13.1.0

Changelog

Enhancements

• Block Editor: Removed the logic that was preventing the toolbar from hiding when typing within formats. (40476)
• Block settings: Remove redundant block name from "settings" panels. (40275)
• Components: Unified black color to gray-900. (40391)
• Design Tools, Borders: Use new border control components in block support. (37770)
• Document Setting: Removed plugin icon fallback. (40355)
• Icons: Added new duotone filter icon. (40435)

Block Library

• Categories: Added new option to show or hide empty categories. (39426)
• Column: Add border support to column blocks. (39967)
• Comments: Create comments title with simple styling. (40419)
• Media & Text: Removed font size declaration from template. (40329)
• Navigation: Renamed Navigation Menus to Navigation. (40413)

Bug Fixes

• Patterns API: Add 'inserter' to the schema. (40416)
• Toolbar: Fixed block toolbar text button padding. (40438)

Block Library

• Post Featured Image: Used translatable post type label. (40378)
• Comments:
  • Comment template: Call comment_class() before recursing into child comments. (40455)
  • Fixed comments query loop pagination not respecting Discussion Settings. (40284)
  • Fixed comments no results placeholder not appearing. (40234)
  • Post Comments Form: Fix layout quirks. (40359)
• Embed:
  • Fixed inline preview cut-off when editing URL. (35326)
  • Use preview html for flickr embed previews in editor. (40187)
• Image: Added window to the optional chaining. (40394)

Styles

• Add a debounce to the custom color onChange event. (40285)
• Do not render global styles coming from the server in the site editor. (40185)
• Elements: Add styles to the footer before the block is rendered. (37728)
• Fixed duotone rendering in site editor. (37727)

Site Editor

• Don't render the secondary sidebar in text mode. (40337)
• Fixed webfont loading in the Site Editor. (40262)

Block Editor

• Block Locking, useBlockLock: Always check inherited 'templateLock' status. (40263)
• i18n: Fix incorrect '_n' usage. (40292)
• List View, useBlockDisplayInformation: Return anchor for block variations in list view. (40458)
• Multi-selection: Copy whole block when selection is collapsed. (40374)
• Add optional chaining in case taxonomy visibility is not defined. (40532)

Accessibility

• Post editing: After closing welcome dialog, if content is empty, focus title field. (40195)
• Fixed focus loss happening when installing blocks from the directory. (40340)
• Fixed focus loss when creating pages from link control search results. (40342)
• Fixed focus loss when navigating the guide component. (40324)
• Navigation block: After choosing an option from Select Menu, focus after block rerender. (40390)
• Block Styles: Remove unnecessary button role and 'onKeyDown' handler. (40427)

Performance

• Added a context param to sidebar entity request. (40148)

Developer Experience

• [wp-env]: Add support to override core by the WP_ENV_CORE environment variable. (40407)
• Create Block: Fix warnings and errors reported during scaffolding and validation. (40479)

Documentation

• Added README for Gradient and NavigableToolbar. (25580)
• Added documentation for ancestor property in block metadata. (40027)
• Fixed OnNumberOfItemsChange event docs error. (39942)
• InputControl: Improved type annotations and stories. (40119)
• Patterns: Documented 'inserter' argument. (40425)
• Removed WordPress 5.9 specific warning from FSE documentation. (40274)
• Replaced fixtures with inline parsed code. (40428)
• Updated individual block locking section. (40372)
• Updates theme.json documentation for theme authors. (40005)
• Unwrapped wrapped selectors when inferring types of JSDoc params. (40236)

Code Quality

Block Library

• Navigation: Remove async useEffect. (40373)
• HTML: Remove pointless <span>s in Custom HTML block controls. (39820)
• Comments Query Loop: comment meta data isn’t queued for lazy loading. (40242)
• Split navigation block view script. (40135)
• Spacer: Added constants file to Spacer block. (40446)

Components

• Stop exporting individual color objects from color values file. (40387)
• Added reusable BlockPopover and BlockPopoverInbetween components. (40441)
• Cleaned BlockMover component and styles. (40379)

Packages

• Block Editor: Remove unused sub-components in list view. (40448)
• Data: Cancel render queue in a more straightforward way. (40433)

Plugin

• Added edit context to patterns REST controllers. (40259)
• Add @talldan as a codeowner for wordpress/preferences. (40295)
• Cleaned up non-dynamic block registration list. (40426)
• Moved list and quote block registration to experimental blocks. (40350)
• Moved the logic for iframed editor to WP 6.0 compat. (40278)
• Post WordPress 6.0 Beta 1 cleanup. (40349)
• Rename wp_translate_settings_using_i18n_schema to translate_settings_using_i18n_schema. (40227)
• Plugin: Fix fatal error for older WP/PHP versions. (40538)

Tools

Testing

• Playwright migration:
  • Fixed outdated playwright snapshot directory. (40422)
  • Tried to fix flaky playwright tests not being reported. (40290)
  • E2E: Cross-platform support for Playwright end-to-end tests. (39765)
  • Migrate post-editor-template-mode to Playwright. (40175)
  • Migrate block api test to Playwright. (40217)
  • Migrate document settings test to playwright. (40258)
  • Migrate style variation test to Playwright. (40216)
• Quote: Verify that user can type right after inserting the quote block. (40466)
• useSelect:
  • Add async mode test suite and fix two bugs. (40321)
  • Update unit tests to testing-library. (40229)
• Block supports: Unregister block in PHP unit tests. (40239)
• CreateBlock: Fix escaping for error message in create block test. (40473)
• Comments Query Loop: Add end-to-end comments tests to stable, wait for selector on set option. (40405)

Build Tooling

• Added the missing class-wp-style-engine-gutenberg.php in the plugin build. (40191)
• Fixed commands containing dot-slashes in npm scripts. (39739)
• Added new TypeScript project for unit tests. (39436)
• Fixed the flaky template editor mode test. (40325)
• Excluded BEM class from stylelint @wordpress/scripts. (37531)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @chintu51: OnNumberOfItemsChange event attribute issue. (39942)
• @khoipro: Scripts: Exclude BEM class from stylelint @wordpress/scripts. (37531)
• @mauriac: Add new option to show or hide empty categories. (39426)
• @roseg43: Media & Text: Remove font size declaration from template. (40329)
• @zutigrm: Update theme.json documentation for theme authors. (40005)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamziel @ajlende @alexstine @aristath @c4rl0sbr4v0 @chintu51 @ciampo @dmsnell @EliezerSPP @fabiankaegy @fluiddot @georgeh @geriux @glendaviesnz @gziolo @jasmussen @jsnajdr @JustinyAhin @kevin940726 @khoipro @Mamaduka @mashikag @mauriac @mchowning @michalczaplinski @mirka @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @peterwilsoncc @ramonjd @roseg43 @scruffian @SiobhyB @t-hamano @talldan @tomasztunik @torounit @youknowriad @ZebulanStanphill @zutigrm