Features
- Add gradient backgrounds support to the Button block.
Bug Fixes
- i18n : Include the plural version of the “remove block” string.
- Update dropdown menu items to match hover style in other places.
- Smoothly reposition Popovers on scroll.
- Fix margin styles for Gallery and Social links blocks.
- Fix popovers hidden on mobile.
- Ensure sidebar plugins do not get auto-closed when opened on small screens.
- Fix the design of the Checkbox component in IE11.
- Add has-text-color classname to heading block.
- Prevent figure margin reset CSS from being included in the frontend.
- Fix the scaling of the pinned plugins menu icons.
- Fix Heading and paragraph colors not applied inside the cover block.
- Close Nux tips when clicking outside the tip.
- Fix meta attribute source for post types other than post.
- Fix ”Open in New Tab” not being persisted.
- Fix redo behavior and expand test coverage.
- I18n: Fix missing translation for the “All content copied” string.
- Fix the block preview padding in themes with custom backgrounds.
- Fix merging list blocks with indented list items.
- Fix inline image controls display condition.
- Fix clicking the redirect element focuses the inserted paragraph.
- Fix editing meta attributes with multiple set to true.
- Add No Preview Available text to the inserter preview panel.
- Prevent block controls from disappearing when switching the List block type.
- Avoid trailing space at the end of a translatable string.
- Fix left aligned nested blocks.
- Fix the top margin of the RadioControl help text.
- Fix invalid HTML used in the Featured Image panel.
- Make sure that all edits after saving are considered persistent by default.
- Ensure that sidebar is closed on the first visit on small screens.
- Update the columns block example to avoid overlapping issues.
- Remove unnecessary default styles for H2 heading inside Cover blocks.
- Fix Media & Text block alignment in IE11.
- Remove unnecessary padding in the Columns block.
- Fix the Columns block height in IE11.
- Correctly update RichText value after undo.
- Prevent the snackbar link components from hiding on focus.
- Fix block toolbar position in IE11.
- Retry uploading images on failures.
Performance
- Avoid continuously reset browser selection (improve typing performance in iOS).
Enhancements
- Polish FontSize Picker design.
- Use body color for the post publish panel.
- Limit the width and height of the pinnable plugins icons.
- Add a max width to the Search block input.
Experiments
- Menu Navigation block:
- Implement initial state containing top level pages.
- Fix menu alignment.
- Fix the classname in frontend.
- Block Directory
- Change the relative time string.
- Widgets Screen
- Fix the styling of the inspector panel.
Documentation
- Fix @wordpress/data-controls examples.
- Typos and tweaks: 1, 2.
Various
- Introduce the @wordpress/env package, A zero-config, self-contained local WordPress environment for development and testing.
- Add Storybook to develop and showcase UI components:
- Add ButtonGroup component.
- Add ScrollLock component.
- Add Animate component.
- Add Icon and IconButton components.
- Add ClipboardButton component.
- Add ColorIndicator component.
- Remove RichText wrapper and use Popover for the inline toolbar.
- Improve the way the lock file handles local dependencies.
- Refactor ColorPalette by extracting its design.
- Improve E2E test reliability by consuming synchronous data and bailing on save failure.
- Replace the isDismissable prop with isDismissible in the Modal component.
- Add eslint-plugin-jest to the default @wordpress/scripts linting config.
- Update @wordpress/scripts to use the latest version of webpack for build and start commands.
- Cleanup Dashicon component.
- Update the Excerpt help link.
- Release tool: fix wrong package.json used when bumping the stable released version.
- Fix several typos in code and files.
- Update E2E tests to accommodate WP 5.3 Beta 3 changes.
- Define the “sideEffects” property for @WordPress packages.
- Add nested embed e2e test.
- I18N: Always return the translation file prefixed with
gutenberg-. - Use wp.org CDN for images used in block preview.