WordPress/gutenberg v23.6.0-rc.2

23.6.0 RC2

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Changelog

Enhancements

Post Editor

• Device preview dropdown: Use active color for device icon when responsive styles are active. (80346)
• Editor: Allow selecting which block styles to apply globally. (79839)
• Notes: Add placeholders to the RichText fields. (80296)
• Notes: Increase contrast between avatar border colors. (80285)

Block Library

• Icon block: Show text and background color controls by default. (80251)
• Tab List: Add toolbar buttons to reorder tabs. (80107)

Block Editor

• Reflect inherited Global Styles values in block inspector controls. (80481)

Data Layer

• Client Side Media: Honor image_strip_meta and image_max_bit_depth on the client upload path. (80218)

Components

• DataViews: Add shift-click range selection. (80046)

Bug Fixes

• Core Abilities: Restore the ready promise and lazy-load via dynamic import. (79155)

Post Editor

• Autocompleters: Don't pre-encode mention search terms. (80377)
• Editor: Disable canvas resizing while zoomed out. (80391)
• Fix upload snackbar stuck in uploading state on server-side uploads. (80345)
• Notes: Finish WPDS treatment for mention chips. (80300)
• Responsive styles: Open inspector sidebar when toggling. (80307)
• Responsive styles: Use viewport dropdown to control states for in-editor global styles sidebar. (80339)
• Fix upload snackbar double-counting a single HEIC upload in Safari. (80436)
• [WP 7.1] Editor: Restore fixed device preview height for mobile and tablet. (80466)

Block Library

• Fix default aspect ratio for lazy loaded Featured image. (80386)
• Fix playlist block styling. (80312)
• Fix: Allow icon labels to wrap with word breaks and no ellipsis. (80256)
• Hide color controls for Navigation and Social Icons when viewport sta…. (80289)
• Playlist: Fix track insertion. (80200)
• Try fixing responsive layout in Nav block. (80305)
• Media: Remove the redundant __heicUploadSupport flag (#80452). (80486)

Block Editor

• Custom CSS: Fix cascade order against block style variations. (80340)
• Guard against non-string spacing preset values. (80467)
• Responsive Editing: Support editing pattern styles. (80233)
• Rich Text: Restore the selection when focus returns to the editable. (80396)
• State control - avoid tertiary variant on toggle to match style of other dropdown toggles. (80505)
• Writing flow: Fully select the ancestor when a text selection crosses a nesting boundary. (80462)

Components

• ContentEditableControl: Fix invalid label association with contenteditable div. (80441)
• Fix Color Picker Cursor Shaking Issue (80435)
• DataViews: Fix the list layout ignoring some settings when groupBy is set. (80255)
• DataViews: Fix the unintended gap between list layout items when groupBy is set. (80254)
• UI: compat overlay fixes. (80322)
• fix: Set dataviews popover hover text color. (80105)

Client Side Media

• Fix upload hang when converting long animated GIFs (#80260). (80342)
• Client-side media: Generate animated image sub-sizes from the first frame only, matching core. (80268)
• Media REST API: Fix sideload and finalize for EXIF rotated images. (80295)
• Media: Add timeout and size guardrails to client-side GIF to video conversion. (80420)
• Worker threads: Reject pending RPC calls on worker failure or termination. (80421)

Global Styles

• Block Supports: Handle nested array block gap values properly. (80464)
• Style Book: Restore live global styles updates on the styles route. (80459)

Style States

• Hide block style variations when state is enabled in global styles. (80341)

Collaboration

• Notes: Arm the mention kses allowance on REST note creation. (80221)

Code Quality

• Release: Resolve commander from the test file in the release CLI test. (80357)

Block Library

• Misc fixes for WordPress-Develop 7.0 merges. (80444)
• Playlist: Update @SInCE tags to 7.1.0. (80317)

Global Styles

• Reject non-string custom CSS in the REST controller. (80338)

Client Side Media

• Vips/upload-media: Consolidate optional params into options objects. (80330)

Components

• RichTextControl: Replace DOM focus tracking with a single React-tree focus boundary. (80324)

Plugin

• Icons: Fix collection unregister not removing icons after core added its own registry. (80292)

Post Editor

• Notes: Replace blur-deselect bookkeeping with useFocusOutside. (80222)

Tools

Build Tooling

• Only include icon library SVGs listed as public in the Zip file published to GitHub Container Registry for wordpress-develop. (79338)
• Release: Extract npm release lifecycle. (80190)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @milindmore22: Fix: Allow icon labels to wrap with word breaks and no ellipsis. (80256)
• @Pranjal1423: fix: Set dataviews popover hover text color. (80105)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamsilverstein @andrewserong @ciampo @desrosj @ellatrix @jorgefilipecosta @juanfra @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @milindmore22 @ntsekouras @Pranjal1423 @ramonjd @scruffian @shimotmk @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla