11.8.0 RC2

Enhancements

Block Library

• Add spacing controls to all heading blocks. (35772)
• Enable slash inserter for heading, list, and quote. (35360)
• Unify theme block placeholder content. (35517)
• Buttons: Add gap and vertical margin support. (34546)
• Categories: Add support for showing only top-level categories. (35726)
• Column: Allow the specification of blocks allowed within columns. (35342)
• Comment Content Block: Add typography, color and padding support. (35183)
• Cover: Add allowedBlocks and TemplateLock attributes in Cover Block. (31326)
• Cover: Add option to set opacity when background colour used. (35065)
• Cover: Allow setting the height from the placeholder state. (35068)
• Cover: Change dimRatio to 50 if media added and dimRatio is set to 100. (35789)
• Cover: Only use white text when the background of the cover block is dark. (33541)
• Cover: Use the description in the placeholder. (34970)
• Embed: Add Pinterest as an embed provider. (34895)
• Feature Image: Add spacing controls to the featured image block. (35775)
• Featured image and Image: Remove descendent space. (35466)
• Gallery Block: Get media data in a single request. (34389)
• Heading: Autogenerate heading anchors. (30825)
• Quote: Update deprecation to expect style block supports. (35615)
• Page List: Show empty placeholder if no items. (35441)
• Post Date: Add more typography options. (35422)
• Post Comment Author: Add link settings and block supports. (35595)
• Post Comment Date: Add link setting and block supports. (35112)
• Quote: Added a "plain" style for quote blocks. (29856)
• Search: Enable inheritance in search block. (35723)
• Site Logo: Add a basic example to the site logo block. (35588)
• Site Logo: Move the Reset button to the Replace menu dropdown. (35372)
• Site Logo: placeholder tweaks. (35397)
• Site Tagline: Add fontStyle control to Site Tagline block. (35507)
• Site Tagline: Add wide + full support to the site tagline block. (35589)
• Site Title: Add basic example to site-title block. (35590)
• Site Logo: Remove "Reset" button icon. (35434)
• Social Icons: Add top and bottom margin support. (35374)
• Social Links: Polish logos only style. (35586)

Design Tools

• ToolsPanel: Switch to plus icon when no controls present in panel body. (34107)
• Block Supports: Add panel specific className. (35793)
• Block Supports: Switch dimensions inspector controls slot to bubble virtually. (34725)
• Inspector Controls: Resort the order of the design tools associated with styles hooks. (35574)

Global Styles

• Allow users to store duotone data. (35318)
• Allow child theme.json to be merged with parent theme.json. (35459)
• Extract the three color panels to their own global styles view. (35400)
• Font family: Switch from CSS Custom Property to classes. (31910)
• Move the global styles reset action to a dropdown menu. (35559)
• Update descriptions for the different screens under global styles. (35429)
• Update the global styles sidebar's root view to use Card components. (35547)
• Use text color to render the Aa preview in global styles. (35631)

Theming

• Add [data-block] to appender. (35356)
• Enable theme supports automatically for FSE theme. (35593)
• Remove default padding/margin on the body of the page and editor canvas. (35421)
• Support title in templateParts. (35626)
• CSS: Add a reset for image heights. (30092)

Patterns

• Increase number of items per page for default Query Loop Block. (35603)
• Featured patterns from pattern directory. (35115)

Block Editor

• Add animations for insertion point, dropzone, and other elements. (33132)
• Adjust Link UI visual styling. (35414)
• Add some top margin. (35717)
• Show ellipsis menu in the List View. (35170)

Template Editor

• Add more options to template areas in template details. (35577)
• Add template areas to template inspector. (35239)
• Add template details to template parts. (35444)
• Align the layout of the template card with the block card. (35391)
• Update site editor block placeholder styling. (35513)
• Use a dark background for the site editor. (35520)

Components

• Add shortcut provider. (35652)
• Iterate on the design of the colors and gradients panel. (35535)
• Navigator: Update Navigator styling to facilitate sticky positioning. (35518)
• Repositioned RangeControl tooltip and adjusted image zoom control dropdown height. (27374)
• Remove segmented control vertical separators. (35497)
• Storybook: Add RTL switcher to toolbar. (35711)
• Storybook: Add story for TypographyPanel. (35293)
• Storybook: Enable Controls and disable Knobs by default. (35682)
• Storybook: Remove outdated decorator configuration. (35678)
• Support "any" step in NumberControl and RangeControl. (34542)
• ToggleGroupControl: Allow custom aria-label. (35423)
• Update range control metrics. (35540)
• Update FontSize control. (35395)

Packages

• Create Block: Add PascalCase slug to create-block template strings. (35462)
• Create Block: Allow local directories to be passed to --template as relative paths. (35645)
• Test Setup: Add more-complete mocks of common timer functions. (35368)
• Scripts: Allow customization of the ARTIFACTS_PATH via WP_ARTIFACTS_PATH env var. (35371)

Accessibility

• Rich text popovers: Move to block tools to fix tab order. (34956)
• Save button: Prevent focus loss. (34731)

Performance

Global Styles

• Pass only the data the site editor uses. (35458)
• Use a context provider for global styles configuration. (35622)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Block Settings: Don't render 'Move to' if the block cannot be moved. (35463)
• Cover: Update placeholder minHeight style to support non-px units. (35614)
• Cover: Update 'templateLock' attribute. (35671)
• Featured Image: Center placeholder chip contents. (35417)
• Heading: Fix undo/redo "trap". (35767)
• Heading: Remove anchor map when block unmounts. (35761)
• Site Logo: Fix site logo block on dark backgrounds. (35718)

i18n

• Fix HelpHub link i18n for page-jumps. (35404)
• Fix template part block untranslated strings. (35715)
• Translation note for Home/end to avoid mistranslations. (35669)

Packages

• Server Site Render: Prevent empty renders in ServerSideRender component caused by changing props while already fetching markup. (35433)
• Rich text: formats: allow format to filter value when changing tag name (35516)

Components

• Color Picker: Fix some issues on the color picker component; Remove tinycolor2;. (35562)
• Navigator: Hide horizontal overflow in Navigator. (35332)
• Popover: Fix __unstableBoundaryParent. (35082)
• RawHTML component: Allow multiple children. (35532)
• Rich text: Fix internal paste across multiline and single line instances. (35416)
• Toggle Group Control: Fix visual state when no option is selected. (35545)
• Toggle Group Control: Fixed condition to show separator correctly. (35409)
• Toogle Group Control: Fix ToggleGroupControlOption not passing ref to the underlying element. (35546)
• Tooltip: For Tooltips, prevent emitting events to child elements if they are disabled. (35254)
• Tooltip: Remove extra comma character from Tooltip when underlying component is disabled. (35247)

Themes

• Custom Templates: Use "title" from the theme.json. (35592)
• Elements block support: Fix link color rendering on site front end. (35446)
• Move the link color styles to the footer. (35425)
• Reset margin for all children of flow layouts. (35426)

Template Editor

• Use slug as template parts area item key. (35796)
• Fix missing titles in general areas. (35657)

Block API

• Blocks: Apply the most recent filters to previously registered blocks. (34299)
• Fix class serialization of font size and colors in dynamic blocks that use block supports. (35751)

Design Tools

• Border Radius Control: Fix undefined value on first click into RangeControl. (35651)

Block Editor

• Fix updating the block list after block removal. (35721)
• Fix sibling inserter animation. (35729)
• Inserter: Fix gap between Search and Tabs. (35537)
• Saving post: Transparent disabled button. (35542)
• FSE: Coding standards: DOCTYPE should be the first line/character of any HTML document. (35442)
• [Block Editor]: Fix displaying only the none alignment option (35822)

REST API

• Fix preloading middleware referencing stale data for OPTIONS requests. (35527)

List View

• Fix expand and collapse when the icon is clicked. (35526)

Global Styles

• Fix presets that use a callback to validate user data. (35255)

CSS & Styling

• Remove font size classes that are enqueued in the global stylesheet. (35182)

Block API

• Allow more than 1 block stylesheets. (32510)

Experiments

Navigation Block

• Add block gap support. (35277)
• Enable always on burger menu for responsive navigation menus. (35568)
• Fix issue with space-between. (35722)
• Submenu item paddings & fixes. (35716)
• Fix navigation gap & padding issues. (35752)
• Remove color inheritance specificity. (35725)
• Remove deprecated classnames from Navigation Link block. (35358)

Navigation Screen

• Use new core functions in menu items REST API. (35648)
• Navigation: Preload more API requests. (35402)

Full Site Editing

• Try: Remove dotted ancestor border. (35637)

Documentation

Handbook

• Add categories to TOC to help digest the FAQ. (35519)
• Add missing documentation for the wrapperProps property for the BlockListBlock component returned by the editor.blockListEdit filter. (26961)
• Add section on using theme.json schema. (35739)
• Add Table of Contents to FAQ page. (35455)
• Clarify documentation for InnerBlocks orientation prop. (35712)
• CustomRadius - Remove plugin only text. (35582)
• Update block categories. (35523)
• Update npm run build command for developing with Gutenberg locally. (35681)

Packages

• Block Editor: Update default value of the viewportWidth attribute in documentation. (35659)
• Components: Add the storybook link to the /components README. (35493)
• Components: Add readme for SkipToSelectedBlock component. (32958)
• Componentes: Add CHANGELOG entry for the fieldset removal from FontAppearanceControl. (35585)
• Components: Add entry to CHANGELOG regarding new ColorPicker. (35486)
• Components: Fix markdown highlighting on components CONTRIBUTING.md. (35633)
• Components: Mark CustomSelectControl hint option as experimental. (35673)
• Components: Polish ToggleGroupControl. (35600)
• Components: Small tweaks to contributing guidelines. (35620)
• Components: Update README for SelectControl. (28811)
• Components: Update DateTimePicker component README to remove reference to isDayHighlighted callback. (35363)
• Components, feat(SelectControl): Add children prop. (29540)
• Create Block: Update documentation and readme post merge of #35645. (35679)

Code Quality

• Block Editor: Fix odd usage of transform-styles wrap function (and tighten types). (23599)
• Constrained tabbing: Simplify. (34836)
• Compose: Convert usePrevious hook to TypeScript. (35597)
• Update Callers to handle when getBlockType return undefined. (35097)
• Components: Polish ResizableBox and convert it to TypeScript. (35062)
• Components: Remove tinycolor object usage from the gradient picker. (35544)
• Components: Remove duplicated className in Card component. (35333)
• Components: Remove unused useJumpStep utility. (35561)
• Components: Use new color picker props. (35566)
• Components: Replace the color picker component with the new version. (35220)
• Components, FontAppearanceControl: Remove fieldset wrapper. (35461)
• Components, ToolsPanel: Remove hardcoded classnames. (35415)
• Components, UnitControl component: Refactor JSX components to TypeScript. (35281)
• Global Styles: Refactor how the Global Styles access and sets data. (35264)
• Post Editor: Fix-up Post Editor’s preferences modal. (35369)
• Remove Tinycolor usage from component color utils. (35553)
• Reusable Blocks: Thunkify reusable-blocks store. (35217)

Tools

Packages

• Scripts: Remove inject polyfill by default. (35436)

Testing

• Child theme.json: Update test to better capture that childs can update single parts in isolation. (35759)
• Border Radius Control: Add fallback px unit and add utils tests. (35786)
• Fix preview end-to-end tests. (35565)
• Flaky Tests: Fix taxonomies flaky tests. (35534)
• Flaky Tests: Try another fix for flaky nav test. (35443)
• Performance tests: Add more detailed loading metrics. (32237)
• Components, Panel: Improve unit tests. (35658)
• Enable/skipped metabox test. (35594)

Build Tooling

• Revert version bump if build job fails. (33239)
• Updates react-native-aztec android to use S3 dependency for Aztec editor. (35606)