6.1.0 RC1

Enhancements

• Introduce motion/animation when reordering/adding/removing blocks.
• Improve the Image block link settings and move it to the block toolbar.
• Use a snackbar notice when clicking “Copy all content”.
• Show REST API error messages as notices.
• Clarify the wording of the view link in the Permalink panel.
• Hide the “Copy all content” button if the post is empty.
• Hide the ungroup action when there are no inner blocks.
• Use admin schemes dependent focus state for primary buttons.
• Add support for the table cells scope attribute when pasting.

Experiments

• Introduce a new Customizer Panel to edit block-based widget areas.
• Add the block inspector to the widgets screen.
• Add a global inserter to the widgets screen.

Bug Fixes

• Show the pre-publish panel for contributors.
• Fix the save in progress state of the Publish/Update Button.
• Fix adding/removing columns from the table block when using header/footer sections.
• Fix Image block not preserving custom dimensions when opening the media library.
• Resize Image blocks properly when changing the width from the inspector.
• Fix php error that can potentially be triggered by gutenberg_is_block_editor.
• Fix error when using the “tag” block attribute source type.
• Fix chrome rendering bug happening when resizing images.
• Fix the data-block style selector to avoid affecting third-party components.
• Allow the columns layout options to wrap on small screens.
• Fix isShallowEqual edge case when the second argument is undefined.
• Prevent the disabled block switcher icon from becoming unreadable.
• Fix Group Block deprecation and any deprecation relying on hooks.
• A11y:
  • Make the top toolbar wrap at high zoom levels.
  • Fix the sticky notices at high zoom levels.

Performance

• Improve the performance of the i18n Tannin library.
• Track the block parent in the state to optimize hierarchy selectors.
• Add a cache key tracked in state to optimize the getBlock selector.

Documentation

• Document the plugin release tool.
• Document the use-cases of the dynamic blocks.
• Tweaks and typos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Various

• Introduce a PluginDocumentSettingPanel slot to allow third-party plugins to add panels to the document sidebar tab.
• Deploy the playground automatically to Github Pages. https://wordpress.github.io/gutenberg/
• Extract a generic RichText component to the @wordpress/rich-text package.
• Refactor the editor initialization to rely on a component.
• Remove unused internal asType utility.
• Fix react-no-unsafe-timeout ESlint rule when using variable assignment.
• Add support for watching block.json files when running “npm run dev”.
• Remove: experimental status from blockEditor.transformStyles.
• Upgrade PHPCS composer dependencies and use strict comparisons to align with the PHPCS guidelines.
• Fix a small console warning when running performance tests.

Mobile

• Correct the position of the block insertion indicator.
• Unify Editor and Layout components with the web component hierarchy.