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Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

  • Group: Show group option in Group blocks. (39094)
  • Navigation: Improve loading and placeholder states. (38907)
  • Navigation: Improve create new UI feedback in Nav block. (39219)
  • Media & Text: Display media while uploading. (39275)
  • Tag Cloud: Use flex for the Outline style. (38995)

Components

  • ConfirmDialog: add custom button text. (38994)
  • InputControl: Allow onBlur for empty values to commit the change, move reset behaviour to ESCAPE key. (39109)

Block Editor

  • Add a link completer for inline links to posts. (29172)

Site Editor

  • Add theme.json to export file. (39048)
  • Resolve homepage template on server-side. (38817)
  • Theme Export: Add index.php and style.css. (39173)

Icons

  • Update drag handle footprint. (39342)
  • Update Pin icon, add new Post icon. (39139)

General Interface

  • Raise z-index of content div relative to sidebars. (38893)

Media

  • MediaReplaceFlow: Add 'onError' prop to handle error notifications. (39197)

Accessibility

  • Block settings dropdown: Use block display title in remove label. (39110)
  • Try allowing tab into block placeholder. (39085)

New APIs

  • Webfonts API. (37140)
  • Add new @wordpress/preferences package. (38873)
  • Add reusable preferences modal to interface package. (39153)
    • Add interface preferences modal to edit post. (39176)
    • Migrate hidden block types (block manager data) to new preferences packages. (39132)
    • Migrate post editor feature preferences to use new preferences package. (39115)
    • Migrate customize widgets editor to use new preferences package. (39112)
    • Migrate standalone widgets editor to use new preferences package. (39084)
    • Migrate site editor to use new preferences package. (39158)
    • Deprecate interface package's preference APIs. (39418)
  • Create Block: Add support for more plugin header fields. (39096)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

  • Buttons: Added aria label to the button block with icon. (38966)
  • Buttons: Fixes Button highlight popover overflow conflict with link popover. (38771)
  • Buttons: Don't set a placeholder text color. (39034)
  • Code: Restructure code block styling. (38712)
  • Comments Pagination Number_ Fix Comments Pagination Number with no pagination settings. (39204)
  • Cover: Fix keep selected unit on deleting minHeight value. (39145)
  • Cover: Fixes #38761 by removing obsolete ::Before pseudo element. (38762)
  • File: Check if 'fileId' exists before setting the attribute. (39088)
  • File: Don't display loading animation on upload error. (39213)
  • File: Fix file block validation error by not outputting aria-describedby if there's no description. (39083)
  • File: Fix the undo trap. (39215)
  • Hide border panel when all border features have been disabled. (36791)
  • Hide current menu from dropdown list in Nav block. (38916)
  • Image: Fix image responsive rules. (39045)
  • Image: Display errors after failed upload. (39178)
  • Media & Text: Display errors after failed upload. (39245)
  • Navigation: Fix navigation menu error when menus are not yet fetched. (39151)
  • Post Comments Form: Show correctwarning relative to post/page context. (38011)
  • Post Expert: Fix missing class in post excerpt. (38747)
  • Post Terms: Unescape HTML entities in term names. (39216)
  • Widget Group: Make save() markup the same as render_callback markup. (38510)

Styles

  • Fix Blocks list ordering in Global Styles. (39093)
  • Fix default duotone preset SVG and style generation. (38681)
  • Fix header panel height. (39119)
  • Fix Global styles overriding block's element styles. (39012)

Components

  • Update drag gesture of InputControl-based controls with axial constraint. (38968)
  • UnitControl: Fix controlled unit behavior. (39148)
  • Normalize font-family. (38969)

Block Editor

  • Fixes block highlight after block move. (38915)
  • Improve in_footer handling in gutenberg_override_script(). (39497)

Post Editor

  • Avoid error when 'styles' settings are removed. (39091)
  • URL: Fix code drift in the Editor package by removing duplicate cleanForSlug function. (39033)

Site Editor

  • Expose plugin area to site editor's List page. (39078)

Other Packages

  • apiFetch: Handle urlencoded and rest_route query params. (38914)
  • Base Styles: Add a resolvable JavaScript entry point to base-styles. (39240)
  • Compose: Avoid memory leak in use-drop-zone. (39038)
  • Render SVG props that have dashes correctly. (38936)
  • Url: Improvement to prototype handling. (39365)

Developer experience

  • Change copying PHP files to dist directory to opt-in via a CLI flag. (39171)
  • Create Block: Add confirm prompt before showing the plugin options. (39105)
  • Create Block: Improve custom project template configuration. (39049)
  • Handle resolution errors in @wordpress/data. (38669)

Documentation

  • Add import useBlockProps. (39072)
  • Components: Update changelog follow up for #38985. (39013)
  • Emphasized requirement to enclose in quotation marks wp-env run…. (39101)
  • Element: Add changelog notes for serialize attribute casing. (39141)
  • Gutenberg Data Tutorial Part 3: Building an edit form. (38581)
  • Fix code example in flyout component. (39156)
  • Missing ,toggleFormat from last code block. (39146)
  • Move recent CHANGELOG entry to Unreleased section. (39169)
  • Spelling error in JustifyContentControl example. (39234)
  • Storybook: Support proper extraction of TypeScript prop types. (38842)
  • Storybook: Add webpack loader for easier story descriptions. (39165)

Code Quality

  • Componentes, UnitControl: Tidy up utils and types. (38987)
  • Components, FontSizePicker: Refactor stories to use Controls. (38727)
  • Components, ToggleGroupControlOption: Calculate width from button content and remove LabelPlaceholderView. (39345)
  • Core Data: Rename types directory to entity-types. (39225)
  • Core data: Fix some typing issues. (39212)
  • Core data: Fix some typing issues. (39214)
  • Fix @wordpress/comment-case ESlint errors but without adding the disable-rule pragma. (37006)
  • Delete widget editor redundant css for more menu. (39113)
  • Layout: Remove duplicate var declaration. (39111)
  • Move editor settings code to compat folder. (39030)
  • Refactor useSelect usages to useEntityRecords. (38827)
  • Refactor classic menu conversion process. (38858)
  • Post author name: Add "post" prefix to CSS class. (38320)
  • TreeGrid: Update callback unit tests to use TreeGridRow and TreeGridCell sub components. (39002)
  • Update framer motion to 6.2.8. (38999)
  • useBlockEditorSettings: Remove unused unstableBase fetch. (39221)

Tools

Project Management

  • Code owners: Remove users without write access and fix typos. (39238)
  • Simplify Pull Request template. (39229)

Testing

  • Add end-to-end testing for experimental nav menu deletion. (38955)
  • Add Home/End keyboard end-to-end test for List View. (39265)
  • Add some tests for TreeGrid. Update README to reflect latest functionality. (39302)
  • Add test case for post locking feature saving. (39022)
  • Add tests for media replace flow. (39005)
  • Block Test Fixtures: Add additional error message for serialized test fixtures that reserialize identically. (39039)
  • ESLint Plugin: Make Prettier integration optional. (39244)
  • Fix performance tests by adding backwards compatibility to welcome guide utility. (39300)
  • Improve switch to draft button end-to-end test robustness. (38971)
  • Remove rename rn UI tests. (39042)
  • Social Icons: Begin Automating Existing Manual Test Cases. (39027)
  • Update 'clickMenuItem' test util to use full label matching. (39274)
  • Update preview test to wait for publish panel to appear before closing it. (39100)

Build Tooling

  • Fix spelling of contributors in changelog script. (39029)
  • Resolve peer dependency warnings. (39043)

npm Packages

  • Fix npm run docs:Build crashing when a block.json lacks supports key. (39241)
  • Packages: Automate npm publishing as part of Gutenberg release workflow. (39259)
  • Packages: Automatically acceppt all Lerna commands when run with CI flag. (39199)
  • Packages: Update CLI publishing tool to run in CI mode. (38993)

Plugin

  • Account for upcoming changes in styles metadata in WordPress 5.9. (36327)
  • Don't filter 'theme_templates' when running WP 5.9. (39017)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@adamziel @ahsanshaheen199 @ajlende @alexstine @alshakerM @amustaque97 @andrewserong @aristath @awps @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @chad1008 @ciampo @delowardev @dmsnell @draganescu @fluiddot @francisei @getdave @gwwar @gziolo @illusaen @ironprogrammer @jasmussen @joshuafredrickson @jostnes @jsnajdr @Mamaduka @mashikag @mirka @ndiego @noahtallen @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ocean90 @opr @priethor @ramonjd @ryanwelcher @scruffian @Sidsector9 @SiobhyB @Sisanu @stokesman @talldan @tellthemachines @tomasztunik @ttahmouch @Tumas2 @walbo @webmandesign @zaguiini @ZebulanStanphill

Contributors

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