WordPress/gutenberg v8.6.0-rc.1

8.6.0 RC1

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Features

• Cover Block: Add video position controls. (22531)
• Block pattern updates: Large header and paragraph, Large header, Text two columns, Three buttons, Two buttons, Quote. (23858) (23857) (23853) (23849) (23848) (23881)

Enhancements

• Editor: Display Site Icon (if one is set) in full-screen mode. (22952)
• Block Variations: Add support for finding variations using keywords. (24040)
• a11y: Fix radio control in Windows High Contrast mode. (23706)
• Classic Block: Move the "convert to blocks" option from menu to own toolbar button. (23704)
• a11y: Use composite pattern to improve keyboard navigation on the inserter. (23610)
• Date: Add timezone hint to post-scheduling UI. (23400)
• Panel: Improve scroll view handling when expanding. (23327) (24046)

New APIs

• Support disabling core block patterns. (24042)
• Make the line height and custom units theme support flags consistent and opt-in. (23964) (23904)
• Image: Add the ability for a plugin to disable Image Editor. (23966)

Experiments

• Site Builder:
  • Change references to section back to template part. (23765)
  • Post Date Block: Add style attributes and restructure the edit function. (23931)
  • Edit Site: Integrate quick inserter. (23516)
• Navigation screen and blocks:
  • Try: Customizable toolbar contents. (23613)
  • Navigation screen: Restore block movers for blocks with just one sibling. (23680)
  • Navigation screen: Add error boundary to experimental navigation screen. (23679)
  • Navigation screen: Show block appender by default. (23676)
  • Block Navigation: Use quick inserter. (23737)
  • Navigation screen: Add .editor-styles-wrapper. (23736)
• Fix Inserter on the widgets screen. (24045)

Bug Fixes

• Prevent JavaScript error when using arrow navigation in URLInput. (24047)
• a11y: Components: Fix Toolbar arrow key navigation in RTL contexts. (24043)
• RichText: Restore aria-multiline. (24041)
• a11y: Fix Copy block button focus loss and try to remove the visually hidden textarea. (24022)
• Block Patterns: Override patterns that were registered by Core. (24004)
• Fix block wrapper selector. (23991)
• Fix block icon mouse-out gesture issue. (23980)
• Fix components utils export for use-update-effect. (23969)
• a11y: Persist tooltips on hover. (23959)
• Fix blocks dropping to incorrect position in inner block lists. (23950)
• RangeControl: Adapt slider color to color scheme. (23936)
  • (JS) Color Values: Rename brand to theme. Add fallback values. (24059)
• Prevent content loss after refreshing an editor with unsaved auto-draft post. (23928)
• Fix edited Classic block's content deletion when switching to Code editor. (23927)
• Fix drag and drop to empty block lists. (23923)
• Fix drag and drop for aligned blocks. (23916)
• Fix comment capitalization/punctuation. (23912)
• Fix block merging regression. (23901)
• Inserter: Order quick inserter items by frecency. (23900)
• Inserter: Set quick inserter content width to 100% on screens below 782px. (23896)
• Autocomplete: Fix closing slash inserter with ESC. (23859)
• Inserter: Hide inserter's block preview when searching. (23827)
• apiFetch: Fix fetch-all preloading. (23807)
• Fix error triggered when a tab is removed from TabPanel component. (23784)
• Fix block movers in navigator on experimental navigation page displaying horizontally. (23779)
• Search: Fix attribute defaults. (23777)
• Apply the reset mixin to the inserter panel. (23744)
• Sidebar controls: Add more space for German and other locales. (23738)
• Block Library: Standardize post block placeholders. (23690)
  • i18n: Block Library: Translate post block placeholders. (23774)
• Fix issue where block inserted in wrong place when selection is in nested block list, but root appender is used. (23668)
• Fix an issue where dragging while the page has no scrollbar results in a console error. (23666)
• Updated styling to match the post editor. (23525)
• UnitControl: Fix internal unit parsing to handle incoming unit prop. (23521)
• Table block: Fix focus loss in between row/column insertions. (23508)
• Editor: Fix block highlight rendering after block is moved. (23425)
• Inserter: Fix line to show again. (20792)
• Button: Properly handle border radius reset. (23887)
• Block Directory: Remove "contact admin" messaging. (23948)

Performance

• Optimize more selector calls. (23930)
• Performance testing: Cover Site Editor loading time. (23842)
• Avoid re-rendering the PostSavedState component on each change. (23829)
• Small performance tweaks. (23825)
• Env: Only perform expensive install work when required. (23809)
• Env: Improve install performance. (23806)

Documentation

• Expand and update block-based themes documentation page. (23750)
• Docs/update button component props. (24013)
• Docs: Update plugin FAQ with versions link. (24005)
• Remove the experimental flag from the block patterns documentation. (23954)
• Docs: Add links for Create a Block Tutorial. (23946)
• Adds basic documentation for the ToolbarButton component. (23909)
• Docs: Title and markdown formatting for table. (23850)
• Update documentation contributors guide. (23840)
• Create new page listing Gutenberg releases in each WordPress version. (23773)
• Docs: Clarify the interactive mode for create-block. (23752)
• Docs: Add a tutorial on how to create a block-based theme. (23732)
• Docs: Move ESNext to JavaScript tutorial. (23725)
• Docs: Move DevEnv to own section for documentation. (23593)
• Added readme to matrix alignment toolbar. (23341)
• Update nested-blocks-inner-blocks.md. (23935)
• Update block-registration.md. (23933)
• Link to theme-experiments repo in block-based theme documentation. (23748)
• Docs: Update device-tests readme with monorepo commands. (23630)

Code Quality

• Refactor URLPopover to use React Hook. (23918)
• Refactor Disabled component to use React Hooks. (23917)
• Refactor More block. (23758)
• Remove navigation block styles. (23678)
• Refactor MediaPlaceholder to function component. (23671)
• Remove duplicate selectors. (23466)
• Refactor Tag Cloud block to use React Hooks. (23426)
• Convert PostSavedState to functional component. (23038)
• Types: Improve project setup. (21581)
• Refactor ReusableBlockEditPanel to use hooks (and add type info). (21181)
• Updates text, buttons colors and labels. (23855)

Build Tooling

• Env:

  • Allow wp-env to start without configuration. (23913)
  • Add support for different options in each environment. (22568)

• Build: Use .min.js suffix for bundled JavaScript. (23926)

• Try running the performance tests as a GitHub action. (23818)

• Improve the performance tests setup. (23817)

• Automation:

  • Limit tests to not run on documentation-only changes. (23834)
  • Add paths-ignore **.md for unit tests checks. (23845)
  • Switch workflows to use paths-ignore and **.md. (23843)

Fix action GitHub action workflow YAML syntax errors. (23844)

Various

• Embeds: Remove unsupported core-embed/hulu block. (23984)
• E2E: Remove duplicate blocks in setup file. (23981)
• REST API: Check for WP5.5 and skip registering routes. (23880)
• LinkControl: Extract reusable parts. (23869)
• Updates image size to match columns width. (23854)
• InputControl: Add prefix prop. (23824)
• Block Navigation: Change the visible labels for "Block navigation" to "List view". (23796)
• Site Tagline Block. (23788)
• Image Editor: When editing, pass the edited image src. (23703)
• Replace SEO settings nofollow toggle with rel text widget. (23682)
• Use global registry on the experimental navigation screen. (23675)
• Env: Mark breaking change in changelog. (23776)
• Cancel previous running workflows when a new commit is made. (23587)
• Add title to image and video selection sheets. (23083)
• Site Title: Add support settings for colors, fonts, and line height. (23007)
• Add fix to make inputs of type email return true from isTextField. (21162)
• Full Site Editing: Add a Site Logo block. (18811)