5.8.0 RC1

Features

• Support changing the text color in the Heading block.
• Support reordering gallery images.
• Complete the initial version of the widgets screen POC
  • Add an experimental endpoint to fetch the block-based widget areas.
  • Connect the screen to the widget areas endpoint.
  • Load the widget scripts.
  • Load colors, font sizes and file upload settings in the widgets screen.
  • Render the block based widget areas in the frontend.

Enhancements

• Clarify the label of the custom classname inspector panel.
• Update Calendar block icon for better alignment with the Archives block icon.
• Add width constraints to the Media & Text block.
• Allow dropping blocks into container blocks using the new block appender.
• Provide default margins for the Latest Posts block excerpts.

Bug Fixes

• Support block style variations for container blocks.
• A11y
  • Use semantic markup for the document outline.
  • Fix the reading order of the keyboard shortcuts modal.
  • Add a visible help text to the tags input.
  • Update the icon of the Heading block.
  • Move the View Posts anchor out of the toolbar section in the header.
  • Close the block settings menu after removing the block.
• Fix the blurriness of the disabled block switcher icons.
• Fix missing template validation warning.
• Fix several content spitting issues and make the onSplit prop stable.
• Allow the Shortcode block field to expand automatically.
• Left pad the DateTimePicker minutes input.
• Fix the frontend classname used for the Latest Posts block excerpts.
• Fix error happening when deleting the last block if the paragraph block is unregistered.
• Fix focus jumps when typing in meta block fields.

Documentation

• Improve the Slot/Fill documentation.
• Document the Github teams used in the repository.
• Document the icon prop for the MediaPlaceholder component.
• Update the changelogs maintenance documentation.
• Clarify the save function documentation to discourage side effects.
• Clarify the block attributes documentation.
• Replace @link with @see in JSDocs.
• Fixes and tweaks to the API docs generation tool.
• Typos and tweaks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Various

• Add a new editor setting to allow disabling the code editor.
• Add a new @wordpress/data-controls package.
• Add an automation tool to simplify the Gutenberg release process.
• Support the all hook in non-production environments.
• Expose hasResolver property on the data module selectors.
• Support multiple pattern replacement for the custom-templated-path-webpack-plugin package.
• Update node-sass dependency to support the latest Node.js version.
• Fix React warning showing when loading the editor (Fill component).
• Fix React warning message when using the Image block.
• Refactor the popover component using React Hooks.
• Remove WebpackRTLPlugin usage.
• Remove an outdated chrome fix for iframes drag and drop.
• Skip Chromium download in Travis by default.
• Rewrite Node.js packages to use CommonJS exports.
• Speed up Docker and e2e tests setup Travis.
• Extracted the deprecated block version declarations to their own files.
• Add missing file from the published @wordpress/dependency-extraction-webpack-plugin-files package.
• Upgrade package dependencies: Lerna and Webpack Bundle Analyzer.

Mobile

• Add the Quote block.
• Make the Video block publicly available.
• Fix bug when merging blocks.
• Improve the UI/UX of the different media blocks.
• Support nested lists.
• Fix Image block with an undefined url.
• Support rich captions in the Image block.
• Improve screen reader support on BottomSheet’s cells.
• Fix several focus related bugs.
• Fix undo related issue.
• Update onSplit method on the native RichText component to the latest version.
• Move the BottomSheet component to the @wordpress/components package.
• Handle the iOS z-gesture to exit modals and block selection.
• Implement the invalid block content UI.