WordPress/gutenberg v8.5.0-rc.1

8.5.0 RC1

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8.5 🇸🇪

Features

• A11y: Add an option to keep the caret inside blocks in edit mode. (23546)
• Add anchor/id support to all static blocks. (23197)

Enhancements

• Add an edit button to the gallery images. (23554)
• Image block: Allow uploading external image if image host allows it. (23565)
• Drag And Drop:
  • Enable for multi selection. (23477)
  • Improve the drag and scroll behavior. (23082) (23448)
  • Don't show a cloned block while dragging. (23024)
  • Polish the block drag chip. (23609)
• Image editing:
  • Move zoom control to toolbar dropdown. (23677)
  • Add original aspect to dropdown. (23659)
  • Add filter to REST API image edit. (23539)
  • Polish zoom slider. (23418)
  • Add permission checks to the endpoint. (23423)
• Block Directory:
  • Return inactive plugins in search results. (23688)
  • Use CDN for block directory assets. (23499)
• Add line height rule to the post title. (23656)
• Avoid ordering block types per frecency inside block categories. (23643)
• Polish the document sidebar controls. (23578)
• Add modern color scheme support. (23558)
• Use a consistent close icon across the UI. (23551)
• Redesign the transform menu. (23028) (23449)
• Redesign the canvas inserter. (22789)
• Unify tooltip styles. (23382)
• Add block variations to the slash inserter. (23364)
• Hide the most used blocks by default and add an option to enable it. (23358)
• Add reusable block tab to inserter. (23296)
• Add keyboard shortcuts for moving blocks. (23276)
• Cover block: Don't show the matrix alignment button when no background set. (23196)
• Spacer: Show tooltip with height value on resize. (23077)
• Improve post publish buttons alignment. (22390) (23487)
• Make Preview and Save Draft buttons use the same style. (21192)
• Add unlink URL to buttons block. (23445)
• Clean the patterns list to include in core. (23608)
• Add pullquote block tranformations. (23562)
• Remove block label from child block appender. (23393)
• A11y: Move blocks between levels using keyboard. (22453)

New APIs

• Support orientation prop in InnerBlocks. (23416)
• Support a flexible useItems API for the autocompleters API. (22853) (23385)
• Stabilize the image editing REST API endpoint. (23536)
• Stabilize the block directory REST API endpoint. (23528)
• Add descriptions to Block patterns. (23070)

Experiments

• Site Builder:
  • Remove the button block appender. (23436)
  • Improve the template parts insertion flow. (23295)
  • Fix template part resolution for edited files. (23591)
  • Fix inspector panels buttons. (23464)
  • Add template part block keyword. (23623)
  • Allow wide alignment. (23488)
  • Remove templateIds state. (22893)
• Navigation screen and block:
  • Fix saving issues. (23559)
  • A11y: Improve keyboard navigation on the Navigation block toolbar. (23281)
  • Fix text size no longer overwritten. (23360)
  • Adjust Navigation block submenu padding and spacing. (23380)
  • Update placeholder label. (23297)
  • Hide the block toolbar on the navigation screen. (23021)
  • Allow setting up menus that auto add new pages. (22697)
  • Allow Search block to be added alongside links. (22656)

Bug Fixes

• Block Directory:
  • Support .svg extension for results icons. (23442)
  • Throw error if we have an issue registering blocks. (23439)
  • Remove the overflow on the Add button. (23409)
  • Fix double border in block list. (23625)
• Fix the upload icon size. (23553)
• Allow scrolling over Popovers. (23696)
• Fix quote left border color in dark mode. (23692)
• Fix empty block list appender visibility on aligned blocks. (23672)
• Fix horizontal Block Mover Layout. (23640)
• Fix invisible drop target indicator. (23638)
• Rich text: Fix soft line break in caption on enter. (23622)
• Fix clicking Gallery items buttons on Safari. (23586)
• Hide block list appender in a reusable block if it's not being edited. (23584)
• Revert "Remove the style CSS class when the default style variation is chosen". (23548)
• Classic block:
  • Add height: Auto to content wrapper. (23547)
  • Add scroll to last edit position. (23544)
  • Adjust placement of the toolbar. (23438)
  • Prevent content loss by regularly dispatching changes. (23408)
  • Fix undo keyboard shortcut. (23376)
• Fix the Gallery images buttons rendering. (23471)
• Fix Post title top margin. (23447)
• Fix file names generation for edited image files. (23440)
• Fix React warning when cropping imùges. (23432)
• Polish block moving animation. (23401) (22640)
• Fix small RTL regression in Buttons block. (23390)
• Fix centered legacy button. (23381)
• Fix React warning while unmounting slots. (23365)
• Don't show the "Move to trash" action if the user is not allowed to delete posts. (23174)
• add inline font-sizes and colors to the editor for themes that don't enqueue the preset classes. (22356) (22668) (23717)
• Create Block: Fix missing scripts section in scaffolded package.json. (23443)
• Scripts: Fix build script with style.css files. (23710)
• Restore removed props and behavior back to Query Controls. (23419)
• Add support for hexadecimal colors in gradient presets. (23363)

Performance

• Improve the performance of the keyboard shortcuts binding. (23394)

Documentation

• Add a documentation page explaining how the repository is organized. (23563)
• Document the WordPress 5.5 backported code. (23478) (23708)
• Add .markdownlint.json configuration extending scripts configuration. (23655)
• Add "Create a Block" tutorial Create a Block tutorial. (22831) (23654)
• Update wp-env Ubuntu documentation. (23650)
• Add documentation for InnerBlocks orientation prop. (23641)
• Remove DropZone position argument from documentation to reflect removal in WordPress 5.4. (23577)
• Update categories in block registration documentation. (23572)
• Update ESNext usage in public API. (23475)
• Clarify the wp-block-styles documentation. (23359)
• Add documentation for setting up Prettier for markdown. (23286)
• Typos and tweaks: (23542) (23489) (23590) (23300) (23534) (23467)

Code Quality

• Optimize useSelect calls (dependencies) (23255) (23247) (23245) (23249)
• Reduced the number of SASS color variables. (23648) (23454)
• Remove unused getBlockIndex selector from useBlockDropZone hook. (23634)
• Scroll on drag: Remove blockNodes context dependency. (23561)
• Add missing notices dependency. (23517)
• Remove BlockPopover key prop and related code. (23504)
• Show a warning when SlotFillProvider is missing. (23493)
• Block toolbar: Remove data-align attribute. (23468)
• Extract block draggable scroll behaviour into React hook. (23444)
• Refactor Dropdown to use functional component. (23142)
• Refactor Embed Edit component: Class component to Function component. (22846)
• Extract navigation link rendering code from the navigation block. (21075)
• Block editor: Use vanilla JS instead of Lodash if possible. (21063) (23633)
• Add "engines" to the package.json and "engine-strict = true" to the package.json. (23600)
• Block Directory: Remove custom permission check in favor of canUser. (23624)
• Remove REST_WP_REST_Block_Types_Controller_Test which now exists in WordPress Core. (23500)
• Editor: Remove unnecessary block directory dependency. (23476)
• Plugin Controller: Return the plugin without the extension. (23395)
• Clean up image editor REST route. (23368)
• Make slash inserter tests more stable. (23367)
• Post Author block: Fix end-to-end test fixture indentation. (23209)

Build Tooling

• Add new command for pre-releasing npm packages. (23357)
• Move the CI setup from Travis to Github actions. (23523) (23520) (23518) (23470) (23538)
• Add npm cache to Github workflows and use checkout v2. (23482)
• Update bin/validate-package-lock.js error message. (23435)
• Minor improvements to the release tool and release documentation. (23441)
• Tools: Always append prerelease to version update in package.json when preparing npm release. (23480)
• Scripts: Add custom TerserPlugin configuration. (22990)
• Scripts: Exclude node_modules from source map processing in start script. (23711)
• Fix rc version number added to the CHANGELOG. (23433)
• Tests: Jest - Add typeahead plugin. (23366)
• Tests: Run end-to-end tests only as an admin. (23588)
• End-2-end Tests: Add test for using block variation with the slash inserter. (23585)

Various

• RangeControl: Integrate NumberControl + update internal state flow. (23006)
• Create Block: Generate a block.json file. (23399)
• Sync Block Context changes from Core. (23602)
• Scripts: Remove default exclude rule for node_modules for SVG, CSS and Sass files. (23495)
• REST API: Sync /themes endpoint with Core's. (23321)