WordPress/gutenberg v7.4.0-rc.1

7.4.0 RC1

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Features

• Add background color support to the Columns block. 17813
• Add text color support for the Group block. 19181

Enhancements

• Navigation Block:
  • Add submenu chevron indication setting. 19601
  • Save the ID to the destination entity. 18641
  • Select Parent Navigation Block after clicking "Create from all top-level pages". 19817
  • Update Appender visibility. 19598 19846
  • Move the Link Settings panel. 19917
  • Improve the UX to add links. 19686
• Multi-selection: don't focus first selected block. 19762
• Use the new link control component in the RichText link format. 19462
• Copy: Apply sentence case formatting to panel titles. 19901
• A11y: Add conditions and new translation strings for the BlockMover. 19757

New APIs

• Add a new @wordpress/create-block package for block scaffolding. 19773 19867
• Add a new @wordpress/icons package:
  • Introduce the package. 17055
  • Make it a package that is always embedded to avoid loading all the icons at once. 19809
  • Move icons used in the project to the package. 19944 19808 19834 19862 19838 19943 19926
• Add a new @wordpress/primitives package. 19781 19876

Bug Fixes

• Prevent gallery images from creating undo levels as they load. 19937
• FontSizePicker: Adjust Select Button size. 19479
• Remove post title escaping. 19955
• Fix Failure message styling in placeholders. 19673
• Fix RTL styles for the Media Text block. 18764
• Fix panel header styles. 19842
• Fix the editor fixed position at the 960px breakpoint. 19970
• Allow disabling color selection but keeping gradient support. 19925
• Prevent crash when creating a hierarchical post without a title. 19936
• Media & Text block: "Crop image to fill entire column" setting resets on image change. 19765
• Prevent Alt+F10 from scrolling to the top. 19896
• Fix clearing multi-selection with side click. 19787
• Update hover and focus selectors for "Move to Trash" to ensure the link is always red 19974.
• Popover component:
  • clean up requestAnimationFrame. 19771
  • fix typo causing the mobile inserter to go out of view. 19978
• Fix bug in block multi-selection causing Rich text editing to be disabled. 19839
• Fix useSelect React hook timing and rerendering issues. 19286
• Core-data: do not publish outdated state to subscribers during updates. 19752
• LinkControl component (Navigation and buttons blocks):
  • Initialize inputValue state from value prop. 19737
  • Handle submission via form handler. 19651
  • Use URL as a link when title empty. 19739
  • Prevent focus loss in edit mode toggle. 19931
  • Resolve error when value is undefined. 19856
  • Handle Popover onClose for LinkControl. 19885

Experiments

• Add AnglePicker Component and useDragging hook. 19637
• Add Global styles CSS variables generation mechanism. 19883
• Allow blocks to register variations that shows-up in the inserter. 19243
• Block Directory: Refactor the reducer by breaking out the block management actions into their own reducer. 19330

Documentation

• Add docs for LocalAutosaveMonitor and __experimentalUpdateLocalAutosaveInterval. 19915
• Add markdownlint script to lint docs markup. 19855
• Add format-js detailed documentaation to @wordpress/scripts package. 19946
• Reorganize the Contributors Guide. 19853
• Clarify when isEligible function is called. 19899
• Typos and tweaks: 19833, 19914, 19736, 19759, 19869, 19802, 19813.

Various

• Introduce Prettier Formatting:
  • Add the formatting script. 18048 19994
  • Format the codebase. 19963
  • Set a consistent line width. 19992
• Automation:
  • Fix pull request merge automation errors. 19768
  • Run pull request automation on closed. 19742
  • Add a step that updates CHANGELOG files before npm releases. 19764
• Allow Babel Stage 4 features. 19831 19065
• Use a Link to the changelog instead of adding it inline in the plugin README. 19761
• Use require.resolve() in @wordpress/jest-preset-default config 19957.
• Fix multi-selection intermittent e2e failure. 19865
• Add Placeholder component to Storybook. 19734
• Include block.json files in the plugin build output. 19786
• Rename patterns to variations in the Block API. 19966
• Paragraph block:
  • remove min-height. 19835
  • remove unnecessary CSS after shortcuts removal. 19821
• Refactor ObserveTyping as function component. 19881
• Move the is-navigate-mode classname to the WritingFlow component. 19868
• Block: use React context to provide the selected element. 19782
• Remove dead is-hovered selectors. 19870
• Remove the editor dependency from the block library. 16160
• Remove an unnecessary import from the playground. 19893
• Refactor the RichText wrapper to use React hooks for wrapper component. 19095
• RichText API: Limit "prefix" transformations to Paragraph blocks. 19727
• Apply width-based modifier classes to Placeholder only when the width is known. 19825
• Various:
• Refactor the server-side rendering of the Navigation block. 19989 19991
• Fix server-registered fixtures script. 19884
• Remove the RichText is-selected class. 19822
• Testing: Use deterministic selectors for incremented IDs. 19844