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v17.4.0-rc.1
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Changelog

Enhancements

Components

  • Refactor experimental dropdown menu usages to latest version. (55625)
  • Replace TabPanel with Tabs in the Block Inspector. (56995)
  • Replace TabPanel with Tabs in the editor Global Styles color palette. (57126)
  • ToggleGroupControl: Update large button size to 32px. (57338)
  • Update ariakit version. (57325)
  • CustomSelect: Add WordPressComponentsProps. (56998)
  • Modal: Improve application of body class names. (55430)
    • Components: Replace TabPanel with Tabs in the Block Inserter. (56918)

Site Editor

  • Add Page Attributes panel. (57151)
  • Add Post Taxonomies panel. (57049)
  • Add View Link. (57153)
  • Add the Discussion panel. (57150)
  • Add the featured image panel. (57053)
  • Editor: Unify revision panel between post and site editors. (57010)
  • Social Link block: Obfuscate email address. (57384)

Design Tools

  • Background image: Add backgroundSize and repeat features. (57005)
  • Make sure theme color palette presets are output when appearance tools are enabled. (57190)
  • Move tools panel to the left of the inspector. (55785)

Global Styles

  • Global styles revisions: Add pagination. (56799)
  • Global styles revisions: Integrate style book. (56800)

Bug Fixes

Components

  • DropdownMenu V2: Add fallback styles for when subgrid is not supported. (57327)
  • DropdownMenuV2: Do not collapse suffix width. (57238)
  • Fix DayButton dot position and expand Button area. (55502)
  • Fix logic of has-text class addition in Button. (56949)
  • Palette Edit: Don't discards colors with default name and slug. (54332)
  • PaletteEdit: Consider digits when generating kebab-cased slug. (56713)
  • RadioControl: Fully encapsulate styles. (57347)
  • Tabs: Make sure individual Tabs are linked to the correct TabPanels. (57033)
  • Text selection: Show CSS hack to Safari only. (57300)
  • Truncate: Improve handling of non-string children. (57261)
  • FormTokenField: Handle disabled prop on internal Button. (57187)
  • tab panel: Don't render hidden content by default. (57046)

Block Editor

  • Exclude disabled buttons when setting initialIndex of NavigableToolbar. (57280)
  • Fix BlockSwitcher checks for showing a Dropdown menu or not. (57047)
  • Fix block lock toolbar item stealing focus when mounted with StrictMode. (57185)
  • Fix content lock UI regression. (56974)
  • Fix vertical overflow when inserter is open in post and site editor. (57127)
  • Hide drop indicator where block isn't allowed to drop. (56843)
  • InserterListItem: Use item.isDisabled to detect disabled item. (57161)
  • More settings tip: Add explicit font size. (55835)
  • Writing flow: Absorb partial multi selection dispatching. (47525)
  • Fix the block 'edit' property validation. (57193)

Block Library

  • Audio: Hide some controls when multi-editing blocks. (57376)
  • Disable resizing when viewport is small and wide-aligned. (57041)
  • Gallery: Hide some controls when multi-editing blocks. (57378)
  • Image Block: Get lightbox trigger button ref via data-wp-init. (57089)
  • Image: Hide caption control when multi-editing images. (57357)
  • Video: Hide some controls when multi-editing blocks. (57375)
  • Image Block: Fix deprecation when width/height attribute is number. (57063)

Patterns

  • Fix: Viewport width not accounted for in the Site Editor > Patterns view. (55803)
  • Override all the labels of the pattern categories taxonomy. (57094)
  • Pattern Category: Change show_tagcloud to false. (57212)
  • Patterns (unsynced): Prevent infinite loops due to recursive patterns. (56511)

Site Editor

  • Fix image upload bug. (57040)
  • Reduce clearance around the Frame in the site editor. (57023)
  • Swap Template: Show the right templates for the right post type. (57149)
  • Save Button: Fix the translation of the Activate button. (57147)
  • SlotFill: Allow contextual SlotFillProviders. (56779)

Post Editor

  • Editor: Use visibility selector for PostTemplatePanel. (57224)
  • Fix: Code editor title width in classic theme. (56922)

Design Tools

  • Allow default duotone styles in classic themes. (57191)
  • StylesPreview: Fix endless loop of ratio calculations when on the threshold of a scrollbar. (57090)

Interactivity API

  • Fix namespaces in nested interactive regions. (57029)
  • Fix Interactivity not working on Classic Themes. (57396)

Collaborative Editing

  • Collab editing: Ensure block attributes are serialisable. (57025)

Accessibility

  • Font size picker: Fix Reset button focus loss. (57196)
  • a11y: Apply focus style to revision items. (57039)
  • [a11y] Fix: Use spans instead of headings on dataviews table view page title. (56956)

Performance

Block Editor

  • Block: Combine store subscriptions. (56994)
  • Combine selectors in the 'BackgroundImagePanelItem' component. (57159)
  • InnerBlocks: overlay: Remove viewport size condition. (57135)
  • Prevent layout re-rendering when changing selected block. (57136)
  • Prevent re-rendering the editor header when the selected block changes. (57140)
  • Rewrite moving animation for better load performance. (57133)
  • Rich text: Avoid block editor subscription if not selected. (57226)
  • Try removing extra memoization for individual style panels. (57160)
  • hooks: Manage save props in one place. (57043)

Block Library

  • Gallery: Combine useSelect calls. (57240)
  • Image: Reduce 'block-editor' store subscriptions. (57358)
  • List: Avoid useSelect in block render. (57077)
  • Blocks: Simplify/optimise isUnmodifiedBlock. (56919)
  • InnerBlocks: Combine store subscriptions. (57032)

Components

  • Navigator: Use CSS animations instead of framer-motion. (56909)
  • useSelect: Only invalidate on subscribe if store changed. (57108)

Experiments

Data Views

  • Add hover style to table rows. (57058)
  • Add: See revisions template action. (57175)
  • Code Quality: Update: Reuse view revisions action on templates and pages. (57208)
  • DataViews: Add list layout to templates. (57014)
  • DataViews: Align filter implementations. (57059)
  • DataViews: Centralize control of filter visibility in the Filters component. (57056)
  • DataViews: Close actions menu upon switching layouts. (57015)
  • DataViews: Display column header when the field is only filterable. (57051)
  • DataViews: Fix bug on operators count for table layout. (57048)
  • DataViews: Improve naming for easy identification in React devtools. (57385)
  • DataViews: Improve preview. (57116)
  • DataViews: Make deferredRendering prop optional. (57334)
  • DataViews: Make getItemId optional. (57308)
  • DataViews: Make filters footprint more condensed. (56983)
  • DataViews: Mark the new Templates pages as stable. (57109)
  • DataViews: Memoize onSelectionChange callback. (57390)
  • DataViews: Remove paginationInfo prop from ViewComponent. (57306)
  • DataViews: Remove reference to edit site class. (57075)
  • DataViews: Rename operatorsFromField to sanitizeOperators. (57050)
  • DataViews: Update onChangeView memoization. (57393)
  • DataViews: Update documentation. (57305)
  • DataViews: Use SelectControl for selecting a page. (57215)
  • Dataviews: Simplify pagination. (57071)
  • Fix: Empty dropdown(s) on the grid view. (57316)
  • Fix: Template list title font styles. (57027)
  • Sort order: Use unicode characters instead of svg icons. (56833)
  • Update: Make secondary actions trigger always visible. (57174)
  • Use default variants for Filter and View buttons. (57057)

Patterns

  • Fix broken undo history stack for Pattern Overrides. (57088)
  • Fix unsaved pattern not reflecting on pattern overrides. (57148)
  • [Pattern Overrides] Use a single checkbox to turn on pattern overrides for all allowed attributes. (57009)

List View

  • Allow right-click to open block settings dropdown, add editor setting. (50273)

Documentation

  • Add new section on markup representation of a block. (57230)
  • Added additional explanations to attributes and supports sections. (57120)
  • Added documentation for the text-decoration-control component. (57184)
  • CardHeader used instead of CardFooter. (45585)
  • Components: Update TypeScript-related tips in Contributing Guide. (57267)
  • Doc: Block Wrapper - enclose html tag, use correct keyword supports not support. (56906)
  • Docs/getting started readme. (57223)
  • Docs: Add new "Build your first block" tutorial to the Getting Started section of the BEH. (56931)
  • Docs: Fundamentals block development/block in the editor -- add page to manifest (toc). (57179)
  • Docs: Fundamentals of Block Development - block in the editor. (56488)
  • Enforce heading sentence case throughout the BEH. (57143)
  • Fix grammar and typos in the Block Development Environment doc. (57123)
  • Fix incorrect links in ToggleGroupControl docs. (57236)
  • Fix: Typo on footnotes docs. (57348)
  • Fixes heading hierarchy in block filters. (57239)
  • Minor heading to improve readability and reference. (57102)
  • Platform Docs: Fix missing link. (57145)
  • Remove Radix UI-related documentation. (57336)
  • Remove links to excalidraw diagrams from images. (56980)
  • Remove the "How to use JavaScript in the Block Editor" documentation. (57166)
  • Remove unnecessary TOCs from documentation. (57087)
  • Restore descriptions for deprecated button props. (37690)
  • Small heading fix. (57098)
  • Snackbar: Remove __unstableHTML prop from TS. (57218)
  • Update block toolbar and settings sidebar image. (57203)
  • fix: Updated the link for "Building a custom block editor". (57319)

Code Quality

  • Add missing block/theme json $schema property. (57201)
  • Add missing period in block descriptions. (57131)
  • Fix code style in Gutenberg_HTML_Tag_Processor_6_5. (57030)
  • Font size picker: Use Button API for keeping focus on reset. (57221)
  • Mobile: Fix getPxFromCssUnit circular dependency. (57045)

Block Editor

  • Editor: Move the Excerpt panel to the editor package. (57096)
  • Refactor useCanContextualToolbarShow for simplicity and clarity. (56914)
  • Remove unnecessary isDisabled option on useShortcut for BlockToolbarPopover. (56907)
  • Replace block variation buttons with ToggleGroupControl. (45654)
  • Replace isSmall prop #53560. (53599)
  • Several little refactors. (57107)
  • useBlockTypesState: Divide useSelect call into two. (57163)
  • useInputRules: Remove unneeded check for inputRule. (57164)

Components

  • Adding unit tests for useCompositeState to Composite component. (56645)
  • Delete experimental radix-ui based DropdownMenu component. (55626)
  • GradientPicker: Use index while iterating over gradient entries to avoid React "duplicated key" warning. (57361)
  • TabPanel: Refactor unit tests to @ariakit/test. (57302)
  • Tabs: Update styling to more closely match previous implementation. (57275)
  • ToggleGroupControl: Fix snapshots. (57367)
  • Move kebabCase() function from block-editor package and mark it as private API. (56758)

Block Library

  • Gallery Block: Remove unused attributes property in shortcode transformation. (57356)
  • Remove cruft in Button block editor styles. (30950)
  • Tag Cloud: Replace 'withSelect' HoC with 'useSelect'. (57194)

Global Styles

  • Global styles revisions: Refactor sticky pagination footer to use CSS. (57294)
  • Relocate revisions from fill to sidebar component. (57034)
  • Simplify the conditions in GlobalStylesEditorCanvasContainerLink. (57144)

List View

  • Editor: Move and unify the inserter and list view states. (57158)
  • Editor: Unify the list view shortcut registration and definition. (57200)
  • ListView: Replace prop drilldown by a stable ref in store. (57198)

Typography

  • Font Library: Consolidate existing API rest endpoints. (57282)
  • Quality: Replace wpKebabCase function with kebabCase function from components package. (57038)

Site Editor

  • Editor: Move the panel visibility state from the edit-post to the editor package. (57012)
  • Remove isResizing variable from layout component as it is always false. (57119)
  • Allow disabling and enabling comments. (57205)

Navigation Menus

  • Add basic test coverage for Navigation Menu editing mode. (56871)
  • Fix flaky Navigation focus mode test. (57016)

Plugin

  • Implement proposal to remove the WordPress-Docs ruleset. (56982)
  • i18n: Make menu and title labels in Gutenberg plugin translatable. (43500)

Modules API

  • Refactor, tests, and final dependencies array structure. (57231)

Tools

  • Dependency Extraction Webpack Plugin: Fix test issues. (57332)

Testing

  • Add an end-to-end test to check image upload working in site editor. (57086)
  • Components: Add unit test __experimentalExpandOnFocus unit tests for FormTokenField. (57122)
  • Global styles revisions e2e: Tidy up selectors to open revisions panel. (57146)
  • Migrate 'Comments Form' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (57337)
  • Migrate Site Editor 'settings sidebar' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (57392)
  • Migrate remaining 'block switcher' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (57381)
  • e2e: Try to fix flaky font-library test. (57092)

Build Tooling

  • DependencyExtractionWebpackPlugin: Drop webpack4 and node<18. (57303)
  • Disable webpack perf hints when compiling packages. (57155)
  • Update to Node.js 20.x. (56331)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@andrewhayward @andrewserong @anton-vlasenko @arthur791004 @atachibana @bacoords @BenjaminZekavica @brookewp @c4rl0sbr4v0 @chad1008 @ciampo @colorful-tones @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @ddryo @derekblank @desrosj @dotslashbit @ellatrix @fluiddot @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @gvgvgvijayan @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @kevin940726 @koen12344 @kurudrive @luisherranz @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mcsf @mhimon @mirka @ndiego @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @ramonjd @richtabor @SiobhyB @sirreal @stokesman @t-hamano @tellthemachines @TimBroddin @youknowriad @yuliyan

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