6.3.0 RC1

Features

• A11y: Support Navigation and Edit modes to ease navigating between blocks.
• Support text alignments in Table block columns.
• Support changing the separator block color.

Enhancements

• Improvements to the BlockPreview component:
  • Support previewing a multiple blocks (a template).
  • Unify BlockPreview and BlockPreviewContent into a unique component.
  • Hide block appenders.
  • Expose the component in the block-editor module.
  • Scale the preview content according to the width of the preview container.
• Improvements to the Modal component design:
  • Increase the padding of the Modal component.
  • Correct the position of the close button.
• Use classnames instead of inline styles for text alignments in:
  • Verse block.
  • Quote block.
  • Paragraph block.
• Add a purple color option to the default color palette.
• A11y: Visible focus and active styles for Windows high contrast mode.
• Improve the design of the inline image controls in the Gallery block.
• I18n: Align the Read more string with WordPress Core.
• Removes the word-break :break-all CSS rule from the table cells.
• Update the Notice dismiss button to match other Gutenberg UI (color and icon).
• Modifies the shortcut hierarchy in the keyboard shortcuts modal.
• Remove edit gallery toolbar button.
• Add the possibility to disable document settings panels registered by plugins.
• ESLint plugin: Enable wp global by default in the recommended config.

Experiments

• Add a settings page to the plugin to enable/disable experimental features.
• Add padding when interacting with nested blocks to ease parent block selections.
• Widgets Screen:
  • Prevent the block toolbar from overlapping the widget area header.
  • Add the BlockEditorKeyboardShortcuts component.
  • Fixed block paddings.

New APIs

• Support Entities Local Edits in the Core Data Module.
• Support autosaving entities in the Core Data Module.
• Add support for disabled dropdown items in SelectControl.
• Add onFocusOutside prop as a replacement to Popover onClickOutside.
• Stop using unstable props on DropdownMenu.

Bug Fixes

• Prevent tooltips from appearing on mouse down.
• Avoid passing event object to save button onSave prop.
• Prevent image captions loss when editing a Gallery block.
• Rerender FormtTokenField component when the suggestions prop changes.
• Handle scalar return types values in useSelect.
• Fix php notice that can be triggered while using the Search block.
• Fix the Resolve Block Modal columns sizes.
• Fix duplicate content when pasting text into newly focused RichText.
• Fix Table block cell selection when clicking on the edge of the cells.
• Prevent the CSS reset from applying to the meta boxes.
• Fix misaligned Block toolbars on floated blocks.
• Fix the Notice component close button alignment and height.
• Link to the full size images in the Gallery block.
• Avoid leaking CSS transforms when disabling block animations.
• A11y: Avoid focusing the PostTitle component when switching between code and visual editor.
• A11y: Add a confirmation step to enable the Custom Fields option.
• Disable block insertion buttons and prevent moving blocks depending on the contextual restrictions (template locking and default block availability).
• Fix Block manager not honoring the allowed_block_types hook.
• Keep the Image block alt and caption attributes while uploading a new image.
• Don't render drop zone below the default block appender.
• Prevent horizontal arrow navigation errors.
• Fix shifting menu items on DropdownMenu.
• Make API Fetch refresh nonces as soon as they expired.

Various

• Github actions:
  • Automatically assign issues to PR authors.
  • Automatically assign the First-time Contributor label.
• Avoid unguarded getRangeAt usage and add eslint rule.
• Make the e2e transforms tests more stable.
• ESLint no-unused-vars-before-return rule: Exempt destructuring only if to multiple properties.
• Output an informational message for deprecations when no version provided.
• Refactor registry selectors to allow calling them from other regular selectors.
• Bail early in the deactivatePlugin e2e test utility if plugin is already inactive.
• Fix the CheckboxControl styles in a WordPress agnostic context.
• Move the auto-draft status and default title handling to the server.
• Code quality tweaks to the Table block e2e tests.
• Fix JSDocs errors across the entire repository.
• Upgrade Lerna to the latest version (3.16.4).
• Upgrade Puppeteer to the latest version (1.19.0).
• Upgrade ESLint to the latest version (6.1.0).
• Run npm audit fix to fix dependency vulnerabilities.
• Audit and fix all missing or obsolete package dependencies.
• Fix issue with jest caching of block.json files.
• Add eslint-plugin-jsdoc lint rule for better JSDoc linting.
• Fix intermittent RichText e2e test failures.
• Replace the react-click-outside dependency usage with our own Higher-order component withFocusOutside.
• Improve the usage of eslint-disable directives.
• Migrate the Github Actions to the new YAML syntax.

Documentation

• Enhance the components Design Documentation and guidelines:
  • DateTime component.
  • Spinner component.
  • ClipboardButton component.
• Add section about adding new dependencies to WordPress packages.
• Add Figma ressources to the Design documentation.
• Document URL inputs reusable components.
• Typos and tweaks: 1, 2, 3.

Mobile

• Refactor BlockToolbar out of BlockList.
• Fix toolbar bottom inset for iPhone X devices.