15.8.0
Contributors
The following contributors merged PRs in this release:
Changelog
Features
- Add the command center to the post editor. (50128)
- Add revisions UI. (50089)
- Add Theme Previews for block themes. (50030)
Enhancements
Global Styles
- Fluid typography: Use
layout.wideSize
as max viewport width. (49815) - Global styles revisions: Remove human time diff and custom author fields from the API response. (50234)
- Unify the global block styles panel with the block inspector panels. (49428)
Post Editor
- Add
<ViewLink>
component. (50260) - Update background color of post editor when viewing mobile or tablet viewports, or in template mode. (50361)
- Display device icon on "preview" and "view" buttons. (50218)
- Improve "switch to draft" placement. (50217)
- Post Featured Image: New design for Replace and Remove buttons. (50269)
Block Library
- More intuitive Details block with summary and innerBlocks content. (49808)
- Simplify cover block description. (50355)
- Cover: Only show overlay controls when color support enabled. (50115)
- Navigation: Hide color controls when color support is disabled. (50368)
- Post Featured Image: Hide overlay controls when color support is disabled. (50331)
- Social Icons: Hide color controls when color support is disabled. (50275)
Fonts API
- Separate BC Layer. (50077)
Site Editor
- Add the pages menu to the site editor. (50463)
- Introduce new PluginTemplateSettingPanel slot. (50257)
- Add chevrons to the templates and template parts in site editor. (50076)
Components
- Button: Add opt-in prop for next 40px default size. (50254)
- Consolidate and add documentation to Storybook. (50226)
- DimensionControl: Use WordPress package instead of react in code example. (50435)
- FormTokenField, ComboboxControl: Add opt-in prop for next 40px default size. (50261)
- Global Styles: Fix palette color popovers. (49975)
- Relax link pattern matching in CHANGELOG CI check. (50248)
- Remove custom padding for tertiary buttons. (50276)
- Update
Autocomplete
usage example. (49965) - Update default accent color. (50193)
- Update has-text has-icon button spacing. (50277)
CSS & Styling
- Polish confirm dialog padding. (50283)
Template Editor
- Remove
start blank
option in template pattern suggestions and addskip
button. (50099) - Templates: Sort by the rendered title instead of the slug. (50353)
Block Editor
- List View: Allow dragging to all levels of the block hierarchy. (49742)
- Allow dragging-and-dropping images from the inserter to image blocks. (49673)
- Try always showing the dimensions controls. (50305)
- Adds a renderAdditionalBlockUI prop to ListView. (50465)
- Update the expanded text color so that it works in both a dark and light context. (50434)
- Enable Loginout block in Nav block. (49160)
- Mark related selector as resolved when sideloading Navigation fallback. (50324)
- Update Template Parts icon to use the symbol. (50410)
- Use Core Data for Nav fallbacks and side load resulting entity into state. (50032)
- Tweak copy for block settings menu "Insert..." to "Add...". (50444)
- Block settings menu: Rearrange items. (50453)
Rest API
- Update image editor to use new REST API. (28530)
Bug Fixes
Block Library
- Center align button text in editor. (50228)
- Comment Template Block: Set
commentId
context via filter. (50279) - Cover: Use overflow: clip, falling back to overflow: Hidden to allow sticky children (technically). (50237)
- Ensure imported Classic Menu dirty state to include in Editor entity changes list. (50318)
- File Block: Defer hiding PDF embeds for unsupported browsers until the page has loaded. (50113)
- Fix template part area variation matching. (49500)
- Fix the pocket casts embed variation. (50132)
- Gallery: Fix inner block selection. (50363)
- Post Terms: Use publicly_queryable to query taxonomies used to register variations. (50244)
- Remove extraneous "Link" copy from PanelBody components. (50186)
- Remove Quote transform from Group (50424)
- [Post Featured Image]: Revert maxWidth addition. (50427)
- [Post Title]: Insert default block on Enter at end. (50312)
- Ensure that view scripts are correctly registered for core blocks. (50364)
Global Styles
- Close stylebook if the editor canvas container slot is not filled. (50086)
- Fix positioning of gradient palette popovers on mobile. (50233)
- Fix/wp get global styles for custom props returns internal variable. (50366)
- Revisions controller: Fix author and date fields. (50117)
- Fix hover/focus styles for
style variation
buttons. (50056) - Use bundled files for enqueuing global styles. (50310)
Block Editor
- Fix issue with margin collapsing when selecting blocks. (50215)
- List View / Block Draggable: Fix scroll to top issue when dragging the second last block in the list. (50119)
- Multi-select: Capitalise B in blocks. (50356)
- URLInput: Update the 'ENTER' key down event handler. (50158)
- Update OffCanvas component's more menu to get clientId from block rather than passed in as prop. (50473)
- Block Toolbar: Don't use effects for focus management. (50497)
- Don't remount the block when the 'templateLock' is set to 'contentOnly'. (50292)
Themes
- Refactor theme previews. (50338)
- Remove gutenberg plugin mention in schema. (50207)
- Theme Preview: Restrict to admin users. (50335)
- Theme Previews: Fix refactor. (50354)
Site Editor
- Display conditionally the
styles
in sidebar main navigation screen. (50329) - Remove canvas box shadow. (50374)
- Save Button: Fix the label in the disabled state. (50284)
- Remove white background on Site Editor 'Frame'. (48970)
- Update some visual details in the add-template modal(s). (50143)
Components
- Spacing: Fix reset of spacing sizes control. (50455)
NavigableContailer
: Do not trap focus inTabbableContainer
. (49846)- Remove fill="none" from levelUp icon. (50264)
Accessibility
- Add missing tooltip to Site Editor navigation Back icon button. (50104)
- Fix Multiple Tooltips from Focus Toolbar Shortcut on Widget Editor. (50344)
- Site Editor Keyboard Navigation Flow. (50296)
- Small improvements for the sidebars and Close buttons labeling. (49614)
Design Tools
- Changed so that borders and radius are maintained when Duotone is changed. (50088)
- LineHeightControl: Fix application of zero values in editor. (48917)
Fonts API
- [Font API] Do not print in admin using 'admin_print_styles' for themes with theme.json. (50259)
Widget Editor
- Fixes fixed block toolbar in widgets editor. (50371)
Performance
- Improve Site Editor loading experience(50222)
Experiments
Interactivity API
- Add Interactivity API runtime. (49994)
- Navigation block with the Interactivity API. (50041)
- Fix building plugin zip to include interactive blocks. (50598)
Command Center
- Update the experiment label. (50467)
- Add an API to open/close the command center. (50423)
- Fix a style glitch on Safari. (50138)
- Add a button to open it from the site editor view mode. (50425)
- Do not show dynamic add new post, add new page commands. (50221)
- Extract the WordPress reusable commands to a dedicated package. (49956)
- Fix command menu not re-opening after closing it. (50213)
Documentation
- Add changelog for eslint-plugin validating dependencies in
useSelect
anduseSuspenseSelect
hooks. (50247) - Add client-side filter reference to Curating the Editor doc and fix links. (50203)
- Add missing closing parenthesis in code example. (50253)
- Adds example to change the permalink structure. (50251)
- Adds links to REST-API reference. (50070)
- Create-block script includes link to documentation in render.php file. (50206)
- Block API > Registration: Switch markdown to a-tags. (50110)
- Don't use markdown in the callout section. (50437)
- Remove mention of perf testing from release documentation. (50345)
- Update Callout documentation on links. (50131)
- Fix incorrect label in contributor docs. (50201)
- Fix minor formatting issues in Performance doc. (50202)
- Fixes incorrect URLs in doc blocks. (50123)
- Use alert callout in the block deprecation documentation. (50286)
- Improve CardMedia documentation. (50074)
- Update README of TreeGrid with data-expanded attribute usage. (50026)
Code Quality
- Block Editor: Directly import useShouldContextualToolbarShow hook. (50506)
- BlockControls, InspectorControls: Remove useSlot, unify behavior on bad group. (50198)
- Enqueue registered block assets and resolve iframe styles end-to-end failure. (50185)
- Make eslint-plugin validate dependencies in
useSelect
anduseSuspenseSelect
hooks. (49900) - Save Hub: Reuse the save button component to save code. (50145)
- Use apiFetch instead of window.fetch. (50043)
- Add types to dispatch and select. (49930)
- Remove duplicate comment. (50304)
Lodash removal
- Remove from blocks store reducer. (50471)
- Remove
_.mapValues()
fromgetBlockContentSchemaFromTransforms
. (50096) - Refactor away from
_.mapValues()
. (50285) - Remove
_.mapValues()
from blocks reducer. (50097)
Components
- Fix incorrect focus style widths. (50127)
- Refactor/toolbar item component to typescript. (49190)
- SlotFill: Several code cleanups. (50098)
- SlotFill: Some code cleanups of the bubblesVirtually version. (50133)
- Convert
NavigableContainer
to TypeScript. (49377)
Block Editor
- Block Editor: Add names for the 'editor.BlockListBlock' filter HoCs. (50513)
- Refactor around missing dependency in Link Control internal value sync effect. (49509)
- Don't export Slot/Fill constants separately. (50274)
Block Library
- Centralize constants for the navigation block. (50191)
- Move deprecated Nav block functions to bottom of render file. (50328)
- Refactor BlockList uses Hooks. (50293)
List View
- Replace OffCanvasEditor in browse mode with the List View component. (50287)
- Use block select button class for retaining colors when expanded or hovered. (50155)
Global Styles
- Global styles revisions: Ensure the revisions endpoint permissions match the global styles controller. (50270)
- Simplify CustomCSS UI. (49721)
Plugin
- Update REST API Controller PHPUnit tests. (50120)
- Update the Gutenberg plugin to require at least the WP 6.1 version. (50079)
- Update the tested up to version for the gutenberg plugin. (50360)
Native
- Add a few import required for the React Native wrapper distribution as iOS XCFramework. (50009)
Site Editor
- Extract the Router APIs and context into a dedicated package. (50100)
- Move loading logic to a separate hook. (50511)
Tools
wp-env
- Add
wp-env
After Setup Command. (50196) - Fix wp-env destroy. (50445)
- Refactored
wp-env
configuration Parsing. (50071) - Wp-env fix exec command in CI. (50411)
- wp-env: Add better default PHPunit settings, fix Xdebug, and update documentation. (50490)
- wp-env: Improve run command execution speed. (50007)
- Cleaned up Port Validation and Removed Unnecessary Default Ports. (50300)
- Match Container's User and Group to Host. (49962)
Testing
- Add end-to-end test for editing the title of a new custom template part. (50195)
- Add test to verify image appears on frontend. (50472)
- Add tests coverage for the navigation block frontend interactivity. (50462)
- Migrate Adding Patterns Test to Playwright. (50083)
- Migrate Keep Transform Block Test Case to Playwright. (49719)
- Migrate PullQuote test case to playwright. (50085)
- Migrate undo to Playwright. (48701)
- Prerelease end-to-end Test Utils for Playwright. (43998)
- Skip creating flaky issues on PRs. (50146)
- end-to-end tests: Try to fix flaky global styles revisions tests. (50454)
- Add BlockList text coverage. (50252)
Build Tooling
- Changelog automation: Apply proper top-level categorization precedence to meta PRs. (50208)
- Do not include first time contributors section in changelog if there are not any. (50291)
- Publish rich text build types. (49651)
- Rich text: Rename index.js > index.ts for type-only exports. (50212)
- Remove PHPUnit and Composer packages. (50408)
Repository Maintainance
- Add ndiego as codeowner for docs. (50289)
First time contributors
The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:
- @johnhooks: feature(data): Add types to dispatch and select. (49930)
- @margolisj: Refactor/toolbar item component to typescript. (49190)
- @n2erjo00: Create-block script includes link to documentation in render.php file. (50206)
- @samnajian: Fix/wp get global styles for custom props returns internal variable. (50366)
Contributors
The following contributors merged PRs in this release:
@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @ajlende @alexstine @andrewserong @apeatling @artemiomorales @aurooba @bph @chad1008 @ciampo @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @draganescu @ecgan @fluiddot @fullofcaffeine @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @gziolo @hellofromtonya @ironprogrammer @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jhnstn @johnhooks @jsnajdr @juanfra @kevin940726 @kienstra @Mamaduka @margolisj @mburridge @mirka @mokagio @mtias @n2erjo00 @ndiego @noahtallen @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ObliviousHarmony @ocean90 @ockham @pavanpatil1 @pooja-muchandikar @priethor @ramonjd @richtabor @samnajian @SantosGuillamot @scruffian @SiobhyB @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @torounit @tyxla @westonruter @youknowriad