WordPress/gutenberg v7.3.0-rc.1

7.3.0 RC1

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Enhancements

• Add border to table header & footer 19450
• Add the new replace flow to the cover 19583, media text 19198, file 19174, audio 19158 and video 19162 block.
• Components: improve ToolbarButton 18931
• Sibling inserter: fix dead zone between blocks 19719 19729
• Top toolbar: adjust tab order 19623
• Regions: position publish region after sidebar 19427
• Better accessibility labels for blocks 18132
• Breadcrumb: add accessibility label 19597
• Navigation: add background color 19108

Performance

• Lighter block DOM:
  • Put sibling inserter in popover 19456
  • Remove extra div wrapper 19010
  • Remove inner div wrapper 19593
  • Split out toolbar rendering 19564
  • Put side inserter in Popover 19406
  • Rewrite drop zone with hooks (useDropZone) 19514
  • Merge effects 19617
  • Fix alignments 19704
  • Clean up after control removal 19618
  • Reposition tabbable inserter 19596
• Avoid rerendering every block when caret moves in and out of formatting 19524

Bug Fixes

• Navigation:
  • Format the allowed styles 19477
  • Show recent pages as default suggestions when creating Nav Links 19458
  • Define allowedFormats option for NavigationLink 19507
  • Rename the LinkControl's edit button title 19505
  • Use underline instead of bottom border for nav links 19538
  • Do not output navigation links with empty labels 19652
  • Remove draggable from all navigation-link blocks 19648
  • Remove duplicate CSS from Navigation that is aleady in Navigation Link CSS 19540
  • Remove the text color button double border on the navigation block toolbar 19567
  • Replace, on editing a navigation link, the current label with the title of page or post 19461
  • Add description for the Link Settings Description in the Link Block settings 19508
  • Fix Navigation Link url escaping 19679
  • Fix alignment on left border between menu navigation controls and menu item 19511
  • Styling fixes after navigation feature merge 19455
• Add support for align wide to deprecated versions of gallery block 19522
• Block top toolbar: fix mover direction 19574
• Editor keyboard shortcuts: fix Toggle Sidebar 19605
• Editor: Fix Block Embed Input size 19438
• Fix ServerSideRender component showing className 19555
• Fix writing flow focus capturing 19621
• Fix small visual select glitch 19590
• Fix the height of the tags tokens 19592
• Fix buttons block Link shortcut not working with multiple buttons 19492
• Disable HTML on navigation link 19483
• Fix managing page break in the block manager 19303
• Show predefined colors in the navigation block 19493
• Update CSS rule on the widgets screen required for drag & drop 19428
• Multi block selection: fix tabbing 19700
• Multi block selection: set focus back after attempt 19720
• RichText: don't set focus when applying format 19536
• Writing Flow: fix list selection 19721
• Fix Color Picker Format Toggle placement 19607
• Fix Columns block pattern picker item margin. 19494
• Fix block styles for More block 19745
• Block: fix hasMovers BlockList setting for top toolbar 19619

New APIs

• Components: add ImageSizeControl component 17148
• Add block collections 17609
• Add Text component 18495
• Add warning package 19317
• Components: add isFocusable state to Button 19337

Experiments

• Edit Site:
  • Add a Post Author block 19576
  • Add a Post Date block 19578
  • Add a Post Excerpt block 19579
  • Implement Template Part block editing 2 19203
  • Add template loading 19081
• Block Directory:
  • Change 'update' icon to text to be more communicative 19451
  • Update the action button label to read 'Add block' 19412
• useColors:
  • Fix contrast check 19500
  • Directly pass ref for color detecting 19474
• InnerBlocks: Fix toolbar capturing 19530

Documentation

• Add js syntax highlighting to documentation 19467
• Add lint-md section to scripts readme 19716
• Add linting of source in markdown files 19518
• Document packages-update wp-scripts command 19711
• Linting Documentation 19543
• More visibility to the theme opt-in styles documentation 19463
• Remove spaces in title for consistency with other components and docs 19466 19464
• Update block-filters.md 19595 19684
• Update contributors guide with docker-compose info 19362
• Add js syntax highlighting to documentation 19465
• Use import statement instead of deconstruction in docs 19469 19471
• Fix Navigable Container component usage code 19615

Various

• Block Editor: Remove (more) legacy "editor-" class name compatibility 19489
• Block toolbar: rewrite toolbar forcing 19527
• Breadcrumb: isolate logic 19573
• Contain selection logic in useMultiSelection 19529
• Move navigation and selection logic to WritingFlow 19397
• LinkControl
  • Refactor LinkControl API 19396
  • Remove Popover from LinkControl component 19638
  • Add search results label for initial suggestions 19665
  • Prevent space being reserved for scrollbar when items fit box 19633
  • Remove non-public fetchSearchSuggestions from LinkControl documentation 19710
  • Update Nav Block to use new showInitialSuggestions prop on LinkControl 19667
  • Flatten LinkControl components by mocking useSelect for tests 19705
• Remove core editor usage from block editor rich text 18789
• Add script to automatically update core packages 19448
• Adds tests for horizontal mover descriptions 19549
• Remove: Gradient Picker from cover block placeholder 19712
• Add SVGR support to wp-scripts 18243
• Add storybook for Panel component 18541
• Add supports html: false to new website blocks. 19646
• Add: Block editor keyboard shortcuts on the widgets screen 19432
• Added 8px padding to search input block. 19452
• Adds a "(no title)" label to links to pages or posts with no title 19528
• Array type attribute source query comma missing 19717
• Block Editor: Make initial inner blocks non-dirtying. 19521
• Block Popover: editor canvas as boundary 19322
• Check for existing of avatar_urls array before trying to return the avatar img part of user autocomplete fragment 18259
• Update downshift dependency to v4.0.5 19661
• Components: replace console.warn with @wordpress/warning 19687
• DOM: Mark stripHTML as unstable 19725
• Decode HTML entities for publish link 19517
• Expose custom gradient picker 19480
• Gallerys ids are saved as numbers 19163
• Media & Text: Remove "Insert from URL" from the replacement flow. 19606
• Page template previews 19106
• Post-Author: Move HTML tags outside of the translatable string 19675
• Priority Queue: Invoke callback when flushing queue 19282
• RichText: split out inline warning 19545
• Storybook: Update to latest 5.3 19599
• Update npm-package-json-lint-config docs 19584
• Update the float on the Spinner to none 19338
• Wrap color palette in fieldset with label inside of a legend 19546
• Check Symbol.iterator not Symbol.toStringTag (redux-routine) 19666
• Skip intermittent end to end test on the button block 19653
• Fix e2e test failures via console log exception to handle temp wpnonce error 19532
• Packages: Mark build-styles as side-effectful 19535
• docgen: Omit unknown type tag from Markdown format output 19571
• Build Tooling: Skip package for build if package.json unreadable 19439