1.6.0 RC1

1.6.0 (2021-04-13)

🚀 Features

• Other
  • #7188 Enable video optimization feature by default (@swissspidy)
  • #7109 Make canvas zoom permanent (@barklund)
  • #7148 Layer Panel: Add sticker layer styles (@samwhale)
  • #6961 Enable Pan & Zoom animation feature (@embarks)
  • #6849 Bugfix: Link URLs default to https instead of http (@samwhale)
  • #7155 Custom Page Templates: Set up Custom Post Type (@spacedmonkey)
  • #7161 Add feature flag for custom Page Templates (@miina)
  • #6935 Redesign: post-design theme cleanup (@miina)
  • #6957 Editor: Update rogue Roboto to the Google Sans (@littlemilkstudio)
  • #6977 Workspace: Update Pill Group and Collapse Button in Text Sets Panel, media 3p Panel, and Page Layouts Panel (@samwhale)
  • #6960 Page Layouts: Toggle layout assets (@samwhale)
  • #6857 Replace amp-story-bookend with amp-story-social-share (@spacedmonkey)
  • #6942 Canvas: Update zoom dropdown to align with help center (@samwhale)
  • #6980 Fix scroll reset on zoom setting change (@barklund)
  • #6978 Animations: Pan + Zoom Updates (@littlemilkstudio)
  • #6944 Moved keyboard shortcuts to left side (@barklund)
  • #6896 Fix Color Picker positioning (@miina)
  • #6753 Editor Redesign: Dialogs (@BrittanyIRL)
  • #6848 Editor Redesign: Prepublish Panel (@BrittanyIRL)
  • #6779 Workspace: Inherit box-sizing from design system global styles (@samwhale)
  • #6888 Redesign: Animation Dropdown (@BrittanyIRL)
  • #6759 Library: Update text preset buttons (@samwhale)
  • #6816 Set up infrastructure to trigger help center tips (@embarks)
  • #6908 Redesign: Filter button form component (@miina)
  • #6112 Add canvas zoom (@barklund)
  • #6891 Redesign: Page header button updates (@miina)
  • #6880 Redesign: Video element Play/Stop buttons (@miina)
  • #6895 Add links to plugin row meta (@spacedmonkey)
  • #6704 Redesign: Video accessibility panel (@miina)
  • #6824 Document Panel: Update Page Advancement Panel (@samwhale)
  • #6769 Redesign: Shape library buttons (@miina)
  • #6877 Redesign: transparent background helper (@miina)
  • #6696 Redesign: Snackbar (@embarks)
  • #6794 Document Panel: Update permalink panel (@samwhale)
  • #6786 Elements Panel: Update 'Text Set' buttons (@samwhale)
  • #6730 Document Panel: Status Panel Redesign (@samwhale)
  • #6831 Design System: Update checkmark on toggle (@samwhale)
  • #6777 Stickers: Respect Aspect Ratio on Input Size Update (@littlemilkstudio)
  • #6784 Redesign: Excerpt panel (@miina)
  • #6774 Redesign: Publishing panel (@miina)
  • #6817 Fix panel title colours and focus (@miina)
  • #6780 Design System: Quaternary button (@BrittanyIRL)
  • #6754 Dashboard: Add loading spinner to dashboard views (@samwhale)
  • #6749 Design panel: Video Captions Panel Redesign (@samwhale)
  • #6675 Redesign: TextArea component (@miina)
• activation-notice, i18n, jest-amp, tinymce-button
  • #5793 Update React to v17 (@swissspidy)
• e2e-tests
  • #6497 Editor: Implement MVP for Post Locking (Story Locking) (@spacedmonkey)
• tracking
  • #6738 Generate video posters in parallel to transcoding and uploading (@swissspidy)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• templates
  • #7086 Video Optimization: Add missing crossorigin attributes (@spacedmonkey)
• Other
  • #7147 Aborted transform handler if no target (@barklund)
  • #7129 Bugfix: Animation direction tooltips showing for enabled direction (@BrittanyIRL)
  • #7187 Skip post from AMP if plugin is older than bundled version (@swissspidy)
  • #7186 AMP Toolbox: ensure top-level resources folder is included (@swissspidy)
  • #6849 Bugfix: Link URLs default to https instead of http (@samwhale)
  • #7152 Classic Editor: Prevent TinyMCE button from being loaded on frontend (@spacedmonkey)
  • #7153 Plugin: Prevent removing read capabilities on plugin deactivation (@spacedmonkey)
  • #7028 Library dragging: fix an issue where clone disrupts other functionality (@miina)
  • #7106 Bugfix: Fix failing text preset karma test (@samwhale)
  • #6991 Fixed lasso selection (@barklund)
  • #6980 Fix scroll reset on zoom setting change (@barklund)
  • #6903 Always display the design space guideline when an element is being transformed (@miina)
  • #6994 Try: Fix flaky link tooltip test (@miina)
  • #6993 Fix some of the skipped tests + Use visible page as the fullbleed container (@miina)
  • #6778 Media: Check cross-origin isolation requirement for video optimization (@spacedmonkey)
  • #6875 Add Cross-Origin-Opener header to editor screen (@spacedmonkey)
  • #6887 Workspace: Fix tooltip positioning in RTL (@samwhale)
  • #6859 Design Panel: Bugfix - reset stored height of saved colors panel (@samwhale)
  • #6947 Fix Karma tests related to dropdown (@BrittanyIRL)
  • #6918 Replace tildes in filenames with dashes (@spacedmonkey)
  • #6890 Fix using arrow keys for all numeric inputs in the design panel (@miina)
  • #6855 Test fix: Re-enable poster image test for keyboard (@miina)
  • #6898 Heading Levels causing e2e test failures (@BrittanyIRL)
  • #6727 Dashboard: Fix conflicting min-width (@BrittanyIRL)
  • #6861 FTUE: Find missing 'done' svg (@samwhale)
  • #6772 Media: Ensure user feedback when inserting unsupported file types via WordPress media modal (@spacedmonkey)
  • #6847 Fix loading when rearranging stories (@swissspidy)
• e2e-tests
  • #7069 Fix animation options karma test (@embarks)
  • #6983 Widget: Skip flakey customizer e2e test (@spacedmonkey)
• i18n
  • #6916 Internationalization: Fix JavaScript string extraction (@spacedmonkey)

🧰 Maintenance

• Other
  • #7088 Improve PHPStorm and PHPStan intergrations (@spacedmonkey)
  • #7155 Custom Page Templates: Set up Custom Post Type (@spacedmonkey)
  • #6875 Add Cross-Origin-Opener header to editor screen (@spacedmonkey)
  • #6900 Karma Tests: reduce error output on CI (@spacedmonkey)
  • #6934 Infrastructure: further unify webpack config (@spacedmonkey)
  • #6918 Replace tildes in filenames with dashes (@spacedmonkey)
  • #6855 Test fix: Re-enable poster image test for keyboard (@miina)
  • #6892 Plugin Release: minor workflow tweaks (@swissspidy)
  • #6830 JavaScript Tests: Use useEffect instead of useLayoutEffect (@spacedmonkey)
• e2e-tests
  • #6983 Widget: Skip flakey customizer e2e test (@spacedmonkey)
  • #6820 E2E Tests: Suppress 404s in Embed Block test (@spacedmonkey)
• i18n
  • #6916 Internationalization: Fix JavaScript string extraction (@spacedmonkey)
• e2e-test-utils
  • #6785 E2E Tests: stabilize Percy snapshot by avoiding random file names (@spacedmonkey)

📝 Documentation

• #7195 Update changelog for 1.6.0 release (@swissspidy)
• #6945 Docs: Add developer documentation for the Web Stories embeds (@divyarajmasani)

Committers: 9

• Brittany Feenstra (@BrittanyIRL)
• Divyaraj Masani (@divyarajmasani)
• Emily Bartman (@embarks)
• Jonny Harris (@spacedmonkey)
• Max Yinger (@littlemilkstudio)
• Miina (@miina)
• Morten Barklund (@barklund)
• Pascal Birchler (@swissspidy)
• Samuel Estrella (@samwhale)