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v12.2.0
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Enhancements

Block Library

  • New block: Add Comments Pagination Numbers block. (36890)
  • Comment Template block: Handle nested comments. (36065)
  • Comments Query Loop: Improve context handling in inner blocks. (37196)
  • Image: Reflect media deletion in the editor. (35973)
  • Navigation:
    • Add navigation blocks post-processing after migration from menu items. (36950)
    • Refactor modal padding to be simpler and more flexible. (37323)
    • Remove Navigation Menus from the Appearance menu. (37212)
    • Add clearance for appender in submenus. (36720)
  • Refactor handling of padding for group and column blocks. (37356)
  • Template Part: Add actions that fire during the loading process of block template parts. (36884)

Styles and design tools

  • Add the Welcome Guide option to the More Global Styles Actions dropdown. (37180)
  • Make the Blocks section more distinguishable. (37293)
  • Move the Edit colors button to a standard menu item. (36842)
  • Move Duotone palette to the bottom of global styles gradients. (37253)
  • Border controls: display border properties in the ToolPanel. (34061)

Components

  • FontSizePicker: Use an incremental sequence of numbers as labels for the available font sizes at the segmented control (conditionally). (37038)
  • ColorPalette: Improve accessibility and visibility. (36925)
  • ToolsPanel: Standardize input control label margin. (36387)
  • Unify styles for ColorIndicator with how they appear in Global Styles. (37028)
  • Update PanelColorGradientSettings component to use dropdowns. (37067)

Site Editor

  • Add the Customizer back to the Appearance menu. (37175)
  • Add client-side routing for Site Editor. (36488)
  • Add a new aria-pressed attribute to the Toggle navigation button. (37351)
  • Template revert flow: Make label description source agnostic. (37004)

Packages

  • Scripts: Enable React Fast Refresh for block development. (28273)
  • List Reusable Blocks: Refactor ImportForm into a functional component and use hooks. (36938)

Widgets Editor

  • Implement preview for blocks. (37012)

Post Editor

  • Template Part block should not be available in the Post Editor inserter. (37157)

Bug Fixes

  • Remove 4 instances of gutenberg text-domain from Core. (37229)

Block Library

  • Fix return type in the DocBlock. (37352)
  • Fix deprecated usage of passing null to explode function. (37392)
  • Gallery:
    • Fix color issue for captions with hyperlinks in the Gallery block. (37033)
    • Fix documentation and function naming for gallery block registration in PHP. (37132)
    • Remove placeholder border. (37050)
  • Post Comments:
    • Fix form-submit styles by adding button classes to the submit button in the post-comments block. (37245)
    • Fix width of the post comment form input. (37238)
    • Use block markup for the comment form button when using a block theme. (37315)
  • Comments Pagination Block: Add default styling. (37057)
  • Image:
    • Set image display mode to grid when no alignment is set to align caption onresize event properly. (35787)
    • Fix resizer controls being hidden in Safari when switching between alignments. (37210)
  • Navigation:
    • Fix gutenberg_ prefixed function references in Core. (37021)
    • Fix navigation justifications. (36991)
    • Fix vertical alignment of page list in the modal. (37321)
    • Remove hardcoded typography units. (37349)
    • Fix vertical layout. (37009)
    • Switch to addEventListener event for load event in the navigation block view script. (37135)
    • Don't request the deprecated navigation areas endpoint outside of the Gutenberg plugin. (37187)
    • Navigation Link Control: Hide the Transforms component when no options are available. (37284)
    • Remove the deprecated navigation area block from the inserter. (37026)
  • Query Loop: Add useBlockPreview component, fix alignment of the Query Loop block in the editor. (36431)
  • Query Pagination: core/query-pagination-next and core/query-pagination-previous blocks: change the markup on the first and last pages of the pagination. (36681)
  • Search: Fix application of border color class in the editor. (37242)
  • Template Part:
    • Fix isMissing condition check. (37370)
    • Use Core version of template and template part post types and REST endpoints for WordPress 5.9, with backward compatibility for WordPress 5.8. (36898)
  • Update the micromodal package to include a click-through fix. (36837)

Components

  • Card: Support the extraSmall option for the size prop. (37097)
  • Drop Zone: Fix HTML drop issues with the Windows browsers. (37151)
  • Don't load Radio and RadioGroup components directly. (36934)
  • DuotonePicker typo fix. (36662)
  • Element: Ensure that the package uses the up-to-date React types. (37365)
  • Fix incorrect rendering of ToggleGroupControl's active state. (37332)
  • Hide the remove control point button because removing it would break gradient control. (37186)
  • Import experimental Heading and Text Components. (37290)
  • Make the color popover on the gradient picker appear as expected. (37115)
  • Remove unused reakit-utils dependency from peer dependencies. (37369)
  • Storybook: Fix deprecated disabled key. (37112)
  • ToggleGroupControl: Fix extra update on incoming change. (37224)

Site Editor

  • Allow global styles sidebar panels to fill vertical space. (36845)
  • Display a notice if export fails. (37131)
  • Fix edit template part link in header dropdown. (37249)
  • Fix template resolution to give precedence to PHP templates defined in a child theme. (37074)
  • Hide the block appender in the Template Part editor. (37213)
  • Improve notification when saving content in the Site Editor. (36897)
  • Improve handling of parsed requests. (37209)
  • Sync Export API error codes. (37347)
  • Template Editor Mode: Hide editor mode switcher. (37359)
  • Use server definition for the Template Areas. (37215)
  • Fixes the white screen of death on the Templates page when user avatars are disabled. (37458)

Styles

  • Allow selector ordering to ensure theme.json root selector margin takes precedence. (36960)
  • Custom keys from theme.json: Fix kebabCase conversion. (37380)
  • Do not remove theme presets if defaults are hidden. (37008)
  • Fix CSS Custom Properties for presets in the Site Editor. (36851)
  • Fix how appearanceTools works. (37254)
  • Fix styles for previews and patterns. (37296)
  • Font sizes: Update default values. (37381)
  • Remove CSS that causes conflict with theme.json. (36424)

Design Tools

  • Border Style Control: Update styling for consistency with border width control. (37244)
  • Border panel:
    • Don't restore deselected border color when width gets changed. (37049)
    • Update the value of the ColorPicker component when color is cleared. (37048)
  • Gradients
    • Fix clearing a custom gradient from throwing a React warning. (37051)
    • Enable adding custom gradient when gradients are disabled. (36900)

Compatibility with Core and library code

  • Fix array key warning in block supports layout. (37101)
  • Templates: Search for old template names in the parent theme too. (36910)
  • Fix theme requirement validation when using WordPress 5.8. (37226)
  • Fix WordPress 5.9 check for conditionally running code. (37235)
  • Fix mistake in the_remove_theme_attribute_in_block_template_content function. (37137)
  • Gallery: Enable the new gallery block by default if running in Core. (37134)

Packages

  • Core Data: Fix returning empty array in the getEntityRecords function for unknown entities. (36984)
  • Include @babel/core as a dependency where applicable. (37328)
  • Format library: Fix unsetting highlight color. (37062)

Block Editor

  • Mark the last change as persistent on save. (36887)
  • Fix content loss when ungrouping template parts or reusable blocks. (37280)
  • Simplify the RESET_BLOCK action to fix the loss of content when using template part focus mode. (37283)

Post Editor

  • Multi-Entity Saving: Decode HTML entities in item titles. (37353)

Documentation

  • Update documentation related to schemas. (37294)

  • Remove versioning in theme schema descriptions. (37165)

  • Fix the broken link on the plugin description page. (37362)

  • Handbook:

    • Add information about skip links to the block theme overview. (36555)
    • Add closing ticks for blockGap code example. (37338)
    • Add how-to guide documentation template. (36694)
    • Add link and details for npx in create block tutorial. (37376)
    • Consolidate React Native documentation. (36685)
    • Fix a link to the how-to guide template. (37191)
    • Move classes used in the navigation block from the component to the new readme. (37375)
    • Update Format API how-to guide. (37298)
    • Update broken links. (37121)
    • Improve formatting of headings in the contributors' guide. (36689)
    • Fix type for prefix transformation. (36362)
    • Fix broken links in the Resources section. (37307)
    • Remove the semicolons from the JSON examples. (37129)

  • Packages:

    • Block Editor:
      • Add a documentation note about inner blocks and excerpts. (36405)
      • Update example of usage for suggestionsQuery component. (37281)
    • Componentes:
      • Add missing changelog entries. (37384)
      • Fix code formatting for card components. (37268)
      • Fix importing from the wrong package. (37192)
      • Fix missing link for shortcut documentation. (36800)
      • Update QueryControls README.md. (37233)
    • Site Editor: Update support documentation URL in the Welcome Guide. (37176)

Code Quality

Compatibility with Core

  • Better synchronization between Gutenberg and Core code. (37141)
  • Move WordPress 5.9 wp-admin menus compatibility code to lib/compat folder. (37257)
  • Move the block page templates hook into compat/5.9 folder. (37142)
  • Move template loader hooks and functions into lib/compat folder. (37149)
  • Synchronize wp_is_block_theme function and block-templates block support with Core. (37218)

Global Styles

  • Do not register Global Styles custom post type in WordPress 5.9. (37282)
  • Port Global Styles code to lib/compat/wordpress-5.9:
    • CSS custom properties. (37334)
    • Front assets. (37335)
  • Rename WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver methods to make them compatible with Core. (37393)

Packages

  • Dependency Extraction Webpack Plugin: Sort externalized dependencies report. (37377)
  • Block Editor:
    • Iframe component: Use block settings to pass assets. (37193)
    • Remove duplicate block styles. (37133)
    • Specify the WordPress versions where API is deprecated. (37150)
  • Components
    • Refactor DatePicker into a functional component. (36835)
    • Storybook: Update to version 6.4. (37367)
  • Data
    • Ensure that redux is listed as a dependency. (37364)
    • @wordpress/data: Refactor use-select component in preparation for adding types. (37017)
  • Scripts: Update dependencies shared with other WordPress packages. (37395)

Site Editor

  • Remove unused PHP code. (36997)
  • Revert Site Editor: Set the <title> on the list page to be the same as the CPT name. (37270)

Block Library

  • Remove gutenberg_ prefix from @wordpress/block-library. (37341)
  • Block Library: Rename Query Pagination blocks. (37091)

Tools

Testing

  • End-to-end Tests:
    • Increase delay in image block end-to-end test to fix intermittent failure when clearing URL field. (37136)
    • Update Multi-Entity Saving test to improve reliability. (37139)
    • Sanitize flaky test report file names. (37390)
    • Retry login again after a bad nonce request to prevent intermittent test failures. (37219)
    • Fix Multi-entity saving and Template parts related tests. (37333)
    • Fix Heading test. (37382)
    • Re-enable most of the navigation block end-to-end tests. (37214)
    • Use global transients for PHPUnit tests. (37122)
    • Fix usage of useSetting('color.palette'). (37108)
    • Add tests for the new gallery hooks. (36801)

Linting

  • ESLint:
    • Add support for ESLint v8. (36283)
    • Fix Babel config resolution when a custom ESLint config is present. (37406)

Build Tooling

  • Specify PHP version in Composer. (37007)
  • Remove unused jest-serializer-enzyme dependency. (37373)
  • Remove some labels from the Experiments section of the changelog. (37098)
  • npm:
    • Fix package dependencies issues discovered with pnpm. (37396)
    • Use the latest minor version of webpack in Gutenberg. (37371)
  • Fix build failure on Windows. (37189)
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