WordPress/gutenberg v24.1.0-rc.1

24.1.0 RC1

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Changelog

Features

Components

• UI: Add SwitchControl component. (83146)

Enhancements

• Admin bar: Backport removal of site icon background from 7.1.1. (83433)

Block Library

• Accordion Item: Add background gradient support. (83197)
• Accordion Item: Add link, heading, and button colour support. (83371)
• Accordion Panel: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83201)
• Accordion Panel: Add link, heading, and button colour support. (83374)
• Accordion: Add link, heading, and button colour support. (83373)
• Archives: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83198)
• Audio: Add link colour support. (83375)
• Block API: Add textShadow typography support and UI. (79584)
• Block API: Public API for supporting viewport states in custom controls. (82741)
• Block API: Re-enable editableRoot for multi-selection on mobile web. (81542)
• Breadcrumbs: Add background gradient support. (83202)
• Buttons: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83203)
• Code: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83204)
• Code: Add shadow support. (83014)
• Column: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83205)
• Columns: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83206)
• Comment Author Name: Add background gradient support. (83207)
• Comment Content: Add background gradient support. (83208)
• Comment Content: Add heading and button colour support. (83376)
• Comment Date: Add background gradient support. (83209)
• Comment Edit Link: Add background gradient support. (83210)
• Comment Reply Link: Add background gradient support. (83211)
• Comments Next Page: Add background gradient support. (83215)
• Comments Page Numbers: Add background gradient support. (83216)
• Comments Pagination: Add background gradient support. (83219)
• Comments Previous Page: Add background gradient support. (83220)
• Comments Title: Add background gradient support. (83217)
• Comments: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83212)
• Comments: Add button colour support. (83378)
• Cover: Add a Media section to the block inspector panel. (82751)
• Details: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83222)
• Details: Add heading and button colour support. (83381)
• Details: Add shadow support. (83021)
• File: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83223)
• Footnotes: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83224)
• Footnotes: Add shadow support. (83044)
• Gallery: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83225)
• Gallery: Enable viewport state values for Gallery aspect ratio. (82233)
• Group: Add text columns support. (83425)
• Heading: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83226)
• Heading: Add shadow support. (83045)
• Home Link: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83230)
• Home Link: Add border support. (83360)
• Home Link: Add shadow support. (83046)
• Icon block: Don't render non-public icons on the frontend. (82774)
• Latest Comments: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83227)
• Latest Comments: Add shadow support. (83047)
• Latest Posts: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83228)
• Latest Posts: Add shadow support. (83051)
• Login/out: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83229)
• Login/out: Add shadow support. (83050)
• Math: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83231)
• Math: Add shadow support. (83052)
• Math: Improve inline block UI. (77743)
• Media & Text: Add a Media section to the block inspector panel. (82593)
• Media & Text: Add button colour support. (83380)
• Navigation Overlay Close: Add border support. (83362)
• Navigation Overlay Close: Add shadow support. (83053)
• Next Page: Add background gradient support. (83232)
• No Results: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83233)
• No Results: Add heading and button colour support. (83382)
• No Results: Add shadow support. (83054)
• Page List: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83234)
• Page List: Add shadow support. (83056)
• Page Numbers: Add background gradient support. (83235)
• Pagination: Add background gradient support. (83236)
• Playlist: Add shadow support. (83055)
• Post Author Biography: Add background gradient support. (83199)
• Post Author Biography: Add text columns support. (83424)
• Post Author Name: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83200)
• Post Comments Count: Add background gradient support. (83213)
• Post Comments Form: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83214)
• Post Comments Form: Add button colour support. (83377)
• Post Content: Add button colour support. (83379)
• Post Content: Add shadow support. (83016)
• Post Content: Add text align support. (83427)
• Post Date: Add background gradient support. (83218)
• Post Excerpt: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83221)
• Post Excerpt: Add shadow support. (83018)
• Post Navigation Link: Add border and spacing support. (83122)
• Post Navigation Link: Add shadow support. (83058)
• Post Template: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83237)
• Post Template: Add heading and button colour support. (83384)
• Post Template: Add shadow support. (83059)
• Post Terms: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83238)
• Post Terms: Add shadow support. (83175)
• Post Time to Read: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83258)
• Post Time to Read: Add shadow support. (83194)
• Post Title: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83260)
• Post Title: Add shadow support. (83195)
• Preformatted: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83239)
• Preformatted: Add link colour support. (83386)
• Preformatted: Add shadow support. (83174)
• Previous Page: Add background gradient support. (83240)
• Pullquote: Add shadow support. (83177)
• Query Title: Add background gradient support. (83242)
• Query Total: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83243)
• Query Total: Add shadow support. (83176)
• Quote: Add shadow support. (83178)
• RSS: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83244)
• RSS: Add shadow support. (83179)
• Read More: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83245)
• Read More: Add shadow support. (83180)
• Site Tagline: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83246)
• Site Tagline: Add fit text support. (83034)
• Site Tagline: Add shadow support. (83181)
• Site Title: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83247)
• Site Title: Add shadow support. (83182)
• Social Icons: Add background gradient support. (83249)
• Submenu: Add shadow support. (83185)
• Tab Panel: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83248)
• Tab Panel: Add border support. (83363)
• Tab Panel: Add link, heading, and button colour support. (83389)
• Tab Panel: Add shadow support. (83183)
• Tab Panel: Add typography support. (83426)
• Tab Panels: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83250)
• Tab Panels: Add button colour support. (83388)
• Tab Panels: Add shadow support. (83184)
• Tab Panels: Add typography support. (83428)
• Table of Contents: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83251)
• Table of Contents: Add shadow support. (83187)
• Table of Contents: Add text align support. (83430)
• Tabs: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83252)
• Tabs: Add border support. (83361)
• Tabs: Add link, heading, and button colour support. (83390)
• Tabs: Add shadow support. (83186)
• Tabs: Add typography support. (83431)
• Tag Cloud: Add background and link colour support. (83264)
• Tag Cloud: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83259)
• Tag Cloud: Add shadow support. (83188)
• Term Count: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83253)
• Term Count: Add shadow support. (83189)
• Term Count: Add text align support. (83429)
• Term Description: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83254)
• Term Description: Add shadow support. (83190)
• Term Name: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83255)
• Term Name: Add shadow support. (83191)
• Term Template: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83256)
• Term Template: Add shadow support. (83192)
• Terms List: Add background image, size, and gradient support. (83257)
• Terms List: Add shadow support. (83193)
• Terms List: Add text columns support. (83432)
• Verse: Add shadow support. (83057)
• Video block: Remove GIF variation handling. (82696)
• Video: Add shadow support. (83196)
• i18n: Add context to breadcrumbs area label. (78134)

Components

• Autocomplete: Show focus with design system's focus ring. (82766)
• Links: Update LinkControl and LinkPicker to use Badge from @wordpress/ui. (82684)
• BoxControl: Migrate the side indicator to an SCSS module. (82570)
• Checkbox: Align CheckboxControl border, hover, and disabled colors with UI. (83271)
• Checkbox: Align CheckboxControl checkmark and disabled styles with UI. (82555)
• Checkbox: Expand hit target without changing visual size. (82597)
• Circular Option Picker: Show focus with button's outline ring. (82521)
• Custom Gradient Picker: Show the control point's focus ring with the design system's outline. (82834)
• DataViews: Let a picker compose its footer from the page select and its actions. (83281)
• Elevation: Deprecate Elevation. (83269)
• Elevation: Migrate from Emotion to SCSS modules. (82572)
• Grid: Migrate Emotion styles to SCSS Modules. (82571)
• Icons: Stroke conversion - 3rd batch, 142 icon updates. (82540)
• Notes: Use UI Menu for note actions. (81930)
• Palette: Use @wordpress/ui Menu for palette options. (82768)
• Radio: Expand hit target without changing visual size. (83275)
• Select Positioner: Revert to Base UI alignItemWithTrigger default. (82043)
• Snackbar: Clean up legacy focus/button overrides in Snackbar and Notice. (82640)
• Storybook: Fold Foundations, DataViews, Fields, Admin UI and Icons under Design System. (82430)
• Storybook: Group Widget Primitives, Widget Dashboard and Grid under Widgets. (82431)
• Storybook: Group component packages under Components. (82433)
• Storybook: Guard the set of top-level sidebar folders with a test. (82436)
• Storybook: List every top-level folder in the sidebar order, design system first. (82429)
• Storybook: Remove the legacy Tokens pages. (82434)
• Storybook: Rewrite the introduction page as the front door of the design system. (82437)
• Storybook: Show the component status in the sidebar as status-* tags. (82435)
• Stylelint: Add --_wp-* to custom-property-pattern rule. (83075)
• Stylelint: Add custom-property-pattern to disallow --_gcd-* custom properties. (83025)
• Test: Make browser tests independent of execution order. (82743)
• UI: Add CheckboxGroup form primitive. (82556)
• UI: Add RadioGroup form primitive. (83038)
• UI: Add RadioGroupControl. (83143)
• UI: Add Switch form primitive. (83039)
• UI: Add statusContent to searchable selects. (82592)
• UI: Move interaction tests to Browser Mode. (82838)
• UI: Tighten Fieldset legend and description gap. (82729)

Post Editor

• Block Editor: Consolidate search ranking into one shared module. (83312)
• Collaborators: Update to use design system's focus ring in header avatar stack when collaborator is present. (82941)
• Editor: Add left border to Notes panel. (83330)
• Editor: Use UI Menu for post actions. (81922)
• Global Styles: Use UI Menu. (81921)
• Global Styles: Switch the revisions screen to the DataViews pickerActivity layout. (80856)
• Icons: Stroke conversion - Final batch, 96 icons. (82754)
• Keycodes: Add a shared keyboard shortcut representation helper. (82632)
• Post Taxonomies: Replace FormTokenField in the flat term selector. (80967)
• Storybook: Group the editor UI under Editor. (82432)
• Textarea: Replace TextareaAutosize with native textareas and field-sizing. (64208)

Block Editor

• Blocks: Highlight the block when its content list item is hovered. (83049)
• Blocks: List unavailable wide and full alignments instead of hiding them. (82600)
• Block Inspector: Enable setting position within viewport states. (83094)
• Block Inspector: Improve style states UI. (82649)
• Block Inspector: Migrate block-card Badge to UI Badge. (82503)
• Block Inspector: Stabilize display of inherited global styles and keep UI changes behind experiment. (82840)
• Block Toolbar: Show the parent selector for blocks inside patterns. (82912)
• UI: Add Select.ItemLabel and ItemDescription. (82369)
• UI: Use UI Menu for bindings and variation transforms. (81925)

Icons

• Add a core-admin collection for the admin interface. (83261)
• Allow icons to ship to WordPress Core without exposing them in the Icon block. (82634)
• Move the public property from icons to collections. (83277)
• Rebalance a few, add other new icons. (83338)
• ship required icons for admin bar and menu with public: False. (79451)

Dashboard

• Widget Dashboard: Default tile padding to padding-lg. (82961)
• Widget Primitives: Add HostLink over the links capability. (82952)
• Widgets: Carry declarative attributes through the widget pipeline. (82485)

Widget Dashboard

• Show a clipped widget title in the header infotip. (82226)
• Use UI Menu for dashboard controls. (81929)
• Use UI Spinner and remove Components dependency. (82837)

DataViews

• Excerpt field: Render nothing when the excerpt is empty. (82423)
• Fields: Use the post type labels in the featured image field and drop mediaUploadProps. (83445)

Data Layer

• Data: Add getResolutionArgs to share a resolution across selector calls. (82638)
• Data: Stabilize __unstableNormalizeArgs as normalizeArgs. (83067)

Site Editor

• Add Template: Show template descriptions in the template list. (83064)
• Extensible Site Editor: Use the view configuration form for Quick Edit. (82962)

Extensibility

• Featured image field: Support the editor.PostFeaturedImage filter in the post summary. (83133)

Command Palette

• Only add the admin bar node when Core does not provide it. (82733)

Dependency Extraction Webpack Plugin

• Pretty-print generated asset output. (79650)

Bug Fixes

• Release: Verify SVN deployment after publication. (82513)
• Storybook: Omit the recommended checkmark from the sidebar. (83309)

Block Library

• Block Toolbar: Fix parent selector inserter for locked blocks. (83444)
• Cover: Prevent content cutoff when aspect ratio is set in Safari. (70152)
• Fix playlist track selector stability. (81760)
• Fix: Navigation submenu detection leaks between Navigation blocks. (82366)
• Fix: Navigation: Block appender button is 26×24 instead of square. (82718)
• Fix: Query Pagination block ignores the parent block gap in the editor. (82399)
• Fix: Term Name block skips the term name display filters. (82365)
• Gallery: Skip gap style generation for themes opting out of layout styles. (81633)
• Image Block: Prevent global link colors from leaking into linked image borders. (79401)
• Image block: Stop interpreting $/\ in img attributes as regex backreferences. (79369)
• Image: Restore alt text and caption when undoing a media editor save. (82829)
• Math: Source the LaTeX from the MathML annotation. (82987)
• Multi-line text of menu items is not aligned. (70917)
• Navigation: Don't force submenus open inside a custom overlay. (82596)
• Navigation: Fix always-open submenus jumping in width on hover. (83142)
• Pattern block: Run autoembed() before do_blocks(). (82860)
• Post Title: Remove the inline-block from the title link. (80231)
• Tab Panel: Hide the shadow on closed panels. (83369)

Block Editor

• Cover Block: Fix resizable handle visibility on mobile when sidebar is opened. (80355)
• Fix: Social Icons: In-between inserter does not work. (83327)
• Hide alignment control when nothing available. (83265)
• Inner Blocks: Support legacy inherit-based layouts. (82637)
• Keep the iOS keyboard capitalized after Return inside the editing host. (82911)
• Link Control: Only tag pages as the front page or blog home. (83082)
• Media: Detect HEIC uploads from the file header rather than the file name. (81737)
• Media: Stop injecting crossorigin attributes under Document-Isolation-Policy. (82614)
• PHP-only blocks: Detect enums in array attributes. (83394)
• Revise block direct dragging to fix adjacent issues. (72983)
• Rich text: Fix mobile selection hair pin grab at edge of block. (83041)
• Rich text: Select an inline image by clicking it, and show the edit UI of the object clicked. (83370)
• Rich text: Show the format boundary when the canvas root has focus. (83385)
• Show the in-between inserter on wrapped lines. (83276)

Components

• BorderBoxControl: Restore the split borders layout. (82939)
• DataForm: Hide the edit button of disabled fields in the panel layout. (82957)
• DataViews: Label clickable grid media by the item title when the title is hidden. (82639)
• Fix Stylelint configuration and coding standards for font weight numeric values and disallow relative weights. (82778)
• Fix stray fill rule in SelectControl. (82949)
• FocalPointPicker: Fix Sidebar Overflow Issue. (68915)
• Give control labels an explicit foreground color. (83318)
• Menu: Fix vertical alignment across item combinations. (82847)
• Storybook: Load the media editor package styles in its stories. (83303)

Post Editor

• Distraction Free: Raise top bar above notices when revealed by hover or keyboard focus. (80349)
• Editor: Add a fixedRenderingMode prop for contexts with one mode. (82711)
• Editor: Coerce multiple to a boolean in the media modal wrapper. (82715)
• Editor: Honor post types in post-thumbnails theme support when registering the featured image field. (82773)
• Fix post editor: Meta boxes become invisible in Code Editor view. (78644)
• Fix: Default block gap is ignored in the editor for themes without block gap support. (82401)
• PostLastRevisionPanel: Fix doubled focus ring on the revisions button. (82955)
• Site Editor: Restore Global Styles access on the front page. (82624)
• Template panel: Hide edit and create actions from users who can't create templates. (82858)

Global Styles

• Rank block search results by title match. (83435)
• Retain responsive styles in block style variation partials. (82403)

Data Layer

• Core Data: Fix overwriting scored matches for duplicate ids. (83113)
• Core Data: Fix return types on generated save/delete entity actions. (77162)

Icons

• Allow rect and circle in the registry sanitizer. (82846)
• Restore the dimmed box on the side and corner icons. (82940)

DataViews

• Fields: Hide the date, author and password fields when the user can't publish or reassign. (82844)
• Fields: Show the template field to users who can't create templates. (82857)

Connectors screen

• Add missing listitem role to ConnectorItem. (82664)
• Fix Connectors and Fonts pages background color and contrast. (82827)

Media

• Media Editor: Fix crop canvas handlers and rotation ruler in RTL. (83304)

Client Side Media

• Upload media: Guard processItem against re-entrant dispatch. (83031)

Widgets Editor

• Customize Widgets: Fix asynchronous updates in the header history test. (82963)

Commands

• Avoid re-registering command loaders on every render. (82819)

DOM

• Find focusable image map areas. (82736)

Env

• Preserve complete lifecycle script error output. (82735)

Fields

• Show a message in MediaEdit when the user can't upload media. (82720)

Boot

• Site Editor v2: Show the template on the routes that show the site. (82712)

Accessibility

Components

• UI: Fix highlighted item indicator in forced-colors mode. (82772)

Widgets Editor

• Fix: Widgets customizer Undo and Redo buttons are disabled and the document tools focus style is not visible. (82412)

Post Editor

• Widgets: Fix the Welcome Guide menu item triggering a preference speak message. (82395)

Performance

Data Layer

• Data: Defer async-mode useSelect notification to idle time. (82821)
• Data: Keep a pending listener when store not yet registered. (83346)
• Data: Optimize store listeners and their execution. (82842)

Block Editor

• Avoid a store subscription per inserter item. (83434)
• Drop the O(n) tie-break in orderBy. (83443)

Components

• Stop rendering a hidden drag preview and a media query per draggable. (83423)

Documentation

• API Fetch: Document that requests are meant for the current site's REST API. (82373)
• Data: Fix the latest changelog entry and structure. (82959)
• DataViews README: Clarify readOnly vs isDisabled. (82956)
• Docs: Add blank line between @since and @param/@return in block parser. (82690)
• Docs: Add missing @since tags to two functions. (83116)
• Docs: Clarify DEWP asset file naming rule. (80620)
• Docs: Clarify dependency extraction asset filename. (78968)
• Docs: Clarify parent behavior during block registration. (78967)
• Docs: Data: Fix typo in code example for __unstableNormalizeArgs. (83070)
• Docs: Document page stability convention. (80632)
• Docs: Document published dependency constraints. (80631)
• Docs: Fix the broken Query block link in the Interactivity API guide. (82862)
• Docs: Fix the dead anchor in the block development environment list. (82878)
• Docs: Guard against ESLint bulk suppression abuse. (82944)
• Docs: Replace retired reduce-motion mixin in animation guidelines. (83335)
• Docs: Say how long a notice can be, in the copy guide. (81195)
• Fix typos in comments and test descriptions. (83172)
• Notice: Add custom icon Storybook example. (82762)
• Packages: Backport the September 10 npm release metadata to trunk. (82709)
• Storybook: Drop CustomSelectControlV2 stories and the unused WIP tag. (83349)
• Sync: Add PR link to CHANGELOG. (83037)
• The image dimensions have been removed from the name. (82828)
• UI: Document that public --wp-ui-* CSS custom properties are frozen. (83147)
• UI: Mark Select and SelectControl as recommended. (83030)
• UI: Place Fieldset description after the legend in stories. (83144)

Code Quality

• CI: Disable setup-node npm caching in the Create Block packed package job. (82833)
• CI: Keep the bundled npm when devEngines is absent. (82823)
• CI: Stop actions/setup-node from invoking the bundled npm. (82775)
• Code Modernization: Use null coalescing operator in WP_Block_Parser methods. (82763)
• Docs: Document the no-hard-wrap rule for Markdown. (83017)
• Global Styles: Replace experimental ZStack in the palette preview. (83060)
• Monorepo tools: Move the experimental API audit out of bin/. (83081)
• Release tools: Move the plugin ZIP build out of bin/. (83087)
• Storybook: Reject non-module stylesheet imports. (83313)
• Tooling: Add @wordpress/monorepo-tools to root devDependencies. (82824)
• Tooling: Name the shared tsconfig presets tsconfig.*.json. (83077)
• Unit Tests: Resolve @ariakit/utils through its dependents. (82756)
• Upgrade React 19 to 19.3.0. (82760)

Block Editor

• Block Mover: Cleanup focus ring override. (83068)
• Layout hooks: Roll out usage of normalizeLegacyLayout to the block-editor layout hooks. (82710)
• Remove the deprecated __experimentalGroup prop. (83171)
• Remove the zero width space hack from getRectangleFromRange. (82977)
• Replace denylisted layout components in the Duotone filter label. (83061)
• Replace deprecated word-wrap with overflow-wrap in responsive block control. (82855)
• Replace experimental ZStack in overlapping color indicators. (83062)
• Rich text: Separate applying the selection from focusing the field. (82581)
• Update block visibility badges to use from @wordpress/ui package. (82670)

Post Editor

• Collaborators Presence & Document Bar: Clean up styles by removing overrides. (83013)
• Editor: Remove pass-through more menu Slot wrappers. (82759)
• Interface: Convert the package to TypeScript. (82753)
• Interface: Fix the ActionItem click handler and selector types. (82758)
• Post publish panel: Replace deprecated word-break with overflow-wrap. (82495)
• Post template panel: Remove the dead template read capability check. (82861)
• Remove deprecated word-wrapping Stylelint suppressions. (82426)
• Use WCSelectControl alias for legacy SelectControl imports. (83027)

Components

• Build: Deduplicate npm dependencies. (82698)
• ESLint: Allow string literal IDs in tests and Storybook. (83090)
• Packages: Update Ariakit to 0.4.39. (82831)
• Storybook: Convert story-only stylesheets to CSS modules. (83272)
• Storybook: Place RadioGroup, Switch, and SwitchControl under @wordpress-ui. (83314)
• Storybook: Remove obsolete manifest extractor render workaround. (83124)
• Upgrade wp-prettier to 3.9.6 final. (83026)

CSS & Styling

• DataViews: replace word-break with overflow-wrap: Anywhere on DataForm panel field control. (82776)
• Fields: replace word-break with overflow-wrap: Anywhere on slug permalink. (82693)
• UI: Replace deprecated word-wrap with overflow-wrap in VisuallyHidden. (82970)
• Workflow: Remove deprecated word-wrapping. (82562)

Data Layer

• Data: Remove the unused AsyncModeConsumer export. (82822)
• Tests: Update Testing Library DOM to 10.4.2. (83279)
• Use WCCheckboxControl alias for legacy CheckboxControl imports. (83145)

Block Library

• Button: replace deprecated word-break with overflow-wrap: Anywhere. (82854)
• Calendar Block: Use the args array signature of get_calendar(). (82943)
• Replace deprecated word-wrap with overflow-wrap in screen-reader-text. (82972)

Icons

• Test that the registry sanitizer preserves every library icon. (83008)
• Test the registry sanitizer with a data provider. (83024)

wp-build

• Build: Declare @wordpress/theme as a dev dependency of @wordpress/build. (83129)

Widget primitives

• Fix prettier lint issues after prettier upgrade. (83015)

Plugin

• Icons: Move plugin icon registration out of the 7.1 compat directory. (82832)

Font Library

• Fonts: Remove the deprecated Fonts API BC layer and leftovers. (82813)

Jest console

• Test: Remove obsolete internal test setup and transforms. (82761)

Tools

• CI: Run the required trunk changes check through the pr-baseline action. (82725)
• CI: Scope the required trunk changes refresh to what a move can invalidate. (82767)
• Project Management: Exclude private APIs configuration from CODEOWNERS. (82750)

Testing

• Automated Testing: Document and validate expected changelog structure. (83043)
• E2E: Reset preferences in the post editor preload spec. (82818)
• Fields: Resolve the MediaEdit picker through the editor.MediaUpload filter. (82678)
• Fix the high-severity adm-zip audit failure in AI development tests. (83170)
• Move the unit-test-date.sh script to workspace, rewrite to JS. (83066)
• Scripts: Switch unit tests to Vitest and deprecate Jest tooling. (82843)
• Speed up collaboration end-to-end by shortening poll interval. (78746)
• Test: Finish repository Vitest migration and expand Browser Mode coverage. (82742)
• Test: Run rendered browser behavior in Vitest Browser Mode. (80995)
• Test: Strengthen Menu iframe listener cleanup assertions. (82575)
• Tests: Isolate deprecation warnings between cases. (83097)
• Tests: Remove obsolete internal Jest infrastructure. (82975)

Build Tooling

• AI development tests: Use repository Node version. (82662)
• Dependency Extraction Webpack Plugin: Add global-styles-engine and global-styles-ui as bundled packages. (82589)
• Disable caching when publishing built assets. (79835)
• ESLint: Disallow Storybook build-style side-effect imports. (82960)
• Remove npm from package engines. (83326)
• TypeScript: Give each widget its own typecheck project. (83328)
• Workflows: Refine and complete the push and pull_request branch filters. (82744)
• ing: Add .mts and .cts support. (83071)
• ing: Extract shared TypeScript configs into a @wordpress/monorepo workspace. (82334)

Components

• Deprecate Divider. (83040)
• Deprecate ResponsiveWrapper. (83347)
• Deprecate Scrollable. (83273)
• Deprecate ZStack. (83344)

Post Editor

• Add category filtering to the start page options patterns modal. (81396)
• Media Utils: Stabilize unstableFeaturedImageFlow as featuredImageFlow. (83439)

ESLint plugin

• Check type-only imports for undeclared dependencies. (83336)
• Upgrade eslint-plugin-jsdoc to latest version 64. (82727)

Data Layer

• Upgrade wp-prettier to 3.9.6. (82731)

Collaboration

• Sync: Add backwards-compatible Y option to provider creator. (82621)

Plugin

• Bump minimum required WordPress version to 7.0. (82404)

Various

Interactivity API

• Remove the interactivity-router script module data shim. (83011)

Components

• UI: Update Base UI to 1.8.0. (82835)

WP Scripts

• Update lerna to 10 and markdownlint-cli to 0.49.1. (81917)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @DanielFloeter: Multi-line text of menu items is not aligned. (70917)
• @gunjanjaswal: Dependency Extraction Webpack Plugin: Pretty-print generated asset output. (79650)
• @guzel: Global Styles: Retain responsive styles in block style variation partials. (82403)
• @iiibrapn: The image dimensions have been removed from the name. (82828)
• @imraan011: Video block: Remove GIF variation handling. (82696)
• @smeetbuilds: Docs: Clarify dependency extraction asset filename. (78968)
• @som3669: Docs: Add missing @since tags to two functions. (83116)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamsilverstein @aduth @afercia @alecgeatches @andrewserong @chihsuan @ciampo @costasovo @DanielFloeter @desrosj @dhruvikpatel18 @dknauss @dpmehta @ellatrix @fushar @gunjanjaswal @guzel @hbhalodia @i-am-chitti @iiibrapn @im3dabasia @imraan011 @jasmussen @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @Kgupta62 @lonesahilnazir @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @mcsf @mirka @mukeshpanchal27 @Mustafabharmal @ntsekouras @oandregal @ObliviousHarmony @R1shabh-Gupta @ramonjd @retrofox @SainathPoojary @scruffian @shail-mehta @simison @sirreal @smeetbuilds @Soean @som3669 @stokesman @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @timse201 @tyxla @Vrishabhsk @yashjawale @youknowriad