v22.3.0-rc.1

Changelog

Enhancements

• Comments Pagination Numbers: Add spacing controls for margin and padding. (67267)
• Expand error family of tokens. (73793)
• Image Cropper: Add package and basic stories. (72414)
• Remove WordPress dependencies from abilities package. (73428)

DataViews

• Add min/max validation support to DataForm inputs. (73465)
• Field API: Display formats for number and integer types. (73644)
• Try using 24px padding for consistency across different uses. (73334)
• Update operator labels and deprecate the isNotAll. (73671)

Block Library

• Add support for 'align' to the Breadcrumbs block. (73794)
• Breadcrumbs: Support paged comments. (73670)
• Button: Migrate to text-align block support. (73732)

Layout

• Enable grid block to be responsive when columns are set. (73662)
• Try removing top and left grid drag handles in stable (auto) mode. (73864)

Patterns

• Add pattern name to document toolbar when editing in spotlight. (73208)
• ContentOnly: For template parts and synced patterns, ensure 'Edit section' button goes to the isolated editor. (73736)

Offline

• Editor: Improve offline error notices. (73874)

Post Editor

• Use relevance pattern matching for parent page search. (73836)

Components

• Chore: Shorten timeout duration for Snackbar component. (73814)

Site Editor

• Site Editor Pages: Add "notes count" field. (73609)

Data Layer

• @wordpress/data: Migrate index.js to index.ts. (73597)

Block Editor

• Implements the image-cropper package in the editor. (73277)

Media

• Add media-specific fields for use with Attachment post types and DataViews/DataForm. (73071)

Bug Fixes

• Add i18n support for math block error messages. (73643)
• Fields: Fix suffix button in Slug field. (73829)

Block Library

• Accordion Heading: Add default style for classic themes. (73608)
• Breadcrumbs: Improve home page and front page handling. (73487)
• Classic Block: Restore HTML editing option. (73865)
• Fix Page List block HTML rendering in editor. (73614)
• Fix Page List block button HTML rendering to escape at output. (73641)
• Fix: Fixed align right issue on avatar component. (67494)
• Post Title: Add fallback no title in edit mode when is readOnly. (73750)
• Post Title: Fix empty heading element when post_title is empty but get_the_title returns markup V2. (73841)
• Prevent flipping the border style when creating RTL stylesheets. (44170)
• Verse Block: Prevent text overflow off-screen when the previous block has float. (45221)

Global Styles

• Fix: Default color variations not showing in global styles. (73742)
• Global Styles UI: Remove unnecessary padding for Navigatior component. (73810)
• Global Styles UI: Restore borders for preview items. (73741)
• Global Styles UI: Revert some of the padding / markup changes from #73334. (73834)

Plugin

• Gutenberg plugin: Override core classic theme styles. (73580)
• Notes: Add email notification. (73645)
• Notes: Avoid incrementing comment_count when notes are resolved or reopened. (73689)
• Notes: Ensure notes never show on the comments page. (73640)

Block Editor

• Link Control: Clear entity metadata when selecting custom URLs. (73825)
• Block Styles: Fix dynamic block previews. (73709)
• Pattern insertion: Drag chip when multiple blocks of the same type in a pattern are dragged. (73681)

Command Palette

• Commands: Restrict editor UI commands to entity-edit context. (73717)
• Remove context from editor commands. (73807)

Components

• Fix Notice component action button margins. (69430)
• Reduce modal style specificity so it can be overridden more easily. (73739)

DataViews

• Apply primary style to first column if there is no title field. (73729)
• Fix sticky footer in dataviews grid view. (73661)

Block API

• Fallback to all attributes when checking for unmodified block. (73867)

Inspector Controls

• Fix Hstack prop in PostCardPanel. (73842)

Commands

• Fix layout for long label. (73837)

Block Transforms

• Gallery: Fix missing captions shortcode transform. (73748)

Font Library

• Restore correct style. (73722)

Templates API

• Template Activation: Update template ID format test. (73629)

Patterns

• contentOnly patterns: Mark patterns as contentOnly by adding metadata.patternName to the root block. (73477)

Paste

• Raw Handling: Fix grok markdown pasting issues. (73019)

Accessibility

• Fix block toolbar icon CSS when using show icon label preference. (73674)

Performance

• Theme: Better max chroma detection for taperChroma. (73625)

Block Editor

• Block Styles: Avoid re-rendering when typing. (73701)

Experiments

• Routing Boot package: Add mobile rendering. (73620)
• Routing: Add page title support. (73847)
• Routing: Add view transitions to the new routing infrastructure. (73586)
• UI: Add Stack component leveraging gap spacing design tokens. (73308)
• UI: Add border support to Box component. (73530)

Navigation Menus

• Add Overlay template part area behind Experiment. (73359)
• Add overlay template part selector to Navigation block (behind experiment). (73760)

Collaboration

• Real-time collaboration: Add UndoManager support for collaborative editing. (72407)
• Real-time collaboration: Disable syncing for "synthetic" template posts. (73526)

Font Library

• Under dedicated font library page. (73630)

Block API

• PHP-only blocks: Pass all metadata from PHP registration to the client. (73556)

Documentation

• Block JSON schema: Add visibility key to supports definition. (73612)
• DataViews docs: Add missing props. (73611)
• DataViews stories: Update empty story. (73619)
• Docs: Add "Migrating Blocks for iframe Editor Compatibility" page. (73778)
• Docs: Add JSDoc for getUserLabel in users autocompleter. (73651)
• Docs: Add missing periods to example descriptions in block-attributes.md. (73666)
• Docs: Update package documentation with general guidelines. (73633)
• Fix a typo in the documentation. (73658)
• Storybook: Add keywords to icon stories. (73524)
• Updating Default block example code. (65229)

Code Quality

• WP_Theme_JSON: use self:: For class private static methods. (73566)

Block Editor

• Fix ESLint warnings for the 'useInsertionPoint' hook. (73868)
• Fix block edit component hook dependencies. (73302)
• Remove unused '__unstableBlockNameContext'. (73783)
• Remove usage of Emotion. (73799)
• Simplify 'useSelect' deps in 'InserterDraggableBlocks'. (73687)

Components

• AlignmentMatrixControl: Fixup style names and nesting. (73757)
• AlignmentMatrixControl: Migrate Emotion to style.module. (73714)
• AnglePickerColor: Migrate Emotion to style.module. (73786)
• FormTokenField, FlatTermSelector: Hard deprecate bottom margin. (73846)

Font Library

• Move Font Collection fetching to core-data entities. (73635)
• Move font family fetching and types to core-data. (73637)
• Simplify cache invalidation. (73639)

Global Styles

• Fix 'useSelect' warning. (73728)
• Fix browser warnings in Global Styles. (73279)

DataViews

• Field API: Move validation to the field type. (73642)
• Remove extra wrapper for GridItem. (73665)

Style Book

• Fix ESLint warnings. (73882)

Site Editor

• Fix 'useNavigateToPreviousEntityRecord' internal deps. (73740)

Collaboration

• Notes: Simplify editing mode change position tracking. (73696)

Patterns

• ContentOnlyControls: Refactor ad hoc fields to use setValue instead of updateBlockAttributes. (73680)

Write mode

• Block Editor: Restore ToolSelector component for backward compatibility. (73592)

Block bindings

• Componentize. (73579)

Tools

Build Tooling

• Attachments controller: Use 6.7 compat method. (73634)
• Fix package side effects for esbuild. (73795)
• Linting: Disable the wordpress dependency group lint rule. (73616)
• Meta: Add Carlos Bravo to mailmap. (73840)
• Meta: Introduce .mailmap for transforming author names. (72412)
• Scripts: Update license checker to ignore invalid package entries. (73528)
• Storybook: Skip transpilation of build-modules files. (73780)
• wp-build: Fix invalid package references for peer dependencies. (73676)
• wp-ui: Add legacy export fields to package.json. (73850)

Testing

• Remove custom import resolvers and package subpath syntax rules. (72978)
• Tests: Emulate form blocks experiments in integration tests. (73705)
• Tests: Update assertion for 'Global styles sidebar' end-to-end test. (73685)
• Upgrade Playwright to v1.57. (73686)

Patterns

• Content only and patterns: Detach edit fields from the content only experience. (73605)

Various

• Boot: Add conditional inspector rendering via route.inspector(). (73703)
• Fields: Update "Trash" translation to provide verb context. (73704)
• Theme: Repurpose Figma token plugin to extract JSON override files for modes. (73860)
• Theme: Restructure theme tokens to embed prefix, flattened modifiers. (73859)
• Theme: Use valid DTCG color format for primitive values. (73858)
• UI: Update Stack component to support only gap tokens. (73852)

Components

• Try: 32px tall menu items. (73429)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @badasswp: Chore: Shorten timeout duration for Snackbar component. (73814)
• @dhasilva: DataViews: Apply primary style to first column if there is no title field. (73729)
• @manhphuc: Docs: Add missing periods to example descriptions in block-attributes.md. (73666)
• @metodiew: Fix a typo in the documentation. (73658)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aduth @Aljullu @andrewserong @annezazu @badasswp @cbravobernal @chriszarate @dhasilva @dmsnell @getdave @gigitux @huzaifaalmesbah @Infinite-Null @ingeniumed @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jonathanbossenger @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanfra @lezama @Mamaduka @manhphuc @Mayank-Tripathi32 @metodiew @mikachan @mirka @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @priethor @ramonjd @ryelle @scruffian @shimotmk @SirLouen @t-hamano @tellthemachines @tyxla @Utsav-Ladani @yogeshbhutkar @youknowriad