WordPress/gutenberg v7.9.0

7.9.0

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Features

• Add gradients support to Group, Columns and Media & Text blocks. 21375
• Add line height support to the Paragraph block. 20775
• Add font size support to the Heading block. 21431
• Add line height support to the Heading block. 21215
• Add custom height unit support to the Cover block. 20888

Enhancements

• New Patterns:
  • Hero Two Columns 21128
  • Numbered Features 21131
  • It's Time 21132
• Add a new keyboard shortcut to toggle Fullscreen Mode. 21436
• Insert post title instead of URL, when adding a link to an existing post 21240
• Social links block:
  • Update tumblr icon 21329
  • Update and massage social links colors. 21474
• Allow reusable block top and bottom paddings to collapse. 21472
• Update all block previews to use the auto-height behavior. 21014
• Disable autocomplete for custom class name inputs. 21110
• Several small tweaks to the new Block UI. 21476
• Unify the focus styles across the UI. 21141
• Improve block focus style. 21498
• Remove the post permalink UI from the post title. 21099
• Style the default toolbar buttons. 21252
• Style tweaks to the patterns library sidebar. 21263
• Smaller space between toolbar and block. 21166

Performance

• Add block selection performance test. 21230
• Improve the performance of the block moving animation. 21231
• Render the patterns list asynchronously. 21322

Bug Fixes

• Improve WordPress logo rendering for non-retina displays. 21217
• Fix inserter popover direction. 21556
• Fix Snackbar notice bottom margin. 18858
• Fix YouTube Embed block from flickering and crashing on Safari. 21225
• Fix sibling inserter being unclickable. 21232
• Fix block duplication using keyboard shortcut 21317
• Avoid creating an empty paragraph when selecting the parent's group block 21318
• Fix the Buttons block margins. 21376
• Prevent typing on a Popover from closing the block toolbar 21421
• Prevent copy/paste on number inputs from copying the post content. 21457
• Prevent scroll jumps when focusing long blocks. 21460
• Fix Separator block RTL styles. 21525
• Make dateI18n returns be affected by gmt parameter. 18982
• Fixes the read more link added by themes in the Latest Posts block. 20541
• Fix the Latest Posts block when imageDimensions is empty 21070
• Fix transparent images used as Cover block backgrounds. 20904
• IE11: fix focus on backspace. 21092
• Fix IE11 breakage when hitting Enter. 21361 21366
• Fix block movers on full-wide blocks. 21097
• Fix Annotations classNames. 21184
• RangeControl: Fix zero value handling with number input. 21187
• Fix reusable block horizontal padding regression. 21312
• Fix fullwide margins regression. 21201
• Prevent the Cover block from overriding the children blocks colors 21254
• Fix overly verbose aria-label in Social Link block 21369
• Fix container block appenders and sibling inserters. 21149 21142 21143

New APIs

• @wordpress/i18n: Add create-i18n function. 21182
• @wordpress/interface:
  • Add screen sidebar extensibility APIs. 20698 21260
  • Prepare for npm release. 21417
  • Add Fullscreen mode component. 21334
  • Add InterfaceSkeleton component. 21335
• @wordpress/icons: Add new icons: tablet, mobile, desktop, font, share... 21261 21278
• Support changing the Group block's DOM element. 20218
• Block API: Add new utility to register block types from metadata in PHP 20794
• Add radio option to the ButtonGroup component. 20805

Experiments

• Full site editing and Site Editor screen:
  • Use the default post comments template for the Post Comments block. 21012
  • Use slug as template part display label.21161
  • Remove duplicate queries fetching template parts 18878
  • Preload the edited template to avoid the white page effect. 21214
  • Move the menu item to the top level. 21273
  • Add block breadcrumb; 21274
  • Prevent template switcher jumpiness. 21280
  • Increase the viewport width used for template previews. 21287
  • Add top level inserter. 21328
  • Apply the editor styles. 20982
  • Update the multi-entity saving flow UI. 21159
  • Small updates to template selector. 21202
• New navigation screen:
  • Bootstrap the screen. 21036
  • Implement the initial styling. 21314
  • Add save shortcut. 21342
  • Fix editor shortcuts. 21338
  • Basic responsive styles. 21414
• Navigation block:
  • Make the submenus usable on mobile. 21471
  • Fix block for contributor users 18669
  • Fix submenus being overlapped by wrapping top-level nav links. 21140
  • Add vertical variation. 21296
  • Show color controls in toolbar only. 20884
  • Add capture toolbars prop to inner blocks. 21095
• Block API Support flags:
  • Introduce a support key for support global style colors in blocks. 21021 21428
  • Add the possibility to support gradients using the experimental color support flag; 21481
  • Add a block support flag for font size. 21153
• Remove experimentalUIParts API. 20979
• Add experimental Text component. 21088

Documentation

• Docs: Describe tools used in E2E testing. 21295
• WP-env: Add reference to docker log command to show error logs in terminal. 21308
• Docs: Add section in block RFC about register_block_type_from_metadata. 21501
• Update serverSideRender docs to include how to use from the wp global. 18722
• Prescribe latest NPM for development environment. 21017
• Update Documentation on how to update post meta values from a block. 21155
• Document getAnchorRect prop for Popover component. 17709
• Typos and tweaks: 21228, 21364, 21405, 20660, 21297.

Code Quality

• Add types to WordPress packages:
  • @wordpress/element 21248
  • @wordpress/primitives 21482
  • @wordpress/icons 21487
  • @wordpress/autop, @wordpress/escape-html and @wordpress/html-entities 20669
  • @wordpress/i18n 21224
  • @wordpress/prettier-config 21381 21053
  • @wordpress/block-editor DOM utils. 21362
• Update the Buttons block to use the new color support flag. 21266
• Update the Paragraph block to use the colors support flag. 21037
• Update the Columns block to use the colors support flag. 21038
• Update the Heading block to use the colors support flag. 21039
• Update the Media & Text block to use the colors support flag. 21169
• Refactor env commands into separate files .21353
• Remove the deprecated request dependency. 21398
• Move default styles to editor normalisation stylesheet. 19837
• Replace lodash.assign with vanilla JS. 21054
• Remove the old block preview implementation. 21096
• Make RichText window/document agnostic. 21105
• Polish a11y package. 21148
• Fix two typos in lib rest menu controller. 21418
• Global tips: Add period at the end of sentence. 20601
• Lighter block DOM:
  • Verse block 20752
  • Code block 21079
  • Preformatted block 21146
• Update the padding values on the Card component to align with proposed spacing system. 21111
• Disable scroll in PlainText component. 21115
• Simplify inserter hasItems check. 21138
• Avoid string concatenation for the Latest Post block read more link. 21170

Various

• Plugin: Bump tested up to info to WP 5.4 21400
• Output package type declarations. 18942
• Exclude native files from type checking. 21491
• docgen: Optimize README update script. 18840
• Check Latest NPM on npm install. 21521
• E2E Tests:
  • Improve stability of image block test 21174
  • Improve Allowed Inner Blocks test stability 21175
  • Use waitForSelector to wait for sidebar presence 21180
• Unit Tests:
  • Fix @wordpress/env testPortNumberValidation unit test. 21394
  • Introduce react-testing-library to some existing unit tests. 20428
  • Components: Add SlotFill test. 21226
  • Fail E2E when page displays warning notices 13452
• Project Management: Prompt user to link GitHub account to WordPress.org profile 21221 21384
• @wordpress/env: Bind "core" files to tests environment 21195
• ESLint Plugin: Continue considering unused variables after encountering exception 21354
• Enable prettier for JSX files 21151
• Increase severity of JSDoc linting to error. 20427
• Add I18N specific ESLint rules. 20555 20574
• Update uuid to v7.0.2. 21258
• Upgrade Reakit to version 1.0.0-rc.0; 21300
• Framework: Add package-lock precommit check for latest NPM. 21306
• Babel Preset: Update Babel version to 7.9.x. 21419
• ESLint Plugin: Update ESLint and related dependencies to 6.8.x. 21424
• Framework: Configure ESLint JSDoc plugin to target TypeScript mode. 18998
• Major version upgrade for Jest in all packages. 20766
• Storybook:
  • Add TreeSelect component. 20496
  • Update AnglePickerControl title. 21089
• Automated Testing: composer non-interactive flag for Travis. 21118
• REST API error message: Remove unnecessary space. 21178
• SlotFill: Guard property access to possibly-undefined slot. 21205
• Build: Add TypeScript version validation 21208