15.7.0 RC1
Pre-releaseChangelog
Enhancements
Block Library
- Group: Add allowedBlocks attribute and pass it to innerBlockProps. (49128)
- Media & Text: Add allowedBlocks attribute and pass it to innerBlock. (49981)
- Site Logo: Add logo replace flow in Inspector controls. (49992)
Global Styles
- Fluid typography: Use logarithmic scale factor to calculate a min font size. (49707)
- Style book: Make the style book slot generic. (49973)
- Base Styles: Add the editor input reset with increased specificity. (49831)
Components
- Draggable: Allow elementId based elements to be attached to the ownerDocument body. (49911)
- Spinner: Enforce no background. (49695)
- Updates the behavior of the top toolbar fixed setting. (49634)
Design Tools
- Image: Display custom borders on placeholder. (49569)
- Patterns: Try a masonry layout on the template pattern suggestion modal. (49958)
Duotone
- Duotone: Add block controls on the inspector. (49838)
- Duotone: Fix setup state for image block. (49949)
- Polish duotone rendering code. (49706)
- Deprecate remaining global duotone functions. (49702)
- Group duotone outputs and refactor rendering. (49705)
Accessibility
- List view: Refactor ARIA attributes. (48461)
- Block Mover: Make text labels for left/right move buttons legible. (49747)
- Block Toolbar: Fix incorrect switcher button width in text mode. (49847)
- Snackbar: Fix insufficient color contrast on hover. (49682)
- Update Reakit dep to 1.3.11. (49763)
- List View: Add aria-description. (49907)
Bug Fixes
Block Library
- Cover block: Remove overflow hidden rule. (49913)
- Fix BlockInfo slot displaying logic. (50054)
- Fix block toolbar height and rounded corners of parent selector button when text label mode. (49556)
- Demo content cover block alignment not respected. (49848)
- Group block: Remove innerprops from placeholder wrapper. (49783)
- Only display the modified post date if the post has been modified. (46839)
- Post Excerpt: Fix crash at runtime when postType is undefined. (49899)
- Post Featured Image: Fix some sizing issues. (49641)
- Adjust copy of Site Logo Block. (49540)
- Adapt flex child controls for Spacer. (49362)
- Social Icon: Update the
link
andmail
block variation's icons. (49952)
Components
- CheckboxControl: Add support custom IDs. (49977)
- Equalize modal internal padding. (49890)
- Increase modal radius. (49870)
- Query: Fix add new post link position via private SlotFill. (49819)
- Tweak
WordPressComponent
type. (49960) - Update the framer motion dependency to the latest version. (49822)
- Improve output of CHANGELOG CI check. (49779)
- Retain context when opening modals on small screens. (50039)
- Update CHANGELOG CI check to support forked repos. (49906)
Global Styles
- Borders: Fix border style on color/width clearing and global styles fallback logic. (49738)
- Borders: Maintain radius in Global Styles. (49950)
- Close stylebook if the global styles side bar is not open. (50081)
- Do not add unregistered style variations to the theme.json schema. (49807)
- Update preset styles to use Selectors API. (49427)
- Change the 'WP_Theme_JSON_Data_Gutenberg' class directory. (50062)
Site Editor
- Fix screen flash when deleting templates in templates list. (48449)
- Fix the condition for the modal to choose the initial template pattern. (49954)
- Fix editor crash caused by missing type conversion in EditorStyles component. (49882)
- Remove frame shadow in edit view. (49767)
- Add
home
to list of new templates. (47389) - Animate the site icon element between view and edit in the site editor. (48886)
- Restore click event handler on site icon button. (50094)
- Correctly return 'isResolving' from 'useAlternativeTemplateParts' hook. (49921)
Patterns
- Increase dimensions of the pattern modal that appears when creating a new page. (49859)
- Update full screen modal dimensions, and pattern grids. (49894)
- Increase pattern modal dimensions when creating a new template. (49722)
List View
- Add parameters to custom-scrollbars-on-hover. (49892)
- Update with scrolling and custom scrollbar. (49793)
- Ensure list view block id is unique to the list view instance. (49944)
Block Editor
- Fix quick inserter going off-screen in some situations. (49881)
- List View: Update drop indicator width to be aware of scroll containers. (49786)
- Block highlight: Fix radius issue. (49864)
- DOM: Update getScrollContainer to be aware of horizontal scroll. (49787)
- Fix fixed block toolbar positioning. (49990)
- iframe: Add
enqueue_block_assets
. (49655) - Rename immutableSet to setImmutably. (50040)
- Edit Post: Hide overflowing content in visual editor wrapper to prevent block popovers from creating scrollbars. (49978)
REST API
- Replace fallbacks to fallback (singular) in Nav fallback REST endpoint. (50044)
- Consolidate Navigation fallbacks logic between Editor and Front of Site via REST API. (48698)
- Add /revisions endpoint for global styles. (49974)
Build Tooling
- Fix multiple tooltips showing on NavigableToolbars. (49644)
- Add
--env-cwd
Option Towp-env run
. (49908) - Add Port ToWP_TESTS_DOMAIN
. (49883) - Add support in
check-license
for conjunctive (AND) licenses. (46801)
Performance
Continued the work refactor away from Lodash usages to reduce the build size
49799, 49794, 49755
Experiments
- Allow adding posts and pages with custom titles from the command menu. (49893)
- Update the design of the command center. (49681)
Documentation
- Adds closing code tags. (49991)
- Add "block-selectors" documentation to TOC and manifest. (49471)
- Adds note about custom fields to Plugin Sidebar page in documentation. (49622)
- Autocomplete: Add heading and fix type for
onReplace
in README. (49798) - Document the separation between private APIs and experimental APIs. (47973)
- Fix broken link and update title of Localizing Gutenberg doc. (49851)
- Fixes broken img link. (49805)
- Need to use WordPress package for useState. (49478)
- Remove unused screenshot from documentation folder. (49896)
- Small grammar fixes for block-context.md. (49701)
- Update IS_GUTENBERG_PLUGIN to process.env.IS_GUTENBERG_PLUGIN in coding guidelines. (49825)
- Fixes typo in README. (49957)
- Update README.md. (49762)
- Update README.md. (49855)
- Update outreach.md. (49961)
- Update wp-env prereq documentation. (50004)
- Formatting inside alert div. (50090)
Theme.json
- Add documentation for
variations
key intheme.json
. (49826) - Update theme.json reference documentation to include more sections. (48250)
Gutenberg Plugin release
- Update the Gutenberg release issue template to reflect the new Gutenberg release team. (50037)
- Update Gutenberg release documentation to include the new Gutenberg Release Team. (50036)
- Fix broken link and minor tweaks to formatting and verbiage in the Gutenberg Release Process doc. (49876)
- Update release checklist. (50068)
Block Development
- Improve the learning experience for writing blocks. (49792)
- Re-write of the landing page. (49643)
- Improve insertBlock(s) documentation. (50078)
- Small Typo: Remove dots. (49853)
Code Quality
- Fix PrivateInserter import. (50038)
- Remove the normalizeFalsyValue util. (50033)
- Don't programmatically lowercase post type label. (49591)
- Port colord to PHP. (49700)
- Reuse cleanEmptyObject utility and fix empty string case. (49750)
- toStyles: Don't mutate the tree argument. (49806)
- useInstanceId: Fix useMemo hook dependencies. (49979)
Tools
Testing
- Components: Update
ColorPicker
unit tests. (49698) - Migrate CPT end-to-end tests to Playwright. (50031)
- Fonts API: Add tests for gutenberg_add_registered_fonts_to_theme_json(). (50049)
- Expand multi-line block tests. (49732)
- Rich text test helpers mimic user events. (49804)
- Fix editor canvas detaching error in end-to-end tests. (49374)
Build Tooling
- Add script which checks published types for non-checked JS packages. (49736)
- Docgen: Fix issue where function token can't be found. (49812)
- Publish build types for notices. (49650)
- Publish types for plugins package. (49649)
First time contributors
The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:
- @annziel: Fix screen flash when deleting templates in templates list. (48449)
- @courtneyr-dev: Update outreach.md. (49961)
- @m0hanraj: Fixes typo in README. (49957)
- @MahendraBishnoi29: Snackbar: Fix insufficient color contrast on hover. (49682)
- @masteradhoc: Adjust copy of Site Logo Block. (49540)
- @sque89: Group: Add allowedBlocks attribute and pass it to innerBlockProps. (49128)
- @tyrann0us: Don't programmatically lowercase post type label. (49591)
- @Wtower: Update README.md. (49855)
Contributors
The following contributors merged PRs in this release:
@aaronrobertshaw @adamziel @ajlende @alexstine @andrewserong @annziel @aurooba @bdurette @bph @carolinan @chad1008 @chintu51 @courtneyr-dev @dcalhoun @derekblank @draganescu @ellatrix @fluiddot @gaambo @geriux @getdave @gigitux @guarani @gvgvgvijayan @gziolo @hellofromtonya @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jhnstn @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @kevin940726 @m0hanraj @MaggieCabrera @MahendraBishnoi29 @Mamaduka @masteradhoc @mburridge @mcsf @mikachan @mirka @mokagio @mtias @ndiego @noahtallen @ntsekouras @oandregal @ObliviousHarmony @priethor @ramonjd @scruffian @SiobhyB @Soean @sque89 @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tyrann0us @tyxla @Wtower @youknowriad @zzap