- Increase the minimum required Node.js version to v18.12.0 matching long-term support releases (#31270). Learn more about Node.js releases.
- Updated dependencies to require React 18 (45235)
- Upgraded React components to work with v17.0 (#29118). There are no new features in React v17.0 as explained in the blog post.
- Drop support for Internet Explorer 11 (#31110). Learn more at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/22/ie-11-support-phase-out-plan/.
- Increase the minimum Node.js version to v12 matching Long Term Support releases (#31270). Learn more at https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/.
- Added a store definition
store
for the viewport namespace to use with@wordpress/data
API (#26655).
- The initial viewport state is assigned synchronously, rather than on the next process tick. This should have an impact of fewer callbacks made to data subscribers.
- Change how required built-ins are polyfilled with Babel 7 (#9171). If you're using an environment that has limited or no support for ES2015+ such as lower versions of IE then using core-js or @babel/polyfill will add support for these methods.