WordPress/gutenberg v23.6.0-rc.1

23.6.0 RC1

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Changelog

Features

Post Editor

• Allow setting viewport tablet and mobile values in theme.json. (79104)
• Experimental: Expand DataForm inspector to patterns. (79452)
• Notes: Add @mention autocomplete. (79604)
• Notes: Inline (partial-text) notes via hybrid marker + strip-on-render approach. (78218)
• Show the admin bar in the Post and Site Editor by default. (79197)

Block Editor

• Share block-bindings context assembly between call sites. (79855)

Data Layer

• Blocks: Add innerContent support for static inner blocks, adopt it in the HTML block. (79115)

Components

• DataViews: Add a richtext control backed by a private RichTextControl shell in @wordpress/components. (78471)

Block Library

• Icons: Add PHP method(s) for rendering inline SVG icons from the registry. (78332)

Enhancements

• CSS: Follow-up fixes to split_selector_list(). (79723)
• Document widget relevance, help. (80007)
• Expose widget category through the build pipeline and REST API. (79638)
• Omnibar: Move the 'site icon in admin bar' feature from experiment to 7.1 compat. (79807)
• Scripts: Make 'test-e2e' run Playwright and remove Puppeteer. (80058)
• Site Editor v2 experiment: Hide admin bar in distraction-free mode. (79937)
• Widget Dashboard: Remove layout-settings editing. (79903)
• Widget Dashboard: Reserve paint space for tile focus rings. (79990)
• Widget Primitives: Add WidgetAttributeField for typed attribute schemas. (79544)
• Widgets: Add a declarative help metadata field, surfaced as a header infotip. (79830)
• Widgets: Add attribute relevance and inline editing in the tile toolbar. (79735)
• Widgets: Translate title, description, and keywords server-side. (79701)

Block Library

• Accordion block: Add background gradient support. (79840)
• Add ariaLabel supports for Tab List Block. (79948)
• Add icon state classes to Accordion block. (74257)
• Add layout and block spacing support to Latest Posts block. (77989)
• Add option to exclude current post from query block. (64916)
• Animated GIF to video conversion (via mediabunny). (78410)
• Classic block: Remove migration notice and restore inserter availability. (79894)
• Cover: Allow restricting video embed providers. (80092)
• File Block: Deduplicate the file to audio/video/image transforms. (80158)
• GIF to video conversion: Make it opt-in. Switching via block transforms. (80072)
• Generalize playlist block wording. (80071)
• Icons: Filter the icon library picker by collection. (79681)
• Make the Playlist blocks stable. (80203)
• Move styles into specific waveform styles dropdown area. (80060)
• Playlist Block: Add artwork to play button. (79938)
• Playlist Block: Add waveform and waveform background color options. (80065)
• Playlist: Seek value text localization. (79834)
• Playlist: Update waveform player dependency. (79825)
• Post Content block: Add background gradient support. (79842)
• Pullquote block: Add background gradient support. (79841)
• Quote block: Add background gradient support. (79843)
• Responsive editing: Hide block toolbar slots when editing a responsive style state. (79998)
• Second click or space/enter keypress on playing track pauses it. (80066)
• Stabilize Tabs block. (80163)
• Tabs: Combine and cleanup toolbar controls. (79537)
• Tabs: RichText handlers for adding/removing tabs. (79583)
• Tabs: Wrap tab list onto multiple lines by default. (80097)
• Term Name: Migrate to textAlign block support. (76581)
• Use playlist icon for Playlist block. (80174)
• Verse block: Add background gradient support. (79391)

Components

• Base Styles: Make Sass token fallbacks self-contained. (79651)
• Base Styles: Reapply wpds-var Sass helper. (79470)
• BorderBoxControl: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79420)
• BorderControl: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79418)
• Button: Align focus styles with design system. (78646)
• Checkbox: Add form primitive to @wordpress/ui. (80039)
• ComboboxControl: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79636)
• Components/Button: Don't use box-shadow for secondary buttons. (79982)
• CustomSelectControl: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79796)
• DS: Name font weight tokens by intent. (80093)
• FontSizePicker: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79481)
• FormFileUpload: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79655)
• FormTokenField: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79720)
• InputControl: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79962)
• NumberControl: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79861)
• Packages: Update Ariakit to 0.4.32. (79860)
• Radio: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79657)
• RangeControl: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79590)
• SelectControl: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79797)
• Theme: Remove elevation tokens. (80099)
• Theme: Restrict seed colors to opaque values. (79773)
• ToggleGroupControl: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79656)
• TreeSelect: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79550)
• UI: Add LinkButton. (78944)
• UI: Add Skeleton component. (79671)
• UI: Update @base-ui/react to 1.6.0. (79408)
• UnitControl: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79721)
• theme: Validate npm publish surface. (79552)
• ui/IconButton: Restore default tooltip delay. (79505)

Post Editor

• Commands: Add toggle for content-only pattern/template part editing. (78383)
• Commands: Suggest pattern editing toggle for selected patterns. (79566)
• Editor: Preload the view configuration form request for the DataForm inspector. (79910)
• Media Inserter: Add pagination to core media inserter categories. (80038)
• Media Inserter: Allow core media categories to subscribe to changes. (79921)
• Notes: Add a "Resolved" divider above resolved notes. (80019)
• Notes: Remove snackbar when resolving or reopening a note. (80017)
• Preview dropdown: Simplify viewport style state descriptions. (80146)
• RTC: Remove collaboration notification defaults filter. (79771)
• Rename 'Responsive editing' toggle to 'Responsive styles'. (80241)
• Responsive style states: Update responsive editing help text and avoid showing desktop badge. (79615)
• Restore responsive editing viewport dropdown copy changes. (79999)
• View config: Add better post type default form. (79625)
• Visual revisions: Label autosaves in the revisions timeline. (79950)
• Visual revisions: Make the autosave notice work with the visual revisions UI. (79947)
• [RTC] Add granular collaboration control. (79184)

Block Editor

• Add contrast checking for viewport and pseudo states. (80223)
• Block variations: Support innerContent for the Custom HTML block. (79659)
• Block visibility: Add theme json opt out. (76559)
• Classic Block: Remove conversion from BlockInvalidWarning. (79500)
• Color popover: Move contrast warning notice to the bottom. (79512)
• Enable text alignment to be set by viewport state. (80037)
• FontAppearanceControl: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79635)
• FontFamilyControl: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79593)
• Grid: Add option to stretch columns with auto-fit for better layout flexibility. (79356)
• LetterSpacingControl: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79533)
• LineHeightControl: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79589)
• Media Inserter: Guard attach, detach, and invalidate behind a ! isExternalResource check. (79978)
• Pattern editing: Fade blocks outside the edited pattern in List View. (73997)
• Responsive editing: Add a Tooltip to the viewport / states badge. (80080)

Icons

• Add "sites" icon. (80094)
• Add APIs for collection and icon registration. (77260)
• Add Playlist icon. (80168)
• Add repeat all icon. (79698)
• Icons Registry: Allow digits and underscores in icon slugs. (79623)

Dashboard

• Widget Dashboard: Anchor settings drawer to the right and toggle it from the gear. (79683)
• Widget Dashboard: Refactor tile header and toolbar chrome. (79639)
• Widget Primitives: Add a field type registry for widget attributes. (80148)
• Widget inserter: More accurate widget previews. (79517)
• Widgets: Auto-save inline attribute edits. (79808)

Plugin

• Experiments: Move screen under Settings, drop top-level Gutenberg menu and Demo page. (79456)
• Release: Harden all npm package release paths. (79905)
• Release: Harden latest npm metadata publishing. (79904)
• Release: Make npm publishing rerunnable. (80187)

Site Editor

• Theme: Fill semantic token state gaps. (79770)
• Theme: Make @wordpress/theme ESM only. (80063)

Data Layer

• Icons: Add an icon collections REST endpoint and tighten name rules. (79686)
• Packages: Widen React peer dependency support to include React 19. (80024)

Global Styles

• Migrate color palette tabs to @wordpress/ui. (79281)
• Show skeleton placeholder while previews load. (79849)

DataViews

• View Config: Add version handling. (79809)

Design Tools

• Global Styles: Match block panel order to the block inspector. (79794)

Extensibility

• Guidelines: Add Blocks as a registry scope. (79709)

Media

• Media Editor: Use new Tabs component from the ui package, and its minimal variant. (79664)

Connectors screen

• Connectors: Add application password settings UI. (79403)

Client Side Media

• Media: Return the filtered wp_editor_set_quality value in the upload response. (78420)

Bug Fixes

• Abilities: Support URI schema format. (79555)
• Command Palette: Show the search icon on desktop as well. (79881)
• Fix: DataForm inspector shows raw "auto-draft" status for new posts. (79914)
• Media: Fix fatal error from narrowed create_item_from_url() visibility. (79972)
• Site Editor: Update default theme color from fresh to modern. (79814)
• design-system-mcp: Use fixed version for alpha MCP server. (80061)
• lintstaged: Avoid appending filenames to the prelint:Js command. (79800)

Block Library

• Add translation comment to waveform styles. (80112)
• Block position: Allow options dropdown to flip. (79798)
• Blocks: Rename _gutenberg_apply_content_filters() to _wp_apply_content_filters(). (80191)
• Cover Block: Fix unsaveable state when clearing an embed video background. (80184)
• Enable default gap processing on Gallery block. (79984)
• File Block: Changed the context for fetching the media. (80085)
• Fix - Accordion: Text in a closed accordion panel cannot be found via the browser search. (74744)
• Fix and permit unitless zeros used in CSS calc functions. (79786)
• Fix global gap styles for Gallery block. (80030)
• Fix playlist artwork removal on track switch. (80025)
• Fix playlist waveform artist rendering. (80104)
• GIF block variation: Remove icons from "Display as" toolbar buttons and only show when block can be inserted. (79985)
• Icon block: When the default icon is unregistered, nothing is displayed. (80166)
• Latest Posts: Parse blocks in full content display. (74866)
• Make playlist pause button visually match play button. (80217)
• Navigation Link/Submenu: Run post-status check also without Gutenberg plugin (draft/deleted links regression). (79748)
• Navigation Link: Fix "[object Object]" in link preview for untitled entities. (79616)
• PHP-Only blocks: Forward current post ID to server render. (78909)
• Playlist block: Avoid laggy layout shift when changing tracks. (79497)
• Playlist: Fix flashing track state when adding new track. (80076)
• Playlist: Show album art thumbnails. (79942)
• Playlist: Use PlainText v2 to avoid HTML entities. (80068)
• Remove Playlist border radius support. (79753)
• Responsive editing: Apply crop dimensions to image block placeholder. (80162)
• Select tab panel when caret moves into tab. (79558)
• Tab List: Fix render inline formatting on frontend. (79554)
• Tabs: Fix active tab switching from a stale inner-block selection. (79981)
• Tabs: Fix dirty editor state on mount caused by tab-list sync. (79540)
• Tabs: Fix rich text label comparison when syncing the list. (79582)
• Tabs: Prevent tab list from moving focus during revision navigation. (79730)
• Tabs: Remove redundant block selection from Add/Remove tab actions. (79571)

Components

• Autocomplete: Use regular weight for result items. (80196)
• BorderBoxControl: Fix unlink button positioning after View Emotion migration. (79967)
• Button: Fix corner artifacts by using background-clip: Border-box. (79524)
• Button: Fix focus ring for link. (79837)
• Button: Hide Core focus ring when button as link is pressed. (80082)
• DataViews: Fix infinite-scroll jump on async page loads. (79546)
• Divider: Restore lower border specificity. (79534)
• ExternalLink: Stop setting default rel. (79743)
• IconButton: Use length zero for inline padding. (79722)
• Panel: Fix focus style for toggle button. (80064)
• SandBox: Inject resize script into head to stop it leaking as text. (79920)
• Storybook: Scope documentation theme providers. (79496)
• Tabs: Fix stale overflow fade as content settles on load. (79856)
• Theme: Fix token story swatch accessibility. (79960)
• UI: Restore Link focus styles. (80091)
• useMergeRefs: Apply ref changes after out-of-render attachment. (80133)

Block Editor

• DimensionControl: Include styles in stylesheet. (79916)
• Editor: Use the DS focus color for all sidebar elements. (80087)
• Fix clipped/doubled focus outline on inserter block list items. (79845)
• Fix unsetting values in viewport states for grid and constrained layouts. (79520)
• HTML Block: Preserve innerContent when transforming to group, columns. (79887)
• Move inspector controls styles slot back to previous position. (80111)
• Render the selected static inner block synchronously. (79726)
• Rich text: Cut through the record instead of execCommand. (80155)
• Writing flow: Fix selection end mapping at block boundaries. (80126)
• useTypingObserver: Capture the window reference for cleanup. (78772)

Post Editor

• Editor: Render back button as proper , which cleans up custom CSS. (79862)
• Editor: Render post preview action as a menu item. (80195)
• Fix clipped focus ring on the document bar. (80084)
• Image: Sideload external images on the server when uploading to the library. (79409)
• Notes: Allow canceling the autocompleter popover with Escape without dismissing the note form. (80224)

Site Editor

• Editor: Fix regression and restore the back button focus ring. (80029)
• Editor: Render mobile back button as proper and remove custom CSS. (80032)
• Editor: restore the behavior of only showing back button focus ring on :Focus-visible. (80114)
• Style Book: Pass site editor settings to StyleBookPreview on the styles route. (80035)

Media

• Experimental Media Modal: Ensure selection is properly cleared between open/close. (79731)
• Media Modals: Invalidate attachment caches when closing the modal. (79844)
• Media editor modal: Balance top padding for sidebar controls. (79660)

Client Side Media

• Apply and correct EXIF orientation for client side sub-sizes. (79384)
• Media: Backport client-side media improvements from WordPress core backports. (79603)
• Vips: Preserve bit depth of high-bit-depth AVIF in sub-sizes. (79556)

Icons

• Playlist icon: Fix bug with missing viewbox. (80180)

Block API

• Block Supports: Ensure that custom CSS is output after the block library styles. (80062)

Guidelines

• Render block icons like the editor so every icon displays correctly. (79738)

Collaboration

• RTC: Fix autosave update with no content. (79591)

Style States

• Style Engine: Preserve important gradient declarations. (79568)

Data Layer

• RTC: Fix undo / redo breakage when plug-in with metabox is loaded. (79510)

Connectors screen

• Prevent overscroll bounce for stage and inspector surfaces. (78587)

Accessibility

Media

• Media editor: Address accessibility review feedback. (79966)

Post Editor

• Editor: Move focus to revisions slider when entering revisions mode. (79691)

Components

• A11y: Replace local aria-live regions with speak(). (79600)

Block Library

• Focus first tab when adding Tabs block. (79507)

Performance

• CI: Avoid full-history checkout for the root-dependencies check. (79489)

Block Library

• Latest Posts: Fix slow category selection with large category lists. (80198)

Data Layer

• RTC: Only apply CRDT updates synchronously when collaborating. (79991)

Block API

• Block Supports: Prevent Additional CSS duplication inside Query Loop. (78282)

Global Styles

• prepend_to_selector: Optimized with str_replace(). (76556)

Experiments

• Move long intro to content. (79578)
• Shorten the page name. (79579)

Post Editor

• Add PluginPostStatusInfo in DataForm post summary. (79586)
• Media Inserter: Try adding a simple Attachments category with attach and detach behaviour. (79336)

Guidelines

• Knowledge: Dissolve the Guidelines singleton into per-scope rows. (79263)
• Knowledge: Rename the Guidelines CPT storage primitive to Knowledge. (79149)

Block Library

• Dynamic Gallery Block: Attempt a dynamic mode of the gallery block. (78796)

Documentation

• Add missing docblocks to client-assets.php. (80135)
• Added Missing Global Documentation. (79827)
• Backfill unreleased changelog entries for the widget packages. (79909)
• Badge: Update storybook with "don't use icons" example. (79585)
• Components: Add missing descriptions for design system components. (79460)
• Components: Document CSS module class composition. (79490)
• Components: Link recommended UI component. (80127)
• Design system MCP: Document Codex CLI prerequisite for MCP setup. (79917)
• Docs: Add a widget anatomy doc and lighten the widget system doc. (79435)
• Docs: Add image hosting guidance to the documentation contributors guide. (79574)
• Docs: Add missing @SInCE, @param, and @return tags in REST API compat file. (80079)
• Docs: Clarify release recovery steps. (79884)
• Fix typo in inline comment in collaboration.php. (80147)
• Packages: Backport UI and theme release changelogs. (79690)
• Polish package changelog cleanup. (79826)
• Theme: Clarify focus token naming documentation. (79764)
• Theme: Correct documented default background seed. (80237)
• Theme: Document and test build plugin transform boundaries. (80088)
• Theme: Document ramp memoization contract. (79459)
• Theme: Document token naming grammar. (79769)
• Theme: Remove experimental package messaging. (80049)
• Theme: Update design token format links. (80052)
• Theme: Use token reference as documentation source. (79829)
• ThemeProvider: Document wrapper customization scope. (79763)
• Updating image urls. (79529)
• WP Build: Improve documentation for routes. (79688)
• stylelint-config: Enable token fallback rule. (79768)
• theme: Clarify package documentation. (79961)

Code Quality

• Added Missing Global Documentation. (80033)
• Backport Changelog: Link Core PR #12007 for #75793. (78786)
• Base Styles: Disallow direct var(--wpds-*) usage. (79424)
• Build: Move typescript and rimraf out of the root package.json. (80086)
• CODEOWNERS: Add ownership for widget dashboard areas. (79484)
• Code Modernization: Use str_starts_with() in WP_Theme_JSON and WP_Duotone. (79519)
• Dedupe lockfile. (79618)
• Dependencies: Fix bin resolution, type mismatch, and missing dependencies. (79806)
• Deprecate @wordpress/reusable-blocks public APIs. (79805)
• Duotone: Use HTML API class_list for duotone wrapper class handling. (79531)
• E2E: Ban uuid package via ESLint, use crypto.randomUUID() instead. (79673)
• Jest: Add missing clsx dev dependency. (79677)
• Lint-staged: Match lint:Css file globs. (79918)
• Notes: Simplify inline-note marker stripping to match core backport (#78218 follow-up). (79670)
• Theme: Use public design token stylesheet imports. (80050)
• Update webpack to 5.108.1. (79633)
• Upgrade browserslist to ^4.28.4. (79630)
• Use null coalescing operator instead of isset() ternaries. (79946)
• stylelint-config: Convert configuration to ESM. (79755)
• wp-build: Allow @wordpress/theme 1.x peer versions. (80089)

Block Library

• Blocks package: Stabilize cloneSanitizedBlock and sanitizeBlockAttributes. (79928)
• Blocks: Rename _wp_apply_content_filters() to _wp_apply_block_content_filters(). (80225)
• Button: Fix suppressed ESLint errors. (79944)
• Dedupe @testing-library/dom to a single 10.4.1 in the lockfile. (79631)
• Embed: Refactor 'EmbedPlaceholder' to use recommended components. (79759)
• Fix linting of waveform test. (80124)
• Heading: Fix ESLint warnings. (79694)
• Icons: Unify collection-scoping route param on collection and validate description. (80113)
• List: Fix suppressed ESLint errors. (79983)
• Media Editor: Remove inline cropper (follow-up to #78653). (78654)
• Playlist: Simplify block track state. (79448)
• Playlist: Simplify waveform metadata updates. (80193)
• Remove redundant @jest-environment jsdom pragmas from unit tests. (79672)
• Remove redundant parentheses around assignments. (79516)
• Replace obsolete View primitive with plain div. (79767)
• Stylelint: Enforce class naming for all stylesheets. (79900)
• Tabs: Remove editor-only block context. (79848)
• Tabs: Remove unnecessary callback memoization. (79567)
• Use modern PHP string functions instead of strpos/substr. (79927)

Components

• Declare @types/node explicitly and harden no-unsafe-wp-apis. (79626)
• FocalPointPicker: Complete __next40pxDefaultSize cleanup. (79487)
• Jest: Mock CSS module class names. (79535)
• Migrate Flex to SCSS module. (79450)
• Migrate Spacer to SCSS module. (79449)
• Migrate Surface to SCSS module. (79445)
• Migrate Theme away from Emotion. (79447)
• Migrate Truncate to SCSS module. (79446)
• Migrate View away from Emotion. (79443)
• QueryControls: Complete __next40pxDefaultSize cleanup. (79485)
• Remove unused FocalPointPicker style.scss. (79902)
• SearchControl: Complete __next40pxDefaultSize cleanup. (79538)
• Stylelint: Enforce module class naming in UI packages. (79504)
• Stylelint: Lint all CSS file extensions. (79957)
• Theme: Cover display contents wrapper focus behavior. (80056)
• Tools: Restrict layout effect imports in UI and theme. (79476)
• Update @terrazzo/* to 2.4.0 and regenerate design tokens. (79627)
• Update stylelint to 16.26.1. (79648)

Block Editor

• Media Inserter: Omit page arg from requests for the first set of results. (80219)
• Rich Text: Move RichTextShortcut and RichTextInputEvent into @wordpress/rich-text. (79828)
• Rich text: Synchronize the selection before events that consume it. (80151)
• Simplify layout panel selector getter. (80176)
• Subscribe to selectionchange permanently in rich text. (79712)
• TextIndentControl: Remove unnecessary __next40pxDefaultSize prop. (79597)
• Typewriter: Remove the block selection gate. (80130)
• Use core/registered-block in reducer tests. (79522)

Post Editor

• Declare undeclared workspace dependencies. (79684)
• Editor: saveDirtyEntities: Don't allow onSave to filter records. (79850)
• Observe typing on the writing flow node. (80131)
• Style Book: Migrate to Tabs from @wordpress/ui. (80040)

Icons

• Add Storybook React Vite dev dependency. (79506)
• Icons Registry test: Fix trigger_error suppression on WP < 7.0. (79607)
• Validate SVG icons include currentColor. (79751)

Design Tools

• Block Style Variations: Simplify block style variation selector regex. (79924)
• Block Supports: Guard elements hover rendering against missing hover selector. (79511)

Plugin

• Move icon tests out of phpunit/experimental. (79695)
• Move real-time collaboration compat code to wordpress-7.1. (79863)

Guidelines

• Guidelines end-to-end Tests: Wait for boot to load copy page. (79663)
• Use str_starts_with() in is_block_meta_key(). (79491)

DataViews

• Sync changes from core for view-config version handling. (80170)

Widgets Editor

• Edit Widgets: Remove unused customizer-edit-widgets-initializer style.scss. (79915)

Client Side Media

• Vips: Add positional-crop test for high-bit-depth AVIF. (79880)

Data Layer

• Packages: Backport package release metadata. (79702)

Patterns

• Pattern editing: Use section block selector for pattern display identity. (79565)

Tools

• CODEOWNERS: Exclude eslint suppressions.json from /tools ownership. (80125)
• CODEOWNERS: Exclude stylelint suppressions.json from /tools ownership. (80171)
• Project automation: Stop flagging returning contributors as first-timers when they use hidden email addresses. (79987)

Testing

• Add an end-to-end test for single paragraph selection on triple click. (79706)
• Automated Testing: Configure lint:Css to report needless disables. (79788)
• Automated Testing: Enforce dependencies checks consistently for development files. (79703)
• Automated Testing: Enforce no-unresolved checks for test files. (79718)
• Automated Testing: Use three-dot diff comparison for changelog checks. (79548)
• Fix flaky "can use appender in site editor sidebar list view" end-to-end test. (80044)
• Fix flaky 'Activate theme' end-to-end test. (80090)
• Flaky tests: Fix rich text backtick undo. (80183)
• Flaky tests: Fix widgets global inserter. (80177)
• Flaky tests: Fix writing flow arrow navigation. (80179)
• Icons: Fix viewBox casing assertion in wp_get_icon test for older WP. (79576)
• Image: Use Playwright's locator.drop for media placeholder drop test. (79733)
• Perf tests: Wait for upload queue to settle between media-upload iterations. (79952)
• RTC: Add RTC WebSocket tests to CI. (79757)
• RTC: Improve stress test flakines. (79954)
• Skip flakey collaboration end-to-end test. (79922)
• Tests: Fix flaky 'GIF to Video' end-to-end test. (79758)
• Tests: Honor waitForUploadQueueEmpty timeout in client-side media. (79783)
• Upgrade Playwright to v1.61. (78632)

Build Tooling

• Add more workflow file static analysis with Zizmor. (71523)
• Build: Make installed-deps check layout-agnostic and surface opt-out env var. (79687)
• Build: Support --skip-types in npm run dev. (79736)
• Build: Upgrade to TypeScript 7.0. (80083)
• CI: Enforce pruned ESLint suppressions during lint. (79708)
• Docs: Generalize the npx guidance in AGENTS.md to cover wp-scripts. (79973)
• Github workflows: Extend package changelog nudge to bundled packages. (78934)
• React 19 patch: Log warnings when polyfills are hit. (79624)
• React 19: Patch to support legacy inert attribute values. (79475)
• Release: Revert to 23.5rc-3. (79741)
• Update actionlint to version 1.7.12. (79833)
• theme: Protect design tokens CSS import. (79551)

Data Layer

• Backport changelog and package version updates from NPM. (79816)

Components

• Add an editableRoot block support for native cross-block selection. (79105)

Post Editor

• Always iframe. (74042)

Security

• Opt in to npm v11 supply-chain security features. (79614)
• Revert npm v11 supply-chain settings (allow-git, allow-remote, allowScripts). (79667)

npm Packages

• Build: Fix non-breaking npm audit vulnerability alerts. (79886)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @bgrgicak: Backport changelog and package version updates from NPM. (79816)
• @deepakpra: Add icon state classes to Accordion block. (74257)
• @g-elwell: Add option to exclude current post from query block. (64916)
• @priethor: Project automation: Stop flagging returning contributors as first-timers when they use hidden email addresses. (79987)
• @saulirajala: Navigation Link/Submenu: Run post-status check also without Gutenberg plugin (draft/deleted links regression). (79748)
• @SohamPatel46: Fix - Accordion: Text in a closed accordion panel cannot be found via the browser search. (74744)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aagam-shah @aaronrobertshaw @adamsilverstein @aduth @alecgeatches @andrewserong @annezazu @anomiex @arthur791004 @bgrgicak @cbravobernal @ciampo @danluu @deepakpra @desrosj @dmsnell @ellatrix @enejb @fushar @g-elwell @getdave @gziolo @himanshupathak95 @huzaifaalmesbah @im3dabasia @jasmussen @jeryj @johnbillion @jonathanbossenger @jorgefilipecosta @josephscott @jsnajdr @juanfra @juanmaguitar @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @mcsf @mirka @Mustafabharmal @noruzzamans @ntsekouras @prasadkarmalkar @priethor @ramonjd @retrofox @rohitmathur-7 @SainathPoojary @saulirajala @scruffian @shail-mehta @shekharnwagh @shrivastavanolo @simison @sirreal @Soean @SohamPatel46 @t-hamano @taipeicoder @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla @xavier-lc @youknowriad