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@oandregal oandregal released this 15 Apr 16:25
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Features

  • Add gradients support to Group, Columns and Media & Text blocks. 21375
  • Add line height support to the Paragraph block. 20775
  • Add font size support to the Heading block. 21431
  • Add line height support to the Heading block. 21215
  • Add custom height unit support to the Cover block. 20888

Enhancements

  • New Patterns:
  • Add a new keyboard shortcut to toggle Fullscreen Mode. 21436
  • Insert post title instead of URL, when adding a link to an existing post 21240
  • Social links block:
    • Update tumblr icon 21329
    • Update and massage social links colors. 21474
  • Allow reusable block top and bottom paddings to collapse. 21472
  • Update all block previews to use the auto-height behavior. 21014
  • Disable autocomplete for custom class name inputs. 21110
  • Several small tweaks to the new Block UI. 21476
  • Unify the focus styles across the UI. 21141
  • Improve block focus style. 21498
  • Remove the post permalink UI from the post title. 21099
  • Style the default toolbar buttons. 21252
  • Style tweaks to the patterns library sidebar. 21263
  • Smaller space between toolbar and block. 21166

Performance

  • Add block selection performance test. 21230
  • Improve the performance of the block moving animation. 21231
  • Render the patterns list asynchronously. 21322

Bug Fixes

  • Improve WordPress logo rendering for non-retina displays. 21217
  • Fix inserter popover direction. 21556
  • Fix Snackbar notice bottom margin. 18858
  • Fix YouTube Embed block from flickering and crashing on Safari. 21225
  • Fix sibling inserter being unclickable. 21232
  • Fix block duplication using keyboard shortcut 21317
  • Avoid creating an empty paragraph when selecting the parent's group block 21318
  • Fix the Buttons block margins. 21376
  • Prevent typing on a Popover from closing the block toolbar 21421
  • Prevent copy/paste on number inputs from copying the post content. 21457
  • Prevent scroll jumps when focusing long blocks. 21460
  • Fix Separator block RTL styles. 21525
  • Make dateI18n returns be affected by gmt parameter. 18982
  • Fixes the read more link added by themes in the Latest Posts block. 20541
  • Fix the Latest Posts block when imageDimensions is empty 21070
  • Fix transparent images used as Cover block backgrounds. 20904
  • IE11: fix focus on backspace. 21092
  • Fix IE11 breakage when hitting Enter. 21361 21366
  • Fix block movers on full-wide blocks. 21097
  • Fix Annotations classNames. 21184
  • RangeControl: Fix zero value handling with number input. 21187
  • Fix reusable block horizontal padding regression. 21312
  • Fix fullwide margins regression. 21201
  • Prevent the Cover block from overriding the children blocks colors 21254
  • Fix overly verbose aria-label in Social Link block 21369
  • Fix container block appenders and sibling inserters. 21149 21142 21143

New APIs

  • @wordpress/i18n: Add create-i18n function. 21182
  • @wordpress/interface:
    • Add screen sidebar extensibility APIs. 20698 21260
    • Prepare for npm release. 21417
    • Add Fullscreen mode component. 21334
    • Add InterfaceSkeleton component. 21335
  • @wordpress/icons: Add new icons: tablet, mobile, desktop, font, share... 21261 21278
  • Support changing the Group block's DOM element. 20218
  • Block API: Add new utility to register block types from metadata in PHP 20794
  • Add radio option to the ButtonGroup component. 20805

Experiments

  • Full site editing and Site Editor screen:
    • Use the default post comments template for the Post Comments block. 21012
    • Use slug as template part display label.21161
    • Remove duplicate queries fetching template parts 18878
    • Preload the edited template to avoid the white page effect. 21214
    • Move the menu item to the top level. 21273
    • Add block breadcrumb; 21274
    • Prevent template switcher jumpiness. 21280
    • Increase the viewport width used for template previews. 21287
    • Add top level inserter. 21328
    • Apply the editor styles. 20982
    • Update the multi-entity saving flow UI. 21159
    • Small updates to template selector. 21202
  • New navigation screen:
    • Bootstrap the screen. 21036
    • Implement the initial styling. 21314
    • Add save shortcut. 21342
    • Fix editor shortcuts. 21338
    • Basic responsive styles. 21414
  • Navigation block:
    • Make the submenus usable on mobile. 21471
    • Fix block for contributor users 18669
    • Fix submenus being overlapped by wrapping top-level nav links. 21140
    • Add vertical variation. 21296
    • Show color controls in toolbar only. 20884
    • Add capture toolbars prop to inner blocks. 21095
  • Block API Support flags:
    • Introduce a support key for support global style colors in blocks. 21021 21428
    • Add the possibility to support gradients using the experimental color support flag; 21481
    • Add a block support flag for font size. 21153
  • Remove experimentalUIParts API. 20979
  • Add experimental Text component. 21088

Documentation

  • Docs: Describe tools used in E2E testing. 21295
  • WP-env: Add reference to docker log command to show error logs in terminal. 21308
  • Docs: Add section in block RFC about register_block_type_from_metadata. 21501
  • Update serverSideRender docs to include how to use from the wp global. 18722
  • Prescribe latest NPM for development environment. 21017
  • Update Documentation on how to update post meta values from a block. 21155
  • Document getAnchorRect prop for Popover component. 17709
  • Typos and tweaks: 21228, 21364, 21405, 20660, 21297.

Code Quality

  • Add types to WordPress packages:
    • @wordpress/element 21248
    • @wordpress/primitives 21482
    • @wordpress/icons 21487
    • @wordpress/autop, @wordpress/escape-html and @wordpress/html-entities 20669
    • @wordpress/i18n 21224
    • @wordpress/prettier-config 21381 21053
    • @wordpress/block-editor DOM utils. 21362
  • Update the Buttons block to use the new color support flag. 21266
  • Update the Paragraph block to use the colors support flag. 21037
  • Update the Columns block to use the colors support flag. 21038
  • Update the Heading block to use the colors support flag. 21039
  • Update the Media & Text block to use the colors support flag. 21169
  • Refactor env commands into separate files .21353
  • Remove the deprecated request dependency. 21398
  • Move default styles to editor normalisation stylesheet. 19837
  • Replace lodash.assign with vanilla JS. 21054
  • Remove the old block preview implementation. 21096
  • Make RichText window/document agnostic. 21105
  • Polish a11y package. 21148
  • Fix two typos in lib rest menu controller. 21418
  • Global tips: Add period at the end of sentence. 20601
  • Lighter block DOM:
  • Update the padding values on the Card component to align with proposed spacing system. 21111
  • Disable scroll in PlainText component. 21115
  • Simplify inserter hasItems check. 21138
  • Avoid string concatenation for the Latest Post block read more link. 21170

Various

  • Plugin: Bump tested up to info to WP 5.4 21400
  • Output package type declarations. 18942
  • Exclude native files from type checking. 21491
  • docgen: Optimize README update script. 18840
  • Check Latest NPM on npm install. 21521
  • E2E Tests:
    • Improve stability of image block test 21174
    • Improve Allowed Inner Blocks test stability 21175
    • Use waitForSelector to wait for sidebar presence 21180
  • Unit Tests:
    • Fix @wordpress/env testPortNumberValidation unit test. 21394
    • Introduce react-testing-library to some existing unit tests. 20428
    • Components: Add SlotFill test. 21226
    • Fail E2E when page displays warning notices 13452
  • Project Management: Prompt user to link GitHub account to WordPress.org profile 21221 21384
  • @wordpress/env: Bind "core" files to tests environment 21195
  • ESLint Plugin: Continue considering unused variables after encountering exception 21354
  • Enable prettier for JSX files 21151
  • Increase severity of JSDoc linting to error. 20427
  • Add I18N specific ESLint rules. 20555 20574
  • Update uuid to v7.0.2. 21258
  • Upgrade Reakit to version 1.0.0-rc.0; 21300
  • Framework: Add package-lock precommit check for latest NPM. 21306
  • Babel Preset: Update Babel version to 7.9.x. 21419
  • ESLint Plugin: Update ESLint and related dependencies to 6.8.x. 21424
  • Framework: Configure ESLint JSDoc plugin to target TypeScript mode. 18998
  • Major version upgrade for Jest in all packages. 20766
  • Storybook:
    • Add TreeSelect component. 20496
    • Update AnglePickerControl title. 21089
  • Automated Testing: composer non-interactive flag for Travis. 21118
  • REST API error message: Remove unnecessary space. 21178
  • SlotFill: Guard property access to possibly-undefined slot. 21205
  • Build: Add TypeScript version validation 21208
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