WordPress/gutenberg v9.3.0-rc.1

9.3.0 RC1

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Enhancements

• Support for aall units in Font Size presets. (26475)
• Sort post formats alphabetically by translated name. (26305)
• Ensure Alignment options are always rendered in the same order. (26269)
• Buttons block: Overhaul alignment and justification controls. (23168)
• a11y: Retain focus position when tabbing back to the block toolbar. (25760)
• Dark mode UI enhancements. (26483) (26510)
• Social Links: Add Patreon, Telegram, and Tiktok icons. (26118)

Bug Fixes

• Fix Visual regression on the color palette editor. (26614)
• @wordpress/scripts: Fix error in ignore-emit-webpack-plugin. (26591)
• Cover block: Restore default overlay background. (26569) (26625)
• i18n: Fix incorrectly pluralised strings. (26565)
• Limit the editor interface to max-width 100%. (26552)
• Ensure editor footer remains at the bottom of the screen when navigating regions. (26533)
• URLInput: Use debounce() instead of throttle(). (26529)
• Heading Block: Fix double alignment controls in toolbar. (26492)
• Fix Block preview vertical offset. (26487)
• Reusable Blocks: Make the number retrieved from the API unlimited. (26486)
• Fix editor error when an empty reusable block exist. (26484)
• Latest Posts: Add missing classname. (26477)
• Fix single column block display for smaller screens. (26438)
• Turn off autocomplete for ComboboxControl components. (26427)
• Fix parent post selector initial value and search. (26397)
• Fix gallery block undo issue. (26377)
• Fix spellings in Getting Started guide. (26310)
• Fix embed blocks rendering in widget areas. (26307)
• Fix design of color/gradient controls. (26255)
• Fix drop zone indicators for non blocks. (25986)
• Fix left and right alignments for video embeds. (24847)
• Next Page block: Center text properly. (26515)

New APIs

• Allow text buttons in DropdownMenu. (26425)
• Support custom viewportWidth in block previews (example). (26346)
• Change updateSelection property to false for InnerBlocks. (26312)

Experiments

• Full Site Editing :
  • Disable customizer and widgets screens. (26594)
  • Automatically enable FSE experiment. (26500)
  • Remove the demo templates. (26419)
  • Strip post ids from template part blocks on export. (26268)
  • Allow themes to live in a sub directory. (26391)
• Introduce the layout prop to InnerBlocks. (26380)
• Site Editor
  • Add Dropdown to Create Generic Templates. (26284)
  • Prevent inserter overscroll. (26432) (26583)
  • Fix dirty template and template parts on template creation. (26560)
  • Fix composite role warnings triggered by template part previews. (26406)
  • Reduce the Amount of Data Passed Through the Components Tree. (26463)
  • Add the option to convert a template part to regular blocks. (26488)
  • Fix Invisible Template Previews in the Sidebar. (26424)
  • Add convert to template part flow. (20445)
  • Fix custom template part theme meta. (26587)
• Query block:
  • Add initial variations. (26378)
  • Add sticky support. (26279)
• Global Styles:
  • Use block settings on the block panels. (26218)
  • Fix: Font size picker regression on edit site global styles. (26603)
  • Process settings only once. (26330)
• Navigation Component:
  • Add Support for RTL Languages. (26334)
  • Styling revisions. (26338)
  • Fix focus behavior when opening the panel. (26296)
  • Fix height of Navigation panel and make it scrollable. (26187)
  • Search Control in Menu Titles. (25315)
• Use a DropdownMenu for menu selection in the navigation screen. (25390)

Documentation

• Update glossary to include more block based terminology. (26478)
• Update triage documentation for clarity around closing issues and labels. (26480)
• Update WordPress versions document to include 5.6. (26365)
• Typos and tweaks: (26491), (26553), (26437), (26400), (26566).
• Storybook: Fix broken BlockDraggable story. (26457) (26431)

Code Quality

• Remove anonymous components from global styles sidebar. (26604)
• Add types to components:
  • Tip. (26173)
  • BaseControl and VisuallyHidden. (26078)
• Improve @wordpress/I18n types. (26171)
• Migrate to builtin data controls. (25993) (25949) (25773) (25990) (26509) (25772)
• Chore: Ensure WordPress packages share the same hoisted dependencies. (26453)
• Use CSS-in-JS in @wordpress/components:
  • Spinner. (26433)
  • Disabled. (25843)

Build Tooling

• Components: Copy SCSS file from react-dates to components package. (26534)
• webpack: Replace legacy namedChunks/namedModules options with chunkIds/moduleIds. (26502)
• Rewrite sideEffects flags to use only positive patterns. (26452)
• Load the Twenty Twenty-one theme by default in Gutenberg's local environement. (26414)
• Build: Assign the library exports to window.wp rather than this.wp. (26272)
• Move to Dart Sass compiler. (25628)
• Fix composer test failures due to invalid lock. (26472)
• Update node-watch to 0.7.0. (26403)
• Release tool: Support multiple RCs. (25971)
• jest-puppeteer-axe: Migrate to @axe-core/puppeteer. (25659)
• Improve End-to-End tests stability:
  • Fix autosave end-to-end tests. (26416)
  • Fix 'Multi entity saving -> site editor' end-to-end failures. (26371)
  • Fix Twenty Twenty One related end-to-end test failures. (26341)
  • Fix demo test by disabling the welcome dialog. (26314)
  • Disable BlockPreviews from axe-core tests. (26527)
  • Site editor: Fix end-to-end tests navigation panel. (26454)
  • Consolidate sequential multi-entity-saving tests. (26373)
  • Make the adding patterns test stable. (26345)

Various

• Create Block: Update the list of categories to pick from. (26448)
• Removes extra fullstop from preferences. (26586)
• @wordpress/scripts: Configure all the tools to skip vendor folder. (26450)