11.9.0

Features

Block Library

• New Block: Comment Reply Link. (35774)
• New Block: Comment Link. (35965)
• New Block: Comment Avatar. (35396)
• New Block: Comments Query Loop. (35231)

Enhancements

Block Library

• Buttons: Add flex layout and new layout type. (35819)
• Code: Add support for padding, color, and border styles. (27582)
• Columns: Add padding support. (35701)
• Comment Author Name: Add spacing to have same options as Post Author Name. (36213)
• Comment Edit Link: Add alignment option. (36033)
• Embed: Add Wolfram Cloud as an embed provider. (35656)
• Gallery: Replace gallery experimental setting with a check for use_balanceTags. (34979)
• Image: Add data-id attribute on server side render for core galleries. (35975)
• Navigation: Add create new menu button. (36245)
• Navigation: Add delete nav menu button. (35981)
• Navigation: Add featured transforms in Link Control for Navigation Link items. (35857)
• Navigation: Add flex layout. (36169)
• Navigation: Add missing menu item attributes. (35634)
• Navigation: Create nav menu on pattern insertion or when the block has uncontrolled inner blocks. (36024)
• Navigation: Migrate classic menus to block-based menus on theme switch. (36255)
• Navigation: Mobile responsive navigation by default. (35917)
• Navigation: Provide a way to manage wp_navigation posts from wp-admin. (36126)
• Navigation: Reword navigation color labels. (35916)
• Navigation: Save data to a wp_navigation post type. (35746)
• Navigation: Show the placeholder again when moving from a valid menu to non-existing menu. (36210)
• Navigation: Update block entity automatic name generation and refine naming UI. (36238)
• Navigation: Use a single placeholder for the block. (36023)
• Page List: Create a JS version for the editor. (31670)
• Post Author: Add spacing controls. (35963)
• Post Comment: Deprecate the block now that the Comment Query Loop block has been added. (36032)
• Post Comment Author: Add alignment options. (36045)
• Post Comments: Even out the top margin inside the block. (35887)
• Post Comments: Hide the "Comments Closed" message. (35743)
• Post Comment Form: Adds in basic styling for post comment form. (35704)
• Post Excerpt: Add spacing controls. (35959)
• Post Excerpt: Don't print the wrapper when there is no excerpt. (35749)
• Post Title: Return no markup if title is empty. (35861)
• Search: Add contextual defaults when inserted in Navigation block. (36125)
• Gallery block: Add a dismissible warning about the need for versions >=18.2 of the mobile app. (36012)

Accessibility

• Add announcement on formatting change for screen readers. (35896)
• Add aria-current to navigation link, submenu, page list. (35880)
• Link editing: Improve focus styles for Link UI preview title. (35853)
• Site Editor: Enable the "Save" keyboard shortcut. (36138)
• Try to communicate to screen readers that post title is textarea. (35898)

Block Editor

• Block toolbar: Remove visual clue from text alignment icon. (35922)
• Drag and drop: Show drag slot instead of hiding the block being dragged. (33950)
• Enable rich previews in the Link UI for the Site Editor. (35951)
• Link editing: Update Link UI design for preview action buttons to use icons for edit and unlink. (35833)
• Multi-Entity Saving UI Improvements. (35933)
• Use the block's name in the "remove block" menu item in the block settings dropdown. (35872)
• StripHTML: preserve leading and trailing spaces and strip script and on* attributes. (35539)

Full Site Editing

• Improve the initial loading of the site editor. (36044)
• Move the Site Editor menu item to sit under Appearance and rename to Editor. (36064)
• Remove navigation panel in site editor. (36194)
• Use Heading component on NavigationMenu and NavigationGroup components. (36009)
• Use SearchControl component inside nav menu. (36011)

Components

• ColorPicker: Implement new color palette editor component. (35783)
• Duotone: Add description to clarify that the underlying image will not be affected. (36018)
• Modal: Wrap the modal contents in a StyleProvider. (36261)
• ToolsPanel: Update typography panel layout. (35911)
• LinkControl: Split control for URL and Text within Link UI. (33849)

Template Editor

• Add resizer to template part focus mode. (35728)
• Auto resize the height of template part focus mode. (35974)

Global Styles

• Remove the duplicated title in background, text and link views. (35583)
• Typography: Switch to ToolsPanel for block support UI. (33744)
• Add a Global Styles endpoint and use it in the site editor. (35801)
• Migrate theme.json v1 to v2. (36155)
• Update: Show all color and gradient origins (core, theme, and user). (35970)

Design Tools

• Duotone: Enable transparency. (34130)
• Layout: Add flex-wrap control to flex layout. (36003)
• Typography block support: Add typography support and defaults. (34064)

Media

• Remove "security" verbiage from warning when filetype does not pass on upload. (36226)

Patterns

• Add an inserter flag to hide patterns from UI. (36108)

Themes

• Remove experimental feature notice for block themes. (36083)

General Interface

• Apply borders to canvas rather than other UI elements. (31081)

REST API

• Respect fields param for global styles REST API requests. (36206)
• URL Details: Update regex to include og:Description. (35875)

New APIs

Global Styles

• Add API to access global settings, styles, and stylesheet. (34843)

Block Library

• Inner blocks: Add useInnerBlocksProps.save function for edit/save symmetry, and stabilise API. (26031)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Buttons: Address deprecation issues from Buttons flex layout PR. (36192)
• Classic: Fix select all blocks side effect that overwrote paragraph block contents. (35999)
• Column: Only add flex-basis if width contains a number. (35831)
• Comment Template: Move inner blocks container to separate components. (36174)
• Blocks: Fix relative URLs for inlined styles. (35538)
• Navigation: Disable ability to edit wp_navigation menus via Appearance -> Navigation Menus for non-FSE themes. (36257)
• Fix incorrect attributes definitions. (36264)
• Fix saving template parts in the site editor by fixing controlled inner blocks parent block attributes updates. (35827)
• Fix incorrect attributes definitions for Column, Cover, and Group blocks. (36140)
• Gallery: Make sure the mobile warning notice only runs when images are added to a new block. (36326)
• Gallery: Only show the gallery upload error message if mixed multiple files are uploaded. (35790)
• Gallery: Remove the arbitrary alt text that is added to gallery images. (35936)
• Group: Fix inner container regexes that relied on fixed div tag. (36256)
• Heading: Avoid error on split when the paragraph isn't registered. (35871)
• Image: Make sure the Image block border radius is inherited if the image is linked. (36289)
• Navigation Submenu: Fix PHP notice caused by stale id reference. (35984)
• Navigation overlay menu: Fix submenu spacing. (35823)
• Navigation: Ensure menus exist before map operation. (36355)
• Navigation: Fix accessibility issues. (36292)
• Navigation: Fix dropdown indicator position. (36106)
• Navigation: Fix issues with responsive justifications. (35913) and (36105)
• Navigation: Fix padding for social links on mobile. (35824)
• Navigation: Fix submenus not opening on click. (36290)
• Navigation: Hide post attributes meta box. (36358)
• Navigation: Small styling fixes and tweaks. (36298)
• Pattern: Remove wrapping div. (36090)
• Post Comment: Handle the case where a comment does not exist. (35810)
• Post Navigation Link: Do not translate HTML tag. (35930)
• Post Template Block: Move inner blocks container to separate component. (35945)
• Post Terms: Prevent the block from breaking on pages. (35957)
• Site Logo: Fix center alignment. (35971)
• Site Logo: Fix fatal error in Site Logo block in WP 5.9. (36195)
• Prevent PHP notice in Elements block support for blocks with empty content. (35836)

Components

• AnglePickerControl: Use admin color scheme. (35908)
• BaseControl: Fix undefined Help text id if no id is passed to component. (35899)
• ColorListPicker: Fix spacing to accomodate the new color picker. (36017)
• ColorPalette: Fix className. (36016)
• ColorPicker: Fix unexpected movements, and closing on first click in the color picker. (35670)
• Popover: Check anchorDocument default view before removing events. (35832)
• RangeControl: Fix style issue in RTL. (35777)
• Storybook: Lazy load LTR/RTL styles for consistent specificity. (35771)
• Text: Fix text color value to use correct gray color value for Link UI preview description text. (35851)

Global Styles

• Fix navigation in global styles sidebar. (36203)
• Fix presets data for themes that do not provide any preset. (36054)
• Generate preset metadata for font-family in the site editor. (36022)
• Hotfix for leftovers of WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver::Get_merged_data. (36173)
• Lower the specificity of border & padding styles for the outline block style in the button block. (35968)
• Theme.json: Remove custom prefixes from properties that did not land in 5.8. (34485)
• Fix Rest global styles controller accessing configuration that may not exist. (36047)

Block Editor

• Allow moving metaboxes to previously empty area. (25187)
• Change console.error to console.warn for enqueued styles in the editor. (35914)
• Fix inserter with block pattern categories. (36116)
• Fix navigation block link control zero value in it. (36198)
• Fix the update of link and suggestions in LinkControl. (32320)
• Make Link UI inactive if selection extends beyond format bounds or encounters new link. (35946)
• Fix selection by holding shift key for nested blocks. (35668)
• Fix shift+click on a child block with its parent selected. (35988)
• Fix: Crash when resetting user color palette. (36233)
• Fix: Show user colors on palette indicator. (36232)
• Fix getPxFromCssUnit test stability and test that memoized function works correctly. (35939)
• Link editing: Account for link anchor no longer being present when generating unique link instance key. (36357)
• Preserve highlighted text selection when changing colors (36263)

Design Tools

• Font Appearance: Improve consistency of label in Typography panel. (35860)
• Font Family Support: Fix skip serialization check. (36073)
• Navigation: Force text decoration styles on nav item in editor. (35859)

Template Editor

• Clear selected block when clicking outside in the template part focus mode. (35816)
• Templates: Only include templates for the current post types. (35802)

Core Data

• Avoid showing deleted records in editor saving flow. (36027)
• Fix getEntityRecords to ensure resolution on REST API failure. (36353)
• Fix Core Data using hardcoded baseURL prefix for taxonomies and post types API requests. (35850)
• Make saveEditedEntityRecord use the entity key when available. (36212)

Patterns

• Update unsaved navigation block flow. (35976)

Full Site Editing

• Add fallback handling for plugins or themes using the Customizer. (35877)
• Fix missing <MainDashboardButton> slot fill in site editor. (36369)
• Remove duplicate Editor menu item. (36342)
• Theme resolver: Fix crash from calls to undefined functions. (36248)
• Unhook _block_template_render_title_tag to prevent duplicate title tags from rendering. (36133)

Widgets Editor

• Fix layout styles not applying in widgets customizer. (35865)

CSS & Styling

• Editor defaults for themes with no editor styles and when user disables theme styles. (35736)

History

• Support disabling autosave for native Unsupported Block Editor. (35639)

Performance

List View

• Fix pagedown/pageup and improve scrolling. (36063)
• List View: Render a fixed number of items. (35230)

Block Editor

• Improve opening of the block inserter via manual token-based analysis of reusable blocks. (35763)

Widgets Editor

• List View: Avoid re-rendering all items on block focus. Enable persistent List View in the widget editor. (35706)

Experiments

Block Library

• Navigation Area block. (36178)

Full Site Editing

• Always display Customizer menu item. (36168)
• Revert "Always display Customizer menu item". (36189)
• Remove slug and status columns from templates list in Appearance > Templates. (35996)

REST API

Navigation Editor

• Show a warning when trying to save unsupported blocks. (35993)

Documentation

• Added link to Ways to keep up with Gutenberg & Full Site Editing. (36077)

Handbook

• Add Thunks Tutorial. (36051)
• Add a more detailed guide for react native development. (35529)
• Blocks: Add view script to block schema and documentation. (36175)
• Blocks: Document changes to style and editorStyle in block.json. (36218)
• Add Getting Started level for documentation. (35891)
• Add section about using the schema during development. (35835)
• Fix a small typo in the "Getting started" documentation. (36109)
• Fix Typos in widgets/overview.md. (36078)
• Fix wording in the Authoring Experience documentation. (35969)
• Improve Getting Started landing page. (35893)
• Release Docs: Remove consecutive RCs warning. (35855)
• Theme.json: Fix typo. (36139)
• Theme.json docs: Add missing settings & styles. (36137)
• Tweak organization for getting-started documentation. (34091)
• Update the recommendation for the cadence of npm releases. (35925)

Packages

• Components: Update Components CONTRIBUTING.md indentation. (35866)
• Create Block: Move create-block changelog entries back to Unreleased section. (35886)
• DOM: Backtick added around <textarea> input tag in readme file. (34813)
• Env: Update wordpress-develop example to clarify src/build location. (35978)
• Rich Text: Add usage documentation for Rich Text package. (35885)
• Schemas: Fix schema file URL. (36157)

Code Quality

REST API

• Add Theme's base global styles endpoint. (35985)
• Improvements for the global styles endpoint. (36071)
• Remove "experimental" from URL details REST controller and promote to v1 namespace. (35915)

Block Library

• Heading: Auto-generated anchors hide implementation details. (35747)
• Mark FSE blocks as non experimental. (35979)
• Mark Post Comments as stable and Comments Query Loop as experimental. (36132)
• Mark Post Navigation Link and Term Description blocks as stable. (36163)
• Remove post- prefix from Comment Template inner blocks. (36171)

Global Styles

• Linting: Fix WPCS lint errors in global styles. (36058)
• Refactor theme.json migrations to be a single class. (36182)
• Remove locations we do not translate from theme-i18n.json. (35881)
• Update theme.json schema migrations. (36154)

Post Editor

• Migrate to thunks. (35720)
• Refactor FlatTermSelector into a functional component. (33459)
• Remove GB prefixed functions from template part. (36180)
• Translated site properties. (36097)

Components

• ToolsPanel: Use Grid component to handle layout. (35621)
• Update spacing in CircularOptionPicker. (36014)
• Use small button on tools panel toggle. (35935)

Other Packages

• Create Block: Add block.json schema to generated file. (35843)
• Data: Rename types file from .d.ts to .ts. (36062)
• Url: Move getStablePath function into the wordrpess/url package. (35992)
• Schemas: Add schemas package. (35998)
• Schemas: Theme.json - Add title to templateParts. (36145)

CSS & Styling

• Remove invalid buttons block CSS property. (33793)

Tools

Plugin and backporting to WordPress core

• Updates WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver and tests to be equal to core. (36223)
• Changes for FSE backport in core. (36201)
• Temporarily pin .wp-env.json to WP 5.8.1. (36333)

Testing

• Add a method to disable auto-accepting dialogs. (35828)
• Skip broken widgets test. (36239)
• Skip flaky test for loading block stylesheets in iframe. (35961)
• Tests: Run block fixtures through KSES. (35611)
• theme.json: Make sure tests are pure. (36253)
• theme.json: Update test data. (35883)
• Scripts: Increase timeout for end-to-end tests to 30 seconds. (35983)
• Improve unit test coverage for REST API menus endpoints. (36177)
• Update child theme.json merge test to match core. (36329)

Debugging

• Wp-env: Disable Xdebug by default unless specified by user. (34324)