Release 15.2.0 · WordPress/gutenberg

Changelog

Enhancements

Working with Templates

Add a nested level when selecting templates or template parts. (47777)
Add: Modal to choose a start pattern on new templates. (46248)
Update gutenberg_get_template_hierarchy. (47716)
Add template revision button. (45215)

Site Editor

Add back link to Design heading in site editor navigation to return to Dashboard. (47950)
Adds a global save button to the site editor. (47142)
Tidy up the generation of the site editor page title. (48053)

Block Library

Button: Update: Make button a content block. (47936)
File block: Add color block support to File block. (41870)
Navigation: Add integration tests for NavigationMenuSelector component. (47825)
Navigation: Updates "Add Submenu item" text to "Add Submenu link". (48030)
Post excerpt: Add excerpt length control. (44964)
Update: Make OffCanvasEditor use LeafMoreMenu by default. (47844)
Add aspect-ratio to post featured image block. (47854)
Button: Adopt support for border color, style, and width. (44574)
Latest Comments: Add typography support. (43310)
Verse: Adopt border supports. (48021)

Global Styles

Extract the Global Styles Typography Panel into block-editor package. (47356)
Move more link about custom CSS to part of description. (47781)
Site Editor: Update 'Additional CSS' subtitle string. (47671)
Style Book: Exclude blocks that are not allowed to insert. (47461)

Block Editor

Migrate from TextControl to NumberControl to remove margin overrides. (47160)
Add settings "drawer" to Link Control. (47328)
Button: Prepend HTTP to Buttons block links when missing protocol. (47311)
Show a pointer/hint in the settings tab informing the user about the styles tab. (47670)
[Patterns]: Reorder pattern categories. (47760)

Components

Add parent navigation support for the navigator component. (47883)
Zoom out mode: Scale iframe instead of contents. (47004)
Components: Add support for named arguments in the navigator components. (47827)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

Embed: Fix: Remove browser default border for iframe in the editor. (47987)
File block: Re-add editor styles for classic themes. (47686)
Image: Revert "Prevent the image from being resized larger than its container". (47846)
Image: Update image block margins on RTL. (47617)
Navigation Block inspector: Fix link UI popover opening on links that have a URL. (47828)
Navigation: Close Link UI if cancelled. (48029)
Navigation: Enable undo after creating a new menu. (47683)
Navigation: Fixes undo and redo for nesting operations in the navigation block's inspector. (47633)
Navigation: Remove the IS_GUTENBERG_PLUGIN check around block_core_navigation_parse_blocks_from_menu_items. (47824)
Navigation: Update deps for the useEffect that creates navigation menus. (47912)
OffCanvasEditor: Only allow some blocks to be converted to submenus. (47974)
Page List: Respect the selected parent page when converting to a list of navigation links. (47651)
Read More: I18N: Update string concatenation method in read more block. (47815)
ToolsPanel: Display optional items when values are updated externally. (47727)
[Quote]: Fix deprectated large style specificity rule. (47969)
Fix the 'WP_HTML_Tag_Processor' file path. (47823)
Cover: Ensure url is not malformed due to sanitization through wp_kses. (47906)

Site Editor

[Block Editor]: Lock blockInspectorAnimation setting. (47740)
Disable Strict Mode, breaks dev site editor. (47701)
Add: Modal to choose a start pattern on new templates. Take 2. (47927)
Fix ComplementaryArea's initial isActive state. (47498)
Fix custom Template Parts rename action. (47932)
Fix site editor navigation. (48025)
Shadow: Move shadow into own panel. (47634)
Specify active state color for template navigation button. (47851)

Block Editor

useBlockSync: Change subscribed.current on unsubscribe. (47752)
Edit Post: Fix the 'inlineToolbar' settings toggle. (47960)
Fix clicking on the toggle button not closing the block inserter. (47926)
LinkControl: Fix scrollbar displayed on toggle link settings. (47986)
Rich text: Stabilise onFocus. (47685)
Block Spacing: Don't show UI when only one direction is supported. (47523)
[Layout]: Fix align controls for hybrid themes. (47961)

Design Tools

Avatar: Fix application of borders. (47630)
Image: Allow deprecated blocks to render border-radius. (47766)
ToolsPanel: Ensure display of optional items when panel id is null. (47864)

Global Styles

Fix incorrect targeting of block wrappers for root padding in the edi…. (48002)
Fix infinite render of inline block preview. (47697)
Fix: Issues on block level settings. (47842)

Components

ColorPalette: Ensure text label contrast checking works with CSS variables. (47373)
SelectControl: Fix multiple prop styling. (47893)

Post Editor

Fix multi entities saved state in the post editor. (47734)
LocalAutosaveNotice: Use stable notice id to prevent double notices. (47776)
Distraction free mode: Fix keyboard shortcut not working. (47900)
Term sorting is incorrect in flat term selector. (47795)
useResizeObserver: Handle strict mode double effects. (47703)

Accessibility

List view: Modify the shortcut to focus while open. (45135)
Add an aria label to the site save dialog. (47898)
Fix UrlInput combobox to use the ARIA 1.0 pattern. (47148)
Fix constrained tabbing failures with Safari and Firefox. (47426)
Fix the headings hierarchy in the styles sidebar. (43848)
Site Editor: Append template type and name to the site editor page title. (47855)
Template editor: Only disable the save button if no changes rather than hiding it. (47895)

Performance

Avoid string-allocation on keypress with inputRule. (47094)
Fix empty results handling in performance test results. (47646)
Fix typo in performance script name. (47647)
Lodash: Remove from @wordpress/keycodes package. (47737)

Block Editor

Block Editor: Optimize __unstableGetVisibleBlocks(). (47681)

Site Editor

Enable React StrictMode again. (47639)

Block Library

Navigation: Performance: Improve params in block_core_navigation_get_most_recently_published_navigation. (47998)
Page List: Block improvement.. (47981)
Page List: Performance: Improve page list callback. (48004)
Post Title: Performance: Render_block_core_post_title - Use post object instead of id. (48001)
Template Part: Performance: Replace usage of wp_get_theme()->get_stylesheet() with get_stylesheet(). (48027)
Tweaks to gutenberg_render_layout_support_flag. (48003)

Data Layer

Lodash: Refactor away from _.get() in resolvers cache middleware. (47743)
Lodash: Refactor away from _.mapValues() in data registry. (47742)
Lodash: Refactor persistence plugin away from _.merge(). (47790)
Lodash: Remove from @wordpress/data's getResolutionState(). (47838)
Lodash: Remove from @wordpress/data. (47848)
Lodash: Remove from useDispatchWithMap(). (47835)

Template Editor

Disable lazy loading term meta get_block_templates. (47999)

Themes

Improvements on append_to_selector method. (47833)

Block Directory

Optimize DownloadableBlocksPanel. (47679)

Experiments

Handle block metadata attribute and related experimental APIs. (47791)
Rename the "experiments" export to "privateApis". (47975)
[Trunk] Rename experiments package to private-apis. (47839)

Documentation

Add: Database credentials to wp-env documentation. (47940)
Block schema and block supports docs: Add dimensions and position settings. (48057)
Components: Polish heading level component APIs. (47788)
Docs: Add ancestor property to block-registration.md doc. (45832)
Docs: Don't recommend using short array syntax in WP_HTML_Tag_Processor. (47958)
Docs: Fix the incorrect link to eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y. (47773)
Fix unbalanced parenthesis in Element README. (47700)
Minor updates in Private APIs. (47953)
Set block attributes to require either type or enum. (45365)

Code Quality

Core Data: Fix ESLint warnings for the hooks directory. (47811)
ESLint: Change jsdoc/check-line-alignment from warn to error. (47878)
ESLint: Fix a bunch of ESLint alignment warnings. (47872)
Enable react-hooks/exhaustive-deps eslint rules. (24914)
Update moment and moment-timezone packages to fix timezone issues. (47879)

Components

AnglePickerControl: Refactor to TypeScript. (45820)
BorderBoxControl: Migrate tests to TypeScript, remove act() call. (47755)
BoxControl: Convert to TypeScript. (47622)
ComboboxControl: Convert to TypeScript. (47581)
CustomSelectControl: Privatise __experimentalShowSelectedHint using @wordpress/experiments. (47229)
CustomSelectControl: Update size prop options to new format in Storybook examples. (47779)
Navigator: Add more pattern matching tests, refine existing tests. (47910)
NavigatorButton: Reuse Button types. (47754)
Panel: Convert to TypeScript. (47259)
Popover: Lock the __experimentalPopoverPositionToPlacement function. (47505)
Refactor Toolbar component to TypeScript. (47087)
Remove BaseField component. (47911)
Remove unnecessary act() from Button tests. (47687)
Remove unnecessary act() from DropdownMenu tests. (47692)
Remove unnecessary act() from Popover tests. (47690)
Remove unnecessary act() from ToolsPanel tests. (47691)
ResizableBox: Refactor styles to TypeScript. (47756)
TreeGrid: Convert to TypeScript. (47516)
MenuItemsChoice: Refactor to TypeScript. (47180)
ToolsPanel: Refactor Storybook examples to TypeScript, fix types inconsistencies. (47944)

Block Library

Gallery: Minor code quality update. (47774)
Image: Simplify the method for getting block editor settings. (47903)
Navigation: Chore Remove unexistant parameter from selectNavigationMenus call. (47941)
Site Logo: Simplify the method for getting block editor settings. (47736)
Table Block: Don't render empty section. (47753)

Site Editor

Make process_blocks_custom_css method protected. (47725)
Move site editor 6.2 specific code to the right file. (48023)
Remove: Unused code from the navigation inspector select logic. (48044)
Sync: Widget import changes from the core. (47875)
Add missing period in keyboard shortcut descriptions. (47899)
Extract the getSupportedStyles selector to the blocks store as a private selector. (47606)
Remove the name and element props from the TypographyPanel component. (47908)

Post Editor

Edit Post: Remove unnecessary 'classnames' in Header component. (47635)

REST API

Chore: Move Gutenberg_REST_Templates_Controller from 6.2 to 6.3 compatibility. (48077)

Patterns

Refactor: usePatternsCategories: Simplify category sorting. (47843)

Document Settings

Most Used Terms: Pass dependency to the useSelect. (47810)

Block API

HTML API: Move into 6.2 Compat Folder since inclusion in Core. (47749)

Data Layer

Fixed incorrect type annotations in @wordpress/data. (46881)

Tools

Testing

Add tests for gutenberg_render_layout_support_flag. (47719)
Migrate Heading block tests to Playwright. (47955)
Migrate query test to Playwright. (47995)
Navigation: end-to-end tests: Default to classic menu. (47867)
Navigation: end-to-end tests: Default to my only existing menu. (47744)
Remove obsolete failing test for Font Size Picker. (47913)
Shard playwright tests into two separate jobs using a matrix. (47629)
Update code and tests for theme json class after the back port in core. (47668)
Upgrade Playwright to 1.30.0. (48007)
end-to-end perf tests: Run each test in a separate page. (47889)
Fix editor.getBlocks for unmodified default block. (48093)
Visual Regression tests: Use default playwright utils. (47991)
Navigation: Add warning test. (45207)

Build Tooling

Add basic tsconfig.json validation. (47595)
Front-end classic performance test: Set TwentyTwentyOne when running in isolation. (47965)
Perf tests: Store test run results as artifact. (45747)
Performance suite: Track Largest Contentful Paint in the front-end. (47938)
Scripts: Add PostCSS (.pcss extension) file support to wp-scripts. (45352)
Performance: Restore initial reduce value in perf results log script. (47650)
Cherry-pick CLI: Fix the default label to match the documentation. (47832)
Scripts: Use start without watcher using --no-watch. (44237)
Fonts API: Add missing files to lib/load.php. (48108)
Dependency Extraction Webpack Plugin: Update json2php dependency. (47831)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

@creative-andrew: Add: Database credentials to wp-env documentation. (47940)
@dpellenwood: Scripts: Add PostCSS (.pcss extension) file support to wp-scripts. (45352)
@griffinjohndavid: Set block attributes to require either type or enum. (45365)
@mike-day: Refactor Toolbar component to TypeScript. (47087)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamziel @afercia @ajlende @alexstine @andrewserong @aristath @brookewp @carolinan @ciampo @creative-andrew @d-alleyne @dcalhoun @dmsnell @dpellenwood @draganescu @ellatrix @flootr @fluiddot @georgeh @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @griffinjohndavid @gziolo @hellofromtonya @jhnstn @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @kebbet @kevin940726 @kkmuffme @madhusudhand @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @marekdedic @mauteri @mcsf @mike-day @mirka @mreishus @nielslange @noahtallen @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @scruffian @sgomes @SiobhyB @spacedmonkey @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla @wojtekn @WunderBart @youknowriad