6.5.0 RC1

Features

• Add a new Social links block.
• Support border radius changes in the Button block.
• Support adding a caption to the Gallery block.
• Support local autosaves.

Enhancements

• Disable the click-through behavior in desktop.
• Update the labels width to fit their content.
• Avoid displaying console warnings when blocks are upgraded using deprecated versions.
• Reduce the padding around the in-between block inserter.
• Improve the design of the block movers.
• Align the Gallery block image controls with the block movers design.
• Remove child blocks from the block manager.
• Remove duplicated "Enable" label from the options panel.
• Use sentence case for all tooltips.
• Remove the forced gray scale from the category icons.
• Move the alignment controls to toolbar of the Heading block.
• Use the featured image frame in the Media modal.

Bug Fixes

• Update the Post Schedule label to correctly reflect the date and time display settings.
• Clean up the block toolbar position for wide full blocks.
• Fix the cropped focus indicator in the block inserter.
• Browser incompatibilities:
  • Fallback to setTimeout in RichText if no requestIdleCallback is not supported.
  • Block toolbar fixes for IE11.
  • Fix Backspace usage in RichText for IE11.
• Prevent clicking the next/previous month in the Post Schedule popover from closing it.
• Prevent the private posts from triggering the unsaved changes warnings after saving.
• Fix the usage of the useReducedMotion hook in Node.js context.
• A11y:
  • Use darker form field borders.
  • Fix the modal escape key propagation.
  • Move focus back from the Modal to the More Menu when it was used to open the Modal.
• Trim leading and trailing whitespaces when inserting links.
• Prevent using the paragraph block when pasting unformatted text into RichText.
• Fix styling of classic block's block controls.
• Fix the showing/hiding logic of the Group menu item in the block settings menu.
• Fix invalid HTML nesting of buttons.
• Fix React warning when using withFocusReturn Higher-order component.
• Fix lengthy content cuts in the Cover block.
• Disable multi-selection when resizing.
• Fix the permalink UI in RTL languages.
• Fix multiple issues related to the reusable blocks editing/previewing UI.
• Remove filter that unsets auto-draft titles.
• Fix the Move to trash button redirection.
• Prevent undo/redo history cleaning on autosaves.
• Add i18n support for title Content Blocks string.
• Add missing extra classnames to the Column block.
• Fix JavaScript error triggered when using a multi-line RichText.
• Fix RichText focus related issues.
• Fix undo levels inconsistencies.
• Fix multiple post meta fields edits.
• Fix selecting custom colors in RTL languages.

Experiments

• Add one-click search and install blocks from the block directory to the inserter.
• Refactor the Navigation block to be a dynamic block.
• Add a block navigator to the Navigation block.
• Only show the customizer block based widgets if the experimental widget screen is enabled.

APIs

• Add a disableDropZone prop for MediaPlaceholder component.
• Add post autosave locking.
• PluginPrePublishPanel and PluginPostPublishPanel support icon prop and inherits from registerPlugin.
• Allow disabling the Post Status settings panel.
• Restore the keepPlaceholderOnFocus RichText prop.

Various

• Upgrade React and React DOM to 16.9.0.
• Add TypeScript JSDoc linting to the @wordpress/url package.
• Run npm audit to fix the reported vulnerabilities.
• Switch the local environment to an environment based on the Core setup.
• Set a constant namespace for module sourcemaps.
• Refactor the loading animation to rely on the Animate component.
• Code improvements to block PHP files.
• Enable the duplicate style property linting rule.
• Update Husky & Lint-staged to the latest versions.
• Restore the usage of the latest npm version in CI.
• Add ESLint as peer dependency to eslint-plugin.
• Conditionally include the block styles functionality to avoid conflicts with Core.
• Add missing deprecated setFocusedElement prop to the RichText component.
• Support generating assets in PHP format in the webpack dependency extraction plugin.

Documentation

• Update the reviews and merging documentation.
• Fix type docs for the Notices package.
• Add a link to the fixtures tests document in the Testing Overview.
• Adds documentation for the onClose prop of MediaUpload.
• Tweaks and typos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.