WordPress/gutenberg v9.9.0

9.9.0

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Enhancements

• Try more muted sibling inserter. (28550)
• Make sure toggleProps doesn't replace important props on ToolbarGroup. (28401)
• Improve visual clarity of reusable block. (28318)
• Dark Theme Support: Allow for theme modifications. (28233)
• Add disabled support in ToggleControl and FormToggle. (28228)
• Show the spacer block background on hover. (28129)
• Social Icons: Add icon & background color options. (28084)
• Support both horizontal and vertical in-between inserters. (27860)
• Image Block: Add border radius support. (27667)
• Overlay on disabled elements, to catch events and show tooltips. (27529)
• Try: System font for vanilla editor styles. (26822)
• Only consider legal block types for the block list when transforming files to blocks. (26816)

New APIs

• Block API: Allow overriding the category for block variations. (28482)
• Create Block: Add optional support for wp-env. (28234)
• Make i18n functions filter their return values. (27966)

Breaking Change

The format of the experimental-theme.json has been updated as per

• Split global block selector into root and defaults. (28533)
• Make settings and style top-level keys. (28110)

Before:

{
  "global": {
    "settings": { ... },
    "styles": { ... }
  },
  "core/paragraph": {
    "settings": { ... },
    "styles": { ... }
  }
}

After:

{
  "settings": {
    "defaults": { ... },
    "root": { ... },
    "core/paragraph": { ... }
  },
  "styles": {
    "root": { ... },
    "core/paragraph": { ... }
  }
}

Bug Fixes

• Fix sibling inserter color. (28579)
• Fix issues causing the cover block to black out with a fixed background. (28565)
• Fix site editor pins. (28547)
• Resolve issue where insertion point is in incorrect position after changing block selection. (28542)
• Components: Fix truncate export. (28527)
• Pinned items regression followup. (28526)
• Fix regression with pinned plugin items on mobile. (28521)
• Fix margins and width of 100%-width buttons. (28467)
• Fix regression caused by #28395. (28462)
• Fix aborted rendering of non-nested reusable blocks. (28461)
• Show insertion point after the last block in a container. (28418)
• Reusable blocks: Prevent infinite recursion. (28405)
• Fix block inserter automatic reorder. (28392)
• Create Block: Extract the package name from the template value. (28383)
• Fix handling of raw transforms that return multiple blocks. (28371)
• Fix repeated backgrounds with transparent images. (28362)
• Ensure inline image width popover doesn't appear over media library modal. (28333)
• Fix bad var name in BlockParentSelector. (28325)
• Fix repeated backgrounds for cover srcset. (28310)
• Simple wording fix. (28288)
• Fix allowedFormats in RichText component. (28282)
• Fix file formatting for end-to-end test plugin. (28266)
• Fix backwards compatibility issue with Inline Image format. (28223)
• Inserter: Fix left padding on Block Pattern Inserter dropdown. (28150)
• Fix toolbar keyboard navigation after pressing alt+F10. (28068)
• Image Block: Update linkDestination when editing image link URL. (27801)
• Fix for: [Interface Skeleton] Limit the editor width to prevent some blocks to grow infinitely wide. (27695)
• Button component: Add margin around the dash icon. (27461)
• Fix issue where resetBlocks can result in an incorrect block selection. (21598)
• Fix Cover block position. (28653)
• Add minHeightUnit to latest core/cover deprecation. (28627)

Experiments

• Try: Fix menu item word wrap. (28516)
• Fix URL cutoff. (28515)
• Mark Post Comments Warning as block. (28511)
• Add widget id to blocks in the widgets screen. (28379)
• Remove new navigation block features in the navigation editor. (28378)
• Full Site Editing: Update theme attribute injection and removal. (28368)
• Template Part - fix labels shown - use title instead of slug. (28330)
• Root element & border radius. (28320)
• FSE: Parse the template before gets rendered. (28319)
• Site Editor: Use correct title property in snackbar after inserting Template Part. (28306)
• Edit Site: Fix templates export. (28292)
• Hide query block toolbar settings if query is inherited. (28290)
• Site Editor: Add template part missing state. (28277)
• Site Editor: Hide resize handle. (28272)
• Fix save, undo and redo keyboard shortcuts in navigation editor. (28257)
• Fix template part border states. (28241)
• Fix entity spotlight system. (28239)
• Fix the nav menu justify controls menu style. (28222)
• Polish the appender focus style. (28219)
• Core Data: Add __experimentalBatch(). (28210)
• Post Title block: Add placeholder state. (28198)
• Fix navigation editor error. (28190)
• Try: Allow space between on menu items. (28169)
• Query pagination with InnerBlocks. (28125)
• Template Parts: Fix loading issue. (28088)
• Add support for border configuration via theme.json. (28049)
• [Widgets screen] Fix categorization not showing in the global inserter. (28036)
• Update the layout of the title in the top bar while template editing. (27845)
• Expose group/ungroup buttons in site editor. (27611)
• Disable alignment for innerBlocks of Nav Block. (27365)
• Add thunk actions to replace rungen and controls. (27276)
• Navigation Block: Placeholder empty state. (26947)
• Open dropdown before focus on submenu item. (25322)

Documentation

• Docs: Add new page for i18n filters. (28553)
• Docs: Update list of core block categories. (28483)
• Fixed gramatical error. (28452)
• Update the main readme with the current Gutenberg project phase. (28359)
• Docs: Update links used in the developer portal. (28354)
• Docs: Update links to reference HEAD instead of a specific branch. (28331)
• Docs: Fix supports color gradient(s). (28328)
• Chore: Add changelog for 28231. (28232)
• Block Card: Update readme. (28226)
• Improve the intro page of the Block Editor Handbook. (28142)
• Update documentation to use allowedFormats instead of the deprecated formattingControls. (25639)

Code Quality

• Try: Polish block menu and show only fills when available. (28486)
• Rename some template part icons. (28458)
• Block Editor: Add hook: UseNoRecursiveRenders. (28428)
• Coding Standards: Fix PHPCS warnings. (28343)
• Change the way RTL styles get enqueued. (28274)
• Remove code no longer necessary. (28188)
• Update/simplify case transforms. (28171)
• Fix non static method WP_Block_Parser::Freeform called statically. (28017)
• Refactor out CSS gradient from custom-gradient-bar. (27936)

Tools

• Dependencies: Upgrade TypeScript. (28586)
• ESLint Plugin: Add missing eslint-plugin-import dependency. (28545)
• Wp-env: Add MySQL port info to start logs. (28441)
• Run the load time indicator computation multiple times. (28419)
• Don't add default-custom-properties styles to all compiled files. (28395)
• Fix typewriter test by using mouse.wheel and waiting for scroll. (28376)
• Fix end-to-end tests in widgets screen. (28375)
• Replace deprecated waitFor in end-to-end tests. (28360)
• Improve robustness of nav screen test. (28344)
• Preferences modal redesign. (28329)
• Site Editor: Add end-to-end tests for templates export. (28324)
• Site Editor: Add unit test for site templates export. (28323)
• Fix widgets screen end-to-end tests. (28264)
• Add more tests for processing theme.json logic. (28202)
• Update nosolosw notifs. (28189)
• Remove @talldan from some codeowners paths. (28182)
• Add stale issue workflow for issues with need info requested. (28179)
• Custom script distclean to remove node_modules of all packages. (28177)
• Add some basic end-to-end tests for the widgets screen. (28160)
• Testing: Add CI workflow covering Node.js 12. (28139)
• wp-env: Fix upload directory conflict in phpunit service. (28120)
• Update issue templates. (27570)

Various

• Make custom spacing work with core. (28548)
• Component System: Add Grid Component. (28531)
• Block Validation: Allow unitless zero CSS lengths. (28501)
• Add check for zero to the FocalPointPicker mediaRef which prevents a division by zero error. (28499)
• Social Link: Add a class to the anchor element. (28494)
• Components: Integrate G2 Text component. (28475)
• Block Mover wording: 'Move block position' to 'Change block position'. (28454)
• [Documentation] : Fixing grammar. (28447)
• Docs: Update tree and raw-content links to reference HEAD instead of a specific branch. (28431)
• Image: Add flow for converting to cover block from toolbar. (28414)
• Cover: Improve various states. (28384)
• Update HTML Anchor description to refer to block instead of heading. (28367)
• Packages: Use canary flag for npm releases with next dist tag. (28357)
• Packages: Fully automate npm publishing with the latest and next tags. (28335)
• CODEOWNERS: Tweak for ella. (28326)
• Block Transform: Fix isMultiBlock property name. (28321)
• Warning component: Remove extra margin. (28316)
• Block Directory: Silently avoid re-installing local blocks. (28304)
• Inserter: Add description to content used in search. (28301)
• Try: Show reusable block parent border when child selected. (28283)
• Components: Update dependencies shared with G2 components. (28280)
• Try: Zero width space in empty paragraph. (28268)
• Alow setting the crossOrigin attribute for the image transform's image using a filter. (28255)
• Navigation component: Fix button outline. (28230)
• Components: Add truncate. (28176)
• Add panel button props. (28147)
• Add "Show block breadcrumbs" preference. (28133)
• NavigationMenu component: Add isSearchDebouncing prop. (28102)
• Try: Make empty paragraphs take up the same space on the frontend, as in the editor. (27995)
• Change the block editor inserter quick inserter border color. (27866)
• Save editors value on change. (27717)
• Component System: Upgrade FontSizePicker. (27594)
• Adjust borders on gallery to prevent overlap. (27312)
• Pattern Directory: Create endpoints to proxy api.w.org/patterns. (26578)
• Show text labels in block toolbars when option is set. (26135)
• Block Directory: Filter out disallowed blocks before showing available blocks. (25926)