4.3.0

• Allow toggling the core custom fields meta box.
• Introduce Annotations API across Block and Formatting.
• Allow using a YouTube URL (or other sources) in the Video block and transparently convert it to Embed.
• Allow Alt+F10 keyboard shortcut to navigate to block toolbar regardless of the toolbar visibility (isTyping, etc).
• Return focus to element that opened the post publish panel after it is closed.
• Avoid unnecessary re-renders when navigating between blocks.
• Improve interactions around Columns block.
• Improve keyboard navigation through the Gallery block.
• Use full parser in do_blocks with nested block support. This switch will allow dynamic blocks which contain nested blocks inside of them and it will pave the way for a filtering API to structurally process blocks.
• Refactor contextual toolbar to work better with floats.
• Auto-refresh Popovers position but only refresh if the anchor position changes.
• Add min-width to audio block.
• Avoid auto-saving with empty post content.
• Display correct Taxonomy labels.
• Fix incorrect import name.
• Fix styling issue with checkboxes.
• Add full set of reusable block post type labels (addresses “no blocks found” state).
• Fix right to left block alignment.
• Fix “updating failed” notices showing on long-open tabs.
• Fix default PHP parser to cast inner blocks as arrays.
• Fix JS/PHP inconsistencies with empty attributes on parsing.
• Link to the source image in the media block.
• Fix select all keyboard shortcut for Safari and Firefox.
• Create multiple blocks when multiple files are drag and dropped.
• Fixes potential theme syle.css clash.
• Makes preview button a link (a11y).
• Stop re-rendering all blocks on arrow navigation.
• Add constraint tabbing to post publish panel (a11y).
• Fix image uploading bug (incorrect JSON in apiFetch).
• Fix taxonomy visibility for contributors.
• Adds aria labels to images in gallery blocks during editing (a11y).
• Formatting fix for blockquotes.
• Hide custom fields when meta box is disabled.
• Limits blockquote color auto-selection to solid color blocks for readability.
• Fixes announcement on multi-selection of blocks (a11y).
• Display upload errors in the image block.
• Fixes selection of embed type blocks.
• Fixes JSON attribute parsing.
• Fixes post publish focus (a11y).
• Resolve macOS Firefox / Safari sibling inserter behavior.
• Fix visibility of sibling inserter on tab focus.
• Fix issue with pasting from Word where an image would be created instead of text.
• Fix multi-selection for float elements.
• Fetch all tag terms, not just first 100.
• Correctly displays media on the right.
• Only show named image sizes.
• Improves handling of paste action.
• Updates displayed permalink after permalink is edited.
• Adjust font size for contrast warning (a11y).
• Better handles formatting – nested and Google Docs.
• Fixes suggestion list scrolling when using keyboard (a11y).
• Fixes block and menu navigation a11y.
• Click to close dropdown popover.
• Fix save lock control.
• Timezone handling fix.
• Improve a11y of empty text blocks.
• Fix states for publish buttons.
• Fix backspace behavior.
• Change aria labels for paragraph blocks (a11y).
• Add support for prepare RichText tree.
• With this change we force the browser to treat the textarea for the
• code editor as auto when handling direction for its display to preserve the ability to interact with the block delimiters.
• Rename parentClientId to rootClientId.
• Remove deprecated findDOMNode call from Tooltip component.
• Remove unused ref assignment to RichText.
• Remove redundant onClickOutside handler from Dropdown.
• Refactor block state.
• Remove Cloudflare warning for blocked API calls.
• Remove _wpGutenbergCodeEditorSettings (dead code).
• Adds periods to block a11y descriptions.
• Refactor embed block.
• Handle metabox warning exceptions.
• Refactor RichText to update formatting bar on format availability changes.
• Rename wp-polyfill-ecmascript.
• Update translator comments for quote and pullquote.
• Remove findDOMNode useage from NavigableToolbar.
• Changes handling of dates to properly handling scheduling.
• Remove findDomNode from withHoverAreas.
• Fixes missing translator comments.
• Refactor to import Format API components.
• Refactor of change detection: initial edits.
• Adds better translation comments to “resolve” and “resolve block”.
• Adds option for blocks with child blocks to change selection behavior.
• Allows blocks to disable being converted to reusable blocks.
• Improve undo/redo states.
• Updates parsing to better handle nested content.
• Remove undefined className argument from save().
• Use different tooltips for different alignment buttons.
• Improve performance and handling of autosave.
• Improve gallery upload for multiple images: load one by one.
• Adds context variable to RichText component.
• Avoid calling missing get_current_screen function.
• Make cssnano remove all style comments.
• Refactor normalizeBlockType.
• Shows icon in block toolbar.
• Makes kitchensink button removable from plugins.
• Fix popover sizing on screen change (autorefresh)
• Improvement to Columns block.
• Update block description for consistency.
• Refactor block styles registration.
• Use apostrophe instead of single-quote character in strings.
• Add transformations between video and media and text block.
• Version update for NPM packages.
• Update Lerna to latest version.
• Validates link format in RichText.
• Refactor contextual toolbar to work better with floats.
• Move wp-polyfill-ecmascript override to scripts registration.
• Improves consistency of parser tests.
• Remove code coverage.
• Adds mocking helpers for E2E tests.
• Runs E2E tests with the user in author role.
• Adds tests for Format API.
• Adds E2E test for rapid enter presses.
• Fix typo in documentation.
• Fix typos in block API documentation.
• Improved documentation and examples for withFilters.
• Fix some broken links in documentation.
• Fix typo and quote consistency.
• Remove duplicated word.
• Adds custom block icon instructions.
• Update documentation on keyboard shortcuts.
• Updates isSelectionEnabledDocumentation.
• Update FontSizePicker component documentation.
• Export switchToBlockType function.
• Remove mobile RN test suite (temporary measure).
• Improve styling of next page block.
• Removes fixed cover on iOS (unsupported in mobile Safari).
• Adds support for native media picker.
• Remove onChange delay.
• Exposes slot/fill pattern to mobile.
• Expose @wordpress/editor to mobile.
• Refreshes native post block merge.
• Properly handle cancel on the media picker.