7.1.0 RC1

Features

• Adding a menu to visually switch between edit and navigation modes and announce the mode changes to screen reader users.
• Support adding a caption to the Table block.
• Implement a Welcome Guide modal.

Enhancements

• Use a Fixed Block Toolbar on Mobile Web.
• Block UI:
  • Remove the parent block from the block title component.
  • Remove dashed outlines for child and parent blocks.
  • Remove hover styles.
• Navigation block:
  • Keep a single place to trigger the “Open in a new tab” option.
  • Fix overflow by allowing wrapping of menu items.
  • Fix double click to open the appender.
  • Add a type=submit to the search suggestion buttons.
  • Support justifying the menu items.
  • Use correct classnames for navigation link block save output.
  • Remove the inspector controls.
• Improve the block multi-selection:
  • A11y: Use the browser’s selection default color. 
  • Polish the styles.
  • Responsive multi-selection.
  • Allow pasting on multi-selection.
• Improve the Image blocks replacement flow/UI.
• Disable the HTML mode in the Cover block.
• Add friendly offline error messages on Rest API request failures.
• Round the focal point coordinates.
• Popover & Dropdowns: Consistently and smoothly adjust the position on scroll.
• Remove clearing the block selection on sidebar tab switch.
• Separate editor notices by border instead of margin.
• Allow drag and dropping images into the featured image box.

Bug Fixes

• Prevent resized Image blocks from overlapping the boundaries of the block.
• Fix wrong link to attachment page after replacing images.
• Fix Media & Text block: "Crop image to fill entire column" reset on image change.
• Fix the Snackbar notices position.
• Save the Verse block line breaks as single characters.
• Remove has-background-dim-NaN classname from the Cover block.
• Normalize the keys of the apiFetch preloaded data to avoid unnecessary Rest API calls.
• Fix CSS styles of the ColorPicker component.
• Update the Inspector slots to use the bubblesVirtually slots Fixing RichText usage in Inspector controls.
• Move the Modals and Popovers to the right position in the DOM.
• Fix alignment of date picker days when used in block.
• Fix alignment of ToggleControl label.
• Fix the toggled state in the block toolbar buttons.
• Fix the multi-select inspector padding.
• Fix the behavior that allows writing by clicking anywhere in the canvas.
• Prevent private posts with a future date from becoming public on update.
• Fix useColors crashes if contrast checkers are not specified.
• Render metaboxes as a single seemless unit to fix styling issues for themes with colored backgrounds.
• Fix the FontSizePicker custom option.
• Fix reusable blocks showing up as too tall.
• Fix Drop Cap + alignment producing a gap between paragraphs.
• Fix Cover to Image block transform when no image is used in the Cover block.
• Ensure empty classname is not output onto table element.
• Fix scrolling the sidebar on mobile.
• I18: Fix the Code block example string.

APIs

• Support a disabled prop in the RichText component.
• Add a new CustomSelectControl component.
• Add a new TextHighlight component.
• Add a new CustomGradientPicker component.
• Add useViewportMatch React hook to the @wordpress/compose package.
• Allowing changing the aXe config in the @wordpress/just-puppeteer-axe package.

Experiments

• Block Content Areas:
  • Add a demo templates directory. 
  • Add the Template Part block.
  • Add documentation for the current state of the experiment.
• Widgets screen:
  • Clear the block selection when clicking outside the widget areas.
• APIs:
  • Add a new __experimentalResolveSelect API to the data package.
  • Add color detection and contrast checks support to the useColors hook.

Documentation

• Improvements to the Getting Started documentation.
• Include TypeScript type checking in Testing Overview.
• Add JSDoc recommendations.
• Reintroduce NodeJS LTS support commitment.
• Typos and tweaks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Performance

• Avoid rerendering the EditorRegions component on each click.
• Flatten and simplify the align hook rendering.
• Shim the meta attribute source on block registration.

Various

• Storybook: Add StoryShots integration to generate unit tests.
• Work on the stability of e2e tests: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
• Use consistent theme colors and font sizes in e2e tests.
• Travis: Skip the deploy stage on PRs.
• And a Travis job to check the IE11 compatibility of the produced JavaScript builds.
• Avoid usage of editor store on block editor reusable blocks inserter.
• Replace the fs-extra dependency with rimraf.
• RSS block: Remove PHP 5.2 compatibility code.
• Update the Columns block to use the Patterns API.
• Refactor the BlockToolbar component to use React hooks.
• Refactor the BlockDraggable component for a simpler React tree.
• Refactor the BlockHTML component to use React hooks.
• Refactor the BlockList component to use React hooks.
• Refactor the BlockInsertionPoint component to use React hooks.
• Split @wordpress/urls into multiple modules/files to allow better tree-shaking.
• Improve the Storybook setup to allow updates on style changes.
• Enforce consistent usage of Button and ToolbarGroup components.
• Use the colors hook in the Paragraph block.
• Add missing actions and tests for lockPostAutosaving, unlockPostAutosaving.
• Collapse passed tests in Travis jobs.
• Add side effects property to the @wordpress/components package to allow tree-shaking.
• Add a script to perform patch releases for old npm package versions.
• Reuse the URLInput component in the Social Links block and disable suggestions.
• Improve and simplify reusable block styles.
• Refactor the Gallery edit component to be semi-cross-platform.
• Run tests using the same environment version used for development.
• Add CPU/Network slowdown configuration options to the e2e tests setup.
• Enable Type checking for the @wordpress/token-list package.
• Move the changelog.txt and readme.txt files to the Github repository.