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Enhancements

  • Use a semi transparent background for the spacer block when selected. (28103)
  • Display matching variation icon in Block Switcher. (27903)

New APIs

  • Create Block: Allow using locally installed packages with templates. (28105)
  • Create block: Add support for static assets. (28038)
  • Compose: Export useIsomorphicLayoutEffect and use it. (28023)

Bug Fixes

  • Reusable Blocks:
    • Show an error message when a reusable block has gone missing. (28126)
    • Fix dismiss notice after error. (28015)
  • Cover Block:
    • Fix nested cover block bug. (28114)
    • Fix invalid cover block transforms. (28087)
    • Fix cover regression. (28287)
    • Fix Cover focal point picker. (28350)
    • Fix matrix alignment issue. (28361)
  • Fix block error when transforming blocks with Link Popover opened. (28136)
  • Fix PHP Notice in navigation-link. (28134)
  • Prevent link paste in RichText components in Button and Navigation blocks. (28130)
  • Fix floating date status inferred for posts where the status has been edited. (28127)
  • BlockSwitcher: Fix crash due to null reference. (28122)
  • Verse: Fix line-wrap rendering on front-end of site. (28109)
  • FocalPointPicker: Fix rendering and dragging experience. (28096)
  • Block Directory: Fix "missing" block when the block can be installed from the directory. (28030)
  • Fix locked template not updating when inner blocks template prop changes. (28007)
  • Fix editor crash when registering a block pattern without categories. (27970)
  • Fix the RTL editor styles and the theme styles option. (27947)
  • Don't close the block inserter when clicking the scrollbar or an empty area. (27946)
  • Fix AlignmentMatrixControl focus issue. (27945)
  • Fix unexpected autosave for published posts. (27942)
  • Fix RadioGroup to support zero as a Radio value. (27906)
  • Update embed block transforms to permit multiple links to be pasted in a paragraph (#27551). (27746)
  • Change the week header and left button style to meet the date spacing. (27730)
  • Add aria labels to box control component inputs/button. (27727)
  • Use clientWidth when no width is available for cropper. (27687)
  • Core Data: Normalize _fields value for use in stableKey. (27526)
  • Fix appender margins again. (27392)

Performance

  • Components: Expose composite API from Reakit. (28085)
  • Improve Inserter block hover performance. (26348)

Experiments

  • Full Site Editing Framework:
    • Load content in iframe. (25775)
    • Avoid using auto-drafts for theme templates and template parts. (27910)
      • Delete unused options while upgrading the plugin. (28164)
      • Fix _wp_file_based term deletion in migration. (28300)
    • Fix the border radius in the site editor. (27986)
  • theme.json:
    • Add border radius to the theme styles schema. (27791)
    • Add theme.json i18n mechanism and JSON file specifying which theme.json paths are translatable. (27380)
    • Add: Save time theme.json escaping. (28061)
  • Group Block: Add border radius. (27665)
  • Hide the theme without comments.php deprecation message. (28128)
  • Fix navigation editor. (28080)
  • Widgets: Temporary fix for saving widgets. (28078)
  • Decouple query from edit site. (27972)
  • Only enable the template mode for viewable post types. (27948)
  • Box control units: Ensure custom units are preserved. (27800)
  • Navigation Block: Use draft status when user creates a post and don't render unpublished posts in menus. (27207)

Documentation

  • Docs: Improve README file for @wordpress/create-block. (28052)
  • Create Block: Update the demo included in the README file. (28037)
  • Docs: Switch heading to Quick Start for consistency. (28019)
  • Docs: A wether, as it turns out, is a castrated ram. (28008)
  • Update Quickstart guide for the Development Environment documentation. (28005)
  • Update copyright year to 2021 in license.md. (27951)
  • Block API: Add more inline comments. (20257)
  • Changelog: Group entries for 9.8.0-rc.1. (28332)

Code Quality

  • Remove effects test file and remove unused refx dependency. (28162)
  • Annotations: Replace store name string with exposed store definition. (28156)
  • Edit Widgets: Replace store name string with exposed store definition. (28044)
  • Interface: Replace store name string with exposed store definition. (28041)
  • Upgrade Reakit to version 1.3.4. (28013)
  • Fix PHPCS warning: Undefined variable $i. (27955)
  • Consolidate block editor initializations. (27954)
  • Fix create-block PHP template files according to WordPress standards. (27949)
  • block-directory: Simplify the LOAD_ASSETS flow by making it an async function. (25956)

Tools

  • Workflows (i.e. GitHub Actions):
    • Create Release Draft when tagging version. (27488)
    • Add action to upload release to SVN repo. (27591)
    • Compare Performance upon Release. (28046)
    • Build Plugin Workflow: Bump node version to 14. (28048)
  • End-to-end tests:
    • FSE: Fix intermittent errors in multi entity editing test. (28107)
    • Fix randomly failing end-to-end test. (28073)
    • Upgrade puppeteer to 5.5.0. (28055)
    • Performance tests: Fix. (28026)
  • Scripts:
    • Align default engines for check-engines with the package. (28143)
    • Add support for static assets in build commands. (28043)
    • Make it possible to transpile .jsx files with build command. (28002)
    • ESLint minor version upgrade to 7.17.0. (27965)
    • Upgrade Jest to the new major version (26.x). (27956)
    • Use @wordpress/stylelint-config in @wordpress/scripts. (27810)
  • Linting:
    • ESLint Plugin: Enable import rules used in Gutenberg. (27387)
    • Add no-unsafe-wp-apis to recommended configuration. (27327)
    • Remove /wordpress from test/linting ignore paths. (20270)
    • Update changelog for stylelint-config. (28074)
  • Testing: Prevent a direct usage of Reakit. (28095)
  • Update the minimum Node.js version to 12. (27934)
  • wp-env: Ensure the environment is used with the logs command. (27907)
  • Packages: Fully automate npm publishing with the latest and next tags (28335)
  • Upgrade webpack to version 5. (26382)
  • Revert "Upgrade webpack to version 5". (27974)

Various

  • Gutenpride Template:
    • New Package to use with the tutorial. (27881)
    • Create Block: Enhancements to Gutenpride tutorial template. (28215)
  • URL: Remove redundant array coercion. (28072)
  • Visual editor: Remove focusable wrapper. (28058)
  • Readme: Increase tested Version up to WP 5.6. (28050)
  • Interface: Remove deprecated prop from InterfaceSkeleton. (28034)
  • List View: Reduce whitespace and always show nested blocks. (28029)
  • Making the sidebar inspector's tabs stick when scrolling. (28003)
  • Chore: Update Lerna dependency. (27990)
  • Try: Make focus width a CSS variable. (27968)
  • Add translation context to all block's titles. (27933)
  • Add primary destructive button style. (27774)
  • Modifies the widgets dashboard link to point to the new widgets editor. (26880)
  • Use standard select element for small number of authors. (26426)
  • Add srcset for cover image. (25171)