v21.4.0-rc.1

Changelog

Features

• DataForm: Bootstrap validation (required and typechecks). (70901)
• Override the existing file paths using those from a variant. (70855)

DataViews

• Allow dataviews empty state to be customised. (70867)

Enhancements

• Change header height from 60px to 64px. (60729)
• Core data: Add a private media "edit" action to ensure cache invalidation. (70814)
• ServerSideRender: Introduce a new 'useServerSideRender' hook. (70543)

DataViews

• Add ctrl/cmd + click multiselection support to table layout when clicking rows. (70891)
• Align media styles in table view with list view for consistency. (70671)
• Allow Dataform Select Box to have a custom empty option. (70894)
• Implement Edit control for date field. (70836)
• Introduce locked filters. (71075)
• Make the media item clickable as well. (70985)
• Support groupBy in table layout. (71055)
• Try using responsive images in dataview grid layouts. (70493)
• perPageSizes tweaks. (71004)

Block Library

• Add preview example for comments-count and comments-link. (71016)
• Categories: Disable links in the editor. (70896)
• Cover/Video Block: Add Drag-and-Drop Support for Poster Uploads. (71039)
• File Block: Use mime type to determine if file is PDF. (71033)
• File block: Use native feature detection for pdf support. (63044)
• Video/Cover Block: Enhance UI for Poster Image Preview. (70939)

Icons

• Add icon: Dashboard. (70300)
• Update LTR and RTL icons. (71084)
• Update old table icons. (71085)

Block Editor

• Explain why we need to intercept hash links in iframe editor. (70960)
• List: Add keyboard shortcuts to Indent/Outdent tooltips. (71053)

Media

• useSaveImage: Handle missing editMediaEntity gracefully. (70967)

Write mode

• Add shuffle style to write mode toolbar. (70946)

Interactivity API

• Deprecate data-wp-ignore directive with warning message. (70945)

Components

• TextControl: Improve theming support. (70910)

Block bindings

• Date block: Allow connecting to Block Bindings. (70585)

Bug Fixes

• Add @wordpress/env as an optional peer dependency of @wordpress/scripts. (70636)
• DataViews: Allow searching over array fieldtypes. (70785)
• Fields: Add label to Password field. (70865)
• Review all the 'Add New' strings #53984. (71083)
• ServerSideRender: Allow skipping block shadow support value. (70970)
• Social Link Block: Add context to service names. (70413)

Block Library

• File Block: Fix PDF preview on URLs containing query parameters. (70915)
• Image Block: Prepend HTTP to links when missing protocol. (71027)
• More Block: Fix undo/redo history for custom text. (71087)
• Page List: Fix Notice component background gets incorrectly inherited. (70932)
• Paragraph Block: Fix 'Drop cap' control reset value. (70959)
• Resize TikTok social icon to appropriate size. (71101)
• Video: Fix missing trailing periods. (70857)

DataViews

• Added max-width to DataView columns. (70983)
• Clear user-input filters properly. (70956)
• DataForm: Fix Edit for array field type. (71000)
• Do not render an empty level span if level is 0. (71021)
• Pages: Filters should not be visible if they are present in the bundled view. (71059)

Block Editor

• Fix single block selection when holding 'Shift' key. (70978)
• MediaReplaceFlow: Correctly truncate long URL. (71062)
• RichText: Support more colors for format boundary colors. (70918)
• Writing Flow: Remove empty blocks when the merge target doesn't support merging. (70741)

Post Editor

• Editor: Fix 'isEditedPostAutosaveable' selector return value. (70888)
• Editor: Fix incorrect title when multiple post selected. (70997)
• Editor: Move editor-sidebar CSS reset closer to its target. (71096)

Saving

• Core Data: Add getTitle for user entity. (70941)
• Core Data: Define record title getter for taxonomy entities. (70863)

Components

• PaletteEdit: Fill available space with input field. (70935)
• TextareaControl: Add missing component CSS classname. (70930)

Block bindings

• Date Block: Ensure that fallback value is overridden if source is not registered. (71047)

Icons

• Update dollar icon. (71042)

Synced Patterns

• Synced Pattern block: Pass block context to pattern content. (70943)

Interactivity API

• iAPI Router: Ignores <noscript> elements while preparing DOM. (70905)

Block API

• Add special case for metadata attribute in 'isUnmodifiedBlock'. (70903)

Global Styles

• Fix ability to preview Additional CSS changes in the Customizer when using a Block Theme. (70428)

List View

• Fix focus outline style. (69201)

Accessibility

Components

• Color Picker: Improve color picker slider focus styles. (70146)

Performance

Block Library

• Fix layout shift caused by video tag in Video block lacking width and height. (70293)

Documentation

• Add DataForm story about field visibility. (70996)
• Add changelog entry for #70493. (71008)
• Added Missing Global Documentation. (71029)
• Blocks: Display browser console warnings for blocks with apiVersion below 2. (70783)
• Clarify block name immutability and namespace best practices [docs]. (71040)
• DataViews: Clarify filtering behavior in DataViews configuration in README.md. (70958)
• Field elements: Add changelog for custom empty element. (71041)
• Fix: Add hyphen to “hands-on” in Getting Started section. (70906)
• Image: Fix return type annotation for lightbox settings function. (71073)
• Improve note for 'blockType.save' method. (70942)
• Mentioning Playground CLI instead wp-now. (71071)
• ServerSideRender: Add missing changelog entry. (70952)
• Social: Document guidelines and extensibility. (70961)
• Update dataviews changelog for #70785. (70885)
• Updated Inline Documentation order in duotone file. (71032)
• Updated Small Typo in block-styles.md file. (70927)
• registerFormatType: Document 'object' setting. (70858)

Code Quality

• Migrate @wordpress/i18n package to TypeScript and Add TextDomain Type Safety to createI18n. (70843)
• Migrate keycodes package to TypeScript. (70466)
• Migrate undo-manager package to TS. (70757)
• TypeScript: Migrate jest-console package to TS. (70538)
• TypeScript: Migrate priority-queue package to TS. (70469)
• wordcount: Fix count function signature to make userSettings parameter optional. (71106)

Block Library

• Cache redundant function call for is_user_logged_in() function. (70999)
• Social Icon: Retire the Skype social service. (70769)
• end-to-end Tests: Split large Navigation tests into smaller tests. (69117)

Block Editor

• Block Variation Transforms: Add box-sizing rule. (71052)

Post Editor

• BrowserURL: Refactor to a function component and use hooks. (71035)

Block bindings

• Post Date block: Address feedback. (70982)

Zoom Out

• Delete unused property. (70893)

Components

• Add placement prop to replace position in RangeControl. (70326)

Tools

• DataViews: Add changelog entry for #70891. (70953)
• PR automations: Add New Block to the list of allowed PR-type labels. (71045)

Testing

• Add Node.js 24 to test strategy. (71091)
• CI: Add workflow to check if there is a changelog entry for dataviews. (71023)

Build Tooling

• Build Tools: Updates 'browserlist' and 'caniuse-lite' to the latest versions. (71009)

Various

• Core data: Deprecate the root/media entity. (71038)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @asdofindia: File block: Use native feature detection for pdf support. (63044)
• @coderGtm: (70409)
• @heavyweight: Core Data: Add getTitle for user entity. (70941)
• @KHarika01: Fix: Add hyphen to “hands-on” in Getting Started section. (70906)
• @kushagra-goyal-14: TypeScript: Migrate priority-queue package to TS. (70469)
• @lalitkumawat1m: Review all the 'Add New' strings #53984. (71083)
• @rcrdortiz: Added max-width to DataView columns. (70983)
• @Sahil1617: Deprecate data-wp-ignore directive with warning message. (70945)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@Adi-ty @alshakero @andrewserong @arthur791004 @asdofindia @BugReportOnWeb @chihsuan @coderGtm @desrosj @dhananjaykuber @dhruvikpatel18 @dsas @fellyph @heavyweight @himanshupathak95 @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jsnajdr @KHarika01 @kushagra-goyal-14 @lalitkumawat1m @Mamaduka @megane9988 @mikejolley @mirka @oandregal @ockham @p-jackson @priethor @ramonjd @rcrdortiz @richtabor @ryanwelcher @Sahil1617 @shail-mehta @shimotmk @shrivastavanolo @Sukhendu2002 @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @USERSATOSHI @vipul0425 @westonruter @yogeshbhutkar