WordPress/gutenberg v21.9.0-rc.1

21.9.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

• Create Block: Enable alias package installation. (72079)
• DataViews: Add views package to be used to persist view modifications and use it for patterns. (72102)
• Pages Dataviews: Support persistence. (72127)
• Remove redundant max percentage from download progress. (72282)
• Template activation: Duplicate modal on static template click, remove auto-drafting. (72285)
• Templates DataViews: Support persistence. (72113)
• iAPI: Add official support for unique IDs. (72161)

Block Library

• Add aspect ratio control for gallery block (#71116). (72104)
• Block support: Add allowedBlocks support for more blocks. (72191)
• Breadcrumbs: Add post with terms breadcrumbs support. (72124)
• Categories block: Improve and harden JavaScript used when displayed as dropdown. (72118)
• Details Block: Remove "accordion" keyword to avoid confusion with Accordion block. (71746)
• Details block: Add name attribute in editor. (71054)
• Introduce block support and UI for allowedBlocks. (71986)
• Stabilize Accordion block. (72036)
• Terms Query: Add include specific terms support. (72286)
• Terms Query: Simplify controls and layout. (72121)
• Terms Query: Stabilize the block. (72380)
• Terms Query: Update inherit control and functionality. (72313)
• Terms Query: Use linked term names in variations. (72307)
• Time to Read: Add word count icon. (72240)

Collaboration

• Block Comments: Always show comment menu item. (72153)
• Block Comments: Capture resolution history & display in thread. (71563)
• Block Comments: Hide actions until the thread is selected. (72179)
• Block Comments: Highlight block with new toggleBlockSpotlight private API. (72126)
• Block Comments: Select block when comment is selected. (72082)
• Block Comments: Try alternative method for spotlight. (72194)
• Notes: Add More Menu Item. (72377)
• Notes: Add privacy info text. (72276)
• Notes: Floating comments aligned with blocks that avoid overlapping. (72216)
• Notes: Graduate from experiments. (72344)
• Notes: Update snackbar text. (72409)
• Resolving Comments hide reserved space for comments. (72210)

DataViews

• DataForm - Card Layout: Implement summary field. (71576)
• DataForm: Introduce validity prop. (71412)
• DataForm: Row layout can control field width. (72066)
• DataForm: Stop auto-injecting select placeholder. (72241)
• DataForm: Support validation in date field type. (72048)
• Dataforms: Add validation to date time field. (72060)
• Delete the isDestructive prop from the actions. (72111)
• Field API: Support async loading elements. (72254)
• Improve renderItemLink event propagation handling. (72081)
• Make header table view select all checkbox always visible. (72050)
• Standardise DataForm typography. (72284)
• Update modalHeader to support dynamic modal header text based on selected item. (72384)

Block API

• Accordion Block: Added anchor support. (72054)
• Add block visibility control in the command center. (72154)
• Add blockVisibility support to Synced Pattern and Template Part. (72026)
• Add: Fit text/stretch text block supports and variation. (71904)
• Block Visibility: Show snackbar when hiding block. (72027)

Block Editor

• Add Additional CSS Classes setting to Link UI. (67560)
• Add keyboard shortcut toggle block visibility. (72172)
• Drag and drop: direct drag: Move block instead of drag chip. (67470)

Components

• Flip search icons depending on placement. (72070)
• Move search icons in search fields to prefix position. (71984)
• SearchControl: Normalize styles. (72072)

Block Variations

• Block Transforms: In metadata transform, remove check for block bindings. (72389)
• Paragraph and Heading Block: Remove stretchy text variation. (72408)

Interactivity API

• Allow Post Content when "Force Page Reload" is disable in the Query Loop. (72160)
• iAPI Router: Selectively preload interactivity script modules. (72340)

REST API

• Block Comments: Update REST API permissions for this type. (71919)
• Notes/Block Comments: Use arguments from the schema for creation. (72205)

Write mode

• Add contentRole support to Accordion, Accordion Item, Accordion Panel. (72052)
• Remove most uses of isNavigationMode in contentOnly logic. (72043)

Icons

• Update check icon to be optically balanced. (72101)

Focus Mode

• Allow submenu flyout menus to be visible outside of template part canvas. (72013)

Global Styles

• Add shadow and layout to the global styles changes translation map array. (72010)

Bug Fixes

• A couple more PHP 8.5 fixes. (72094)
• Build V2: Fix DataViews export file. (72387)
• Build V2: Fix emotion transpiling. (72280)
• Build v2: Fix block-editor default colors. (72349)
• Fix: Change ordering of multiple data-wp-context directives in iAPI processing. (72395)
• Post Quick Edit: Fix bulk edit field filtering logic. (71952)
• Revert "Block Bindings: Move bindable attributes to privateContext. (72400)
• Template activation: Add meta to all newly created templates. (72156)
• Template activation: Clear notice on post change. (72403)
• Template activation: Fix /lookup endpoint to use custom resolve fn. (72049)
• Template activation: Fix theme field for old REST API endpoint. (72366)
• Template activation: Reduce templates listed as options for post/page. (72141)
• Template activation: Remove redirect to wp_registered_template. (72356)
• iAPI: Handle all getServerState and getServerContext sync scenarios. (72381)

Block Library

• Accordion Heading: Remove the padding from the heading when it has a background color. (72046)
• Accordion Item and Panel: Remove layout from the block supports. (72045)
• Accordion Item block: Add layout support. (72176)
• Accordion Panel Block: Add layout support. (72211)
• Accordion heading:Remove toggle icon typography. (72227)
• Accordion panel item: Disable edit as HTML support. (72095)
• Accordion: Remove headingLevel from Reset All Attributes. (72186)
• Breadcrumbs: Do not allow empty separator. (72347)
• Fix Nav Block Link UI regression for blocks with id but no binding - make UI opt in. (72171)
• Fix Page List to Navigation Link conversion with entity bindings. (72287)
• Fix auto focus in accordion block. (72021)
• Fix entity binding not cleared when unsyncing and entering custom URL in Nav block. (72212)
• Fix navigation link URL binding resolution on frontend. (72169)
• Fix: Don’t allow unlocking accordion item and panel blocks. (72290)
• Fix: Prevent custom links from creating empty block bindings. (72134)
• Fix: Prevent submenu hover in contentOnly mode. (72007)
• Navigation Link: Fix custom links creating empty bindings and severed links retaining bindings. (72162)
• Navigation: Show inserter when Navigation Submenu block is selected. (71578)
• Remove manual focus tracking for navigation link blocks. (72142)
• Term Description: Fix front end context. (72238)
• Term Name: Decode HTML entities. (72375)
• Terms Query: Fix display all terms in editor. (72419)

Collaboration

• Block Comments: Ensure sort order matches blocks. (72069)
• Block Comments: Fix the canvas re-ordering synchronization. (72112)
• Note: Fix the error when creating a new note. (72312)
• Notes: Fix logic for opening feature sidebar areas. (72431)
• Notes: Hide block settings menu items for mulit-selection. (72206)
• Notes: Remove 'isDefaultEmptyBlock' condition. (72427)
• Notes: Remove unnecessary horizontal scrollbar. (72250)
• Notes: Show orphaned notes in archive sidebar. (72420)
• Notes: Tweak thead style. (72308)
• Notes: When thread active push previous floating comments up. (72309)

Block bindings

• Fix PHP 8.5 array offset deprecation warning. (72076)
• Fix bindableAttributes.includes render error. (72401)
• Move support for Navigation blocks URL attribute to correct place. (72418)
• Remove spurious attributes from supported-by-6.8 list. (72442)

Components

• Badge: Fix styles. (72302)
• CheckboxControl, RadioControl, ToggleControl: Ensure focus on click. (72115)
• Fix color scale functions. (72255)
• Fix/underline text decoration propagates to badge fields. (72097)

DataViews

• DataViews and DataViews Picker: Ensure title overflows correctly in Grid view. (72339)
• Fix Dataviews ItemClickable when set to false. (72078)
• Fix dataviews scroll and footer stickiness. (72150)

Interactivity API

• iAPI: Fix wp-each item contexts for objects with same key. (70424)
• iAPI: Fix unexpected browser warning for withSyncEvent() wrapper. (70325)
• iAPI: Skip directive execution for "lazy" derived state props. (71125)

REST API

• Notes: Allow creating duplicate comments for all notes. (72320)
• Notes: Improve REST API checks for resolution notes. (72316)

Write mode

• Block Editor: Hide Navigation block children from Content sidebar in contentOnly mode. (72237)
• contentOnly: Fix canInsertBlockType dependencies to fix selector caching issues. (72022)

Block Editor

• Block Inserter: Don't show back button in inserter preview when a navigation block child is selected. (72199)
• Don't applySelection change for off-canvas text length changes. (72221)

Site Editor

• Editor Canvas: Fix background color caused by invalid Sass value. (72117)
• Pages: Disable filter for discussion field. (72201)

Icons

• Bundle generated source code. (72299)

Meta Boxes

• Ensure meta boxes are not hidden when legacy. (72220)

Block Transforms

• Use new getTransformedAttributes() function. (72196)

Post Editor

• Editor post featured image: Ensure hidden text is hidden when common CSS is not loaded. (72149)

Colors

• Properly position color panel popover. (72146)

Accessibility

Collaboration

• Block Comments: Add focus on Comment deletion. (71974)
• Block Comments: Avoid focus loss after creating a comment. (72139)
• Block Comments: Improve focus management for comment interactions. (71814)
• Block Comments: Try the alt method for transferring focus to sidebar. (72158)
• Notes: Add skip link button to back to block. (72270)
• Notes: Avoid losing sidebar reference. (72342)
• Notes: Move focus to the parent thread when a reply was deleted. (72341)

Block Library

• Accordion: Add group role and aria-label block support. (72023)
• Fix Navigation Link Focus Loss. (72071)

Performance

• Perf: Avoid busting the memo cache for useDebounce options. (72279)

Site Editor

• Pages: Reuse embedded info for authors. (72200)
• Pages: Use embedded info for feature media. (72213)

Block bindings

• Move bindable attributes to privateContext. (72351)

Block Editor

• Remove extra traverseBlockTree call. (72025)

Experiments

Collaboration

• Collaborative editing: Make syncing a side-concern instead of a replacement for local state. (72114)
• Improve CRDT "merge logic" for post entities. (72262)
• Improve entity "sync configs". (72145)
• Move Yjs providers into subfolder. (72224)
• Refactor sync provider into a createSyncManager factory function. (72183)

Block API

• PHP-only blocks: Auto-register blocks with block API version 3 by default. (72047)
• PHP-only blocks: Ensure editor interactions and block supports work correctly. (72039)

Block Library

• Add Navigation block toolbar buttons to Template Part editor. (72008)

Block bindings

• API to extend the UI to external sources. (71542)

Documentation

• Add fitText field to block.json schema. (72198)
• Added Global Documentation in template-activate file. (72020)
• Block Editor: Document 'selectBlock' skip focus behavior. (72090)
• Changelogs: Fix example to match standard format. (72164)
• Create block: Update DocBlock with exposed variables for render.php t…. (72086)
• PHP-only blocks: Add documentation. (72068)
• Release Documentation: Add quick reference guide. (72388)

Code Quality

• Add --wp-editor-canvas-background css var. (72037)
• Custom Views: Remove the experiment. (72123)
• DataForm: Refactor RelativeDateControl to use DataFormControl props. (72361)
• DataForm: Reorganize validation tests. (72330)
• DataViews: Centralize stories for better visibility. (72041)
• DataViews: Collocate normalizeFormFields where it is used. (72056)
• DataViews: Collocate render-from-elements util where it's used. (72058)
• DataViews: Create top-level utils/ folder. (72063)
• DataViews: Split the types file. (72051)
• Extract Page and NavigableRegion components to an admin-ui package. (72106)
• HTML API: Refactor layout image container. (72264)
• Primitives: Add missing type export. (72428)

Block Library

• Add Link UI tests for entity-bound navigation links. (72209)
• BlockRenameModal: Fix Rename cleanEmptyObject attributes. (72371)
• Breadcrumbs: Make experimental. (72234)
• Breadcrumbs: PHP improvements. (72155)
• Extract shared updateAttributes utility for Navigation Link and Submenu blocks. (72002)
• Image block: Rename $p variable to $processor. (72033)
• Move LinkUI components to dedicated /link-ui directory and formalise sharing with Submenu. (72004)
• Terms Query block: Remove duplicate server-rendered wrapper. (72296)
• Terms Query: Move variations from Term template. (72197)
• Terms Query: Remove block bindings. (72275)
• Terms Query: Remove some redundant attributes. (72107)
• Terms Query: Rename "hierarchical" to "showNested". (72273)
• Terms Query: Small PHP code quality changes. (72385)
• Terms Query: Use perPage attribute to fetch only required terms. (72291)
• Terms Query: Use templateSlug from context. (72295)
• Time to Read: Don't use wp_word_count() function. (72091)
• Update Terms Query block variation names and icons. (72298)

Collaboration

• Block Comment: Add utility function to focus thead. (72024)
• Block Comments: Extract CRUD actions into a separate hook. (72152)
• Block Comments: Refactor active sidebar tracking. (72177)
• Block Comments: Simplify 'Actions' eligibility logic. (72144)
• Notes: Change metadata key. (72411)
• Notes: Fix commentId cleanEmptyObject attributes. (72369)
• Notes: Rename comment type. (72310)

Block bindings

• Migrate post-data and term-data source to use field instead of key args. (72382)
• Refactor UI, improve consistency, add more info about source status. (72253)
• Remove core/entity binding in favour of post and term data bindings. Apply to Nav blocks. (72165)

REST API

• Notes: Don't change 'type' schema. (72357)

Site Editor

• Editor: Don't use deprecated '__experimentalGetDefaultTemplateType' selector. (72338)

DataViews

• Field types: Move element validation to isValid.elements. (72325)

Components

• Modal: Replace justify-content: Left with flex-start in modal header. (71993)

Tools

• Changelog automation: Add "Collaboration" mapping. (72075)

Build Tooling

• Build Tool: Move all simple packages to v2. (72163)
• Build V2: Adhoc script to build vendors and remove webpack. (72441)
• Build V2: Cleanup v1 build scripts. (72358)
• Build V2: Handle externals properly, do not bundle them. (72178)
• Build V2: Migrate more packages including block-editor. (72259)
• Build V2: Migrate more packages. (72324)
• Build V2: Support JSX and JSON. (72202)
• Build V2: Supports packages with styles. (72242)
• Build v2: Cleanup and simplify build and dev scripts. (72448)
• Build v2: Fix scss watching. (72257)
• Build v2: Fix transpilation warnings. (72359)
• Build v2: Fix watch of nested dependencies. (72451)
• Build v2: Improve script modules dependency handling. (72188)
• Build v2: Migrate DataViews and Admin UI. (72319)
• Build v2: Migrate another batch of packages to v2 pipeline. (72251)
• Build v2: Migrate block library. (72333)
• Build v2: Migrate edit-* packages to the new build script. (72354)
• Build v2: Migrate more packages including editor. (72328)
• Build v2: Move the php files copying to the v2 script and make the configuration generic per package. (72396)
• Build: Cross-package style dependencies should use built files and not src. (72293)
• Build: Move packages that output script modules to v2 pipeline. (72173)
• Build: Replace webpack bundling with esbuild for packages marked as v2. (72140)
• Build: Support watching SVG icons to generate TSX. (72087)
• Eslint: Ignore build-wp. (72404)
• Fix api doc generation for module re-exports. (72228)
• Hooks Package: Build using esbuild. (72125)
• Icons: Add prepare script to generate source; don't bundle. (72365)
• Icons: Make tracked file checker work in more environments. (72337)
• Icons: Switch to SVG icons, autobuild React elements. (71878)
• Packages Build: Fix watch mode for style files. (72315)
• Switch to using sass-embedded for build-v2. (72258)
• Wait for transpilation of all JS files before compiling styles. (72435)

Testing

• Add an end-to-end test about view persistence to avoid regressions. (72133)
• Add polling to fix flaky test condition. (72132)
• Block Comments: Add a11y related end-to-end tests. (72103)
• Block Comments: Use better locators. (72131)
• Fix PHP tests. (72236)
• Fix flaky Template Activate end-to-end test. (72100)
• Notes: Add more end-to-end tests for keyboard navigation. (72271)
• Try: Fix flaky router styles end-to-end tests. (72329)
• Workflows: Performance: Fix RegExp for wpVersion option. (72327)

Collaboration

• Changelog automation: Change "Block Commenting" to "Notes". (72192)

Various

• Add math block and rich text format. (72182)
• Fit-Text: Resize immediately, but limit max size when block is selected. (72397)
• Icons: Document breaking changes and fix issues from #71878. (72105)

Block Library

• Add Term Count block. (72218)
• Add Term Name block. (72129)
• Blocks: Add Breadcrumbs block. (71793)
• Time to Read: Stabilize block. (71588)

Collaboration

• Notes: Audit and update translation strings. (72311)
• Notes: Relocate privacy info text. (72421)
• Notes: Update button labels. (72352)

Synced Patterns

• Pattern overrides: Remove old back compat code and update tests. (72231)

Write mode

• Remove write/navigation mode experiment, tool and selectors. (72193)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @aditya241104: Add fitText field to block.json schema. (72198)
• @byteninjaa0: Fix auto focus in accordion block. (72021)
• @dilirity: Primitives: Add missing type export. (72428)
• @mathiscode: Remove redundant max percentage from download progress. (72282)
• @sidharthpandita1: Create Block: Enable alias package installation. (72079)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@adamsilverstein @aditya241104 @aduth @andrewserong @benoitchantre @byteninjaa0 @cbravobernal @chriszarate @cr0ybot @DAreRodz @dilirity @dmsnell @ellatrix @epeicher @fabiankaegy @getdave @gigitux @ingeniumed @ivan-ottinger @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @juanfra @karthick-murugan @levinbaria @luisherranz @Mamaduka @mathiscode @mcsf @mikachan @mirka @nani-samireddy @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @priethor @ramonjd @samueljseay @SantosGuillamot @scruffian @shail-mehta @shimotmk @sidharthpandita1 @Soean @stokesman @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @Utsav-Ladani @westonruter @yashjawale @youknowriad