Release 14.3.0 RC1 · WordPress/gutenberg

Changelog

Enhancements

Post Editor

Optimize legacy post content layout. (44506)
Remove right border when sidebars are closed. (44613)

Block Library

Comment Pagination Numbers: Add background color. (43902)
Navigation Submenu: Use get_queried_object_id when setting current-menu-item classes. (44474)
Post Author: Include option to link author archive. (42670)
Post Terms: Add spacing support. (43646)
Query Loop: Hide instructions for FormTokenField. (44641)
Tag Cloud: Remove strtolower around taxonomy name. (16112)
Video: Update placeholder style. (44215)

Components

FontSizePicker: Make control take up full width. (44559)
Placeholder: Remove unnecessary background color. (44497)
Placeholder: Update placeholder style. (44190)
ToggleGroupControl: Fix unselected icon color. (44575)
ToolsPanel: Add subheadings and reset text to tools panel menu. (44260)

Block API

Blocks: Deprecate non-string descriptions. (44455)
Tag Processor: Document and test XSS prevention in set_attribute. (44447)
Tag Processor: Throw error when supplied with unacceptable attribute names. (44431)
Tag Processor: Use (start,length) values for tracking tag name. (44479)
Tag processor: Update 'since' version tags to 6.2.0. (44432)

Global Styles

Hide the done button of the Global Style palette editor when there aren't colors to edit. (44372)
Use ToolsPanel in Global Styles → Typography. (44180)

Block Editor

Allow dropping an image on an empty paragraph block to create an image block. (42722)
Writing flow: Implement Alt+Arrow. (44081)

Site Editor

Allow drag and drop for blocks and patterns in zoom-out mode. (44402)

Block Directory

Use 'tertiary' in missing block warning. (44368)

New APIs

Block Library

WP_HTML_Tag_Processor: Inject dynamic data to block HTML markup in PHP. (42485)

Bug Fixes

Add a correct TS signature for useEntityRecords. (44448)
BlockDraggable: Change prop name passed to children when dragging is disabled. (44371)
Fix Lint warning/errors in cherry-pick script. (44662)
Fix: Content blocks with nested blocks always appear as top level. (44098)
Hide the Classic block in the Site Editor. (44554)
PHP 8.2: Remove deprecated callable in Style Engine value functions. (44561)
Persisted preferences: Fix context property of user meta configuration. (44489)
Resizable editor: Fix height setting bug. (44637)
Style engine: Kebab case preset slugs in the editor. (44406)
Add submenu block href only if URL is not empty. (44337)
Update Theme JSON $schema to allow pseudo selectors on button property. (44303)
Preserve the generic signature of getEntityRecord and getEntityRecords through currying. (44453)
Template editor: Fix crashes due to undefined vars. (44482)
Add missing value to CSS font-display descriptor in theme.json. (44622)
Rich text: Avoid updating partial selection unnecessarily. (44330)
useMergeRefs: Don't call/mutate refs passed if unused. (44629)

Block Library

Code Block: Add box-sizing to fix inconsistent layout. (44580)
Comment Author: Fix empty links created for the author's name. (44650)
Comments: Support nested comments settings in the comments blocks. (44351)
Group: Legacy Group inner block wrapper should work with a constrained layout. (44660)
Image: Fix rotated image crop area aspect ratio. (44425)
Image: Upgrade react-easy-crop to bring in fix for site editor iframe. (44408)
Navigation: Fix console error. (44594)
Navigation: Fix semitransparent burger icon. (44525)
Navigation: Try fixing link color in some TT2 contexts. (44578)
Paragraph: Disable drop cap control if text is aligned. (42326)
Post Featured Image: Fix borders after addition of overlay feature. (44286)
Post Featured Image: Fix application of default border style in editor. (44520)
Query Loop: Fix condition for displaying 'parents' control. (44630)
Query Loop: Rename Query Loop variations allowControls to allowedControls. (44523)
Quote block: Stop slash inserter popup showing in the citation. (44634)
Site Title: Fix link color not being applied in editor #37071. (44333)
Template part: Prevent adding block in post editor or inside post template or content blocks. (44480)
Video: Don't display placeholder SVG when Video block selected. (44564)

Global Styles

Fix empty color indicator with a custom style. (44364)
Re-add styles that were removed for classic themes. (44334)
Remove border from Global Styles previews. (44556)
Spacing presets: Modify the styling of the input controls when in unlinked mode in order to better differentiate sides. (44141)
Style cards: Fix focus style. (44612)
Theme.json: Fix some shadow properties not working properly in the site editor. (44569)
Use color hex + index as key in the Palette component color indicator. (44344)

Design Tools

Fix padding/margin visualizer accuracy. (44485)
Fix padding/margin visualizer placement. (44484)
Fix spacing property generation in flow layout type. (44446)

Components

BorderBoxControl: Ensure the most common unit selection is maintained. (44565)
Popover: Fix limitShift logic by adding iframe offset correctly (and a custom shift limiter). (42950)
Popover: Refine position-to-placement conversion logic, add tests. (44377)
Navigator Screen: Fix bug where focus moved erroneously. (44239)

Block Editor

Fix block search for non-Latin characters. (44652)

Widgets Editor

Add extra guarding against legacy widget preview errors. (44635)

Themes

Theme export: Fix broken spacingScale export. (44555)
Theme export: Stop slugs being cast to integers when a theme is exported. (44589)

Accessibility

TokenInput field: Try alternative approach to fix screen reader focus issue. (44526)

Patterns

Fix patterns drag and drop in Safari. (44366)

Post Editor

Add layout styles from Post Content block to post editor. (44258)

Performance

Compose: Introduce an in-house throttle() utility, deprecate Lodash version. (44225)
Improve Slot/Fill performance. (44642)

Documentation

Add documentation for extending the Query Loop block via variations. (44137)
Add more details about possible values for block assets in block.json. (44199)
Add missing import statement for useBlockProps. (44607)
Instruct people to keep using wp-scripts even when extending webpack. (44348)
Style engine: Updating and fleshing out documentation. (44405)
Style engine: Update readme. (44308)
Add callout for experimental packages. (44056)
Expand class-level documentation for WP_HTML_Tag_Processor. (44478)
Experiments: Add README.md and CHANGELOG.md. (44457)
Remove the package name from the sub-menu item for clarity. (44643)

Code Quality

Avoid calling get_blocks_metadata in WP_Theme_JSON constructor. (44658)
Block Popover: Use placement instead of position; move to useBlockToolbarPopoverProps hook. (44323)
CS/QA: Various minor fixes. (44551)
CS: Always use parentheses when instantiating objects. (44550)
CS: Remove redundant parentheses for include/require statements. (44544)
CS: Use pre-increment instead of post-increment. (44549)
Fix comment typo in document generation tools. (44583)
I18n: Use consistent string: 'Link rel'. (20162)
PHP 8.2 | Fix deprecated embedded variables in text strings. (44538)
PHP 8.2 | Fix for partially supported callback. (44537)
PHPCS: Use PHPCompatibilityWP. (44542)
QA: No control structures with empty body. (44548)
Script loader: Remove 6.1 wp actions. (44519)

Components

Components refactor Mobile to ignore exhaustive-deps. (44207)
Convert FontSizePicker to TypeScript. (44449)
FontSizePicker: Replace SCSS with Emotion + components. (44483)
RangeControl: Remove unused UseDebouncedHoverInteractionArgs type. (44411)
Refactor Notice to pass exhaustive-deps. (44157)
Refactor ResizableBox to pass exhaustive-deps. (44370)
Refactor Sandbox to pass exhaustive-deps. (44378)
Refactor SearchControl native files to ignore exhaustive-deps. (44381)

Block Library

Archive Block: Remove unnecessary spaces from class attributes. (44440)
Archive: No need to escape class variable. (44468)
Gallery: Remove unnecessary caption state. (44383)
Remove unnecessary view.js file from navigation-submenu block. (44570)

Plugin

CS: All methods must declare visibility. (44543)
Move wp_enqueue_block_view_script to experiments. (44414)

Layout

Backport code quality changes from core to Gutenberg. (44661)

Parsing

Block Serialization Default Parser: Bring back no-more-tokens type. (44459)

Global Styles

Add blocks to the list of valid origins for theme.json. (44363)

Lodash

Lodash: Remove completely from @wordpress/compose package. (44568)
Lodash: Remove completely from @wordpress/library-export-default-webpack-plugin package. (44571)
Lodash: Remove completely from @wordpress/list-reusable-blocks package. (44567)
Lodash: Refactor away from _.flow(). (44500)
Lodash: Remove completely from @wordpress/block-directory package. (44206)
Lodash: Remove completely from @wordpress/rich-text package. (44204)

Tools

Scripts: Use default value for process.env.WP_SRC_DIRECTORY. (44367)
Limit access to experimental APIs to WordPress codebase. (43386)

Testing

Autocomplete Component: Add end-to-end tests (take two). (42905)
Fix failing quote to reusable block conversion end-to-end test. (44350)
Add strict meta schema validation test for block.json. (44423)
Migrate iframed block test to Playwright. (44164)
Add theme.json schema tests. (44252)
Remove enzyme completely. (44494)
Fix typo from in writing flow spec. (44358)
Fix typo in WP_Navigation_Page_Test. (44685)
Popover: Convert unit tests to TypeScript and modern RTL assertions. (44373)
Refactor AlignmentMatrixControl tests to use @testing-library/react. (44670)
End-to-end Test Utils: Don't use hardcoded login credentials. (44331)
Refactor PluginPostPublishPanel tests to use RTL render. (44667)
Refactor AutosaveMonitor tests to @testing-library/react. (44492)
Refactor PostPreviewButton tests to @testing-library/react. (44470)
Refactor BlockSwitcher tests to @testing-library/react. (44493)
Refactor ResponsiveBlockControl tests to use @testing-library/react. (44669)
Style engine: Add JS unit tests for outline properties. (44518)

Build Tooling

Upgrade Lerna to the latest version. (44456)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

@alecgeatches: Add theme.json schema tests. (44252)
@BenoitZugmeyer: Use get_queried_object_id when setting current-menu-item classes. (44474)
@blindingstars: Update Theme JSON $schema to allow pseudo selectors on button property. (44303)
@imanish003: Add missing import statement for useBlockProps. (44607)
@loxK: Scripts: Use default value for process.env.WP_SRC_DIRECTORY. (44367)
@Lucisu: Fix empty links being created for the author's name comment. (44650)
@philwp: Post Author block now includes option to link author archive. (42670)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamziel @ajlende @alecgeatches @andrewserong @anton-vlasenko @BE-Webdesign @BenoitZugmeyer @blindingstars @carolinan @chad1008 @ciampo @derekblank @dmsnell @ellatrix @getdave @glendaviesnz @gziolo @imanish003 @inc2734 @jameskoster @jasmussen @javierarce @jorgefilipecosta @jrfnl @kevin940726 @loxK @Lucisu @luisherranz @Mamaduka @michalczaplinski @ndiego @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @pagelab @philwp @ramonjd @Rink9 @ryanwelcher @SantosGuillamot @scruffian @Soean @sunyatasattva @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla @vcanales @youknowriad