Release 17.1.0 RC1 · WordPress/gutenberg

Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

Navigation block: Fix Inaccurate description of the Show icon button setting. (55429)
Query Loop: Add accesibility markup at the end of the loop in all cases. (55890)
Template Part: Add fallback to the current theme when not provided. (55965)
Update components to use __next40pxDefaultSize. (56022)

Components

Tabs: Improve focus behavior. (55287)
Tabs: Update subcomponents to accept full HTML element props. (55860)
TextControl: Add opt-in prop for 40px default size. (55471)
ToggleGroupControl: Add opt-in prop for 40px default size. (55789)

Patterns

Move "Manage patterns" below "Detach pattern". (56018)
Show theme patterns from directory in site editor. (55877)

Global Styles

Global Style Revisions: Ensure consistent back button behaviour. (55881)
Global Styles Revisions: More descriptive text timeline. (55868)
Global styles revisions: Add route for single styles revisions. (55827)

Block Locking

Block Quick Navigation: Truncate text. (56142)

Block Editor

Button block: Support double enter to skip to default block. (56134)

Design Tools

Add block gap support to Quote block. (56064)

Post Editor

"Detach" text change in template options. (55870)

Site Editor

Site editor: Add edit page slug field. (55767)

Interactivity API

Server directive processing: Process only root blocks. (55739)

Block settings menu

Remove the extraneous template part title in replace control. (55603)

List View

Add keyboard shortcut to select all blocks. (54899)

New APIs

Download blob: Remove downloadjs dependency. (56024)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

Background Image Support: Hide the background image reset button when there's no image. (55973)
Background image support: Fix focus loss when resetting background image. (55984)
Custom Link: Decode value in URL input field. (55549)
Fix lightbox trigger styles. (55859)
Form block: Use type="submit" for buttons. (55690)
Image block: Add check for lightbox values during image block migration. (56057)
Image block: Don't show pointer cursor on linked image in the editor. (55882)
Lightbox: Fix button misalignment in gallery image. (56060)
Lightbox: Fix close button position. (56125)
Missing block: Use raw source for originalContent. (56014)
Navigation Link block: Register variations on post type / taxonomy registration. (54801)
Pattern: Fix regression error in post type templates. (55858)
Pattern: Process embeds. (55979)
Post feature image block: Wrap images with hrefs in an A tag. (55498)
Quote Block: Fix the Quote block layout supports. (55240)
Read More block: Reduce text decoration specificity. (56038)

Data Views

DataViews: Add missing key to ResetFilters component. (56189)
DataViews: Fix issue with irrelevant statuses. (55967)
DataViews: Fix nested button tags on sidebar. (56089)
DataViews: Fix pagination on manual input. (55940)
DataViews: Fix spacing issue in top-level bar. (56151)
DataViews: Fix status filter upon switching the default views from the sidebar. (55856)
DataViews: Make items per page an even number. (55906)
DataViews: Make used taxonomy private. (55918)
DataViews: Reset pagination upon filter change. (55797)
Dataviews: Add a missing icon for the side by side view. (55925)

Components

DropdownMenu: Remove extra vertical space around the toggle button. (56136)
DropdownMenuV2: Prevent default on Escape key presses. (55962)
DropdownMenuV2: Use the Icon component to render radio checks. (55964)

Typography

Fix fatal error in WP_Fonts_Resolver::Get_settings(). (55981)
Font Library: Create fonts dir if a font face needs to use the filesystem. (56120)
Font Library: Fix font installation failure. (55893)

Block Editor

Iframe: Bubble events from html element instead of body element to fix drag chip positioning. (56099)
Post Featured Image: Handling correctly when uploading a file without mime type. (56133)
Block Editor: Fix Block editor crash. (56051)
Move clientId key to BlockContextualToolbar. (56008)

Patterns

Add context for translators to any unclear usage of "synced". (55935)
Use existing download function for JSON downloads to fix non-ASCII encoding. (55912)

Inspector Controls

Global Styles: Don't show "Apply Styles Globally" button in non-block based themes. (56033)

Template Editor

Templates: Update filter to call all of the individual methods. (55980)

Global Styles

Global styles revisions: Load unsaved revision item into the revisions preview. (55880)

Post Editor

Edit Post: Fix pattern modal reopening when making the title empty again. (55873)

Data Layer

Core data: Fix wrong store results when page receives less items that what is stored. (55832)

Accessibility

Data Views

DataViews: Add labels to "in-filters". (56001)
DataViews: Show actions label. (56027)

Components

Fix the image link button pressed state. (56123)

Block Editor

Fix mismatching link control action buttons visual order and DOM order. (56042)
Escape on Block Toolbar returns focus to Editor Canvas. (55712)

Site Editor

Prevent sidebar focus in site editor on small screens. (55934)

Block Library

Heading level dropdown: Remove obtrusive tooltips in favor of visible text. (56035)

Performance

Tooling

Add a metric to trace template navigation in the site editor. (55796)

List View

ListViewBlock: Combine 'useSelect' hooks. (55889)

Block Editor

Block Editor: Optimize 'Block Hooks' inspector controls. (56101)
Block Editor: Optimize BlockListAppender. (56116)

Site Editor

Avoid rerendering the sitehub unnecessarily. (55818)

Layout

Block Editor: Optimize layout style renderer subscription. (55762)

Experiments

Data Views

DataViews: Add ability to create custom views. (55773)
DataViews: Add control to reset all filters at once. (55955)
DataViews: Add delete and restore actions. (55781)
DataViews: Add initial "Side by side" prototype. (55343)
DataViews: Add new page size option. (56112)
DataViews: Add rename functionality to custom views. (55997)
DataViews: Allow users to add filters dynamically. (55992)
DataViews: Update 'All pages' sidebar heading. (56148)
DataViews: Update 'View' button. (56144)
DataViews: Update all templates page. (55848)
DataViews: Update author and title fields in template's list. (56029)
DataViews: Update filters in view configuration. (55735)
DataViews: Add filters to table columns. (55508)
DataViews: Add: Ability to delete custom views. (55924)
DataViews: Add: Custom views header indication. (55926)
DataViews: Remove unnecessary label when no visible filters exist. (55838)

Documentation

Add a first block type page to the platform documentation. (56109)
Add new block development "Quick Start Guide" and update the create-block-tutorial-template. (56056)
Clean up DataViews docs: filter.id is not used. (55833)
DataViews: Document enableSorting and enableHiding. (55988)
DataViews: Document actions. (55959)
Doc: Corrected + updated links. (56084)
Doc: Fixes wrong link in #56084. (56106)
Docs: Changes imports from wp.editor to wp.blockEditor for PlainText and RichText. (55841)
Fix formatting issue in the "Get started with create-block" doc. (55872)
Fix: 404 Link on git workflow docs. (55897)
Fix: 404 link in get-started-with-create-block docs. (55932)
Fix: Create meta block link in block attributes documentation. (55804)
Fix: Filter duotone link on block-supports documentation. (55896)
Fix: Two invalid links on docs/contributors/documentation/README.md. (55843)
New additional resource for wp-env. (55987)
Update documentation to clarify workflow branch for release package publishing. (56183)
Update jest links to the new site. (55802)

Code Quality

Block lib: Remove multiline=false (deprecated). (56113)
Delete unused SelectedBlockPopover component. (55821)
Fix: Remove unrequired nullish coalescing. (55854)
Fix: Use of integer value in a conditional rendering condition on Gradients. (55855)
Give nice unique names to block controls HOCs. (55795)
Migrating PatternTransformationsMenu. (56122)
Migrating block inserter media tab components. (56195)
Move document tools motion to header-edit-mode layout level. (55904)
Only render block toolbar if blockType has value. (55861)
Refactor Edit Widgets Document Tools Navigation to own component. (55778)
Refactor Selected Block Tools. (55737)
Refactor Site Editor Document Tools Navigation to own component. (55770)
Remove BlockStyles.Slot empty component. (55991)
Remove obsolete queryContext. (56034)
Remove unnecessary empty className. (55998)
Rename Unforward to Unforwarded and export the named const. (55820)
Render Selected Block Tools in Header when using Top Toolbar. (55787)
Reusable Blocks: Unlock a private hook and a component at the file level. (55809)
Server directive processing: Improve how block references are saved. (56107)
Share the editor settings between the post and site editors. (55970)
Site Editor: Fix deprecation console error in top toolbar. (55678)
Site Editor: Unlock global styles' private hooks at the file level. (55800)
Site Editor: Update edited entity sync logic. (55928)
Site Editor: Use EditorProvider instead of custom logic. (56000)
SiteEditor: Optimize BackToPageNotification component. (56102)
SiteEditor: Refactor disable non page content blocks. (56103)
Unify the PageUrl and PageSlug components between site and post editors. (56203)

Data Views

DataViews: Fix translatable string. (56075)
DataViews: Remove filter.name. (55834)
DataViews: Remove reset values from filters. (55839)
DataViews: Remove unnecessary sortingFn prop from field description. (55989)
DataViews: Simplify filters API. (55917)
DataViews: Update actions API. (56026)

Block Editor

Rich text: Remove preserveWhiteSpace serialisation differences. (55999)
Rich text: highlight format: Gracefully handle old span format. (56071)
Update Link Control labels to use gray-900. (55867)

Components

DisclosureContent: Migrate from reakit to @ariakit/react. (55639)
Divider: Migrate from reakit to @ariakit/react. (55622)
RadioGroup: Migrate from reakit to ariakit. (55580)

Site Editor

Core Data: Move the template lookup to core-data selectors/resolvers. (55883)
Don't use 'useEntityRecord' to only dispatch actions. (56076)

Block Library

Navigation: Refactor the PHP render function to make it easier to make changes in the future. (55605)
Update blockEditor.__unstableCanInsertBlockType hook namespace. (55845)

Data Layer

Data: Fix ESLint warnings for the 'useSelect' hook. (55916)

Post Editor

Edit Post: Use a single 'useSelect' hook for getting selectors. (55902)

Colors

Add Unit testing for duotone enhanced pagination. (55542)

Patterns

Split up the block editor inserter patterns tab into separate component files. (55315)

Design Tools

Block styles: Remove __unstableElementContext in favour of useStyleOverride. (54493)

Tools

Issue Templates: Add default type labels to issue templates. (55826)
Label enforcer: Make the warning message less scary for new contributors. (55900)
Quote feature request label. (55862)

Testing

Disable 'no-conditional-in-test' ESLint rule for Playwright. (56088)
Fix 'Block Switcher' test file name for Playwright end-to-end tests. (55840)
Fix flaky 'Meta boxes' end-to-end tests. (56083)
Migrate 'CPT locking' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (55929)
Migrate 'Meta boxes' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (55915)
Migrate 'Plugins API' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (55958)
Migrate 'annotations' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (55966)
Migrate 'container blocks' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (56141)
Migrate 'inner-blocks-prioritized-inserter-blocks' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (55828)
Migrate 'inner-blocks-render-appender' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (55814)
Migrate 'meta-attribute-block' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (55830)
Migrate Child Block Test to Playwright. (55199)
Migrate flaky PostPublishButton end-to-end tests to Playwright. (52285)
Perf Tests: Stabilise the Site Editor metrics. (55922)
Playwright Utils: Fix 'clickBlockOptionsMenuItem' helper. (55923)
Query block enhanced pagination: Simplify test setup. (55805)
Site editor template preview: Add end-to-end test and aria-pressed attribute to template preview toggle. (56096)
Upgrade Playwright to 1.39.0. (54051)
end-to-end Utils: Add setPreferences and editPost utils. (55099)
end-to-end Utils: Add support for web-vitals.js. (55660)

Build Tooling

Package @ariakit/test should be a dev dependency. (56091)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

@joanrodas: Update Link Control labels to use gray-900. (55867)
@JorgeVilchez95: "Detach" text change in template options. (55870)
@sacerro: Styles: More descriptive text for revisions timeline. (55868)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@afercia @andrewhayward @andrewserong @anomiex @anton-vlasenko @aristath @artemiomorales @bph @brookewp @c4rl0sbr4v0 @chad1008 @ciampo @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @dsas @ellatrix @flootr @fluiddot @gaambo @glendaviesnz @gziolo @jameskoster @jeryj @jhnstn @joanrodas @jorgefilipecosta @JorgeVilchez95 @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @kevin940726 @Mamaduka @masteradhoc @matiasbenedetto @ndiego @ntsekouras @oandregal @peterwilsoncc @pooja-muchandikar @priethor @ramonjd @renatho @richtabor @sacerro @scruffian @shimotmk @SiobhyB @Soean @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @torounit @tyxla @WunderBart @youknowriad