WordPress/gutenberg v22.1.0-rc.1

22.1.0 RC1

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Changelog

Features

Block Library

• New Block: core/tabs. (69789)

Enhancements

• Routing: Add static and lazy routes support to the boot package. (72937)
• Theme: Add new caution color ramp. (72782)
• Theme: Lower the contrast topup value. (73155)
• Theme: Optimize seed adjustment. (73004)

DataViews

• Add a context menu when right clicking on the table header. (73104)
• DataForm: Add new details layout. (72355)
• DataForm: Simplify form normalization. (72848)
• DataForm: Card borderless layout. (72514)
• DataViews list layout: Use regular button for primary action. (72920)
• DataViewsPicker: Add With Modal storybook story. (72913)
• Simplify the properties configuration. (73064)
• Try adding table view to data picker. (72914)
• Update actions menu structure to group primary and regular actions. (72866)

Block Library

• Add Image Prefetching for Click to expand Images. (61107)
• Breadcrumbs: Add 404, search and paged support for archives. (72714)
• Breadcrumbs: Add home page handling and show last item attribute. (72839)
• Change Accordion block toolbar label to spell “Add Accordion Item”. (72981)
• HTML Block: Add JS/CSS editing. (73108)
• Paragraph: Migrate to text-align block support. (73111)
• Update/Twitter to X embed icon and text. (73110)

Collaboration

• Notes: Add form submission shortcut. (72868)
• Notes: Add keyboard support for tree navigation. (73136)
• Notes: Disable "Add note" button in Distraction free mode. (72954)
• Notes: Remove the pin/unpin button from the sidebar header. (72825)

Patterns

• Hide toolbar slots for contentOnly pattern wrappers. (73182)
• Starter content: Change alignment and copy. (72829)
• contentOnly patterns: Mark patterns as contentOnly by adding metadata.patternName to the root block. (72988)

Components

• Add isBusy prop to ConfirmDialog. (73041)
• Card Component Padding System Enhancement. (72511)
• TextareaControl: Add min-height to textarea. (72867)

Colors

• ColorPicker: Support pasting whole color values. (73166)

Synced Patterns

• Update synced pattern language from "Detach" to "Disconnect pattern". (73105)

Extensibility

• Term Name: Add levelOptions attribute to control available heading levels. (73005)

Write mode

• Use color panel for contentOnly pattern editing. (71982)

Block Editor

• BlockVariationTransforms: Refactor DropdownMenu with Menu. (71938)

Bug Fixes

• Fix unresolvable typedefs in dependency-extraction-webpack-plugin. (72807)
• Math format: Force LTR direction in RTL languages. (72901)
• Math format: Remove empty format on serialise. (73143)
• Template activation: Disallow editing/trashing of non-database templates. (72790)
• Template activation: Inserting template through /templates should always result in active template. (72770)
• Template activation: Redirect to 'Create Templates' after duplication. (72727)
• Template activation: Skip gutenberg_get_registered_block_templates query when no slugs are left to find. (72795)
• Theme: Fix Windows build using cross-env for environment variables. (72944)
• block-editor: Remove types from package.json exports. (72817)
• i18n: Use _x() for Template Activation labels. (72928)

Collaboration

• Block Notes: Adjust note date tooltip position. (72843)
• Change sidebar title - Change Notes to All notes. (72885)
• Disable Notes in Code Editor. (72859)
• Ensure editor body fits all notes. (72811)
• Hide add note in distraction free mode. (72835)
• Notes: Disable or hide "Add note" button depending on block’s state. (72878)
• Notes: Don't hide floating sidebar while adding the note. (72968)
• Notes: Fix 'Add note' form position. (72787)
• Notes: Fix avatar image size in mobile layout. (73008)
• Notes: Fix first note creation with pinned sidebar. (73164)
• Notes: Fix selector for orderedBlockIds. (73006)
• Notes: Fix sidebar opening logic. (72965)
• Notes: Gracefully handle non-existing note ID references (alt). (73061)
• Notes: Hide pinned sidebar when there are no notes. (72872)
• Notes: Refine avatar. (72773)
• Notes: Spotlight block when clicking add/view notes. (72870)

Block Library

• Accordion Header, Panel: Add CSS for the default style. (73032)
• Accordion block: Lock core/accordion iAPI store. (72977)
• Accordion: Allow font style inheritance from button to inner text blocks. (72957)
• Allow embeds to grow and shrink inside flex group blocks. (73109)
• Breadcrumbs: Add fallback for posts with no title. (72869)
• Cover Block: Show settings inspector controls in the Site Editor. (69178)
• Fix Navigation Link block variations to show correct labels instead of generic 'Post Link'. (72517)
• Fix Navigation Link broken state when bound entity is deleted. (73142)
• Fix: Hide input popover when editing Math block as HTML. (72902)
• Heading block: Make background padding more specific to block. (72837)
• Increase CSS specificity of text alignment classes. (62260)
• Math: Fixing Edit as HTML feature and code editor sync. (72910)

Block Editor

• Add: Stretch text variations transforms. (73148)
• Fix padding appender last block focus. (72821)
• Fix: Don't load fit text front end scripts on the editor. (72842)
• Fix: Fit Text flash during the binary search on the initial enabling. (72788)
• Fix: Fit text may not update when being grouped in a smaller container. (73021)
• Fix: Make fit text work with the Interactivity API. (72923)
• Update: Use a bigger max fit text font size. (73067)
• [Read] Stretch text and stretch heading variation. (73056)

DataViews

• DataViews Table - only output aria-label for media when item is clickable. (73034)
• Fix DataView columns width. (72969)
• Fix pagination. (73132)
• Fix: DataViews modal actions in list layout. (72793)
• Use local time in summary filter and default render for datetime fields. (72756)
• useFormValidity: Fix nesting levels. (72588)

Global Styles

• Restore correct additional CSS screen layout. (73192)
• Show Global Styles in editor only for users with the right caps. (73077)
• Theme JSON: Fix handling of default presets at block level. (72916)

Components

• Button: Revert disabled primary button state to its previous one. (73037)
• CustomSelectControl: Use key to determine the selected item instead of name. (72189)
• NumberControl: Fix crash when min prop is string and step prop contains decimal. (73107)

Post Editor

• Editor: Fix template panel check and restore duplicate action. (72964)
• Fix setupEditor edits not being applied when non-iterable edits are used. (73167)

Site Editor

• Pages DataViews: Fix content preview field after global styles refactor. (73140)
• Use padding appender hook in Site editor. (72598)

Command Palette

• Commands: Add edit template if user has proper caps. (73087)
• Decode HTML entities in menu URL. (72898)

Design Tools

• Border Panel: Decode values so that border radius presets are properly handled in global styles. (73072)
• Border radius presets: Support mixed values in the rangecontrol slider. (73033)

Block API

• Classic Block: Disable lock, renaming, blockVisibility, html support. (72812)
• Unsupported Block: Disable lock, renaming, blockVisibility support. (72857)

Commands

• Fix: Admin color scheme is not applied to Command Palette. (73151)

Rich Text

• RichText: Don't forget ref passing in Preview mode. (73062)

Synced Patterns

• Add specific classname to block toolbar icon. (73058)

Media

• Fix adding blocks through media tab with experimental modal. (73029)

Block Locking

• Fix contentOnly temporary editing persisting on save (+ refactor some of the code). (72959)

Block Transforms

• Add default transform for allowedBlocks attribute. (72814)

Block bindings

• Hide Attributes panel for Date, Nav Link, and Nav Submenu blocks. (72712)

Accessibility

Collaboration

• Notes: Fix block toolbar display for show icon labels. (73010)
• Notes: Fix focus return when resolving floating note. (72994)
• Notes: Focus action button when comment editing is cancelled or comment is updated. (72895)
• Notes: Improve accessibility tree. (72650)

Block Library

• Prevent Esc from executing changes in category and archive widgets. (72889)

Performance

• Move PatternOverrideToolbarIndicator functionality into BlockToolbar. (72935)
• Theme: Add caching for theme color ramp builders. (72796)
• Theme: Generate default ramps at compile time. (72847)
• Theme: Inline values for primitive tokens in CSS output. (72890)
• Theme: Optimize color generating algorithm. (72883)
• Theme: Use logarithms for contrast difference. (73097)

Block Library

• MathML block: Fix lazy script loading. (73099)

Block Editor

• Reduce inspector subscriptions by not subscribing if panel is not enabled. (73013)

Collaboration

• Notes: Return early when there are no notes. (72820)

Layout

• Perf: Only mount SpacingVisualizers when actively visualizing. (72800)

Experiments

• Boot Package: Add save panel and shortcut. (73170)
• Editor: Add lazy-editor package and infrastructure. (73028)
• Remove the posts page code from edit-site and replace it with the new route. (73165)
• Route Registration: Add support for a routes folder to the build tool. (72950)
• Routes build tooling: Fix watching, css and min buildling. (72952)
• Routing Infra: Explore adding a posts route to the boot package. (72976)
• Routing Infrastructure: Allow single routes to be added to WP-Admin separately. (73137)
• Routing Single Page Mode: Fix fullscreen editor mode. (73169)
• Routing: Add a post edit route to the boot demo page. (73065)
• Routing: Add boot package. (72809)
• Routing: Add post new and top level redirect route to the posts. (73102)
• Routing: Allow plugins to register custom site editor like pages. (73120)

Block Library

• Disable TinyMCE: Bump needsClassicBlock further down. (72966)
• Disable TinyMCE: Dequeue mce-view. (72972)
• Disable TinyMCE: Handle old core/freeform syntax in editor. (72967)

Media

• Add Upload button to experimental media modal and always allow multiple uploads. (73125)

Components

• UI: Implement Box component as part of new UI package. (72984)

Patterns

• contentOnly patterns: Allow re-entry into contentOnly mode after 'Edit contents'. (72044)

Documentation

• Add PHP function prefixing documentation. (72525)
• Fix typo in README.md comment. (72879)
• Tabs: Improve PHP documentation. (72834)
• Theme: Fix ThemeProvider documentation for accurate color prop. (72943)
• Update DataViews readme to add more info on the picker component. (72992)

Code Quality

Block Library

• Breadcrumb: Some code quality improvements. (72873)
• Remove old polyfills for server block definitions. (72827)

Collaboration

• Notes: Remove unnecessary useCallback from keyboard navigation handler. (73152)

Block bindings

• Untangle sources code. (72739)

Components

• Handle label fallback for dropdownMenu. (70951)

Tools

• PR enforcer workflow: Use regex to filter labels starting with [Type]. (72672)

Testing

• Add end-to-end test for DataViews pagination. (73134)
• Add initial CSS logical properties enforcement (CSS modules). (72758)
• Automated testing: Add tests to ensure pagination data when fetching intermediate results. (71613)
• Block Bindings: Add unit test coverage for sources. (72799)
• Enable no-unused-disable ESLint Comments plugin rule. (72940)
• Improve the readability of the comment sharing manual cherry pick steps. (72887)
• Increase memory limit for macOS CI runner. (72980)
• Remove e2e-test-utils package and deprecated test configuration. (72880)
• Scripts: Add default linting for ESM & CJS file extension variations. (72801)
• Switch default ESLint resolver to improve handling for modern exports semantics. (72893)
• Test across OS and Node.js version for commits to trunk. (72946)
• Tests: Try fixing "should refresh the page when stylesheet loading fails" end-to-end test. (72783)
• end-to-end Tests: Fix some flaky tests. (73159)
• eslint-plugin: Disable redundant import rules for TypeScript files. (72884)

Build Tooling

• Upgrade TypeScript to 5.9. (72995)
• Build v2: Fix build failure on Windows. (72960)
• Build: Bundle CSS in package transpilation phase. (72805)
• Build: Inline CSS modules stylesheet content. (72673)
• Build: Remove typechecking from precommit hooks. (72955)
• Pin full-length commit SHA for 3rd-party actions. (72855)
• Theme: Fix build issues. (72919)
• Theme: Update precomputed color ramps script for Node.js v20.10 compatibility. (72971)
• Try regenerating package lock. (72991)
• Update package-lock.json. (72996)
• wp-build: Update package detection to ignore empty folders. (72941)

Various

• Theme: Disable bgramp tests to fix trunk failures. (73122)

Components

• Change types export to declaration file. (72979)

Post Editor

• Editor: Change the name of the 'Plugins' menu group. (72826)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @okawayasuno: Math format: Force LTR direction in RTL languages. (72901)
• @PaulREnglish: Fix setupEditor edits not being applied when non-iterable edits are used. (73167)
• @pranvinit: Cover Block: Show settings inspector controls in the Site Editor. (69178)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamsilverstein @aduth @andreawetzel @andrewserong @annezazu @arthur791004 @DAreRodz @desrosj @dhruvang21 @ellatrix @getdave @gigitux @hbhalodia @im3dabasia @jeryj @joedolson @jorgefilipecosta @joshualip-plaudit @jsnajdr @juanfra @karthick-murugan @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @mcsf @mikachan @mtias @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @okawayasuno @PaulREnglish @pranvinit @priethor @ramonjd @rcrdortiz @roseg43 @sethrubenstein @shimotmk @sidharthpandita1 @SirLouen @Soean @stokesman @sunyatasattva @t-hamano @Takshil-Kunadia @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla @youknowriad