13.5.0

Changelog

Enhancements

Components

• Use NumberControl as input field. (41472)
• Convert component to TypeScript. (41681)
• RadioControl: Convert component to TypeScript. (41568)

Media

• Adds featured image toggle to media replace flow. (41476)
• Add tooltip on replace image's URL. (41504)

Block Library

• Cover: Adds placeholder when feature image is in use. (41460)
• Post Navigation Link: Add design controls (color, text decoration, and font family). (41378)

Block Editor

• Copy plain text variant of blocks. (41366)
• Adds CTA and external link to block inserter flow. (41112)

Global Styles

• Move CSS from the stylesheet to the block definition. (41689)

Document Settings

• Highlight today's date in DatePicker. (41647)

Design Tools

• Cover: Move overlay and opacity controls to color panel. (41102)

Bug Fixes

Block Editor

• Preferences Panel: Filters hidden blocks to only count those which are still registered. (41454)

Components

• Avoid including null values in blocks list. (41496)
• CustomGradientBar: Fix insertion and control point positioning to more closely follow cursor. (41492)
• Fix ComboboxControl post-reset focus. (41737)
• FormTokenField: Added Padding to resolve close button overlap issue. (41556)
• Tooltip: Fix jitter at edge of screen by enabling __unstableShift. (41524)

Block Library

• Fix JS Error in Avatar Block. (41354)
• Query Loop: Render replace button only if eligible patterns exist. (41690)
• Comments Title: Plural has been used instead of single in 1st parameter. (41521)

Design Tools

• Fix CSS Selectors rendered by theme.json duotone/filter settings for blocks on public pages. (41335)
• Webfonts: Increase priority of init hook to account for block reregistration. (41569)

Template Editor

• Include theme's templates in template list in post editor. (41630)

Site Editor

• Theme variations UI: Ensure that equality check takes into account all default theme properties. (41591)

CSS & Styling

• Add utility classnames back to blocks that have layout attributes specified. (41487)
• Allow for zero values for CSS properties in the style engine. (41561)

Accessibility

• Fix lack of context on action buttons and improve A11Y for the template action buttons Edit/New. (41615)
• Fix focus trap on certain input types. (41538)
• Add label to Preview options dropdown menu. (41566)

Experiments

• Style engine: Add border to backend. (40531)
• Style engine: Elements backend support. (40987)
• Global styles: Merge block CSS with theme.json styles. (34180)

Documentation

• Add missing CHANGELOG entry. (41745)
• Enhancements to TypeScript migration guidelines. (41669)
• Add step for build and asset file. (41511)
• Feature flag refresh. (41522)
• Update link title and add the correct URL. (41666)
• Fix typo in block schema description. (41570)

Code Quality

• Entity-aware type signature for getEntityRecord and getEntityRecords. (41235)
• Improves the types of createHigherOrderComponent and its usages. (41138)
• ESLint: Restrict removed Lodash functions. (41651)
• TypeScript: Add default context types to Entity Records in core-data. (41595)
• TypeScript: Improve type definitions in @wordpress/core-data. (41593)
• RNMobile: Update clicks to use clickIfClickable() when possible. (41367)

Components

• Draggable: Add clarifying inline comment after the recent hook dependency changes. (41658)
• Limit Dropdown cleanup to renders where the menu has actually been opened. (41604)
• Placeholder: Add an illustration option to the Placeholder component. (41605)
• Refactor CustomGradientBar to pass exhaustive-deps. (41463)
• Refactor DateDayPicker to pass exhaustive-deps. (41470)
• Refactor Flex to pass exhaustive-deps. (41507)
• Refactor FontSizePicker to pass exhaustive-deps. (41600)
• Refactor InputControl to pass exhaustive-deps. (41601)
• Refactor Modal to pass exhaustive-deps. (41610)
• RefactorDraggable to pass exhaustive-deps. (41499)
• RefactorDropdown to pass exhaustive-deps. (41505)
• Rewrite <FormTokenField> to functional component and Typescript. (41216)
• TreeSelect Convert to Typescript. (41536)
• ZStack: Convert component story to TypeScript and add inline documentation. (41694)

Block Library

• Clarify updateNavigationLinkBlockAttributes. (41657)
• Comment Author and Date blocks: Aligned editor markup with the frontend. (41631)
• Cover Block: Move components to variables so they can be shared. (41742)
• Split useNavigationMenu into bite-size functions and add unit tests. (41139)
• File, Search Blocks: Lower CSS specificity. (41393)

Document Settings

• Extract header used in PostVisibility and PublishDateTimePicker to a new InspectorPopoverHeader component. (41362)

Lodash

• Refactor various Lodash methods. (41701), (41626), (41731), (41635), (41672), (41703), (41692), (41653), (41654), (41624), (41688), (41702), (41652), (41674), (41634), (41633), (41632), (41629), (41706), (41625), (41701)
• Remove various lodash usages. (41719), (41687)

Tools

Build Tooling

• Bump caniuse-lite version. (41675)
• Update testing-library dependencies to latest version. (41710)
• Upgrade wp-prettier to 2.6.2. (40542)
• Package.json: Bump engines.node version to >=14. (41599)

Testing

• Fixed failing DateTimePicker Unit test. (41483)
• Remove snapshot from Post Editor Template Mode test and target expected string instead. (41563)
• Skip some of the Drag & Drop end-to-end on iOS. (41529)
• Add controlled unit test, use modern Testing Library features. (41668)

Components

• Storybook: Update to the version 6.5. (41585)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @FilipposZ: Block-Editor: Add tooltip on replace image's URL. (41504)
• @manzurahammed: Block Library: Fix JS Error in Avatar Block. (41354)
• @msurdi: Avoid including null values in blocks list. (41496)
• @sebastienserre: Plural has been used instead of single in 1st parameter. (41521)
• @tharsheblows: Docs: Add step for build and asset file. (41511)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamziel @alexstine @andrewserong @chad1008 @ciampo @derekblank @draganescu @FilipposZ @fluiddot @geriux @glendaviesnz @jffng @jostnes @jsnajdr @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @manzurahammed @matiasbenedetto @mburridge @mcsf @mirka @msurdi @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ramonjd @SavPhill @scruffian @sebastienserre @sunil25393 @t-hamano @tharsheblows @torounit @tyxla @walbo