WordPress/gutenberg v8.4.0-rc.1

8.4.0 RC1

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Enhancements

• Add image editing. (23349)
  • Update Rich Image Icons. (22819)
  • Consolidate crop ratios. (22817)
  • Use snackbar notifications. (23029)
  • Avoid re-render on select. (23009)
  • Use hooks. (23008)
  • Fix image size on crop. (23173)
  • Batch editing in cropper component. (23284)
  • Move to image block. (23053)
  • REST API Code Cleanup. (23037)
• Allow block attributes to be modified while multiple blocks are selected. (22470)
• Support drag and drop in blocks like Social Links and improve drop zone detection. (23020)
• Improve the accessibliity of toolbars by implementing roving tab index.
  • Embed block toolbar. (23278)
  • Custom HTML block toolbar. (23277)
  • table block toolbar. (23252)
  • Grouped blocks toolbars. (23216)
  • Header toolbar. (22354)
• Tweak colors of disabled buttons to match rest of WP Admin. (23229)
• Unify style of subheadings. (23192)
• Make Popover scrolling and position behavior adapt to the content changes. (23159)
• Reduce block appender hover delay. (23046)
• Improve the alignment of children in the CardHeader and CardFooter components. (22916)
• Show movers next to block switcher. (22673)
• Add ability to transform a Preformatted block into a Code block. (22634)
• Add a border to blocks while hovering with the Select tool active. (22508)
• Consolidate disparate "copy block" actions. (23088)
• Remove margin from last button if buttons in Buttons block are centered. (23319)
• Adapt the block switcher styles to the new Popover component. (23232)
• Make UI more consistent. (23202]
• Remove canvas padding. (22213)

New APIs

• Update the theme colors to rely on CSS variables. (23048)
• Extend register_block_type_from_metadata to handle assets. (22519)
• Enable custom classnames on <CustomSelectControl>. (23045)
• Add onFilesPreUpload property to MediaPlaceholder. (23003)
• Improve error customization in MediaReplaceFlow. (22995)
• Add context properties to block types REST endpoint. (22686)

Bug Fixes

• Fix pixel shift for toggles. (23191)
• Fix useBlockSync race condition. (23292)
• Avoid overriding popover content padding. (23270)
• Fix block parent selector border radius. (23250)
• Fix plus radius. (23240)
• Fix Inserter's handling of child blocks. (23231)
• Create Block: Fix errors reported by CSS linter in ESNext template. (23188)
• Add context property mapping to block registration. (23180)
• Remove z-index from placeholder fieldset. (23152)
• Fix possibly outdated onChange in color palette's color picker. (23136)
• Fix updateSlot missing from default SlotFillContext. (23108)
• Add check theme support is an array before indexing. (23104)
• Add i18n to padding 'reset' button. (23099)
• Fix group block moving animation not working correctly. (23084)
• Use a light block DOM for the Media & Text block. (23062)
• Popover: Ensure popovers consider border width's in their positioning. (23035)
• Remove child space in Tooltip. (23019)
• Fix drag and drop for blocks that don't use __experimentalTagName for their inner blocks. (23016)
• Fix am / pm i18n bug. (22963)
• Fix plugin document setting panel name. (22763)
• Fix plus icon. (22704)
• Fix Typography panel rendering from style hooks. (22605)
• Fix "Cannot read property 'end' of undefined" error on babel-plugin-makepot. (22394)
• Fix "React does not recognize isSelected prop in ComplementaryAreaToggle" warning. (22967)
• Cover padding: Fix reset and visualize on hover. (23041)
• Fix color picker saturation bug. (23272)
• Fix image size feature. (23342)

Performance

• Memoize useSelect callbacks on the header toolbar items. (23337)
• Enqueue assets for rendered blocks only. (22754)
• Call isMultiSelecting and isNavigationMode selectors where needed. (22135)

Experiments

• Full Site Editing
  • Move initial template fetch to client. (23186)
  • Fix Template Part Auto-draft creation. (23050)
  • Fix template part switching instability. (23282)
  • Fix $theme-color error in Template Part block. (23221)
  • Add auto-drafting for theme supplied template parts. (23254)
  • Add template part previews to placeholder block. (22760)
  • Fetch template parts in Template Switcher from REST API. (21878)
  • Post Title block: Add alignment and heading level support. (22872)
  • Post Author block: Update functionality and visual parity. (22877)
  • Add theme exporter. (22922)
• Navigation block & Navigation screen
  • Visual improvements to the block navigator. (22796)
  • Improve flow when creating from menu. (23187)
  • Renamed Navigation Link to Link. (23163)
  • Only show appender for the currently selected block. (22998)
  • Fix navigation block dark style appender. (23165)
  • Fix saving on navigation screen. (23157)
  • Extract and refactor placeholder from navigation block edit function. (23109)
  • Better README for the edit-navigation package. (23018)
  • Remove navigator from the navigation block inspector. (23022)
  • Separate block navigator focus from the editor focus. (22996)
  • Change MenuLocationsEditor to use a card instead of a panel. (23151)
  • Change Create Menu UI to use a Card instead of Panel. (23150)
  • Enable creation from existing WP Menus. (18869)
  • Don't announce external value changes in custom select control. (22815)
  • Refactor Navigation screen to use @wordpress/data. (23033)
• Block Directory
  • Fix "no result" ui flash. (22783)
  • Uninstall unused block types. (22918)
  • Fix installing blocks. (23096)
  • Add plugins REST API endpoints. (22454)

Documentation

• @wordpress/env: add login details to documentation. (23343)
• Grammatical fixes in modularity.md. (23336)
• Update modularity.md. (23322)
• Use correct package for importing useState in BoxControl examples. (23243)
• Rename architecture index.md to readme.md. (23242)
• Scripts: Update changelog to move unreleased entries to Unreleased section. (23178)
• Handbook: Udpate documentation for package release. (23162)
• Use deny/allow list. (23120)
• Move ESNext as default code example. (23117)
• Handbook: Update release documentation. (23002)
• Update theme-support.md for experimental supports. (23310)
• RichText: Add missing param documentation for getActiveFormats(). (23160)
• API description: Use a period at the end. (23097)
• Improve JSDoc comment in ESNext template in edit.js file. (23164)
• Blocks: Update block registration default values. (23348)

Code Quality

• Refactor header toolbar items to use @wordpress/data hooks. (23315)
• Use useLayoutEffect to compute the popover position. (23312)
• Reduce unnecessary selector specificity for Button block. (23246)
• Button component - remove isLarge prop. (23239)
• Upgrade Reakit to version 1.1.0. (23236)
• Refactor column block to use hooks. (23143)
  - RichText: Rewrite with hooks. (23132)
• Refactor ToggleControl to use functional component. (23116)
• Refactor Media & Text to use functional components. (23102)
• Image block: Split huge component. (23093)
• Simplify useImageSizes. (23091)
• Block: Move align wrapper out of Block element. (23089)
• Remove Gutenberg plugin's deprected APIs for version 8.3.0. (23001)
• Block: Remove animation component so it is just a hook. (22936)
• Remove asterisk icon. (22855)

Copy

• Cover block: update copy for Opacity label. (23287)

Build Tooling

• Packages: Fix the changelong updater for initial npm release. (23166)
• Scripts: Fix style.css handling in the build and start commands. (23127)
• Scripts: Clean up the build folder via clean-webpack-plugin. (23135)
• Scripts: Update stylelint dependencies to latest versions. (23114)
• Remove volumes and networks in wp-env destroy. (23101)
• Build: Replace "release" with "build" in script for building a package. (23063)
• Release tool: Fix bug on reporting message error. (22994)
• Scripts: Remove temporary workaround in ESLint configuration. (22915)
• ESLint plugin: Allow ESLint 7.x as peer dependency. (23190)
• Packages: Add "gutenberg" to the list of keywords in package.json. (23161)
• Update package-lock.json. (23052)

Various

• Initialize the content size used in Popover computation. (23279)
• Make the block grouping test more stable. (23266)
• Try to improve heading custom color E2E test stability. (23260)
• Attempt to fix RTL end-to-end test. (23203)
• Add verification for Create Block to Continues Integration. (23195)
• Remove padding inheritance on lists in editor-styles. (23080)
• Change select parent button styles. (23230)
• Make link color control opt-in. (23049)
• Use showBlockToolbar consistently in e2e tests. (23311)