17.6.0 RC1

Changelog

Features

Interactivity API

• Add wp-data-on-window and wp-data-on-document directives. (57931)
• Add wp-each directive. (57859)
• Add wp-run directive and useInit & useWatch hooks. (57805)
• Create @wordpress/interactivity-router module. (57924)

Typography

• Add defaultFontSizes option to theme.json. (56661)

Font Library

• Font Library: Add wp_get_font_dir() function. (57730)

Custom Fields

• Block Bindings: Disable editing of bound block attributes in editor UI. (58085)

Block Editor

• Add effects/box shadow tools to block inspector. (57654)

Enhancements

Components

• Add opt-in prop for 40px default size for BoxControl, BorderControl, and BorderBoxControl. (56185)
• BorderControl: Replace style picker with ToggleGroupControl. (57562)
• ColorPicker: Store internal HSLA state for better slider UX. (57555)
• Migrate PaletteEdit and CircularOptionPicker tests from user-event to ariakit/test. (57809)
• Replace TabPanel with Tabs in the Editor Preferences Modal. (57293)
• Theme: Set color on wrapper. (58095)
• Tooltip: No-op when nested inside another Tooltip component. (57202)
• BoxControl: Update design. (56665)
• Element: Start reexporting PureComponent. (58076)

Interactivity API

• Render the root interactive blocks. (57729)
• Interactivity Router: Replace data-wp-navigation-id with data-wp-router-region. (58191)
• Interactivity: Export withScope() and allow to use it with asynchronous operations. (58013)
• Prevent the use of components in wp-text. (57879)
• Remove wp-data-navigation-link directive. (57853)
• Server Directive Processing Refactor. (58066)
• Update preact, @preact/signals and deepsignal dependencies. (57891)

Block Editor

• Add copy link button to Link UI. (58170)
• Improve LinkControl preview. (57775)
• Keep Link UI open upon initial link creation when used in RichText. (57726)
• List View: Displace list view items when dragging (a bit more WYSIWYG). (56625)
• Show initial suggestions in rich text Link UI. (57743)
• Disable lock button if user cannot control lock state. (57274)
• Use ClipboardJS latest version and clean up focus loss workaround. (57156)
• Dimensions: Add Aspect Ratio block support. (56897)

Block Library

• Add more taxonomy options to the post navigation link. (48912)
• Add: Footnotes support for other CPT's. (57353)
• Better navigation link variations for post types / taxonomies. (56100)
• Remove "blocks" from copy and delete labels. (57769)
• Pullquote Block: Add padding and margin support. (45731)
• Video Block: Add raw transformation from video html. (47159)

Data Views

• DataViews: Enable grid layout for templates & parts by default. (58137)
• DataViews: Make dataviews powered page patterns stable. (58139)
• DataViews: Make the "Manage Pages" stable. (58166)
• Dataviews: Add Bulk actions to page. (57826)

Site Editor

• Group templates in sidebar list. (57711)
• Initial routing refactoring to separate preview from list view. (57938)
• Iterate on warning text for block removal for query/post template/post content. (58138)
• Site editor: Add global styles changes to save flow. (57470)
• Editor: Unify the Editor Mode preference. (57642)
• Live Preview: Show the current theme name on the theme activation modal. (57588)
• Unify the preferences modal UI between post and site editor. (57639)
• Remove right negative margin from pinned items. (57666)
• Update style revision top toolbar text. (58057)

Block API

• Block Bindings: Update source registration syntax and remove APIs that should be private. (58205)
• Block Hooks: Do not remove toggle if hooked block is present elsewhere. (57928)

Synced Patterns

• Add basic pattern overrides end-to-end tests. (57792)
• Use a patch format and support linkTarget of core/button for Pattern Overrides. (58165)

Patterns

• Add image block support for pattern overrides. (57909)
• Outline editable blocks that are within a content-locked container. (57901)

Post Editor

• Post Lock: Use the new modal size preset. (58197)
• Add description to the save panel header when nothing is checked. (57716)

Font Library

• Update the default collection data URL to the wordpress.org cdn. (58186)
• Font Library: Refactor stylesheet using CSS variables (58237)
• Font Library Modal: Reset the selected font when installing a new font. (57817)
• Font Library: Disable font library UI using a PHP filter. (57818)
• Font Library: Filter fonts upload directory. (57697)
• Font Library: Use data or src file to define font collection data. (57734)

Commands

• Minor command tweaks. (58148)

Extensibility

• Update Navigation block to render hooked inner blocks. (57754)
• Add gettext content when translating 'Header'. (51066)

New APIs

Block API

• Block Bindings API: Add block bindings PHP registration mechanisms and "Post meta" source under the experimental flag. (57249)
• Block Bindings API: Refactor logic into Block Bindings class and singleton pattern. (57742)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Avatar block: Fix broken aligments in the editor. (58114)
• Embed Block: Fix retry processing when embedding with trailing slash fails. (58007)
• Lightbox: Fix "Expand on click" control being disabled unintentionally. (56053)
• Modified Date Block: Don't render change date tool. (57914)
• Only prioritise Quote transform where relevant. (57749)
• Query Loop: Fix posts list variation detection. (58194)

Components

• Button: Always render the Tooltip component even when a tooltip should not be shown. (56490)
• CustomSelect: Adjust renderSelectedValue to fix sizing. (57865)
• ToggleGroupControl: Improve controlled value detection. (57770)
• Tooltip: Accept specific tooltip props. (58125)
• Tooltip: Forward and merge inner tooltip props correctly. (57878)
• Bring back the chevron. (57807)
• Preferences: Add a proxy to retrieve the deprecated preferences with a deprecation message. (58016)

Data Views

• DataViews: Default sort order in templates by title. (58175)
• DataViews: Don't always display horizontal scrollbar. (58101)
• DataViews: Fix author sorting in templates and template parts. (58167)
• Remove unused argument from sprintf in pagination.js. (57823)

Patterns

• Add black border back when editing synced pattern in the post editor. (57631)
• Outline editable blocks when in a pattern that has locked children. (57991)
• Remove text align control for paragraph, heading, and button in contentOnly editing mode. (57906)
• Pattern Categories: Fix capitalization. (58112)
• Fix flaky "create a new pattern" test. (57747)

List View

• Image Block: Make block name affect list view. (57955)
• More Block: Make block name affect list view. (58160)

Block API

• Block Hooks: Fix toggle. (57956)
• Fix formats not working in block bindings content. (58055)

Global Styles

• Correctly decode border color values. (57876)
• Fix: Theme.json application of custom root selector for styles. (58050)

Data Layer

• Data: Allow binding registry selector to multiple registries. (57943)
• Data: Fix memoized createRegistrySelector. (57888)

Typography

• #56734 When there is no font, the border should not appear. Display further guidance text. (56825)
• Fluid typography: Do not calculate fluid font size when min and max viewport widths are equal. (57866)

Block Editor

• Fix regression: Content locking does not stops when an outside block is selected. (57737)
• LinkControl: Remove unnecessary right padding of input fields. (57784)

Custom Fields

• Block Bindings: Fix button popover not showing in patterns. (58219)

Font Library

• Fix typo. (58193)
• Removed and elements from Font Library Modal (58221)

Synced Patterns

• Fix losing overrides after detaching patterns. (58164)

Interactivity API

• Prevent wp-data-on="" from creating onDefault handlers. (57925)
• Prevent usage of gutenberg_url in block-library (58242)
• Interactivity API: Fix data-wp-on-document flaky test. (58008)
• Interactivity API: Fix flaky test on-window. (58134)
• Fix flaky test on-window, remove duplicate expect on-document. (58181)

CSS & Styling

• Styles revisions: Remove body padding. (57748)

Templates API

• Fix visual indication of switch to default template in the post editor. (57718)

Site Editor

• (editor)(fix) Append the edit-post-header-toolbar class in NavigableToolbar for backward compatibility with plugin GUI injections. (58154)
• Fix site editor layout regressions. (58077)

Accessibility

Site Editor

• Fix font variants count color contrast ratio and l10n. (58117)
• Make the site hub View Site link always visible. (57423)

Block Editor

• Fix parent selector button focus style and metrics. (57728)
• Restore visual separator between mover buttons when show button label is on. (57640)

Widgets Editor

• Fix Widgets page Undo and Redo accessibility and keyboard interaction. (57677)

Performance

• Add patterns load test. (57828)
• Block editor: Avoid list re-rendering on select. (57188)
• Block editor: Don't register shortcuts for preview editors. (57984)
• Block editor: Fix performance regression after #57950. (57971)
• Block editor: Use context for useBlockEditingMode. (57950)
• BlockSwitcher: Defer transform calculations until the Dropdown is open. (57892)
• Call variation through callback so it's only loaded when needed - in support of trac 59969. (56952)
• Editor styles: Cache transform. (57810)
• Footnotes: Combine format store subscription. (58129)
• Iframe: Calc compat styles once per page load. (57798)
• Measure typing with the top toolbar enabled. (57709)
• Meta boxes: Don't initialise if there are none. (57182)
• Patterns: Avoid fetching on load. (57999)
• Site editor: Avoid fetching themes on load. (57985)
• Site editor: Reduce artificial loading delay from 1s to 100ms. (57953)
• Site editor: Remove store subscription per block. (57995)
• Template Part & Query: Avoid server requests on mount. (57987)
• Template part block: Avoid parsing ALL patterns on mount. (57856)

Block Editor

• Revert "Block editor: Avoid list re-rendering on select". (58147)

Post Editor

• Editor: Use hooks instead of HoCs for EditorNotices. (57772)

Experiments

Data Views

• Add: Bulk actions to dataviews with the new design. (57255)
• Data view list layout: Fix thumbnail dimensions. (57774)
• Data views table layout: Update cell vertical alignment. (57804)
• DataViews: Add description to pages. (57793)
• DataViews: Add front page to pages page sidebar. (57759)
• DataViews: Better management of layout param in templates. (58116)
• DataViews: Make list layout the default for templates with the experiment enabled. (57933)
• DataViews: Revert list view as default for pages. (58081)
• DataViews: Revert list view as default for templates. (58079)
• DataViews: Set primary field styles. (57846)
• DataViews: Show loading / no result message for the list layout. (57764)
• DataViews: Update template parts view. (57952)
• DataViews: Use button for patterns, pages and templates preview field. (58071)
• DataViews: Use table layout for templates when experiment disabled. (57960)
• Stabilise view options button icon. (57964)
• Update Grid layout design. (57880)
• Update Pages preview field display. (57919)
• Update Templates table layout. (57930)
• Update: Show template sources on templates Dataviews sidebar. (58124)

Synced Patterns

• Add a control to reset pattern overrides. (57845)
• Allow heading and button in Pattern Overrides. (57789)

Typography

• Download then upload font face assets when installing from a collection. (57694)
• Use slug instead of id for Font Collection. (57735)

REST API

• Font Library Refactor. (57688)

Block Editor

• Allow drag and drop to create Rows and Galleries. (56186)

Documentation

• Add a video demonstration to the Quick Start Guide. (57834)
• Button: Improve disabled-related prop descriptions. (57864)
• Components: Move CHANGELOG entries under the correct release. (57885)
• Docs: Fix typo in "The block wrapper" document. (58106)
• Docs: Use 'key' in 'editor.BlockEdit' filter code examples. (58119)
• Document files/directories requiring backmerging to WP Core for major release. (58064)
• Fix the iframe markup of the embed video in the Quick Start Guide. (57857)
• Fix: Link to the nodejs release page. (57816)
• Fix: Typo on BlockListBlock comments. (57814)
• Fix: Typos on __unstableSetTemporarilyEditingAsBlocks documentation. (57768)
• Font Library: Add font collection JSON schema. (57736)
• Prefixes all php filters with wpdocs_. (53914)
• Remove the unnecessary TOC and fix grammar/formatting in the Patterns doc. (57825)
• Remove the 👋 emoji from the Block Editor Handbook. (58023)
• Update versions-in-wordpress.md. (57916)
• [Type] Developer Documentation - Fix removeAllNotices dispatch on the removeAllNotices doc section of @wordpress/notices. (57436)

Code Quality

Components

• PaletteEdit: Improve unit tests. (57645)
• Tooltip and Button: Tidy up unit tests. (57975)
• Tooltip: Add test for classname leakage. (58182)
• Remove unneeded margin: 0 override for Notice component consumer. (57794)
• Shadows: Prevent empty style object when removing shadow. (58155)

Block Editor

• Soft deprecate custom 'pure' HoC in favor of 'React.memo'. (57173)
• Stabilise RecursionProvider and useHasRecursion APIs. (58120)
• Tidy up block patterns selectors. (57913)

Block Library

• Gallery Block: Remove duplicate return statement. (57746)
• Navigation: Move the renderer class to the main navigation file. (57979)
• Fix comments block. (57820)
• Rename __experimentalGetGlobalBlocksByName to getBlocksByName. (58156)

Font Library

• Remove WP_Font_Family class that is no longer used. (58184)
• Font Library: Remove 'version' property from font collection schema. (58025)
• [Fonts API] removing files and files loading no longer needed. (57972)

Block Directory

• DownloadableBlocksPanel: Remove withSelect in favor of useSelect. (58109)

Patterns

• Stabilize the pattern overrides block context. (58102)
• Remove pattern override experiment completely. (58105)
• Update pattern overrides to use a hard coded support array. (57912)

Block API

• Block Bindings: Remove the experimental flag. (58089)
• Block Renaming - move backported WP 6.5 code to 6.5 compat dir. (58126)

Post Editor

• Editor: Use hooks instead of HoCs in 'PostScheduleCheck'. (57833)

Script Modules API

• Update the code and move it to the compat/wordpress-6.5 folder. (57778)

Data Views

• Remove obsolete check from dataviews modal actions title. (57753)

Interactivity API

• Remove data-wp-slot and data-wp-fill. (57854)
• Remove unused state and rename props to attributes in getElement(). (57974)

HTML API

• Backport updates from Core. (57022)

Tools

Testing

• Add setGutenbergExperiments to requestUtils. (56663)
• Add: End to end test to content locking stop editing as blocks behavior. (57812)
• Attempt to fix php unit tests (variations api change). (58090)
• Migrate 'block grouping' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (57684)
• Migrate 'embedding' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (57969)
• Migrate 'typewriter' end-to-end tests to Playwright. (57673)
• Remove unused Navigation block end-to-end test fixtures. (57848)

Build Tooling

• Update caniuse-lite package. (58087)
• Update the cherry pick script to work with the new version of gh. (57917)
• Scripts: Remove unused variable in bin/list-experimental-api-matches.sh. (57771)
• (chore) Revert bump to the v17.5.1 (draft) due to bug in the release found by manual testing. (58027)
• Fix misplaced ReactRefreshWebpackPlugin. (57777)
• Automate creation of Issue for major release PHP synchronisation. (57890)
• Remove check-latest-npm validation. (57797)
• core-js: Only polyfill stable features. (57674)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @kt-12: Call variation through callback so it's only loaded when needed - in support of trac 59969. (56952)
• @leomuniz: [Type] Developer Documentation - Fix removeAllNotices dispatch on the removeAllNotices doc section of @wordpress/notices. (57436)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @ajlende @andrewserong @annezazu @artemiomorales @arthur791004 @atachibana @bacoords @bph @brookewp @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @chad1008 @ciampo @creativecoder @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @derekblank @dmsnell @draganescu @ecgan @ellatrix @fluiddot @fullofcaffeine @gaambo @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @gonzomir @inc2734 @jameskoster @jeryj @jffng @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @kevin940726 @kt-12 @leomuniz @luisherranz @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mcsf @michalczaplinski @mikachan @mirka @ndiego @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @oguzkocer @pbking @ramonjd @richtabor @SantosGuillamot @scruffian @SiobhyB @sirreal @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tjcafferkey @tyxla @vcanales @youknowriad