WordPress/gutenberg v23.0.0-rc.1

23.0.0 RC1

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Changelog

Enhancements

Components

• @wordpress/ui: Add global CSS defense module. (76783)
• Admin UI: Increase page header vertical padding. (77152)
• Admin UI: Update Page background color to surface-neutral. (76869)
• Autocomplete: Remove getAutoCompleterUI factory pattern. (77048)
• DataForm: Add min/max date range support for date and datetime fields. (77201)
• DataForm: Show tooltip in edit button in panel layout. (77024)
• DataForm: Support disabled controls. (77090)
• FormToggle: Update disabled styles. (77208)
• Media Upload Modal: Persist view configuration. (77288)
• Text: Remove UA margins. (76970)
• UI Text: Mark as recommended. (77044)
• UI/Dialog: Add explicit margin-inline-end rule to Title. (77334)
• UI: Update @base-ui/react from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0. (77308)
• UI: Use Text component for Badge typography. (77295)
• Use --wpds-cursor-control design token for interactive controls. (76786), (77259)
• @wordpress/ui: Add Popover. (76438)
• ui/AlertDialog: Better async confirm APIs, fully use base ui's AlertDialog. (76937)
• ui/Dialog: Update Header layout, refactor Title to use Text. (77161)
• ui: Expose container portal prop on all overlay Popup components. (77163)

Block Library

• Add context for next/previous enlarge image. (76967)
• Image block: Validate attachment ID exists before treating image as local. (77178)
• Search Block: Ensure color settings apply to input field when button is disabled. (77219)
• Tab Menu Item: Simplify active tab menu item style. (77195)
• Tabs: Remove sequential numbering from new tab labels. (77321)
• Use entity link title for link control preview. (77155)

Guidelines

• Guidelines CPT: Rename from "content guidelines" to "guidelines" (slug, classes, routes). (77147), (77223)
• Improve guideline revision UX. (76560)
• Registers wp_guideline_type taxonomy. (77156)
• Update actions-section and import/export workflow. (76621)

Post Editor

• DataViews: Simplify defaultLayouts prop. (77232)
• RTC: Add filterable flag for meta box RTC compatibility. (76939)
• RTC: Change SyncConnectionModal to isSyncConnectionErrorHandled filter and drop IS_GUTENBERG_PLUGIN check. (76853)

Block Editor

• Display shortcuts for moving blocks via tooltips. (76992)
• Re-order spacing side controls when unlinked. (66317)

Connectors

• Update the AI plugin settings page slug we link to after activation. (77336)

DataViews

• Classify admin-ui and dataviews to components. (76959)

Global Styles

• Renamed focus visible label. (77292)

REST API

• Add date field in templates and template parts. (77134)

Media

• Media Modal Experiment: Set matching picker grid layout properties for when a user switches layouts. (77118)

Collaboration

• Backport: Improve validation and permission checks for WP_HTTP_Polling_Sync_Server. (76987)
• RTC: Add optional shouldSync function to entity sync configuration. (76947)
• RTC: Respect WP_ALLOW_COLLABORATION in Gutenberg for activation hook. (77084)

Site Editor

• Add Site Tagline and Site Title to Design > Identity panel. (76264)

Bug Fixes

Components

• Calendar: Fix disabled styles. (77138)
• Card: Set default foreground color on root. (77013)
• Checkbox: Fix disabled styles. (77132)
• DataForm: Remove text-transform from panel field labels. (77196)
• DataViews: Fix compact density clipping and remove top/bottom padding. (77054)
• Fix autocomplete overlapping trigger matching. (77018)
• FormTokenField: Fix disabled styles. (77137)
• RTC: Fix inline inserter reset on update sync. (76980)
• RadioControl: Add support for disabling radio group. (77127)
• Remove sandbox allow-same-origin for core/html blocks. (77212)
• TextArea: Add disabled styles. (77129)
• UI: Normalize render prop and ref forwarding patterns. (77160)

Block Library

• Cover block: Fix embed video background Error 153 in editor. (76904)
• Fix overflow of highlighted white-space in Code Block. (77085)
• Image block: Hide drag handles while an upload is in progress. (77121)
• Paragraph: Prevent onEnter splitting of parent block when insertion of that block type is not allowed. (77291)
• Post Author Biography: Preserve occurrence of white spaces. (71133)
• RTC: Core/cover block minor compatibility fixes. (76916)
• Search block: Match behavior of global styling for border and color with local styling (inspector controls) to remove inconsistency. (77060)
• Search block: Derive 'isSearchFieldHidden' value. (77082)
• Separator Block: Apply default block variation when inserting via --- shortcut. (77135)
• Upload external media: Ensure notice only fires once. (77218)

Block Editor

• Fix SyntaxError in Autocompleter UI when pasting matching content. (76961)
• LinkPicker: Decode HTML entities in link preview title. (77170)
• Prevent Enter key from inserting paragraphs in contentOnly sections. (76989)
• RTC: Fix "Edit as HTML" content reset during collaboration. (77043)
• Writing Flow: Fix format toolbar not appearing when selecting text from block edge. (77136)
• contentOnly template lock: Fix block insertion and removal rules. (77119)
• Fix numeric value clearing in preset input controls. (77139)

Data Layer

• Core Data: Fix 'useEntityProp' for raw attributes. (77120)
• Core Data: Fix incorrect pagination for non-paginated entities. (76406)
• RTC: Fix core/table cell merging. (76913)
• RTC: Improve array attribute stability when structural changes occur. (77164)
• getMergedItemsIds: Receive full page bigger than perPage. (77262)

Connectors

• Account for mu-plugins when resolving plugin.file status. (76994)
• Don't clobber third-party custom render in registerDefaultConnectors. (77116)
• Hide Akismet unless already installed. (76962)
• Replace speak() with notice store for state changes. (77174)
• Update help text from 'reset' to 'manage'. (76963)

Post Editor

• Fields: Fix postContentInfoField when there are edits. (76901)
• Fix: Restore editor canvas padding in classic themes. (76864)
• RTC: Fix button flickering on retry dialog. (77234)
• RTC: Predefined retry schedules for disconnect dialog, make more lenient. (76966)
• Revision: Fix 'Show changes' button reset state. (77122)

Collaboration

• Fix failing 'WP_HTTP_Polling_Sync_Server' unit test. (77025)
• RTC: Fix disconnect dialog due to uneditable entity. (77242)
• RTC: Isolate sync update failures to prevent full disconnect. (76968)

Global Styles

• Fix duotone filter not applying on style variation switch. (77229)
• Global Styles Revisions: Fix footer overflow. (77103)

DataViews

• Fix Gutenberg_REST_View_Config_Controller_7_1 PHP warnings. (77290)

Patterns

• Fix custom category in site editor not displaying pattern actions. (77251)

Media

• MediaEdit: Handle '*' wildcard in validateMimeType. (77168)

Client Side Media

• Use image.copyMemory() for batch thumbnail generation. (76979)

Accessibility

Components

• ValidatedRangeControl: Fix aria-label rendered as [object Object]. (77042)

Performance

Post Editor

• Autocompleters: Move and improve links search. (76995)

Client Side Media

• Add performance metrics for client-side media processing. (76792)

Experiments

Post Editor

• Add revisions panel to templates, template parts and patterns. (77008)

Documentation

• Add missing documentation in collaboration.php. (77173)
• Autocomplete: Clarify 'isDebounced' setting limitation. (77062)
• Docs: Add README for DatePicker and TimePicker Components. (70365)
• Editor: Fix 'selectedNote' action JSDoc. (77080)
• Eslint: Suggest alternative in no-setting-ds-tokens rule. (77154)
• Fix: A sentence has no ending punctuation in README.md file. (77027)
• HStack, VStack: Mark as not recommended for use. (77041)
• Improve CSS setup instructions in package readmes. (76975)
• Storybook: Enable theming toolbar for wp-components. (77038)
• Storybook: Fix "Default" cursor option in theming toolbar. (77037)
• UI/Tooltip: Add usage guidelines documentation. (77158)
• UI: Use Link component in details story example. (76997)
• iAPI Docs: Fix typos, code errors, and inaccuracies in the documentation. (76636)
• ui/docs: Add additional global css setup instructions. (77228)

Code Quality

• TypeScript: Migrate a11y package to TS. (70680)

Components

• Add .scss files to CSS module linting. (77140)
• Block Directory: Use --wpds-cursor-control design token. (77330)
• Autocomplete: Refactor useAutocomplete to use useReducer. (77020)
• BoxControl: Remove unused state for icon side. (77143)
• Build Tools: Update TypeScript to 6.0.2. (77010)
• Button: Remove obsolete Safari + VoiceOver workaround. (77107)
• Button: Remove unused Storybook stylesheet. (77031)
• Dataviews: Remove unneeded ref callbacks. (77179)
• Extract the autocomplete matcher into a separate function. (76957)
• FormTokenField: Remove unnecessary styles. (77263)
• Textarea: Remove unnecessary styles. (77221)
• Theme: Rename typography tokens to use "typography" prefix. (76912)
• Update React function names for better ESLint detection. (77148)
• i18n: Make sprintf return FormattedText for type-safe createInterpolateElement. (76974)
• ui/Card: Remove redundant margin reset from Card.Title. (77187)
• ui/VisuallyHidden: Standardize composition pattern. (77190)

Block Editor

• Block Editor store: Refactor controlledInnerBlocks to Set. (77094)
• Global Styles: Move pseudo-state slicing logic into useStyle hook. (77104)
• BlockMover: Remove unused disabled button props. (76993)
• Extract getElementCSSRules from useBlockProps. (77327)
• updateBlockListSettings: Convert state to Map, do all updates in one action. (46392)

Post Editor

• BlockStyleVariationOverridesWithConfig: Change name and fix lint errors. (77130)
• ESLint plugin: Disable jsx-a11y/heading-has-content. (77073)
• Edit Post: Fix warning in 'useMetaBoxInitialization' hook. (77311)
• Revisions: Simplify fetching. (77086)

Block Library

• Tabs: Simplify anchor handling. (77189)
• TypeScript: Migrate packages/list-reusable-blocks package to TypeScript. (70518)
• TypeScript: Migrate viewport package. (71118)

Data Layer

• Remove remaining esModuleInterop usage. (77095)
• Blocks: Convert blocks package to TypeScript. (76312)

Guidelines

• Remove jsxRuntime pragma. (77255)

Icons

• Override WP_Icons_Registry singleton with Gutenberg icons registry. (76455)

Annotations

• TypeScript: Migrate annotations package to TS. (70602)

Tools

Testing

• Autocomplete: Fix flaky end-to-end tests. (77322)
• E2E Tests: Ensure artifacts generate correctly and remove unnecessary artifacts. (77093)
• Fix page.waitForFunction call arguments in e2e tests. (77300)
• Guidelines: Add end-to-end tests based on the Settings page testing instructions. (77192)
• Remove 'Home' and 'End' key usage from Navigation tests. (77102)
• Restore original template registration tests alongside activation variants. (77068)
• Tests: Auto-fix some new 'eslint-plugin-playwright' warnings. (77314)
• Tests: Fix workspace test scripts (wp-env not found, argument forwarding). (77055), (77083)

Build Tooling

• Add iteration issue template. (77113)
• Build: Fix glob ignore patterns in dot-prefixed directories. (75114)
• Convert directories in test/ to workspaces. (74684)
• Env: Fix loopback requests when running on non-default ports. (77057)
• Fix lint-staged API documentation path. (77203)
• Resolve package-lock.json inconsistency for @babel/eslint-parser. (77256)
• Storybook: Fix end-to-end subpath exports and add CI build smoke test. (77034)
• Refactor: Migrate bin/api-docs to tools/api-docs as workspace @wordpress/api-docs-generator. (77019)
• Upgrade ESLint to v10. (76654)

Data Layer

• Fix pre-existing lint errors across the codebase. (77002)
• Remove unused catch block variables across the codebase. (76969)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @DarkMatter-999: Fix numeric value clearing in preset input controls. (77139)
• @dkotter: Update the AI plugin settings page slug we link to after activation. (77336)
• @dpmehta: Search block: Match behavior of global styling for border and color with local styling (inspector controls) to remove inconsistency. (77060)
• @mehrazmorshed: Fix: A sentence has no ending punctuation in README.md file. (77027)
• @prachigarg19: Fix duotone filter not applying on style variation switch. (77229)
• @samvaidya: Image block: Validate attachment ID exists before treating image as local. (77178)
• @sandipr942: Added missing documentation in collaboration.php. (77173)
• @superdav42: Connectors: Don't clobber third-party custom render in registerDefaultConnectors. (77116)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@adamsilverstein @Adi-ty @aduth @alecgeatches @andrewserong @annezazu @aswasif007 @BugReportOnWeb @CGastrell @chriszarate @ciampo @coderGtm @DAreRodz @DarkMatter-999 @dinhtungdu @dkotter @dpmehta @ellatrix @gziolo @hbhalodia @iamchughmayank @Infinite-Null @ingeniumed @jameskoster @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @kushagra-goyal-14 @madhusudhand @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @mehrazmorshed @mirka @nerrad @ntsekouras @oandregal @prachigarg19 @R1shabh-Gupta @ramonjd @samvaidya @sandipr942 @scruffian @shail-mehta @Shekhar0109 @shrivastavanolo @superdav42 @Swanand01 @t-hamano @talldan @tyxla @USERSATOSHI @yashjawale @yogeshbhutkar