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@github-actions github-actions released this 02 Jun 18:39
· 31 commits to release/10.8 since this release

Enhancements

  • Block Editor:
    • Update Modal styling. (31639)
  • Block Library:
    • Archives Block: Show the label for archives block dropdown. (30527)
    • Audio Block: Add an example preview. (32333)
    • File Block: Add an example preview. (32350)
    • Heading Block: Add support for font-weight. (27639)
    • List Block: Add font family to the list block. (27510)
    • Page list block: Add active page classes. (32134)
    • Site Logo: Use option instead of theme-mod. (32229)
  • Components:
    • BoxControl: Add allowReset option. (32345)
      General Interface:
    • Remove opacity animation on canvas. (32266)
  • Design tools:
    • Add Letter-spacing and enable this for site title and site tagline. (31118)
    • Block Supports: Allow skipping spacing support serialization. (31973)
  • Reusable Block:
    • Add Convert to Regular Blocks button to ellipsis Dropdown. (32310)
  • REST API:
    • Improve parsing and retrieve additional data in REST url-details endpoint. (31763)
  • Template Editing Mode:
    • Don't display snackbar with the Welcome Guide. (32076)
    • Update the appearance of the template details popover. (32042)
    • Update the title area in the template editor. (32037)
  • Block-based Widgets:
    • Customizer:
      • Add preferences menu group label to widgets and customize widget editor. (32259)
      • Display wide widgets as popovers in Customizer. (31736)
    • Editor:
      • Link to widgets.php instead of themes.php?page=gutenberg-widgets. (32299)

Bug Fixes

  • Block Library:
    • Image Block: Fix image border radius. (32393)
    • List Block: Fix theme.json styles for the core/list block. (32343)
    • Latest Posts: Limit latest posts featured image width to 100%. (32245)
    • Legacy Widget Block:
      • Fix legacy widget block preview iframe. (32300)
      • Fix legacy widget previews. (32260)
    • Search block: Fix vertical alignment of the search button text. (32340)
  • Block Editor:
    • Block Variation Transforms: Make focus style valid CSS. (32305)
    • Block Toolbar:
      • Always close the options menu after toggling the sidebar. (31921)
      • Fix toolbar alignment in widget block editor. (31991)
    • Iframe: Fix embed dimensions with missing wp-embed-responsive class. (32057)
    • Patterns: Fix allowed patterns check. (32376)
  • Block-Based Widgets:
    • Editor:
      • Fix error when saving empty Legacy Widget block. (32359)
    • Customizer:
      • Center the welcome image in the narrow viewport of widgets customizer. (32264)
      • Fix aspect ratio of welcome image. (32302)
      • Fix deselecting block when inspector is opened. (32361)
      • Fix escape key events in customizer closing the editor. (32175)
      • Fix some smaller styling issues and bugs in Widgets Customizer. (32072)
      • Fix creating and replacing legacy widgets in customizer. (32005)
  • Components:
    • SuggestionsList: Try to use a unique "key". (32344)
    • Update Dropdown’s close-on-blur logic to work inside dialogs. (32133)
  • Editor:
    • Allow non-latin characters in slugs. (32232)
    • Post Preview Button: Prevent saving the post before previewing in locked/read-only mode. (32341)
  • General Interface: Fix overlap of Notices and block toolbar. (32238)
  • Template Editing Mode: Remove metaboxes from template mode. (32315)

Performance

  • Buttons: Move options to constants to avoid unneeded renders. (32356)
  • Experimental Layout: Pass the same object when no data changes. (32380)
  • Navigation: Avoid rerendering when the placeholder does not change. (32357)
  • Update Welcome Guides to use external image URLs. (32026)

Experiments

  • Block Editor:
    • Block Navigation: Try using CSS for indentation with known max indent instead of spacer divs. (32063)
  • Component System:
    • Add missing Divider, Heading type reference in tsconfig. (32104)
    • Adds a new ZStack component. (31613)
    • Adds new ItemGroup and Item components. (30097)
    • Add new BaseField Component. (32250)
    • Fix Shortcut polymorphism. (31555)
    • Promotes the Elevation component to a full export. (31614)
  • Global Styles:
    • Bugfix: Generate classes from preset slugs in the same way (server & client). (32352)
    • Fix Logic to enable custom colors, gradients, and font sizes. (32200)
    • Fix incorrect useCustomUnits import. (32248)
    • Group typographic block supports under a typography key. (32252)
  • Full Site Editing:
    • Align block hover and select styles across list view, site editor, select mode. (31277)
    • Alignment styles: Centre blocks using grid not margins. (32231)
    • Avoid duplicate skip-links in WP 5.8+. (32346)
    • Remove now-obsolete get_template_hierarchy(). (32116)
    • Templates: Remove now-obsolete gutenberg_get_template_paths(). (32066)
  • Navigation:
    • Block:
      • Fix css bleed from navigation. (32384)
      • Fix collapsing regression of Navigation Menu. (32081)
      • Lock the document from scrolling when the modal is open. (32269)
      • Refactor Navigation block paddings/margins to inherit global styles. (31878)
    • Editor:
      • Allow block attributes passed to block renderer by way of wp_nav_menu. (31911)
      • Hide sidebar when a menu isn't selected. (32090)
      • Fix the visible widget area toolbar. (32262)
      • Fix block toolbar position after scroll. (32212)
      • Move modal state to ManageLocations component. (32078)
  • Site Editor:
    • Fix broken template part converter modal styles. (32097)
    • Remove title attribute from NavigationItem inside the site-editor. (30744)

Documentation

  • Handbook:
    • Fix broken contributors readme files. (32272)
    • Fix misspelling in the Widgets Block Editor section. (32242)
    • Mark all experimental components in the handbook. (32147)
    • Update the create a block theme tutorial. (31269)
    • Update iOS Simulator device command in React Native documentation. (32383)
  • Packages:
    • Navigation Editor: Augment and improve Nav Editor (and block) documentation. (31891)
    • Components: Fixed documentation for units attribute in Unit Control. (31901)

Code Quality

  • Block Editor:
    • Rich text:
      • Contextual default shortcut removal. (32327)
      • Remove inline display warning. (32013)
    • Colors: Remove __experimentalUseColors hook. (31438)
    • Remove usages of withState from edit-post and editor. (32349)
  • Block Library:
    • List View: Simplify the BlockNavigation component. (31290)
    • Navigation: Simplify html selector in nav burger menu. (32303)
    • Remove "class=" wrapper to already wrapped attributes. (29214)
    • Query Block: Remove query context leftovers. (32093)
  • Blocks Package: Make getBlockSupport support any lodash path.. (32322)
  • Block Supports: Avoid a PHP Notice when render_block() is called without attributes. (32135)
  • Components:
    • Button: Deprecate isPrimary, isSecondary, isTertiary and isLink props in favour of variant prop. (31713)
    • Combobox: Remove duplicated ComboboxControl component. (32397)
    • Dashicons: Add types to Icon . (32219)
    • Disabled: Add types to Disabled components. (32105)
    • Remove all withNext wrappers. (32205)
    • Rename ViewOwnProps to PolymorphicComponentProps. (32053)
    • Require explicit children prop for all components. (31817)
    • UI Context: Delete unused types from context. (32254)
    • UI Popover: Remove unused content property from types definitions. (32049)
  • Compose:
    • Add types to useRefEffect and clipboard hooks. (31603)
    • Add Types to withGlobalEvents as any. (32290)
    • Add types to useWarnOnChange. (32288)
    • Add types to useViewportMatch. (32287)
    • Add types to useDropZone. (32286)
    • Add types to useDragging. (32285)
    • Add types to useThrottle and typecheck useFocusOutside. (32170)
    • Add types to useKeyboardShortcut. (32168)
    • Add types to useResizeObserver and type checking to useIsomorphicLayoutEffect. (32111)
    • Add types to useFocusReturn. (31949)
    • Add types to usePrevious. (31944)
    • Add types to useReducedMotion and useMediaQuery. (31941)
    • Add types to useMergeRefs. (31939)
    • Add test to useMergeRefs for disabling refs + better documentation. (32044)
    • Add types to useDebounce. (32015)
    • Deprecate withState in favor of useState. (32368)
    • Simplify compose function documentation and point to lodash documentation for it. (32324)
  • Global Styles:
    • Avoid enqueuing global styles twice when running on WordPress 5.8. (32372)
  • Keyboard Shortcuts:
    • Multi select: select all: Restore ref callback. (32318)
  • Linting:
    • Fix eslint warnings in the core-data package. (32198)
    • Fix eslint warnings in the edit-navigation package. (32196)
    • Fix eslint warnings in the edit-post package. (32195)
    • Fix eslint warnings in the edit-site package. (32156)
    • Fix eslint warnings in the edit-widgets package. (32155)
    • Fix eslint warnings in the editor package. (32153)
    • Fix eslint warnings in the nux package. (32145)
    • Fix eslint warnings in the rich-text package. (32142)
    • Fix eslint warnings in the reusable-blocks package. (32141)
  • Navigation Editor:
    • Fix React warning. (32165)

Tools

  • Babel presets: Prefix build with node command for Windows environments. (#32258). (32329)
  • Workflow:
    • Limit when workflows run on forks. (32114)
    • Only calculate the compressed size on pull requests when necessary. (32161)
    • Performance Tests Workflow:
      • Polish Bash script. (32284)
      • Run suite atop latest stable major WordPress version. (32244)
      • Use latest WP branch for release tests. (32277)
  • End to End Tests:
    • Fix inserting cover block intermittent failure. (32014)
    • Navigation Editor:
      • Fix failing end-to-end tests. (32043)
      • Skip "Change detection" tests. (32151)
    • Move the Query and PostTitle end-to-end tests out of the experimental directory. (31691)
    • Multi select: Add end-to-end test for gruadual select all. (32304)
    • Remove redundant widget API endpoint tests. (32298)
    • Skip tests that are failing with the latest WordPress core. (32228)
  • Eslint: Ignore some eslint rules in react-native folders. (32143)