WordPress/gutenberg v22.7.0-rc.1

22.7.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

• Add phpMyAdmin support to wp-env Playground runtime. (75532)
• Add: Connectors screen and API. (75833)
• Connectors: Add _ai_ prefix to connector setting names. (75948)
• Connectors: Dynamically register providers from WP AI Client registry. (76014)
• DataViews: Remove menu divider again. (75893)
• Dialog: Add legacy z-index compatibility. (75874)
• Env: Improve help screen. (75783)
• InputLayout: Replace slot context with data attributes. (76011)
• Sync connector PHP behavior with Core backport changes. (75968)
• Theme: Add design token fallback generation. (75586)
• Theme: Add design token for interactive non-link elements. (75697)
• UI: Add Notice component. (75981)
• Views: Add support for more overrides (all developer-defined config). (75971)

Block Library

• Button: Migrate to width block support. (74242)
• Make inspector style transform previews consistent with toolbar transforms. (75989)
• Playlist Block: Add WaveformPlayer visualization. (75203)
• Post Navigation Link : Migrate to Text-Align Block Support. (75557)
• Post Title : Migrate to Text-Align Block Support. (75629)
• Post Title: Add placeholder attribute. (76016)
• Query Title: Migrate to Text-Align Block Support. (75802)
• Site Tagline : Migrate to Text-Align Block Support. (75690)
• Site Title : Migrate to Text-Align Block Support. (75551)
• Tabs: Remove custom state styling. (75731)
• Unify block settings dropdown menu items across list views. (75979)

DataViews

• Adjust column spacing in table layout when no titleField is provided. (75410)
• Improve UI in list layout when we render only title and/or media fields. (76042)
• MediaEdit: Auto-fill columns based on minimum item width. (75509)

Post Editor

• Center navigation preview content in preview pane. (75741)
• RTC: Add session activity notifications. (76065)

Block Editor

• Add previews for style variation transforms. (75889)
• Try enabling style variation transforms for blocks in contentOnly mode. (75761)

Site Editor

• DataViews: Minimize padding for primary action buttons. (75721)
• QuickEdit: Rename status label and remove extra labels in popup. (75824)

Components

• Refactor ColorPicker to preserve hue/saturation at achromatic colors. (75493)
• ToggleGroupControl: Make unselected item color consistent across all variants. (75737)

Global Styles

• Block Supports: Define CSS vars for blocks based on feature selectors. (75226)

Bug Fixes

• Block editor: Force LTR direction in block HTML editing mode. (75904)
• Connectors: Avoid manual string concatenation. (75997)
• Connectors: Unhook Core callbacks in Gutenberg coexistence. (75935)
• DataViews: Fix search input losing characters during debounce when externally synced. (75810)
• Fix DataForm card summary vertical alignment. (75864)
• Fix: Set quality and strip metadata in client-side image resize. (76029)
• Fix: Suppress spinner output when using --json flag in wp-env. (75743)
• IconButton: Hide tooltip when truly disabled. (75754)
• Prevent non-reproducible Sass/CSS builds. (76098)
• Remove Core's full-page render interceptors for boot-based pages. (76036)
• Theme: Add build plugins to inject design token fallbacks. (75589)
• Theme: Remove global design tokens stylesheet. (75879)
• wp-build: Deregister script modules before re-registering. (75909)

Collaboration

• Fix change-detection and new-post end-to-end tests after RTC enabled by default. (75751)
• RTC: Back off when the window loses focus. (75843)
• RTC: Bugfix: Fix casing of getPersistedCRDTDoc. (75922)
• RTC: Fix fallthrough for sync update switch statement. (76060)
• RTC: Fix stale CRDT document persisted on save. (75975)
• RTC: Fix syncing of emoji / surrogate pairs. (76049)
• RTC: Fix undefined array_first() call in sync storage. (75869)
• RTC: Prevent duplicate poll cycles. (76059)
• Real-time collaboration: Fix disconnect dialog on navigate. (75886)
• Real-time collaboration: Improve collaboration within the same rich text. (75703)
• Real-time collaboration: Remove ghost awareness state explicitly when refreshing. (75883)
• [Real-time Collaboration] Fix sync issue on refresh. (76017)
• Real-time collaboration: Improve disconnect dialog. (75970)

Block Library

• Block Support: Fix custom CSS not saved when style schema is not defined. (75797)
• Fix: Page List block: Editor-only div inside page links causes misalignment in Firefox. (75890)
• Fixes keyboard focus escaping the lightbox overlay when navigating a gallery with Tab/Shift+Tab. (75852)
• Image block: Fix lightbox srcset size. (76092)
• Image: Hide 'Set as featured image' for in-editor revisions. (76123)
• Navigation Link: Compare internal links by host instead of origin. (76015)
• Navigation Overlay Close: Set Close as default text, rather than using a placeholder. (75692)
• Navigation editing: Simplify edit/view buttons. (75819)
• Search block: Double-encodes apostrophes in the input value. (76023)
• Show transform dropdown previews on focus as well as hover. (75940)
• Use homeUrl instead of siteUrl for link badge evaluations. (75978)
• Navigation overlay: Prevent duplicate area registration. (75906)

Block Editor

• Avoid block removal when calling 'moveBlockToPosition'. (75728)
• Block toolbar and context menu: Hide pattern actions in Revisions UI. (76066)
• Block toolbar: Hide styles dropdown for content only blocks inside unsynced patterns in Revisions UI. (76119)
• BlockListBlock: Fix crash when selectedProps are null. (75826)
• Grid block: Improve Visualizer responsiveness. (75820)
• Invalid block selected style. (75796)
• PHP-only Blocks: Reflect bound attribute values in inspector controls. (76040)
• Pattern Editing: Fix sibling blocks to edited pattern not being disabled. (75994)
• RichText: useAnchor: Fix TypeError in virtual element. (75900)

DataViews

• DataForm: Fix focus loss and refactor Card layout. (75689)
• DataForm: Fix label colors. (75730)
• DataForm: Fix text overflow for long unhyphenated text in panel layout. (76073)
• Fix filter toggle flickering when there are locked or primary filters. (75913)
• Fix focus transfer while searching in list layout. (75999)
• Fix spacing for title in patterns page. (75693)

Post Editor

• Admin UI: Fix type mismatch between Page title and NavigableRegion ariaLabel. (75899)
• Editor: Remove View dropdown and pinned items from revisions header. (75951)
• Fix: Template revisions infinite spinner. (75953)
• Preserve note selection on browser tab switch. (75955)
• Real-time collaboration: Fix style mounting in RTC overlay. (75700)

Components

• DateTimePicker: Fix day text wrapping. (76084)
• Specify line-height to avoid inheriting default values. (75880)
• Button: Add word-break: Break-word. (76071)

Site Editor

• DataForm: Fix field label for panel (should not be uppercase). (75944)
• DataViews: Avoid flickering while refreshing. (74572)
• DataViews: Right-align integer and number fields. (75917)

Media

• Media Notices: Bump global snackbar z-index, re-use global notices for media modal. (76063)

Global Styles

• Custom CSS: Allow defining custom selector for this global styles feature. (75799)
• Custom CSS: Prevent duplicate custom css styles. (75892)

Client Side Media

• Fix: Skip scaled image sideload for images below big image threshold. (75990)

Font Library

• Fix: Use the same context for font library tabs translations. (75930)

Interactivity API

• Interactivity Router: Fix back and forward navigation after refresh. (75927)

Patterns

• Unsynced patterns: Rename 'Disconnect pattern' to 'Detach pattern' in context menu. (75807)

Accessibility

Block Editor

• Fix writing flow navigation for annotation style, or any other block with border radius. (76072)

DataViews

• DataForm: Fix card layout's toggle button screen reader text. (76039)

Block Library

• Accordion: Remove Down Arrow, Up Arrow, Home, End navigation. (75891)

Performance

Block Library

• Navigation: Remove internal 'useNavigationEntities' hook. (75943)

Media

• Media Thumbnail Field: Optimise image loading. (75811)

Experiments

Post Editor

• RTC: Disable multiple collaborators if meta boxes are present. (75939)

Content Guidelines

• Add experimental REST API and custom post type. (75164)

Documentation

• Add core/icon block to theme.json schema. (75813)
• Add documentation for contentRole and listView block supports. (75903)
• Docs: Correct parameter name $content for query title render function. (75945)
• Docs: Fix broken link to autoRegister block-supports. (75956)
• Docs: Fix incorrect echo of wp_interactivity_state() in getServerState() example. (75857)
• Icon: Improve parameter documentation. (75768)
• Update README for DataViews, DataForm, Field API. (75881)
• iAPI Docs: Add client-side navigation guide under "Core Concepts". (75263)
• iAPI Docs: Introduce reactive vs non-reactive distinction early in the state/context guide. (75357)
• ui guidelines: Add custom properties and disabled state guidance. (75912)

Code Quality

• Add wp_ prefix to real time collaberation option. (75837)
• Backport Changelog: Move changelog for #75226 to WP 7.1 folder. (76102)
• Core Data: Simplify actions dispatched by 'canUser' resolver. (75974)
• ESLint: Add no-ds-tokens rule. (75872)
• ESLint: Broaden no-unknown-ds-tokens to all strings and catch dynamic construction. (75905)
• Field, Fieldset: Add tests for the Details component. (75696)
• Interactivity: Fix incomplete Window.scheduler type causing TS2430 in downstream projects. (76070)
• UI: Update @base-ui/react from 1.0.0 to 1.2.0. (75698)

Collaboration

• RTC: Add debug logging to SyncManager. (75924)
• RTC: Merge document meta map into state map. (75830)
• RTC: Move WordPress meta key from sync package to core-data. (75846)
• RTC: Updates from backport PR. (75711)

Components

• Convert focus on mount hook to TypeScript. (75442)
• NumberControl: Merge two state reducers into one. (75822)
• ToolsPanel: Remove unnecessary label prop from dropdownMenuProps type. (76027)

Block Library

• Cover: Replace strpos() with str_contains() for improved readability. (75907)
• Navigation: Extract NavigationLinkUI and NavigationListViewHeader into separate files. (75865)
• Post featured image: Simplify background class assignment. (75745)

Block Editor

• Extract inserter-toggle mixin from duplicated button styles. (76087)
• RichText: useAnchor: Enable type checking, fix errors. (75910)

DataViews

• Remove unused deps: Wordpress/dom, wordpress/theme, wordpress/url. (76075)

Post Editor

• Fix flaky template-revert end-to-end tests. (75894)

Patterns

• Add end-to-end test for sorting patterns. (75823)

Tools

• Project Management: Add components team as codeowners for components package. (75641)

Testing

• Automated Testing: Merge reports into HTML artifact. (75633)
• Cover block: Add end-to-end test coverage for bugfixes. (75483)
• Fix flaky Quick Edit end-to-end test. (75714)
• Re-enable Font Library end-to-end tests. (75712)
• Real-time collaboration: Expand mergeCrdtBlocks() automated testing. (75923)
• Skip cross origin isolation end-to-end tests. (75764)
• Try fix failing patterns end-to-end test. (75759)
• Workflows: Use pull_request_target for cherry-pick workflow. (75775)
• wp-env: Enable pretty permalinks by default in Docker runtime. (75688)

Build Tooling

• Build: Clean top-level build/ directory during clean:Packages. (75961)
• ESLint: Add no-i18n-in-save rule. (75617)
• Prevent CSS modules in build from breaking Jest tests. (75792)
• Sort registry files by handle/ID. (75755)
• wp-build: Do not remove Core's default script modules registration. (75705)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @aagam-shah: Content Guidelines: Add experimental REST API and custom post type. (75164)
• @dlind1: Fix: Use the same context for font library tabs translations. (75930)
• @namankhare: Fixes keyboard focus escaping the lightbox overlay when navigating a gallery with Tab/Shift+Tab. (75852)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aagam-shah @aaronrobertshaw @adamsilverstein @aduth @alecgeatches @andrewserong @chriszarate @ciampo @DAreRodz @desrosj @dhasilva @dlind1 @ellatrix @fushar @gziolo @im3dabasia @ingeniumed @jasmussen @jeherve @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @JosVelasco @jsnajdr @luisherranz @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @maxschmeling @Mayank-Tripathi32 @mcsf @mikachan @mikejolley @mirka @Mustafabharmal @namankhare @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @peterwilsoncc @prasadkarmalkar @ramonjd @scruffian @sgomes @shail-mehta @shekharnwagh @Soean @stokesman @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @xristos3490 @youknowriad