WordPress/gutenberg v8.2.0-rc.1

8.2.0 RC1

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Features

• Cover block: Support customizing the content alignment. (21091) (22322)
• Add Block Pattern Categories Support. (22164) (22410)
• Copy the whole block if no text is selected. (22186)

Enhancements

• Limit the most used blocks in the inserter to 6 elements. (22521)
• Allow split out of caption on Enter. (22290)
• Buttons block: Allow split and merge. (22436)
• Improve video backgrounds for the Cover block in iOS. (22346)
• Combine Calendar Help and Close buttons in the date and time picker. (22176)
• @wordpress/env: Better run command errors. (22475)
• Add support for named orientations and literal colors on custom gradients. (22239)
• Use theme color as focus color. (22261)
• Refine the specificity of the embed block styles. (21599)
• Change inserter search placeholder text color. (22444)
• Improve interactions and add unit parsing to the unit selector used in Cover block. (22329)
• Use smaller spacer and cover block step values. (22320)
• A11y: Add explanatory text before the a11y.speak aria-live regions. (22112)
• Add Animoto, Dailymotion block embed icons. (21882)
• Group block: Match frontend markup in the editor. (21867)
• Iterations on the welcome guide. (21847)
• Don't show protocol in link suggestions. (20350)
• New Block Patterns:
  • Hero and two columns. (21130)
  • Features or Services. (20898)

New APIs

• React Hooks:
  • Add new React hook UseCopyOnClick as an alternative to the ClipboardButton component. (22224)
  • Add usePrevious hook to @wordpress/compose package. (22540) (22597)
• @wordpress/env:
  • Granular volume mappings. (22256)
  • Add command to display Docker container logs. (21737)
  • Add a destroy command. (21529)
• @wordpress/scripts:
  • Add CSS support to start and build scripts. (21730)
  • Support enabling/disabling dev tools, bundle analyzer and externals for build and start scripts. (22310) 22426
  • Add phpunit support. (20090)
• Support preloading API requests using the fetchAllMiddleware middleware. (22510)
• Support controlled InnerBlocks. (21368) (22366)
• Add Close button filter. (22323)
• Block API: Allow block registration without category. (22280)
• Support customizing the viewportWidth for block patterns. (22216)

Bug Fixes

• Fix theme CSS bleed in the Button component. (22460) (22522)
• Fix CSS validation error on Button block styles. (22583)
• Fix editor crash potentially happening when hovering style variations. (22490)
• @wordpress/env: Start database service before running tasks. (22486)
• Fix editor crash when zooming. (22408)
• Fix Button border radius set as 0. (22393)
• Fix Cover block resizing. (22349)
• Writing Flow: Fix reverse block selection after block deletion from rich text. (22292)
• A11y: Include reusable blocks in announced inserter search results. (22279)
• Remove the previous style CSS class when the default style variation is chosen. (22266)
• Show the global inserter in container blocks nested inside locked templates. (22115)
• Prevent the Page Break block from showing up as the first block in the inserter. (22523)
• Polish code editor and fix iOS scrolling issue. (22021)
• LinkControl component: Fix search result focus state border. (22553)
• Prevent contributors for accessing the Media Modal. (22306)

Performance

• Adds a command to run performance tests across branches. (22418)
• useMovingAnimation: Avoid initial transform animation. (22536)
• Optimize resizable preview hooks. (22511)
• Short-circuit validation for identical markup. (22506)
• More accurate dependency list for useGenericPreviewBlock hook. (22355)
• Add missing side-effect declarations. (22300)

Experimental

• Full Site Editing and Site Editor screen:
  • Add page-based navigation. (22368)
  • Page and Template switchers improvements. (22449)
  • Add Query block. (22199) (22364)
  • Use the inserter panel. (22413)
  • Add basic "tools" menu. (22539)
  • Implement post switcher and integrate with "navigate to link". (22543)
  • Add focus mode and top toolbar modes. (22537)
  • Add entity editor to post content block. (22473)
  • Add 'Review changes' button for multi entity saving flow. (22450)
  • Fix Post Author block render issues. (22397)
  • Refactor Post Author block to use block context. (22359)
  • Templates Endpoint: Add resolved query arg to return only relevant templates. (21981)
• Navigation Block and Screen:
  • Add block movers to the block navigator. (18014)
  • Add ellipsis menu to block navigator. (22427) (22517)
  • Add standard notices to nav menu page. (22374)
  • Implement the creation of menus on the edit navigation screen. (22309)
  • Add menu location management. (21351)
  • Navigation Link block: Add RichText split-at-end/merge/remove behavior. (21764)
  • Fix navigation block placeholder overlap. (22407)
  • Adds orientation class on frontend for the navigation block. (22272)
  • Refactor block navigation block contents. (22487)
  • Fix navigation screen crash with no menu items. (22342)
  • Adds save and failure notices to the navigation screen. (22326)
  • Display the block appender only for the currently active menu. (22311)
  • Allow editing of new menu items from the block inspector. (22210)
  • Submenu nesting and saving new nested items. (21671)
• Block-based Widgets screen and Customizer tab:
  • Use interface package on widgets screen sidebar. (22304)
  • Use single block editor in the widgets screen. (22140) (22459)
  • Use the mobile view for the Customizer. (22533)
  • Add legacy widget to calendar transform. (14586)
• Global Styles and theme.json:
  • Implement Managed CSS for Global Styles. (20290)
  • Support theme.json in Post editor. (22520)
• Block Directory:
  • Activate deactivated blocks if already installed . (22286)
  • Only support an array of assets when injecting assets. (22289)
  • Remove the author rating when none exist. (22184)
  • Update layout for smaller inserter width. (22124)
  • Add error messages inline. (20001)

Documentation

• Document experimental theme.json. (22518)
• Fix duplicate grammar docs. (22466)
• Document the performance testing commands. (22464)
• Docs: Update note for extraProps filter. (22419)
• Recommend adding an API docs section. (22415)
• Add side effect documentation. (22379)
• Update block editor docs to incorporate the block-toolbar Popover Slot. (22308)
• Adds a README to MediaReplaceFlow. (22268)
• Typos and tweaks: (22254) (21968) (21695) (22554)

Code Quality

• Avoid circular dependency issue in AutoBlockPreview. (22425)
• Remove opinionated label color from CustomSelectControl component. (22594)
• Image block:
  • Use hooks. (22499) (22277)
  • Remove extra div wrapper in the editor. (22585)
• Remove redundant condition from setting default grouping. (22563)
• Testing: Replace require.requireActual with jest.requireActual. (22370)
• Use a light block DOM for the Cover block to map frontend markup. (22348)
• Rename a complementary area component property. (22336)
• Block API: WP_Block: Document attributes class property. (22222)
• Polish block wrapper elements file. (21304)
• Move supports to block.json files for core blocks. (22422)
• Create Block: Simplify the process of defining a config for templates. (22235)
• Block Edit: Use hooks. (22433)
• Add BlockContext component to type-checking. (22353)

Build Tooling

• ESLint Plugin: Fix dependency group checking for CommonJS. (22230)
• Restore Playground GitHub Pages deploy. (22443)
• Fix API Docs generation for filenames with spaces. (22513)
• Fix check-latest-npm.js failure on Windows. (22485)
• Refactor the changelog script as a release tool command. (22380)
• Enable import/no-unresolved ESLint rule for Gutenberg. (20905)
• Only allow ECMAScript stage 4 features. (22083)
• Storybook: Use a consistent port number. (22552)
• Add 0BSD to GPLv2 compatible licenses. (22391)
• Refactor the release tool and split it into several command files. (22003)
• Replace wp-scripts env usage with wp-env in CI. (20280)

Various

• Update: ResizableBox make showHandle true by default. (22360)
• Fix dirty state end-to-end test intermittent failuire. (22532)
• Fix dirty state end-to-end test. (22448)
• Add a simple block patterns end-to-end tests and a test utility. (22414) (22495)
• Remove insert block delay from end-to-end tests. (22377)
• Add an end to end test to verify cover can be resized with drag & drop. (22369)
• Upgrade Reakit to stable v1.0.0. (22352)
• Use alternate display for the popover in alignment matrix. (22351)
• Fix deprecated version used for register_pattern. (22341)
• API Fetch: Remove deprecated useApiFetch. (22333)
• Framework: Pin nvmrc to specific current LTS. (22236)