Release 19.2.0 RC1 · WordPress/gutenberg

Changelog

Enhancements

Add: Reorder control at the field level on the new view configuration UI. (64381)
Core Data Types: recordId can be a number. (64796)
Core Data: Derive collection totals for unbound queries. (64772)
Create Block: Set minimum supported WordPress version to 6.6. (64920)
Dataviews Filter search widget: Do not use Composite store. (64985)
Dataviews list view: Do not use Composite store. (64987)
Move bulk actions menu to the Footer, consolidate with floating toolbar and total items display. (64268)
Try: Update block warnings. (64997)

Components

Add variants to InputControl prefix/suffix wrappers. (64824)
AlignmentMatrixControl: Do not use Composite store. (64850)
CircularOptionPicker: Stop using composite store. (64833)
Composite: Accept store props on top level component. (64832)
DataViews: Adds two new stories for edge cases. (64975)
Decrease standard padding to 12px. (64708)
DropdownMenuV2: Add GroupLabel subcomponent. (64854)
DropdownMenuV2: Update animation. (64868)
DropdownMenuV2: Use overloaded naming conventions. (64654)
InputControl: Tighten gap between input and prefix/suffix. (64908)
Navigator: Polish Storybook examples. (64798)
Navigator: Remove location history, simplify internal logic. (64675)
UnitControl: Update unit select styles. (64712)
Update hard-coded border-radius instances. (64693)
Update modal animation. (64580)

Block bindings

Add warning in attributes connected to invalid sources. (65002)
Allow only admin users to create and modify bindings by default. (64570)
Lock editing in fields in editor if meta fields panel is opened. (64738)
Rely on Text component instead of Truncate in bindings panel. (65007)
Remove getPlaceholder API and rely on key argument or source label. (64910)

Block Editor

Add 'Reset' option to MediaReplaceFlow component. (64826)
Block Patterns List: Do not use Composite store. (64983)
Remove the Shuffle block toolbar button. (64954)
Show block icon in contentOnly toolbar. (64694)

Block Library

Cover Block: Move Clear Media button from Inspector Controls to Block Controls. (64630)
Improve Social Icons setup and appending. (64877)
Pagination Block: Fix inconsistent margins between editor and frontend. (64874)
Tag Cloud: Improve state of block with no tags. (63774)

Block Locking

ContentOnly: Add support for block styles on top-level contentOnly locked blocks. (64872)
Only show title in content only toolbar if has title value. (64840)
Remove ability to crop image if content only mode. (64838)
Rename Alt to Alternative Text in content only image toolbar. (64841)

Interactivity API

Categories Block: Add iAPI directive for client-side routing. (64907)
Improve internal deepMerge function. (64879)

Global Styles

Hide typeset button when there are no typesets available. (64515)
Use four color palette colors instead of five for useStylesPreviewColors. (64700)

Zoom Out

Add "Edit" button to Zoom Out mode toolbar. (64571)
Double click block to exit zoom out mode. (64573)

Design Tools

Comment Edit Link: Add Border Block Support. (64239)
Comment Reply Link: Add border support. (64271)

Icons

Add thumbs up and down icons. (65004)

Site Editor

Apply radius scale in the editor. (64930)

Post Editor

Post publish upload media dialog: Handle upload errors. (64823)

Typography

Fluid typography: Allow individual preset overrides. (64790)

Media

Add experiment for client-side media processing. (64650)

REST API

Core Data: Resolve entity collection user permissions. (64504)

Block Transforms

Details block: Add transform from any block type. (63422)

New APIs

Extensibility

Editor: Add extensibility to PreviewOptions v2. (64644)

Bug Fixes

Add safeguard to mediaUploadMiddleware. (64843)
Allow multi-select on iOS Safari/touch devices. (63671)
Fix Modify content-locked menu item not showing if the block is not selected. (61605)
Fix editor error in Safari due to availability of checkVisibility method. (65069)
Fix: Pagination arrows are pointing in the wrong direction in RTL languages. (64962)
Footnotes: Only replace attribute if footnotes were detected. (63935)
Paste: Fix image paste from Google Forms. (64502)
Revert Focus pattern inserter search when activating zoom out inserter. (64748)

Block Library

De-duplicate block toolbar icons for patterns. (65054)
Fix: Page list: Pages without a title has no link text. (64297)
Position BlockToolbar below all of the selected block's descendants. (62711)
Site Logo Block: Fix non-admin users seeing zero character. (65010)
Site Logo: Fix loader alignment issue. (64919)
Template Part: Hide Advanced panel for non-admin users. (64721)
Video Block: Fix layout issue. (64834)

Components

ColorPalette utils: Do not normalize undefined color values. (64969)
DatePicker: Restore round radius for event dot. (65031)
DropdownMenuV2: Fix active and focus-visible item glitches. (64942)
DropdownMenuV2: Remove flashing styles when moving focus with keyboard. (64873)
Fixes "delete" action in DataViews' storybook. (64901)
Navigator: Fix isInitial, refine focusSelector logic. (64786)
Range control: Restore bottom margin rule. (65035)

Post Editor

Add back editor-post-locked-modal to post lock component. (64257)
Add context to View string in post actions. (65046)
Apply space below content using a pseudo-element instead of padding-bottom. (64639)
Post Title: Fix pasting in Safari. (64671)
Post Title: Move selection at the end after pasting over the text. (64665)
Post publish upload media dialog: Fix silent failure. (64741)

Data Views

DataViews: Fix field reordering and visibility logic. (64999)
Fix actions scrim in list layout. (64696)
Fix data views style inheritance. (64933)
Fix: Impossible to see pagination on viewports between small and medium. (64844)
List layout: Update broken styles. (64837)

Block Editor

Add conditions when the Shuffle button can be displayed. (64888)
Inserter: Fix subtle media insertion error. (65057)
Post Editor: Fix click space after post content to append. (64992)
Writing flow: Fix triple click inside text blocks. (64928)

Global Styles

Adjust spacing of background panel. (64880)
Cast globalFluid value to boolean. (64882)
Fix site editor broken when fontWeight is not defined or is an integer in theme.json or theme styles. (64953)
Fixes the default fluid value on the UI based on the global typography fluid value. (64803)

Block bindings

Change placeholder when attribute is bound. (64903)
Fix empty custom fields not being editable in bindings. (64881)

CSS & Styling

Featured Image Block: Reduce CSS specificity. (64463)
Retain the same specificity for non iframed selectors. (64534)

Patterns

Pass 'blocks' as inner blocks value. (65029)

Synced Patterns

Pattern: Don't render block controls when an entity is missing. (65028)

Site Editor

DataViews: Fix pattern title direction in RTL languages. (64967)

NUX

Fix visibility of the template Welcome Guide in the Site Editor. (64789)

Document Settings

Fix: Adjust Site URL Styles to Prevent Overflow in Pre-Publish Component. (64745)

Zoom Out

Focus selected block in editor canvas when clicking edit button on zoom out mode toolbar. (64725)

Templates API

Make plugin-registered templates overriden by themes to fall back to plugin-registered title and description. (64610)

Block Style Variations

Block Styles: Ensure unique classname generation for variations. (64511)

Distraction Free

Make Distraction Free not conditional on viewport width. (63949)

Media

Limit the max width of image to its container size. (63341)

Accessibility

Components

AlignmentMatrixControl: Simplify styles and markup. (64827)
TimePicker: Use ToggleGroupControl for AM/PM toggle. (64800)

Block Editor

Layout content and wide width controls: Remove confusing icon and clarify labels. (64891)

Font Library

Font Library Modal: Group font variations as a list. (64029)

Post Editor

Fix the post summary Status toggle button accessibility. (63988)

Performance

Core Data: Avoid loops in 'registry.batch' calls. (64955)
Core data: Performance: Fix receive user permissions. (64894)
Reusable blocks: Fix performance of __experimentalGetAllowedPatterns. (64871)

Site Editor

Add 'OPTIONS /page' to preloaded paths. (64890)
Editor: Don't use selector shortcuts for the Site data. (64884)

Block Library

Media & Text: Don't use background-image. (64981)

Post Editor

Editor: Remove create template permission check in 'VisualEditor'. (64905)

Block Editor

Inserter: Use lighter grammar parse to check allowed status. (64902)

Patterns

Shuffle: Don't call '__experimentalGetAllowedPatterns' for every block. (64736)

Experiments

Zoom Out

Add new zoom out experiment. (65048)
Remove the experiment that connects zoom out to the pattern inserter. (65045)

Documentation

Add a new section to the SlotFill reference to show how to conditionally render Fills. (64807)
Added Global Documentation in several php file. (64956)
Components: Move displayName assignment to top-level files. (64793)
Composite: Add context-forwarding with SlotFill example. (65051)
Composite: Fix Storybook docgen. (64682)
Corrected HTML Syntax for Closing Tags in api-reference.md file. (64778)
DataViews docs: Fix typo in direction values. (64973)
DataViews: Add story about combining fields. (64984)
DataViews: Document combined fields. (64904)
Dataviews docs: Layout properties checks and link. (64918)
Docs/iAPI: Fix wrong code snippets in API reference. (64416)
Docs: Update design resources to indicate edit isn't free. (64792)
PluginSidebarMoreMenuItem: Update example, screenshot and description. (64761)
Provide better examples and remove outdating site edit references for the MainDashboardButton SlotFill. (64753)
Removing ryanwelcher as a documentation codeowner because my inbox is dead. (64762)
Storybook: Hide deprecated __next36pxDefaultSize prop. (64806)
Update screenshot and description for PluginSidebar slot. (64759)
Update text to match code examples. (64751)
Update the import for PluginBlockSettingsMenuItem. (64758)
Updated Several Typos in Doc files. (64787)
[Docs]: Update Usage Example for block variation picker: Fix Import from Wrong Package. (55555)

Code Quality

Button: Add lint rule for 40px size prop usage. (64835)
Dataviews filter: Move resetValueOnSelect prop to combobox item. (64852)
Rename refs to fix tons of 'Mutating a value' errors in react-compiler. (64718)
Rich text: Add comment on placeholder approach. (64945)
SelectControl: Fix remaining 40px size violations. (64831)
Simplify useResizeObserver. (64820)
Typography: Backport comment changes only. (64859)
UnitControl: Add lint rule for 40px size prop usage. (64520)
UnitControl: Move to stricter lint rule for 40px size adherence. (65017)
Use rectIntersect instead of a custom argument to rectUnion. (64855)

Site Editor

Add Custom Template modal: Do not use Composite store. (65044)
Add units to avoid console warning. (64810)
Edit Site Layout: Remove redundant fullResizer. (64821)
Remove unused 'useSiteEditorSettings' hook. (64892)
Style Book: Do not use Composite store. (65047)

Block Editor

Block Inserter Listbox: Do not use Composite store. (65042)
Block Inserter Media List: Do not use Composite store. (65043)
Block Pattern Setup: Do not use Composite store. (65039)
Global Styles Shadow Panel: Do not use Composite store. (65041)
Pattern Transformations Menu: Do not use Composite store. (65040)

Zoom Out

Add selector for getting section root clientId. (65001)
Don't pass 'rootClientId' to block lock selectors. (64887)
Fix error and improve privacy of sectionRootClientId setting. (65000)

Components

AlignmentMatrixControl: Promote to stable. (60913)
Deprecate DimensionControl. (64951)

Block Library

Block Bindings: Fix ESLint warnings. (64684)
Video Block: Remove custom CSS code for placeholder style. (64861)

Global Styles

Allow referenced zero value and simplify getValueFromObjectPath calls. (64836)
Navigator: Replace deprecated NavigatorToParentButton with NavigatorBackButton. (64775)

Block Directory

Downloadable Block List: Do not use composite store. (65038)

Design Tools

Color panel hook: Rename to remove ambiguity. (64993)

Tools

Add remaining i18n rules to recommended ESLint ruleset. (64710)
Scripts: Added chunk filename in webpack configuration to avoid reading stale files. (58176)
Scripts: Import CSS files before optimization. (61121)
Scripts: Update puppeteer-core dependency. (64597)

Testing

Flaky Test: Fix "Sorting" test in new-templates-list.spec.js. (64776)
Revert "Downgrade node 22(.5) unit tests to 22.4 (#63728)". (63758)

Various

Dataviews docs: Fixed property name for defaultLayouts settings. (64897)
task: Remove dcalhoun code owner. (64886)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

@Imran92: Fix site editor broken when fontWeight is not defined or is an integer in theme.json or theme styles. (64953)
@jacobcassidy: Scripts: Update puppeteer-core dependency. (64597)
@jawadmalikdev: [Docs]: Update Usage Example for block variation picker: Fix Import from Wrong Package. (55555)
@lezama: Editor: Add extensibility to PreviewOptions v2. (64644)
@rithik56: Scripts: Added chunk filename in webpack configuration to avoid reading stale files. (58176)
@rohitmathur-7: Cover Block: Move Clear Media button from Inspector Controls to Block Controls. (64630)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @akasunil @Aljullu @andrewserong @atachibana @benoitchantre @carolinan @cbravobernal @ciampo @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @desrosj @dsas @ellatrix @fullofcaffeine @getdave @gziolo @Imran92 @imrraaj @jacobcassidy @jameskoster @jasmussen @jawadmalikdev @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @kevin940726 @lezama @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mirka @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @ramonjd @richtabor @rithik56 @rohitmathur-7 @ryanwelcher @SantosGuillamot @scruffian @sgomes @shail-mehta @spacedmonkey @stokesman @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @tjcafferkey @tyxla