Changelog

Enhancements

Components

• Allow style prop on Popover. (64489)
• Add elevation scale. (64108)
• Apply elevation scale to: Modal, Popover, and Snackbar components. (64655)
• Ariakit: Update to v0.4.10. (64637)
• DimensionControl: Add flag to remove bottom margin. (64346)
• DropdownMenu V2: Use themed color variables. (64647)
• Placeholders: Update radius temporarily. (64672)
• Reduce gap between steps in SpacingSizesControl, add animation, remove first/last marks. (63803)
• Textarea Control: Update styles. (64586)
• Tools Panel: Sets column-gap to 16px for grid. (64497)
• Update DropdownMenuV2 elevation, remove unused configuration value. (64432)
• Update components radius. (64368)
• Use useStoreState() instead of store.useState(). (64648)
• Composite: Use internal context to consume composite store. (64493)
• Default to new 40px size in the following:
  • FocalPointPicker: (64456)
  • QueryControls: (64457)

Data Views

• Do not display element descriptions in filters. (64674)
• Apply minimal variant to pagination dropdown. (63815)
• Update the style of the datetime fields to match the other types. (64438)
• Use the fields array to define the order of the fields. (64335)
• Make the move left/right controls in table header always available. (64646)
• Support defining field headers/names as React elements. (64642)
• Add marks to preview size control. (64546)
• Move item size control to the new view configuration UI. (64380)
• Update search appearance in narrow containers. (64681)
• Quick edit additions:
  • comment_status field. (64370)
  • status field. (64398)
  • 'Date' as field and datetime as field type. (64267)
• Extensibility - allow unregistering of the following:
  • Duplicate post action (64441)
  • Duplicate pattern action (64373)
  • Duplicate template part action (64388)
  • Rename post action (64366)
  • Reorder-page action (64199)
  • View post action (64467)
  • View post revisions action (64464)
• Add missing styles and remove opinionated ones for generic usage. (64711)

Block Library

• Embed Block: Replace native input element with InputControl component. (64668)
• Grid: Prevent highlight of cells when dragging a block if block type can't be dropped into grid. (64290)
• Image block: Add reset button. (64669)
• Overlay caption w. text-shadow. (63471)

Design Tools

• Background image: Add uploading state and restrict drag to one image. (64565)
• Quote Block: Add align support. (64188)
• Add border support to the following:
  • Comment Author Name (64550)
  • Comment Content (64230)
  • Comment Date (64210)
  • Post Author Biography (64615)
  • Post Author Name (64530)
  • Post Author (64599)
  • Query Title (64581)
  • File: (64509)
  • List Item: (63541)
  • List: (63540)
  • Preformatted: (64302)
  • Tag Cloud: (63579)

Zoom Out

• Add private isZoomOutMode selector. (64503)
• Block Insertion: Clear the insertion point when selecting a different block or clearing block selection. (64048)
• Default the inserter to the patterns tab when in zoom out. (64193)
• Focus pattern inserter search when activating zoom out inserter. (64396)
• Stop unwanted drag and drop operations within section Patterns in Zoom Out mode. (64331)

Block Editor

• Button groups in Typography tools should use ToggleGroupControl. (64529)
• Hyphenate long block names in the inserter. (64667)

Global Styles

• Additional CSS: Localize the link if it exists. (64603)
• Background images: Add support for theme.json ref value resolution. (64128)

New APIs

Components

• Composite
  • Add Hover and Typeahead subcomponents. (64399)
  • Stabilize new ariakit implementation. (63564)
  • Export useCompositeStore, add more focus-related props. (64450)

Synced Patterns

• Block Bindings: Create utils to update or remove bindings. (64102)

Extensibility

• Add plugin template registration API. (61577)

Bug Fixes

Components

• CustomSelectControl: Improve props type inferring. (64412)
• ColorPalette: Partial support of color-mix() CSS colors. (64224)
• RangeControl: Disable reset button consistently. (64579)
• RangeControl: Tweak mark and label absolute positioning. (64487)

Data Views

• Load the filter toggle as open if there are primary filters. (64651)
• Sort descending button may be wrongly pressed. (64547)
• Filter icon is displayed even when no filter capabilities are given to any field. (64640)
• Hide sort direction control if there are no sortable fields. (64817)

Zoom Out

• Disallow dropping outside section root in Zoom Out mode. (64500)
• Don't hide the insertion point when hovering patterns. (64392)
• Use previous device width for scale calculations. (64478)

Block Library

• Embed blocks: Adding captions via toolbar - #64385. (64394)
• Paste: Fix blob uploading. (64479)
• Table Block: Hide caption toolbar button on multiple selection. (64462)

Post Editor

• Fix user pattern preloading filter. (64477)
• Fix preloaded REST API paths. (64459)
• Force iframe editor when zoom-out mode. (64316)

Block Editor

• Don't hide the toolbar for an empty default block in HTML mode. (64374)
• In-between Inserter: Show inserter when it doesn't conflict with block toolbar. (64229)
• Slash Inserter: Restrict block list to allowed blocks only. (64413)

Site Editor

• Don't allow duplicating template parts in non-block-based themes. (64379)
• Fix Template Parts post type preload path. (64401)
• Cancel button in duplicate template part modal doesn't work. (64377)
• Fix empty content sidebar panel. (64569)

Block bindings

• Fix long keys overflow in bindings panel. (64465)
• Hide keys starting with underscore. (64618)
• Refactor utils file. (64740)

CSS & Styling

• Remove inconsistent dark theme focus style on block selection. (64549)
• Update postcss-prefixwrap dependency to 1.51.0 to fix prefixing in :Where selectors. (64458)

Interactivity API

• Fix context inheritance from namespaces different than the current one. (64677)
• Fix computeds without scope in Firefox. (64825)

Document Settings

• Post Featured Image: Disable the media modal while uploading an image. (64566)

Patterns

• Changing sorting direction on patterns does nothing. (64508)

Design Tools

• Background image: Ensure consistency with defaults and fix reset/remove functionality. (64328)

Global Styles

• Fix bumped specificity for layout styles in non-iframed editor. (64076)

Accessibility

• Site Editor: Always use auto-cursor style for editable text. (64627)
• Post Editor: Update textControl to searchControl in taxonomy search. (64605)
• RadioControl: Label radio group using fieldset and legend. (64582)
• Fix labeling in Typography font size presets panel. (64428)
• Latests Posts: Used ToggleGroupControl instead for Image alignment. (64352)

Performance

• Fetch permissions for visible patterns only. (64606)
• Background Image: Remove unnecessary 'block-editor' store subscription. (64568)
• Edit Post: Avoid unnecessary post-template ID lookup. (64431)
• GridVisualizer: Avoid over-selecting by using a new getBlockStyles private selector. (64386)

Experiments

Data Views

• DataViews Quick Edit
  • Add Post Card to the quick edit panel. (64365)
  • Add the PostActions dropdown menu. (64393)
  • Rely on the global save flow instead of a custom save button. (64389)
• Update the copy of quick edit tooltip. (64475)

Components

• Composite v2: Undo stabilizing new version. (64510)

Documentation

• Add clarification about importing css/scss files. (61252)
• Components
  • Add "Naming conventions" section. (63714)
  • Add 40px size prop to readmes. (64592)
• Composite: Improve Storybook examples and clean up prop documentation. (64397)
• Dataviews
  • Added missing properties for actions object and link to storybook example. (64442)
  • Fixed tip link for block editor view. (64469)
  • Update README with missing properties and recent changes. (64435)
  • Better explanation of the "elements" property and its connection to the "filterBy" property. (64633)
• Interactivity API
  • The first three Core Concepts guides. (63759)
  • Fix internal links core-concepts. (64609)
  • Remove typed function from API reference. (64429)
  • Add code concepts to Navigating the Interactivity API documentation. (64608)
  • Interactivity API: Add wp_interactivity_state() clarification. (64356)
• Fix typos in the Block Filters documentation.. (64426)
• Fix example of useBlockProps hook. (64363)
• Fix typo and link in static-dynamic-rendering.md. (64449)
• Fix typo in block-filters.md. (64452)
• Fix typo in block-wrapper.md. (64447)
• Note about image sizes in MediaUpload::OnSelect. (64616)
• Small typo correction in doc file. (64596)
• TextDecorationControl, TextTransformControl: Remove size prop in Storybook. (64583)
• Updated @since order in Inline document in client-assets.php file. (64653)
• Updated small typo in compat.php file. (64535)
• Updated small typo in modularity.md. (64518)

Code Quality

• Add lint rule for 40px size prop usage in the following:
  • BorderBoxControl, BorderControl, DimensionControl, FontSizePicker: (64410)
  • Block Editor typography components (64591)
  • FormFileUpload: (64585)
  • FormTokenField: (64590)
  • InputControl: (64589)
  • NumberControl: (64561)
  • RangeControl: (64558)
  • SelectControl: (64486)
  • TextControl: (64455)
  • ToggleGroupControl: (64524)
  • ComboboxControl: (64560)
  • CustomSelectControl: (64559)
• Add margin-bottom lint rules for BaseControl. (64355)
• Add missing changes to the changelog for the PR #62734. (64507)
• Base Styles: Restore deprecated $dark-theme-focus variable. (64563)
• ESLint: Enable and enforce remaining i18n rules for the plugin (e.g. no trailing spaces). (60196)
• Remove unnecessary className. (64403)
• Replace instances of deprecated elevation variables. (64656)
• Style engine: Export util to compile CSS custom var from preset string. (64490)
• Style engine: Update type for getCSSValueFromRawStyle. (64528)
• TextControl: Fix remaining 40px size violations. (64594)
• Border: 1px → $border-width. (64680)

Block Library

• Gallery: Remove 'withNotices' HoC. (64384)
• Missing Block: Use hooks instead of HoC. (64657)

Block Editor

• Use hooks instead of HoC in:
  • 'BlockModeToggle'. (64460)
  • 'MultiSelectionInspector'. (64634)

Components

• Deprecate bottom margin on BaseControl-based components. (64408)
• Navigator: Simplify backwards navigation APIs. (63317)

Data Views

• Refactor the edit function to be based on discrete controls. (64404)
• Update renderFormElements to make sure the value respects the type. (64391)
• Abandon the ItemRecord type. (64367)

Block hooks

• Navigation Block: Remove now-obsolete function_exists guards. (64673)

Nested / Inner Blocks

• Block Editor: Refactor inner blocks appender components. (64470)

Plugin

• Script Modules: Move data passing to 6.7 compat file. (64006)

Tools

• Make wp-env compatible with WordPress versions older than 5.4 by fixing wp-config anchors. (55864)

Testing

• Background block supports: Remove unused properties in unit tests. (64564)
• Fix flaky block template registration end-to-end test. (64541)
• Improve Image block end-to-end tests. (64537)
• Upgrade Playwright to v1.46. (64372)

Build Tooling

• Fix gutenberg/gutenberg-coding-standards licensing issues. (61913)
• Props Bot: Update to correct event type. (64557)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @cweiske: Note about image sizes in MediaUpload::OnSelect. (64616)
• @imrraaj: Dataviews: Filter icon is displayed even when no filter capabilities are given to any field. (64640)
• @janpfeil: Fix typo in block-filters.md. (64452)
• @Rishit30G: ColorPalette: Partial support of color-mix() CSS colors. (64224)
• @ssang: Slash Inserter: Restrict block list to allowed blocks only. (64413)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @akasunil @Aljullu @amitraj2203 @anton-vlasenko @arthur791004 @cbravobernal @ciampo @colorful-tones @cweiske @DAreRodz @ellatrix @felixarntz @getdave @hbhalodia @imrraaj @jameskoster @janpfeil @jasmussen @jeherve @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @luisherranz @Mamaduka @meteorlxy @mirka @ndiego @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @ramonjd @richtabor @Rishit30G @SantosGuillamot @scruffian @shail-mehta @shreya0204 @sirreal @ssang @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @tyxla @vipul0425 @youknowriad