Features
- Add Keyboard Input inline format. (26801)
- Add Block variations transformations. (26687)
- Add width selector for button block. (25999) (26781).
- Add font size support to the List block. (26257)
- Social Links: Add ability to change social icon sizes. (25921)
Enhancements
- Unify the inserter search UI. (26595)
- Polish custom select menu styles. (26956)
- Polish menu item styles. (26889) (26720) (25218) (26572)
- Polish the link interface. (26551)
- Code & Preformatted Blocks: Delete on backspace if empty. (26605)
- File Block: Move the URL button to the Block toolbar. (26602)
- Allow adding a header by typing /h1, /h2 etc. (26597)
- Polish Shortcode block styling. (26456)
- Polish Search block styling. (26446)
- Use a wider canvas for themes that don't provide a custom width. (26357)
- Show reduced UI on hover. (26882)
- Update Legacy Widget toolbar button font to match UI when displayed in Widget Screen. (26841)
- Update token field icon. (26726)
- Windows 10 high contrast mode improvements. (26567)
New APIs
- Create block: Add support for external templates installed from npm. (23712)
- Add optional icon to snackbar notices. (26907)
- @wordpress/env: Add support for custom WP_HOME port. (26507)
- @wordpress/lazy-import: Allow importing local paths. (23751)
- Format library: Introduce useAnchorRef. (26782)
Bug Fixes
- Fix block context injection hook after Core change in block rendering. (26998) (27011)
- Fix Query block's Toolbar popover width. (26992)
- Fix IE11 interface bugs. (26944)
- Improve arrow navigation between blocks. (26921)
- Fix block alignments when theme styles are disabled. (26912) (26680) (26376)
- Fix padding of text-only buttons mode. (26769)
- Fix horizontal mover icon position. (26761)
- Fix column width units. (26757)
- FormTokenField input position when typing. (26741)
- Fix applying colors to outlined buttons. (26707) (24626)
- Render big font sizes properly in the font size picker. (26705)
- Use currentColor in quote blocks to better support dark themes. (26684)
- Fix "Browse All" in Quick Inserter for container blocks. (26443)
- Fix responsive embeds in the widget screen. (26263)
- Fix undefined index notice in Social Link Block. (25663)
- Buttons block: Fix default alignment icon in toolbar to reflect the actual default alignment of buttons. (26910)
- Block Support: Fix font size style when applying block support. (26762)
- Do not invalidate the entity record cache during optimistic update in saveEntityRecord. (26627)
- Provide a minimum of code wrapping for the code block. (26623)
Experiments
- Full Site Editing Framework: Rework templates and template parts synchronization. (26650) (26383)
- Full Site Editing Blocks:
- Post Excerpt block: Allow editing of generated excerpts. (26637)
- Post Excerpt block: Add missing closing div tag. (26806)
- Add wide and full alignment options to the post/site title blocks. (26601)
- Template Part block: Render preview as div. (26873)
- Post Taxonomies: Fix PHP Fatal erroor for unregistered taxonomy (#26851). (26854)
- PostAuthor: Safeguard to wait for authors to load. (26776)
- Query block: Update the order of settings and filters in the sidebar. (26647)
- Site Editor:
- Fix responsiveness. (26021)
- Fix alignment of the new template button. (26934)
- Add default block widths styles. (26853)
- Refactor menu creation code. (26966)
- Only show auto-draft template parts corresponding to current theme. (26948)
- Polish the template navigation menu. (26933), (26930).
- Add navigation panel back button slot. (26846)
- Remove dashboard button focus on mount. (26845)
- Saving flow: Use template and template parts entities titles. (26708) (26653)
- Reorder template creation dropdown. (26610)
- Global styles:
- Fallback to theme color pallete. (26783) (26786)
- Hide Block panels without content. (26609)
- Update styles to rely on CSS variables for colors and gradients. (26319)
- Fix Table block global styles selector. (26973)
- Hide the line height panel if disabled in theme.json file. (26778)
- Cache generated styles. (25680)
- Add: Mechanism to detect if a block instance matches a global styles selector. (26945) (26991)
- Extract theme json processor. (26803)
- Add support for line height at the global level. (26767)
- Add preset classes generation on the client side. (26224)
- Navigation block: Fix color support declaration. (26928)
- Popover: Add sticky boundary element prop. (26728)
- Block Support:
Performance
- Use 2-pass terser compression. (24821)
- Memoize getEntityRecords to prevent infinite re-renders. (26447)
- Resolve per-entity resolvers after receiving a list of records. (26575)
Documentation
- Update theme.json documentation with new properties added. (26891)
- Interface: Add deprecation logic for leftSidebar prop. (26826)
- Document the block supports style properties. (26771) (26931) (26859)
- Update testing documentation with info about React Testing Library. (23015)
- Add documentation for AutosaveMonitor. (26663)
- Typos and tweaks: (26797), (26796), (26795), (26794), (26793), (26792), (26791), (26790), (21607), (27017), (26919), (26863), (26857), (26618), (26029), (25349), (17878), (16090), (26799), (26765), (26654).
Code Quality
- Use date-fns and date-fns-tz instead of moment. (25782) (27002)
- is-shallow-equal: Convert to ESM. (26833)
- Minor code refactoring in template part previews. (26949)
- Drop zone: Rewrite with hooks and simplify. (26893)
- PostTitle: Rewrite with hooks (+ avoid globals). (26820)
- Avoid relying on a the global document. (26834) (26814) (26813) (26657)
- Format library: Use hooks for all components. (26779)
- Sandbox: Use hooks and avoid withGlobalEvents. (26742)
- Draggable: Use hooks and prepare for iframe. (26897)
- PostLockedModal: Use hooks and avoid withGlobalEvents. (26743)
- WpEmbedPreview: Use hooks and avoid withGlobalEvents. (26740)
- FocusableIframe: Use hooks and avoid withGlobalEvents. (26737)
- Navigation Component: Update styles to reference grid spacing helper. (26523)
- Hooks: Type package. (26430)
- Deprecated: Type package. (26429)
- Movers: Small positioning refactor. (26353)
- Use useAnimate for all Animate component usage. (26201)
- Gallery block: Use API v2. (26145)
- Gallery: Remove obsolete deprecation entry. (26736)
- Cleanup: (24831), (23598), (27000).
- Remove
useMemoin Query inspector controls. (26658)
Build Tooling
- Add eslint rule to warn against using globals for addEventListener. (26810)
- Update workflows to use Node 14.x. (26835)
- Add command to format PHP files. (26850)
- Build Tooling: Rebuild stylesheets when imported styles are modified. (26649)
- Fix GH actions "cancel" step. (27025)
- Run assign fixed issues and first time contributor label tasks for PRs from forks. (26876)
- Update .nvmrc to use latest LTS. (26855)
- Update nodegit to 0.27.0 in @wordpress/env. (26712)
- Tests: Add fixture for Column deprecation. (26774)
- Store screenshots of CI end-to-end failures as CI artifacts. (26664) (26957)
- End 2 End Tests:
- Fix improper assertion in template-part.test. (26709)
- Fix RTL end-to-end tests. (26508)
- Add regresion end-to-end test for the empty reusable block causing WSODs issue. (26913)
- Add block drag and drop test. (26869) (26904)
- Add Delete on backspace from empty code/preformatted blocks test. (26972)
- Merge end-to-end test relying on order into one. (26883)
- Add template part conversion end-to-end tests. (26788)
- Make the allowed blocks test more stable. (26631)
- Add end-to-end test utils to install and activate themes. (23685)
Various
- TextControl: Support forwarding refs. (26209)
- Update gutenberg_is_fse_theme function to make it filterable. (27021)
- Windows: Use wp-env instead of file location. (26671)
- Site Editor: Rename left sidebar → secondary sidebar. (26517)
- Add State locks for concurrency control to @wordpress/core-data. (26389) (26661)
- Avoid PHP warnings when Gutenberg plugin folder isn't writable. (17671)