already exists. (68143)
• Video: Fix track editor state saves without explicitly applying the changes. (70628)
• [Block] Cover: Fix resize handler gets stuck on undo. (70820)

Block Editor

• Block Editor Components: Add missing style resets for fieldset elements. (70685)
• Inserter: Fix focus style for disabled items. (70691)
• Inserter: Restore styling for disabled blocks. (70663)

Global Styles

• Core/File: Reduce specificity of pseudo-selector styles for better override support via theme.json. (70358)
• Make Button element inherit all typography styles on the frontend. (70676)

Components

• Update Icon component to support bundled dataviews package. (70756)

CSS & Styling

• Block Lock Modal: Add ul browser defaults CSS resets. (70700)

Interactivity API

• iAPI Router: Preserve media attribute on intial style sheets after client-side navigation. (70668)

Font Library

• Fix: Font Library Modal: Focus outline not displaying correctly. (70667)

Post Editor

• Match front-page link style to admin styles. (70600)

Accessibility

Block Editor

• Autocomplete: Prevent text cursor position loss when clicking to insert an item. (70660)
• Components: Fix label and placeholder handling in LinkControlSearchInput. (70096)

Block Library

• a11y: Comments Pagination Nav Wrapper. (70730)

Performance

• core-data: Try using cached permissions even when _fields is present in the query. (70738)

Block Editor

• Avoid unbound requests in inserter selectors. (66817)
• Deprecate block hovered global state. (70731)

Block Library

• Fix: Avoid duplicate get_the_title() calls in render_block_core_post_featured_image(). (70813)

List View

• Delay block highlighting when moving the mouse over the items. (70732)

Documentation

• Deprecated: Fix code example. (70781)
• Docs: Update RichTextToolbarButton link in documentation. (70804)
• Docs: Update WP Studio to WordPress Studio. (70716)

Code Quality

• Convert packages to TypeScript:
  • Migrate @packages/url package to TypeScript. (70496)
  • Migrate hooks package to TypeScript. (70488)
  • Migrate lazy-import package to TypeScript. (70475)
  • Migrate redux-routine package to TS. (70686)
  • Migrate plugins package to TS. (70773)
  • Migrate Icons package to TypeScript. (70456)
  • TypeScript: Fix types for core entity meta. (70788)
  • TypeScript: Migrate block-serialization-default-parser to TS. (#70507). (70766)
  • TypeScript: Migrate wordcount package to TypeScript. (70501)

Block Library

• Navigation Link: Add opensInNewTab to resetAll. (70717)
• Video: Fix 'MediaUploadCheck' wrapper for Poster control. (70830)
• Video: Reuse logic for uploaded track selection. (70675)

DataViews

• Improve data in DataViews storybook. (70817)
• filterSortAndPaginate: Extract sortBy and groupBy logic. (70822)

Components

• Reuse existing useControlledValue hook in Calendar components. (70655)
• SelectControl: Move classnames to root. (70643)
• DateCalendar, DateRangeCalendar: Move to private APIs. (70681)

Layout

• Dimensions support: Fix duplicate output of styling rules. (70796)

Block API

• Blocks: Set default 'apiVersion' for client-side registration. (70750)

List View

• Remove public APIs for getting images. (70705)

Tools

• Improve plugin release checklist and documentation. (70808)
• Improving Gitignore for files related to applying patches. (70745)
• Update codeowners for packages/dataviews. (70753)
• Update gutenberg release documentation. (70772)
• Sync package-lock.json on latest NPM. (70839)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@Adi-ty @aduth @andrewserong @carolinan @chihsuan @ciampo @DAreRodz @dhruvikpatel18 @dmsnell @EliezerSPP @ellatrix @getdave @gigitux @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @jeryj @jsnajdr @kellychoffman @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @mukeshpanchal27 @n2erjo00 @ndiego @oandregal @prasadkarmalkar @priethor @shimotmk @shrivastavanolo @SirLouen @t-hamano @talldan @vipul0425 @yogeshbhutkar @youknowriad