4.2.0

Changelog (in addition to the changelog of 4.2.0 rc 1)

• RichText: fix buggy enter/delete behaviour (Extra br elements)
• Fix showing categories for contributors
• Improvements to the Format API

v4.0.1

Changelog

• Deactivate plugin versions below 4.1 on WordPress 5.0. #11375

v3.9.1

Changelog

• Deactivate plugin versions below 4.1 on WordPress 5.0. #11375

v3.8.1

Changelog

• Deactivate plugin versions below 4.1 on WordPress 5.0. #11375

v3.7.1

Changelog

• Deactivate plugin versions below 4.1 on WordPress 5.0. #11375

v3.6.3

Changelog

• Deactivate plugin versions below 4.1 on WordPress 5.0. #11375

4.2.0 (Release Candidate)

Changelog

• Introduce the Formatting API for extending RichText.
• Use default Inserter for sibling block insertion.
• Support adding and updating entities in data module.
• Update block descriptions for added clarity and consistency.
• Add support for displaying icons in new block categories.
• Append registered toolbar buttons in RichText.
• Optimize SlotFill rendering to avoid props destructuring.
• Optimize Inserter props generation and reconciliation.
• Improve writing flow by unsetting typing flag if Escape pressed.
• Add support for non-Latin inputs in slash autocomplete block inserter.
• Use an animated WP logo for preview screen.
• Add “img” as a keyword for the Image block.
• Delay TinyMCE initialisation to focus.
• Announce number of filtered results from block inserter to screen readers.
• Add audible feedback for link editing.
• Avoid focus loss on active tab change within the Sidebar.
• Add Alt + F10 (navigate to the nearest toolbar) to the shortcut docs and modal.
• Add some more URL helpers to the url package.
• Add has-dates class to Latest Posts block if applicable.
• Improve mobile display of “options” modal.
• Add “link target” option in Image block.
• Use currentcolor as border-color for outline button style.
• Introduce a new middleware to the api-fetch package which adds ?_locale=user to every REST API request.
• Refactor and optimize withSelect, withDispatch handling of registry change.
• Refactor and update DropZone context API.
• Rephrase description of responsive toggle.
• Ensure buttons on end of row in media-placeholder have no margin on the right.
• Include implicit core styles in SelectControl.
• Use better help text for ALT text input.
• Flatten Inserter mapSelectToProps to optimize rendering.
• Cleanup Embed code and add better test coverage.
• Add space above exit code editor button.
• Return 0 in WordCount if text is empty.
• Avoid setting a value on the File block download attribute.
• Set download attribute on File block as empty.
• Remove Cover block ‘strong’ style.
• Reduce frequency of actions updating isCaretWithinFormattedText.
• Add a function to unregister a block style variation.
• Add lodash deburr to autocomplete so that is works with diacritics.
• Avoid making WordPress post embeds responsive.
• Improve handling of centered 1-column galleries with small images.
• Make pre-publish prompts more generic.
• Improve the style variation control aria-label.
• Improve preloading request code.
• Add missing context to various i18n strings.
• Add post saving lock APIs so plugins can add and remove locks.
• Take the viewport size into account when it comes to decide whether to show the button or toggle logic for “submit for review”.
• Improve accessibility of settings sidebar tabs.
• Improve the header toolbar aria-label.
• Add styles to stop Classic block buttons from inheriting italics from themes.
• Add aria-label to links that open in new windows.
• Add more descriptive aria-labels for the open and closed states of sidebar settings.
• Add key event handler to activate block styles with keyboard.
• Add field that allows changing image alt text from the sidebar in Media & Text.
• Add aria-label to describe action of featured image update button.
• Restore displaying formatting shortcuts in toolbar.
• Add i18n context to “Resolve” button for invalid blocks.
• Update the editor styles wrapper to avoid specificity issues.
• Fix converting a reusable block with nested blocks into a static block.
• Fix regression with mobile toolbar spacing.
• Fix size regression in block icon.
• Fix multi-selected warning block highlight.
• Fix: Show resizer on “Media & Text” block on unified toolbar mode
• Fix some RichText shortcuts and add e2e tests.
• Fix issue with tertiary button hit areas.
• Fix issue with unified toolbar not always fitting in smaller viewports.
• Fix issue with “remove tag” button in long tag names.
• Fix rich text value for nested lists.
• Use color function for defining the background in DateTimePicker.
• Fix usage of preg_quote() in block parsing.
• Fix flow of scheduling and then publishing.
• Fix focus issue on Gallery remove button.
• Fix keyboard interaction (up/down arrow keys) causing focus to transfer out of the default block’s insertion menu.
• Fix regression causing dynamic blocks not rendering in the frontend.
• Fix vertical alignment issue on Media & Text block.
• Fix some linter errors in master branch.
• Fix dash line in More/Next-Page blocks.
• Fix missing Categories block label.
• Fix embedding and demo tests.
• Fix issue with vanilla stylesheet.
• Fix documentation for openModal() and closeModal().
• Fix blocks navigation menu SVG icon size.
• Fix link popover keyboard accessibility.
• Fix issue with multiselect using shift + arrow.
• Fix issue with format placeholder.
• Fix Safari issue where hover outlines sometimes linger.
• Resolve an issue where the “Copy Post Text” button in the error boundary would not actually copy post text, since it used a legacy retrieval method for post content.
• Make preview placeholder text translatable.
• Load translations in the reusable block listing page.
• Avoid adding isDirty prop to DOM.
• Improve translation string and replace placeholder handling for MediaPlaceholder instructions.
• Refactor rich text package to avoid using blocks packages as a dependency.
• Handle 204 response code in API Fetch.
• Remove HTML source string normalization.
• Normalize function arguments in Block API.
• Remove unused code path.
• Deprecate layout attribute.
• Add class for -dropdown/-list in Archives block.
• Update registration method signature of RichText.
• Add filter for preloading API paths.
• Add missing @return tag to gutenberg_meta_box_save_redirect() function.
• Rename id attribute to tipId in DotTip.
• Only silence REST errors if the REST server is present
• Use consistent help text in DatePicker.
• Export both the DropZone and MediaPlaceholder editor components with the withFilters HOC.
• Remove “half” keyword from Media & Text block.
• Remove redundant hooks initialization.
• Mark getSettings in Date package as experimental.
• Remove unused variable fallbacks in RichText.
• Improve the Toggle Control elements DOM order for better accessibility.
• Mark Reusable blocks API as experimental pending future refactor.
• Set correct media type for video poster image and manage focus properly.
• Avoid PHP notices due to non-available meta boxes.
• Implement fetchAllMiddleware to handle per_page=-1 through pagination in wp.apiFetch.
• Add do’s and don’ts to block design documentation.
• Update creating-dynamic-blocks.md.
• Update editor package changelog.
• Add notices package.
• Add styles property to block-api.md.
• Add documentation for responsive-embeds theme option.
• Add missing e2e tests for Plugins API.
• Add an eslint rule to use cross-environment SVG primitives.
• Use turbo-combine-reducers in place of Redux
• Update react-click-outside to 3.0.
• Update @wordpress/hooks README to include namespace mention.
• Fix Heading blocks validation errors after block splitting
• Expose setUnregisteredTypeHandlerName / getUnregisteredTypeHandlerName for mobile.
• Fix a refresh issue with iOS when splitting blocks.
• Simplify onEnter handling.
• Hook onBackSpace in RichText component.
• Introduce the ability to merge two blocks together on Backspace.
• Properly refresh blocks when merging them under iOS.
• Port nextpage block to the ReactNative mobile app

4.1.1

Changelog

• 4317761 — #11050 Fix dynamic blocks not rendering in the frontend

4.1.0

• Implement a block navigation system that allows selecting child or parent blocks within nested blocks (like folder path traversal) as well as functioning as a general fast navigation system when a root block is selected.
• Add a Media & Text block that can facilitate the creation of split column content and allows the split to be resizable.
• Show block style selector in the block inspector.
• Rename Cover Image to just Cover and add support for video backgrounds.
• Add a new accessible Date Picker. This was months in the works.
• Reimplement the Color Picker component to greatly improve keyboard navigation and screenreader operations.
• Add style variation for Table block with stripe design.
• Add “Options” modal to toggle on/off the different document panels.
• Allow toggling visibility of registered meta-boxes from the “Options” modal.
• Handle cases where a block is on the page but the block is not registered by showing a dialog with the available options.
• Ensure compatibility with WordPress 5.0.
• When pasting single lines of text, treat them as inline text.
• Add ability to insert images from URL directly in the Image block.
• Make Columns block responsive.
• Make responsive embeds a theme option.
• Add direction attribute / LTR button to the Paragraph block.
• Display accurate updated and publish notices based on post type.
• Update buttons in the editor header area to improve consistency (save, revert to draft, etc).
• Avoid horizontal writing flow navigation in native inputs.
• Move toggle buttons to the left of their control handle.
• Add explicit bottom margin to figure elements (like image and embed).
• Allow transforming a Pullquote to a Quote and viceversa.
• Allow block inserter to search for blocks by typing their category.
• Add a label to the URL field in the Publishing Flow panel.
• Use the stored date format in settings for the LatestPosts block.
• Remove the placeholder text and use visible label instead in TokenField.
• Add translator comment for “View” menu label.
• Make YouTube embed classes consistent between front-end and back-end.
• Take into account citation when transforming a Quote to a Paragraph.
• Restore ⌘A’s “select all blocks” behaviour.
• Allow themes to disable custom font size functionality.
• Make missing custom font sizes labels translatable.
• Ensure cite is string when merging quote.
• Defer fetching non-hierarchical terms in FlatTermSelector.
• Move the theme support data previously exposed at the REST API index into a read-only theme controller for the active theme.
• Detect oEmbed responses where the oEmbed provider is missing.
• Use “Save as Pending” when the Pending checkbox is active.
• Use the post type’s REST controller class as autosave parent controller.
• Use post type labels in PostFeaturedImage component.
• Enforce text color within inline boundaries to ensure contrast and legibility.
• Add self-closing tag support (like path element) when comparing HTML.
• Make sure autocomplete triggers are regex safe.
• Silence PHP errors on REST API responses.
• Show permalink label as bold text.
• Change the block renderer controller endpoint and namespace from /gutenberg/v1/block-renderer/ to /wp/v2/block-renderer/.
• Hide “edit image” toolbar buttons when no image is selected.
• Hide “Add to Reusable Blocks” action when ‘core/block’ is disabled.
• Handle blocks passing null as RichText value.
• Improve validation for attribute names in rich-text toHTMLString.
• Allow to globally overwrite defined colors in PanelColorSettings.
• Fix regressions with Button block preview display.
• Fix issue with color picker not appearing on mobile.
• Fix publish buttons with long text.
• Fix link to manifest file in contributing file.
• Fix demo content crash on malformed URL.
• Fix issue in docs manifest.
• Fix media caption processing with the new RichText structure.
• Fix problem with Gallery losing assigned columns when alignments are applied.
• Fix an issue where the Categories block would always use the center class alignment regardless of what was set.
• Fix scroll issue on small viewports.
• Fix formatting in getEditorSettings docs and update getTokenSettings docs.
• Fix padding in block validation modal.
• Fix extra instances of old rich text value source.
• Fix issue with adding links from the auto-completer.
• Fix outdated docs for RichText.
• Fix pre-publish panel overflow issue.
• Fix missing styles for medium and huge font size classes.
• Fix autocomplete keyboard navigation in link popover.
• Fix a text selection exception in Safari.
• Fix WordPress embed URL resolution and embeds as reusable blocks.
• Avoid triggering a redirect when creating a new Table block.
• Only use rich text value internally to the RichText component.
• Ensure multiline prop is either “p” or “li” in RichText.
• Do not use dangerouslySetInnerHTML with i18n string.
• Account for null value in redux-routine createRuntime.
• Extract link container from RichText.
• Allow default_title, default_content, and default_excerpt filters to function as expected.
• Replace gutenberg in classNames with block-editor.
• Restore the order of actions usually fired in edit-form-advanced.php.
• Update REST Search controller to use ‘wp/v2’ namespace.
• Improve keyboard shortcuts section in FAQ.
• Change all occurrences of ‘new window’ to ‘new tab’.
• Conditionally load PHP classes in preparation for inclusion in core.
• Update rich-text source mentions in docs.
• Deprecate PanelColor components.
• Use mock response for demo test if Vimeo is down.
• Adding a bit more verbosity to the install script instructions.
• Document isDefault option for block styles.
• Update docs for new REST API namespace.
• Update shortcut docs with new block navigation menu shortcut.
• Further improve Release docs.
• Updated custom icon documentation links.
• Add all available script handles to documentation.
• Add wp-polyfill to scripts.md.
• Add e2e tests for List and Quote transformations.
• Fail CI build if local changes exist.
• Attempt to always use the latest version of nvm.
• Add bare handling for lint-js script.
• Add support for Webpack bundle analyzer.
• Improve setup of Lerna.
• Update clipboard dependency to at least 2.0.1.
• Recreate the demo content post as an e2e test using keyboard commands.
• Add mobile SVG compatibility for SVG block icons.
• Fix className style in SVG primitive.
• Split Paragraph and Heading blocks on enter.KEY. Refactor block splitting code on paragraph and heading blocks.
• Add caption support for image block.
• Rename PHP functions to prevent conflict with core
• Fix some typos
• Improve the Toggle Control elements DOM order for better accessibility
• Set correct media type for video poster image and manage focus properly.
• Implement fetchAllMiddleware to handle per_page=-1 through pagination in wp.apiFetch
• Fix Slash autocomplete: Support non-Latin inputs
• Add WordPress logo animation for preview

4.1.0-rc.2

• Fix fullscreen mode toggle
• Rename PHP functions to prevent conflict with core
• Fix the date picker styles
• Fix some typos
• Improve the Toggle Control elements DOM order for better accessibility
• Set correct media type for video poster image and manage focus properly.
• Avoid PHP notices due to non-available meta boxes
• Implement fetchAllMiddleware to handle per_page=-1 through pagination in wp.apiFetch