14.6.0

Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

• Latest posts: Add color support. (41874)
• Latest posts and latest comments: Add spacing support. (45110)
• Navigation: Adds a list view. (45546)
• Navigation: Add a new ManageMenusButton component. (45782)
• Navigation: Reposition the navigation selector. (45555)
• Navigation Link: Add the URL field to the Navigation Link inspector controls. (45751)
• Author: Make the Author selector display all users instead of just 10. (45640)
• Columns: Add transform to unwrap the contents. (45666)
• Read More: Add aria-label and screen reader text. (45490)
• Group: Use a variation picker in the placeholder. (43496)

Components

• Use new theming accent color in all components. (45289)
• CheckboxControl: Replace margin overrides with new opt-in prop. (45434)
• FocalPointPicker: Update the design of the focal point handle. (45053)
• FontSizePicker: Update hint text to match the design. (44966)
• CheckboxControl: Move icons out of labels. (45535)

Block Editor

• Converts paragraphs to headings with keyboard shortcuts. (44681)
• Restore the empty paragraph inserter. (45542)
• Transform: Select all blocks if the result has more than one block. (45015)
• Content-only locked patterns: Move "Modify" to the ellipsis menu. (45391)
• Patterns: Adjust the space in the pattern explorer list. (45730)
• Update: Lock icon to outline. (45645)
• Don't use capital case for 'Distraction free' strings. (45538)
• Replace Justification/Orientation controls with ToggleGroupControl. (45637)

Site Editor

• Replace FSE with Site Editor. (45699)

Design Tools

• Add a minHeight block support under dimensions. (45300)
• Hide the block toolbar when the spacing visualizer is showing. (45131)

Global Styles

• Elements: Add a text decoration control to link elements. (45643)
• Global styles: Convert preset font size values to CSS vars. (44967)
• Fluid typography: Adjust font size min and max rules. (45536)
• Try generating random color palettes. (40988)

Plugin

• Updates tested up to version to 6.1. (45630)

Patterns

• Pattern Directory API: Add support for pagination parameters. (45293)
• Update bundled patterns compat directory. (45620)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Change the order of the pseudo-states in the pseudo-selectors array. (45559)
• Cover: Avoid content loss when the templateLock value is all or contentOnly. (45632)
• Fix alignment of create new post link. (45638)
• Fix navigation appender position to prevent obstructing its items. (43530)
• Fix: Button block text alignment. (45663)
• Query Pagination: Fix positioning of the next link in editor when the parent is selected. (45651)
• Site Logo: Use the correct home URL setting. (45476)
• Switch background color to text color on the block separator. (44943)
• Table Block: Apply borders and padding on both front end and editor. (45069)
• Table block: Fix error in margin value. (45674)
• Template Part Block: Update block isActive method. (45672)
• Navigation: Fix overflowing menu name in the navigation selector dropdown. (45647)

Accessibility

• Fix focus return when closing the Post publish panel. (45623)
• Fix navigate regions backwards for macOS Firefox and Safari. (45019)
• Fix the Save buttons labeling and tooltip. (43952)
• Fix the navigate regions focus style. (45369)
• Fix: Contrast checker appears unexpectedly on some blocks. (45639)
• Fix: Contrast checker does not update properly. (45686)

Components

• Autocomplete: Fix unexpected block insertion during IME composition. (45510)
• Fix ESLint warning for Dashicon. (45795)
• FormTokenField: Fix duplicate input in IME composition. (45607)
• Making size prop work for icon components using dash icon strings. (45593)
• ToolsPanel: Prevent calling deselect when panel remounts. (45673)
• Color Picker: Prevent all number fields to become 0 when one of them is an empty string. (45649)
• ToggleGroupControl: Only show the enclosing border when isBlock. (45492)
• Autocomplete: Check key events more strictly in IME composition. (45626)

CSS & Styling

• Inherit font from theme on overlay close button. (45635)
• Navigation: Fix font inheritance when using text menu button. (45514)
• Remove hover style to button on dark block tools UI. (45653)
• Remove width from block mover button focus style. (45665)
• Site editor hover/select: Fix double border. (45589)
• Remove duplicate output of existing classnames in layout classnames. (45499)

Post Editor

• BlockManagerCategory: Fix styles for indeterminate. (45564)
• Fix: Updated names from List View to Document Overview. (45524)
• Strip HTML from Post Title when pasting multiline title containing HTML. (35825)

Site Editor

• Decode entities in template title and description. (45716)
• Link to homeUrl from site editor view menu. (45475)

Block Editor

• Fix Link UI popover positioning when inspector control input is focused. (45661)
• Paste: Fix list only paste from Google documentation. (45498)
• Make Manage Reusable blocks match similar links. (45641)(45689)
• List View: Disable branch expansion when block editing is locked. (45541)
• Spacing visualizer: Fix display of unexpected visualizer for certain mouse actions. (45739)

Experiments

• A list view duplicate for use in navigation list view experiment. (45544)
• Introduce experiment for inspector based navigation editing. (45515)

Documentation

• Add missing CHANGELOG entry. (45691)
• Change Title: How to use JavaScript with Gutenberg. (45323)
• Docs: Update the readme for the integration test fixtures. (45581)
• Summarize "Available commands" section and refer them it to scripts documentation. (45636)
• Update applying-styles-with-stylesheets.md. (45604)
• [create-block] Reorganized sections to provide a better learning experience of this package. (45676)
• Change "block style variations" references to "block style". (45650)

Performance

• Lodash: Refactor away from _.reduce(). (45460)
• Lodash: Refactor block editor away from _.reduce(). (45455)
• Lodash: Refactor blocks away from _.reduce(). (45457)
• Lodash: Refactor site editor away from _.reduce(). (45459)
• Lodash: Refactor post editor away from _.reduce(). (45458)
• Do not look for block variants, if not supporting block-templates. (45362)
• List: Disable nested list drop zone so dropping list items works. (45321)
• Use low-level cache for get_user_data_from_wp_global_styles. (45634)
• Update: Improve performance of block template object retrieval. (45646)

Code Quality

Block Editor

• Block Editor: Improve LinkControl tests. (45609)
• Block Editor: Improve ResponsiveBlockControl tests. (45610)
• Block Editor: Improve ReusableBlocksTab tests. (45652)
• LinkControl: Suppress errors on null values. (45742)
• Simplify ResizableEditor component. (45578)
• Remove duplicate colon. (45763)
• Extract the manage menus button to a shared component to reduce duplicate code. (45769)
• Backport pseudo selector comments from core. (45619)
• unstableSubscribeStore: Support store descriptors. (45481)

Components

• BaseField: Remove unnecessary .firstChild from tests. (45687)
• DateTime: Remove unused types. (45615)
• Draggable: Convert component to TypeScript. (45471)
• Fix no-container violations in FormGroup tests. (45662)
• Fix testing-library/no-node-access in TreeGrid tests. (45554)
• FontSizePicker: Use components instead of helper functions. (44891)
• Improve tests for ToggleGroupControl. (45627)
• MenuGroup: Convert component to TypeScript. (45617)
• Popover: Fix exhaustive-deps warning. (45656)
• Refactor ItemGroup to pass exhaustive-deps. (45531)
• Refactor useFlex to pass exhaustive-deps. (45528)
• Refactor withNotices to pass exhaustive-deps. (45530)
• RefactorPaletteEditListView to ignore exhaustive-deps. (45467)
• TabPanel: Fix the exhaustive-deps warning. (45660)
• ToolsPanel: Fix exhaustive-deps hook warning. (45715)
• Truncate: Remove unnecessary .firstChild from tests. (45694)
• View component: Rename index.js to index.ts. (45667)
• ColorPalette, BorderBox, BorderBoxControl: Polish and DRY prop types, add default values. (45463)
• NavigatorScreen: Satisfy exhaustive-deps eslint rule. (45648)
• Fix useCx story to satisfy exhaustive-deps eslint rule. (45614)
• URLPopover: Use new placement prop instead of legacy position prop. (44391)
• Tidy and minor refactor of Link UI code. (37833)

Block Library

• Avatar: Escape the 'get_author_posts_url()'. (45427)
• Button: Remove unnecessary 'useCallback'. (45584)
• Make unwrapping columns slighly more efficient. (45684)
• Simplfy handling of save of Nav block uncontrolled inner blocks. (45517)
• Lodash: Refactor block library away from _.reduce(). (45456)

Tools

Testing

• Components: Add exhaustive-deps eslint rule. (41166)
• Fix typos in Paragraph block end-to-end tests. (45611)
• FontSizePicker: Fix a buggy unit test. (45529)
• Ignore warnings for window.wp in Playwright. (45598)
• Migrate mentions tests to playwright. (43064)
• Navigation Toggle unit test: Unmount synchronously to cancel popover positioning. (45726)
• React Native unit tests: Migrate getByA11yLabel usages. (45454)
• Unit Tests: Rewrite ReactDOM.render usages to RTL. (45453)
• E2E: Add site and widget editor supports for ensureSidebarOpened. (45480)

Build Tooling

• Include TS and JSX files to testing-library lint. (45533)
• Remove use of set-output in workflows. (45357)

Triage

• Configure labels for GHA Dependabot PRs. (45516)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @edanzer: Template Part Block: Update block isActive method. (45672)
• @TimBroddin: Fix alignment of create new post link. (45638)
• @wojtekn: Make Author block selector to display all users instead of just 10. (45640)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @andrewserong @bph @brookewp @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @chad1008 @ciampo @Copons @DaisyOlsen @desrosj @dinhtungdu @draganescu @dsas @edanzer @ellatrix @enejb @flootr @getdave @glendaviesnz @hz-tyfoon @jasmussen @javierarce @jffng @jonathanbossenger @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @juhi123 @kevin940726 @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mikachan @mirka @mmtr @mtias @ndiego @nielslange @noisysocks @ntsekouras @peterwilsoncc @ramonjd @ryelle @scruffian @spacedmonkey @t-hamano @TimBroddin @tyxla @vcanales @walbo @wojtekn @youknowriad @yuliyan