WordPress/gutenberg v9.8.0-rc.1

9.8.0 RC1

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Enhancements

• Use a semi transparent background for the spacer block when selected. (28103)
• Display matching variation icon in Block Switcher. (27903)

New APIs

• Create Block: Allow using locally installed packages with templates. (28105)
• Create block: Add support for static assets. (28038)
• Compose: Export useIsomorphicLayoutEffect and use it. (28023)

Bug Fixes

• Reusable Blocks:
  • Show an error message when a reusable block has gone missing. (28126)
  • Fix dismiss notice after error. (28015)
• Cover Block:
  • Fix nested cover block bug. (28114)
  • Fix invalid cover block transforms. (28087)
• Fix block error when transforming blocks with Link Popover opened. (28136)
• Fix PHP Notice in navigation-link. (28134)
• Prevent link paste in RichText components in Button and Navigation blocks. (28130)
• Fix floating date status inferred for posts where the status has been edited. (28127)
• BlockSwitcher: Fix crash due to null reference. (28122)
• Verse: Fix line-wrap rendering on front-end of site. (28109)
• FocalPointPicker: Fix rendering and dragging experience. (28096)
• Block Directory: Fix "missing" block when the block can be installed from the directory. (28030)
• Fix locked template not updating when inner blocks template prop changes. (28007)
• Fix editor crash when registering a block pattern without categories. (27970)
• Fix the RTL editor styles and the theme styles option. (27947)
• Don't close the block inserter when clicking the scrollbar or an empty area. (27946)
• Fix AlignmentMatrixControl focus issue. (27945)
• Fix unexpected autosave for published posts. (27942)
• Fix RadioGroup to support zero as a Radio value. (27906)
• Update embed block transforms to permit multiple links to be pasted in a paragraph (#27551). (27746)
• Change the week header and left button style to meet the date spacing. (27730)
• Add aria labels to box control component inputs/button. (27727)
• Use clientWidth when no width is available for cropper. (27687)
• Core Data: Normalize _fields value for use in stableKey. (27526)
• Fix appender margins again. (27392)

Performance

• Components: Expose composite API from Reakit. (28085)
• Improve Inserter block hover performance. (26348)

Experiments

• Full Site Editing Framework:
  • Load content in iframe. (25775)
  • Avoid using auto-drafts for theme templates and template parts. (27910)
    • Delete unused options while upgrading the plugin. (28164)
  • Fix the border radius in the site editor. (27986)
• theme.json:
  • Add border radius to the theme styles schema. (27791)
  • Add theme.json i18n mechanism and JSON file specifying which theme.json paths are translatable. (27380)
  • Add: Save time theme.json escaping. (28061)
• Group Block: Add border radius. (27665)
• Hide the theme without comments.php deprecation message. (28128)
• Fix navigation editor. (28080)
• Widgets: Temporary fix for saving widgets. (28078)
• Decouple query from edit site. (27972)
• Only enable the template mode for viewable post types. (27948)
• Box control units: Ensure custom units are preserved. (27800)
• Navigation Block: Use draft status when user creates a post and don't render unpublished posts in menus. (27207)

Documentation

• Docs: Improve README file for @wordpress/create-block. (28052)
• Create Block: Update the demo included in the README file. (28037)
• Docs: Switch heading to Quick Start for consistency. (28019)
• Docs: A wether, as it turns out, is a castrated ram. (28008)
• Update Quickstart guide for the Development Environment documentation. (28005)
• Update copyright year to 2021 in license.md. (27951)
• Block API: Add more inline comments. (20257)

Code Quality

• Remove effects test file and remove unused refx dependency. (28162)
• Annotations: Replace store name string with exposed store definition. (28156)
• Edit Widgets: Replace store name string with exposed store definition. (28044)
• Interface: Replace store name string with exposed store definition. (28041)
• Upgrade Reakit to version 1.3.4. (28013)
• Fix PHPCS warning: Undefined variable $i. (27955)
• Consolidate block editor initializations. (27954)
• Fix create-block PHP template files according to WordPress standards. (27949)
• block-directory: Simplify the LOAD_ASSETS flow by making it an async function. (25956)

Tools

• Workflows (i.e. GitHub Actions):
  • Create Release Draft when tagging version. (27488)
  • Add action to upload release to SVN repo. (27591)
  • Compare Performance upon Release. (28046)
  • Build Plugin Workflow: Bump node version to 14. (28048)
• End-to-end tests:
  • FSE: Fix intermittent errors in multi entity editing test. (28107)
  • Fix randomly failing end-to-end test. (28073)
  • Upgrade puppeteer to 5.5.0. (28055)
  • Performance tests: Fix. (28026)
• Scripts:
  • Align default engines for check-engines with the package. (28143)
  • Add support for static assets in build commands. (28043)
  • Make it possible to transpile .jsx files with build command. (28002)
  • ESLint minor version upgrade to 7.17.0. (27965)
  • Upgrade Jest to the new major version (26.x). (27956)
  • Use @wordpress/stylelint-config in @wordpress/scripts. (27810)
• Linting:
  • ESLint Plugin: Enable import rules used in Gutenberg. (27387)
  • Add no-unsafe-wp-apis to recommended configuration. (27327)
  • Remove /wordpress from test/linting ignore paths. (20270)
  • Update changelog for stylelint-config. (28074)
• Testing: Prevent a direct usage of Reakit. (28095)
• Update the minimum Node.js version to 12. (27934)
• wp-env: Ensure the environment is used with the logs command. (27907)
• Upgrade webpack to version 5. (26382)
• Revert "Upgrade webpack to version 5". (27974)

Various

• URL: Remove redundant array coercion. (28072)
• Visual editor: Remove focusable wrapper. (28058)
• Readme: Increase tested Version up to WP 5.6. (28050)
• Interface: Remove deprecated prop from InterfaceSkeleton. (28034)
• List View: Reduce whitespace and always show nested blocks. (28029)
• Making the sidebar inspector's tabs stick when scrolling. (28003)
• Chore: Update Lerna dependency. (27990)
• Try: Make focus width a CSS variable. (27968)
• Add translation context to all block's titles. (27933)
• Add primary destructive button style. (27774)
• Modifies the widgets dashboard link to point to the new widgets editor. (26880)
• Use standard select element for small number of authors. (26426)
• Add srcset for cover image. (25171)