WordPress/gutenberg v23.8.0-rc.1

23.8.0 RC1

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Changelog

Features

Collaboration

• Notes: Email users mentioned in a note. (79606)

Enhancements

• Element: Make the package importable in React 19. (80053)
• Interface: Let CSS own the ComplementaryArea width and use AnimatePresence custom for exit. (81363)
• Widget Dashboard: Preserve widget chrome flex layout. (80570)
• Normalize block gap values in layout. (81460)
• Visual revisions: Add shareable urls. (79934)

Block Library

• Block editor: Render a real default block in place of the default appender. (81231)
• Block editor: Unify what a new sibling block inherits. (81250)
• Blocks: Support static block templates in block type settings. (80027)
• Feature: Tabs block: Consider using the tab title in the Document Overview instead of a generic "Tab" label. (81427)
• Page List: Rename the Edit action to Detach and confirm it in a dialog. (80847)
• Pass Playlist controls to track blocks. (80368)
• Quote: Ensure paragraph placeholder appears after deleting nested blocks. (77151)
• Table of Contents: Replace "Convert to static list" with confirmed "Detach" action. (80844)
• Post Navigation Link: Use the 'next' icon. (81384)
• Writing flow: Stop the caret on containers that do not merge with the text flow. (81456)
• Playlist: Add track icon. (80959)

Components

• Add allowForms prop to SandBox component. (76471)
• DataViews: Add time field type and control. (80830)
• DataViews: Make grid and table item preview aspect ratio configurable. (79329)
• IconButton: Improve keyboard shortcut accessibility. (80402)
• Icons: Move the inline image icon into the library. (81271)
• SearchableChipSelect: Add form primitive to @wordpress/ui. (80779)
• UI: Add Combobox.InputGroup primitive. (80869)
• UI: Add Calendar and RangeCalendar, moved from components private APIs. (81337)
• UI: Derive Base UI direction from WordPress i18n. (80399)
• UI: Use focus styles from base-styles. (80635)

Post Editor

• Add opt-out for block style state controls. (80956)
• Editor: Clarify autosave failure notice. (76470)
• Editor: Migrate settings sidebar to Tabs from @wordpress/ui. (81054)
• Notes: Display shortcut for form action buttons. (81064)
• Visual revisions: Add a code diff view inside the editor. (80314)

Dashboard

• Dashboard Widgets: Add icon and relevance to the widget action envelope. (81275)
• Dashboard Widgets: Split action icons into wire and resolved forms. (81381)
• Widget Dashboard: Host-tunable tile spacing via public custom properties. (81352)
• Widgets: Carry a declarative icon through the widget pipeline. (80969)

Widgets Editor

• Add ThemeProvider for admin color schemes. (81173)
• Customizer widgets: Add ThemeProvider for admin color schemes. (81174)

Global Styles

• Migrate font size presets to the shared preset layer. (79811)
• Migrate shadows presets to use the preset management layer. (79812)

Bug Fixes

• Backport core fixes for finalize route. (81465)
• Boot: Adjust specificity of the image reset styles so components can size their own images. (80845)
• Fix end-to-end tests that break when shard rebalancing changes their neighbors. (81117)
• Fix: Add missing target to the webpack dev server proxy configuration. (81141)
• Fix: Flaky autosave shareable URL revisions end-to-end test. (81455)
• Fix: Flaky list view paste block styles end-to-end test. (81229)
• Fix: Flaky revisions pagination end-to-end cross-page diff assertion. (81119)
• Interface: Increase footer breadcrumb height to prevent focus ring clipping. (81145)
• Views: Honor all developer-defined view configuration overrides. (80832)
• Interface: Stop the secondary sidebar animating into place on page load. (81362)
• Site editor: Fix sidebar item hover color. (81317)
• theme.json schema: Allow responsive states on block style variations. (81309)
• Dashboard Widgets: Remove the Hello Dolly download action. (81272)
• Decode HTML entities in Identity fields. (81269)
• Make downloadable block item labels translatable. (81237)
• Edit Widgets: Fix header toolbar button focus ring. (81176)
• Fix template modified and date return value for file templates. (80733)

Block Editor

• Background: Fix the legacy gradient UI where a gradient cannot be selected. (81056)
• Block Inspector: Disable the 'Edit original' button when the entity ID is missing. (81288)
• Copy: Preserve the block when its entire text is selected. (80994)
• Disclose the nested block count of a multi selection. (80745)
• Fix Escape from the block toolbar and stop redundant last focus dispatches. (81319)
• Fix empty list block with anchor persisting after backspace deletion. (77000)
• Fix overflowing block UI being covered after a block is moved. (80824)
• Link Control: Restore the preview title underline. (81083)
• Make the Group action wrap blocks with a group transform. (80891)
• PanelColorSettings: Restore the missing space below the panel header. (81155)
• Quote & List v2: Deleting empty list item should delete list block. (42503)
• Return false from isBlockSelected when there is no client ID. (81212)
• Style states: Fix state deselection when selecting the already selected block. (81277)
• URLInput: Skip search requests while an IME composition is in progress. (80602)
• Writing flow: Forward delete an empty paragraph without breaking apart the next block. (80813)

Block Library

• Clarify the GIF Video variation description. (81181)
• Fix: Tabs block: Start with empty tab labels with placeholders. (81009, 81429)
• Media: Reword the HEIC upload error and keep it up until dismissed. (81130)
• Navigation Overlay Close: Inherit typography and color from the overlay. (80751)
• Playlist: Improve audio conversion and track selection. (80926)
• Playlist: Normalize Waveform Player configuration handling. (81342)
• Post Author Biography: Fix horizontal overflow with long unbroken text. (81018)
• Remove the editableRoot opt-in from the paragraph block. (81184)
• Video: Hide settings for the GIF variation. (81142)
• Fix: Add optional chaining for empty reusable block (#81165). (81177)

Components

• Button: Suppress UA focus ring when focused and pressed. (81113)
• DataForm: Fix hidden fields validation. (81377)
• DataViews: Fix array field type validation for empty values. (81378)
• DataViews: Fix the between date filter losing a manually typed date on blur. (81150)
• DataViews: Pass only eligible items to a bulk action callback. (81198)
• Scope breakpoint media queries to screen so printing does not look like a resize. (81367)
• Theme: Omit color properties when neither provided nor inherited. (80600)
• Admin UI: Reset the wp-admin li margin that misaligns Breadcrumbs. (81134)

Post Editor

• Add ThemeProvider for admin color schemes. (81112)
• DataViews: Move the rich text control into the editor package. (81430)
• Editor: Fix document tools button focus ring. (81115)
• Editor: Keep the canvas height stable while resizing the canvas. (81163)
• Ensure device preview is always accurate when window is zoomed in. (81193)
• Notes: Fix text wrapping for long usernames in collaboration sidebar. (81406)

Global Styles

• Button: Turn on the width setting by default in theme.json. (81196)
• Kebab-case preset slugs when converting references to custom properties. (80583)
• Render element styles set only inside a breakpoint. (81265)
• Report border, shadow, outline, filter and dimension changes. (81407)
• theme.json schema: Fix block pseudo-classes and custom states. (81209)
• theme.json schema: Responsive states belong to blocks. (81253)

Data Layer

• Core Data: saveDirtyEntities: Improve messaging of server errors. (81151)
• RTC: Fix mixed block selection awareness. (79836)
• Footnotes: Guard against invalid post meta values. (81201)
• RTC: Remove excess autosave notices (when not useful). (80539)
• Order site identity changes predictably. (81283)

Media

• Cover client-side big image scaling and orphaned files. (81061)
• Media Attached to: Fix issue with the popover unexpectedly flipping, tweak wording. (81206)
• Upload Media: Fail the item when the /finalize request fails. (80725)

Style States

• Fix phantom pseudo element style output. (81291)
• Render viewport state element styles in the editor. (81307)

Collaboration

• Notes: Fix the mention notification email composition. (81187)
• RTC: Disable custom autosave controller when RTC is disabled. (80769)

Accessibility

• Fix: New route-based admin pages are empty when no JS. (80628)
• Interface: Remove incorrect aria-expanded from pin-to-toolbar button. (79874)
• wp-build: Render the no-JS fallback in the generated page templates. (81365)

Block Editor

• Block Mover: Add the keyboard shortcut to the buttons' spoken description. (81380)

Components

• Menu: Restore Modal focus return when menu items close. (81164)

Block Library

• Tabs: Support Home and End keys for keyboard navigation. (80912)

Performance

List View

• Fix Select all freezing on large posts. (81210)
• List View: Collapse off-window placeholder rows into a single spacer row. (80953)
• List View: Narrow the dependants of the memoized List View tree. (81129)
• List View: Only subscribe to the block subtree for rows that can show images. (81076)
• List View: Reduce per-row store subscriptions. (81136)
• List View: Speed up opening by removing a forced style recalculation. (80929)
• List View: Speed up opening by removing a second render pass. (80935)
• List View: Pass only minimal required data to sub-tree branches. (81111)
• List View: Split the context and drop dead props to cut re-renders on expand and collapse. (81159)

Documentation

• Agents: Add a defensive data design skill and route to the copy guide. (81131)
• Block JSON schema & PHP-only blocks: Add autoRegister support. (80173)
• Block Library: Document security patch releases. (81295)
• Changed Build Process Link and remove unused tags. (81360)
• CheckboxControl: Add "With Visual" Storybook story. (80849)
• Components: Opt-in ConfirmDialog for auto-documentation. (80866)
• Components: Use p elements for callout alerts in README documentation. (81234)
• Docs: Add Block Actions Readme. (69408)
• Docs: Add Block List Readme. (69432)
• Docs: Add Block Lock Readme. (69434)
• Docs: Add error message guidance. (81143)
• Docs: Explain how the theme.json schema fixtures work. (81263)
• Docs: Fix broken Figma links on the design resources page. (81166)
• Docs: Fix broken link to the Node.js debugging guide. (81398)
• Docs: Fix broken links to the removed JavaScript build setup guide. (81232)
• Docs: Fix typo in block file structure guide. (81348)
• Docs: Remove breakpoint-only element style example from global styles guide. (81308)
• Docs: Remove dependency group import guidance. (81245)
• Docs: Use gutenberg instead of Gutenberg in package name. (81051)
• Document editEntityRecord's options.isCached param. (81318)
• Fix typos in code comments and JSDoc. (81045)
• Navigation: Complete the DocBlocks for the responsive container and overlay style helpers. (80622)
• Storybook: Enable design system theme tool globally. (81116)
• ToggleControl: Add "With Visual" Storybook story. (80803)
• View Config: Add reference documentation. (81149)
• Widget Primitives: Document actions as verbs, not links. (80974)

Code Quality

• Block Supports: Guard against non-string attribute values to avoid fatal errors. (80501)
• Blocks: Declare the @types/react-is devDependency. (81203)
• Blocks: Update hpq to 1.4.0 and drop the ts-expect-error suppressions. (81199)
• CI: Resolve Playwright through the workspace that declares it. (81137)
• Declare missing prettier and stylelint workspace dependencies. (81065)
• ESLint: Define dependency import rules. (81246)
• ESLint: Drop @eslint/compat fixup for jest-dom and testing-library. (80842)
• Ignore node_modules in schema integration test globs. (81013)
• Jest Preset Default: Support self-referencing via exports. (80837)
• Report Flaky Tests: Declare @types/node dependency. (80838)
• Storybook: Move smoke-test deps into the storybook workspace. (81017)
• Storybook: Use SelectControl in Motion tokens story. (80790)
• Tools: Make agent setup a workspace. (81418)
• Tools: Use native agent skill discovery. (80811)
• Unit Tests: Reorganise the jest configuration file. (80940)
• View config: Lowercase dynamic filter names. (81068)
• Views: Add React to the package's dev dependencies. (81139)
• DataViews: Use the public @wordpress/ui Badge instead of the private one. (81236)
• Remove unused duplicate font family preview utilities. (81194)
• Media Editor: Render sidebar tabs via ComplementaryArea's render prop. (81133)
• Fix ESLint errors for 'navigateRegionsProps' spread. (81052)
• Replace deprecated useResizeObserver for useScaleCanvas. (67508)

Components

• DataViews: Remove kebabCase private import by inlining it. (81284)
• DataViews: Vendor validated form controls:
  • ValidatedCheckboxControl (81435)
  • ValidatedNumberControl (81433)
  • ValidatedRadioControl (81434)
  • ValidatedSelectControl (81391)
• Deprecate Animate. (80931)
• Deprecate Surface. (80943)
• ESLint: Remove legacy import suppressions. (81338)
• Keycodes: Make withIgnoreIMEEvents a public API. (81343)
• Migrate ItemGroup to SCSS module. (80797)
• Migrate Spinner styles from Emotion to SCSS module. (80511)
• New kebab-case package: Extract utility and migrate private API calls. (81294)
• Theme: Colocate plugin tests with implementations. (81247)
• Types: Replace remaining @ts-expect-error suppressions with proper typing. (81200)
• UI: Upgrade React DayPicker to version 10. (81439)
• Update Ariakit packages. (80765)
• Update Floating UI to 2.1.9. (80761)
• Update react-day-picker to 9.14.0. (80792)
• Remove ValidatedTextControl private API. (80680)

Block Editor

• Bail out of hasSelectedInnerBlock when there is no clientId. (81315)
• Convert useBlockVisibility hook to TypeScript. (80390)
• Format Library: Remove unused CSS rule. (77831)
• List View: Migrate label wrapper to UI Stack and drop Badge from the anchor. (81266)
• Simplify InspectorControlsFill rendering logic. (81286)
• Spacing Sizes Control: Make the control label translatable independently of the input aria label. (81240)
• URLInput: Simplify keyboard handling and fix arrow keys with a text selection. (80780)

Block Library

• Cover: Avoid passing null as the featured image size. (81444)
• List View: Replace expand/collapse callbacks with reducer dispatch. (81138)
• Query: Guard non-scalar queryId to avoid fatal in enhanced pagination. (80724)

Data Layer

• Core Data: Add missing @wordpress/base-styles dependency. (81012)
• ESLint: Replace strict configuration with bulk suppressions. (81248)

Post Editor

• Editor: Remove sidebar tabs focus sync effect. (81020)
• Rename blockStatesEnabled setting to blockStatesEditingEnabled. (81058)

Tools

• AGENTS: Update development tips section. (81224)
• Revise CODEOWNERS for package ownership (removing nerrad). (81175)
• ESLint: Ban @ts-ignore in favour of @ts-expect-error. (81148)

Testing

• Automated Testing: Add Storybook component documentation regression testing. (80655)
• CI: Add job timeouts to E2E, static checks, bundle size, and create block. (80801)
• CI: Build once and reuse the build across end-to-end tests shards. (81031)
• CI: Cache the system packages Playwright downloads for WebKit. (80846)
• Fix: Trunk end-to-end failures caused by the navigation spec leaving plain permalinks. (81238)
• Flaky tests: Fix router navigate latest HTML. (80178)
• Perf Tests: Merge selection event windows instead of summing durations. (81002)
• Performance Tests: Ignore the locally generated artifacts directory. (81024)
• Perf Tests: Avoid inflating interaction metrics with startTracing. (81264)
• Remove content types experiment. (81340)
• Remove the jest-puppeteer-axe package. (80775)
• Storybook e2e: Add small, compact and icon examples to button matrix. (80793)
• Test: Add Vitest migration routing guardrails. (81036)
• Test: Add private Vitest configuration and migrate a pilot test. (81037)
• Tests: Replace page-level selectors with locators in end-to-end specs. (81053)
• Upgrade Playwright to v1.62. (81001)
• Balance Playwright shards by duration. (79479)

Build Tooling

• Allow organization or repository variable to dictate the Actions runner. (81087)
• Build: Wrap script bundles in an IIFE to contain 'use strict'. (79792)
• Components: Update polymorphism types to allow all attributes when specifying as. (80705)
• Docs: Add VS Code setup guidance. (77913)
• ESLint: Rename root eslint.config.cjs to eslint.config.mjs. (81468)
• Ensure static checks can run for private mirrors. (80817)
• Flaky tests: Report as a PR comment only, stop creating issues. (81218)
• Markdownlint: Disable the MD033 (no-inline-html) rule project-wide. (81213)
• Monitor all setup-related composite Actions. (81192)
• Packages: Recover July 29 npm release metadata. (81303)
• Scripts: Prevent a UTF-8 BOM in the middle of extracted CSS. (81383)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @adimoldovan: CI: Cache the system packages Playwright downloads for WebKit. (80846)
• @dognose24: Widget Dashboard: Preserve widget chrome flex layout. (80570)
• @dpmehta: Quote: Ensure paragraph placeholder appears after deleting nested blocks. (77151)
• @drewmt: Site Editor: Decode HTML entities in Identity fields. (81269)
• @giteshsarvaiya: RTC: Fix mixed block selection awareness. (79836)
• @makdia: Fix empty list block with anchor persisting after backspace deletion. (77000)
• @vianasw: DataViews: Make grid and table item preview aspect ratio configurable. (79329)
• @YvetteNikolov: Scripts: Prevent a UTF-8 BOM in the middle of extracted CSS. (81383)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@adamsilverstein @adimoldovan @adithya-naik @aduth @ajlende @alecgeatches @amitraj2203 @andrewserong @aslushnikov @chihsuan @ciampo @desrosj @dhasilva @dhruvikpatel18 @dognose24 @dpmehta @drewmt @ellatrix @getdave @giteshsarvaiya @hbhalodia @im3dabasia @ingeniumed @itzmekhokan @jasmussen @jorgefilipecosta @juanfra @makdia @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @mcsf @mirka @nerrad @ntsekouras @oandregal @Pranjal1423 @priethor @R1shabh-Gupta @ramonjd @retrofox @scruffian @shail-mehta @simison @SirLouen @SteveJonesDev @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @vianasw @westonruter @yogeshbhutkar @youknowriad @YvetteNikolov