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@youknowriad youknowriad released this 22 Jul 18:22
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v8.6.0
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Features

  • Cover Block: Add video position controls. (22531)
  • Block pattern updates: Large header and paragraph, Large header, Text two columns, Three buttons, Two buttons, Quote. (23858) (23857) (23853) (23849) (23848) (23881)

Enhancements

  • Editor: Display Site Icon (if one is set) in full-screen mode. (22952)
  • Block Variations: Add support for finding variations using keywords. (24040)
  • a11y: Fix radio control in Windows High Contrast mode. (23706)
  • Classic Block: Move the "convert to blocks" option from menu to own toolbar button. (23704)
  • a11y: Use composite pattern to improve keyboard navigation on the inserter. (23610)
  • Date: Add timezone hint to post-scheduling UI. (23400)
  • Panel: Improve scroll view handling when expanding. (23327) (24046)

New APIs

  • Support disabling core block patterns. (24042)
  • Make the line height and custom units theme support flags consistent and opt-in. (23964) (23904)
  • Image: Add the ability for a plugin to disable Image Editor. (23966)

Experiments

  • Site Builder:
    • Change references to section back to template part. (23765)
    • Post Date Block: Add style attributes and restructure the edit function. (23931)
    • Edit Site: Integrate quick inserter. (23516)
  • Navigation screen and blocks:
    • Try: Customizable toolbar contents. (23613)
    • Navigation screen: Restore block movers for blocks with just one sibling. (23680)
    • Navigation screen: Add error boundary to experimental navigation screen. (23679)
    • Navigation screen: Show block appender by default. (23676)
    • Block Navigation: Use quick inserter. (23737)
    • Navigation screen: Add .editor-styles-wrapper. (23736)
  • Fix Inserter on the widgets screen. (24045)

Bug Fixes

  • Prevent JavaScript error when using arrow navigation in URLInput. (24047)
  • a11y: Components: Fix Toolbar arrow key navigation in RTL contexts. (24043)
  • RichText: Restore aria-multiline. (24041)
  • a11y: Fix Copy block button focus loss and try to remove the visually hidden textarea. (24022)
  • Block Patterns: Override patterns that were registered by Core. (24004)
  • Fix block wrapper selector. (23991)
  • Fix block icon mouse-out gesture issue. (23980)
  • Fix components utils export for use-update-effect. (23969)
  • a11y: Persist tooltips on hover. (23959)
  • Fix blocks dropping to incorrect position in inner block lists. (23950)
  • RangeControl: Adapt slider color to color scheme. (23936)
    • (JS) Color Values: Rename brand to theme. Add fallback values. (24059)
  • Prevent content loss after refreshing an editor with unsaved auto-draft post. (23928)
  • Fix edited Classic block's content deletion when switching to Code editor. (23927)
  • Fix drag and drop to empty block lists. (23923)
  • Fix drag and drop for aligned blocks. (23916)
  • Fix comment capitalization/punctuation. (23912)
  • Fix block merging regression. (23901)
  • Inserter: Order quick inserter items by frecency. (23900)
  • Inserter: Set quick inserter content width to 100% on screens below 782px. (23896)
  • Autocomplete: Fix closing slash inserter with ESC. (23859)
  • Inserter: Hide inserter's block preview when searching. (23827)
  • apiFetch: Fix fetch-all preloading. (23807)
  • Fix error triggered when a tab is removed from TabPanel component. (23784)
  • Fix block movers in navigator on experimental navigation page displaying horizontally. (23779)
  • Search: Fix attribute defaults. (23777)
  • Apply the reset mixin to the inserter panel. (23744)
  • Sidebar controls: Add more space for German and other locales. (23738)
  • Block Library: Standardize post block placeholders. (23690)
    • i18n: Block Library: Translate post block placeholders. (23774)
  • Fix issue where block inserted in wrong place when selection is in nested block list, but root appender is used. (23668)
  • Fix an issue where dragging while the page has no scrollbar results in a console error. (23666)
  • Updated styling to match the post editor. (23525)
  • UnitControl: Fix internal unit parsing to handle incoming unit prop. (23521)
  • Table block: Fix focus loss in between row/column insertions. (23508)
  • Editor: Fix block highlight rendering after block is moved. (23425)
  • Inserter: Fix line to show again. (20792)
  • Button: Properly handle border radius reset. (23887)
  • Block Directory: Remove "contact admin" messaging. (23948)

Performance

  • Optimize more selector calls. (23930)
  • Performance testing: Cover Site Editor loading time. (23842)
  • Avoid re-rendering the PostSavedState component on each change. (23829)
  • Small performance tweaks. (23825)
  • Env: Only perform expensive install work when required. (23809)
  • Env: Improve install performance. (23806)

Documentation

  • Expand and update block-based themes documentation page. (23750)
  • Docs/update button component props. (24013)
  • Docs: Update plugin FAQ with versions link. (24005)
  • Remove the experimental flag from the block patterns documentation. (23954)
  • Docs: Add links for Create a Block Tutorial. (23946)
  • Adds basic documentation for the ToolbarButton component. (23909)
  • Docs: Title and markdown formatting for table. (23850)
  • Update documentation contributors guide. (23840)
  • Create new page listing Gutenberg releases in each WordPress version. (23773)
  • Docs: Clarify the interactive mode for create-block. (23752)
  • Docs: Add a tutorial on how to create a block-based theme. (23732)
  • Docs: Move ESNext to JavaScript tutorial. (23725)
  • Docs: Move DevEnv to own section for documentation. (23593)
  • Added readme to matrix alignment toolbar. (23341)
  • Update nested-blocks-inner-blocks.md. (23935)
  • Update block-registration.md. (23933)
  • Link to theme-experiments repo in block-based theme documentation. (23748)
  • Docs: Update device-tests readme with monorepo commands. (23630)

Code Quality

  • Refactor URLPopover to use React Hook. (23918)
  • Refactor Disabled component to use React Hooks. (23917)
  • Refactor More block. (23758)
  • Remove navigation block styles. (23678)
  • Refactor MediaPlaceholder to function component. (23671)
  • Remove duplicate selectors. (23466)
  • Refactor Tag Cloud block to use React Hooks. (23426)
  • Convert PostSavedState to functional component. (23038)
  • Types: Improve project setup. (21581)
  • Refactor ReusableBlockEditPanel to use hooks (and add type info). (21181)
  • Updates text, buttons colors and labels. (23855)

Build Tooling

  • Env:

    • Allow wp-env to start without configuration. (23913)
    • Add support for different options in each environment. (22568)

  • Build: Use .min.js suffix for bundled JavaScript. (23926)

  • Try running the performance tests as a GitHub action. (23818)

  • Improve the performance tests setup. (23817)

  • Automation:

    • Limit tests to not run on documentation-only changes. (23834)
    • Add paths-ignore **.md for unit tests checks. (23845)
    • Switch workflows to use paths-ignore and **.md. (23843)

Fix action GitHub action workflow YAML syntax errors. (23844)

Various

  • Embeds: Remove unsupported core-embed/hulu block. (23984)
  • E2E: Remove duplicate blocks in setup file. (23981)
  • REST API: Check for WP5.5 and skip registering routes. (23880)
  • LinkControl: Extract reusable parts. (23869)
  • Updates image size to match columns width. (23854)
  • InputControl: Add prefix prop. (23824)
  • Block Navigation: Change the visible labels for "Block navigation" to "List view". (23796)
  • Site Tagline Block. (23788)
  • Image Editor: When editing, pass the edited image src. (23703)
  • Replace SEO settings nofollow toggle with rel text widget. (23682)
  • Use global registry on the experimental navigation screen. (23675)
  • Env: Mark breaking change in changelog. (23776)
  • Cancel previous running workflows when a new commit is made. (23587)
  • Add title to image and video selection sheets. (23083)
  • Site Title: Add support settings for colors, fonts, and line height. (23007)
  • Add fix to make inputs of type email return true from isTextField. (21162)
  • Full Site Editing: Add a Site Logo block. (18811)
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