21.0.0

Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

• Button Block: Add HTML Element selection in Advanced settings. (70139)
• Comment Date: Convert Comment Date block settings to ToolsPanel. (70248)
• Comment Author Name Block: Refactor setting panel to use ToolsPanel. (69407)
• Comment Edit Link: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (70247)
• Comment Title: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (70246)
• Comments Pagination Block: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (70245)
• Embed Block: Refactor setting panel to use ToolsPanel. (69636)
• File Block: Refactor setting panel to use ToolsPanel. (70189)
• Form Input: Convert Form Input block settings to ToolsPanel. (70249)
• Form: Convert Form block settings to ToolsPanel. (70253)
• Latest posts: Change panel body to tools panel. (70200)
• List Block: Refactor setting panel to use ToolsPanel. (69387)
• Navigation Link, Navigation Submenu: Hide title UI controls while keeping attribute support. (70234)
• Navigation: Refactor display panel to use ToolsPanel. (68011)
• Post Title: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (70229)
• RSS: Refactor setting panel to use ToolsPanel. (70213)
• Separator: Change html element option visibility. (70185)
• Shortcode: Add role attribute to content in block.json. (70164)
• Video: Add option to set a track as default. (70227)

Components

• ComboboxControl: Handle Unicode characters when matching values. (70180)
• DropZone: Allow overriding the default icon. (70236)

Block Transforms

• Adds transforms functionality to Post comments link and post comments number. (70287)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

• Button: Avoid empty block control slot. (70191)
• Fix: Click-through blur effect when gallery images have a caption. (69067)
• Pullquote block: Cannot override cite element style via theme.json. (70260)
• Social Link: Localize social service names for translations. (70199)
• Social: Moves size settings to inspector controls. (70186)

Components

• Ensure SVG Images Without a Width Attribute Are Displayed Correctly in FocalPointPicker. (70061)
• FormTokenField: Fix filtering with full-width string. (70232)

Interactivity API

• iAPI: Make storePart argument optional in overloads. (70296)

Post Editor

• Editor: Better normalize strings for hierarchical term filtering. (70178)

Block Editor

• Flex Layout: Fix incorrect default alignment values for Vertical Alignment Control component. (68866)

Accessibility

Block Library

• Button: Avoid focus loss when unlinking using keyboard. (70192)
• Columns block: Don't use ToolsPanelItem for Columns setting. (70210)
• Details Block: Fix keyboard accessibility issues and allow list view selection to show up inner blocks. (70056)

Components

• Toolbar: Adjust colors for dark mode support. (69278)

Experiments

Interactivity API

• iAPI: Remove the full-page client-side navigation experiment. (70228)

Documentation

• Docs: Added the missing ALT attribute to all images. (70225)
• Docs: Remove misleading section from curating the editor experience. (70262)
• Fix parameter hint for canInsertBlocks. (70305)
• Fix: Render_block_core_site_title function doc has missing return type. (70269)
• Improve default ALT attribute value for images in documentation. (70226)
• JSON schema: Clean reference URLs. (70274)
• Removed Empty line and corrected typo in inline document. (70203)
• Replace “sidebar” with “panel” in tutorial.md. (70257)
• Small grammar fix in glossary.md. (70292)
• The wp_admin_notice() function should be called instead of custom HTML for admin notice in docs/how-to-guides/notices/README.md. (70231)
• Updated small typo in inline documentation. (70187)
• useDropZone: Refactor documentation to use the correct function syntax. (70286)
• block.json schema: Add role field. (70272)

Code Quality

Block Editor

• Clarify 'clientId' prop use for 'HTMLElementControl'. (70258)
• ImageSizeControl: Use margin-free style. (70202)

Components

• Remove forced focus of InputControl on mousedown. (41118)
• SuggestionsList: Remove unused code. (70195)

Block Library

• Video: Use a unique 'key' in the 'TrackList' component. (70263)

Tools

Testing

• Cover Block: Add E2E Test for FocalPointPicker. (69077)
• E2E: Add general end-to-end tests for templateLock functionality. (70160)
• Fix end-to-end test for block API / filtered blocks. (51882)
• Format .github workflows .yml file. (70219)
• Account for tests env port being overridden from 8889 in PHP unit tests. (70267)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

• @catgofire: Small grammar fix in glossary.md. (70292)
• @Mukulsingh27: Pullquote block: Cannot override cite element style via theme.json. (70260)
• @nani-samireddy: Comments Pagination Block: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (70245)
• @OpuRockey: Fix: Render_block_core_site_title function doc has missing return type. (70269)
• @ravigadhiya007: Docs: Added the missing ALT attribute to all images. (70225)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aurooba @catgofire @DAreRodz @dhruvikpatel18 @himanshupathak95 @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @Mamaduka @Mayank-Tripathi32 @Mukulsingh27 @nani-samireddy @OpuRockey @pmbaldha @ravigadhiya007 @Rishit30G @SainathPoojary @shail-mehta @shimotmk @stokesman @t-hamano @troychaplin @vipul0425 @vk17-starlord @westonruter @yogeshbhutkar