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 CSS rules.
• Add e2e tests for tags creation.
• Add the feature flags setup.
• Implement block editor styles using a filter.

Documentation

• Add a new tutorial about the editor notices.
• Add JavaScript build tools documentation.
• Enhance the block’s edit/save documentation and code examples.
• Use Title Case consistently.
• Add e2e test utils documentation.
• Small enhancements and typos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

Mobile

• Add bottom sheet settings for the image block:
  • alt description.
  • Links.
• Implement the media upload options sheet.
• Implementing Clear All Settings button on Image Settings.
• Avoid hard-coded font family styling for the image blocks.
• Improve the post title component.
• Fix the bottom sheet styling for RTL layouts.
• Support the placeholder prop in the RichText component.