• 🏗 Add support for creating reusable blocks out of multi-selected groups of blocks not just individual blocks. This means the ability to easily save templates out of an existing set of blocks.
• 🚀 Add support for importing and exporting reusable blocks (using a JSON file transport). Note that locality of resources can be a problem if importing on a separate WordPress site.
• 🔍 Allow to visually show differences between conversion options when a block is detected as invalid.
• Add a clear drag handle next to the block arrow controls to drag and move a block. Also further polishes the drag and drop experience.
• Instrument collapsible groups for the block toolbar. It allows to display groups of options as a dropdown and reduce the length and imposition of the toolbar as a whole.
• Allow conversion from Cover Image to Image and back, using caption if it exists as the main text.
• Move the reusable block UI options to the top of the block or block group.
• Focus the title when loading the editor if it’s empty.
• Adjust margin rules for nested blocks.
• Preserve aspect ratio on embedded content at different alignments and widths.
• Unselect blocks and disable inserter when switching to Code Editor.
• Add new default block icon (used when no icon is defined).
• Avoid showing stacked icon group on parent blocks if all of its children are meant to be hidden from the inserter.
• Add dark editor style support.
• Add a figure wrapper to Pullquote block.
• Add needed attributes to kses allowed tags for the Gallery block.
• Improve visual display of Classic block toolbar.
• Adjust unified block toolbar padding at medium breakpoints.
• Better align the close, chevrons, and ellipsis icons in the sidebar panel.
• Improve cropping of galleries in IE11.
• Adjust gallery caption flex alignment.
• Include Caption Styles in Video Block.
• Update RichText usage to avoid inline elements.
• Add shortcut aria label for unreadable shortcuts.
• Avoid triggering invalid block mechanisms on empty HTML content.
• Rename the Speaker block to Speaker Deck.
• Disable inserter on Column block and avoid showing stacked icon on columns.
• Send post_id to the REST API in the ServerSideRender component within the editor. This ensures the global $post object is set properly.
• Use pseudo element to prevent inspector tab width from changing when selected.
• Apply consistent spacing on the post visibility menu.
• Fix notice styling regression.
• Fix ability to select small table cells.
• Fix issue with drag and drop in Chrome when the document has iframes.
• Fix HTML validation issues.
• Fix margin style regression with block appender.
• Fix link source for outreach/articles.
• Fix Archives block alignment and issue with custom classes.
• Fix error when a taxonomy has no attached post type.
• Fix invalid block scrim overflowing toolbar on mobile.
• Fix block settings menu appearance in non wp-admin contexts.
• Fix incorrect unlink shortcut.
• Fix placeholder text contrast.
• Fix issue with shortcut inserter on invalid paragraphs.
• Fix camelCase and cross-component class name.
• Fix qs dependency typo.
• Pluralize “kind” to fix typo.
• Remove isButton prop.
• Remove wrapper div from Categories block.
• Remove prop-type-like check in Popover component.
• Remove unnecessary duplicated class from Embed placeholder.
• Flatten BlockListLayout into base BlockList.
• Add isEmptyElement utility function under wp.Element.
• Use HTML Document for finding iframe in embed previews.
• Add wp-polyfill as central polyfill.
• Update docke-compose setup order to create MySQL container before WordPress container.
• Improve comments in transforms object of Quote block.
• Do not assume that singular form in _n() is used just for single item.
• Update examples for components to look according to guidelines.
• Update release docs to include process for RC.
• Add simplified block grammar spec to the handbook.
• Add lint rule for path on Lodash property functions.
• Add user for cli image in docker-compose.
• Show lint errors when there are lint problems.
• Minor updates and improvements to documents and code references.
• Improve docs build to consider memoized selectors.
• Add Heading toolbar for changing heading sizes.
• Save level to heading block attributes for parsing.
• Add onEnter callback and function placeholder to RichText implementation.
• Add Image block placeholder.
• Avoid propagating eventCount to components.
• Parser: Output freeform content before void blocks.
• Fix export block as JSON in IE11 and Firefox.