WordPress/gutenberg v23.4.0-rc.1

23.4.0 RC1

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Changelog

Features

Post Editor

• Show media upload progress in a snackbar. (77249)

Client Side Media

• Revert client-side media processing plugin-only gate. (76751)

Enhancements

• Tooltip migration: Boot consumers + shell-level Tooltip.Provider (5/5). (78692)
• Tooltip migration: Fields + media-editor + media-fields + global-styles-ui (4/5). (78691)
• Migrate the browserlintrc file to packages/postcss-plugins-preset. (78764)

Components

• Combobox: Add primitives. (78399)
• Compose: Support React 19 ref callback cleanups in useMergeRefs. (78685)
• DataViewsPicker: Add a new pickerActivity layout. (78941)
• Storybook: Enhance Theme Provider example with admin-ui Page. (78814)
• Theme package: Add element size design tokens. (76545)
• Theme: Drop density support from @wordpress/theme. (78741)
• Theme: Increase stroke1 contrast target to 2.9. (77599)
• Tooltip: Use md border radius for portaled popups. (78983)
• UI: Update CSS cascade layers to use nesting. (78959)
• UI: Update @base-ui/react to 1.5.0. (78448)

Block Library

• Add playlist track length setting. (78954)
• Blocks: Allow the Loginout block as an inner block in the Navigation Submenu block. (75497)
• Hide paragraph Drop Cap and Fit Text controls when a state is selected. (78672)
• Icons: Rename timeToRead to time. (78804)
• Playlist Block: Add visualization style selector. (76147)
• Try allowing transforms to a variation of another block. (78713)

Media

• Media Editor Modal: Reorder details fields so the editable regular layout fields appear at the top. (78792)
• Media Editor: Add aspect ratio control to mobile toolbar. (78935)
• Media Editor: Refactor modal layout. (78896)
• Media Editor: Replace the zoom slider with +/- buttons. (78928)
• Media editor: Tweak paddings and margins. (79009)

Dashboard

• Move layout settings to customize toolbar. (78738)
• Opinionated grid columns with container breakpoints. (78732)
• Promote WidgetRender into widget-primitives. (78821)
• Replace grid row height controls with size presets. (78735)
• Use Howdy greeting for page title. (78740)

Post Editor

• UI: Tooltip.Provider — forward upstream closeDelay and timeout props. (78642)
• Upload Media: Add retry with exponential backoff and network resilience. (76765)
• Use search_columns=post_title for parent page selector REST API searches. (78683)

Data Layer

• RTC: Add separate doc persistence endpoint. (78891)
• RTC: Re-render collaborators overlay when the block tree changes. (78636)

Collaboration

• RTC: Prevent slower polling filters. (78811)
• RTC: Return forbidden rooms together. (78748)

Site Editor

• Apply the user's admin color scheme. (78397)
• Post list: Remove close button from Quick Edit drawer. (78730)

Block Editor

• Changed labels to consistently use Patterns in favor of Block patterns. (56880)
• List View: Remove redundant visibilityLabel compoutation. (78640)

Icons

• Maintain absolute stroke-width regardless of icon-size. (78774)

Font Library

• Fix Update button staying active when changes are reverted. (78567)

Client Side Media

• Media: Add UltraHDR (ISO 21496-1) gain map support. (74873)

New APIs

Extensibility

• Extract entity view configuration into a filterable API. (78977)

Bug Fixes

• Build: Document the hooks generated by the wp-build page templates. (78826)
• Scripts: Use require.resolve for SVG webpack loaders to fix pnpm compatibility. (78777)
• [Content Types]: Fix extra Page padding causing vertical scrollbar. (78661)
• env: Replace extract-zip with adm-zip to fix hang on Node 24.16. (78828)
• wp-build: Fix black flash on wp-admin pages before hydration. (78493)

Block Library

• Common CSS: Avoid false-positive border-style on custom properties. (77476)
• Fix playlist metadata edits recreating player. (78876)
• Fix type of $block_instance parameter in block_core_image_render_lightbox(). (78790)
• Paragraph: Strip stale block-support classes from className during align attribute migration. (78731)
• Prevent font-size propagation in Navigation items causing em compounding. (77419)
• Shortcode block: Fix editor crash when selecting transform menu. (78770)
• Writing flow: Delete at end of nested list item should merge into next block. (78742)

Media

• Media Editor: Fix media editor sidebar close button label. (78895)
• Media Editor: Fix sidebar overflowing the modal between the small and medium breakpoints. (78931)
• Media Editor: Keep crop handles operable on large images. (79011)
• Media Editor: Remove lag when toggling the sidebar. (79024)

Components

• Button.Icon: Fix clipped icons. (78614)
• Compose: Fix SSR crash in useMediaQuery and useViewportMatch. (78725)
• ColorPalette: Don't render when custom colors disabled and no colors passed. (72402)
• ui/AlertDialog: Fix footer layout style override. (78953)

Global Styles

• Elements: Align class name parsing with custom CSS implementation. (79023)
• Elements: Guard against non-string className in render filter. (78841)

Block Editor

• Inserter: Use forwardRef for refs. (79006)
• Preserve nested list when deleting a selection across sibling list items. (78776)

Client Side Media

• Media: Skip cross-origin isolation on the classic-theme site editor home route. (78404)
• Upload Media: Gate very large images out of client-side processing. (78949)

Plugin

• Fix Gutenberg plugin assuming its directory is named "gutenberg". (78705)
• Fix experiments page form layout with box-sizing and width. (78910)

Data Layer

• RTC: Fix CRDT deferred updates resulting in jumbled typing. (78756)
• RTC: Fix Yjs undo manager to update UI state when undo stack changes. (78864)

Post Editor

• Editor: Fix keyboard activation of the template actions preview. (78641)
• Notes: Show default avatar in the indicator when user avatars are disabled. (78849)

Connectors screen

• Fix: Block auto-complete for AI API Keys in Connectors. (78946)

Icons

• Revert "Icons: Maintain absolute stroke-width regardless of icon-size (#78774)". (78854)

Dashboard

• Fix Add widget error on non-secure HTTP origins. (78850)

Block API

• Block Visibility: Keep hide-everywhere working after a block opts out of visibility support. (78780)

Accessibility

• Boot navigation: Wrap items in a list role for valid listitem semantics. (78829)

Block Editor

• Inserter: Fix error being thrown for spoken message when inserting default/direct block. (79004)

Block Library

• Navigation Link: Fix duplicate block html attributes in editor. (78973)

Patterns

• Fix focus loss when closing the Create pattern dialog from the block toolbar. (78957)

Font Library

• Fix focus issue when navigating. (78671)

Performance

• Optimize wp-env source downloads with Git partial clones. (78918)

Experiments

Dashboard

• Add Events widget. (78553)
• Event widget iteration. (78815)
• Hello Dolly. (78648)
• Show ghost widgets visually & allow easy removal. (78502)

Documentation

• Added Missing Global Documentation. (78997)
• Build: Update changelog. (78807)
• DataViews: Add DataViews components to components manifest. (78960)
• Docs: Auto-generate per-block API reference pages from block.json. (77612)
• Docs: Fix stale, incorrect, or missing documentation. (78686)
• Docs: Remove stale mobile references from tooling and primitives documentation. (79041)
• Fix @wordpress/data README fragment links. (78866)
• Remove orphaned README files for deleted native-only components. (79035)

Code Quality

• Codemods: Remove one-shot Tooltip migration codemod. (78669)
• Docs: Fix big_image_size_threshold xref typo. (76299)
• Format Library: Migrate to recommended @wordpress/ui components. (79059)
• Framework: Remove invalid stale nested npm package references. (79014)
• Make @wordpress/nux a no-op compatibility package. (77773)
• Remove migrated dependencies from root package.json. (78813)
• Scripts: Remove obsolete bin/setup-local-env.sh. (78871)
• Storybook: Declare workspace dependencies for theme example story. (78979)
• Tools: Ban classnames via Syncpack. (79061)
• Tools: Migrate docs/tool into tools/docs workspace. (78870)

Block Library

• Fix sprintf format specifiers in post-date and read-more blocks. (78933)
• Fix: Escape URLs in block render functions using esc_url(). (78912)
• Refactor workspace configuration for Babel dependencies. (78974)
• Revert navigation morph & playlist commits pushed directly to trunk. (78857)
• RichText: Remove dead native-only prop filtering. (79037)

Data Layer

• Compose: Fully deprecate the 'pure' HoC. (78674)
• Media: Move client-side media compat file to wordpress-7.1 directory. (78852)
• Packages: Declare missing @types/react dependency. (78882)
• Refactor: Remove jest/test deps from root package.json. (78801)
• Remove React Native implementation, framework, and dependencies. (78747)

Post Editor

• Editor: Refactor 'PostPublishButton' into function component. (78737)
• Editor: Remove dead native guard in block removal warnings. (79039)
• Post Revisions: Upgrade diff from v4 to v8. (77992)
• TypeScript: Migrate server-side-render package to TS. (71383)

Components

• @wordpress/theme: Deduplicate addFallbackToVar helper. (78666)
• Navigable Container: Hoist getFocusableContext out of the component. (79029)
• Remove dead native code branches from Platform usages. (79031)
• refactor: Move React dependencies to workspace configuration and upda…. (78981)

Dashboard

• Rename WidgetChrome to DashboardWidgetChrome. (78751)
• Rename widget-types to widget-primitives and consolidate the widget contract. (78749)
• Replace surface with host in widget contract documentation. (78778)

Block Editor

• Refactor Inserter to a function component. (78766)
• Rich text: Use subscribeDelegatedListener for element event listeners. (79047)

Site Editor

• theme/ThemeProvider: Rename color.bg prop to color.background. (79007)

Tools

• Add copilot-instructions.md file. (78584)
• Remove orphaned mobile bug report issue template. (79038)
• Update AGENTS.md to mention additional pitfalls. (78718)
• Update CODEOWNERS for tooling directories. (78874)

Build Tooling

• Build Scripts: Fix Windows path handling in dev script. (78939)
• CI: Remove Validate Gradle Wrapper workflow. (79030)
• CI: Skip plugin repo release when SVN tag already exists. (78476)
• Lint dependency version consistency with Syncpack. (77950)
• Release: Drop mobile-specific changelog omit rules. (79042)
• Remove platform-docs Docusaurus site. (79034)
• Skip including inactive or experimental routes when building for WordPress Core. (76715)
• feat: Migrate performance results to tools release. (78761)

Testing

• Abilities: Add validation tests pinning behavior for WP-specific schema keywords. (78783)
• CI: Suppress lint:Js warnings on static checks. (79025)
• Try omit-unchanged for compressed-size-action. (78976)
• e2e-test-utils-playwright: Start transpiling again, but faster. (79026)

Data Layer

• Align dependency versions across workspaces. (77954)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @apermo: Docs: Fix big_image_size_threshold xref typo. (76299)
• @colinduwe: Changed labels to consistently use Patterns in favor of Block patterns. (56880)
• @ekamran: Fix @wordpress/data README fragment links. (78866)
• @i-am-chitti: Tools: Migrate docs/tool into tools/docs workspace. (78870)
• @Kgupta62: Common CSS: Avoid false-positive border-style on custom properties. (77476)
• @macayu17: Button.Icon: Fix clipped icons. (78614)
• @n8finch: ColorPalette: Don't render when custom colors disabled and no colors passed. (72402)
• @simondud: Fix: Block auto-complete for AI API Keys in Connectors. (78946)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamsilverstein @aduth @alecgeatches @amitraj2203 @andrewserong @apermo @ciampo @colinduwe @desrosj @ekamran @elazzabi @ellatrix @fushar @gziolo @hbhalodia @hi0001234d @himanshupathak95 @i-am-chitti @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @itzmekhokan @jameskoster @jasmussen @jsnajdr @juanfra @juanmaguitar @Kgupta62 @kushagra-goyal-14 @macayu17 @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @mikachan @mirka @Mustafabharmal @n8finch @ntsekouras @oandregal @paulopmt1 @ramonjd @retrofox @sarthaknagoshe2002 @scruffian @shail-mehta @shekharnwagh @simison @simondud @sirreal @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @torounit @tyxla @USERSATOSHI @westonruter @xavier-lc @yogeshbhutkar