v22.9.0

Changelog

Enhancements

Block Editor

• DOM: Prefer standard caretPositionFromPoint over deprecated caretRangeFromPoint. (76921)

Components

• Add EmptyState component to @wordpress/ui. (74719)
• Admin UI: Update Page background color. (76548)
• Button: hide focus outline on :Active for click feedback in forced-colors mode. (76833)
• Card: Use Text component for Title typography. (76642)
• InputControl: Add to @wordpress/ui. (76653)
• Snackbar: Use surface-width design token for max-width. (76592)
• Storybook: Make "introduction" top level. (76671)
• Tabs: Add runtime validation for tab/panel mismatches. (75170)
• Theme: Change default control cursor to pointer. (76762)
• ThemeProvider: Add cursor prop. (76410)
• UI/Dialog: Deprioritize close icon for initial focus. (76910)
• UI/Dialog: Expose initialFocus and finalFocus on Dialog.Popup. (76860)
• UI: Add AlertDialog primitive. (76847)
• UI: Update @base-ui/react from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0. (76603)

Data Layer

• Core Data: Remove offset param from stableKey, use pagination logic. (76808)

Block Library

• Block Supports: Add background gradient support that can combine with background images. (75859)
• Forms Block: Add hidden input field variation. (74131)
• Image/Site Logo: Hide crop toolbar when editMediaEntity is unavailable. (76626)
• Login/out block: Add button block class names to the submit button. (76746)

DataViews

• CollapsibleCard: Add HeaderDescription subcomponent. (76867)
• Improvements to dataviews infinite scroll. (74378)

Site Editor

• Site Editor > Pages: Move view configuration to the server. (76573)
• Site Editor > Patterns & Parts: Generate sidebar from view configuration. (76823)
• Site Editor > Patterns: Move configuration to the server. (76734)
• Site Editor > Quick Edit: Add form configuration to endpoint. (76953)
• Site Editor > Templates: Move configuration to the server. (76622)

Post Editor

• DataForm: Add compact configuration option to the datetime control. (76905)

Navigation Menus

• Site Editor v2: Add missing menu items to navigation leaf more menu. (76804)

Connectors

• Improve AI plugin button. (76759)

Collaboration

• Add backport for WP_ALLOW_COLLABORATION. (76716)

Guidelines

• Improvements to the UX. (76383)

Icon

• Icons: Enforce strict name validation in register method. (76079)

Commands

• Add sections to command palette and introduce Recently used functionality. (75691)

Bug Fixes

• wordpress/date: Recover WP timezone after third-party reload. (75831)

Block Library

• Icon: Fix center alignment in the editor for classic themes. (76878)
• Image block media placeholder: Remove duotone. (76721)
• Latest Comments: Fix v1 block deprecation. (76877)
• List Item: Disable edit as HTML support. (76897)
• Navigation: Avoid List View changing position when navigation block saves. (76659)
• Reduce specificity of nav link default padding so global styles apply. (76876)
• Show fallback label in MediaControl when filename is empty. (76888)
• Site Tagline: Fix block error when migrating deprecated textAlign attribute. (76821)

Connectors

• Boot: Fix black area below content when sidebar is taller than page content. (76764)
• Add Akismet as a default connector. (76828)
• Align client registration API with server. (76737)
• Fix button size. (76582)
• Replace plugin.slug with plugin.file. (76909)
• Support non-AI provider types and add JS extensibility end-to-end test. (76722)

Block Editor

• Block visibility badge: Use canvas iframe for viewport detection. (76889)
• Cross Origin Isolation: Remove img from the list of elements that get mutated. (76618)
• Fix locked content when switching to a different template without exiting 'Edit pattern'. (76710)
• Hide Additional CSS controls when block is inside contentOnly editing mode. (76512)
• Reset blockEditingModes on RESET_BLOCKS. (76529)
• Stop keeping stale controlled blocks after reset. (76591)

Components

• Admin UI: Fix Page Header not rendering with only actions and add stories. (76695)
• Button: Restore specificity of high-contrast mode focus ring. (76719)
• Card: Add overflow: Clip to root container. (76678)
• Fix Color Picker Angle Reset on Gradient Type Change. (76595)
• Storybook: Disable autodocs for Icon library. (76620)
• compose/useDialog: Add stopPropagation() to Escape handler. (76861)
• ui/CollapsibleCard: Do not animate focus ring. (76682)

Post Editor

• Fix: Create custom template modal content width. (76713)
• Reduce the added halo for selected block. (76619)
• Revisions: Add Meta fields diff panel to document sidebar. (76341)
• Revisions: Fix template revisions retrieval and sorting. (76760)
• Style Book: Fix missing styles for classic themes in stylebook route. (76843)

Collaboration

• RTC: Fix notes not syncing between collaborative editors. (76873)
• RTC: Fix stuck "Join" link in post list when lock expires. (76795)
• RTC: Restore on failed request with compaction update. (76872)

Client Side Media

• Build: Remove unused JXL WASM module from vips worker. (76639)
• Gate client-side media processing as plugin-only. (76700)
• vips: Ensure single instance. (76780)

CSS & Styling

• Metabox: Fix checkbox style in sidebar. (76718)

Data Layer

• Properly resolve getTemplateId for hybrid themes. (76532)

Site Editor

• Fix unsupported theme flash on direct URL navigation. (76465)

Accessibility

Components

• ComboboxControl: Fix accessible association of help text. (76761)
• RadioControl: Add role="radiogroup" to fieldset. (76745)
• ToggleGroupControl: Fix accessible association of help text. (76740)
• ControlWithError: Connect validation messages to controls via aria-describedby. (76742)

Block Editor

• Stretchy Text: Fix focus loss. (75092)

Experiments

Post Editor

• Fields: Add excerpt field. (76829)
• Fields: Add sticky field. (76922)
• Fields: Tweak excerpt field. (76903)
• Add revisions panel. (76735)
• Add template panel to include the existing template actions. (76539)

Guidelines

• Refactor components and improve TypeScript typing. (76394)

Documentation

• Abilities: Improve JSDoc for public API. (76824)
• DOM: Document class wildcard matcher for 'cleanNodeList'. (76920)
• Docs: Remove Puppeteer references and update to Playwright. (76766)
• Docs: Update PHP_CodeSniffer repository link and schema URL. (76816)
• Storybook: Add redirect for moved introduction page. (76701)
• Storybook: Try changing to collapsed folders. (76361)
• UI Tooltip: Improve documentation to cover intended accessibility practices. (76705)
• Updating versions in WordPress ahead of 7.0. (76723)
• admin-ui: Update package README to clarify purpose and distinguish from ui package. (76943)
• docs(create-block-interactive-template): Document available variants in README. (76831)
• iAPI Docs: Add client-side navigation compatibility guide. (76242)

Code Quality

• Core Abilities: Fix sideEffects flag. (76763)
• Admin UI: Add CSS files to sideEffects array. (76609)
• admin-ui / Breadcrumbs: Stricter items[].to prop types. (76493)
• Refactor: Use null coalescing operator for improved readability. (76777)
• element: Make createInterpolateElement TS/type smart. (71513)

Data Layer

• Core Data: Optimize getRawEntityRecord selector. (76632)
• Core Data: Remove 'isRawAttribute' internal util. (76806)

Block Library

• Navigation: Add a shared helper for font sizes in Navigation Link and Navigation Submenu blocks. (74855)
• Tab Block: Remove anchor from save function. (76511)

Site Editor

• Simplify sidebar for Pages & Templates. (76868)

Commands

• Fix useSelect warning in command palette. (76822)

Block Editor

• Deprecate '__unstableSaveReusableBlock' action. (76807)

Components

• UI: Clarify public APIs and component naming, remove NoticeIntent typings. (76791)

DataViews

• @wordpress/dataviews: Migrate card layout to @wordpress/ui. (76282)

Tools

• Add TypeScript parser tests for shouldSkipReference. (76611)
• ESLint: Add no-unmerged-classname rule. (76458)
• create-block-interactive-template: Enhance block registration by using blocks-manifest for improved performance. (76317)

Build Tooling

• wp-build: Hash transformed CSS for data-wp-hash dedupe key. (76743)
• Build: Fix vips worker 404 when SCRIPT_DEBUG is true. (76657)
• Build: Skip non-minified build for WASM-inlined workers. (76615)
• Changelog: Add missing label-to-feature mappings. (76646)
• React vendor script: Avoid warning on createRoot. (76825)
• Set milestone on PRs after cherry-picking to release branch. (76652)
• react-dom vendor script: Remove __esModule flag. (76925)

Testing

• Fix: Flaky RichText format end-to-end test. (76958)
• RTC: Add end-to-end block gauntlet. (76849)
• e2e: Add end-to-end tests for template and template part revisions. (76923)
• end-to-end Tests: Enable client-side media processing for site editor image test. (76648)

Collaboration

• RTC: Update post lock backport PR. (76661)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @jigangz: Block Library: Show fallback label in MediaControl when filename is empty. (76888)
• @meravi: Docs: Remove Puppeteer references and update to Playwright. (76766)
• @rodrigoprimo: Docs: Update PHP_CodeSniffer repository link and schema URL. (76816)
• @sandipmaurya2611: Boot: Fix black area below content when sidebar is taller than page content. (76764)
• @Vedant-Gandhi: Fix Color Picker Angle Reset on Gradient Type Change. (76595)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamsilverstein @aduth @alecgeatches @andrewserong @annezazu @aswasif007 @carolinan @CGastrell @chriszarate @ciampo @DAreRodz @dhasilva @dsas @ellatrix @epeicher @gziolo @im3dabasia @ingeniumed @jameskoster @jasmussen @jigangz @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @maxschmeling @meravi @mirka @ntsekouras @oandregal @pento @ramonjd @retrofox @rodrigoprimo @sandipmaurya2611 @scruffian @senadir @sgomes @Shekhar0109 @shekharnwagh @shimotmk @SirLouen @Soean @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @Vedant-Gandhi