11.9.0 RC1

Features

Block Library

• Add Media File and Attachment Page options to the native Image block Link To menu. (34846)
• Add new Comment Reply Link block. (35774)
• Add new Edit Comment Link block. (35965)
• Site Editor: Add Comment Avatar Core Block. (35396)
• Site Editor: Add new Comments Query Loop block. (35231)

Block Editor

• Enable native editor onboarding features globally. (35201)

Enhancements

• Disable Xdebug by default unless specified by user. (34324)
• Improve the initial loading of the site editor. (36044)
• StripHTML - preserve leading and trailing spaces and strip script and on* attributes. (35539)
• Remove visual clue from text alignment toolbar. (35922)
• Add flex-wrap control to flex layout. (36003)

Block Library

• Add alignment option to the Comment Edit Link block. (36033)
• Add featured transforms in Link Control for Navigation Link items. (35857)
• Add flex layout to Buttons block and new layout type. (35819)
• Add spacing controls to Post Author block. (35963)
• Add spacing controls to Post Excerpt. (35959)
• Add create new menu button to nav block. (36245)
• Code block: Add support for padding, color & border styles. (27582)
• Columns: Add padding support. (35701)
• Comment Author Name: Add spacing to have same options as Post Author Name. (36213)
• Deprecate the Post Comment block. (36032)
• Embed: Add Wolfram Cloud as an embed provider. (35656)
• Gallery block: Replace gallery experimental setting with a check for use_balanceTags. (34979)
• Image Block: Add data-id attribute on server side render for core galleries. (35975)
• Navigation Block: Add missing menu item attributes to core/navigation. (35634)
• Navigation: Add delete nav menu button. (35981)
• Navigation: Create nav menu on pattern insertion or when the block has uncontrolled inner blocks. (36024)
• Navigation: Use a single placeholder for the block. (36023)
• Page List: Create a JS version for the editor. (31670)
• Post Comment Author: Add alignment options. (36045)
• Post Comments: Even out the top margin inside the block. (35887)
• Post Excerpt: Don't print the wrapper when there is no excerpt. (35749)
• Post Title: Return no markup if title is empty. (35861)
• Save Navigation Block data to a wp_navigation post type. (35746)
• Search: Add contextual defaults when inserted in Navigation block. (36125)
• Try using flex layout on the Navigation block. (36169)
• Update navigation block entity automatic name generation and refine naming UI. (36238)

Accessibility

• Add announcement on formatting change for screen readers. (35896)
• Add aria-current to navigation link, submenu, page list. (35880)
• Full Site Editing: Use SearchControl component inside nav menu. (36011)
• Improve focus styles for Link UI preview title. (35853)
• Site Editor: Enable the "Save" keyboard shortcut. (36138)

Block Editor

• Enable rich previews in the Link UI for the Site Editor. (35951)
• Try: Show drag slot instead of hiding the item being dragged. (33950)
• Update Link UI design for preview action buttons to use icons for edit and unlink. (35833)

Full Site Editing

• Move and rename the site editor menu item. (36064)
• Use Heading component on NavigationMenu and NavigationGroup components. (36009)

Components

• Add duotone description. (36018)
• ToolsPanel: Update typography panel layout. (35911)

Template Editor

• Add resizer to template part focus mode. (35728)
• Auto resize the height of template part focus mode. (35974)

Global Styles

• Remove the duplicated title in background, text and link views in Global Styles. (35583)
• Typography: Switch to ToolsPanel for block support UI. (33744)

Design Tools

• Enable transparency for duotone. (34130)
• Typography block support: Add typography support and defaults. (34064)

Media

• Remove "security" verbiage from warning when filetype does not pass on upload. (36226)

Patterns

• [Patterns]: Add a flag to hide patterns from UI. (36108)

Themes

• Remove experimental feature notice. (36083)

Testing

• Scripts: Increase timeout for end-to-end tests. (35983)

REST API

• URL Details: Update regex to include og:Description. (35875)

New APIs

Global Styles

• Add API to access global settings, styles, and stylesheet. (34843)

Block Library

• Inner blocks: Edit/save symmetry + stabilise API. (26031)

Bug Fixes

• Allow moving metaboxes to previously empty area. (25187)
• Avoid showing deleted records in editor saving flow. (36027)
• BaseControl: Help text id has undefined value if no id is passed to component. (35899)
• Change console.error to console.warn for enqueued styles in the editor. (35914)
• Core Data uses hardcoded baseURL prefix for taxonomies and post types. (35850)
• Do not translate HTML tag. (35930)
• Disable ability to edit menus via Appearance -> Navigation Menus for non-FSE themes. (36257)
• Fix crash from calls to undefined functions. (36248)
• Fix WPCS lint errors in global styles. (36058)
• Fix getPxFromCssUnit test stability and test that memoized function works correctly. (35939)
• Fix: Rest global styles controller accessing configuration that may not exist. (36047)
• Make saveEditedEntityRecord use the entity key when available. (36212)
• Prevent PHP notice from block-supports elements. (35836)
• Revert "Post Content: Fix float clearing on entry content (#35958)". (36004)
• Try ensuring the item after post content clears floats. (36006)
• Unhook _block_template_render_title_tag. (36133)

Block Library

• Classic Block: Fix select all blocks side effect. (35999)
• Column block: Only add flex-basis if width contains a number. (35831)
• Comment Template: Move inner blocks container to separate components. (36174)
• Blocks: Fix relative URLs for inlined styles. (35538)
• Fix controlled inner blocks parent block attributes updates. (35827)
• Fix incorrect attributes definitions. (36140)
• Gallery block: Only show the gallery upload error message if mixed multiple files uploaded. (35790)
• Gallery block: Remove the arbitrary alt text that is added to gallery images. (35936)
• Heading: Avoid error on split when the paragraph isn't registered. (35871)
• Navigation Submenu: Fix PHP notice. (35984)
• Navigation overlay menu: Fix submenu spacing. (35823)
• Navigation: Fix dropdown indicator. (36106)
• Navigation: Fix issues with responsive justifications. (35913)
• Navigation: Fix justifications. (36105)
• Navigation: Fix padding for social links on mobile. (35824)
• Pattern block: Remove wrapping div. (36090)
• Post Comment: Handle the case where a comment does not exist. (35810)
• Post Content: Fix float clearing on entry content. (35958)
• Post Template Block: Move inner blocks container to separate component. (35945)
• Post Terms: Prevent the block from breaking on pages. (35957)
• Site Logo: Fix center alignment. (35971)

Components

• Fix ColorPalette className. (36016)
• Fix <Text> component text color value to correct color value for Link UI preview description text. (35851)
• Fix color list picker spacing to accomodate the new color picker. (36017)
• Fix unexpected movements, and closing on first click in the color picker. (35670)
• Fixes #34855 RangeControl style issue in RTL. (35777)
• Popover: Check anchorDocument default view before removing events. (35832)
• Storybook: Lazy load LTR/RTL styles for consistent specificity. (35771)
• fix/35709: Set admin color scheme to angle color picker. (35908)

Global Styles

• Fix navigation in global styles sidebar. (36203)
• Fix presets data for themes that do not provide any preset. (36054)
• Generate preset metadata for font-family in the site editor. (36022)
• Hotfix for leftovers of WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver::Get_merged_data. (36173)
• Lower the specificity of border & padding styles for the outline block style in the button block. (35968)
• Theme.json: Remove custom prefixes from properties that did not land in 5.8. (34485)

Block Editor

• Fix inserter with block pattern categories. (36116)
• Fix navigation block link control zero value in it. (36198)
• Fix the update of link and suggestions in LinkControl. (32320)
• Make Link UI inactive if selection extends beyond format bounds or encounters new link. (35946)
• Fix selection by holding shift key for nested blocks. (35668)
• Fix shift+click on a child block with its parent selected. (35988)

Design Tools

• Font Appearance: Improve consistency of label in Typography panel. (35860)
• Font Family Support: Fix skip serialization check. (36073)
• Navigation: Force text decoration styles on nav item in editor. (35859)

Template Editor

• Clear selected block when clicking outside in the template part focus mode. (35816)
• Templates: Only include templates for the current post types. (35802)

Plugin

• Fix fatal error in Site Logo block in WP 5.9. (36195)

Patterns

• Update unsaved navigation block flow. (35976)

Accessibility

• Try to communicate to screen readers that post title is textarea. (35898)

Full Site Editing

• Add fallback handling for plugins or themes using the Customizer. (35877)

Widgets Editor

• Fix layout styles not applying in widgets customizer. (35865)

CSS & Styling

• Editor defaults for themes with no editor styles and when user disables theme styles. (35736)

History

• Support disabling autosave for native Unsupported Block Editor. (35639)

Performance

List View

• Fix pagedown/pageup and improve scrolling. (36063)

Block Editor

• Improve opening of the block inserter via manual token-based analysis of reusable blocks. (35763)

Widgets Editor

• List View: Avoid re-rendering all items on block focus. Enable persistent List View in the widget editor. (35706)

Accessibility

• List View: Render a fixed number of items. (35230)

Experiments

Block Library

• Adds in basic styling for post comment form. (35704)
• Navigation Area block. (36178)
• Migrate classic menus to block-based menus on theme switch. (36255)
• Post Comments block: Hide the "Comments Closed" message. (35743)
• Mobile responsive navigation by default. (35917)
• Reword navigation color labels. (35916)
• Show the placeholder again when moving from a valid menu to non-existing menu. (36210)
• Provide a way to manage wp_navigation posts from wp-admin. (36126)

Global Styles

• Add a Global Styles endpoint and use it in the site editor. (35801)
• Fix: Crash when resetting user color palette. (36233)
• Fix: Show user colors on palette indicator. (36232)
• Migrate theme.json v1 to v2. (36155)
• Update: Show all color and gradient origins (core, theme, and user). (35970)

Full Site Editing

• Always display Customizer menu item. (36168)
• Revert "Always display Customizer menu item". (36189)
• Remove slug and status columns from templates list in Appearance > Templates. (35996)

REST API

• Improve unit test coverage for REST API menus endpoints.. (36177)

Navigation Screen

• Navigation Editor: Show a warning when trying to save unsupported blocks. (35993)

Reusable Blocks

• Editor: Multi-Entity Saving UI Improvements. (35933)

Components

• Update: Implement new color palette editor component. (35783)

Block Editor

• Split control for URL and Text within Link UI. (33849)

Documentation

• Add Thunks Tutorial. (36051)
• Add a more detailed guide for react native development. (35529)
• Add usage documentation for Rich Text package. (35885)
• Added link to Ways to keep up with Gutenberg & Full Site Editing. (36077)
• Blocks: Add view script to block schema and documentation. (36175)
• Blocks: Document changes to style and editorStyle in block.json. (36218)
• Docs: Add Getting Started level for documentation. (35891)
• Docs: Add section about using the schema during development. (35835)
• Docs: Fix Typos in widgets/overview.md. (36078)
• Docs: Fix schema file URL. (36157)
• Docs: Improve Getting Started landing page. (35893)
• Docs: Theme.json - fix typo. (36139)
• Docs: Tweak organization for getting-started documentation. (34091)
• Docs: Update the recommendation for the cadence of npm releases. (35925)
• Env docs: Update wordpress-develop example to clarify src/build location. (35978)
• Fix a small typo in the "Getting started" documentation. (36109)
• Fix wording in the Authoring Experience documentation. (35969)
• Move create-block changelog entries back to Unreleased section. (35886)
• Release Docs: Remove consecutive RCs warning. (35855)
• Update Components CONTRIBUTING.md indentation. (35866)
• fix: Backtick added around <textarea> input tag in readme file. (34813)
• theme.json docs: Add missing settings & styles. (36137)

Code Quality

• Add Theme's base global styles endpoint. (35985)
• Add alexstine as code owner for post-title. (36056)
• Add block.json schema to generated file. (35843)
• Add schemas package. (35998)
• Improvements for the global styles endpoint. (36071)
• Make sure tests are pure. (36253)
• Move getStablePath function into the wordrpess/url package. (35992)
• Remove "experimental" from URL details REST controller and promote to v1 namespace. (35915)
• Remove GB prefixed functions from template part. (36180)
• Schemas: Theme.json - Add title to templateParts. (36145)
• Updates WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver and tests to be equal to core. (36223)
• Update: Use small button on tools panel toggle. (35935)
• block-editor store: Migrate to thunks. (35720)
• theme.json: Update test data. (35883)

Block Library

• Heading: Auto-generated anchors hide implementation details. (35747)
• Mark Post Comments as stable and Comments Query Loop as experimental. (36132)
• Mark Post Navigation Link and Term Description blocks as stable. (36163)
• Remove post- prefix from Comment Template inner blocks. (36171)

Global Styles

• Refactor theme.json migrations to be a single class. (36182)
• Remove locations we do not translate from theme-i18n.json. (35881)
• Update theme.json schema migrations. (36154)

Post Editor

• Refactor FlatTermSelector into a functional component. (33459)
• Typo: Translated site properties. (36097)

Components

• ToolsPanel: Use Grid component to handle layout. (35621)
• Update spacing in CircularOptionPicker. (36014)

Data Layer

• [data]: Rename types file from .d.ts to .ts. (36062)

CSS & Styling

• Remove invalid buttons block CSS property. (33793)

Tools

• Remove @chrisvanpatten from CODEOWNERS. (35937)

Testing

• Add a method to disable auto-accepting dialogs. (35828)
• Skip broken widgets test. (36239)
• Skip flaky test for loading block stylesheets in iframe. (35961)
• Tests: Run block fixtures through KSES. (35611)

Block Library

• Mark FSE blocks as non experimental. (35979)

Various

• Apply borders to canvas rather than other UI elements. (31081)
• Changes for FSE backport in core. (36201)
• Mobile - Add support for the Mark HTML tag and updates Aztec iOS to 1.19.5. (35956)
• Update Appium to 1.22.0. (35829)
• Updates publish-to-s3 plugin to 0.7.0 for react-native-bridge & react-native-aztec Android and publishes '-sources.jar'. (36034)
• Use the block name in the "remove block" menu item in the settings dropdown. (35872)

Site Editor

• Remove navigation panel in site editor. (36194)