WordPress/gutenberg v9.7.0

9.7.0

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Features

• Support drag and dropping block patterns from the inserter. (27927)

Enhancements

• Improve the Reusable Blocks UI by relying on multi entity save flow. (27887) (27885)
• Show the insertion point indicator bellow the inbetween inserter. (27842)
• Add block transforms previews. (27861)
• URL: RemoveQueryArgs should remove the ? char after removing all args. (27812)
• Deburr the input of the Post Author and Parent Page controls when filitering results. (26611)
• Display block icon, description and name by matching block variations. (27469)
• RSS Block: Add an explicit border-box CSS rule. (27767)

New APIs

• Create block: Allow to list npm packages to be installed in the template. (27880)
• @wordpress/url: Add a maxLength argument to filterURLForDisplay. (27530)
• Add new package @wordpress/stylelint config. (22777)

Bug Fixes

• Show all taxonomies in Tag Cloud block. (27930)
• HTML Block: Fix editor styles. (27627)
• Don't ignore extra edits made in the server when saving posts. (27929)
• Remove the animation of post publish button during autosaving. (27874)
• Prevent the inserter from closing when switching the pattern category. (27792)
• LinkControl: Fix horizontal scrollbar within block toolbar. (27777)
• Create Block: Fix support for external templates. (27776) (27784)
• Fix text color dropdown not opening. (27596)

Experiments

• Full Site Editing Framework:
  • Add support for custom templates in FSE themes. (27778)
  • Refactor the edit-site store to clarify the purpose of templateId and templatePartId. (27839)
• Full Site Editing Blocks:
  • Site Logo: Remove duplicate link. (27924)
  • Post excerpt block: Fix incorrect quotes for the class attribute in the wrapper. (27895)
• Global Styles:
  • Add padding control to the Global Styles sidebar. (27154)
• Navigation block: Fix the text color for links in the navigation block. (26698)

Documentation

• Improve documentation for withNotices HOC in components package. (27863)
• Add ContrastChecker component readme. (25570)
• Remove default style information from the documentation. (27811)
• Storybook: Fix broken import statements for DateTime component. (27794)
• Add additional information about lock inheritance. (27834)
• Typos andd tweaks: (27909), (27799)

Code Quality

• Use a consistent way to check isRTL. (27838)
• Update the minimum required WordPress version to 5.5. (27807)
• Remove unused redux-optimist dependency. (27798)
• Storybook: Perform cleanup in the Storybook setup. (27786) (27813)
• Raw handling: Remove duplicate code. (27758)
• Refactor BlockSwitcher as a functional component. (27674)
• Rich Text: Replace store name string with exposed store definition. (27820)

Tools

• Remove overrides for JSDoc rules downgraded to warnings. (27912) (27879)
• Plugin release tool: Fix svn add/rm commands for release tool. (27886)
• Add types to the @wordpress/keycodes package. (19520)
• end to end tests:
  • Make end to end tests do not rely on font size picker classes. (27825)
  • Remove expect.assertions count from multi-entity-saving tests. (27802) (27818)
  • Testing: Remove axe verification executed after every test case. (26626)
  • Improve font size end to end tests to work with input changes on blur. (27871)