23.7.0 RC1

Changelog

Enhancements

• Base styles: Allow overriding focus ring color in outset-ring__focus. (80587)
• Widget Dashboard: Measure the header fit and document the chrome. (80423)
• Widget Primitives: Ship as a script module. (80149)

Components

• Combobox, Select, SelectControl: Add Group and GroupLabel. (80574)
• DataViews/Font Library: Give search fields a fixed width to stop layout shift. (80315)
• DataViewsPicker: Add Shift+Click range selection to the picker-table, picker-grid, and picker-activity layouts. (80413)
• Enhance sandbox component to accept sandbox prop. (69617)
• Input: Hide native spin controls for type="number". (80646)
• SearchControl: Render the suffix only if there's one. (80356)
• UI: Add Autocomplete.Row primitive. (80490)

Block Library

• Add Table of Contents end-to-end user story coverage. (80199)
• Math: Use ValidatedTextareaControl for LaTeX input. (80500)

Post Editor

• Add a responsiveEditingEnabled editor setting to hide the Responsive styles option. (80814)

Font Library

• Fix navigation page select font size to match DataViews. (80617)

Collaboration

• RTC: Disable Quick Edit while a post is being edited. (80016)

Global Styles

• Extract shared preset management from shadows and font sizes. (79810)

Block Editor

• Reflect inherited Global Styles values in block inspector controls. (77894)

Bug Fixes

• Block Editor: Fix floated blocks overlapping sticky blocks. (80749)
• Update view configuration API versioning. (80319)
• View config: Reject shape-mismatched merges, define empty-array semantics, strip nulls from appended members. (80571)
• createInterpolateElement: Handle unmatched closing tags gracefully. (80618)

Block Library

• Account for non-lowercase VIDEO tag in render_block_core_video(). (80537)
• Cover/Accordion: Exit on Enter. (77301)
• Dynamic Gallery: Rename toolbar button to Detach and add a modal explaining what will happen. (80727)
• Fix: Pullquote custom line height in the editor. (80586)
• Gallery: Make dynamic mode conversion a single undo level. (80665)
• List Block: Preserve ordered type on indent. (75353)
• Media Editor: Show a loading state while the cropped file loads. (80460)
• Media: Remove the redundant __heicUploadSupport flag. (80452)
• Navigation: Fix missing 'Add block' option in Link UI when inside template parts. (78427)
• Playlist: Shorten track toolbar button label. (80759)
• Query Loop: Add translation context to the 'Offset' setting label. (80582)
• Social Link: Fix stray closing tag in Tumblr icon markup. (80257)

Block Editor

• Background image control: Remove duplicated focus ring. (80671)
• Block Tools: Fix empty block appender position inside blocks that capture toolbars. (80592)
• Fix cursor position during forward delete of empty blocks. (77525)
• Fix preset round-trip test imports after preset utils consolidation. (80589)
• Global Styles panels: Fix wrong preset committed and shown when two color presets share a hex. (80497)
• Global Styles: Resolve link element styles in block inspector controls for blocks that are links. (80607)
• RTC: Prevent controlled block synchronization from intercepting undo. (80503)
• Rich text: Remove tabIndex from editable elements again to fix shift+click selection. (80651)
• Writing flow: Extend block selections with shift+arrow when there is no native selection. (80687)
• Writing flow: Mark shift+click as a multi-selection gesture. (80286)
• Writing flow: Stop the page scrolling on caret moves within blocks taller than the viewport. (80708)

Post Editor

• Editor: Leave undo to the browser in fields that handle their own undo. (80768)
• Editor: Restore fixed device preview height for mobile and tablet. (80271)
• Meta boxes: Match heading styles with Gutenberg panels. (80670)
• Notes: Capture the target block before saving a block-level note. (80690)
• Notes: Register the inline note format at import time. (80576)
• Notes: Report save success consistently from note actions. (80748)
• Notes: Sync the sidebar selection to the inline marker under the caret. (80610)
• Post Lock: Fix modal flipping to "Someone else has taken over" for a locked-out viewer. (79997)
• Wrap notices in ThemeProvider with 0 corner radius. (79523)
• iOS: Remove jumping hack, add typewriter. (74596)

Components

• DataForm: Stop card and details validation from hijacking focus. (80685)
• Fix Root .prettierrc.js override issue. (80422)
• GradientPicker: Select by slug so two presets sharing a gradient keep their identity. (80554)
• Storybook: Fix Emotion jsxImportSource. (80426)
• ToolsPanel: Migrate styles to an SCSS Module. (80445)

Client Side Media

• Fix upload hang when converting long animated GIFs: Decode only the first frame for still outputs. (80260)
• Media: Stop forcing crossorigin on IMG tags in media templates. (80532)
• wp-build: Sync the page template preload field list with core-data. (80648)

Collaboration

• Notes: Detach core's mention kses filter in the baseline strip test. (80656)
• RTC: Compact during serialization. (80707)

Media

• Media REST API: Backport sideload from URL path upload size check. (80659)

Global Styles

• Theme JSON: Level block-level preset class specificity with :Where(). (80657)

Data Layer

• RTC: Preserve collaborators' unsaved edits when another user saves. (79936)

Accessibility

Block Library

• Improve the various Alignment controls props handling. (63696)
• Navigation: Fixes aria-expanded not updating on hover submenu inside overlay. (77563)

Performance

Block Editor

• Rich text: Read the contentEditable attribute in ownsSelection to avoid forced layout. (80549)
• Try to fix typing performance regression. (80507)

Post Editor

• Editor: Avoid unnecessary term re-fetches in FlatTermSelector. (80623)

Data Layer

• Core Data: Move EntitiesSavedState component out of editor (rebase of #71948). (80485)

Experiments

Dashboard

• Dashboard Widgets: Harden action href sanitization. (80510)
• Dashboard Widgets: Sanitize help link hrefs. (80409)

Block Editor

• Global Styles: Put the inheritance UI behind a Gutenberg experiment. (80815)

Documentation

• Add nvm use instructions to AGENTS.md. (80755)
• Add progressive-discovery pattern for agent instructions and skills. (80650)
• Added Missing Global Documentation in table-of-contents/index.php. (80442)
• Docs: Add missing file-level and class-level docblocks to WP_Icon_Collections_Registry. (80172)
• Docs: Clarify agent guidance discovery. (80753)
• Docs: Clarify getBlock behavior with inner block controllers. (80773)
• Docs: Expand the back-porting to WP Core guide. (80593)
• Docs: Require view configuration filter callbacks to return the container. (80642)
• Docs: Update iframe guidance for Gutenberg 23.6. (80629)
• Theme: Update Storybook admin color scheme examples. (80569)
• UI: Add dialog vs drawer design guidance. (80783)
• Update documentation for server-side view configuration filters. (80744)
• Used @link for URL in inline documentation. (80716)

Code Quality

• ESLint: Add missing not-recommended components to denylist. (80754)
• Fix: Update webpack-dev-server to ^5.2.1 to help with dep alerts. (80347)
• GitHub workflows: Fix changelog checks for forked PRs. (80538)
• Interactivity API: Refactor directives into self-registering modules. (79975)
• RTC: Use array_any() for newer-compaction check in polling sync server. (80522)
• RTC: Use str_contains() in WP_Sync_Config. (80476)
• Storybook: Build the resolve specifier as a URL-style string. (80416)
• Tools: Resolve dependencies independently of the node_modules layout. (80414)

Components

• Autocomplete: Reference the suggestions list with aria-controls and aria-haspopup. (80403)
• ExternalLink: Use shared focus ring mixin. (80573)
• Make useSelectionProps hook layout agnostic. (80677)
• Migrate Disabled to SCSS module. (80643)
• Migrate FormTokenField to SCSS module. (80472)
• Migrate SearchControl to SCSS module. (80474)
• Packages: Update date-fns to 4.4.0. (80763)
• Theme: Update Color.js to 0.7.1. (80762)
• Theme: Update colorjs.io dependency and drop bug workaround. (80272)
• UI: Improve component code readability in Storybook by using arrays for children. (80352)
• theme: Disallow src in published package. (80213)

Block Library

• Guards against error throwing attribute values. (80558)
• Make editableRoot a private block setting rather than a public support. (80820)
• Misc fixes for WordPress-Develop 7.0 merges. (75985)
• Page List: Use null coalescing operator for parentPageID attribute. (80728)
• Remove redundant @jest-environment jsdom pragma and lint against it. (80676)
• Remove unnecessary __next40pxDefaultSize props from form controls. (80540)
• Table of Contents: Use str_contains() instead of strpos() check. (80418)
• Tabs : Remove default paragraph from tab-panel template. (80565)

Block Editor

• Duotone: Dedupe duotone utils into global-styles-engine. (80598)
• Reduce duplicated preset utility implementations. (80245)
• Refactor 'URLInput' to function component. (80721)

Post Editor

• Icons: Validate SVG icons include viewBox. (80273)
• Notes: Cancel in-flight hover highlight when focus leaves a note thread. (80752)

Data Layer

• Packages: Update memize to 2.1.1. (80764)

Global Styles

• Rename unit test files and drop .spec.js suffix. (80711)

Site Editor

• Edit Site: Replace Theme usage in canvas loader with CSS. (80688)

Collaboration

• Move real-time collaboration code to lib/experimental/collaboration. (80469)

Tools

• Docs: Update the release form screenshot for GitHub's new Release label UI. (80567)
• Release: Require a working GitHub CLI for cherry-picking. (80568)

Build Tooling

• Build: Add independent react-18 vendor package. (80367)
• Build: Handle project paths containing spaces in dev script. (80519)
• Components: Skip polymorphism prop typings on intersection. (80364)
• DependencyExtractionWebpackPlugin: Include extracted styles in the asset version hash. (80601)
• React 19: Add end-to-end compat test for boolean inert attribute. (80397)
• Resolve Prettier explicitly for isolated layout. (80529)
• Storybook: Remove Emotion as JSX import source. (80647)
• WP Build: Avoid infinite worker build loop. (80361)

Testing

• Jest: Fix ignore pattern for TypeScript declaration files. (80737)
• Jest: Update to v30 (breaking). (80767)
• Only use Flakiness.io in canonical Gutenberg repo. (80816)
• Perf Tests: Fix 'Selecting blocks' metric reporting 0 ms. (80524)
• RTC: Fix deleted-user test on multisite. (80463)
• Site Editor: Add end-to-end coverage for view configuration extensibility. (80577)

Various

Components

• Base Styles: Remove accent color parameter from input-control. (80595)
• Remove private Theme component. (80691)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @dilipom13: Meta boxes: Match heading styles with Gutenberg panels. (80670)
• @faisalahammad: Editor: Restore fixed device preview height for mobile and tablet. (80271)
• @nickchomey: Interactivity API: Refactor directives into self-registering modules. (79975)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamsilverstein @aduth @andrewserong @chriszarate @ciampo @CookieDarb @DarkMatter-999 @desrosj @dhananjaykuber @dilipom13 @dpmehta @ellatrix @enejb @faisalahammad @getdave @himanshupathak95 @i-am-chitti @im3dabasia @Imran92 @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanfra @Kgupta62 @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @maxschmeling @mirka @Mustafabharmal @nickchomey @noruzzamans @ntsekouras @oandregal @obenland @ocean90 @peterwilsoncc @ramonjd @retrofox @scruffian @shail-mehta @shekharnwagh @shimotmk @simison @sirreal @Soean @t-hamano @westonruter @yashjawale