5.2.0-rc.1

Enhancements

• Update the button block description wording.
• Design and a11y improvements for the custom color picker.
• Tweak the FontSizePicker height to match regular select elements.
• Improvements to the local state persistence behavior.
• Improvements to the URL input popove design.
• Disable block navigation and document outline items in text mode.
• Improve the quote block icons.
• Animate the sidebar tabs switching.

Bug Fixes

• Select the last block when pasting content.
• Fix the block validation when the default attribute value of a block is changed.
• Forces the min/max value validation in the RangeControl component.
• Display HTML properly in the post titles of the latest posts block.
• Fix drag and dropping a column block on itself.
• Fix new lines in the preformatted block.
• Fix text underline shortcut.
• Fix calling gutenberg plugin functions in the frontend context.
• Fix pasting a single line from Google Docs (ignoring the strong element).
• Fix FocalPointPicker rendering unlabelled input fields.
• Show the images uploaded in the gallery block in the media modal.
• Fix wordwise selection on Windows.
• Preserve empty table cells when pasting content.
• Fix focus loss when deleting the last block.

Documentation

• Add the Block specific toolbar button sample to the format api tutorial.
• Introduce a package to automatically generate the API documentation.
• Tweaks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Various

• Introduce a generic block editor module.
• Creates an empty page that will contain the future widget screen explorations.
• Fix emoji in the demo content.
• Warn when the user is using an inline element as a RichText container.
• Make Babel import JSX pragma plugin aware of the createElement usage.
• Include the JSX pragma plugin into the default WordPress babel config.
• Update the non-embeddable URLs wording.

Chore

• Refactoring of the block fixtures tests.
• Refactoring the eslint custom import lint rule.
• Refactoring the selection of previous/next blocks actions.
• Refactoring the post editor effects to use actions and resolvers instead.
• Use forEach instead of map when appropriate and enforce it with an eslint rule.
• Remove TinyMCE external dependency mapping.
• Extract webpack config into the scripts package.
• Improve e2e tests stability.t
• Avoid mutating webpack imported config.
• Upgrade Jest to version 24.
• Add repository.directory field to the npm packages and an linting rule to enforce it.
• Update server blocks script to use core equivalent function.
• Remove the vendor scripts registration.
• Use the editor settings to pass a mediaUpload handler.
• Remove deprecated Gutenberg plugin functions and features moved to core.
• Remove unnecessary Enzyme React 16 workarounds from the unit tests.
• Remove wp-editor-font stylesheet override.
• Preserve inline scripts when overriding core scripts.
• Support referencing the IconButton component.
• Refactor the i18n setup of the Gutenberg plugin.

Mobile

• Add an image placeholder when the size is being computed.
• Update the image thumbnail when the image is being uploaded.
• Support the Format Library.
• Bottom Sheet design improvements.
• Update the default block appender placehoder.
• Support pasting content using the Gutenberg paste handler.
• Fix alignment issues for the appender and paragraph block placeholders.

5.1.1

Changelog

Bug Fixes

• Fixes a Firefox regression causing block content to be deleted.

5.1.0

Features

• Add a new Search block.
• Add a new Calendar block.
• Add a new Tag Cloud block.

Enhancements

• Add micro-animations to the editor UI:
  • Opening Popovers.
  • Opening Sidebars.
• Restore the block movers for the floated blocks.
• Consistency in alignment options between archives and categories blocks.
• Set the minimum size for form fields on mobile.
• Disable the block navigation in the code editor mode.
• Consistency for the modal styles.
• Improve the FormToggle styling when used outside of WordPress context.
• Use the block icons in the media placeholders.
• Fix rounded corners for the block svg icons.
• Improve the CSS specificity of the paragraph block styles.
• Require an initial click on embed previews before being interactive.
• Improve the disabled block switcher styles.
• Do not split paragraph line breaks when transforming multiple paragraphs to a list.
• Enhance the Quote block styling for different text alignments.
• Remove the left padding from the Quote block when it’s centered.
• A11y:
  • Improve the permalink field label.
  • Improve the region navigation styling.
• Remove the 3 keywords limit for the block registration.
• Add consistent background colors to the hovered menu items.
• Allow the editor notices to push down the content.
• Rename the default block styles.

Bug Fixes

• Fix a number of formatting issues:
  • Multiple formats.
  • Flashing backgrounds when typing.
  • Highlighted format buttons.
  • Inline code with backticks.
  • Spaces deleted after formats.
  • Inline boundaries styling issues.
  • Touch Bar format buttons.
• Fix a number of list block writing flow issues:
  • Allow line breaks in list items.
  • Empty items not being removed.
  • Backspace merging list items.
  • Selecting formats at the beginning of list items.
• Fix the color picker styling.
• Set default values for the image dimensions inputs.
• Fix sidebar panels spacing.
• Fix wording of the nux tip nudging about the sidebar settings.
• Fix the translator comments pot extraction.
• Fix the plugins icons color overriding.
• Fix conflicting notices styles when using editor styles.
• Fix controls recursion in the redux-routine package.
• Fix the generic embed block when using Giphy as provider.
• Fix the i18n message used in the Gallery block edit button.
• Fix the icon size of the block switcher menu.
• Fix the loading state of the FlatTermSelector (tags selector).
• Fix the embed placeholders styling.
• Fix incorrectly triggered auto-saves for published posts.
• Fix missing classname in the Latest comments block.
• Fix HTML in shortcodes breaking block validation.
• Fix JavaScript errors when typing quickly and creating undo levels.
• Fix issue with mover colors in dark themes.
• Fix internationalisation issue with permalink slugs.

Various

• Implement the inline format boundaries without relying on the DOM.
• Introduce the Registry Selectors in the data module.
• Introduce the Registry Controls in the data module.
• Allow extending the latest posts block query by using get_posts.
• Extend the range of allowed years in the DateTime component.
• Allow null values for the DateTime component.
• Do not render the FontSizePicker if no sizes defined.
• Add className prop support to the UrlInput component.
• Add inline image resizing UI.

Chore

• Update lodash and deasync dependencies.
• Use addQueryArgs consistently to generate WordPress links.
• Remove merged PHP code:
  • jQuery to Hooks heartbeat proxyfying.
  • References to the classic editor.
  • gutenberg_can_edit_post function.
• Disable CSS animations in e2e tests.
• ESLint
  • Add a rule to ensure the consistency of the import groups.
  • Add a rule to protect against invalid sprintf use.
• Remove obsolete

5.1.0 Release Candidate

Features

• Add a new Search block.
• Add a new Calendar block.
• Add a new Tag Cloud block.

Enhancements

• Add micro-animations to the editor UI:
  • Opening Popovers.
  • Opening Sidebars.
• Restore the block movers for the floated blocks.
• Consistency in alignment options between archives and categories blocks.
• Set the minimum size for form fields on mobile.
• Disable the block navigation in the code editor mode.
• Consistency for the modal styles.
• Improve the FormToggle styling when used outside of WordPress context.
• Use the block icons in the media placeholders.
• Fix rounded corners for the block svg icons.
• Improve the CSS specificity of the paragraph block styles.
• Require an initial click on embed previews before being interactive.
• Improve the disabled block switcher styles.
• Do not split paragraph line breaks when transforming multiple paragraphs to a list.
• Enhance the Quote block styling for different text alignments.
• Remove the left padding from the Quote block when it’s centered.
• A11y:
  • Improve the permalink field label.
  • Improve the region navigation styling.
• Remove the 3 keywords limit for the block registration.
• Add consistent background colors to the hovered menu items.
• Allow the editor notices to push down the content.
• Rename the default block styles.

Bug Fixes

• Fix a number of formatting issues:
  • Multiple formats.
  • Flashing backgrounds when typing.
  • Highlighted format buttons.
  • Inline code with backticks.
  • Spaces deleted after formats.
  • Inline boundaries styling issues.
  • Touch Bar format buttons.
• Fix a number of list block writing flow issues:
  • Allow line breaks in list items.
  • Empty items not being removed.
  • Backspace merging list items.
  • Selecting formats at the beginning of list items.
• Fix the color picker styling.
• Set default values for the image dimensions inputs.
• Fix sidebar panels spacing.
• Fix wording of the nux tip nudging about the sidebar settings.
• Fix the translator comments pot extraction.
• Fix the plugins icons color overriding.
• Fix conflicting notices styles when using editor styles.
• Fix controls recursion in the redux-routine package.
• Fix the generic embed block when using Giphy as provider.
• Fix the i18n message used in the Gallery block edit button.
• Fix the icon size of the block switcher menu.
• Fix the loading state of the FlatTermSelector (tags selector).
• Fix the embed placeholders styling.
• Fix incorrectly triggered auto-saves for published posts.
• Fix missing classname in the Latest comments block.
• Fix HTML in shortcodes breaking block validation.
• Fix JavaScript errors when typing quickly and creating undo levels.
• Fix issue with mover colors in dark themes.
• Fix internationalisation issue with permalink slugs.

Various

• Implement the inline format boundaries without relying on the DOM.
• Introduce the Registry Selectors in the data module.
• Introduce the Registry Controls in the data module.
• Allow extending the latest posts block query by using get_posts.
• Extend the range of allowed years in the DateTime component.
• Allow null values for the DateTime component.
• Do not render the FontSizePicker if no sizes defined.
• Add className prop support to the UrlInput component.
• Add inline image resizing UI.

Chore

• Update lodash and deasync dependencies.
• Use addQueryArgs consistently to generate WordPress links.
• Remove merged PHP code:
  • jQuery to Hooks heartbeat proxyfying.
  • References to the classic editor.
  • gutenberg_can_edit_post function.
• Disable CSS animations in e2e tests.
• ESLint
  • Add a rule to ensure the consistency of the import groups.
  • Add a rule to protect against invalid sprintf use.
• Remove obsolete

5.0.0

Features

• Add a new RSS block and follow-up improvements: 1, 2.
• Add a new Amazon Kindle embed block.
• Add a new FocalPointPicker component and use it to define the focal point of the Cover block background.

Enhancements

• Optimize the re-rendering performance when inserting/removing blocks.
• Improve the Reusable Blocks UX for contributor users.
• Disable embed previews for the smugmug provider.
• Make the fullscreen mode a desktop-only feature.
• Accessibility: Add speak messages when using the FeatureToggle component.
• Accessibility: Change the inserter search result message from assertive to polite.
• Accessibility: Remove duplicate aria label from menu items.
• Remove the "Show Download Button" toggle help text in the File block.
• Render the block switcher as disabled if not available in a multi-selection.
• Use a back arrow icon to clarify the Fullscreen mode exit button.
• Limit the Gallery block columns count to the images count.
• Automatically set a default block style if missing.
• Hide empty categories from the Categories block in the editor.
• Increase the padding of the gallery captions.
• Add left/right alignments to the latest posts block.
• Improve the columns margins.
• Add a help text for the hide teaser toggle in the More block.
• Improve the wording of the embed block messages.

Bug Fixes

• Accessibility: Fix the tab order of the date picker component.
• Support non hierarchical taxonomies in the category selector component.
• Fix blocks marked invalid incorrectly due to special HTML characters.
• Fix the Notice component styling.
• Fix the :root selector in the editor styles.
• Fix duplicate block toolbars.
• Fix warning message when using the DateTimePicker component.
• Fix the File block and Categories block style when applying custom classnames.
• Fix the Gallery block styling in Microsoft Edge.
• Fix the Button block styling when links are visited.
• Fix Block Style preview not dismissed after selection.
• Fix TabPanel buttons incorrectly submitting forms.
• Fix hierarchical dropdown in the Categories block.
• Fix wording for the color picker saturation.
• Fix the save keyboard shortcut while in the code editor mode.
• Fix the Google Docs table pasting.
• Fix jumps when indenting/outdenting list items.
• Fix FontSizePicker max width on mobile.
• Fix PHP 5.2.2 Parser issue.
• Fix plural messages POT generation.

Various

• Add ESnext build setup and commands to the @wordpress/scripts package.
• Add "focus on mount" config to the DropDown component.
• Improve the error handling in the data module resulting in clearer messages displayed in the console.
• Support marking days as invalid in the DatePicker component.
• Support block transforms with inner blocks.
• Improve the styles of the editor notices with actions.
• Replace Polldaddy embed block with Crowdsignal.
• Avoid setting the generic Edit Post Title on load.
• Deprecate window._wpLoadGutenbergEditor.
• Avoid an empty classname when deleting custom classnames.
• Add className prop support to the ServerSideRender component.

Documentation

• Improve the components README files DropdownMenu & RangeControl.
• Add code example of the MediaPlaceholder component.
• Add a accessibility dedicated page.
• Add a Git workflow documentation page.
• Reorganize the contributors guide.
• Mention the dark theme support in the design docs.
• Enhance the compose package documentation.
• Expand the block templates code examples.
• Fix unregisterBlockType code examples.
• Clarify the block styles isDefault property.
• Move the npm packages management documentation to a dedicated page.
• Add a section explaining the links usage in the documentation.
• Add a note about the wp-editor dependency when using RichText.
• Update the isShallowEqual package documentation and tests.
• Refresh the repository management doc.
• Typos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Chore

• Remove PHP Code maintained in Core and bump minimum WordPress version:
  • Block registration.
  • REST API Endpoints.
  • Markdown support fix.
  • Gutenberg body classname and responsive classname.
  • Preloading API calls.
  • Block detection utilities.
  • List screen integration.
  • Block content version.
  • Block categories hook.
  • TinyMCE scripts registration.
  • Reusable blocks post type labels and listing page.
  • Block Types Initialization.
  • PHP Unit tests.
  • Compatibility script.
  • Meta boxes support.
  • Polyfills.
  • oEmbed Proxy Endpoint filter.
  • Visual Editing Disabling.
• Update [browserlist dependency](https://github.com/WordPre...

5.0.0 Release Candidate

Features

• Add a new RSS block and follow-up improvements: 1, 2.
• Add a new Amazon Kindle embed block.
• Add a new FocalPointPicker component and use it to define the focal point of the Cover block background.

Enhancements

• Optimize the re-rendering performance when inserting/removing blocks.
• Improve the Reusable Blocks UX for contributor users.
• Disable embed previews for the smugmug provider.
• Make the fullscreen mode a desktop-only feature.
• Accessibility: Add speak messages when using the FeatureToggle component.
• Accessibility: Change the inserter search result message from assertive to polite.
• Accessibility: Remove duplicate aria label from menu items.
• Remove the "Show Download Button" toggle help text in the File block.
• Render the block switcher as disabled if not available in a multi-selection.
• Use a back arrow icon to clarify the Fullscreen mode exit button.
• Limit the Gallery block columns count to the images count.
• Automatically set a default block style if missing.
• Hide empty categories from the Categories block in the editor.
• Increase the padding of the gallery captions.
• Add left/right alignments to the latest posts block.
• Improve the columns margins.
• Add a help text for the hide teaser toggle in the More block.
• Improve the wording of the embed block messages.

Bug Fixes

• Accessibility: Fix the tab order of the date picker component.
• Support non hierarchical taxonomies in the category selector component.
• Fix blocks marked invalid incorrectly due to special HTML characters.
• Fix the Notice component styling.
• Fix the :root selector in the editor styles.
• Fix duplicate block toolbars.
• Fix warning message when using the DateTimePicker component.
• Fix the File block and Categories block style when applying custom classnames.
• Fix the Gallery block styling in Microsoft Edge.
• Fix the Button block styling when links are visited.
• Fix Block Style preview not dismissed after selection.
• Fix TabPanel buttons incorrectly submitting forms.
• Fix hierarchical dropdown in the Categories block.
• Fix wording for the color picker saturation.
• Fix the save keyboard shortcut while in the code editor mode.
• Fix the Google Docs table pasting.
• Fix jumps when indenting/outdenting list items.
• Fix FontSizePicker max width on mobile.
• Fix PHP 5.2.2 Parser issue.
• Fix plural messages POT generation.

Various

• Add ESnext build setup and commands to the @wordpress/scripts package.
• Add "focus on mount" config to the DropDown component.
• Improve the error handling in the data module resulting in clearer messages displayed in the console.
• Support marking days as invalid in the DatePicker component.
• Support block transforms with inner blocks.
• Improve the styles of the editor notices with actions.
• Replace Polldaddy embed block with Crowdsignal.
• Avoid setting the generic Edit Post Title on load.
• Deprecate window._wpLoadGutenbergEditor.
• Avoid an empty classname when deleting custom classnames.
• Add className prop support to the ServerSideRender component.

Documentation

• Improve the components README files
  • DropdownMenu.
  • RangeControl.
  • Add code example of the MediaPlaceholder component.
• Add a accessibility dedicated page.
• Add a Git workflow documentation page.
• Reorganize the contributors guide.
• Mention the dark theme support in the design docs.
• Enhance the compose package documentation.
• Expand the block templates code examples.
• Fix unregisterBlockType code examples.
• Clarify the block styles isDefault property.
• Move the npm packages management documentation to a dedicated page.
• Add a section explaining the links usage in the documentation.
• Add a note about the wp-editor dependency when using RichText.
• Update the isShallowEqual package documentation and tests.
• Refresh the repository management doc.
• Typos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Chore

• Remove PHP Code maintained in Core and bump minimum WordPress version:
  • Block registration.
  • REST API Endpoints.
  • Markdown support fix.
  • Gutenberg body classname and responsive classname.
  • Preloading API calls.
  • Block detection utilities.
  • List screen integration.
  • Block content version.
  • Block categories hook.
  • TinyMCE scripts registration.
  • Reusable blocks post type labels and listing page.
  • Block Types Initialization.
  • PHP Unit tests.
  • Compatibility script.
  • Meta boxes support.
    ...

4.9.0

Changelog

Performance

• Implement an async rendering mode for the data module updates.
• Avoid rerendering the block components when selecting a block.
• Improve the performance of isEditorEmptyPost selector (13% typing performance improvement).
• Data Module: Avoid persisting unchanged values.
• Update withSelect to use type-optimized isShallowEqual.
• Move data selection to event handlers (called only when necessary).
• Improve the initial rendering time by optimizing the withFilters Higher-order component.

Bug Fixes

• Fix RichText toolbar when using multiline=”li”.
• Correct the margin of the block icons in the inserter.
• Fix ampersand in post tags causing editor crash.
• Remove alignundefined class from gallery block edit markup.
• Disable the button to open the publish sidebar if locked.
• Correct the default margin for buttons with icons.
• Keep the date floating when for posts with "pending" status.
• Fix using the EXIF title when uploading images.
• Fix font size picker on mobile.
• Fix z-index of the Reusable Block Inserter button.
• Fix autop behavior when a text is followed by a div.
• Fix warning when returning null from a data module generator.
• Announce the screen reader messages in the correct order in Safari.
• Check Post Type support in the options modal.

Enhancements

• Support customizing the table background colors.
• Support underlining text using the keyboard shortcut ctrl+U.
• Apply the editor styles to the HTML Block Preview.
• Improve the color swatch selection indicator.
• Improve scrolling behavior in Fullscreen Mode in Edge.
• Remove deprecated embed providers.
• Refactor the alignements support in the Cover Block and the Categories Block.
• Code quality improvement to getBlockContentSchema
• Internationalize the excerpt documentation link.
• Improve pasting of quotes with citations.
• A11y
  • Add a tooltip to the block list appender.
  • Improve the color contrast of the inserter shortcuts.
  • Remove the label from the Warning component’s menu.
• Add an option to overwrite the block in the Warning component.

Extensibility

• Support custom fetch handlers for wp.apiFetch.
• Support additional data passed to the mediaUpload utility.
• Add filter for the preview interstitial markup.
• Avoid appending empty query string in wp.url.addQueryArgs.
• Dispatch heartbeat events as hook actions to avoid the jQuery dependency.
• Support adding classnames to the plugins sidebar panels.
• Add a className to the parent page selector.

Documentation

• Add tutorials for
  • Creating sidebar plugins.
  • Using the Format API.
  • Creating meta blocks.
• Reorganize the tutorials page.
• Improve the UI component documentation:
  • The ButtonGroup component.
  • The IconButton component.
  • The SelectControl component.
  • The TextareaControl component.
  • The TabPanel component.
  • The Toolbar component.
  • The FormToggle component.
• Update the Gutenberg Release and the Repository Management docs.
• Add new section on scoping JS code.
• Use Block Editor instead of Gutenberg in the docs.
• Mention the Advanced Controls Panel in the design guidelines.
• Clarify the unregisterBlockStyle documentation.
• Clarify the difference between the button block and the button component.
• Scope JavaScript ES5 code example.
• Fix incorrect code example.
• Clarify the deprecated APIs.
• Fix typos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7.

Chore

• Improve CI build times.
• Extract error messages from console logging in E2E tests.
• Reorganization of the E2E tests setup and expose it as npm packages.
• Add aXe accessibility E2E tests support.
• Add E2E tests for the excerpt meta box plugin.

Mobile

• Fix the Image Size implementation.
• Fix scrolling long text content.

4.9.0 Release Candidate

Performance

• Implement an async rendering mode for the data module updates.
• Avoid rerendering the block components when selecting a block.
• Improve the performance of isEditorEmptyPost selector (13% typing performance improvement).
• Data Module: Avoid persisting unchanged values.
• Update withSelect to use type-optimized isShallowEqual.
• Move data selection to event handlers (called only when necessary).
• Improve the initial rendering time by optimizing the withFilters Higher-order component.

Bug Fixes

• Fix RichText toolbar when using multiline=”li”.
• Correct the margin of the block icons in the inserter.
• Fix ampersand in post tags causing editor crash.
• Remove alignundefined class from gallery block edit markup.
• Disable the button to open the publish sidebar if locked.
• Correct the default margin for buttons with icons.
• Keep the date floating when for posts with "pending" status.
• Fix using the EXIF title when uploading images.
• Fix font size picker on mobile.
• Fix z-index of the Reusable Block Inserter button.
• Fix autop behavior when a text is followed by a div.
• Fix warning when returning null from a data module generator.
• Announce the screen reader messages in the correct order in Safari.
• Check Post Type support in the options modal.

Enhancements

• Support customizing the table background colors.
• Support underlining text using the keyboard shortcut ctrl+U.
• Apply the editor styles to the HTML Block Preview.
• Improve the color swatch selection indicator.
• Improve scrolling behavior in Fullscreen Mode in Edge.
• Remove deprecated embed providers.
• Refactor the alignements support in the Cover Block and the Categories Block.
• Code quality improvement to getBlockContentSchema
• Internationalize the excerpt documentation link.
• Improve pasting of quotes with citations.
• A11y
  • Add a tooltip to the block list appender.
  • Improve the color contrast of the inserter shortcuts.
  • Remove the label from the Warning component’s menu.
• Add an option to overwrite the block in the Warning component.

Extensibility

• Support custom fetch handlers for wp.apiFetch.
• Support additional data passed to the mediaUpload utility.
• Add filter for the preview interstitial markup.
• Avoid appending empty query string in wp.url.addQueryArgs.
• Dispatch heartbeat events as hook actions to avoid the jQuery dependency.
• Support adding classnames to the plugins sidebar panels.
• Add a className to the parent page selector.

Documentation

• Add tutorials for
  • Creating sidebar plugins.
  • Using the Format API.
  • Creating meta blocks.
• Reorganize the tutorials page.
• Improve the UI component documentation:
  • The ButtonGroup component.
  • The IconButton component.
  • The SelectControl component.
  • The TextareaControl component.
  • The TabPanel component.
  • The Toolbar component.
  • The FormToggle component.
• Update the Gutenberg Release and the Repository Management docs.
• Add new section on scoping JS code.
• Use Block Editor instead of Gutenberg in the docs.
• Mention the Advanced Controls Panel in the design guidelines.
• Clarify the unregisterBlockStyle documentation.
• Clarify the difference between the button block and the button component.
• Scope JavaScript ES5 code example.
• Fix incorrect code example.
• Clarify the deprecated APIs.
• Fix typos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7.

Chore

• Improve CI build times.
• Extract error messages from console logging in E2E tests.
• Reorganization of the E2E tests setup and expose it as npm packages.
• Add aXe accessibility E2E tests support.
• Add E2E tests for the excerpt meta box plugin.

Mobile

• Fix the Image Size implementation.
• Fix scrolling long text content.

🚩4.8.0

Performance

• Improve page initialization time by optimizing the addHook function and the viewport state initialization.
• Improve typing performance by splitting the state tree.
• Optimize partial application of runSelector.
• Move selector calls to the event handles to avoid useless component rerenders.
• Render DropZone children only when dragging elements over it.
• Initialize variables only when needed.

Enhancements

• Add error messages to the image block on upload failures.
• Merge similar i18n strings.
• Disable clipboard button in file block during upload.
• Persist alignment when transforming a gallery to an image and vice-versa.
• Copy enhancement to the embed block help text.
• Improve the scrolling of the WordPress navigation menu.

Bug Fixes

• Fix RTL support for the DatePicker component.
• Change the header level in the BlockCompare component.
• Show all the taxonomies in the sidebar.
• Fix the latest posts date className.
• Fix the “align center” button in Latest Posts block in the backend.
• Fix block height when DropCap is used.
• Fix converting caption shortcode with link.
• Fix edge case in addQueryArgs function.
• Don’t return the permalink if the CPT is not publicly viewable.
• Fix error when saving non public CPTs.
• Properly disable the Publish button when saving is disabled.

Various

• Show a message in the browser’s console when in Quirks Mode.
• Improvements to the @wordpress/scripts package: A new a check-engines command, a lint-style command and an update to lint-js.

Documentation

• Add a getting started with JavaScript tutorial.
• Document the blocks’ setup states in the design guidelines.
• Add content to Contributors index page.
• Improve the components documentation:
  • The MenuItem component.
  • The RadioControl component.
  • The ServerSideRender component.
• Organise the documentation assets in a dedicated folder.
• Clarify immutability of the block attributes.
• Fix the metabox back compat code example.
• Fix incorrect data module example.
• Improve the plugin release docs.
• Remove useless property from the colors code example.
• Improve the contributing documentation.
• Fix npm README links.
• Update the design resources link.
• Typo fixes.

Chore

• Run e2e tests with popular plugins enabled.
• Add new e2e tests:
  • The permalink panel.
  • The categories panel.
  • Blocks with meta attributes.
• Update node-sass to fix Node 11 support.
• Move the dev dependencies to the root package.json.
• Improve the Pull Request Template.
• More logs to the CI jobs.
• Code style fixes and expand the phpcs coverage.
• Disable fragile e2e tests.
• Avoid PHP notices when running the e2e tests in debug mode.

Mobile

• Make a simple version of DefaultBlockAppender.
• Stop using classname-to-style autotransform in react native.
• Fix SVG styles.
• Implement Enter press to add a default block.
• Hide keyboard when non textual block is selected.
• Fix undo/redo on new blocks.
• Pass the blockType prop to RNAztecView.
• Expose unregisterBlockType.

4.8.0 Release Candidate

Performance

• Improve page initialization time by optimizing the addHook function and the viewport state initialization.
• Improve typing performance by splitting the state tree.
• Optimize partial application of runSelector.
• Move selector calls to the event handles to avoid useless component rerenders.
• Render DropZone children only when dragging elements over it.
• Initialize variables only when needed.

Enhancements

• Add error messages to the image block on upload failures.
• Merge similar i18n strings.
• Disable clipboard button in file block during upload.
• Persist alignment when transforming a gallery to an image and vice-versa.
• Copy enhancement to the embed block help text.
• Improve the scrolling of the WordPress navigation menu.

Bug Fixes

• Fix RTL support for the DatePicker component.
• Change the header level in the BlockCompare component.
• Show all the taxonomies in the sidebar.
• Fix the latest posts date className.
• Fix the “align center” button in Latest Posts block in the backend.
• Fix block height when DropCap is used.
• Fix converting caption shortcode with link.
• Fix edge case in addQueryArgs function.
• Don’t return the permalink if the CPT is not publicly viewable.
• Fix error when saving non public CPTs.
• Properly disable the Publish button when saving is disabled.

Various

• Show a message in the browser’s console when in Quirks Mode.
• Improvements to the @wordpress/scripts package: A new a check-engines command, a lint-style command and an update to lint-js.

Documentation

• Add a getting started with JavaScript tutorial.
• Document the blocks’ setup states in the design guidelines.
• Add content to Contributors index page.
• Improve the components documentation:
  • The MenuItem component.
  • The RadioControl component.
  • The ServerSideRender component.
• Organise the documentation assets in a dedicated folder.
• Clarify immutability of the block attributes.
• Fix the metabox back compat code example.
• Fix incorrect data module example.
• Improve the plugin release docs.
• Remove useless property from the colors code example.
• Improve the contributing documentation.
• Fix npm README links.
• Update the design resources link.
• Typo fixes.

Chore

• Run e2e tests with popular plugins enabled.
• Add new e2e tests:
  • The permalink panel.
  • The categories panel.
  • Blocks with meta attributes.
• Update node-sass to fix Node 11 support.
• Move the dev dependencies to the root package.json.
• Improve the Pull Request Template.
• More logs to the CI jobs.
• Code style fixes and expand the phpcs coverage.
• Disable fragile e2e tests.
• Avoid PHP notices when running the e2e tests in debug mode.

Mobile

• Make a simple version of DefaultBlockAppender.
• Stop using classname-to-style autotransform in react native.
• Fix SVG styles.
• Implement Enter press to add a default block.
• Hide keyboard when non textual block is selected.
• Fix undo/redo on new blocks.
• Pass the blockType prop to RNAztecView.
• Expose unregisterBlockType.