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v19.6.0-rc.2
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Changelog

Enhancements

Components

  • Add elevation tokens to storybook. (66122)
  • Add foundations:Elevation to storybook. (66124)
  • Add radius foundation and tokens to storybook. (66219)
  • Combobox, FormTokenField: Show message when no matches found. (66142)
  • Storybook: Organizes components under 'Utilities'. (66210)
  • Tabs: Expose active tab item props, use ariakit prop types. (66223)
  • Tabs: Remove custom logic. (66097)
  • DropdownMenuV2: Rename to Menu. (66289)

Core data

  • Core Data: Add the 'getEntitiesConfig' resolver. (65871)

Block Library

  • Add Transformation from Separator to Spacer. (66230)
  • Add lightbox option in gallery block link control. (64014)
  • Archives: Add border block support. (63400)
  • Border support added to comments. (66354)
  • Cover Block: Add Image Resolution options. (62926)
  • HTML Block: Force HTML preview in view mode. (66440)

Zoom Out

  • Add keyboard shortcut in editor. (66400)
  • Iterate zoom out shuffle into a more visual control. (66194)
  • Use the zoom-level value to scale the iframe. (66280)

Site Editor

  • Remove synchronization of canvas mode into store. (66213)
  • Style Book: Clean up layout. (66255)
  • Update site icon and title position. (66171)
  • Editor Interface: Remove small header from global styles/plugin sidebar. (64474)
  • Remove purple coloring from DocumentBar and PostCard. (66451)

Block Editor

  • BlockGroupToolbar: Better i18n context for toolbar labels. (66211)

Data Views

  • Fix alignment of action items in list layout. (66273)
  • Templates: Hide media field in list view. (66573)

Global Styles

  • Backport: Caching of global styles for blocks from core. (66349)
  • Style Book: Add color tab. (65692)

Real-time Collaboration

  • Inline Commenting: Disable comments on published posts for now. (66583)

Post Editor

  • Set ResizableEditor height based on border-box. (66342)

Icons

  • Add align-item related icons. (66242)

REST API

  • Backport from WordPress core: Improvements for the post format query loop filter. (66037)

Build tooling

  • Create Block: Adds --target-dir flag to allow the tool to target where to scaffold. (53781)
  • Scripts: Add build-blocks-manifest command. (65866)
  • Scripts: Add BlueOak-1.0.0 license to GPL2 compatible. (66139)
  • WP Scripts: Add a --root-folder argument to the plugin-zip command. (61375)

New APIs

  • Stabilize isPreviewMode flag. (66149)

Bug Fixes

Zoom Out

  • Disable zoom out toggle button when Style Book is open. (66228)
  • Don't switch editor mode when changing entities. (66452)
  • Fix scaling animation for device previews. (66132)
  • Fix zoom out not persisting while switching between editor and code editor. (65932)
  • Fix zoom out shortcut on Windows. (66506)
  • Fix: Activate zoom out on large viewport. (66308)
  • Hide slots and grouping buttons. (66243)
  • Remove zoom-out toolbar. (66039)
  • Resets the Zoom on viewed/edited entity change. (66232)
  • Revise zoom layout shift fix. (66390)
  • Zoom-out: Rely on zoom-level instead of zoom-out mode. (66141)

Block Editor

  • Block inserter: Prevent editor from crashing if blockType.parent is a string. (66234)
  • Block toolbar: Account for scrollable blocks that affect the position of the block toolbar. (66188)
  • Fix extra scrollbar appearing when searching in the inserter. (66229)
  • Fix: Show paragraph block variations in rich text inserter. (66318)
  • Group: Fix padding select. (65857)
  • Link Shortcut: Only trigger the link shortcut if there's a text selection. (66056)
  • Remove relative position from sidebar tabpanel. (66267)
  • Rich text: Remove empty file. (66553)
  • Zoom Out: Fix bouncy drop zones. (66399)
  • Block editor: Self nesting and circular nesting block fix. (66121)

Components

  • ColorPalette: Prevent overflow of custom color button background. (66152)
  • Fix: Text overflow in Patterns filter. (66504)
  • RadioGroup: Fix arrow key navigation in RTL. (66202)
  • Tabs and TabPanel: Fix arrow key navigation in RTL. (66201)
  • Tabs and ToggleGroupControl: Round indicator size. (66426)
  • Tabs: Fix animation timings. (66198)
  • Tabs: Override tablist's tabindex only when necessary. (66209)
  • Tabs: Restore vertical alignment for tabs content. (66215)
  • Tabs: Update indicator more reactively. (66207)
  • SpacingSizesControl: Use generic label for linked button. (66304)

Global Styles

  • Global styles: Move preload paths filter to 6.7 (previously 6.8). (66543)

i18n

  • Miscellaneous i18n fixes. (66510)
  • Remove most of the occurrences of the verb toggle. (66371)

Post Editor

  • Always force iframe in pattern editor. (65887)
  • Editor: Multi-entity saving: Show correct count of entities to be saved. (66482)
  • Fix : "Set featured image" button border flashes on focus. (66092)
  • Fix Parent Check Condition in buildTermsTree. (66006)
  • Fix: Improve the DocumentBar post type label for the Homepage and Posts Page cases. (66355)
  • PostTaxonomiesFlatTermSelector: Restore space between tag list and most used tags. (66566)

Block Library

  • Block registration: Normalize blockType.parent to array. (66250)
  • Button Block: Apply Stretch Styles Correctly. (64770)
  • Buttons: Fix the initial white space in nofollow rel. (66303)
  • Fix - Image block: Aspect ratio not responding when dimensions are not set. (66217)
  • Navigation block: Fix block appender size. (66153)

Site Editor

  • Edit Site: Fix canvasMode var. (66316)
  • Fix button hover style in sidebar navigation screen. (66505)
  • Remove toggle verb from post list data views 'Toggle details panel'. (66334)
  • Revert 66431 (Site editor: Remove "default" admin CSS). (66540)
  • Restore block-library editor.css outside canvas. (66556)
  • Fix extraneous scrollbar in device previews. (66494)

Meta Boxes

  • Typo metabox pane is a meta box panel. (66502)

REST API

  • Preload: Fix multiple regressions around global styles. (66468)

Style Book

  • Fix comment output in styles. (66439)

Saving

  • Site editor: Fix save shortcut. (66423)

CSS & Styling

  • Fix the navigation issue inside cover blocks. (66093)

Build tooling

  • Create block: Ensure $slug is replaced with passed slug. (66528)

Accessibility

Post Editor

  • Add featured image alt text. (66189)
  • Fix : Badge Color contrast. (66360)

Block Editor

  • ImageSizeControls: Replace ButtonGroup with ToggleGroupControl. (65386)
  • Improve the link preview accessibility and labels. (60908)

Block Library

  • Search: Replace ButtonGroup usage with ToggleGroupControl. (65340)
  • Remove clip & -webkit-clip-path for downloadable-block-list-item style.scss. (66147)

Global Styles

  • Global styles menu: Avoid visible labels and accessible names mismatch. (65124)

Site Editor

  • Fix Global styles panel header buttons text overlap for 'Show button text labels'. (63243)
  • Update the speak messages when switching editor modes. (66278)

Performance

Site Editor

  • Remove "default" admin CSS. (66431)
  • Remove content styles outside canvas. (66432)
  • Block Style Variations: Reuse block metadata in WP_Theme_JSON::Get_valid_block_style_variations() for better performance. (66539)

Block bindings

  • Use getEntityConfig instead of getPostTypes to get available slugs. (66101)

Build tooling

  • Fix/compare performance with correct branch. (66196)

Experiments

  • Add Inline comment experimental flag. (60622)
  • QuickEdit: Add slug field control. (65196)

Data Views

  • Quick Edit: Fix JS error when bulk editing pages. (66358)
  • QuickEdit: Add Featured Image Control. (64496)
  • QuickEdit: Add Parent field. (66527)

Documentation

  • BaseControl: Auto-generate readme. (66500)
  • Components: Prevent generated readmes duplicating h1 elements when published. (66180)
  • Correct documentation on display type in flow layouts. (66224)
  • Docs: Interactivity API - Add documentation for getServerState() and getServerContext(). (66104)
  • Fix undo/redo Button size in Storybook playground. (66538)
  • Fix: JSON Schema Docgen doesn't work on Windows OS. (66414)
  • ItemGroup: Improve stories to default to bordered and separated. (66191)
  • README: Add Storybook badge. (66529)
  • Remove meetings that no longer occur from Contributor Guide. (66421)
  • Site editor routes: Add documentation for areas and prevent edit area from rendering when canvas is edit. (66309)
  • Update documentation about build process changes. (66428)
  • docs: Example for getSelectedBlock. (66108)

Code Quality

Block Editor

  • ESLint: Remove explicit react-hooks/exhaustive-deps disabling. (66461)
  • ESLint: Remove various React Compiler mutation violations. (66327)
  • Fix 'useInstanceId' hook reference. (66406)
  • Fix React Compiler error for Duotone. (66492)
  • Fix React Complier error for 'useEventListeners'. (66495)
  • Import only the actually used PostCSS exports. (66379)
  • No need to unlock public actions. (66260)
  • Remove patterns UI stylesheet from iframe. (66306)
  • Remove unnecessary Tooltip component from radius control linked button. (66274)
  • Rich Text: Fix React Complier error for 'useEventListeners'. (66460)
  • Storybook: Add BlockPatternsList story. (66227)
  • Block editor: Remove reusable blocks stylesheet from iframe. (66285)

Components

  • BorderBoxControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (65752)
  • BorderControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (65755)
  • DrodownMenuV2: Rename folder to menu. (66473)
  • ESLint: Stop disabling react-hooks/exhaustive-deps rule. (66324)
  • Fix React Compiler error for 'useAutocomplete'. (66496)
  • PaletteEdit: Use ItemGroup and Item, and avoid custom styles. (66164)
  • TabPanel: Add 40px size prop to tab Button. (66557)
  • Tabs: Align to standard compound components structure. (66225)
  • Tabs: Simplify styled components code. (66208)

Compose

  • Compose: Fix React Complier error for 'useCopyToClipboard'. (66444)
  • Composer: Fix React Compiler errors for 'useDropZone'. (66469)

Dataviews

  • Fields: Fix React Compiler mutation errors. (66464)
  • Fields: Update a few function definitions. (66315)

Interface

  • Interface: Remove duplicate 'withComplementaryAreaContext' file. (66348)
  • Interface: Remove unused private API support. (66565)
  • Interface: Use plugin context hook instead of HoC. (66362)

Zoom Out

  • Bundle behavior in block-editor and add story. (66240)
  • Editor: Handle zoom out state via the 'switchEditorMode' action. (66262)
  • Fix/html scale code quality. (66181)
  • Make useZoomOut hook private. (66374)
  • Remove double click to exit hook from the block-editor package. (66335)
  • Remove viewport check from useZoomOut hook. (66341)

Post Editor

  • Editor: No need to reset mode when changing device preview types. (66261)
  • Editor: Use plugin context hook in 'PluginMoreMenuItem'. (66351)
  • Editor: Use plugin context hook in 'PluginPreviewMenuItem'. (66350)
  • Fix typo after #63669. (66396)
  • Remove leftover JS code from 66451. (66472)

Block Library

  • Cleanup unnecessary notice removal. (66409)
  • ESLint: Fix a couple of React Compiler reassignment errors. (66331)
  • Footnotes: Remove extra callback when parsing content. (66370)
  • Gallery: Fix React Compiler reassignment error. (66408)
  • Table Block: Remove hasArrowIndicator prop. (66204)

Style Book

  • Avoid state/effect combo when generating values. (66446)
  • Fix React Compiler error. (66445)

Global Styles

  • Clean up: Adjust reusable-blocks dependencies. (66302)
  • Fix React Compiler variable mutation error. (66410)
  • Theme JSON: Get_block_nodes - relocate $selectors assignment. (66265)

Interactivity API

  • iAPI: Add comments to the deepMerge() function. (66220)
  • iAPI: Add tests for handling arrays in deepMerge(). (66218)

Navigation in Site View

  • Navigation: Improve trigger for fallback navigation. (66478)

Plugins API

  • Plugins: Deprecate 'withPluginContext' HOC. (66363)

Site Editor

  • Prepare route registration by refactoring the site editor router. (66030)

Build tooling

  • Scripts: Refactor to extract license logic. (66179)

Tools

Testing

  • Fix [Flaky Test] Entering zoomed out mode zooms the canvas. (66212)
  • Fix end-to-end test for padding appender. (66080)
  • Upgrade Playwright to v1.48. (66296)

Build Tooling

  • Add new private vips package. (64845)
  • Revert "Use npm workspaces for packages". (66270)
  • Add theme type to the bug report issue template. (63851)
  • Pull request automation: Use full npm install. (66314)
  • Use npm workspaces for packages (second attempt). (66272)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @AhmarZaidi @akasunil @andrewserong @carolinan @cbravobernal @ciampo @dhruvang21 @ellatrix @getdave @gigitux @hbhalodia @jameskoster @jeryj @jsnajdr @juanfra @madhusudhand @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @mattrwalker @mcsf @mediaformat @michalczaplinski @mirka @mreishus @ndiego @nicolasgalvez @ntsekouras @oandregal @PARTHVATALIYA @peterwilsoncc @poojabhimani12 @prajapatisagar @ramonjd @renatho @rinkalpagdar @rudrakshi-gupta @ryanwelcher @SantosGuillamot @SH4LIN @sirreal @stokesman @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @torounit @troychaplin @tyxla @vipul0425 @Vrishabhsk @vykes-mac @youknowriad @zaguiini

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