WordPress/gutenberg v8.3.0

8.3.0

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Features

• New padding control to cover block. (21492, 23014)
• New link color control to paragraph, heading, group, columns, and media-text blocks. (22722, 23025, 23049)
• Updated default block categories. (19279)
• New parent block selector to child blocks. (21056)

Enhancements

• Blocks:
  • SiteTitle: add alignment and tag level support. (22843)
  • Heading: use toolbar for heading level control. (20246)
  • LatestPost: add ability to filter by author. (16169)
  • Add caption split at end to all caption blocks. (22934)
  • Add transforms between the core widgets that have equivalent blocks. (22644)
• Interface package:
  • Add block areas tabbed sidebar to the widgets screen. (22467)
  • Use isActiveByDefault prop and local storage to determine whether is active or not. (22381)
  • Add mechanism to render them on edit site. (21430)
  • Sidebar reacts to screen size and refactor to use interface package. (22565)
• Add heading to the block inserter tips and to the block inserter groups (22898, 22903)
• Move between nesting levels with arrow keys in navigate mode. (22614)
• Add icons for image tools, other, and update list icons. (22593)
• Block Navigator: Use default block appender. (22590)
• Adds a default text label to the block appender when it can only insert a single block type (22293)
• Make ToolbarButton API consistent. (22961)
• Implement roving tabindex on the Image block. (22696)
• Block Editor: Allow control over drop cap feature with useEditorFeature helper. (22291)
• REST API:
  • Add block styles register mechanism. (22680)
  • Update default values for fields in the block type schema. (22695)

New APIs

• Add new package @wordpress/lazy-import for lazily installed packages. (22684)
• Added _experimental/block-types endpoint to expose all registered blocks. (REST API 21065, register core blocks in the server 22491).

Experimental

• Added experimental version of rich image editing tools. (21024, 22870)
• Full Site Editing
  • New template creation flow for EditSite. (22586)
  • Edit Site: Avoid dirtying un-customized templates on first load. (22876)
  • Edit Site: Refactor business logic into store. (22844)
  • Global Styles: make theme.json shape consistent with local styles shape. (22744) and take block supports from block.json. (22698)
  • Edit Site: fixes to template lookup and template parts auto-drafts (22954, 23050)
• Navigation screen
  • Use panel for navigation structure on small screens only. (22828)
  • Disable the navigator toolbar button. (22792)
  • Atomic save using customizer API endpoint. (22603)
  • Retain block IDs on save. (22739)
  • Separate concerns in useNavigationBlocks. (22825)
  • Fetch all menus for display in select menu. (22591)
  • Fix keyboard navigation in Navigation block. (22885)
  • Rename EllipsisMenu to BlockNavigationBlockSettings. (22630)
  • Remove BlockNavigationEditor from navigation-link/edit.js. (22629)
• Block directory:
  • Update the state to store the installing status per block id. (22881)
  • Use semantic element for block directory download heading. (22713)
  • Add list of installed blocks to pre-publish sidebar. (22752)
  • Store refactor. (22388)

Bug Fixes

• Blocks
  • Skip null values returned from the server during registration. (22849)
  • LatestPost: fix author display. (22937)
  • Legacy Widgets: widgets with special chars on classname did not load. (22841)
  • Group: clean up block padding rules. (22746)
  • Gallery: fix initial creation via media library. (22659)
  • Cover: fix height reset on unit change. (22642)
  • Navigation: fix submenu keyboard a11y in IE. (22546)
  • Buttons: fix invalid property value for margin-right. (22211)
• CustomSelectControl:
  • Use default cursor style (22926)
  • Fix arrow spacing. (22925)
• Fix Drag and Drop in Safari by upgrading Reakit. (22960)
• Font size picker reset button: make it visible in all languages. (22896)
• Components: ToolbarButton use forwardRef. (22970)
• Remove aria-label from iframe resizers. (22868)
• LinkControl: avoid showing "Recently updated" when there are no recently updated Pages from the API. (22856)
• CopyHandler: Fix unintended Copy override when copying from input or textarea elements. (22793)
• Customizer complementary area should not include the block areas. (22756)
• Icons: Fix package references. (22702)
• Fix missing parentheses in usePrevious hook. (22608)
• Fix presets in themes that use the default color & gradient palettes. (22526)

Performance

• Remove ifBlockEditSelected internal higher-order component. (22905)
• Remove withBlockEditContext internal higher-order component. (22942)

Documentation

• Handbook
  • Fix links for dynamic blocks page. (22945)
  • theme.json specification: document link color feature (22929) and features integration. (22622)
  • Block Registration: document use of innerBlocks in example property. (22633)
  • Reusable blocks: initial improvement to documentation. (21843)
  • Default to ESNext syntax in MetaBox & Block tutorials. (22748, 22973)
  • Block Tutorial: fixed typo in the wp_register_script function. (22755)
• JSDoc comments:
  • __experimentalAddAnnotation (22794)
  • Block Editor (22981) (22976) (22975)
  • Block Library (22982)
  • Blocks (22943)
  • Components (22971)
  • Core Data (22966)
  • Edit Post (22944)
  • end-to-end test utils (22948)
  • Env (22911) (20522)
  • Format library (22913)
  • Interface (22964)
• Contributor docs:
  • Add code examples section. (22974)
  • Update triage to include release instructions. (22335)
  • Update repository management with proposed guidelines. (22679)
• Env:
  • Reference destroy command. (22643)
  • Fix use of backticks. (22980)
• Improve e2e-test README. (22661, 22654)
• Move BlockDropZone react hook and update documentation. (22619)
• Update PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md to include PR documentation nudge. (22681)

Code Quality

• Refactor some components to use hooks:
  • BlockTitle (22910)
  • BlockCompare (22909)
  • TabPanel (22906)
  • AudioEdit(22901)
  • ImageSizeControl (22899)
  • FormFileUpload (22894)
• Polish ImageSizeControl. (22917)
• Latest Posts Block: add key to category select box. (22904)
• Rename the navigation mode BlockBreadcrumb component to BlockSelectionButton. (22882)
• Extract inserter state into reusable hooks. (22710)
• Replace function expressions with named function or arrow expression. (22647)
• Remove unused isDraggable prop from BlockList. (22615)
• Remove form control resets and include the styles in the components. (22596)
• Project Management Automation: reorganize folder structure. (22574)
• Dependency Extraction Webpack Plugin: add types. (22498)
• Blocks: Avoid separate host matching constant for embeds. (13755)

Breaking Change

• Scripts: Remove legacy env command. (22953)
• ESLint Plugin/Scripts: Update ESLint and related deps to 7.1.0. (22771)

Build Tooling

• Env package:
  • Add an interactive bash command. (22611)
  • Ensure correct port setting on related wp-config params. (22559)
  • Update Source type to WPSource. (22785)
  • Fix ssh-auth nodegit + better snap pack detection. (22649)
  • Correct multisite support. (22613)
  • Update copy-dir dependency to version 1.3.0. (22682)
• Create Block:
  • Integrate CSS import in JS with esnext template. (22727)
  • Enhancements for the upcoming npm release. (22978)
• Scripts:
  • Add support for postcss.config.js. (22735)
  • Support split Jest configuration for test commands. (22477)
  • Split webpack loader rules for CSS and Sass files. (22786)
• Release tool: warn about open issues in milestone before starting release. (22764)
• Changelog tool: Enhance entry normalizations. (22601)
• Performance tool: fixes to run across branches. (22676)

Various

• Use Card instead of Panel for the block editor. (22827)
• Revert add selectionStart and selectionEnd to transientEdits. (22933)
• BlockEditor: fix readme syntax. (22809)
• Trigger additional widget setup actions. (22807)
• Align navigator icon and buttons to top. (22790)
• Set default selection to the root navigation block. (22737)
• end-to-end tests:
  • Disable inconsistent test for gallery. (22726)
  • Specify icon for block context test blocks. (22811)
  • Configure Axe to ignore media modal markup. (22719)
  • Define end-to-end test experimental features utility as lifecycle helper. (22712)
• CODEOWNERS updates. (22725)
• Add data-handle to all script tags in the admin. (22721)
• Add onDeleteBlock to the extra data to re-render when it has changes. (22716)
• Add support for page=1 and perPage=-1 to getMergedItemIds. (22707)
• Replace three experimental flags (ellipsis menu w/ min level, navigator slots) with just __experimentalFeatures. (22670)
• Add require headers to plugin and readme (php 5.6). (22669)
• Update package-lock.json so that CI tests pass. (22667)
• Framework: Upgrade to wp-prettier@2.x. (22610)
• Remove the multi-block type check to make __experimentalConvert more useful. (22577)
• Mousetrap: Update to latest stable version. (22548)