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@youknowriad youknowriad released this 17 Nov 08:20
v9.4.0-rc.1
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Features

  • Add Keyboard Input inline format. (26801)
  • Add Block variations transformations. (26687)
  • Add width selector for button block. (25999) (26781).
  • Add font size support to the List block. (26257)
  • Social Links: Add ability to change social icon sizes. (25921)

Enhancements

  • Unify the inserter search UI. (26595)
  • Polish custom select menu styles. (26956)
  • Polish menu item styles. (26889) (26720) (25218) (26572)
  • Polish the link interface. (26551)
  • Code & Preformatted Blocks: Delete on backspace if empty. (26605)
  • File Block: Move the URL button to the Block toolbar. (26602)
  • Allow adding a header by typing /h1, /h2 etc. (26597)
  • Polish Shortcode block styling. (26456)
  • Polish Search block styling. (26446)
  • Use a wider canvas for themes that don't provide a custom width. (26357)
  • Show reduced UI on hover. (26882)
  • Update Legacy Widget toolbar button font to match UI when displayed in Widget Screen. (26841)
  • Update token field icon. (26726)
  • Windows 10 high contrast mode improvements. (26567)

New APIs

  • Create block: Add support for external templates installed from npm. (23712)
  • Add optional icon to snackbar notices. (26907)
  • @wordpress/env: Add support for custom WP_HOME port. (26507)
  • @wordpress/lazy-import: Allow importing local paths. (23751)
  • Format library: Introduce useAnchorRef. (26782)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix block context injection hook after Core change in block rendering. (26998) (27011)
  • Fix Query block's Toolbar popover width. (26992)
  • Fix IE11 interface bugs. (26944)
  • Improve arrow navigation between blocks. (26921)
  • Fix block alignments when theme styles are disabled. (26912) (26680) (26376)
  • Fix padding of text-only buttons mode. (26769)
  • Fix horizontal mover icon position. (26761)
  • Fix column width units. (26757)
  • FormTokenField input position when typing. (26741)
  • Fix applying colors to outlined buttons. (26707) (24626)
  • Render big font sizes properly in the font size picker. (26705)
  • Use currentColor in quote blocks to better support dark themes. (26684)
  • Fix "Browse All" in Quick Inserter for container blocks. (26443)
  • Fix responsive embeds in the widget screen. (26263)
  • Fix undefined index notice in Social Link Block. (25663)
  • Buttons block: Fix default alignment icon in toolbar to reflect the actual default alignment of buttons. (26910)
  • Block Support: Fix font size style when applying block support. (26762)
  • Do not invalidate the entity record cache during optimistic update in saveEntityRecord. (26627)
  • Provide a minimum of code wrapping for the code block. (26623)

Experiments

  • Full Site Editing Framework: Rework templates and template parts synchronization. (26650) (26383)
  • Full Site Editing Blocks:
    • Post Excerpt block: Allow editing of generated excerpts. (26637)
    • Post Excerpt block: Add missing closing div tag. (26806)
    • Add wide and full alignment options to the post/site title blocks. (26601)
    • Template Part block: Render preview as div. (26873)
    • Post Taxonomies: Fix PHP Fatal erroor for unregistered taxonomy (#26851). (26854)
    • PostAuthor: Safeguard to wait for authors to load. (26776)
    • Query block: Update the order of settings and filters in the sidebar. (26647)
  • Site Editor:
    • Fix responsiveness. (26021)
    • Fix alignment of the new template button. (26934)
    • Add default block widths styles. (26853)
    • Refactor menu creation code. (26966)
    • Only show auto-draft template parts corresponding to current theme. (26948)
    • Polish the template navigation menu. (26933), (26930).
    • Add navigation panel back button slot. (26846)
    • Remove dashboard button focus on mount. (26845)
    • Saving flow: Use template and template parts entities titles. (26708) (26653)
    • Reorder template creation dropdown. (26610)
  • Global styles:
    • Fallback to theme color pallete. (26783) (26786)
    • Hide Block panels without content. (26609)
    • Update styles to rely on CSS variables for colors and gradients. (26319)
    • Fix Table block global styles selector. (26973)
    • Hide the line height panel if disabled in theme.json file. (26778)
    • Cache generated styles. (25680)
    • Add: Mechanism to detect if a block instance matches a global styles selector. (26945) (26991)
    • Extract theme json processor. (26803)
    • Add support for line height at the global level. (26767)
    • Add preset classes generation on the client side. (26224)
  • Navigation block: Fix color support declaration. (26928)
  • Popover: Add sticky boundary element prop. (26728)
  • Block Support:
    • Add font style and weight options with combined UI. (26444) (26868)
    • Add text transform block support flag. (26060) (26059)
    • Add: Font Family picking mechanism. (24868), (26750), (26759).

Performance

  • Use 2-pass terser compression. (24821)
  • Memoize getEntityRecords to prevent infinite re-renders. (26447)
  • Resolve per-entity resolvers after receiving a list of records. (26575)

Documentation

Code Quality

  • Use date-fns and date-fns-tz instead of moment. (25782) (27002)
  • is-shallow-equal: Convert to ESM. (26833)
  • Minor code refactoring in template part previews. (26949)
  • Drop zone: Rewrite with hooks and simplify. (26893)
  • PostTitle: Rewrite with hooks (+ avoid globals). (26820)
  • Avoid relying on a the global document. (26834) (26814) (26813) (26657)
  • Format library: Use hooks for all components. (26779)
  • Sandbox: Use hooks and avoid withGlobalEvents. (26742)
  • Draggable: Use hooks and prepare for iframe. (26897)
  • PostLockedModal: Use hooks and avoid withGlobalEvents. (26743)
  • WpEmbedPreview: Use hooks and avoid withGlobalEvents. (26740)
  • FocusableIframe: Use hooks and avoid withGlobalEvents. (26737)
  • Navigation Component: Update styles to reference grid spacing helper. (26523)
  • Hooks: Type package. (26430)
  • Deprecated: Type package. (26429)
  • Movers: Small positioning refactor. (26353)
  • Use useAnimate for all Animate component usage. (26201)
  • Gallery block: Use API v2. (26145)
  • Gallery: Remove obsolete deprecation entry. (26736)
  • Cleanup: (24831), (23598), (27000).
  • Remove useMemo in Query inspector controls. (26658)

Build Tooling

  • Add eslint rule to warn against using globals for addEventListener. (26810)
  • Update workflows to use Node 14.x. (26835)
  • Add command to format PHP files. (26850)
  • Build Tooling: Rebuild stylesheets when imported styles are modified. (26649)
  • Fix GH actions "cancel" step. (27025)
  • Run assign fixed issues and first time contributor label tasks for PRs from forks. (26876)
  • Update .nvmrc to use latest LTS. (26855)
  • Update nodegit to 0.27.0 in @wordpress/env. (26712)
  • Tests: Add fixture for Column deprecation. (26774)
  • Store screenshots of CI end-to-end failures as CI artifacts. (26664) (26957)
  • End 2 End Tests:
    • Fix improper assertion in template-part.test. (26709)
    • Fix RTL end-to-end tests. (26508)
    • Add regresion end-to-end test for the empty reusable block causing WSODs issue. (26913)
    • Add block drag and drop test. (26869) (26904)
    • Add Delete on backspace from empty code/preformatted blocks test. (26972)
    • Merge end-to-end test relying on order into one. (26883)
    • Add template part conversion end-to-end tests. (26788)
    • Make the allowed blocks test more stable. (26631)
    • Add end-to-end test utils to install and activate themes. (23685)

Various

  • TextControl: Support forwarding refs. (26209)
  • Update gutenberg_is_fse_theme function to make it filterable. (27021)
  • Windows: Use wp-env instead of file location. (26671)
  • Site Editor: Rename left sidebar → secondary sidebar. (26517)
  • Add State locks for concurrency control to @wordpress/core-data. (26389) (26661)
  • Avoid PHP warnings when Gutenberg plugin folder isn't writable. (17671)
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