github WordPress/gutenberg v4.8.0
🚩4.8.0

latest releases: @wordpress/wordcount@4.12.0, @wordpress/widgets@4.12.0, @wordpress/warning@3.12.0...
5 years ago

Performance

  • Improve page initialization time by optimizing the addHook function and the viewport state initialization.
  • Improve typing performance by splitting the state tree.
  • Optimize partial application of runSelector.
  • Move selector calls to the event handles to avoid useless component rerenders.
  • Render DropZone children only when dragging elements over it.
  • Initialize variables only when needed.

Enhancements

  • Add error messages to the image block on upload failures.
  • Merge similar i18n strings.
  • Disable clipboard button in file block during upload.
  • Persist alignment when transforming a gallery to an image and vice-versa.
  • Copy enhancement to the embed block help text.
  • Improve the scrolling of the WordPress navigation menu.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix RTL support for the DatePicker component.
  • Change the header level in the BlockCompare component.
  • Show all the taxonomies in the sidebar.
  • Fix the latest posts date className.
  • Fix the “align center” button in Latest Posts block in the backend.
  • Fix block height when DropCap is used.
  • Fix converting caption shortcode with link.
  • Fix edge case in addQueryArgs function.
  • Don’t return the permalink if the CPT is not publicly viewable.
  • Fix error when saving non public CPTs.
  • Properly disable the Publish button when saving is disabled.

Various

  • Show a message in the browser’s console when in Quirks Mode.
  • Improvements to the @wordpress/scripts package: A new a check-engines command, a lint-style command and an update to lint-js.

Documentation

  • Add a getting started with JavaScript tutorial.
  • Document the blocks’ setup states in the design guidelines.
  • Add content to Contributors index page.
  • Improve the components documentation:
    • The MenuItem component.
    • The RadioControl component.
    • The ServerSideRender component.
  • Organise the documentation assets in a dedicated folder.
  • Clarify immutability of the block attributes.
  • Fix the metabox back compat code example.
  • Fix incorrect data module example.
  • Improve the plugin release docs.
  • Remove useless property from the colors code example.
  • Improve the contributing documentation.
  • Fix npm README links.
  • Update the design resources link.
  • Typo fixes.

Chore

  • Run e2e tests with popular plugins enabled.
  • Add new e2e tests:
    • The permalink panel.
    • The categories panel.
    • Blocks with meta attributes.
  • Update node-sass to fix Node 11 support.
  • Move the dev dependencies to the root package.json.
  • Improve the Pull Request Template.
  • More logs to the CI jobs.
  • Code style fixes and expand the phpcs coverage.
  • Disable fragile e2e tests.
  • Avoid PHP notices when running the e2e tests in debug mode.

Mobile

  • Make a simple version of DefaultBlockAppender.
  • Stop using classname-to-style autotransform in react native.
  • Fix SVG styles.
  • Implement Enter press to add a default block.
  • Hide keyboard when non textual block is selected.
  • Fix undo/redo on new blocks.
  • Pass the blockType prop to RNAztecView.
  • Expose unregisterBlockType.

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