Release 16.1.0 RC1 · WordPress/gutenberg

Changelog

Features

Navigation Menu Sidebar

Add focus mode for Navigation Menus. (39286)
Allow renaming, duplication and deleting of Navigation menus from Browse Mode Sidebar. (50880)

Block Library

Add Navigation Menus to Template Parts screen sidebar in Browse Mode. (51492)
Add Footnotes block to text blocks. (51201)

Patterns

Allow for filtering of block patterns by source. (51672)
Reusable blocks: Rename to 'Patterns' and add option to also add a non-synced Pattern. (51144)
Site Editor: Add Library for Template Parts & Patterns Management. (51078)

Themes

Remove the experiment option for Block Theme Previews. (50983)

Enhancements

Site Editor

Edit Site: Make admin background consistent with layout. (51741)
Edit Site: Remove first loading spinner. (51736)
Edit Site: Use global background color while loading. (51709)
Improve guidance to editing template when focused on editing a page. (51366)
Only show view site link in view mode. (51279)
Page Details View: Show featured image only if there is one. (51649)
Page Details View: Show parent only if there is one. (51648)
Site editor sidebar: Home template details. (51223)
Navigation on Browse Mode: Move the action to the leaf menu. (50843)
Remove Taxonomy as an option in the add template flow. (51586)
Remove shadows in Site Editor sidebar. (51546)
Show warning on critical block removal. (51145)
Site editor navigation: Use chevron left in RTL mode. (51588)
Add ability to set status, publish date and password in site editor. (51408)
Add table view to manage templates page. (50766)
Update Library panel footer. (51652)
Update page list footer. (51438)
List draft navigations in Browse mode Navigation section. (51422)
Show actions for empty menus in Navigation on Browse mode. (51420)
Unify welcome guides labels casing. (51700)
Site editor sidebar: Add footer to template part and ensure nested template areas display. (51669)

Components

ItemGroup: Update button focus styles to be more consistent. (51576)
Toolbar: Use Ariakit instead of Reakit. (51623)
Update: Adjust modal radius to be between frame and buttons. (51254)
UnitControl: Revamp support for changing unit by typing. (39303)
Move HeadinglevelDropdown to its own component. (46003)

Block Editor

List View: Try showing blocks that are dragged (no longer hide them). (51724)
Updated unstyled Button hover selector to change fill of svg and path element. (50819)
Writing Flow: Allow Escape key to deselect blocks and selection during multiselection. (48904)
Change "Copy block" to "Copy". (51532)
Limit Copy/Paste Styles menu item. (51503)
Force disable suggestions until URL field is dirty in Link Control. (51354)
Top toolbar: Refine the icons on the right. (51735)

Block Library

List block: Add numbering type selection. (51186)
Patterns: Removes the pattern experiment. (51719)
Remove accordion from details block keywords. (51597)
Add init modules to details and post-time-to-read blocks. (51606)
Improve logic in render_block_core_template_part. (50636)
Indicate Draft status of menus in Nav block menu selector. (51427)
Mobile - Image block - Fix issue with set width and height images. (51463)
Navigation: Remove destructive colors from modal. (51691)
Pass the block to the onGoToPage function. (51699)
Post Author - don't show 0 in inspector controls. (51345)
Remove anchor support from dynamic blocks. (51288)
Site Tagline Block: Remove unnecessary square path from block icon SVG. (51611)

Accessibility

Autocomplete: Announce results to screen readers when first becoming visible. (51018)
List View: A11Y focus enhancements for edit-site based on modifications to edit-post. (51404)
Add a description key to theme.json style variations. (45242)
Focus first focusable on Link UI. (51105)

Interactivity API

Add missing tests for image block. (51305)
Image block: Add animation toggle to lightbox behavior. (51357)

Global Styles

Accept transforms in gutenberg_get_global_styles context params. (50484)
Split styles menus in revisions and everything else. (51318)

Icons

Tweak icons for improved HiDPI devices. (51511)

Plugin

Remove Details block setting field from the experiments page. (51372)

Templates API

Return post modified datetime in response. (51362)

List View

Style Book: Close list view when opening the style book. (50438)

Design Tools

List View: Add an indicator of when a position type is set for a block. (49122)
Sticky Position: Try re-enabling non-root sticky position. (49321)
Clarify error message if duotone color values is incorrect. (51397)
List all the font families and font sizes from all the theme.json origins in the font picker. (51488)

Post Editor

Adjust the name of the custom field button labels. (47407)
Block manager: Display a 'Reset' button when blocks are hidden to quickly enable all. (51200)

Media

Prepublish: Suggest uploading external images. (46014)

Patterns

Block Options: Use consistent capitalization on template parts and patterns. (51761)

CSS & Styling

Update editor UI modal width. (51733)

Commands

Add commands to access template, template parts and styles. (51501)
Add global styles related commands. (51637)

Themes

Block Theme Previews: Change the URL query string for more safety. (51312)
Update the Save Button label when you're previewing a theme. (51361)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

Fix navigation error in library. (51589)
Fix site editor rendering of Categories block. (51329)
Gallery block - Add default value for innerBlockImages. (51443)
Latest posts: Make more link consistent between frontend and editor. (51190)
Navigation: Don't interfere with pointer events. (51378)
Post editor: Make the Post Content block available as a child of the Query block. (51405)
Search Block: Fix problem with buttons not outputting primary status. (51529)
Try providing a non-zero value for client width in image editor. (51285)
Query Loop: Properly initialize and update perPage when we inherit from global query. (51641)
Avatar block: Fix not 1:1 between the editor and the front-end. (49963)
Spacer block: Fix invalid markup when set to fill. (51317)

Commands

Show pages with any status in the command center. (51324)

Core Data

Core Data: Fix ESLint warning for the 'useEntityRecord' hook. (51562)
useEntityRecord: Fix destructure error when enabled option is false. (51534)

Block Editor

Fix blocks autocompleter 'rootClientId' selector. (51673)
Inserter: Fix arrows in RTL mode. (51622)
Link Format: Don't return focus on the selected text 'onFocusOutside'. (51684)
ListView: Update drop indicator line positioning to support rtl languages. (51284)
Page Content Focus: Default insertion point to the Post Content block. (51773)

Site Editor

Add 'Edit template' and 'Back to page' commands. (51364)
Fix template display in page details with a custom template. (51638)
Page details: Fix displaying slugs with non-latin characters. (51679)
Prevent block overlay on blocks with a 'contentOnly' editing mode. (51780)
Fix gradient background color repeats. (51374)
Global styles: Fix back button tooltip. (51725)
Site editor header: Fix document title back and shortcut color contrast. (51442)
Site editor sidebar: Fix the heading hierarchy. (51696)

Accessibility

Distraction Free: Avoid focus loss when enabling/disabling distraction free mode via the more menu. (51627)
Library: Add an explicit label to the search control. (51781)
Site editor: Add a navigable region for content area of Library and Template views. (51782)
Fix shift+tab behavior to move to toolbar when the preceding block has a form element. (51548)

Global Styles

Color Panel: Fix rendering of tabs with no color. (51498)
Remove custom padding on style revisions button. (51269)

Components

MediaPlaceholder: Fix position of URLPopover. (51363)
Popover: Allow legitimate 0 positions to update popover position. (51320)
Button: Remove unnecessary margin from dashicon. (51395)

Patterns

Library: Reinstate sidebar navigation menu editing for template parts. (51825)

Interactivity API

Image block: Remove Lightbox markup if is set as disabled. (51692)

Block Locking

Fix regression in selectors. (51541)

Typography

Fluid typography: Custom font-sizes should use max viewport width. (51516)

Widgets Editor

Fix fixed toolbar in customize widgets. (51092)

Navigation Menu Sidebar

Hide the hidden navigation block. (50662)

Block Variations

[Block Library - Post Terms]: Custom taxonomies do not show icons when transforming from the toolbar. (51476)

Performance

Site Editor

Edit Site: Add a loading timeout. (51049)
Improve DocumentActions performance. (51432)
Prevent BlockBreadcrumb from re-rendering unnecessarily when typing. (51628)
Reduce number of List View re-renders while typing. (51518)
Improve PagePanels performance. (51319)

Block Editor

Improve getBlockEditingMode() and useAppender() performance. (51675)

Experiments

Global Styles

Color Randomizer: Fix an error when the theme has no color palette. (51539)

Documentation

Docs: Fix incorrect import of useEntityRecords in code example. (51630)
Fix broken links in editor documentation. (51321)
Fix grammar in the Create a Block > WordPress Plugin page. (51663)
Fix grammar on the Create a Block tutorial page. (51662)
Fix grammar on the Getting Started page. (51661)
Update broken link. (41758)
Update components README.md. (51557)
Update wp-env changelog. (51614)
Updated getEntityRecord doc by using selector instead of dispatch. (51298)

Code Quality

Add tests for WP_Classic_To_Block_Menu_Converter class. (51410)
Adopt lock-unlock.js and private-apis.js convention. (51322)
Formats: Avoid rerendering language edit component when typing. (51440)
Keyboard Shortcut: Clean up shortcut names. (51739)
Lodash: Refactor away from _.kebabCase() in block editor. (51687)
Lodash: Refactor away from _.mergeWith(). (51483)
Lodash: Remove from blocks package. (51703)
Remove pattern directory categories endpoint. (51340)
Require relocated class files for back-compat in WordPress releases. (51670)

Block Library

Details: Set 'clientId' as useSelect dependency. (51634)
Move Navigation fallback files to 6.3 directory. (51572)
Navigation: Fix ListView deprecation notice. (51094)
Navigation: Just a simple refactor. (51382)
Remove legacy isTopLevelLink attribute from Navigation block tests. (51759)
Search Block: Write "Button Only" label in sentence capitalization. (51629)

Site Editor

Browse Mode: Move CSS to more generic selector. (51547)
DRY up ContentBlocksList and BlockInspectorLockedBlocks. (51281)
Edit Site: Refactor the NavigationMenuContent component and fix the deprecation notice. (51469)
PageContent: Fix unlock import. (51360)
Refactor Site Editor block editor code. (51524)

Block Editor

Lodash: Replace _.mergeWith() with deepmerge in blocks. (50637)
useInsertionPoint: Add missing dependency for useCallback. (51682)
Block Editor: Improve data selector for BlockQuickNavigationItem. (51429)
Block Editor: Remove redundant memoization from 'ImageURLInputUI'. (51658)
Block Editor: Simplify filtering condition for getBlockParentsByBlockName selector. (51439)
Block Editor: Remove unused selectors. (51674)

Navigation Menu Sidebar

Extract nav editor component in Nav in Browse mode. (51436)
Remove custom button and (conditionally) show single menu on Navigation route in Browse Mode. (51565)

Design Tools

Fluid typography: Add missing changelog from #51516. (51668)

Layout

Move layout definitions out of theme.json. (50621)
Try stabilising layout and its associated APIs. (51434)

Global Styles

Global styles revisions: Move from experimental to 6.3. (51474)

Post Editor

Fix refactor flat term selector to use data api for creating new terms. (50952)

Data Layer

Private actions and selectors: Return stable references, expose to thunks. (51051)

Themes

Block Theme Previews: Rename GET variable and prepare for core compat. (51738)

Interactivity API

Remove the hydration console log of the Interactivity API. (51571)
Use interactivity API for Navigation and File blocks only in Gutenberg. (51694)
Behaviors: Move behaviors code to experimental folder. (51654)

Components

Convert ClipboardButton to TypeScript. (51334)
Use internal context system to apply toolbar variant to toolbar dropdowns. (51154)

Parser

Split each class in parser.php to a separate file. (48693)

Tools

Testing

Add 'Mamaduka' as one of the code owners for Playwright tests. (51470)
Combine Site Editor list view tests into a single file. (51635)
Consolidate duplicate block tests. (51352)
Fix flaky 'Keep styles on block transforms' end-to-end test. (51593)
Fix flaky 'Push to Global Styles' end-to-end test. (51636)
Fix flaky 'Switch to Draft' action in preview end-to-end tests. (51564)
Fix flaky 'hooks API' end-to-end test. (51592)
Fix flaky Image block interactivity end-to-end test. (51573)
Fix the flaky site editor list view tests. (51598)
Migrate 'Allowed Blocks Setting on InnerBlocks' tests to Playwright. (51677)
Migrate block hierarchy navigation tests to Playwright. (51517)
Playwright Utils: Change preference update method in setIsFixedToolbar. (51659)
Playwright Utils: Simplify editor preference updates in createNewPost. (51560)
Styles Navigation Screen: Close style book using location. (51365)
Update BlockEditorProvider tests. (51497)
Update E2E test sharding on CI, make Playwright tests faster, Puppeteer tests slower. (50362)
Update the 'Iframe block' test and fix flakiness. (51631)
end-to-end tests: Try fixing 'networkidle' timeout errors. (51826)
test: Re-enable native integration tests. (51706)
Migrate Navigable toolbar test to Playwright. (51514)
Mobile unit tests: Remove custom waitFor implementation. (46735)
Set fixedToolbar to false after each top toolbar test to ensure proper cleanup. (51600)
Fix performance test failure on trunk. (51407)
Performance tests: Make theme versions consistent cross-env. (50905)
Performance tests: Update base point to compare. (51381)

Build Tooling

Babel config: Enable useSpread option for JSX transform to reduce transpilation. (51574)
Lodash: Remove from lint staged type check. (51698)
Performance Tests: Update the base point to compare against. (51689)
wp-env: Try to fix failing PHP Github actions. (51513)
npm lockfile: Hoist reakit and date-fns packages to the top. (51500)

Plugin

Add script to compile usage of experimental APIs. (51341)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

@bangank36: Update components README.md. (51557)
@samnajian: Accept transforms in gutenberg_get_global_styles context params. (50484)
@xerpa43: Avatar block: Fix not 1:1 between the editor and the front-end. (49963)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @alexstine @andrewserong @aristath @artemiomorales @aurooba @bangank36 @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @ciampo @dcalhoun @derekblank @diegohaz @draganescu @ellatrix @fabiankaegy @fluiddot @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jhnstn @jsnajdr @juanfra @kozer @luisherranz @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mcliwanow @mcsf @mikachan @n2erjo00 @noahtallen @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @okmttdhr @paulopmt1 @pbking @peterwilsoncc @pooja-muchandikar @ramonjd @richtabor @samnajian @SantosGuillamot @SavPhill @SaxonF @scruffian @shimotmk @Sidsector9 @SiobhyB @spacedmonkey @stokesman @sunyatasattva @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla @walbo @WunderBart @xerpa43 @youknowriad