5.7.0-rc.1

Changelog

Features

• Support setting a width to the column block.
• Support showing Post Content or excerpt in the Latest Posts block.
• Support headers and footers in the Table block.

Enhancement

• Improve the UX of the Group block by using the individual block appender.
• Support updating images using Drag & Drop.
• Clarify the name of the inline code format.
• Add a usability warning when audio/video autoplay is applied.
• Replace the Page Break block icon with Material version.

Bug Fixes

• A11y:
  • Fix focal point picker input labels.
  • Add role to the copy all content menu item.
  • Add focus style to the document outline panel.
  • Update the save indicator contrast to pass AA.
  • Fix The tabbing order in the Gallery Block.
  • Improve the contrast of the button focus styles.
  • Fixed focus state of pressed AM/PM buttons.
  • Fix the URLInput aria properties.
  • Avoid showing pre-publish panel buttons as links.
  • Fix the focus state of the links shown as buttons.
• Fix RTL keyboard interactions.
• Fix updates to RichText formats not being reflected in the UI synchronously.
• Fix extra line breaks added when pasting from Google Docs.
• Fix copy, paste JavaScript errors in paragraph blocks with locking enabled.
• Fix format buttons incorrectly toggled on RichText blur.
• Preserve the caret’s horizontal position when navigating blocks.
• Case-insensitive search for existing categories.
• Prevent the Code block from rendering embeds or shortcodes.
• Fix the SandBox component usage outside the WP-admin context.
• Fix the  Cover block’s deprecated version attributes.
• Fix the webpack dependency plugin: filename function handling.
• Support watching block.json changes in our build tool.
• Fix ServerSideRender remaining in loading state when nothing is rendered.
• Fix the server-side registered blocks in the widgets screen.
• Show the block movers in the widgets screen.
• Decode the HTML entities in the post author selector.
• Fix inconsistent heading sizes between the classic and the heading blocks.
• Add check for author in post data before meta boxes save request submission.
• Allow blocks drag & drop if locking is set to "insert".
• Fix Youtube embed styles when used multiple times in a post.
• Proxy the code/block-editor replaceBlock action in the core/editor package.
• Use block-editor instead of editor in cover block.
• Fix block showing an error in Safari when focused.
• Fix small visual error in the active state of the formatting buttons.
• Fix the pinned plugins buttons styles when toggled.
• Set caret position correctly when merging blocks using the Delete key.

Documentation

• Clarify best practices pertaining to Color Palette values.
• Use Block Editor instead of Gutenberg when appropriate in the Handbook.
• Omit docblocks with private tag in the API Docs generation.
• Update docs for selectors & actions moved to block-editor.
• Update i18n docs to use make-json command from wp-cli.
• Consolidate doc generation tools.
• Fix next/previous links issue.
• Webpack dependency plugin: Document unsupported multiple instances.
• Add a DevHub manifest file to allow synchronizing the documentation to the DevHub.
• Typos and tweaks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

Various

• Support and use the shorthand Fragment syntax.
• Update to Babel 7.4 and core-js 3.
• Upgrade simple-html-tokenizer dependency.
• Pass individual files as arguments from watch to build script.
• Automate the scripts dependencies generation.
• Clean DropZone component’s unused state.
• remove __unstablePositionedAtSelection component.
• Refactor core/edit-post INIT effect to use action-generators and controls.
• Improve eslint disable comments.
• Fix NaN warning when initializing the FocalPointPicker component.
• Export React.memo in the @wordpress/element package.
• Improve the specificity of the custom colors styles.
• Preload the autosaves endpoint to avoid request when loading the editor.
• A11y: Add support for Axe verification in e2e tests.
• Refactor the File block to use the block.json syntax.
• Remove redundant duplicated reducers.
• Add integration tests for blocks with deprecations.
• Allow non-production env in wp-scripts build.
• Use React Hooks in the BlockListBlock component.
• Add an e2e test for custom taxonomies.
• Fix intermittent failures on block transforms tests.
• Remove componentWillReceiveProps usage from ColorPicker.
• Add an experimental CPT to be used in the block based widgets screen.
• Split JavaScript CI tasks to individual jobs.
• Remove unnecessary aria-label from the block inserter list items.

Mobile

• Add a first version of the video block.
• Fix the Auto-scroll behavior on List block.
• Fix the list handling on Android.
• Improve accessibility of the missing block.