This one includes a few new blocks.
- New Categories Block (based on existing widget).
- New Text Columns Block (initial exploration of text-only multiple columns).
- New Video Block.
- New Shortcode Block.
- New Audio Block.
- Added resizing handlers to Image Block.
- Added direct image upload button to Image Block and Gallery Block.
- Give
option to transform a block to Classic when it encounters problems. - Give
option to Overwrite changes on a block detected as invalid. - Added “link to” option in galleries.
- Added support for custom taxonomies.
- Added post formats selector to post settings.
- Added keywords support (aliases) to various blocks to improve search discovery.
- Significant improvements to the way attributes are specified in the Block API and its clarity (handles defaults and types).
- Added Tooltip component displaying aria-labels from buttons.
- Removed stats tracking code (background).
- Updated design document.
Other changes:
- Capture and recover from block rendering runtime errors.
- Handle enter when focusing on
outer boundary of a block. - Reduce galleries
json attributes data to a minimum. - Added caption styles to the front-end for images and embeds.
- Added missing front-end alignment classes for
table and cover-text blocks. - Only reset blocks on initial load to prevent state fluctuations.
- Improve calculation of dirty state by making a diff against
saved post. - Improve visual weight of toolbar by reducing its silhouette.
- Improve rendering of galleries on the front-end.
- Improve Cover Image placeholder visual presentation.
- Improve front-end display of quotes.
- Improve responsive design of galleries on the front-end.
- Allow previewing new posts that are yet to be saved.
- Reset scrolling position within inserter when switching tabs.
- Refactor popover to render at
root ofdocument . - Refactor withFocusReturn to handle accessibility better in more contexts.
- Prevent overlap between multi-selection and within-block selection.
- Clear save notices when triggering a new save.
- Disable “preview” button if
post is not saveable. - Renamed blocks.query to blocks.source for clarity and updated documentation.
- Rearrange block stylesheets to reflect display and editor styles.
- Use
wordpress dependencies consistently. - Added validation checks for specifying a block’s category.
- Fix problems with quote initialization and list transformation.
- Fix issue where Cover Image was being considered invalid after edits.
- Fix errors in editable coming from Table block commands.
- Fix error in latest posts block when
date is not set for a post. - Fix issue with active color in ColorPalette component.
- Prevent class=false serialization issue in covert-text.
- Treat range control value as numeric.
- Added warning when using Editable and passing non-array values.
- Show block switcher above link input.
- Updated
rememo dependency. - Start consuming from separate
wordpress dependencies. - Fix problem with inserting new galleries.
- Fix issue with embeds and missing captions.
- Added outreach section to docs.
Originally posted at make.wordpress.org here.
