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Changelog

Enhancements

Design Tools

  • Post content block: Add background image and padding support. (62499)
  • Quote blocks: Add background image and minimum height support. (62497)
  • Verse block: Add background image and minimum height support. (62498)

Block Library

  • Post Date & Comment Date: Add relative date format. (62298)
  • Replace "Add new post" link text with more meaningful Label (v2). (62277)

Block Editor

  • LinkControl: Refined the display of the link preview title and URL when both are same. (61819)
  • Update URL to uppercase. (62231)

Block bindings

  • Change bindings panel title, add description. (62489)

Site Editor

  • Template inspector: Small visual adjustments. (62537)
  • Unify DataViews Header Title & Subtitle. (62429)

Document Settings

  • FlatTermSelector: Update the term suggestion limit. (62359)

Global Styles

  • Update custom CSS handling to be consistent with block global styles. (62357)

Post Editor

  • Try: Re-enable React StrictMode. (61943)

New APIs

Extensibility

  • DataViews: Bootstrap Actions Extensibility API. (62052)

Bug Fixes

  • Core Data: Fix errors when the entities list doesn't contain configuration key. (62346)
  • Data Views: Bulk toolbar covering other clickable elements. (62333)
  • Fix: Omit default parameters from pages, template parts, and patterns. (62372)
  • Fix: Show homepage link on frontpage instead of the slug. (62279)
  • Fix: Unquoted file argument in declaration check script. (62482)
  • List: Fix pasting. (62428)
  • MediaUpload: Remove dialog markup on close. (62168)
  • Revert CSS removal for interface footer breadcrumbs. (62309)
  • Revert test data for WithSlug variation. (62579)
  • Scripts: Pin the @wordpress/scripts version to a version supported by 6.5. (62234)
  • Site Editor Hub: Simplify. (61579)
  • Style Book: Allow activation when the canvas mode is "view". (62212)
  • Top toolbar: Fix half a pixel artifacting of the bottom border. (62225)
  • Try: Contextual frame bg color to avoid artifacting. (62223)
  • Try: Fix mover positioning. (62226)
  • Update instances of text-wrap: Pretty to fall back to balance. (62233)

Global Styles

  • Add default-spacing-sizes and default-font-sizes options for classic themes. (62252)
  • Add custom CSS for block style variations. (62526)
  • Color Variations: Use Grid rather than VStack. (62445)
  • Don't apply the background and text colors to typography previews. (62578)
  • Fix UI appearing on blocks that don't support text alignment. (62376)
  • Fix UI order for theme.json spacing sizes. (62199)
  • Fix registration of theme style variation defined block styles. (62495)
  • Only use single property variations as color/type presets. (62469)
  • Section Styles: Register block style variations on init. (62461)
  • Section styles: Consolidate variation name. (62550)
  • Section styles: Support i18n for variations declared in theme.json or theme style variations. (62552)
  • Sort spacing sizes when all slugs begin numerically. (62567)

Site Editor

  • Change Site Editor to Edit site. (62501)
  • Fix "insert before/after" not showing for blocks in site editor. (62530)
  • Site Export: Ensure that the export endpoint uses Gutenberg theme classes. (61561)
  • Update old document URLs to new ones. (62206)
  • Update sidebar title + icon + site title alignment. (62191)

Block Editor

  • Inserter: Allow focus to move to the toggle when opening the inserter. (62513)
  • Inserter: Return the same items when the state and parameters don't change. (62263)
  • Remove 'rootClientId' argument for block lock selectors. (62547)
  • Update fetchLinkSuggestions to sort results by relevancy. (62397)

Block Library

  • Fixed Media Text Block Issue : When crop image to fill is enabled, the image in nested media & text blocks does not show. (62182)
  • Media & Text block: Fix nested Media & Text block media position issue with increased CSS specificity. (62184)
  • Query: Adjust the position of sticky search field in Patterns modal. (62370)

Post Editor

  • Editor: Avoid remounts of DocumentBar. (62214)
  • Editor: Make revisions more prominent. (62323)
  • Editor: Refine availability of rename post action. (62248)
  • Fix move CONTENT_ONLY_BLOCKS into component body to ensure the editor.postContentBlockTypes filter gets called whenever the values are used. (62292)

Components

  • Ensure that openref is defined before accessing to .current. (62508)
  • Fix: Update styles for checkbox and radio controls. (61696)
  • Tabs: Prevent accidental overflow in indicator. (61979)

List View

  • Fix home and end key behaviour in very long lists. (62312)
  • Respect default shortcuts in modals. (62479)
  • Show context menu for content-only blocks in posts. (62354)

Block bindings

  • Fix applying bindings or pattern overrides to button blocks with empty text. (62220)
  • Fix site editor breaking when user selects bound and non-bound blocks at the same time. (62268)
  • Revert changes to bindings replacement logic to not use regex. (62355)

Synced Patterns

  • Block Bindings / Pattern Overrides: Prevent normal attribute updates when a __default binding exists. (62471)
  • Fix showing double icons for connected blocks in pattern editor. (62317)

Data Views

  • DataViews: Fix unnecessary horizontal scrollbar in list layout. (62448)
  • Page creation and duplication: Decode HTML entities in success notices. (62313)

Patterns

  • Fix increasingly big canvas in the post editor when editing patterns. (62360)
  • i18n: Patterns: Disambiguate singular & plural uses of 'Synced' & 'Unsynced'. (62375)

Data Layer

  • Data: Add error handle to the 'registry.batch' method. (62322)

Block Variations

  • Compare objects based on given properties. (62272)

Block Styles

  • Remove core block style variations filters and action. (62090)

Accessibility

  • Add lint rule for inaccessible disabled Button. (62080)
  • Placeholders: Fix contrast. (62416)

Global Styles

  • Display tooltips for pagination buttons on styles revision. (62395)

Site Editor

  • Make edit site pagination buttons accessibly disabled. (62267)

Performance

  • reporter: Print the stdout/stderr from the worker. (62316)

Block bindings

  • Only run block bindings Gutenberg logic for sites using WordPress versions below 6.5. (62363)

Interactivity API

  • Use data-wp-on-async directives in core blocks when handler does not need synchronous access to event. (62160)

Experiments

Posts/Tags/Categories Screen

  • Bootstrap the dashboard layout. (62409)
  • Posts Dashboard: Add a new experimental empty page. (62406)

Documentation

  • Add @global PHP documentation. (60539)
  • Add documentation for PostSticky and PostStickyCheck component. (62100)
  • Add documentation for WordCount component. (62217)
  • Added documentation for PostTrash & PostTrashCheck TimeToRead TextEditorGlobalKeyboardShortcuts PostPublishButtonLabel Component. (62116)
  • Better changelogs for the JSX transform upgrade. (62265)
  • Corrected @SInCE Order in Php documentation. (61992)
  • Docs: Explicitly mention new behavior coming in WP 6.6 for block variations. (62399)
  • EntitiesSavedStates editor component. (62377)
  • Fix @since tag in docblock in WP_Theme_JSON_Data_Gutenberg. (62425)
  • Fix: Invalid link on explanations documentation. (62487)
  • Fixing minor syntax in DataView example code. (62560)
  • Interactivity API template create block: Removed warning for generated README from template. (62324)
  • PostPublishButton, PostPublishButtonLabel editor components. (62379)
  • PostPublishPanel editor component. (62380)
  • PostSwitchToDraftButton editor component. (62381)
  • PostSyncStatus editor component. (62382)
  • PostTaxonomies, PostTaxonomiesCheck, PostTaxonomiesFlatTermSelector, PostTaxonomiesPanel related editor components. (62384)
  • Several typo correction in documentations. (62433)
  • TableOfContents editor component. (62385)
  • ThemeSupportCheck editor component. (62387)
  • Update React API reference links in @wordpress/element reference-guides. (62475)
  • Update: Slotfill documentation samples (links, code, and rephrase). (62271)
  • UseEntitiesSavedStatesIsDirty editor component. (62388)
  • block.json schema: Add supports.splitting field. (62209)

Code Quality

  • Add support for local keyframes through a PostCSS plugin. (62476)
  • Block style variation: Rename hook. (62464)
  • Chore: Simplify a padding style on global styles. (62291)
  • Convert autop package to TS. (62583)
  • Convert blob package to TS. (62569)
  • Convert escape-html package to TS. (62586)
  • Convert token-list package to TypeScript. (62584)
  • Convert warning package to TS. (62557)
  • Editor: Cleanup styles and classnames. (62237)
  • Editor: Deprecate PostSwitchToDraftButton. (62402)
  • Editor: Introduce the Editor component and use it in the site editor. (62274)
  • Fix unintended overwrite of eslint no-restricted-syntax. (62301)
  • Fix: Add network-active to valid options in PluginStatus Type definition. (62450)
  • Fix: Flakey deferred store test. (62571)
  • Fix: Remove unused code from dataviews styles. (62275)
  • Fix: Remove unused typography panel styles. (62295)
  • Fixed : Disambiguate "Cover" translatable string in the context of background-panel.js. (62440)
  • Move the template part menu items to the editor package. (62366)
  • Shortcut Help modal: Remove CSS hack for Internet Explorer 11. (62564)
  • Use stable reference for getEntityActions action. (62536)

Global Styles

  • Global styles code quality refactoring. (62299)
  • Migrate theme.json based on origin. (62305)
  • Send theme object to setUserConfig. (61805)

Synced Patterns

  • Extract the pattern overrides toolbar indicator from the block-editor package. (62514)
  • Remove unused syncDerivedUpdates action. (62229)

Post Editor

  • Editor: Combine selector in provider component. (62407)
  • Editor: Use the Editor component in the post editor. (62339)

Site Editor

  • Remove editor specific classes from shell wrapper. (62389)
  • Remove unused code. (62286)

Icons

  • Fix React warning error for offline icon. (62353)

Data Views

  • Chore: Simplify a padding style on dataviews. (62276)

Block Editor

  • Use border instead of hr for filtered block list separator. (62249)

Block bindings

  • Use preview instead of publishing post in block bindings tests. (62235)

Block API

  • Parser: Update validateBlock to use fixedBlock. (62178)

Tools

Testing

  • Fix flaky Site Editor command center end-to-end test. (62454)
  • Perf Tests: Use backward-compatible locators. (62362)
  • Test using Node.js 22.x. (62341)
  • Try: Fix flaky DataViews end-to-end test. (62413)
  • Update Node version for flaky test reporter. (62401)
  • end-to-end Utils: Add retry mechanism to the REST API discovery. (62331)

Build Tooling

  • Build JS module only in development mode. (62398)
  • Speed up check-build-type-declaration-files. (62538)

wp-env

  • Add JSON Schema for .wp-env.json files. (36276)
  • Add WP_ENV_TESTS_MYSQL_PORT / .wp-env.json .env.tests.mysqlPort option etc. (61057)

Various

  • Update all ConfirmDialogs in the codebase to be size=medium. (62532)

REST API

  • Themes REST API endpoint: Add stylesheet_uri and template_uri fields to the response (WP 6.6). (62211)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @aaronware @afercia @ajlende @akasunil @amitraj2203 @andrewserong @BrianHenryIE @carolinan @carstingaxion @cbravobernal @colorful-tones @DaniGuardiola @desrosj @ellatrix @fabiankaegy @geriux @gigitux @gziolo @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @joemcgill @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @kevin940726 @Mamaduka @mcsf @mirka @narenin @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @ramonjd @richtabor @SantosGuillamot @scruffian @shail-mehta @sirreal @stokesman @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tjcafferkey @up1512001 @vipul0425 @westonruter @WunderBart @youknowriad

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