3.8.0 Release Candidate 📺

Changelog

• Add Full Screen mode. 📺
• Add UI for bulk managing reusable blocks.
• Implement a more sophisticated Editor Styles mechanism. 🖍 It allows themes to register editor styles for blocks by targeting the blocks themselves without having to fight CSS specificity, and without having to know the internal DOM structure for the editor.
• Move the block settings menu to the block toolbar, further consolidating the UI elements.
• Introduce new hand-coded implementation of spec parser and expand documentation.
• Use flexbox to render the block inserter layout to address different issues with spacing.
• Show a warning when a disallowed filetype is dropped on a MediaUpload.
• Show “no archives to show” message on Archives Block.
• Add AccessibleSVG component and use consistently for block icons.
• Improve Classic editor and Cloudflare notification modals.
• Refactor Draggable component to decouple the drag handle from the DOM node being dragged.
• Move video caption styles to style.scss.
• Treat Verse lines consistently on the front-end.
• Make sure all available taxonomies are loaded in the editor.
• Improve empty elements filters in Slot implementation.
• Fix case with PostTextEditor where intended state value is not always reflected in the rendered textarea when empty.
• Fix background clashing with some themes in Separator alternative styles.
• Fix case where hasSelectedInnerBlock did not account for multi-selected innerBlocks. This caused an edge case in Spotlight mode where multiple blocks selected inside a column would appear unfocused.
• Fix regression with margins around image captions.
• Fix issue with author select overflowing on IE11.
• Fix radio button alignment in post visibility menu.
• Fix issues with centering of images.
• Fix BlockIcon usage in embed placeholder when resource cannot be previewed.
• Fix font size regression in PostTitle.
• Fix codetabs block in extensibility documentation.
• Fix import source of RangeControl in Readme file.
• Fix broken link in documentation inside element/README.md.
• Deprecate usage of RichText provider component.
• Deprecate getI18n, dcnpgettext.
• Remove deprecated selectors from docs.
• Revert shortcut change in block-deletion e2e test.
• Ensure Gutenberg repository is clean after install.
• Change how required built-ins are polyfilled with Babel 7.

3.5 🥥

• Add an edit button to embed blocks to modify the source.
• Improve margin collapse within column blocks.
• De-emphasize inline tokens within the inserter for a better user experience.
• Polish focus and active styles around buttons and inputs.
• Polish styles for checkbox component, update usages of toggle to checkbox where appropriate. Update documentation.
• Improve pre-publish panel styling and textual copy.
• Prevent duplicate DotTips from appearing.
• Integrate "queries data" into the entities abstraction for data module.
• Hide block movers if there are no blocks before and after.
• Initial improvements for responsive image handling in galleries.
• Use correct color for primary button bottom border.
• Allow transitioning post status from scheduled to draft.
• Improvements for auto-completer keyboard interactions.
• Place strikethrough formatting button after link as it's less important.
• Resolve issue with preview sometimes opening redundant tabs.
• Align timepicker with calendar on pre-publish panel.
• Expand date filter select box width within media library.
• Constrain media blocks to content area width in front-end.
• Reapply box-sizing to slider thumbs.
• Avoid showing line separator in block settings menu when it's the last item.
• Introduce additional keyboard shortcuts to navigate through the navigateRegions component.
  • shift+alt+n to go to the next region.
  • shift+alt+p to go to the previous region.
• Replace all withAPIData usage and deprecate the higher-order component.
• Add persistence via data plugin interface.
• Introduce new redux-routine package for synchronous generator in data module.
• Move embed API call out of block and into data module.
• Remove no longer needed workaround targeted at resolving a TinyMCE error.
• Abort selection range set on unset range target. Resolves an issue when merging two empty paragraph blocks created while at the end of an inline boundary.
• Removing or merging RichText should only trigger if the selection is collapsed:
  • Fix issue with backspace not working as expected when deleting text content from the first block.
  • Fix case where paragraph content could move to previous paragraph when deleted.
• Remove provisional block behaviour to improve reliability of various interactions.
• Restore horizontal edge traversal implementation to address issue where pressing Backspace may not place the caret in the correct position if within or after a RichText field.
• Ensure Gutenberg is disabled when editing the assigned blog posts page.
• Initialize the Autosaves controller even if revisions are disabled. Fixes several bugs around saving with revisions turned off.
• Display warning when Cloudflare blocks REST API requests.
• Improve validation for attribute names in serializer.
• Add Slot to block menu settings for extensibility.
• Fix File Block center align behavior.
• Fix behaviours when deleting on an empty RichText field.
• Fix parent-dropdown missing for custom post-types.
• Fix import style statements in ColorIndicator.
• Fix height of used-once block warning.
• Fix link for innerBlocks docs.
• Fix link to server-side-render component.
• Fix race condition with DomReady.
• Fix awkward capitalisation in demo post content.
• Fix warning for unrecognised forwardedRef prop.
• Fix regression with URL input focus box.
• Fix error in custom HTML preview when block is empty.
• Fix colspan bug in table block for tables with thead tags.
• Fix issue with image inspector controls disappearing once an image block is set to wide/full alignment.
• Fix issue when image size remains blurry if manually set to a smaller size (i.e., medium) and then changed alignment to wide/full.
• Fix issue with meta boxes being absent when script enqueued in head depends on wp-edit-post.
• Resolve an issue where removing all text from a Button block by backspace would cause subsequent text changes to not be accurately reflected. Broader issue with TinyMCE inline elements as containers.
• Avoid using remove() because it's unavailable in IE11.
• Address further feedback on duplicated DotTips implementation.
• Update re-resizable to version 4.7.1 — fix image & spacer blocks resizing on IE.
• Use a unique querystring package instead of three different ones.
• Introduce filters to allow developers the ability to customize the Taxonomy Selector UI for custom taxonomies.
• Introduce RichText component for mobile native and implement the Paragraph Block with it.
• Use standard label for Alt Text input.
• Consolidate similar i18n strings.
• Remove title attributes from the Classic Editor warning.
• Remove unused code in taxonomies panel.
• Remove oEmbed fixture files.
• Remove jQuery dependency from @wordpress/api-fetch.
• Remove filler spaces from empty constructs.
• Remove REST API shims for code introduced in WP 4.9.8.
• Remove unused terms, taxonomies, and categories code.
• Replace the apiRequest module with api-fetch module.
• Add inline comment that explains a stopPropagation() within tips implementation.
• Add gutenberg_can_edit_post filter.
• Add watch support for stylesheets in packages.
• Add JSDoc comment to Popover's focus() method.
• Add readme docs for <a href="https://github.c...

3.4 🎟

• Add the Inline Blocks API.
• Rename Shared Blocks to Reusable Blocks.
• Add a Modal component.
• Add a REST API Search controller.
• Add a warning in the classic editor when attempting to edit a post that contains blocks.
• Add ability for themes to configure font sizes.
• Add RTL CSS to all packages.
• Add an edit button to embed blocks.
• Remove all wp.api usage from the editor package.
• Add error handling for file block drag-and-drop.
• Add registerBlockStyleVariation, for registering block style variations.
• Add a border between panels in the block sidebar.
• Add a editor.PostFeaturedImage.imageSize filter for the Featured Image.
• Create a video block when dropping a video on an insertion point.
• Expose a custom class name hook for mobile.
• Add a React Native entrypoint for mobile.
• Only disable wpautop on the main classic editor instance.
• Retain the id attribute when converting heading tags to heading blocks.
• Retain target="_blank" on links in converted paragraphs.
• Improve the handling of imported shortcode blocks.
• Replace the File block’s filename editor with a RichText.
• Tweak the block warning style.
• Add a max-height to the table of contents.
• Remove the inset shadow from the table of contents.
• Fix the tag placeholder text for long translations.
• Fix the table of contents sometimes causing JavaScript errors.
• Fix the link suggestion dropdown not allowing the first suggestion to be selected by keyboard.
• Make tooltips persist when hovering them.
• Add missing aria-labels to the audio and video block UIs.
• Add an icon and accessibility text to links that open in a new tab.
• Fixed shared blocks adding unnecessary rewrite rules.
• Fix a regression in the colour picker width.
• Fix the colour picker focus border being off-centre.
• Combine ColorPalettes into a single panel for Button and Paragraph blocks.
• Fix the ColorIndicator style import.
• Fix auto-linking a URL pasted on top of another URL.
• Add persistent store support to the data module.
• Fix the Latest Comments block using admin imports.
• Fix a warning when adding an image block.
• Fix the classic block toolbar alignment.
• Fix a warning in the block menu.
• Change all blocks to use supports: align, instead of the align attribute.
• Improve the ContrastChecker logic for large font sizes.
• Update the is-shallow-equal package to use ES5 code.
• Deprecate getMimeTypesArray, mediaUpload, and preloadImage.
• Deprecate wideAlign in favour of alignWide.
• Document Node version switching in the testing documentation.
• Document examples of the registerBlockType hook.
• Document an example of the block transforms property.
• Document Gutenberg’s camelCase coding style.
• Improved all of the package descriptions.
• Update coding standards to allow double quoted strings to avoid escaping single quotes.
• Standardise the package descriptions and titles.
• Extract the editor package.
• Isolate and reset e2e tests every run.
• Improve test configuration and mocking strategy.
• Fix test coverage configuration.
• Fix the block icons e2e tests.
• Bump the Puppeteer version.
• Use simpler jest.fn() mocks for api-fetch calls in unit tests.

3.3.0

Changelog

• Add new Archives block for displaying site archives.
• Add new Latest Comments block to widgets category.
• Add “Convert to blocks” option in HTML block.
• Correct caret placement when merging to inline boundary.
• Move block switcher from header to multi-block toolbar for multiselection.
• Add video block attributes for Autoplay, Controls, Loop, Muted.
• Remove HTML beautification and preserve whitespace on save.
• Formalize RichText children value abstraction.
• Allow transformation of image block to file block and vice-versa.
• Support preload attribute for Audio Block.
• Avoid popover refresh on Tip mount.
• Introduce “registry” concept to the Data Module.
• Convert successive shortcodes properly.
• Hide “Convert to Shared Block” button on Classic blocks.
• Update spacing in pre-publish panel titles.
• Use do_blocks to render core blocks content.
• Remove restoreContentAndSplit in RichText.
• Hide insertion point when it is not possible to insert the default block.
• Refactor block converters to share common UI functionality.
• Replace the apiRequest module with api-fetch module.
• Add audio/video settings title to settings panel.
• Normalize the behavior of BlockListBlock’s “Enter” key handling to insert the default block.
• Rename baseUrl entities property as baseURL in entities.
• Rename UrlInput component as URLInput.
• Give File block a low files transform priority.
• Make tooltips persist when hovering them.
• Optimise design of heading line heights.
• Add a filter(‘editor.FeaturedImage’) for the FeaturedImage component.
• Fix vertical arrow navigation skips in writing flow.
• Fix incorrect polyfill script handles.
• Fix template example so that it is correct.
• Fix exception error when saving a new shared block.
• Fix getInserterItems caching bug and add new test case.
• Fix issue with spacer block resizing and sibling inserter.
• Fix files configuration entry in package.json for wordpress/babel-preset-default.
• Fix config and regenerate updated docs.
• Fix dependency mistake in api-fetch.
• Fix metaboxes save request (parse: false).
• Fix issue with name field not being focused when a shared block is created.
• Fix box sizing for pseudo elements.
• Fix an error which occurs when assigning the URL of a Button block.
• Improve usage and documentation of the landmark region labels.
• Substitute the remaining uses of unfiltered_html capability and withAPIData.
• Remove the “Extended Settings” meta box wrapper.
• Remove NewBlock event handling from RichText.
• Remove legacy context API child context from Block API.
• Remove Text Columns block from insertion menus in preparation for Try outreach.
• Remove unused autocompleter backcompat case.
• Change label in Cover Image block for background opacity.
• Change the text label on Image block from “Source Type” to “Image Size”.
• Backup and restore global $post when preloading API data.
• Move packages repository into Gutenberg with its history.
• Enhance the deprecated module to log a message only once per session.
• Switch tests away from using enzyme (enzyme.shallow, enzyme.mount, etc).
• Unblock tests from being skipped.
• Add basic test for shortcode transformation.
• Add e2e test for block icons.
• Add e2e tests for the NUX tips.
• Add e2e tests for shared blocks.
• Remove data-test attribute from UrlInputButton output.
• Deprecate id prop in favor of clientId.
• Rename MediaPlaceholder onSelectUrl prop as onSelectURL.
• Remove unnecessary default prop from test.
• Point the package entry to src directly for native mobile.
• Use clearer filenames for saved vendor scripts.
• Update local install instructions and add add more verbose instructions when node versions don’t match.
• Reorder package.json devDependencies alphabetically.
• Coding Guidelines: Prescribe specific camelCasing behaviors.
• Regenerate docs using docs:build command.
• Add documentation for ALLOWED_BLOCKS in Columns.
• Add link to support forum in plugin menu.
• Deprecate buildTermTree function in utilities.
• Deprecate property source in Block API.
• Deprecate uid in favor of clientId.
• Deprecate grouped inner blocks layouts.
• Improve eslint checks for deep imports.
• Improve IntelliSense support when using VS Code.
• Move the components module partially to the packages folder.
• Add the blocks module to the packages folder.
• Add wp-deprecated dependency to wp-element.
• Add @babel/runtime as a dependency to wordpress/components.
• Add @babel/runtime as a dependency for packages.
• Add a new compose package.
• Extract entities package.
• Extract viewport package.
• Extract @wordpress/nux package.
• Create new spec-parser package.
• Update Dashicons to latest build.
• Update test for babel-preset-default.
• Update code to work with Babel 7.
• Update package-lock.json with eslint-scope version 3.7.3.
• Update node-sass.

Fix Permalink editor and sibling block inserter

This bugfix release fixes two issues in 3.1.0:

• Fix permalink editor not appearing. (#7467)
• Fix sibling block inserter not working in Firefox and Safari. (#7508)

v1.0.0: Merge pull request #2589 from WordPress/update/1.0.0

If you're trying to run this, it requires WP 4.8 or WP 4.9