v19.8.0

Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

• Details block: Use summary content as default label. (67217)
• Make social icon navigation one arrow keypress. (64883)
• Page List : Add border and spacing support. (66385)
• Query Loop block: Remove 'add new post' prompt in the sidebar. (67189)
• Query block: Update Enhanced Pagination help text. (67173)
• Social Link: Add contentOnly editing support. (66622)

Components

• Autocomplete: Increase option height. (67214)
• CircularOptionPicker: Update Button sizes. (67285)
• ColorPalette: Disable Clear button if there's no color value. (67108)
• ColorPicker: Update sizes of format select and copy button. (67093)
• ComboboxControl: Update reset button size. (67215)

DataViews

• Add density option to table layout. (67170)
• DataForm: Enable fields to declare a different layout. (66531)
• DataViews list layout: Hide actions menu when there is only one action and is primary. (67015)
• DataViews table layout: Hide actions menu when there is only one action and is primary. (67020)
• Reduce the size of action button in Grid layout. (67032)
• DataViews: Allow register/unregister fields. (67175)

Global Styles

• Block Supports: Extend stabilization to common experimental block support flags. (67018)
• Borders: Stabilize border block supports within block processing. (66918)
• Site Editor > Styles: Open styles inspector when clicking preview canvas. (66996)

Media

• Block Editor: Add notice action to revert image to original after cropping. (67314)
• Block Editor: Add success notices for image editing. (67312)

REST API

• Feature: Set editor rendering mode by post type. (62304)
• Terms: Respect order specified by register_taxonomy(). (67154)

Zoom Out

• Leave help text regardless of zoom state. (67132)
• Preserve footer template bar in zoom out. (67135)
• Add section styles switch button in block toolbar in zoom out mode. (67140)

Post Editor

• Move default template types and template part areas to REST API. (66459)
• Move usePostFields to wordpress/editor package. (67024)

Site Editor

• Blocks: Adds check for parent before showing convert to pattern button. (66158)
• Try dark toolbar for the write mode. (66116)

Design Tools

• Heading: Hide border controls by default. (67105)
• Font family preview in the font family picker. (67118)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Fix block mover clickable area. (67261)
• Fix dropping media from inserter into Cover block. (67056)
• Fix: Preserve Display Preview State in File Block. (67263)
• Paragraph: Update condition for rendering Drop Cap for a selected block. (67111)
• RSS block: Check for description field before rendering excerpt. (66985)
• Resolve search block button text overlapping issue. (66868)
• Social Links: Fix font family and weight inconsistency in editor. (67204)

Components

• Composite: Restore Hover and Typeahead functionality. (67212)
• Menu.ItemHelpText: Better line breaking. (67011)
• SlotFill: Fix a bug with storing stale fillProps. (67000)
• Storybook: Fix DataViews layout. (66999)
• FormFileUpload: Prevent HEIC and HEIF files from always being uploaded on Safari. (67139)

Block Editor

• Add all color palettes to select from editor panel. (65148)
• Correctly mark Block Comment SlotFills private. (67271)
• Fix media placeholder to only activate for media objects. (66986)
• Rich text: Preserve comments. (62128)
• Fix TS types for the editor package. (67196)
• PostTitle: Exit early when post type doesn't support titles. (67086)
• Split view with meta boxes even with legacy canvas. (66706)
• Edit Site: Styles nav item does not open on mobile for themes without style variations. (67550)

Global Styles

• Avoid zooming out when browsing styles if the preview mode is active. (67190)
• Remove styles from blocks' previews. (67144)
• Style panel: Use correct revisions count. (67180)
• Theme JSON: Include block style variations in path only output of get_block_nodes. (66948)
• Fix: Logic for Highlight/text-color format availability. (65530)
• Fix complex variation selectors when using selectors API. (67061)

Site Editor

• Prevent Pre-Publish Panel from Displaying Incorrect Information After Navigating away. (67010)
• Site Editor Sidebar: Fixed focus/hover style for navigation item buttons. (67251)
• Site Hub: Fix height in mobile layout. (67110)
• Site Editor: Styles: Fix inspector opening. (67004)
• Improve accessibility and consistency of the 'Last modified' Revisions button. (66606)
• Remove styles from examples. (67098)
• Editor: Correctly select post title support in 'DocumentOutline'. (67109)

DataViews

• Fix action visibility logic. (67197)
• Fix primary field misalignment in grid layout. (66995)
• Fix spacing when combining combined fields. (67226)

Zoom Out

• Zoom In/Out to correct canvas location. (66917)
• Zoom in/out to correct location. (67126)
• Zoom Out: Disable zooming out when Distraction Free mode is activated. (67028)
• Disable Zoom Out if no section root to allow for Theme opt in. (67232)

Layout

• Allow flex justification controls to be disabled at the block level. (67059)
• Show vertical alignment toolbar with allowSwitching enabled. (67022)

Patterns

• Fix: JavaScript error when pattern category is unregistered. (67063)
• Block Locking: Remove edit locking for Synced Patterns. (67021)

Accessibility

Components

• ColorPicker: Add accessible label for copy button. (67094)
• Modal: Increase size of the Close button. (66792)
• DataViews: Fix focus loss when removing all filters or resetting. (67003)

Block Library

• Improve accessibility of the video track editor. (66832)
• Navigation: Fix 'ariaLabel' block support. (66943)

Post Editor

• Improve the featured image UI when it cannot retrieve the image file and data. (66936)

Experiments

• Inline Commenting: Update placement of reply input and add author info header. (66580)
• Place "Write mode" functionality behind a Gutenberg experiment. (67008)

Documentation

• Add documentation about required Core changes when updating minimum WordPress version. (67167)
• BoxControl: Auto-generate readme. (67284)
• Components contributing guide: Fix relative links. (67323)
• DataViews: Reorganize documentation for actions. (67159)
• Docs: Correct @return type in block_core_query_disable_enhanced_pagination(). (67128)
• Feat: Storybook: Improve component organisation - Layout Category - Issue #66275. (66659)
• Feat: Storybook: Improve component organisation - Selection & Input Category - Issue #66275. (66635)
• GradientPicker: Auto-generate readme. (67250)
• Icon: Auto-generate readme. (67282)
• Icon: Improve icon prop usage documentation in Storybook. (67280)
• Storybook: Restore stable components back into categories. (67216)
• Update BlockMover Stories and README. (66519)
• Update custom store readme to use thunks instead of controls. (67006)
• Update versions-in-wordpress.md. (67298)

Code Quality

• ESLint: Enable eslint-plugin-react-compiler. (61788)
• Extract selectors from useResolveEditedEntity hook. (67031)
• Pattern: Remove backward compatibility code for WordPress < 6.4. (67131)
• Post fields: Move author from edit-site to fields package. (66939)
• Posts DataViews: Refactor the router to use route registration. (67160)
• Comments controller: Fix issue where comments are allowed when closed. (66976)
• Fix fatal error in in_array call in post_type_default_rendering_mode. (67225)
• Data: Add changelog for Redux update. (66968)

Components

• BorderBoxControl: Suppress redundant warnings for deprecated 36px size. (67213)
• ComboboxControl : Deprecate 36px default size. (66900)
• CustomGradientPicker: Prepare Buttons for 40px default size. (67286)
• Dashicons: Remove non-existent icons from type. (67235)
• DimensionControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (66705)
• Feat: Adds the deprecation warning for 36px default size in range control. (66721)
• FontSizePicker : Deprecate 36px default size. (66920)
• Remove createPrivateSlotFill function. (67238)
• SlotFill: Fix dependencies of registration effects, deduplicate code. (67071)
• SlotFill: Remove registration API from useSlot result. (67070)
• SlotFill: Rewrite base Slot to functional, unify rerenderable refs. (67153)
• TextControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (66745)
• ToggleGroupControl : Deprecate 36px default size. (66747)

Post Editor

• ESLint: Bump eslint-plugin-react-compiler to latest beta. (67106)
• Edit Post: Refactor 'MetaBoxVisibility' component. (67265)
• Edit Post: Remove unused 'hasHistory' flag. (67293)
• Editor: Update focus return handler for the Featured Image. (67236)
• Make BlockManager component reusable. (67052)
• Preferences: Use hooks instead of HoC in 'EnableCustomFieldsOption'. (67023)
• Preferences: Use hooks instead of HoC in 'EnablePanelOption'. (66994)
• Preferences: Use hooks instead of HoC in 'EnablePublishSidebarOption'. (67002)

Block Library

• Fix React Compiler error for shortcuts. (67019)
• Home Link: Remove label attribute synchronization. (67151)
• Use rems for Nav overlay left padding. (67168)
• useBlockNameForPatterns: Refactor as a single useSelect call. (67171)
• Navigation Block: Remove obsolete Block Hooks filters. (64676)
• [mini] 🧹 remove obsolete rich text css. (67264)

Global Styles

• Don't call store actions during the render. (67146)
• Edit Site: Fix settings mutation in ScreenBlock. (67085)
• Remove unused 'Fragment' import. (67104)

Block Editor

• Block Manager: Make it a private component in the block editor package. (67255)
• Inserter: Set initial active tab ID during render. (67103)

Site Editor

• Deprecate edited entity state. (66965)
• Remove redundant style-edit route. (67057)

Tools

Testing

• Fix ESLint Jest reporting entire body of the test function rather than the identifier. (67222)
• Fix typo in use-block-sync tests. (67145)
• Migrate Gradle wrapper validation action. (66602)

Plugin

• Bump minimum required WordPress version to 6.6. (67117)
• Add #7895 Core Backport PR to the changelog. (67319)
• WP Scripts: Revert changes that inline CSS imports early in the build process. (66975)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @AKSHAT2802: Add all color palettes to select from editor panel. (65148)
• @benazeer-ben: Page List : Add border and spacing support. (66385)
• @himanshupathak95: Menu.ItemHelpText: Better line breaking. (67011)
• @SainathPoojary: Social Links: Fix font family and weight inconsistency in editor. (67204)
• @sarthaknagoshe2002: Prevent Pre-Publish Panel from Displaying Incorrect Information After Navigating away. (67010)
• @Sukhendu2002: Fix: Preserve Display Preview State in File Block. (67263)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @ajlende @akasunil @AKSHAT2802 @benazeer-ben @benniledl @carolinan @cbravobernal @desrosj @dhruvang21 @dougwollison @ellatrix @getdave @gigitux @gziolo @hbhalodia @himanshupathak95 @Infinite-Null @jeryj @jsnajdr @juanfra @louwie17 @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @matiasbenedetto @mcsf @michalczaplinski @miminari @mirka @ndiego @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @PARTHVATALIYA @ramonjd @SainathPoojary @SantosGuillamot @sarthaknagoshe2002 @snehapatil2001 @Soean @stokesman @Sukhendu2002 @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @TylerB24890 @tyxla @up1512001 @vipul0425 @yogeshbhutkar @youknowriad