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Changelog

Features

Interactivity API

  • Add Slot and Fill directives. (53958)
  • Query block: Client-side pagination. (53812)
  • Update data-wp-bind directive logic. (54003)
  • Query block: Move "Enhance pagination" toggle under Settings. (54198)

Enhancements

  • Bundle ObserveTyping within the BlockList component. (53875)
  • Default appender: Hide the dashed indicator until ancestor is selected. (53761)
  • Register the block editor keyboard shortcuts automatically when using BlockEditorProvider. (53910)
  • [Commands]: Add toggle list view command in site editor. (53983)

Components

  • Bundle SlotFillProvider within BlockEditorProvider. (53940)
  • Make the Popover.Slot optional. (53889)
  • Popover: Update @floating-ui to latest version, remove custom fix for iframe positioning and scaling. (46845)
  • AlignmentMatrixControl: Replace act() with userEvent. (53703)
  • ProgressBar: Add transition to determinate indicator. (53877)

Block Library

  • Blocks: Move bootstrapped block types to Redux state. (53807)
  • Capture toolbars in navigation block. (53697)
  • Content Block: Change placeholder and end-to-end test to refer to Content block. (53902)
  • Make mid size parameter settable for Query Pagination block. (51216)

Block Editor

  • Capture toolbars in quote block. (53699)
  • Improve writing flow for lists by capturing list item toolbars. (53306)
  • RichTextValue: Typescript Adjustment. (54002)

Typography

  • Font Face: Prepare for merge into Core. (53858)
  • Renames "Fonts Library" to "Font Library". (53780)

Post Editor

  • Edit Post: Use hooks instead of HoCs in TaxonomyPanel. (53773)

List View

  • Add keyboard shortcut for duplicating blocks. (53559)

Patterns

  • Add a custom taxonomy for user created patterns. (53163)

New APIs

Interactivity API

  • Router with region-based client-side navigation. (53733)

Bug Fixes

  • Add missing aria roles for block locking toolbar and menu buttons. (53734)
  • Block Editor: Fix cleanup in the 'useNavModeExit' hook. (53795)
  • Command Palette: Fix crash on block-related commands. (53923)
  • Date: Add relative time translations for moment.js. (53931)
  • Date: Update translation domains for strings to be translatable. (53995)
  • Iframe: Set character encoding to utf-8. (53519)
  • Replace horizontal ellipsis icon with vertical ellipsis icon. (52731)
  • Toggle Distraction free mode mode based on compatibility. (54030)
  • Warning: Introduce SCRIPT_DEBUG to make the package compatible with webpack 5. (50122)
  • [Commands]: Fix move to command condition for registering. (54049)
  • [Commands]: Fix block editor commands availability. (53994)
  • [Format library]: Fix language popover position. (53841)

Block Library

  • Add init.js module for the Footnotes block. (53763)
  • Adding center align css for social icon issue. (43120)
  • Cover block: Fix exception when adding video background. (53961)
  • List View: Allow replacing template part when a block isn't selected. (53757)
  • Post Navigation Link: Remove unnecessary space between arrows and label. (53572)
  • Search block: Fix width input field. (53952)
  • Simplify check for no posts in query-no-results block. (53772)
  • Site Logo: Remove line-height for the anchor element. (53909)

Components

  • Always render the fallback Popover anchor within the Popover's parent element. (53982)
  • Fix the cleanup method for SandBox. (53796)
  • PaletteEdit: Fix component height. (54000)

Post Editor

  • Edit Post: Fix tab border conflicts in the Document Overview panel. (53711)
  • EditPostPreferencesModal: Fix intermittently failing tests. (53814)
  • getInsertionPoint: Fix type check for the state value. (53793)

npm Packages

  • Workflow: Run Learn directly from GitHub action when publishing to npm targeting WP core. (53762)
  • Workflows: Fix issues with the npm publishing workflow when using locally. (53565)

Themes

  • Command Palette: Proper handling of page/post links in all themes. (53718)
  • Fix query loop bugs by correctly relying on the main query and removing problematic workaround. (49904)

Block Editor

  • Fix: Indicator style when block moving mode. (53972)

Icons

  • Fix invalid namespaces. (53955)

Patterns

  • Disable the preview option button when editing. (53913)

Global Styles

  • Gallery: Re-enable block spacing at block level while still hiding in global styles. (53900)

Layout

  • BlockList: Ensure element styles (and svg) are always appended at the end of the document. (53859)

Interactivity API

  • Add "supports.interactivity" to Image block. (53850)

Style Variations

  • Block Styles: Fix misplaced preview popover on RTL site. (53726)

List View

  • Recalculate window list when expanded state changes (fix logic for long nested lists). (53716)

Widgets Editor

  • Block Widget: Fix content cutoff in the keyboard shortcut modal. (53638)

Rich Text

  • Fix cleanup in useRemoveBrowserShortcuts. (52225)

Accessibility

  • Edit site: Add missing label to post status password protected input field. (52885)
  • [a11y] Fix: Aria-haspop, aria-expanded attributes on the link format button. (53691)

Site Editor

  • Add missing aria roles to the 'Create template part' menu item. (53754)
  • Unify the delete button style in the dropdown menu with red. (52597)

Block Library

  • Add missing aria roles to the 'Replace template part' menu item. (53755)

Patterns

  • Add missing aria roles to the 'Create pattern' menu item. (53739)

List View

  • [a11y] Fix: Aria-haspop and aria-expanded attributes on list view button. (53693)

Block Editor

  • [a11y] Fix: Aria-haspop and aria-expanded attributes on the inserter button. (53692)

Performance

  • Revert "Switch performance tests to Playwright (#52022)". (53741)
  • StartPageOptions: Load and parse patterns only after establishing the need for them. (53673)
  • Switch performance tests to Playwright: Take 2. (53768)

Experiments

Block API

  • Auto-inserting blocks: Add block inspector panel. (52969)
    • Auto-inserting blocks: Add block icon to block inspector panel toggles. (54029)
  • Auto-inserting blocks: Remove toggle if block is present elsewhere. (54024)
  • Rename "auto inserting blocks" to "block hooks". (54147)

Documentation

  • Add juanmaguitar as codeowner of /packages/interactivity/docs. (53845)
  • Add new How-to Guide for enqueueing assets in the Editor. (53828)
  • Adds example for useBlockProps hook. (53646)
  • Adds explanatory text to view.js template. (53870)
  • Clarification for parent and ancestor hierarchical relationships. (53855)
  • Docs: Extend the information about using render with block.json. (53973)
  • Docs: Remove duplicate sections from FAQ page. (53830)
  • Document the naming convention for block-library PHP functions. (53777)
  • Fix 'lerna' links in the release documentation. (53770)
  • Fix typo in code sample for Interactivity API. (53916)
  • MenuItem: Add Storybook stories. (53613)
  • Shortcut: Add Storybook stories. (53627)
  • Storybook: Add back subcomponents to props table. (53751)
  • Storybook: Fix default source visibility. (53749)
  • Storybook: Show main story before description. (53753)
  • Update local instructions on the dev env documentation. (53924)
  • Update the Block Variations API doc. (53817)
  • Update to node 16 and npm 8 in the getting started with code contribution doc. (53912)
  • docs: Fix report-flaky-test link. (53848)

Code Quality

  • Components: Update Popover per reviews. (53907)
  • Edit Site: Rename CanvasSpinner to CanvasLoader. (53728)
  • Enforce valid function names in the packages/block-library/src//.php files. (53438)
  • Fonts Library: Update properties name from snake case to camel case to match the rest of the properties. (53746)

Block API

  • Auto-inserting blocks: Remove obsolete TODO, fix REST API field description. (54208)

Post Editor

  • Editor: Fix the 'useSelect' warning in the 'useIsDirty' hook. (53759)
  • Fix browser console error when changing device preview mode. (53969)
  • Refactor latest content selectors in 'CopyContentMenuItem' components. (53676)

Components

  • Remove unnecessary utils. (53679)
  • SlotFill: Refactor <Slot bubblesVirtually />. (53272)
  • Storybook: Update TypeScript types. (53748)

List View

  • Fix warning error when the gallery block has the same image URLs. (53809)

Typography

  • Font Face API: Use gutenberg_get_global_settings instead of private API. (53805)

Tools

  • Try: Change PR label enforcer automation not to work on draft PRs by default. (53417)

Testing

  • Attempt to fix intermittent end-to-end test failure. (53905)
  • Fonts Library: Test improvements. (53702)
  • Make fonts test files use Core approach. (53856)
  • Migrate shortcut help end-to-end tests to Playwright. (53832)
  • Relocates Font Face and Fonts Library PHP files into Core's fonts directory. (53747)
  • ColorPalette: Refine test query. (53704)
  • end-to-end Playwright Utils: Automatically detect canvas type. (53744)
  • test: Automate mobile editor tests. (53991)

Build Tooling

  • Update Jest to latest version, and use optimized JSDOM. (53736)

Plugin

  • Backport themes is_block_theme collection param from core. (53846)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@afercia @andrewserong @anton-vlasenko @bangank36 @brookewp @ciampo @colorful-tones @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @derekblank @ellatrix @felixarntz @geriux @glendaviesnz @gziolo @hellofromtonya @jasmussen @jblz @JEverhart383 @jordesign @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @krokodok @luisherranz @Mamaduka @margolisj @matiasbenedetto @mburridge @mirka @mklute101 @mokagio @ndiego @ntsekouras @oandregal @ocean90 @ockham @priethor @ramonjd @richtabor @SiobhyB @Smit2808 @stokesman @t-hamano @torounit @tyxla @walbo @WunderBart @youknowriad

Contributors

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