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.

6.4.0

Features

• Add the option to select the style that is automatically applied.
• Add the option to resize Cover Block .
• Allow directly setting a solid background color on Cover block.
• Add list start, reversed settings.
• Add a help panel to the inserter available in all blocks.
• Typewriter experience.
• Add circle-crop variation to Image block.

Enhancements

• Add overflow support inside block switcher.
• Update GitHub action exit codes.
• Core Data: return updated record in saveEntityRecord.
• Latest Posts Block: (no title) instead of (Untitled) for a post without a title.
• Remove borders around inserter items for blocks with children blocks.
• Add disabled block count in the block manager.
• Writing Flow:
  • Add splitting in the quote block.
  • Allow undoing of patterns with BACKSPACE and ESC.

Experiments

• Widgets Screen:
  • Fix: Blocks are too close together.
  • Add Button block appender.

New APIs

• Add callbacks to ServerSideRenderer to handle failures with custom renderers.
• Add the block example API and use it for inserter and switcher previews.
• Enable an optional namespace parameter for hasAction & hasFilter .

Bug Fixes

• The duplicate button appears even if the block is not allowed.
• Double scrollbar appearing in full-screen mode.
• RichText: ignore selection changes during composition
• Missing default functions as props in BlockEditorProvider.
• Button block does not center on the editor.
• Guard block component against zombie state bug.
• Add truthy check for the Popover component onClose prop before calling it.
• Make InnerBlocks only force the template on directly set lockings.
• Check to ensure focus has intentionally left the wrapped component in withFocusOutside HOC.
• Correctly transform images with external sources into a gallery.
• Block toolbar appears above sidebar on medium viewports.
• Basecontrol name undefined triggring eslint-plugin TypeError.
• Image flickering & focus lose on resizing.
• Add get_item_schema function to WP_REST_Widget_Areas_Controller .
• Empty Classic Editor inside innerBlock fatal error.
• Changing month in post publish date closes the popover.

Various

• Update re-resizable dependency
• Use mixins in button styles instead of media queries.
• Fix performance tests with the introduction of the navigation mode
• RichText code improvements: #16905, #16962.
• Scripts:
  • Improve the way test files are discovered.
  • Improve recommended settings included in the package.
  • Use the SCSS shared stylelint-config-wordpress config.
• Ignore the WordPress directory in stylelint.
• Fix: edit post sets some default block appender styles.
• Build: remove global install of latest npm.
• Project automation:
  • Rewrite actions using JavaScript.
  • Fix: Add first-time contributor label.
  • Fix: Add milestone.
• Remove unused CSS from ColorPalette component.

Documentation

• Add examples for the lockPostSaving and unlockPostSavingactions.
• Add guidance for adding/proposing/suggesting new components to the wordpress/components npm package.
• Add section about updating package after new releases.
• Add ESNext examples to format API tutorial.
• Document server-side functions that allow registering block styles.

Mobile

• Reset toolbar scroll on content change.
• Extract caption component.
• Not use ListEdit.
• Hide replaceable blocks when adding blocks.
• Make tapping at the end of post always insert at the end of the post.

6.4.0 RC1

Features

• Add the option to select the style that is automatically applied.
• Add the option to resize Cover Block .
• Allow directly setting a solid background color on Cover block.
• Add list start, reversed settings.
• Add a help panel to the inserter available in all blocks.
• Typewriter experience.
• Add circle-crop variation to Image block.

Enhancements

• Add overflow support inside block switcher.
• Update GitHub action exit codes.
• Core Data: return updated record in saveEntityRecord.
• Latest Posts Block: (no title) instead of (Untitled) for a post without a title.
• Remove borders around inserter items for blocks with children blocks.
• Add disabled block count in the block manager.
• Writing Flow:
  • Add splitting in the quote block.
  • Allow undoing of patterns with BACKSPACE and ESC.

Experiments

• Widgets Screen:
  • Fix: Blocks are too close together.
  • Add Button block appender.

New APIs

• Add callbacks to ServerSideRenderer to handle failures with custom renderers.
• Add the block example API and use it for inserter and switcher previews.
• Enable an optional namespace parameter for hasAction & hasFilter .

Bug Fixes

• The duplicate button appears even if the block is not allowed.
• Double scrollbar appearing in full-screen mode.
• RichText: ignore selection changes during composition
• Missing default functions as props in BlockEditorProvider.
• Button block does not center on the editor.
• Guard block component against zombie state bug.
• Add truthy check for the Popover component onClose prop before calling it.
• Make InnerBlocks only force the template on directly set lockings.
• Check to ensure focus has intentionally left the wrapped component in withFocusOutside HOC.
• Correctly transform images with external sources into a gallery.
• Block toolbar appears above sidebar on medium viewports.
• Basecontrol name undefined triggring eslint-plugin TypeError.
• Image flickering & focus lose on resizing.
• Add get_item_schema function to WP_REST_Widget_Areas_Controller .
• Empty Classic Editor inside innerBlock fatal error.

Various

• Update re-resizable dependency
• Use mixins in button styles instead of media queries.
• Fix performance tests with the introduction of the navigation mode
• RichText code improvements: #16905, #16962.
• Scripts:
  • Improve the way test files are discovered.
  • Improve recommended settings included in the package.
  • Use the SCSS shared stylelint-config-wordpress config.
• Ignore the WordPress directory in stylelint.
• Fix: edit post sets some default block appender styles.
• Build: remove global install of latest npm.
• Project automation:
  • Rewrite actions using JavaScript.
  • Fix: Add first-time contributor label.
  • Fix: Add milestone.
• Remove unused CSS from ColorPalette component.

Documentation

• Add examples for the lockPostSaving and unlockPostSavingactions.
• Add guidance for adding/proposing/suggesting new components to the wordpress/components npm package.
• Add section about updating package after new releases.
• Add ESNext examples to format API tutorial.
• Document server-side functions that allow registering block styles.

Mobile

• Reset toolbar scroll on content change.
• Extract caption component.
• Not use ListEdit.
• Hide replaceable blocks when adding blocks.
• Make tapping at the end of post always insert at the end of the post.

6.3.0

Features

• A11y: Support Navigation and Edit modes to ease navigating between blocks.
• Support text alignments in Table block columns.
• Support changing the separator block color.

Enhancements

• Improvements to the BlockPreview component:
  • Support previewing a multiple blocks (a template).
  • Unify BlockPreview and BlockPreviewContent into a unique component.
  • Hide block appenders.
  • Expose the component in the block-editor module.
  • Scale the preview content according to the width of the preview container.
• Improvements to the Modal component design:
  • Increase the padding of the Modal component.
  • Correct the position of the close button.
• Use classnames instead of inline styles for text alignments in:
  • Verse block.
  • Quote block.
  • Paragraph block.
• Add a purple color option to the default color palette.
• A11y: Visible focus and active styles for Windows high contrast mode.
• Improve the design of the inline image controls in the Gallery block.
• I18n: Align the Read more string with WordPress Core.
• Removes the word-break :break-all CSS rule from the table cells.
• Update the Notice dismiss button to match other Gutenberg UI (color and icon).
• Modifies the shortcut hierarchy in the keyboard shortcuts modal.
• Remove edit gallery toolbar button.
• Add the possibility to disable document settings panels registered by plugins.
• ESLint plugin: Enable wp global by default in the recommended config.

Experiments

• Add a settings page to the plugin to enable/disable experimental features.
• Add padding when interacting with nested blocks to ease parent block selections.
• Widgets Screen:
  • Prevent the block toolbar from overlapping the widget area header.
  • Add the BlockEditorKeyboardShortcuts component.
  • Fixed block paddings.

New APIs

• Support Entities Local Edits in the Core Data Module.
• Support autosaving entities in the Core Data Module.
• Add support for disabled dropdown items in SelectControl.
• Add onFocusOutside prop as a replacement to Popover onClickOutside.
• Stop using unstable props on DropdownMenu.

Bug Fixes

• Prevent tooltips from appearing on mouse down.
• Avoid passing event object to save button onSave prop.
• Prevent image captions loss when editing a Gallery block.
• Rerender FormtTokenField component when the suggestions prop changes.
• Handle scalar return types values in useSelect.
• Fix php notice that can be triggered while using the Search block.
• Fix the Resolve Block Modal columns sizes.
• Fix duplicate content when pasting text into newly focused RichText.
• Fix Table block cell selection when clicking on the edge of the cells.
• Prevent the CSS reset from applying to the meta boxes.
• Fix misaligned Block toolbars on floated blocks.
• Fix the Notice component close button alignment and height.
• Link to the full size images in the Gallery block.
• Avoid leaking CSS transforms when disabling block animations.
• A11y: Avoid focusing the PostTitle component when switching between code and visual editor.
• A11y: Add a confirmation step to enable the Custom Fields option.
• Disable block insertion buttons and prevent moving blocks depending on the contextual restrictions (template locking and default block availability).
• Fix Block manager not honoring the allowed_block_types hook.
• Keep the Image block alt and caption attributes while uploading a new image.
• Don't render drop zone below the default block appender.
• Prevent horizontal arrow navigation errors.
• Fix shifting menu items on DropdownMenu.
• Make API Fetch refresh nonces as soon as they expired.

Various

• Github actions:
  • Automatically assign issues to PR authors.
  • Automatically assign the First-time Contributor label.
• Avoid unguarded getRangeAt usage and add eslint rule.
• Make the e2e transforms tests more stable.
• ESLint no-unused-vars-before-return rule: Exempt destructuring only if to multiple properties.
• Output an informational message for deprecations when no version provided.
• Refactor registry selectors to allow calling them from other regular selectors.
• Bail early in the deactivatePlugin e2e test utility if plugin is already inactive.
• Fix the CheckboxControl styles in a WordPress agnostic context.
• Move the auto-draft status and default title handling to the server.
• Code quality tweaks to the Table block e2e tests.
• Fix JSDocs errors across the entire repository.
• Upgrade Lerna to the latest version (3.16.4).
• Upgrade Puppeteer to the latest version (1.19.0).
• Upgrade ESLint to the latest version (6.1.0).
• Run npm audit fix to fix dependency vulnerabilities.
• Audit and fix all missing or obsolete package dependencies.
• Fix issue with jest caching of block.json files.
• Add eslint-plugin-jsdoc lint rule for better JSDoc linting.
• Fix intermittent RichText e2e test failures.
• Replace the react-click-outside dependency usage with our own Higher-order component withFocusOutside.
• Improve the usage of eslint-disable directives.
• Migrate the Github Actions to the new YAML syntax.

Documentation

• Enhance the components Design Documentation and guidelines:
  • DateTime component.
  • [Spinner](https://github.com/WordPress/g...

6.3.0 RC1

Features

• A11y: Support Navigation and Edit modes to ease navigating between blocks.
• Support text alignments in Table block columns.
• Support changing the separator block color.

Enhancements

• Improvements to the BlockPreview component:
  • Support previewing a multiple blocks (a template).
  • Unify BlockPreview and BlockPreviewContent into a unique component.
  • Hide block appenders.
  • Expose the component in the block-editor module.
  • Scale the preview content according to the width of the preview container.
• Improvements to the Modal component design:
  • Increase the padding of the Modal component.
  • Correct the position of the close button.
• Use classnames instead of inline styles for text alignments in:
  • Verse block.
  • Quote block.
  • Paragraph block.
• Add a purple color option to the default color palette.
• A11y: Visible focus and active styles for Windows high contrast mode.
• Improve the design of the inline image controls in the Gallery block.
• I18n: Align the Read more string with WordPress Core.
• Removes the word-break :break-all CSS rule from the table cells.
• Update the Notice dismiss button to match other Gutenberg UI (color and icon).
• Modifies the shortcut hierarchy in the keyboard shortcuts modal.
• Remove edit gallery toolbar button.
• Add the possibility to disable document settings panels registered by plugins.
• ESLint plugin: Enable wp global by default in the recommended config.

Experiments

• Add a settings page to the plugin to enable/disable experimental features.
• Add padding when interacting with nested blocks to ease parent block selections.
• Widgets Screen:
  • Prevent the block toolbar from overlapping the widget area header.
  • Add the BlockEditorKeyboardShortcuts component.
  • Fixed block paddings.

New APIs

• Support Entities Local Edits in the Core Data Module.
• Support autosaving entities in the Core Data Module.
• Add support for disabled dropdown items in SelectControl.
• Add onFocusOutside prop as a replacement to Popover onClickOutside.
• Stop using unstable props on DropdownMenu.

Bug Fixes

• Prevent tooltips from appearing on mouse down.
• Avoid passing event object to save button onSave prop.
• Prevent image captions loss when editing a Gallery block.
• Rerender FormtTokenField component when the suggestions prop changes.
• Handle scalar return types values in useSelect.
• Fix php notice that can be triggered while using the Search block.
• Fix the Resolve Block Modal columns sizes.
• Fix duplicate content when pasting text into newly focused RichText.
• Fix Table block cell selection when clicking on the edge of the cells.
• Prevent the CSS reset from applying to the meta boxes.
• Fix misaligned Block toolbars on floated blocks.
• Fix the Notice component close button alignment and height.
• Link to the full size images in the Gallery block.
• Avoid leaking CSS transforms when disabling block animations.
• A11y: Avoid focusing the PostTitle component when switching between code and visual editor.
• A11y: Add a confirmation step to enable the Custom Fields option.
• Disable block insertion buttons and prevent moving blocks depending on the contextual restrictions (template locking and default block availability).
• Fix Block manager not honoring the allowed_block_types hook.
• Keep the Image block alt and caption attributes while uploading a new image.
• Don't render drop zone below the default block appender.
• Prevent horizontal arrow navigation errors.
• Fix shifting menu items on DropdownMenu.
• Make API Fetch refresh nonces as soon as they expired.

Various

• Github actions:
  • Automatically assign issues to PR authors.
  • Automatically assign the First-time Contributor label.
• Avoid unguarded getRangeAt usage and add eslint rule.
• Make the e2e transforms tests more stable.
• ESLint no-unused-vars-before-return rule: Exempt destructuring only if to multiple properties.
• Output an informational message for deprecations when no version provided.
• Refactor registry selectors to allow calling them from other regular selectors.
• Bail early in the deactivatePlugin e2e test utility if plugin is already inactive.
• Fix the CheckboxControl styles in a WordPress agnostic context.
• Move the auto-draft status and default title handling to the server.
• Code quality tweaks to the Table block e2e tests.
• Fix JSDocs errors across the entire repository.
• Upgrade Lerna to the latest version (3.16.4).
• Upgrade Puppeteer to the latest version (1.19.0).
• Upgrade ESLint to the latest version (6.1.0).
• Run npm audit fix to fix dependency vulnerabilities.
• Audit and fix all missing or obsolete package dependencies.
• Fix issue with jest caching of block.json files.
• Add eslint-plugin-jsdoc lint rule for better JSDoc linting.
• Fix intermittent RichText e2e test failures.
• Replace the react-click-outside dependency usage with our own Higher-order component withFocusOutside.
• Improve the usage of eslint-disable directives.
• Migrate the Github Actions to the new YAML syntax.

Documentation

• Enhance the components Design Documentation and guidelines:
  • [DateTime](htt...

6.2.0

Enhancements

• Introduce Link Target support in Button block.
• Limit the maximum height of the HTML block.
• Show the preview button on mobile viewports.
• Remove nested block restrictions from the Cover and Media & Text blocks.
• A11y: Improving and standardize the block styles focus and active states.
• Always collapse block alignment toolbars.

Bug Fixes

• Fix using the Classic block in nested contexts.
• Fix lost nested blocks if the container block is missing.
• Fix pasting content into nested blocks.
• Fix race condition in the block moving animation causing blocks to overlap.
• A11y: Make the Table block accessible at high zoom levels.
• A11y: Change the font size picker markup to use select.
• A11y: Match the primary button disabled state to Core's color contrast.
• Fix the z-index of the block toolbars for blocks following wide aligned blocks.
• Hide the columns count control when the columns block placeholder is shown.
• Prevent the block movers from disappearing on middle breakpoints for full/wide blocks.
• Slimmer top/bottom spacing inside notices shown outside the editor canvas.
• Fix converting video shortcode into video blocks when file type sources are used.
• Localize the read more link in the latest posts block.
• Fix issue with inconsistent nesting appender.
• Fix styling of IconButton used in ButtonGroup components.
• Remove Change Permalinks button when permalink is not editable.
• Fix aspect ratio typo and recalculate padding in embed block.
• Ensure hour/minute fields are always shown left to right in RTL languages.
• Refactor the empty line padding in the RichText component. This fixes padding issues in the list block in Firefox.
• Improve the stability of the RichText placeholder.
• Add custom placeholder support for the button block.
• Show the image size labels on the block-based widget screen.

Documentation

• Clarify the block title and description conventions.
• Add RichText component documentation to the Block Editor Handbook.
• Improve the repository triage docs.
• Adds documentation for the PluginDocumentSettingPanel SlotFill.
• Tweaks and typos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 , 13, 14.

Divers

• Add a simple API to register block style variations on the server.
• Allow alternative blocks to be used to handle Grouping interactions.
• Fix Travis instability by waiting for MySQL availability before install the plugin.
• Continue the generic RichText component refactoring.
• Remove the usage of the editor store from the block editor module.
• Update the MilestoneIt Github action to read the plugin version from master.
• Refactor the post meta block attributes to use a generic custom sources mechanism.
• Expose position prop in DotTip component.
• Avoid docker containers automatic restart.
• Bump Lodash dependencies to 4.17.14.
• Fix the build command on Windows environments.
• Add allowedFormats and withoutInteractiveFormats props to the RichText component to control the available formats per RichText.
• Remove inappropriate executable permissions from core-data package files.
• ESLint Plugin: Exempt React hooks from no-unused-vars-before-return.
• Use React Portal based slots for the block toolbar.
• Use combineReducers utility from the data module instead of redux.
• Support hideLabelFromVision prop in all control components.
• Adds missing babel-jest and core-js dependencies to the scripts package.

Mobile

• Tapping on an empty editor area creates a new paragraph block.
• Fix video uploads when the connection is lost and restored.
• Track unsupported block list.
• Insert new block below the post title if the post title is selected.
• Run the mobile tests in the Gutenberg CI server.
• Replace use of deprecated componentWillReceiveProps in ImageEdit.
• Show placeholder when adding block from the post title.
• Blur post title any time another block is selected.
• Inserting block from the post title replaces empty blocks.
• Update Video caption placeholder color to match other placeholder text styles.
• Move the post title selection state to the store.

6.2.0 RC1

Enhancements

• Introduce Link Target support in Button block.
• Limit the maximum height of the HTML block.
• Show the preview button on mobile viewports.
• Remove nested block restrictions from the Cover and Media & Text blocks.
• A11y: Improving and standardize the block styles focus and active states.
• Always collapse block alignment toolbars.

Bug Fixes

• Fix using the Classic block in nested contexts.
• Fix lost nested blocks if the container block is missing.
• Fix pasting content into nested blocks.
• Fix race condition in the block moving animation causing blocks to overlap.
• A11y: Make the Table block accessible at high zoom levels.
• A11y: Change the font size picker markup to use select.
• A11y: Match the primary button disabled state to Core's color contrast.
• Fix the z-index of the block toolbars for blocks following wide aligned blocks.
• Hide the columns count control when the columns block placeholder is shown.
• Prevent the block movers from disappearing on middle breakpoints for full/wide blocks.
• Slimmer top/bottom spacing inside notices shown outside the editor canvas.
• Fix converting video shortcode into video blocks when file type sources are used.
• Localize the read more link in the latest posts block.
• Fix issue with inconsistent nesting appender.
• Fix styling of IconButton used in ButtonGroup components.
• Remove Change Permalinks button when permalink is not editable.
• Fix aspect ratio typo and recalculate padding in embed block.
• Ensure hour/minute fields are always shown left to right in RTL languages.
• Refactor the empty line padding in the RichText component. This fixes padding issues in the list block in Firefox.
• Improve the stability of the RichText placeholder.
• Add custom placeholder support for the button block.
• Show the image size labels on the block-based widget screen.

Documentation

• Clarify the block title and description conventions.
• Add RichText component documentation to the Block Editor Handbook.
• Improve the repository triage docs.
• Adds documentation for the PluginDocumentSettingPanel SlotFill.
• Tweaks and typos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 , 13, 14.

Divers

• Add a simple API to register block style variations on the server.
• Allow alternative blocks to be used to handle Grouping interactions.
• Fix Travis instability by waiting for MySQL availability before install the plugin.
• Continue the generic RichText component refactoring.
• Remove the usage of the editor store from the block editor module.
• Update the MilestoneIt Github action to read the plugin version from master.
• Refactor the post meta block attributes to use a generic custom sources mechanism.
• Expose position prop in DotTip component.
• Avoid docker containers automatic restart.
• Bump Lodash dependencies to 4.17.14.
• Fix the build command on Windows environments.
• Add allowedFormats and withoutInteractiveFormats props to the RichText component to control the available formats per RichText.
• Remove inappropriate executable permissions from core-data package files.
• ESLint Plugin: Exempt React hooks from no-unused-vars-before-return.
• Use React Portal based slots for the block toolbar.
• Use combineReducers utility from the data module instead of redux.
• Support hideLabelFromVision prop in all control components.
• Adds missing babel-jest and core-js dependencies to the scripts package.

Mobile

• Tapping on an empty editor area creates a new paragraph block.
• Fix video uploads when the connection is lost and restored.
• Track unsupported block list.
• Insert new block below the post title if the post title is selected.
• Run the mobile tests in the Gutenberg CI server.
• Replace use of deprecated componentWillReceiveProps in ImageEdit.
• Show placeholder when adding block from the post title.
• Blur post title any time another block is selected.
• Inserting block from the post title replaces empty blocks.
• Update Video caption placeholder color to match other placeholder text styles.
• Move the post title selection state to the store.

6.1.1

Bug Fixes

• Prevent automatic conversion of widgets to blocks when using the customizer.
• Fix missing block properties on block registration filters used for the deprecated versions.

6.1.0

Enhancements

• Introduce motion/animation when reordering/adding/removing blocks.
• Improve the Image block link settings and move it to the block toolbar.
• Use a snackbar notice when clicking “Copy all content”.
• Show REST API error messages as notices.
• Clarify the wording of the view link in the Permalink panel.
• Hide the “Copy all content” button if the post is empty.
• Hide the ungroup action when there are no inner blocks.
• Use admin schemes dependent focus state for primary buttons.
• Add support for the table cells scope attribute when pasting.

Experiments

• Introduce a new Customizer Panel to edit block-based widget areas.
• Add the block inspector to the widgets screen.
• Add a global inserter to the widgets screen.

Bug Fixes

• Show the pre-publish panel for contributors.
• Fix the save in progress state of the Publish/Update Button.
• Fix adding/removing columns from the table block when using header/footer sections.
• Fix Image block not preserving custom dimensions when opening the media library.
• Resize Image blocks properly when changing the width from the inspector.
• Fix php error that can potentially be triggered by gutenberg_is_block_editor.
• Fix error when using the “tag” block attribute source type.
• Fix chrome rendering bug happening when resizing images.
• Fix the data-block style selector to avoid affecting third-party components.
• Allow the columns layout options to wrap on small screens.
• Fix isShallowEqual edge case when the second argument is undefined.
• Prevent the disabled block switcher icon from becoming unreadable.
• Fix Group Block deprecation and any deprecation relying on hooks.
• A11y:
  • Make the top toolbar wrap at high zoom levels.
  • Fix the sticky notices at high zoom levels.

Performance

• Improve the performance of the i18n Tannin library.
• Track the block parent in the state to optimize hierarchy selectors.
• Add a cache key tracked in state to optimize the getBlock selector.

Documentation

• Document the plugin release tool.
• Document the use-cases of the dynamic blocks.
• Tweaks and typos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Various

• Introduce a PluginDocumentSettingPanel slot to allow third-party plugins to add panels to the document sidebar tab.
• Deploy the playground automatically to Github Pages. https://wordpress.github.io/gutenberg/
• Extract a generic RichText component to the @wordpress/rich-text package.
• Refactor the editor initialization to rely on a component.
• Remove unused internal asType utility.
• Fix react-no-unsafe-timeout ESlint rule when using variable assignment.
• Add support for watching block.json files when running “npm run dev”.
• Remove: experimental status from blockEditor.transformStyles.
• Upgrade PHPCS composer dependencies and use strict comparisons to align with the PHPCS guidelines.
• Fix a small console warning when running performance tests.

Mobile

• Correct the position of the block insertion indicator.
• Unify Editor and Layout components with the web component hierarchy.

6.1.0 RC1

Enhancements

• Introduce motion/animation when reordering/adding/removing blocks.
• Improve the Image block link settings and move it to the block toolbar.
• Use a snackbar notice when clicking “Copy all content”.
• Show REST API error messages as notices.
• Clarify the wording of the view link in the Permalink panel.
• Hide the “Copy all content” button if the post is empty.
• Hide the ungroup action when there are no inner blocks.
• Use admin schemes dependent focus state for primary buttons.
• Add support for the table cells scope attribute when pasting.

Experiments

• Introduce a new Customizer Panel to edit block-based widget areas.
• Add the block inspector to the widgets screen.
• Add a global inserter to the widgets screen.

Bug Fixes

• Show the pre-publish panel for contributors.
• Fix the save in progress state of the Publish/Update Button.
• Fix adding/removing columns from the table block when using header/footer sections.
• Fix Image block not preserving custom dimensions when opening the media library.
• Resize Image blocks properly when changing the width from the inspector.
• Fix php error that can potentially be triggered by gutenberg_is_block_editor.
• Fix error when using the “tag” block attribute source type.
• Fix chrome rendering bug happening when resizing images.
• Fix the data-block style selector to avoid affecting third-party components.
• Allow the columns layout options to wrap on small screens.
• Fix isShallowEqual edge case when the second argument is undefined.
• Prevent the disabled block switcher icon from becoming unreadable.
• Fix Group Block deprecation and any deprecation relying on hooks.
• A11y:
  • Make the top toolbar wrap at high zoom levels.
  • Fix the sticky notices at high zoom levels.

Performance

• Improve the performance of the i18n Tannin library.
• Track the block parent in the state to optimize hierarchy selectors.
• Add a cache key tracked in state to optimize the getBlock selector.

Documentation

• Document the plugin release tool.
• Document the use-cases of the dynamic blocks.
• Tweaks and typos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Various

• Introduce a PluginDocumentSettingPanel slot to allow third-party plugins to add panels to the document sidebar tab.
• Deploy the playground automatically to Github Pages. https://wordpress.github.io/gutenberg/
• Extract a generic RichText component to the @wordpress/rich-text package.
• Refactor the editor initialization to rely on a component.
• Remove unused internal asType utility.
• Fix react-no-unsafe-timeout ESlint rule when using variable assignment.
• Add support for watching block.json files when running “npm run dev”.
• Remove: experimental status from blockEditor.transformStyles.
• Upgrade PHPCS composer dependencies and use strict comparisons to align with the PHPCS guidelines.
• Fix a small console warning when running performance tests.

Mobile

• Correct the position of the block insertion indicator.
• Unify Editor and Layout components with the web component hierarchy.