WordPress/gutenberg v7.2.0

7.2.0

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New Features

• Add a new Buttons block. #17352
• Support adding links to Media & Text block image. #18139
• Navigation block: Support changing the font size. #19127
• Gallery block: Add images size selector. #18581

Enhancements

• Improve the block inserter search algorithm. #19122
• Improve the block placeholders design and responsiveness. #18745
• Navigation mode: Auto-enable when tabbing to the block list with an existing block selection. #19238 #19298
• Use tabs for gradient and color. #19133
• Add "download" keyword to the File block. #18995
• Add "poem" keyword to the Verse block. #19355
• Convert to blocks:
  • preserve text alignment. #19097
  • Skip shortcode if not on its own line. #19059
• Writing flow: Improve tabbing for Edit mode. #19235
• Use Popover for the block toolbar. #18779
• Improve the block multi-selection styles. #19094 #19121
• Support reduced-motion for Social Links transitions. #18750
• Use the default cursor for Select Tool #19157
• Round position attributes on cover focal point save. #19183
• Remove block inserter shortcuts. #19045
• Navigation block:
  • Clarify the placeholder label. #19105
  • Removes the reusable block option from the items. #19250
  • Sub-items white background adjustment. #18976
• Adjustments to the welcome guide. #19195
• Audio block: Don't render an empty audio tag. #18850
• Make validation of block html tags and attributes case insensitive #19207
• Block examples: concatenate strings and add translators notes. #19048
• Show the trash button as a link. #19131
• Removed the bottom-margin for the RadioControl component. #19340
• Copy:
  • Capitalize "Manager" in Block Manager. #19375
  • Expand on sentence case usage. #18758 #19377
  • Update the copy of the Experiments page #18233
  • Removes title case from alignments for text and image. #18757
  • Unify not capitalizing the heading for each of the attributes. #19374
  • Updates description of the navigation block. #19098

Performance:

• Remove the BlockAsyncRenderProvider and render parents asynchronously #19343

Bugs:

• A11y:
  • Make text alignment items radio menu items. #19233
  • Add group role to the block wrapper element. #19213
  • Prevent tabbing to the block drag handle. #19211
  • Add a label attribute to the Social Icons block. #18651
  • Improve Welcome guide and modal component. #19261 #19290
• Pasting:
  • Content that results in a new block shouldn't be treated as inline content. #19084
  • Preserve inline images. #19064
  • Remove trailing br elements. #19035
  • Remove windows paste markers. #19040
  • Strip HTML formatting space for inline text. #19043
  • Apply active formats when pasting inline. #14815
• Rich Text:
  • Fix applying a format across 2 other formats. #19053
  • Fix using composed characters on Safari. #19171
• Fix block navigation using the up arrow key. #19135
• Fix Welcome Guide modal display for Internet Explorer. #19201
• Fix Gallery block crashing on the contributor role. #19060
• Only show available image sizes for Image and Gallery blocks. #19301
• Remove the circle mask style from the Image block, and add a "rounded" style instead. #19028
• Fix the Jest Preset Default package: Update preset file extension for inclusion in NPM deployments. #19306
• Fix the Base Styles package: Import colors into variables. #19159
• Limit the Next Page (Page Break) block to root level only. #18260
• Navigation mode: fix reverse tabbing to the post title. #19305
• Reposition Popovers on click. #19268
• Fix RangeControl initialPosition prop to accept 0 as a value. #18611 #19202
• CustomSelectControl: Use items width instead of 100%. #19150
• Verse block: fix white space. #19173
• Add missing i18n to the Latest Posts block settings strings #19032
• Fix ColorPicker alpha value normalization. #18991
• Fix Post title encoding. #19187
• Fix dates alignments in the picker. #19294
• Media Replace Flow: Don't show the URL option unless there is a handler. #19063
• Popover: don't render fallback anchor if anchorRef is defined. #19308
• Fix cursor position when splitting blocks with IME keyboard. #19055
• URLInput: Avoid showing the suggestions loader when disabled. #18979
• Translate block example strings. #18162
• Writing flow: simplify & fix tabbing out of block. #19312

New APIs:

• Button component:
  • Support the icon prop and use a consistent button height. #19193 #19366 #19123 #19058
  • Deprecate IconButton and replace its usage with Button. #19299 #19241
  • Support isPressed prop in Button and SVG components. #17748
• New the @wordpress/keyboard-shortcuts package:
  • Add the package. #19100
  • Optimize useShortcut performance. #19341
  • Refactor KeyboardShortcuts component to rely on useKeyboardShortcut hook. #19325
  • Refactor existing editor shortcuts to rely on the package. #19320 #19327 #19332 #19318 #19334 #19385 #19395
• New React hook: useInstanceId. #19091
• Support running arbitrary commands on the @wordpress/env containers and use it for linting and server registered fixtures. #18986
• Font Size Picker: Add default size #18273

Experiments

• Full Site Editing:
  • Add package with barebones site editor screen. #19054
  • Add Multi-Entity Saving flow. #18029 #19155
• Widgets screen & customizer:
  • Fix Customiser block editor crash. #19023
  • Fix Drag & Drop not working on the widgets screen. #19029
• Allow parent Block to consume child Block's toolbar. #18440
• Allow disabling the Block UI. #18173
• Block Directory:
  • Update the regular expression that determines whether the plugin is using an img URL or an icon slug. #19316
  • Use the block's title for alt text on block directory plugin items. #19263

Documentation

• Add types documention:
  • @wordpress/a11y #19096
  • @wordpress/blob #19092
  • @wordpress/dom-ready #19089
  • @wordpress/is-shallow-equal #19090
  • @wordpress/priority-queue #18997
  • @wordpress/i18n #19099
• Document the CustomSelectControl component. #19026
• Document the WritingFlow component. #19314
• Link to the User Support Documentation. #19361
• Add more documentation for @wordpress/env. #19194
• Add nested block / InnerBlocks tutorial. #17559
• Add Developer Tools setup in Getting Started. #19074
• Use ESNext as default code example format. #17873
• Add standalone npm package release docs #19381
• Typos and tweaks: #19280 #19236 #19376 #19146 #19022 #19005 #18423 #19347

Various

• Block Editor: Remove legacy "editor-" class name compatibility. #19050(#19046)
• Block Editor: Test ContrastChecker notices by string comparison. #19169
• Fix useColors crashes on storybook. [#19046]
• Data: Remove unused forceRender argument #19206
• Define useSelect dependencies properly. #19044
• Deprecate @wordpress/nux package. #18981
• E2E Test Utils: Remove empty, unused KeyboardMode file. #19166
• Popover: remove buffer options #19283
• Refactor the MediaReplaceFlow component to use Dropdown. #19126
• Remove unused is-hovered class from the block wrapper. #19390
• RichText:
  • Rewrite withFilters with hooks. #19117
  • split out boundary style calculation. #19319
• WritingFlow: rewrite with hooks. #19393
• Project management: Add prepublish packages command for npm releases. #19214
• Remove unused blocks-font-size classname. #19208
• Add a pre-commit hook to check whether API docs are updated. #18820
• Add mechanism to set a width on withViewportMatch. #17085
• Add minimum and maximum values to the Gallery columns attribute. #16314
• Include demo block templates in build ZIP. #19072
• Fix CSS Coding Standards issue. #19272
• Resolve WordPress package type imports. #18927
• Add e2e tests:
  • Splitting and merging text. #19049
  • InnerBlocks renderAppender. #14996
  • Navigation block. #19189
  • Validate embed rendering before proceeding to next #19042
• Add unit tests to the useViewportMatch and useMediaQuery React hooks. #19019