1.21.0 RC1

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• Shopping: Provider Dropdown by @timarney in #11331
• Editor: Add fundamentals for layer locking feature by @barklund in #11369
• Shopping: Products JSON Schema Validation by @timarney in #11250
• Font Check: Automatically update font metrics by @timarney in #11205
• Shopping: Support custom CTA text by @spacedmonkey in #11345
• Media: Add support for hotlinking audio files by @spacedmonkey in #11221
• REST API: Prime user meta in controller by @spacedmonkey in #11324
• Editor: Contributor Flow Submit Feedback by @sblinde in #11378
• Output: Add flag to allow blob URLs, expose media app by @ayushnirwal in #11398
• Added disabled prop to inputs used in the animation panel by @mwritter in #11416
• Shopping: Floating Menu by @timarney in #11359
• Feature/11320 checklist first page animations by @mwritter in #11448
• Editor: Generalized layer name by @barklund in #11485
• Shopping: Product Query by @spacedmonkey in #11340
• Tracking: Add hardening for user role retrieval by @timarney in #11478
• Canvas: Add keyboard shortcut for adding links by @mwritter in #11481
• Checklist: Allow removing First Page Animations by @mwritter in #11476
• Media: Enable audio hotlinking by default by @swissspidy in #11453
• Media Recording: add device selection by @swissspidy in #11384
• Added remaining layer lock handling by @barklund in #11429
• Shopping: Products Sidebar Tab by @timarney in #11392
• Shopping: Fix Shopify product queries, add tests by @swissspidy in #11519
• Shopify: request specific image resolution by @swissspidy in #11531
• Shopping: Improve WooCommerce Product Images Query by @timarney in #11509
• Hotlinking: Do not use CORS proxy for captions and background audio by @swissspidy in #11525
• Media: Redesign UI for audio & caption hotlinking by @swissspidy in #11468
• Enable layer locking by @merapi in #11556

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Dashboard: Set total pages to 1 if falsy/zero by @mwritter in #11367
• Design System: Popup clean up by @BrookeGraham in #11325
• Media: Fix CORS proxy regression on canvas by @swissspidy in #11396
• Added the pageTemplate to the libraryLayout by @mwritter in #11399
• Fix embed alignment when using AMP by @swissspidy in #11433
• Updated parseInput validation to take both min and max into account by @mwritter in #11391
• Quick Actions: Reset Element Broken w/ Border Width & Radius by @sblinde in #11404
• Bugfix/11311 focus border first item by @mwritter in #11467
• Avoid setting numeric story slugs by @swissspidy in #11490
• Add missing product fields to REST API response by @swissspidy in #11503
• Editor: Tooltip & PopUp Menu Positioning Fix by @sblinde in #11449
• Media: Catch errors when trying to update BlurHash and base color by @swissspidy in #11514
• Hotlinking: Fix audio length retrieval in Safari by @swissspidy in #11512
• Editor: Embed not working for scheduled story by @timarney in #11480
• Catch DOMException when parsing external documents by @swissspidy in #11513
• Changed keybinding for play stop animations to mod+enter by @mwritter in #11515
• New Story details modal doesn't show the checklist icon in Safari by @sblinde in #11518
• Fix bug in semantic headlines by @barklund in #11560

🧰 Maintenance

• Update list of WP constants in PHP-Scoper config by @swissspidy in #11374
• E2E Tests: split into 4 shards by @swissspidy in #11408
• ESLint: Enforce promises from async testing library utils in Karma tests by @swissspidy in #11430
• Publish: do not set visibility in story state by @swissspidy in #11431
• CORS Check: Remove feature flag code by @spacedmonkey in #11440
• Remove unneeded const in useFullbleedMediaAsBackground by @swissspidy in #11437
• E2E Tests: Run against WordPress 6.0 RC by @spacedmonkey in #11435
• E2E Tests: Update to RC3 by @spacedmonkey in #11516
• Media: Refactor hotlinking dialog to be more reusable by @spacedmonkey in #11510
• Update to Jest 28 by @swissspidy in #11387

📝 Documentation

• Documentation: Add more docs on Animations by @littlemilkstudio in #11438
• Design Panel: Document update logic by @littlemilkstudio in #11389
• Add readme for v1.21.0 by @swissspidy in #11559

Other Changes

• Embeds: Ensure that post thumbnails are primed by @spacedmonkey in #11385
• Update WordPress npm packages by @swissspidy in #11434
• Documentation: Performance by @littlemilkstudio in #11441
• Upgrade to RC2 by @spacedmonkey in #11473
• Blocks: Fix validation error for prefilled block by @spacedmonkey in #11443

New Contributors

• @sblinde made their first contribution in #11378

Full Changelog: v1.20.0...v1.21.0-rc.1