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)
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)
- 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:
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)
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)
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:
- 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)