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· 1 commit to release/11.6 since this release

Enhancements

Block Library

  • Post Title block: Add typography formatting options. (31623)
  • Query Pagination block: Use flex layout. (34876)
  • Site logo: Add site logo crop. (31607)
  • Cover: Move cover min-height into dimensions panel via SlotFill. (34065)
  • Group Block: Add information about selected element types for Group Block. (33976)
  • Image Block: Create two-way data binding for ImageSizeControl. (34649)
  • Columns Block: Update block description of columns block. (34705)
  • Gallery block: Add toolbar button to convert old galleries to new format. (34606)

Block Editor

  • Format toolbar: Visual clue for hidden active items. (21892)
  • Increase Link UI search results to 10 on the Navigation Editor screen. (34808)
  • Inserter: Pass filter value when clicking Browse All. (34912)

Components

  • ColorPicker: Enhance the new color picker design. (34598)
  • ColorPicker: Add reset timeout to ColorPicker's copy functionality. (34601)
  • ToolsPanel: Refine component behaviour. (34530)
  • Resize Handles: Fix stroke width of resize handles. (34949)
  • ServerSideRender: Improve ServerSideRender Component to retain preview of the component while it is loading new state. (28289)
  • ServerSideRender: Delayed loading state of ServerSideRender component. (35033)

Global Styles

  • Add a simple Global Styles preview to the sidebar. (34991)
  • Update the Global Styles Icon and use it in the site editor's panel. (34871)
  • Update the global styles sidebar to use a navigation component. (34885)

Widgets Editor

  • Widget Group: Make title directly editable. (34799)

Template Editor

  • Add edit template part menu button. (34679)

Themes

  • FSE: Add basic support for child themes. (34354)

New APIs

Block API

  • Introduce lock control at the block-type level. (32457)

Design Tools

  • InspectorControls: Wrap block support slots in ToolsPanel. (34157)

Accessibility

  • Improve file block accessibility by adding aria-describedby to download button. (28062)
  • Button Block: Add prefix to the description ID. (34900)
  • Snackbar: Fix focus loss on dismiss. (34736)

Performance

  • List View: Try disabling async mode provider around selected block in ListView. (34519)

Bug Fixes

Block Editor

  • Copy Handler: Only handle paste event once. (34430)
  • Fix save-state indicator appearance. (34947)
  • MediaReplaceFlow: Avoid React warning when selecting media. (34618)
  • Remove .has-link-color class upon clearing the link color. (34700)
  • Rich Text: Fix arrow navigation with consecutive formats. (35014)
  • Rich Text: Also strip object replacement character when removing padding. (34851)
  • Writing flow: Fix focus trap on non-text input types. (32714)
  • Fix bug in the receiveBlocks action resulting in a broken block list. (35076)

Block Library

  • HTML block: Prevent external styling of editing UI. (34727)
  • Page List Block: Fix gap in vertical page list. (35026)
  • MediaPlaceholder: Fix media library button opening the file upload modal. (34894)
  • QueryPagination: Fix layout support. (34897)
  • Query Pagination: Fix center alignment. (34739)
  • Group block: Lower CSS specificity of padding declaration. (34854)

Global Styles

  • Cache global stylesheet keyed by theme. (34704)
  • Clean theme data when switching themes in the customizer. (34540)
  • Fix dimensions panel default controls display. (34828)
  • Fix for link color in containers. (34689)

Components

  • Fix Dropdown/DropdownMenu toggle closing in all UAs. (31170)
  • Font Appearance Control: Fix selectedItem downshift uncontrolled prop warning. (34721)
  • ToolsPanel: Allow SlotFill injection of panel items. (34632)
  • ToolsPanel: Remove / re-register panel items if the panelId changes. (34726)
  • ToogleGroupControl: Fix update when unmounted. (34756)
  • Unit Control: Always display current unit value if valid. (34768)

Template Editor

  • Fixes left & right floats for blocks that are direct children of .wp-site-blocks. (34635)
  • Fix new template form onSubmit logic. (34988)

REST API

  • Add missing field _invalid in menu item REST API. (34670)
  • Fix 'menu_exists' response status code. (34888)
  • Remove parent and position validation from menu item REST API endpoint. (34672)
  • Filters are incorrectly applied in the __experimental/menu-items controller. (34857)
  • Fix the parent menu item field in REST API responses. (34835)

Themes

  • Fix block gap added to the block templates skip link. (34986)

Widgets Editor

  • Fix disabled blocks logical error on Widgets screen. (34634)
  • Prevent welcome guide overflow x scroll. (34713)

Experiments

Navigation Block

  • Add a Submenu block for use in Navigation. (33775)
  • Initialize responsive modals with window onload event. (34544)
  • Enable open on click for Page List inside Navigation. (34675)
  • Hide theme-provided underlines when menu item is in setup state. (34486)
  • Only capture toolbars on the parent Navigation block when not in vertical mode. (34615)
  • Polish wavy underline. (34954)

Navigation Editor

  • Add initial navigation editor user documentation. (34985)
  • Adjust header toolbar icon styles. (34833)
  • Consolidate menu name and switcher. (34786)
  • Update Navigation Editor to support new submenu block. (34281)
  • Use response messages returned from API for notices. (34903)
  • Add global inserter to Navigation Editor. (34619)
  • Save menu items using the REST API. (34541)
  • Add space between menu name and switcher button. (34960)
  • Keep Navigation Editor snackbar from overflowing notices. (34661)
  • Navigation Editor: Avoid crash when transforming navigation link. (34980)
  • Correctly display notices. (34852)
  • Display error notice inside modal. (34884)
  • Fix navigation editor missing appender not showing appender when no blocks selected. (34678)
  • Fix navigation editor undo button being active when editor loads. (34839)
  • Open link control if submenu parent is link. (34798)
  • Stop submitting Create Menu form in busy state. (34983)
  • Fix saving locations using the "Manage Locations" popup. (34714)

Site Editor

  • Site Editor - add basic plugin support. (34460)

Documentation

Handbook

  • Minor copy improvements. (35015)
  • Update versions to include 5.8.1. (34789)
  • Fix typography.customLineHeight value in the compatibility table. (34791)

Packages

  • Update the note about using polyfill for ES2015+ features. (34878)
  • Components
    • Add Compound Components section to components CONTRIBUTING.md. (34697)
    • Dropdown: Tidy up documentation. (34861)
    • Fix small typo in the component's CONTRIBUTING guidelines documentation. (34753)
    • ItemGroup: Add story showcasing more complex layouts. (34708)
    • Update @wordpress/components package's contributing guidelines. (33960)
    • Update AlignmentMatrixControl documentation post merge. (34662)
    • Update components CONTRIBUTING.md structure. (34877)
    • Update documentation for ClipboardButton component. (34711)
  • Create Block: Remove wp-cli callout since not recommended and outdated. (34821)
  • Navigation Editor:
    • Fix inconsistencies and errors. (34682)
    • Update the Hooks section in documentation. (35035)
  • Scripts: Add CHANGELOG entry for jest-dev-server upgrade. (34657)

Other

  • Update overall plugin description. (34850)

Code Quality

  • Add tests for slug to class/css variable conversion. (34787)
  • Refactor the core-data store to thunks. (28389)
  • Remove some low impact APIs that were deprecated on WP 5.3. (34537)
  • Rewrite FocusableIframe as hook API. (26753)
  • Rich text: Only merge neighbouring equal formats when applying a format. (35016)
  • Writing Flow: Merge place caret at edge functions. (30481)
  • Site editor: fix PHP notice: Undefined index: __unstableType. (34735)
  • Use rest_is_field_included function in menu endpoints. (34673)
  • Remove duplicate Theme JSON block gap key. (34774)

Block Editor

  • Global shortcuts: Use React events (portal bubbles & contextual). (34539)
  • Rename experimental prop used in BlockControls. (34644)
  • Update callers to handle when getBlockType returns undefined. (34891)

Block Library

  • Latest Comments: Add missing parameter to widget_comments_args. (29403)
  • Navigation submenu block: Replace global shortcut event handlers with local ones. (34812)

Components

  • ColorPicker: Replace global shortcut event handlers with local ones. (34508)
  • Delete the createComponent utility function. (34929)
  • Refactor away from the createComponent function: CardMedia (34915), ControlLabel (34927), Elevation (34916), FlexBlock (34917), FlexItem (34918), Grid (34919), HStack (34920), Heading (34921), Scrollable (34922), Spacer (34923), Surface (34924), Text (34925), Truncate (34926), VStack (34928).
  • Remove all dashicon usages from Storybook stories. (33984)
  • Mark ControlLabel, FormGroupLabel and FormGroupContent as non-polymorphic. (34966)

Global Styles

  • Fix Global Styles double border. (34906)
  • Rename globalStyles to styles. (34946)

i18n

  • Add a "translators:" comment in the core class used to implement a Block widget. (34840)

Tools

Testing

  • Add editor onboarding tests. (34431)
  • Fix flaky navigation editor test by waiting for required elements. (34767)
  • Fix native Latest Posts end-to-end device tests. (34715)
  • Iframed editor: Add jQuery integration end-to-end test. (33007)
  • Navigation Editor: Migrate from response mocking to rest api util. (34869)
  • Navigation Editor: Fix failing end-to-end test. (34874)
  • Navigation Editor: Add end-to-end tests for global inserter to the Navigation Editor screen. (34804)
  • Navigation Editor: Update new navigation editor test to use REST API to create a menu instead of response mocking. (35025)
  • Try reporting flaky tests to issues. (34432)
  • Try to fix flaky iframe test. (34776)
  • Test that add_theme_supports are loaded for themes without theme.json. (34998)

Build Tooling

  • Fix package lock inconsistencies. (34790)
  • Update caniuse package to the latest version. (34685)
  • VSCode integration: Update var ${workspaceRoot} to ${workspaceFolder}. (34269)
  • Replace usages of workspaceRoot with workspaceFolder. (34887)
  • Bump jest-dev-server to v5. (34560)
  • ESLint Plugin: Update eslint jsdoc dependency. (34338)
  • Storybook: Remove G2 prefix from the Components section. (34734)
  • Block Editor: Update react-spring to 9.2.4. (30979)
  • Move react-native-url-polyfill to dev dependencies. (34687)
  • Use Jest related rules only when the package is installed. (33120)
  • Ensure that all *.asset.php files are included in plugin.zip. (34875)