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@jorgefilipecosta jorgefilipecosta released this 16 Dec 16:58

Features

  • Allow dragging blocks from the inserter into the canvas. (27669)
  • Buttons: Add variations for vertical layout. (27297)

Enhancements

  • Buttons block: Change position of the link popover. (27408)

New APIs

  • Add a useFocusOnMount hook to the @wordpress/compose package. (27574)
  • Add a useFocusReturn hook. (27572)
  • Add a useConstrainedTabbing hook. (27544)
  • Components: Introduce a isDisabled prop to the Disabled component. (26730)
  • Create block: Use Block API version 2. (26098)

Bug Fixes

  • Widget screen: Fix block select on focus. (27755)
  • [Embed block]: Add html and reusable support back. (27733)
  • Add useCallbackRef to avoid calling the ref multiple times with the same node. (27710)
  • Correct getRedistributedColumnWidths and related tests. (27681)
  • Remove CSS Custom Property in code block. (27672)
  • Block crashes if font family is not found. (27654)
  • popover flickering on small screens. (27648)
  • Adding single use block from main inserter causes focus loss and menu to be stuck open. (27641)
  • Changelog for 9.5.2. (27638)
  • Uncaught error with a custom generic store without a unsubscribe function in useSelect. (27634)
  • Revert date changes from branch 'replace-moment'. (27550)
  • useMediaQuery: Make it safe for SSR environments without window. (27542)
  • Fixes the width on the circle color picker popover. (27523)
  • ComboboxControl/FormTokenField: Fix iOS zooming for input. (27471)
  • Fallback to regular subscribe if the store doesn't exist in useSelect. (27466)
  • Global Styles getPresetVariable uses a wrong variable; Remove GLOBAL_CONTEXT. (27450)
  • Popover: Fix issue with undefined getBoundingClientRect. (27445)
  • Try fixing combobox a11y issues. (27431)
  • Support gradients with omitted stop positions in CustomGradientPicker. (27413)
  • Fix combobox suggestion list closure when clicking scrollbar. (27367)
  • Video Block: Let the video fill the container. (27328)
  • Media & Text “crop image to fill” to work with linked media. (27211)
  • Give editable fields in blocks better aria-labels. (26582)
  • Replace function should handle empty string callback return in the shortcode parser. (16358)

Performance

  • Split core blocks assets loading. (25220)

Experiments

  • Add a useDialog hook and replace the duplicated PopoverWrapper. (27643)
  • Refactor withFocusOutside to hook. (27369)

FSE: Block Navigation

  • Update Navigation block placeholder. (27018)

FSE: Block Query

  • Add new post link to Query. (27732)
  • Allow Query Loop only inside Query block. (27637)
  • Adjust mobile margins for the Query block's grid view. (27619)
  • Query block: Allow inheriting the global query arguments. (27128)

FSE: Blocks

  • Add comment-form block styles. (27673)
  • Tag Cloud block: Adjust styles for the different block alignments. (27342)
  • Site Logo:
    • Remove line height. (27623)
    • Add a rounded block style. (27621)

FSE: Infrastructure

  • Apply hover class in outline mode. (27714)
  • Update documentation to show how a theme can have FSE automatically enabled. (27680)
  • Make the inserter in the site editor behave as a popover. (27502)
  • Add an outline mode and use it both Site Editor and Template mode. (27499)
  • Load the block patterns in the site editor. (27497)
  • Move the templates prePersist logic to core-data. (27464)
  • Expand the multi-entity saving panel by default. (27437)
  • Reveal block boundaries on hover in the Site Editor. (27271)
  • Site Editor - add query args for current context. (27124)
  • Full Site Editing: Introduce a template editing mode inside the post editor. (26355)

FSE: Style System

  • Fix: Font Weight and Style don't work independently on global styles. (27659)
  • Add custom units in BoxControl. (27626)
  • Remove Font style, weight, decoration, and transform presets. (27555)
  • Make client preset metadata match server. (27453)
  • Do not pass selectors and supports information to the client. (27449)
  • Add border radius support. (25791)
  • Update font-weight names. (27718)

Documentation

  • Add missing dependency to code example. (27742)
  • Precise that element ref returned by the hooks that return a ref can change between function or object. (27610)
  • Add escaping functions to code examples. (27603)
  • Add missing @wordpress/components/CHANGELOG.md entry. (27576)
  • Minor changes to release documentation for clarity. (27571)
  • Capitalize JavaScript in accordance with the word mark. (27539)
  • Fix typo in attributes.md. (27440)
  • Try: Update readme screenshot. (27223)
  • Document the useBlockWrapper hook in the block registration documentation. (26592)
  • Add a document explaining the different block API versions. (26277)
  • Update the registration examples to use apiVersion 2. (26100)

Code Quality

  • Remove: Missed unused weights and style translation code. (27739)
  • useDialog: Remove mousedown propagation stopping. (27725)
  • Try: Simplify focus return. (27705)
  • Popover/Modal: Remove and deprecate IsolatedEventContainer. (27703)
  • Popover: Use focus outside hook. (27700)
  • refactor: Tooltip component from classical to functional with hooks. (27682)
  • Template-part padding: Use variables. (27679)
  • Scope image block style variations to only the image block. (27649)
  • Refactor the EditorProvider component and extract hooks. (27605)
  • Use store definition instead of string for notices packages. (27548)
  • Merge RootContainer with BlockList. (27531)
  • Block wrapper: Isolate functionality into smaller hooks. (27503)
  • Writing flow: Consider events only from DOM descendents. (27489)
  • Writing flow: Isolate multi select focus element. (27482)
  • Multi selection: Move hook to WritingFlow with other multi selection logic. (27479)
  • Insertion indicator: Render after last block if none is specified. (27472)
  • Rewrite selection clearer in Block editor. (27468)
  • Move block focus listener to block props hook. (27463)
  • Block editor: Refactor effect.js to controls. (27298)
  • Animate: Type getAnimateClassName. (27123)
  • Refactor image block's image editing tools into separate components. (27089)
  • Drop zone provider: Option to avoid wrapper element. (27079)
  • Audit variables stylesheet. (26827)
  • group block padding: Use variables. (27676)

Tools

  • Release script: Set draft status, and only remove after uploading asset. (27713)
  • CI: Run date test timezone and locale variations using bash script. (27600)
  • Upgrade Babel packages to 7.12.x. (27553)
  • CI: Run package/date unit tests in different timezones. (27552)
  • Avoid cancelling other end-to-end test jobs when one fails. (27541)
  • Add webpack 5 support to dependency-extraction-webpack-plugin. (27533)
  • Add GitHub support document. (27524)
  • Stabilize adding blocks end to end test. (27493)
  • GitHub Actions: Use a build matrix for the end-to-end tests GH action. (27487)
  • Packages: Make it possible to select minimum version bump for publishing. (27459)
  • Upgrade wp-prettier to 2.2.1. (27441)
  • Testing: Make image size test more stable. (27439)
  • Packages: Improve the script that automates version bumps. (27436)
  • CI: Update bundle size workflow to use the latest version. (27435)
  • wp-env: Xdebug support. (27346)
  • Make zip-based URL parsing more general. (27019)
  • Add inserter performance measures. (26634)

Various

  • Verse Block:
    • Add support for custom padding. (27341)
    • Add support for font family. (27332)
    • Add support for font size. (27735)
    • Update CSS for frontend and editor. (27734)
  • Popover: Use a11y hooks instead of HoCs. (27707)
  • Refactor focus on mount. (27699)
  • Search block: Use em values for padding. (27678)
  • Button: Is-busy state candybar animation fixed. (27592)
  • Preformatted block: Add support for font sizes. (27584)
  • Remove autoFocus prop from URLInput and from the inserter search form. (27578)
  • Package lock: Update ws. (27532)
  • Update block-patterns.md. (27520)
  • Update wp-env codeowners. (27491)
  • Update the backup icon to better align with WordPress icon package dna. (27465)
  • Update the rich text control titles to sentence case structure. (27447)
  • Search Block: Remove the button only option from the UI. (27379)
  • Add icons for template parts. (27378)
  • Increase radio dimensions to match checkboxes. (27377)
  • Adjusts settings modal height to 90%. (27362)
  • Change the Labels of the Vertical Align options. (27356)
  • Add element selector to template-part block. (27101)
  • Add explicit dismiss button and on dismiss callback to snackbar. (26952)
  • Make social list block align right able on published page & preview. (26861)
  • Update media-text focalPoint conditional rendering. (25968)
  • Remove default icon from PluginBlockSettingsMenuItem. (21392)
  • Add example preview to video block. (20703)