WordPress/gutenberg v9.6.0

9.6.0

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Features

• Allow dragging blocks from the inserter into the canvas. (27669)
• Buttons: Add variations for vertical layout. (27297)

Enhancements

• Buttons block: Change position of the link popover. (27408)

New APIs

• Add a useFocusOnMount hook to the @wordpress/compose package. (27574)
• Add a useFocusReturn hook. (27572)
• Add a useConstrainedTabbing hook. (27544)
• Components: Introduce a isDisabled prop to the Disabled component. (26730)
• Create block:
  • Use Block API version 2. (26098)
  • Fix for supporting external templates. (27784) (27776)

Bug Fixes

• Widget screen: Fix block select on focus. (27755)
• Embed block: Add html and reusable support back. (27733)
• Add useCallbackRef to avoid calling the ref multiple times with the same node. (27710)
• Correct getRedistributedColumnWidths and related tests. (27681)
• Remove CSS Custom Property in code block. (27672)
• Fix regression on code block for font-size property (27862)
• Block crashes if font family is not found. (27654)
• Popover flickering on small screens. (27648)
• Adding single use block from main inserter causes focus loss and menu to be stuck open. (27641)
• Changelog for 9.5.2. (27638)
• Uncaught error with a custom generic store without a unsubscribe function in useSelect. (27634)
• Revert date changes from branch 'replace-moment'. (27550)
• useMediaQuery: Make it safe for SSR environments without window. (27542)
• Fixes the width on the circle color picker popover. (27523)
• ComboboxControl/FormTokenField: Fix iOS zooming for input. (27471)
• Fallback to regular subscribe if the store doesn't exist in useSelect. (27466)
• Global Styles getPresetVariable uses a wrong variable; Remove GLOBAL_CONTEXT. (27450)
• Popover: Fix issue with undefined getBoundingClientRect. (27445)
• Try fixing combobox a11y issues. (27431)
• Support gradients with omitted stop positions in CustomGradientPicker. (27413)
• Fix combobox suggestion list closure when clicking scrollbar. (27367)
• Video Block: Let the video fill the container. (27328)
• Media & Text “crop image to fill” to work with linked media. (27211)
• Give editable fields in blocks better aria-labels. (26582)
• Replace function should handle empty string callback return in the shortcode parser. (16358)

Performance

• Split core blocks assets loading. (25220)

Experiments

• Add a useDialog hook and replace the duplicated PopoverWrapper. (27643)
• Refactor withFocusOutside to hook. (27369)
• FSE: Block Navigation: update Navigation block placeholder. (27018)
• FSE: Block Query
  • Add new post link to Query. (27732)
  • Allow Query Loop only inside Query block. (27637)
  • Adjust mobile margins for the Query block's grid view. (27619)
  • Query block: Allow inheriting the global query arguments. (27128)
• FSE: Blocks
  • Add comment-form block styles. (27673)
  • Tag Cloud block: Adjust styles for the different block alignments. (27342)
  • Site Logo:
    • Remove line height. (27623)
    • Add a rounded block style. (27621)
• FSE: Infrastructure
  • Apply hover class in outline mode. (27714)
  • Update documentation to show how a theme can have FSE automatically enabled. (27680)
  • Make the inserter in the site editor behave as a popover. (27502)
  • Add an outline mode and use it both Site Editor and Template mode. (27499)
  • Load the block patterns in the site editor. (27497)
  • Move the templates prePersist logic to core-data. (27464)
  • Expand the multi-entity saving panel by default. (27437)
  • Reveal block boundaries on hover in the Site Editor. (27271)
  • Site Editor - add query args for current context. (27124)
  • Full Site Editing: Introduce a template editing mode inside the post editor. (26355)
  • Remove optimistic updates to solve the template revert issue (27797)
• FSE: Style System
  • Fix: Font Weight and Style don't work independently on global styles. (27659)
  • Add custom units in BoxControl. (27626)
  • Remove Font style, weight, decoration, and transform presets. (27555)
  • Make client preset metadata match server. (27453)
  • Do not pass selectors and supports information to the client. (27449)
  • Add border radius support. (25791)
  • Update font-weight names. (27718)
  • Update performance of global styles code (27779)

Documentation

• Add missing dependency to code example. (27742)
• Precise that element ref returned by the hooks that return a ref can change between function or object. (27610)
• Add escaping functions to code examples. (27603)
• Add missing @wordpress/components/CHANGELOG.md entry. (27576)
• Minor changes to release documentation for clarity. (27571)
• Capitalize JavaScript in accordance with the word mark. (27539)
• Fix typo in attributes.md. (27440)
• Try: Update readme screenshot. (27223)
• Document the useBlockWrapper hook in the block registration documentation. (26592)
• Add a document explaining the different block API versions. (26277)
• Update the registration examples to use apiVersion 2. (26100)

Code Quality

• Remove: Missed unused weights and style translation code. (27739)
• useDialog: Remove mousedown propagation stopping. (27725)
• Try: Simplify focus return. (27705)
• Popover/Modal: Remove and deprecate IsolatedEventContainer. (27703)
• Popover: Use focus outside hook. (27700)
• refactor: Tooltip component from classical to functional with hooks. (27682)
• Template-part padding: Use variables. (27679)
• Scope image block style variations to only the image block. (27649)
• Refactor the EditorProvider component and extract hooks. (27605)
• Use store definition instead of string for notices packages. (27548)
• Merge RootContainer with BlockList. (27531)
• Block wrapper: Isolate functionality into smaller hooks. (27503)
• Writing flow: Consider events only from DOM descendents. (27489)
• Writing flow: Isolate multi select focus element. (27482)
• Multi selection: Move hook to WritingFlow with other multi selection logic. (27479)
• Insertion indicator: Render after last block if none is specified. (27472)
• Rewrite selection clearer in Block editor. (27468)
• Move block focus listener to block props hook. (27463)
• Block editor: Refactor effect.js to controls. (27298)
• Animate: Type getAnimateClassName. (27123)
• Refactor image block's image editing tools into separate components. (27089)
• Drop zone provider: Option to avoid wrapper element. (27079)
• Audit variables stylesheet. (26827)
• Group block padding: Use variables. (27676)

Tools

• Release script: Set draft status, and only remove after uploading asset. (27713)
• CI: Run date test timezone and locale variations using bash script. (27600)
• Upgrade Babel packages to 7.12.x. (27553)
• CI: Run package/date unit tests in different timezones. (27552)
• Avoid cancelling other end-to-end test jobs when one fails. (27541)
• Add webpack 5 support to dependency-extraction-webpack-plugin. (27533)
• Add GitHub support document. (27524)
• Stabilize adding blocks end to end test. (27493)
• GitHub Actions: Use a build matrix for the end-to-end tests GH action. (27487)
• Packages: Make it possible to select minimum version bump for publishing. (27459)
• Upgrade wp-prettier to 2.2.1. (27441)
• Testing: Make image size test more stable. (27439)
• Packages: Improve the script that automates version bumps. (27436)
• CI: Update bundle size workflow to use the latest version. (27435)
• wp-env: Xdebug support. (27346)
• Make zip-based URL parsing more general. (27019)
• Add inserter performance measures. (26634)

Various

• Verse Block:
  • Add support for custom padding. (27341)
  • Add support for font family. (27332)
  • Add support for font size. (27735)
  • Update CSS for frontend and editor. (27734)
• Popover: Use a11y hooks instead of HoCs. (27707)
• Refactor focus on mount. (27699)
• Search block: Use em values for padding. (27678)
• Button: Is-busy state candybar animation fixed. (27592)
• Preformatted block: Add support for font sizes. (27584)
• Remove autoFocus prop from URLInput and from the inserter search form. (27578)
• Package lock: Update ws. (27532)
• Update block-patterns.md. (27520)
• Update wp-env codeowners. (27491)
• Update the backup icon to better align with WordPress icon package dna. (27465)
• Update the rich text control titles to sentence case structure. (27447)
• Search Block: Remove the button only option from the UI. (27379)
• Add icons for template parts. (27378)
• Increase radio dimensions to match checkboxes. (27377)
• Adjusts settings modal height to 90%. (27362)
• Change the Labels of the Vertical Align options. (27356)
• Add element selector to template-part block. (27101)
• Add explicit dismiss button and on dismiss callback to snackbar. (26952)
• Make social list block align right able on published page & preview. (26861)
• Update media-text focalPoint conditional rendering. (25968)
• Remove default icon from PluginBlockSettingsMenuItem. (21392)
• Add example preview to video block. (20703)