Features
- Enable the block-based widgets screen. (24843), (24087)
- Add character count to the info panel. (24823)
- Latest Post Block: Allow adding links to featured images. (24548)
- List block: Add color controls. (21387)
Enhancements
- Disable the tools menu while the code editor is enabled. (24923)
- Add picture keyword to the Image block. (24755)
- Adding a maximum height to the long blocks previews. (24493)
- Add "read more" keyword to the More block. (24794)
- Improve the UX of inactive widgets area on the widgets screen. (24790)
- Trim whitespace from rendered widgets. (24789)
- Block Directory: Explicitly close the inserter on block add. (24709)
- Make strings translatable in block patterns. (24647)
- Improve the UI of the custom gradient pickers. (23802)
- Adds suggestions for categories and formats to link controls. (22600)
- Clarify the font size control label. (24619)
- Convert all
pxvalues in front-facing styles to relative (em) units. (24523)
Bug Fixes
- Fix infinite loop in the Disabled component. (24935)
- Fix wp-env start for non-english WordPress core sources. (24884)
- Invalid HTML structure on the widgets screen. (24866)
- Fix sidebar flickering caused by the block preview border. (24739)
- Don't use an offset when dragging using a draggable chip. (24707)
- Fix Image alignment controls styles in the Latest posts block. (24655)
- Improve the focus state of the tags control remove button. (24632)
- Fix Crash after undoing with the top toolbar on. (24629)
- Avoid double borders on the meta boxes panels. (24627)
- Fix Inline text-color regex edge-case. (24621)
- Fix inserter z-index. (24614)
- Missing selected block highlighting in the list view. (24609)
- Fix the Pullquote block text color after unsetting the main color. (24600)
- Fix style specificity for Button blocks with outline style and background colors. (24599)
- Remove references to
$default-fontfrom front-facing styles. (24567) - Center-align the block variations buttons. (24547)
- Fix category select in QueryControls component. (24516)
- Image Block: Prevent Alt and caption written during image upload from being discarded. (24471)
- Correct the Unicode character used to represent the macOS Control key. (24452)
- Fix undefined $block_type->supports PHP error. (24411)
- Fix admin-theme colors in the editor canvas. (24408)
- Limit the number of fetched tags to avoid infinite queries. (23841)
- Fix error when inserting a tag with an apostrophe. (21693)
- Fix the alignment of the trash post button. (24889)
- Make legacy widgets support for non-class-based widgets. (24861) (24792)
- Remove WP_Widget_Block from the legacy dropdown list. (24787)
- Fix isSavingWidgetAreas selector. (24788)
- Inserter: Update the search form placeholder text when changing tabs. (24697) (24802)
- Avoid lossy HTML entities encoding by setting charset. (24645)
- Embeds: Don't transform into specialized embed block variation if it's not registered. (24559)
Performance
-
Fix getBlocks selector performance issues causing typing lags on Gutenberg 8.8.0. (24835)
-
Preload widgets on the widgets screen. (24855)
-
Only request the required fields to populate the parent page list. (23637)
New APIs
- Core Data: Implement
_fieldsdata reuse for entities. (19498)
Experiments
- Site Editing: Blocks
- Add Post Comment block. (24781)
- Add Post Comment Date block. (24854)
- Add Post Comment Author block. (24824)
- Add Post Hierarchical Terms Block. (24091)
- Adds icons and descriptions to Post blocks. (24603)
- Make Site title block render a link. (24725)
- Add heading level toolbar to the Site title block. (24758)
- Site Editing: UI
- Alert when trying to leave the Site Editor with unsaved changes. (24659) (24719)
- Update Template Part Block Placeholder Button Styles. (24633)
- Template Part block - add border states in the editor. (24498)
- Global Styles and theme.json APIs:
- Navigation block and screen:
- Add Post, Page, Category and Tag variations to Link. (24670)
- Add block inspector to nav screen. (24669)
- Add opt-in Navigation block rendering. (24503)
- Support drag-and-drop for submenus of navigation blocks. (24479)
- Fix invalid textarea markup. (24641)
- Add unit tests for edit-navigation store. (24681)
Documentation
- Document Cmponents
- Update tutorial Creating a block-based theme. (24736)
- Correct BoxControl values in readme examples. (24717)
- Add ToggleControl at related components section in FormToggle documentation. (24636)
- Typos and tweaks: (24857), (24811), (24695), (24650), (24628).
Code Quality
- Keep the default color CSS variables for npm package consumers. (24890)
- Refactor components as functional components:
- Refactor and move drag and drop geometry code. (24715)
- Only update state if we have a valid reference. (24496)
- Add state for storing dragged block client ids to block-editor store. (24782)
- Remove commented-out blank line. (24858)
- Simplify gutenberg_widgets_init when $hook === 'widgets.php'. (24793)
- Refactor block drop event handlers into a single hook to support drag and drop in List View. (24649)
- Move DOM utility functions from @wordpress/blocks to @wordpress/dom. (24618)
- Fix React warning on text color formatter. (24686)
Build Tooling
- Update package lock file. (24815)
- Update the minimum version and the tested up to flag of the Gutenberg plugin. (24693)
- Build: Make the watch rate slower to avoid using a lot of CPU while developing. (23998)
- Fix Performance Tests on CI. (24925)
- Add tests for slashing behavior. (24785)
- Add permissions PHPUnit tests. (24784)
- Update browserlist dependency. (24756)
- Allow local Prettier configuration to take precedence in the recommended ESLint configuration. (24590)