Changelog

Features

Zoom Out

• Remove experimental flag. (65404)

Enhancements

• Create Block: Update the minimum required PHP version to 7.2. (65166)
• DataViews: remove unused .dataviews-view-table__cell-content-wrapper:Empty style rule. (65084)
• Media Utils: Add TypeScript support and export more utils. (64784)
• Media placeholders: Add "drag" to the text. (65149)
• Restore: Move to trash button in Document settings. (65087)
• Inspector Controls: Use custom block name in inspector controls when available. (65398)
• Icons: Adds bell and bell-unread icons. (65324)
• Editor topbar: Reorder the actions on the right. (65163)
• Patterns: Add opt out preference to the 'Choose a Pattern' modal when adding a page. (65026)
• Locked Templates: Blocks with contentOnly locking should not be transformable. (64917)
• Block Locking: Add border to Replace item in content only image toolbar. (64849)

Components

• Styling: Apply elevation scale in components package. (65159)
• Tabs: Improve Tabs indicator animation and related utils. (64926)
• Modal
  • Add exit animation. (65203)
  • Decrease close button size. (65131)
• Navigator Screen: Warn if path doesn't follow a URL-like scheme. (65231)
• Card: Update Card radius. (65053)
• Combobox Control: Add placeholder attribute. (65254)

Block Library

• Allow dropping multiple images to the image block. (65030)
• Categories List block: Add dropdown for taxonomies. (65272)
• Image: Adds the block controls for uploading image. (64320)
• Remove colons from control labels. (65205)
• Terms List block: Add Categories-specific variation. (65434)

Zoom Out

• Add Zoom Out toggle to editor header when experiment enabled. (65183)
• Add prompt for drag and drop in Patterns tab in Zoom Out mode. (65115)
• Close inserter on exiting Zoom Out to edit. (65194)
• Show top level sections in List View. (65202)
• Try vertical displacement when dragging a pattern between existing patterns/sections. (63896)

Block Editor

• Link Editing: Automatically add tel to phone number when linking URL. (64865) thub.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/65300))
• Drag and Drop: When dragging a mix of video, audio, and image blocks, create individual blocks as appropriate. (65144)
• URLInput: Replace input with InputControl. (65158)
• Normalize block inspector controls spacing. (64526)

Post Editor

• Add new Media section to preferences modal. (64846)
• DocumentBar: Replace icon with post type label. (65170)
• Page editor: Double-click to edit template part. (65024)
• Post publish upload media dialog: Handle more block types. (65122)

Block bindings

• Populate block context with inherited post type from template slug. (65062)
• Try gap 0 on attribute items. (65277)
• Use post meta label from register_meta in block bindings workflows. (65099)

Global Styles

• Refactor site background controls and move site global styles into Background group. (65304)
• Spacing control: Replace sides dropdwon with link button. (65193)

Data Views

• DataViews Sidebar: Display item count on DataViews sidebar. (65223)
• DataViews: Improve UX of bundled views for Pages. (65295)

Interactivity API

• Refactor context proxies. (64713)
• Update: Rephrase "Force page reload" and move to Advanced. (65081)

REST API

• Global Styles: Allow read access to users with edit_posts capabilities. (65071)
• Query loop / Post template: Enable post format filter. (64167)

New APIs

• Add @wordpress/fields package.
  • Introduce the package. (65230)
  • Make the package private. (65269)

Bug Fixes

• Align popover alt variant styling with block toolbar. (65263)
• Compose: Correctly call timer cleanup in 'useFocusOnMount'. (65184)
• Fix some docblock types related to the Template Registration API. (65187)
• Fix the issue where block spacing control not shown. (65371)
• Fix unintentional block toolbar shadow. (65182)
• Fix: Moving a page to the trash on the site editor does not goes back to the pages list. (65119)
• Fix: Moving the last page item to the the trash causes a crash. (65236)
• Preferences: Fix back button on mobile. (65141)
• Post Summary Panel: Restore height:Auto for toggle buttons. (65362)
• Fix Tabs styling in Font Library modal. (65330)
• E2E: Change deprecated social icons for standard in end-to-end. (65312)
• Typography: Make title blocks apply typographic styles consistently. (65307)
• Target Hints REST API: Add missing param sanitization. (65280)
• Interactivity API: Update iterable signals when deepMerge() adds new properties. (65135)
• Navigation Menus: Typography styling support to the navigation submenu block. (65060)
• Grid: In RTL languages, the resize handles point in the opposite direction. (64995)
• Block Locking: Fix Content Only Toolbar icon focus style. (64940)
• Image: Fix resizing to max width in classic themes. (64819)
• Meta Boxes: Try split content view. (64351)
• Distraction Free: Fix blurry edge along editor header. (64277)

Block Library

• Comments Pagination: Fix warning returned by comments pagination blocks. (65435)
• Cover: Explicitly set isUserOverlayColor to false when media is updated. (65105)
• Disallow setting grid block rows/columns to zero. (65217)
• Fix image block crash. (65222)
• Fix: Buttons block: Block spacing value does not apply to both vertical and horizontal alignment. (64971)
• Fix: Embed blocks: Figcaption inserted via toolbar not nested within figure element - #64960. (64970)
• Image cropping: Skip making an API request if there are no changes to apply. (65384)
• Comments Pagination: Pass the comments query paged arg to functions get_next_comments_link and get_previous_comments_link. (63698)
• Query Loop: Default to querying posts when on singular content. (65067)

Block Editor

• Inserter: Fix loading indicator for reusable blocks. (64839)
• Normalize spacing in Layout hook controls. (65132)
• Pattern Inserter: Fix pattern list overflow. (65192)
• Remove reset styles RTL from the iframe. (65150)
• Revert "Block Insertion: Clear the insertion point when selecting a d…. (65208)

Components

• BoxControl: Unify input filed width whether linked or not. (65348)
• ComboboxControl: Add more unit tests. (65255)
• Fix: Button Replace remaining 40px default size violations [Edit widgets]. (65367)
• Tabs: Fix vertical indicator. (65385)

Block bindings

• Fix empty strings placeholders in post meta bindings. (65089)
• Prioritize existing placeholder over bindingsPlaceholder. (65154)
• Revert "Block Bindings: Prioritize existing placeholder over bindingsPlaceholder". (65190)

Zoom Out

• Force device type to Desktop whenever zoom out is invoked. (64476)
• Hide toolbar icon on smaller viewports. (65437)
• Remove zoom out toggle when editor is not iframed. (65452)

Accessibility

• A11y: Add script-module. (65101)
• Interactivity API: Use a11y Script Module in Gutenberg. (65123)
• Script Modules API: Print script module live regions HTML in page HTML. (65380)
• Post Editor: Support keyboard resizing of meta boxes pane. (65325)
• DatePicker: Better hover/focus styles. (65117)
• Form Input: Don't use flex-direction: Row-reverse for checkbox field. (64232)
• Navigation Menus: Remove Warning and add notice for Navigation. (63921)
• Global Styles: Fix the shadows Range control accessibility and usability. (63908)
• Block Editor: Fix accessibility of the hooked blocks toggles. (63133)

Performance

• Core Data: Batch remaining actions in resolvers. (65176)
• Block Editor: Use static access for selector in 'useZoomOutModeExit'. (65337)
• Editor: Optimize global styles permission check. (65177)

Experiments

• Block bindings REST API: Bring bindings UI in Site Editor. (64072)

Documentation

• Add JSDoc block for getSectionRootClientId in block editor package. (65219)
• ButtonGroup: Fix story to show what the component does. (65336)
• DataViews storybook
  • Better styles for combined fields story. (65078)
  • Enable all layouts for combined fields storybook. (65082)
• Docs: Fix minor typos in Build your first block tutorial. (64961)
• Docs: Update the content of the API version 3 section in the Block API Reference. (65375)
• Fix typo in Slot Fills documentation. (65275)

Code Quality

• Components: Transition to the new 40px default size.
  • Button:
    • Add __next40pxDefaultSize for files in editor 3. (65139)
    • Add __next40pxDefaultSize for files in editor 4. (65140)
    • Add props for buttons in editor 1. (65068)
    • Add props for buttons in editor 2. (65083)
    • Fix: Replace remaining 40px default size violations [Block Editor 4]. (65257)
    • Fix: Replace remaining 40px default size violation [Block library 3]. (65110)
    • Fix: Replace remaining 40px default size violation [Block library 4]. (65143)
    • Fix: Replace remaining 40px default size violation [Block library]. (65075)
    • Fix: Replace remaining 40px default size violation [Edit Site 2]. (65258)
    • Fix: Replace remaining 40px default size violations [Block library 1]. (65033)
    • Fix: Replace remaining 40px default size violations [Block Editor 1]. (65034)
  • BoxControl
    • Add lint rule for 40px size prop usage. (65341)
  • DimensionsPanel: Apply 40px default size to UI when no spacing preset is available. (65300)
• Add useEvent and revamped useResizeObserver to @wordpress/compose. (64943)
• DataViews: Use Dropdown for views configuration dialog. (65314)
• Platform docs: Upgrade dependencies. (65445)
• Rename edit-post__fade-in-animation and unify keyframe definitions. (65377)
• Update minimum required version in PHP. (65301)
• Editor: Use hooks instead of HoC in BlockManager. (65349)
• Data Views Fields: Migrate store and actions from editor package to fields package. (65261)
• Plugin: Remove 'function_exists' checks for methods with 'gutenberg' prefix. (65260)
• Global Styles: Update REST controller override method and backport changes from Core. (65259)
• Patterns: Remove unused method returned from 'mapSelect'. (65073)
• Embed: Convert EmbedPreview component to functional component. (51325)

Components

• BoxControl: Fix critical error when null value is passed. (65287)
• Composite:
  • Deprecate legacy, unstable version. (63572)
  • Remove store prop and useCompositeStore hook. (64723)
  • Stabilize APIs. (63569)
• @wordpress/components: Add local copy of use-lilius. (65097)

Block bindings

• Always prioritize using context in post meta source logic. (65449)
• Improve getRegisteredPostMeta resolver. (65450)
• Remove extra filtering of empty sources. (65447)

Block Editor

• Remove the 'PrivateInserter' component. (65111)
• Use the tooltip from a button in 'ButtonBlockAppender'. (65113)
• Remove unused css selectors. (65276)

Tools

• Scripts: Update stylelint dependency and the default configuration. (64828)
• Styleling config: Fix stylelint configuration missing files for npm. (65313)

Build Tooling

• Build Plugin: Simplify and improve zip contents. (65232)
• Build zip artifact on release and wp production branches. (65471)
• Build: Include Core blocks' render and variations files. (63311)
• Script Modules
  • Prepare build for more script modules. (65064)
  • Remove babel from script-modules build. (65279)
  • Remove es-module shims and importmap-polyfill. (65210)
• Correctly generate PHP files for server-side rendering of blocks on Windows OS. (65248)
• Packages: Only add polyfills where needed. (65292)
• Switch from UglifyJS to Terser to build the polyfill script. (65278)

Testing

• Unit tests: Mock matchMedia to enforce prefers-reduce-motion. (65438)
• Upgrade Playwright to v1.47. (65156)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @AKSHAT2802: Add __next40pxDefaultSize for files in editor 4. (65140)
• @devansh016: Automatically add tel to phone number when linking URL. (64865)
• @dhruvang21: Fix: Button Replace remaining 40px default size violations [Edit widgets]. (65367)
• @farid-hadi: Docs: Fix minor typos in Build your first block tutorial. (64961)
• @greenworld: Fix typo in Slot Fills documentation. (65275)
• @louwie17: Convert EmbedPreview component to functional component. (51325)
• @rahulharpal1603: URLInput: Replace input with InputControl. (65158)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @AKSHAT2802 @Aljullu @andrewserong @carolinan @cbravobernal @ciampo @colorful-tones @creativecoder @DaniGuardiola @DAreRodz @devansh016 @dhruvang21 @ellatrix @farid-hadi @getdave @gigitux @greenworld @gziolo @hbhalodia @jameskoster @jasmussen @javierarce @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @kevin940726 @louwie17 @madhusudhand @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @mikeybinns @mirka @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @peterwilsoncc @rahulharpal1603 @ramonjd @richtabor @rohitmathur-7 @SantosGuillamot @scruffian @sgomes @sirreal @stokesman @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @vipul0425 @zaguiini