WordPress/gutenberg v21.6.0-rc.1

21.6.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

• Add support for precision type placeholders to translator comments eslint. (71145)
• Core Commands: Add Dashboard option to return to dashboard. (71261)
• Core Data: Add 'supportsPagination' to all appropriate entities. (71302)
• Core Data: Forward resolvers for pagination selectors. (71304)
• Core Data: Include pagination meta while receiving intermediate results. (71401)
• Create Block: Add lifecycle script execution support. (71072)
• Deps: Bump framer-motion to v11.15.0. (71442)
• Display names for Context providers. (71208)
• Move Site Editor command from @wordpress/editor package to @wordpress/core-commands. (71262)

DataViews

• DataForm: Add description support for the combined fields and show the description in the Card layout. (71380)
• DataForm: Streamline validation behavior. (71345)
• Revert "DataForm: Streamline validation behavior". (71359)
• Support hiding the title in Grid layout, with actions available on hover. (71369)
• Support the "Minimal UI" story by using DataViews.Footer. (71276)

Block Library

• Accordion Panel: Remove unnecessary wrapper div and simplify save. (71454)
• Accordion: Add an "Add" button. (71388)
• Query Loop Block: Fix broken placeholder. (70840)

Offline

• api-fetch: Check navigator.onLine to improve failure notices. (71438)

Meta Boxes

• Edit Post: Check for meta box container before adding constraints. (71423)

Commands

• feat: Added keyword support & added basic keywords for post/page. (70624)

New APIs

Global Styles

• Add support for select or dropdown elements. (70379)

Bug Fixes

• Add permission checks to Command Palette commands. (71267)
• Components: Fix Tab font size when used outside WP. (71346)
• Core Data: Fix error in 'getEntityRecordsTotalPages' selector. (71303)
• Scripts: Do not access window global. (71348)
• wp-scripts: Remove clean-webpack-plugin dependency. (71080)

Block Library

• Accordion Header: Fix RTL toggle button layout. (71480)
• Fix issue of css affecting the nested accordion icon. (71445)
• Fix timezone in Date block. (71430)
• Fix: Randomization in Gallery Block doesn't work when Lightbox is enabled. (71408)
• Group Block variation:Remove variation text color. (71429)
• Properly apply styles and classes to the experimental form block. (55755)
• Template Part: Display icons correctly when in placeholder state. (71327)
• fix: Prevent accordion toggle button overflow at full width. (71446)
• fix: Prevent scrollbars on accordion header and toggle. (71484)

Write mode

• Allow adding "content" role blocks to containers that also have a "content" role in write mode. (71232)
• Audio and Video: Hide caption controls in contentOnly mode. (71368)
• Hide 'Add block' control in Link UI when Navigation Link block is in contentOnly mode. (71213)
• Image: Don't allow convert to cover controls in contentOnly mode. (71329)

Post Editor

• Edit Post: Fix misplaced icon on back button. (71406)
• Editor: Fix theme stylesheet injection in 'useAvailablePatterns'. (71332)

DataViews

• Fix grid padding values on mobile viewports. (71455)

Block Editor

• Inserter: Fix InserterListbox rendering for React 19. (71410)

Style Book

• Accordion Content, Header, Panel: Remove example field. (71407)

Zoom Out

• Fix Zoom out should be disabled when Show Template is toggled off. (71361)

Components

• ControlWithError: Show validating state when transitioning from error state. (71260)

Interactivity API

• iAPI: Make state getters to be updated asynchronously with store(). (70974)

Performance

• Add wp-env SPX profiler option. (70693)

Post Editor

• Editor: Improve the 'Design' sidebar panel performance. (71333)

Documentation

• Core Data: Improve 'registry.batch' documentation. (71325)
• DataForm: Better story for validation. (71298)
• DataViews: Fix defaultLayouts documentation error. (71334)
• Field Types: Update storybook. (71440)
• Hooks: Document 'hookName' and 'namespace' parameters. (71288)
• Storybook: Set DateCalendar and DateRangeCalendar components as private. (71453)

Code Quality

• A11y: Remove redundant styles. (65409)
• Command Palette: Enqueue assets globally. (71264)
• Convert api-fetch package to TypeScript. (67669)
• Convert date package to TypeScript. (67665)
• Core Data: Remove unused reducers. (71305)
• Fix: Add JSON_HEX_TAG flag to wp_json_encode in script tags. (71280)
• Interface: Remove leftover comment. (71331)
• Types: Update to be compatible with React 19. (71374)
• api-fetch: Clean up error handling. (71458)
• api-fetch: Cleanup and improve unit tests. (71439)
• core-data: Use Object.fromEntries instead of reduce when generating entities reducer. (36296)

Block Editor

• Fold uniqueByBlock into options object. (71279)
• Remove duplicate 'InsertionPointOpenRef' context definition. (71465)

Block Library

• Image block: Remove unused code. (71292)
• refactor: Remove unnecessary fields from accordion block.json files. (71441)

Post Editor

• Update types of getCurrentPostId. (71347)

Global Styles

• Remove unecessary useEffect from ScreenStyleVariations. (71344)

Tools

Testing

• Avoid using *-latest for runner images. (71201)
• Fix failing command center end-to-end tests. (71293)
• GitHub Actions: Try to fix storybook smoke tests. (71284)
• Upgrade Playwright to v1.55. (71285)

Build Tooling

• Fix PHP unit testing jobs to not include version. (71396)
• Release Workflow: Add github.ref validation. (71404)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @levinbaria: Fix issue of css affecting the nested accordion icon. (71445)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@Adi-ty @andrewserong @aristath @DAreRodz @desrosj @dinhtungdu @getdave @himanshupathak95 @im3dabasia @jsnajdr @juanfra @kmanijak @lalitkumawat1m @levinbaria @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @Mayank-Tripathi32 @mcsf @mikachan @mirka @nerrad @oandregal @R1shabh-Gupta @ramonjd @shimotmk @sirreal @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla @USERSATOSHI @vipul0425 @westonruter @youknowriad