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Changelog

Bug Fixes

Post Editor

  • Editor: Fix issue where createBlock in block template caused list view collapse. (56666)

Modules API

  • Modules: Fix import map polyfill not being copied on the generated plugin ZIP. (56655)

Documentation

  • Interactivity API: New store() API documentation. (56764)
  • Interactivity API: Update TS/JSDocs after migrating to the new store() API. (56748)

Tools

Build Tooling

  • Add missing labels to changelog script, and enhance mapping function. (55066)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@andrewserong @DAreRodz @luisherranz @vcanales
= 17.2.0-rc.1 =

Changelog

Features

Modules API

  • Interactivity API: Use modules instead of scripts in the frontend. (56143)

Enhancements

  • Add translator comments for strings containing date formats. (56531)
  • Block Settings: Only display parent block selector on small screens. (56431)
  • Block Theme Preview: Display the theme name on the activate button. (55752)
  • Core data revisions: Extend support to other post types. (56353)
  • Improve tooltip for parent blocks on the block toolbar. (56146)
  • Simplify template author token. (56566)
  • Style engine: Allow CSS var output for fontSize and fontFamily and update documentation. (56528)
  • Try: Change "Detach pattern" to "Detach". (56323)
  • useEntityRecord: Improve unit tests. (56415)

Components

  • Add focus rings to focusable disabled buttons. (56383)
  • DropdownMenu V2 tweaks. (56041)
  • DropdownMenu V2: Add support for rendering in legacy popover slot. (56342)
  • FormToggle: Refine animation. (56515)
  • Slot: Add styles prop to bubblesVirtually version. (56428)
  • Tabs: Cleanup and improvements. (56224)
  • Try Ariakit Select for new CustomSelectControl component. (55790)

Data Views

  • Data list view: Make filter row, table header, and pagination sticky. (56157)
  • Simplify dataviews view button. (56485)
  • Update data view menu item actions. (56398)

Global Styles

  • Global style revisions: Redesign style revision items. (55913)
  • Global styles revisions: Migrate API call to getRevisions(). (56349)
  • Style Revisions: Remove style revisions dropdown menu. (56454)

Site Editor

  • Add 'View site' action to 'Site updated' snackbar. (52693)
  • Add the Post Author component to the Page sidebar. (56368)
  • Redirect to main page menu if page record not found. (56177)

Block Editor

  • Drag and drop: Allow dragging to the beginning and end of a document. (56070)
  • List View: Expand state if a block is dragged to within a collapsed block in the editor canvas. (56493)

Layout

  • Add layout classes to legacy Group inner container. (56130)
  • Add setting to disable custom content size controls. (56236)

Patterns

  • Small tweaks to CreatePatternModal. (56016)
  • Update Labels in Block Inserter (block patterns tab). (55986)

Icons

  • Update trash icon. (56569)

Block Library

  • Disable block renaming support for Nav Link block. (56425)

Distraction Free

  • Add top toolbar to distraction free mode. (56295)

CSS & Styling

  • Gallery Block: Use styled scrollbars for image captions. (56252)

Typography

  • Font Library: Remove insecure properties. (56230)

New APIs

  • Revisions: Add new selectors to fetch entity revisions. (54046)

Interactivity API

  • Migration to the new store() API. (55459)

Bug Fixes

  • Block Editor: Undeprecate the '__experimentalImageSizeControl' component. (56414)
  • Core data: Harmonize getRevision selector and resolver function signatures. (56416)
  • Editor styles: Scope without adding specificity. (56564)
  • Fix Restore Post title placeholder. (56580)
  • Post Schedule Panel: Remove text overflow ellipsis. (56319)
  • PostCSS style transformation: Fail gracefully instead of throwing an error. (56093)
  • Rich text: Pad multiple spaces through en/em replacement. (56341)
  • Site Editor Sidebar: Fix actions vertical alignment. (56218)
  • Site Editor: Add a fallback template showing the title and content for the post only mode. (56509)
  • useEntityRecord: Do not trigger REST API requests when disabled. (56108)

Block Library

  • File block: Remove anchor tag when copy pasting to file name. (56508)
  • Fix label of columns inspector panel. (56647)
  • Post Template: Fix incorrect offset query. (56440)

Block Editor

  • (RichText)(Workaround)(17.1.x) Fallback to a string arg in collapseWhiteSpace() if value is not a string. (56570)
  • Cover block: Pass dropZoneElement reference to fix dragging within cover block area. (56312)
  • useMovingAnimation: Clear translate3d rule when animation is finished. (56410)

Components

  • Design Tools: Fix last ToolsPanelItem styling. (56536)
  • Fix FormTokenField suggestions broken scrollbar when __experimentalExpandOnFocus is defined. (56426)
  • Tabs: Fix flaky unit tests. (55950)

Global Styles

  • Additional CSS: Fix on change validation. (56434)
  • Global styles revisions: Update isResolving flag. (56491)
  • Spacing: Fix block error if spacing unit array empty in theme.json. (56306)

CSS & Styling

  • Reduce specificity of default Cover text color styles. (56411)
  • Restore Post Title visual styles in Code View mode. (56582)

Saving

  • Editor: Reinstate anonymous callback for saved post state. (56529)

Post Editor

  • Save post button: Avoid extra re-renders when enablng/disabling tooltip. (56502)

Plugin

  • Update Readme.txt tested up to 6.4. (56427)

Site Editor

  • Fix template resolution for templates assigned as home page. (56418)

Patterns

  • Fix issue with template in replace template screen. (56407)

Layout

  • Fix issue where layout classnames are injected for blocks without layout support. (56187)

Typography

  • Font Library: Fix fonts not displaying correctly. (55393)

Colors

  • Duotone: Backport from Core to fix filters in classic themes. (54778)

Accessibility

  • Migrating StyleBook to use updated Composite implementation. (55344)

Data Views

  • DataViews: Make disabled pagination buttons focusable. (56422)

Block Library

  • Image Block: Enable image block to be selected correctly when clicked. (56043)

Post Editor

  • Tooltip: Don't render buttons tooltip when show button text labels is enabled. (55842)

Components

  • Improve Button saving state accessibility. (55547)

Patterns

  • Fix focus loss after converting to a synced pattern. (55473)

Performance

  • Avoid calling postcss when not needed. (56601)
  • Block Editor: Optimize 'Connections' inspector controls. (56443)

Global Styles

  • Make search more responsive for block type list. (56139)

Experiments

Data Views

  • DataViews: Document view.layout. (56637)
  • DataViews: Extract common constants to file. (56251)
  • DataViews: Rename InFilter component to FilterSummary. (56506)
  • DataViews: Scope names of V2 UI components. (56503)
  • DataViews: Update field API to generate filters based on type. (55996)
  • DataViews: Update filter component. (56110)
  • Dataviews: Add confirmation step before deleting a page. (56504)
  • Dataviews: Add preview and grid view in templates list. (56382)
  • Dataviews: Grid layout refinements. (56441)
  • Dataviews: Remove link from author. (56467)
  • Dataviews: Update item actions in grid view. (56501)
  • Fix data view menu item radius. (56395)

Post Editor

  • Render html in post titles in visual mode and edit HTML in post title in code view. (54718)

Documentation

  • Add the attributes definition page to the create block tutorial of the platform documentation. (56429)
  • Add the transforms page to the create block tutorial of the platform documentation. (56559)
  • Add thee block supports page to the create block tutorial of the framework docs. (56483)
  • Added clarifications and examples to "Get started with wp-scripts". (56298)
  • Block Editor: Fix typo in URLInput's onKeyDown prop documentation. (56322)
  • Bring back non-JS tabs in block editor handbook. (56561)
  • Docs: Fix incorrect build script description in script package. (56332)
  • Docs: Fundamentals of Block Development - File structure of a block. (56551)
  • Docs: Fundamentals of Block Development - Registration of a block. (56334)
  • Docs: Fundamentals of Block Development - The block wrapper. (56596)
  • Docs: Fundamentals of Block Development - Working with Javascript in the Block Editor. (56553)
  • Docs: Fundamentals of Block Development - block.json. (56435)
  • Docs: Improve downloadBlob example. (56225)
  • Documentation - Block Editor Handbook - Add end user documentation about Block Editor as a resource on the Landing Page of the Block Editor Handbook. (49854)
  • Fix overly complex code example in ComboboxControl readme. (56365)
  • Fix version in useSetting deprecation notice. (56377)
  • Fundamentals block development - landing and first pages. (56584)
  • Fundamentals of Block Development - fix save definition. (56605)
  • Link preview image to live example using WordPress Playground. (56292)
  • NavigableContainers: Fix doc typo in onKeyDown prop. (56352)
  • Release docs: Add new section about troubleshooting the release. (56436)
  • Remove all {% codetabs %} instances and any vanilla JS references. (56121)
  • Simplify code example in ToggleControl component readme. (56389)
  • Text and Heading: Improve documentation around default values and truncation logic. (56518)
  • Theme JSON schema: Add heading/button key to color definition. (55674)
  • Update for 6.4.1 for versions in WP. (56216)
  • Update references to the gutenberg-examples repo to the new block-development-examples. (56119)
  • Update template name in create-block command. (56281)
  • Update webpack options for wp-scripts in README.md. (56314)
  • BoxControl: Update story and refactor to Typescript. (56462)

Code Quality

  • Blocks pkg: Remove 'browser' dependencies. (56433)
  • DataViews: Code Quality remove some unused props from action. (56477)
  • Editor: Move the template focus modes to the editor store. (56472)
  • Extract a PostPanelRow component from the different sidebar panels. (56238)
  • Interactivity API: Add missing changelog entry for the new store() API. (56611)
  • Migrating block editor BlockPatternsList component. (56210)
  • Move the DisableNonContentBlocks component to the editor package. (56423)
  • Post Schedule Panel: Fix Sass deprecation warning for division. (56412)
  • Remove compatibility layer for WP 6.2. (56464)
  • Unify the PostSchedule component between site and post editors. (56196)
  • Update: Refactor useAddedBy to use authorText and originalSource fields. (56568)

Block Library

  • Add align support to the image block - alternative. (55954)
  • Backmerge block renaming fixes/refactors from 6.4 branch into Gutenberg trunk. (56386)
  • Pattern placeholder: Remove duplicate 'useDispatch' hook. (56397)

Components

  • Remove incorrect version from deprecated __nextHasNoMarginBottom prop of AnglePickerControl Component. (56336)
  • Revert "DropdownMenu V2: Add support for rendering in legacy popover slot". (56484)

Data Views

  • Dataviews: Ensure items and fields are using a unique id. (56366)

Block Editor

  • useInnerBlocksProps: Stabilise dropZoneElement prop. (56313)

Design Tools

  • Fix: Theme.json font settings in unit test. (56309)

Tools

  • Workflows: Update 'days-before-stale' for flaky test report issues. (56585)
  • scripts: Update jest-dev-server to v9. (56552)

Testing

  • Dataviews: Add first end-to-end tests. (56634)
  • Migrate 'align hook' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (56480)
  • Migrate 'block directory' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (56593)
  • Migrate 'block icons' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (56610)
  • Migrate 'custom taxonomies' end-to-end test to Playwright. (56486)
  • Migrate 'sidebar permalink' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (56253)
  • Migrate Is Typing Test to Playwright. (56616)
  • Page spec: Merging create page and toggle preview tests. (56129)
  • Playwright Utils: Fix the method of getting post ID in 'publishPost'. (56421)
  • end-to-end tests: Merge Puppeteer into single job, split Playwright further. (56363)

Build Tooling

  • Create block: Update interactive-template to the new store() API. (56613)

Security

  • WP_Theme_JSON_Gutenberg: Add nested indexed array schema sanitization. (56447)

Various

  • Add: Author text and original source to wp_template_part. (56567)
  • Migrating BlockPatternSetup to use updated Composite implementation. (55425)
  • Migrating InserterListbox to use updated Composite implementation. (56246)

Data Views

  • Dataviews: All Templates: Add filters to template author. (56338)
  • Dataviews: All templates: Add: Sorting to template author and add author_text to the rest API. (56333)

HTML API

  • Backport updates from Core. (56578)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @andrewhayward @andrewserong @annezazu @apeatling @arthur791004 @bph @brookewp @chad1008 @chiilog @ciampo @DAreRodz @dmsnell @draganescu @ellatrix @fabiankaegy @flootr @fluiddot @fullofcaffeine @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jffng @jorgefilipecosta @juanmaguitar @kevin940726 @luisherranz @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @megane9988 @NekoJonez @ntsekouras @oandregal @ramonjd @richtabor @ryanwelcher @SavPhill @Soean @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @youknowriad @zaguiini