13.6.0

Changelog

Enhancements

UI

• Increase fade intensity during spotlight mode. (40454)
• Improvements to "inherit default layout" toggle. (41893)
• Make it easier to select "Edit visually" when in "Edit as HTML. (41516)
• Abbreviate post schedule date when possible. (41738)

Global Styles

• Add support for caption elements. (41140)
• Add UI for button elements (41659) and fix the button element selectors. (41822)
• Support pseudo selectors on elements in theme json. (41786)
• Add the ability to unset duotone in themes with default duotone set. (39564)
• Allow references to values in other locations in the tree. (41696)
• Lower specificity of elements block css. (41931)
• Add border to frontend style engine. (41803)
• Add schema support for styles.filter.duotone. (41920)
• Add an API make it easier to get class names. (41753)
• Update Theme JSON $schema to account for pseudo selector support. (41936)

Patterns

• Add the ability to use creation patterns for other post types besides page. (41791)

Block Library

• Columns: Change title of one third/two thirds column variation to 66/33. (41734)
• Navigation:
  • Adjust mobile close button position when admin bar is visible. (41664)
  • Make additional top margin specific to open modal. (41949)
  • Move block CSS to JSON. (41898)
• Post Comments Form: Add button that enables commenting to warning. (41603)
• Cover:
  • Strip whitespaces in render_block_core_cover. (40859)
  • Implement axial top bottom margin. (41963)
• Image: Set Default state to media library for library button in image block. (41678)
• Classic: Remove CSS properties with vendor prefixes. (41995)
• Embed: Add Pocket Casts embed block variation. (41006)

Site and Template Editor

• Turn Template settings panel into a Template popover. (41925)
• Expand the template types that can be added - single custom post type and specific posts templates. (41189)
• Add clear customizations to template card. (41743)

Accessibility

• Make the site editor header toolbar use the ARIA toolbar pattern. (41902)
• Allow defining an aria-label in group blocks. (41744)
• Add keyboard shortcut for Strikethrough. (41910) and inline code. (41816) in the format library.
• Navigation submenus: Allow Escape key to close the submenu and focus trigger. (41774)
• Show the link completer shortcut on the help modals. (41872)

Bug Fixes

• Fix incorrect '_n' usage in the block Editor. (41886)
• BlockPreview: Fix 'Infinity' is invalid 'minHeight' value warning. (41766)
• Compare against default category in the settings instead of hardcoded slug. (41956)
• Fix PHP 8.1 deprecation in the gallery block. (41193)
• Add 'application/zip' accept header. (41602)
• [Block Editor]: Fix content loss from replaceInnerBlocks with controlled blocks. (41948)
• Fix action button spacing on the widget editor. (41915)
• Render duotone presets in pattern preview. (41249)

Block Library

• List v2:
  • Fix impossible to outdent multiple list items. (41713)
  • Set selection to created block after split with Enter. (41899)
  • Transforms don't take into account nested blocks. (41741)
• Comments: Fix issue with custom font sizes and links color. (41627)
• Navigation: Fix permissions warning. (41862)
• Post Template: Ensure layout classnames are not attached to inner li elements. (41827)
• Image block: Preserve alt text from media library. (41839)
• Search block: Remove double spaces. (41746)
• Fix issue of background min height. (41693)
• Only use the post-title if the featured image is a link. (41775)
• Always load block CSS from __experimentalStyle on global styles output. (42005)

Components

• Border Controls/Color Palette: Ensure popovers remain within small viewports. (41930)
• ColorPicker: Remove horizontal scrollbar when using HSL or RGB color input types. (41646)
• DatePicker: Respect site's 'Week Starts On' setting. (41648)
• BlockSettingsMenuControls: Fix 'showLockButton' check. (41788)
• Color Controls: Allow popovers to remain within smaller viewports. (41929)

REST API

• Fix retrieving autosaves when using a custom rest_namespace. (41542)
• Remove hardcoded references to rest namespace. (41950), (41951).

Performance

• Continued the work refactor away from lodash usages in order to reduce the build size.
• Remove: Unrequired regex search on duotone supports. (42020)
• Ensure only the main query is modified when resolving template for new posts. (40799)
• Avoid calculating html block styles in useSelect. (42026)
• Fix performance regressionon pasting due to removeWindowsFragments. (41907)

Documentation

• Add an explanation how to setup environment to run the performance test. (41883)
• Add local dev notes to aid when doing work on schemas. (41968)
• Fix Minor documentation inconsistencies on block attributes. (41468)
• Add an example for the end-to-end tests snapshot update. (41999)
• Fix documentation of Flex component to no longer be experimental. (41926)
• Fix link to "Good First Review" issues in README. (41754)
• Fix link to Flex component in FlexItem Readme. (41928)
• Fix some small inconsistencies in the block editor documentation. (41861)
• Update terminology and documentation of Style engine. (41964)
• Update skip serialization documentation to reflect ability to target specific properties. (41277)
• Add supports to basic sample code documentation. (41589)
• Update nested-blocks-inner-blocks.md. (41962)
• Document fontFace and it’s values in theme.json schema for the Webfonts API. (41844)

Code Quality

• Fix: Double condition on or on block editor reducer. (42019)
• Remove WP 6.0 WP_REST_Block_Patterns_Controller class. (41914)
• Remove leftovers of legacy query-loop block. (41891)
• Remove startBlankComponent from __experimentalBlockPatternSetup. (41721)
• Move setting registration into WP 6.0 compat. (41985)
• Add __experimentalUseResourcePermissions to make code simpler. (38785)
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• Remove Unnecessary '&& check' as 'optional chaining (authorDetails?.avatar_urls) check' is already used in the Avatar Block. (41779)
• Refactor NavigationItem component to pass exhaustive-deps. (41639)
• Move generation of layout util classes to existing method to avoid adding global public method WP. (41885)

Tooling

Static analysis

• ESLint: Enable ignoreRestSiblings option for no-unused-vars rule. (41897)
• Fix a prettier error. (41916)
• SerializeBlock fix ESLint warning. (41763)

Testing

• Test migrations toPlaywright:
  • spacer (41590)
  • table block (41945)
  • preview end-to-end tests (41380)
  • style variations (41427)
  • Button Block (41494)
  • RTL test cases (41495)
• InputControl: Add tests and update to use @testing-library/user-event. (41421)
• Skip flaky navingation end-to-end test. (41829)
• Fix the image rotating flaky test. (41808)

Storybook

• Add 40px size variant to NumberControl. (41997)
• Convert knobs to controls in NumberControl. (41849)
• Convert knobs to controls in spacer. (41851)

IDE's integrations

• Autocompletion support for useSelect (via jsDoc annotations). (41596)

Migrations to typescript

• ColorIndicator (41587),
• FormToggle (41729)
• Spinner(41540)
• Truncate (41697)
• VStack (41850)
• BorderControl (41843)
• Heading (41921)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @adambasa-dp: #30930 - Make it easier to select "Edit visually" when in "Edit as HTML. (41516)
• @arturgrabo: Change case. (41792)
• @hz-tyfoon: Block Library (Avatar Block): Remove Unnecessary '&& check' as 'optional chaining (authorDetails?.avatar_urls) check' is already used. (41779)
• @inc2734: Add supports to basic sample code. (41589)
• @kbrown9: [RN Mobile] RichText: Return early when content has changed in onSelectionChangeFromAztec. (41682)
• @mcliwanow: Fix link to "Good First Review" issues in README. (41754)
• @navigatrum: Strip whitespaces in render_block_core_cover. (40859)
• @pavanpatil1: Migrate rtl test case to it's playwright version. (41495)
• @petitphp: #40675: Ensure only the main query is modified when resolving template for new posts. (40799)
• @phcp: Add Pocket Casts embed block variation. (41006)
• @vasartam: Block attributes docs: Minor documentation inconsistencies. (41468)
• @xylocone: Update nested-blocks-inner-blocks.md. (41962)
• @zaerl: Fix: Add 'application/zip' accept header. (41602)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adambasa-dp @adamziel @afercia @ajlende @alexstine @andrewserong @aristath @arturgrabo @chad1008 @ciampo @dcalhoun @derekblank @fabiankaegy @fluiddot @georgeh @getdave @glendaviesnz @grappler @hz-tyfoon @inc2734 @jorgefilipecosta @kbrown9 @kevin940726 @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mcliwanow @mcsf @mikachan @miminari @mirka @mtias @navigatrum @noisysocks @ntsekouras @ockham @opr @pavanpatil1 @petitphp @phcp @pooja-muchandikar @ramonjd @scruffian @SiobhyB @spacedmonkey @stokesman @sunil25393 @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tomjn @tyxla @vasartam @walbo @xylocone @zaerl