v19.9.0-rc.1

Changelog

Enhancements

• Feature: Add navigation.isLoading state to core/router store. (67680)
• Update the title, description, and order of Experiments page. (67762)
• wp-env: Add phpMyAdmin support. (67588)

Components

• Added enableAlpha prop to CustomGradientPicker and GradientPicker components. (66974)
• BorderBoxControl: Reduce gap value when unlinked. (67049)
• DateTime: Add default date/time to stories. (67678)
• Deprecate COLORS.white. (67649)
• Disabled: Suppress contentEditable warning in story. (67679)
• Document layout in Storybook. (67628)
• DropdownMenu: Increase option height to 40px. (67435)
• DuotonePicker: Simplify Button styles. (66641)
• Menu: Throw when subcomponents are not rendered inside top level Menu. (67411)
• Popover: Use anchor instead of anchorRef in story. (67674)
• Storybook: Remove unnecessary feature flags. (67576)
• Storybook: Update ArgsTable to Controls in preview. (67582)
• Storybook: Update control types from null to undefined. (67581)
• Storybook: Use manager-api instead of addons package. (67578)
• Update @ariakit/react to 0.4.13. (65907)
• Update @ariakit/react to 0.4.15 and @ariakit/test to 0.4.7. (67404)

Block Library

• Cover Block: Image size option for featured image. (67273)
• Feature: Allow Post Template block to get deeply nested within Query Block. (67657)
• Image Block: Change how the Image's overlay styles are applied. (67788)
• Navigation: Enable all non-interactive formats. (67585)
• Query block: Move patterns modal to dropdown on block toolbar. (66993)
• Separator block: Allow divs to be used as separators. (67530)
• [ New Block ] Add Query Total block for displaying total query results or ranges. (67629)
• [Block Library]: Update the relationship of No results block to ancestor. (48348)

DataViews

• Add header to the quick edit when bulk editing. (67390)
• Data views: Expand configuration drop down on mobile. (67715)
• Quick Edit: Add Template field. (66591)
• Refactor actions to render modal outside of the menu. (67664)
• Renders DataForm component only when data has been fetched. (67694)
• Unify layout configuration. (67477)
• Update bulk header with actions. (67743)

Style Book

• Add stylebook screen for classic themes. (66851)
• Scroll to top at styles root. (67605)
• Stylebook: Render overview colors in 4 columns. (67597)
• Update style book headings to new design. (67546)

Post Editor

• Inline Commenting: Added new sidebar as extension of the canvas. (67347)
• Inline Commenting: Re-order the comments in sidebar in which blocks are listed. (66927)
• Inline commenting: UX Enhancements for Comments. (67385)

Site Editor

• Data Views: Add action for pages to set site homepage. (65426)
• Sidebar: Update appearance of active items. (67318)
• Style the selected template pattern. (65917)

Data Layer

• Data: Expose 'useSelect' warning to third-party consumers. (67735)
• Data: Include more details when shallow equality fails in 'useSelect'. (67713)

Global Styles

• Controls in grid should match between sidebar panel and editor. (67602)
• Shadows: Improve design and a11y of remove button. (67705)

Block Editor

• Prefer exact matches in Link Search results sorting. (67367)
• Try direct drag (outside text editable). (67305)

Zoom Out

• Keep only copy, duplicate and delete in the zoom out more block toolbar menu item. (67279)

Font Library

• FontCollection: Update pagination controls. (67143)

Colors

• Add reset button to color control. (67116)

Bug Fixes

• Exclude Set instance methods from polyfills. (67230)
• Preload: Fix settings fields order. (67450)
• Scripts: Make React Fast Refresh work with multiple blocks. (64924)
• WP Scripts: Update webpack dependencies related to styling. (67572)

Site Editor

• Allow access to quick edit. (67469)
• Edit Site: Fix sidebar template author navigation. (67382)
• Fix Site editor navigation menu items alignment visual regression. (67321)
• Fix sidebar item animation regression. (67771)
• Fix sidebar plugins. (67557)
• Fix the templates route on mobile. (67547)
• Fix: Fixed site-editor crashing when added front-page template and clicking more option. (67500)
• Fix: Fixed styling tab not opening on themes without style variations on mobile & desktop. (67537)
• Preload: Parse post ID from p (path). (67465)
• Remove default page slug. (67673)
• Router: Fix addition and removal of empty classnames. (67378)
• Wrap each router area in 'ErrorBoundary'. (64245)
• useEditorTitle: Fix wrong request without ID. (67475)

Block Editor

• Animate useScaleCanvas() only when toggling zoomed out mode. (67481)
• Drag and drop: Fix drop zones on block drag. (67317)
• Drag and drop: Fix firefox compat logic. (67439)
• Fix JS error in the 'useTabNav' hook. (67102)
• FontFamilyControl: Restore margin bottom. (67424)
• Inserter: Hide child blocks from the inserter when needed. (67734)
• Inserter: Patterns: Remove loading indicator. (67072)
• Inserter: Should receive focus on open. (67754)
• Remove words count in the multi-selection inspector. (67624)
• Storybook: Fix BlockPatternsList fixtures. (67672)
• Drag and drop: Fix misplaced drop indicator. (67434)
• Drag and drop: Fix scroll disorientation after drop. (67405)
• Drag and drop: Restore moving animation. (67417)

Block Library

• Align Submenu block and Nav Link block by including description and wrapping span. (67198)
• CommentsPagination: Set font-size to inherit for pagination items. (67296)
• Fix latest post block spacing issue. (66442)
• Fix: Caption with Link in Wide-Width and Full-Width Images Appears on two lines. (67392)
• Fix: Don't show aria-label when its value is empty. (67381)
• Navigation Block: Fix issue with double-clicking "Create a new menu" causing duplicate menus. (67488)
• Pullquote block having design issue when text-decoration is choosen strikethrough. (66707)
• Remove inline-block display from image anchor in style.scss. (67368)
• Search block: Add space between attributes when using "Button only" option. (61399)
• Updated 'Set featured image' text in dropdown. (67775)

DataViews

• Avoid double click handler on primary fields. (67393)
• Better handling of missing onClickItem prop. (67402)
• Fix filters lost when switching layouts. (67740)
• Fix hidden List layout actions dropdown. (67778)
• Fix reordering fields in list and grid layouts. (67777)
• Fix: Duplicate template part refers to original name instead of duplicated name. (67329)
• Preserve filters when switching layouts in templates dataviews. (67744)
• QuickEdit: Prevent site-editor from crashing when slug is not an object. (67577)
• Site Editor: Fix featured image not appearing in pages dataviews. (67562)

Components

• CustomSelectControl: Update Value from Fresh State. (67733)
• Fix the 'ClipboardButton' effect cleanup. (67399)
• Navigation: Fix active item hover color. (67732)
• Scrollable: Fix story by declaring field as readonly. (67683)
• Storybook: Fix control types. (67646)
• Storybook: Fix storybook blocks imports. (67684)
• Storybook: Fix table markup in Design Language - Radius documentation. (67686)
• Theme: Fix contrast in nested story. (67681)

Post Editor

• Fix Meta boxes saving when they’re not present. (67254)
• Fix hiding and showing of meta boxes. (67504)
• Fix: Header layout spacing in Firefox. (67074)
• Make sure Document Bar doesn’t go missing. (67322)
• Update pre-publish panel wording to accurately describe the review process. (67328)

Zoom Out

• Fix for inserter. (67495)
• Fix useZoomOut inserter behavior. (67591)
• Fix zoom animation scrollbar. (67536)
• UseScaleCanvas performance improvements. (67496)

Write mode

• Fix color of disabled buttons in dark toolbar. (67348)
• Fix synced pattern editing in write mode and refactor block editing mode to reducer. (67026)
• Fix: Remove parent block selector while in Write mode. (67395)
• Fix: Write Mode mode persists as enabled in widget editor. (67587)

Global Styles

• Edit site: Remove empty preview border and redirect to editor in global styles navigation. (67548)
• Fix: Styles section does not moves stylebook to typography. (67423)
• Global Styles Preview: Don't use iframe component. (67682)

Style Book

• Fix critical error when blocks are not registered. (67703)

Design Tools

• Global Styles: Fix handling of booleans when stabilizing block supports. (67552)

Block bindings

• Revert "Extensibility: Make Block Bindings work with editor.BlockEdit hook". (67516)

Patterns

• Site Editor: Fix the patterns route on mobile. (67467)

Focus Mode

• Site Editor: Fix focus mode navigation. (67458)

List View

• Fix List View not updating when switching editor modes. (67379)

Extensibility

• Make Block Bindings work with editor.BlockEdit hook. (67370)

Synced Patterns

• Remove use of contentOnly block editing mode for synced patterns. (67364)

Widgets Editor

• Block Bindings: Remove client core sources registration in widgets. (67349)

REST API

• Support search_columns argument in the user endpoint. (67330)

Accessibility

• [Dataviews] Fix: Space does not triggers the media button on grid view. (67791)

Block Editor

• BlockSwitcher: Refactor to use Button layout properly. (67502)
• Remove one occurrence of incorrect usage of ItemGroup. (67427)

DataViews

• [a11y] Fix: Media button on the page view grid does not have an accessible name. (67690)

Components

• Fix incorrect usage of ItemGroup in the Image block filters panel. (67513)

Post Editor

• Fix EntitiesSavedStates panel dialog props. (67351)

Performance

• Fix re-renders caused by getEntityRecordsPermissions after #67667. (67770)
• Preload: Fix end-to-end test. (67497)
• Site Editor: Pages: Preload template lookup. (66654)
• [mini] Preload: Add post type. (67518)

Experiments

• Move duplicateTemplatePart action to the @wordpress/fields package. (65390)

Documentation

• Button: Revise documentation. (66617)
• Docs: Fix Playwright Page Object Model link. (67652)
• Docs: Include the strategy for setting engines for WordPress packages. (67727)
• Docs: Remove invalid key projects links on the documentation. (67491)
• Improve documentation for fields package. (67580)
• Refine getServerState() & getServerContext() documentation. (67499)
• Storybook: Add WritingModeControl story. (67343)
• Storybook: Add stories for AlignmentToolbar and AlignmentControl components. (67046)
• Storybook: Add stories for HeadingLevelDropdown component. (67294)
• Storybook: Revert "Preview: ArgsTable => Controls (#67582)". (67656)
• Storybook: Support keyword search in Icon Library. (67442)
• Switch Several Links to https in Document Files. (67706)
• Update README.md. (67711)
• Update extending-the-query-loop-block.md. (67529)
• Update global stylesheet docblocks with custom-css parameter. (67716)
• Updated old URL in Documentation. (67446)

Code Quality

• Convert lock unlock to generics. (66682)
• CreateTemplatePartModal: Avoid identity warning in useSelect. (67786)
• CreateTemplatePartModal: Replace ts-ignore with ts-expect-error. (67709)
• Fix misc type compilation errors in editor and block editor packages. (67410)
• Fix: Invalid JSDoc for optional string parameter and return value. (67489)
• Fix: Remove unused test code on tools panel. (67589)
• Removed trailing space in "Color randomizer ". (67457)
• Update misc types and revert WPCompleter export from components. (67599)

Components

• BoxControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (66704)
• BoxControl: Passive deprecate onMouseOver/onMouseOut. (67332)
• BoxControl: Refactor and unify the different sides implementation. (67626)
• CustomSelectControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (67441)
• FormFileUpload: Deprecate 36px default size. (67438)
• FormTokenField: Deprecate 36px default size. (67454)
• NumberControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (66730)
• RangeControl: Update the default marks styles to match the padding/margin control. (67611)
• Remove __unstableMotionContext from @wordpress/components. (67623)
• SlotFill: Remove explicit rerender from portal version. (67471)
• Tabs: Overhaul unit tests. (66140)
• ToolbarButton: Set size to "compact". (67440)
• UnitControl : Deprecate 36px default size. (66791)

Block Editor

• Group 'onRemove' callback with other public APIs. (67551)
• InspectorControlsSlot: Remove unused framer motion context forwarding. (67522)
• LetteringSpacingControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (67429)
• Reduce the 'isZoomOut' selector calls in the block toolbar. (67594)
• Remove 'React.Children' legacy API in 'Warning' component. (67675)
• Replace remaining custom deep cloning with 'structuredClone'. (67707)
• Stabilize LinkControl Component. (56384)

Site Editor

• Remove .components-item-group selector in edit-site components[2]. (67575)
• Site Editor Sidebar: Remove hasGlobalStyleVariations condition for the Styles nav item. (67545)
• Unify layout with posts dataviews. (67162)
• Use path based routing instead of query args and site-editor.php routes. (67199)

Post Editor

• Editor: Refactor 'PostPublishPanelPostpublish' to function component. (67398)
• Editor: Use hooks instead of HOC in 'PostPublishButtonOrToggle'. (67413)
• Remove PostSlugCheck and PostSlug unused components. (67414)

DataViews

• Create a single component for rendering the actions list. (67558)
• Fix: Dataviews remove primary field concept from some classes. (67689)

Data Layer

• TypeScript: Convert factory utils in data package to TS. (67667)

Shortcodes

• Add types for shortcode package. (67416)

Block bindings

• Remove fallback for context.postType in post meta. (67345)

Block hooks

• Navigation block: Remove more obsolete Block Hooks helpers. (67193)

Tools

• PR template: Add before/after table. (62739)

Build Tooling

• Build: Stop generating unused legacy scripts for core blocks. (65268)
• CI: Skip native jobs. (67799)
• DataViews build-wp: Don't bundle singleton WordPress packages. (67590)
• DataViews build-wp: Don't bundle the date package. (67612)
• Keycodes: Improve tree shaking by annotating exports as pure. (67615)
• Upgrade TypeScript to 5.7 and fix types. (67461)

Testing

• e2e-test-utils-playwright: Increase timeout of site-editor selector. (66672)

Security

npm Packages

• Update npm dependencies to fix issues reported by audit. (67708)

Various

Extensibility

• Add ability to show drop cap setting in paragraph block by default. (45994)
• DataViews: Move template and pattern title fields. (67449)
• DataViews: Update usePostFields to accept postType. (67380)

Plugin

• Only override REST server for older WP versions. (67779)

NUX

• Welcome guide headline update. (67654)

Block Locking

• Simplify description and option names in the Lock modal dialog. (67437)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @alexflorisca: e2e-test-utils-playwright: Increase timeout of site-editor selector. (66672)
• @benazeer-ben: Site editor: Style the selected template pattern. (65917)
• @creador-dev: Navigation Block: Fix issue with double-clicking "Create a new menu" causing duplicate menus. (67488)
• @dknauss: Update README.md. (67711)
• @im3dabasia: Removed trailing space in "Color randomizer ". (67457)
• @Mayank-Tripathi32: Fix: Header layout spacing in Firefox. (67074)
• @subodhr258: CustomSelectControl: Update Value from Fresh State. (67733)
• @wwdes: Added enableAlpha prop to CustomGradientPicker and GradientPicker components. (66974)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @akasunil @alexflorisca @annezazu @benazeer-ben @ciampo @creador-dev @creativecoder @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @dknauss @draganescu @ellatrix @fabiankaegy @getdave @gigitux @gvgvgvijayan @gziolo @hbhalodia @im3dabasia @imrraaj @jameskoster @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanfra @louwie17 @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @matiasbenedetto @Mayank-Tripathi32 @mcsf @michalczaplinski @miminari @mirka @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @prajapatisagar @ramonjd @sabernhardt @SantosGuillamot @sarthaknagoshe2002 @sgomes @shail-mehta @stokesman @subodhr258 @Sukhendu2002 @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla @viralsampat-multidots @wwdes @yogeshbhutkar @youknowriad