WordPress/gutenberg v8.9.0-rc.1

8.9.0 RC1

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Features

• Widgets: Remove experimental flag, enable for themes that have not opted out. (24843), (24087)
• Add character count to info panel. (24823)
• Add option for adding link in featured image [ Latest Posts block ]. (24548)
• List block: Add color controls. (21387)

Enhancements

• Disable tools while code editor mode is enabled. (24923)
• Add picture keyword in Image block. (24755)
• Adding a maximum height to the preview of the long blocks. (24493)
• Add "read more" keyword to the more block. (24794)
• Improve the UX of wp_inactive_widgets 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)
• CustomGradientPicker: Update Type and Angle controls. (23802)
• Adds suggestions for categories and formats to LinkControl. (22600)
• Change font size label from Preset size. (24619)

Bug Fixes

• Disabled component infinite loop for a elements. (24935)
• wp-env start for non-english core sources. (24884)
• Invalid HTML structure on the widgets screen. (24866)
• RadioGroup component example in its readme. (24857)
• Typo in removeNotice. (24811)
• Navigation block styles regression. (24763)
• Style flickering caused by the block preview border. (24739)
• Don't use an offset when dragging using a draggable chip. (24707)
• Warning on text color formatter. (24686)
• Styling of image alignment controls in the Latest posts block. (24655)
• Make sure the template-part exists before using it. (24648)
• Navigation: Fix invalid textarea markup. (24641)
• Improve the focus state of the form token remove button. (24632)
• Crash after undoing with the top toolbar on. (24629)
• Double border on metabox panel. (24627)
• Inline text-color regex edge-case issue when color slug ends with '-color'. (24621)
• Fix inserter z-index. (24614)
• Missing selected block highlighting in the list view. (24609)
• Pullquote text color after unsetting main color. (24600)
• Specificity for buttons with outline style and background colors. (24599)
• Allow local Prettier configuration to take precedence in the recommended ESLint configuration. (24590)
• Remove references to $default-font from front-facing styles. (24567)
• Block Variations: Center-align the variation buttons. (24547)
• Regression bug for category select in QueryControls component. (24516)
• Image Block: Alt and caption written during image upload are discarded. (24471)
• Correct the Unicode character used to represent the macOS Control key. (24452)
• Corrected PHP error in lib/block-supports/align.php & other undefined $block_type->supports instances. (24411)
• Fix admin-theme colors in the canvas. (24408)
• Added a min length of 3 and per_page to 20 to avoid infinite queries. (23841)
• Inserting a tag with Apostrophe throws an error. (21693)
• Trash alignment. (24889)
• Enable back dropCap for paragraph. (24932)
• Make legacy widgets preview work with non-class-based widgets. (24861)
• Inserter: Add missing placeholder to Quick Inserter. (24802)
• Save function-based widgets. (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)
• 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

• Create unstable selectors for getting all controlled inner blocks. (24835)
• Core Data: Implement _fields data reuse for entities. (19498)
• Preload widgets on the widgets screen. (24855)
• Only request three fields: Id, title and parent to populate the Parent page select list. (23637)

Experiments

• Add Post Comment block. (24781)
• Add Post Comment Date block. (24854)
• Add "Post Comment Author" block. (24824)
• Add Post Hierarchical Terms Block. (24091)
• Migrate existing theme supports to configure the editor to theme.json configs. (24761)
• [Feature] Alert when trying to leave the Site Editor with unsaved changes. (24659)
• Rename features.colors to features.color. (24933)
• Navigation: Add Post, Page, Category and Tag variations to Link. (24670)
• Add block inspector to nav screen. (24669)
• Update Template Part Block Placeholder Button Styles. (24633)
• Adds icons and descriptions to Post blocks. (24603)
• Navigation screen: Add opt-in Navigation block rendering. (24503)
• Template Part block - add border states in editor. (24498)
• Support drag-and-drop for submenus of navigation blocks. (24479)
• useEditorFeature: Take block context into account. (24416)
• Make Site-Title a link. (24725)

Documentation

• Add readme to some components
  • Block inspector. (24929)
  • Block mover. (24851)
  • Block breadcrumb. (24827)
• Update tutorial Creating a block-based theme. (24736)
• Correct BoxControl values in readme examples. (24717)
• Fixed typo in Create a Block Tutorial. (24695)
• Inline docs: $block_type is an object, not an array. (24650)
• Add ToggleControl at related components section in FormToggle documentation. (24636)
• Grammar: Add comma to (1A). (24628)
• Improve native editor installing instructions. (24553)

Code Quality

• Keep the default CSS variables for npm consumers. (24890)
• Turn WordCount into a functional component. (24850)
• Refactor BlockMover to use React hooks. (24774)
• Unify UnsavedChangesWarning's isDirty check. (24719)
• Refactor and move drag and drop geometry code. (24715)
• Add unit tests for edit-navigation store. (24681)
• Only update state if we have a valid reference. (24496)
• Remove hardcoded colors from nav block. (24462)
• 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)
• UnsavedChangesWarning: Turn into functional component. (24783)
• Restore Site Title's Level toolbar and remove obsolete code. (24758)
• 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)
• Content is in the content attr for the classic block (#24569). (24602)
• Convert all px values in front-facing styles to relative (em) units. (24523)

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)