ckeditor/ckeditor5 v36.0.0

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Release highlights

We are happy to announce the release of CKEditor 5 v36.0.0.

• Faster editor load time thanks to delayed dropdown initialization.
• Improved performance when the editor includes the table column resize plugin.
• Improved inline annotations positioning.
• Configurable special characters categories order.
• Vite integration.

Please refer to the update guide to learn more about these changes.

MAJOR BREAKING CHANGES ℹ️

• core: The EditorUI class was moved from @ckeditor/ckeditor5-core to @ckeditor/ckeditor5-ui.

MINOR BREAKING CHANGES ℹ️

• The addToolbarToDropdown() and addListToDropdown() helpers create content panels on the first dropdown open. Make sure that you access the dropdown panel after the dropdown is open. See #12890.
• Toolbar views are filled with items on the first appearance. Make sure that you access toolbar items after the toolbar is visible. See #12890.
• Contextual balloon panels are created on the first appearance. See #12890.

Features

• html-support: Added the full page mode to preserve content outside of page body. Closes #12950. (commit)
• link: Apply config.link.defaultProtocol on pasted links. Closes #12912. (commit)
• special-characters: The names of special character categories can now be translated. Closes #5820. (commit)
• special-characters: Added configurable ordering of special characters groups. Closes #13220. (commit)
• track-changes: Added track changes integrations for the following features:
  • Find and replace.
  • Image URL replace.
  • CKFinder (commit).
  • Table properties and table cell properties.

Bug fixes

• engine: Markers that are next to an auto-paragraphed text nodes will be moved to the new paragraph together with the text. (commit)
• engine: Fixed focus handling issue which happened on Chrome after a nested editable was clicked. (commit)
• engine: Fixed markers that were not properly set on list items and on elements in table cells, resulting in losing comments and suggestions after re-loading the document. Closes #13285. (commit)
• find-and-replace: Disabled the find and replace popup in source mode. Closes #12939. (commit)
• import-word: Enabled the .dotx extension in the file dialog.
• list: The default list marker for an unordered list should be disc (instead of circle). Closes: #13206. (commit)
• list: Fixed markers that were not properly set on list items and on elements in table cells, resulting in losing comments and suggestions after re-loading the document. Closes #13285. (commit)
• paste-from-office: Fixed pasting images from MS Word 2016. Closes #11993. (commit)
• table: Table and table cell property commands should not be called before changing any value to avoid creating unnecessary suggestions in the track changes mode. Closes #13262. (commit)
• table: The editor should not crash on getData() call if the PlainTableOutput plugin is used with the TableColumnResize feature. Closes #13164. (commit)
• table: Fixed markers that were not properly set on list items and on elements in table cells, resulting in losing comments and suggestions after re-loading the document. Closes #13285. (commit)
• track-changes: Indent and outdent suggestions made on block images in document lists are now working correctly when accepted.
• track-changes: Suggestions are now correctly highlighted after typing inside own the deletion suggestion.

Other changes

• ckfinder: Set a correct value (false) for CKFinderCommand#affectsData. Now, the command's state depends only on related commands (insertImage and link). Closes #13213. (commit)
• core: Moved the EditorUI class from @ckeditor/ckeditor5-core to @ckeditor/ckeditor5-ui. Closes #12853. (commit)
• image: Encapsulated image replacement into a command. Closes #13217 . (commit)
• image: Added ReplaceImageSourceCommand which encapsulates current image URL replacement logic. Closes #13217. (commit)
• list: Raised the list item reconversion priority to 'high'. Closes #13290. (commit)
• table: The table properties views are now created on the first open to boost editor startup time. See #12890. (commit)
• table: Improved performance when the editor includes the table column resize plugin. Closes #13097. (commit)
• track-changes: Prepared more informative labels for list outdent suggestions when an item is removed from the list.
• ui: Dropdown panels, contextual balloon panels, and toolbar views are now initialized on the first opening to boost editor startup time. Closes #12890. (commit)
• widget: Widget toolbars are now initialized on the first opening to boost editor startup time. See #12890. (commit)
• Updated translations. (commit, commit, commit)
• The dropdown panels are now initialized on the first opening to boost editor startup time. See #12890. (commit)
• Improved inline annotations positioning when marker contains multiple elements or multiple lines of text.
• Several packages have been rewritten to TypeScript:
  • @ckeditor/ckeditor5-alignment: closes #13026. (commit)
  • @ckeditor/ckeditor5-alignment: closes #12995. (commit)
  • @ckeditor/ckeditor5-autoformat: closes #12996. (commit)
  • @ckeditor/ckeditor5-basic-styles: closes #12998. (commit)
  • @ckeditor/ckeditor5-block-quote: closes #12999. (commit)
  • @ckeditor/ckeditor5-highlight: closes #13013. (commit)
  • @ckeditor/ckeditor5-adapter-ckfinder: closes #12994. (commit)
  • @ckeditor/ckeditor5-heading: closes #13012. (commit)
  • @ckeditor/ckeditor5-horizontal-line: closes #13014. (commit)
  • @ckeditor/ckeditor5-language: closes #13019. (commit)
  • @ckeditor/ckeditor5-list: closes #13021. (commit)
  • @ckeditor/ckeditor5-markdown-gfm: closes #13022. (commit)
  • @ckeditor/ckeditor5-mention: closes #13024. (commit)
  • @ckeditor/ckeditor5-minimap: closes #13025. (commit)
  • @ckeditor/ckeditor5-paste-from-office: closes #13027. (commit)
  • @ckeditor/ckeditor5-word-count: closes #13036. (commit)

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