- Restored keyboard navigation with more robust implementation, addressing previous browser issues.
- Added drag and drop for media with pointer to create new blocks.
- Merged paragraph and cover text blocks (includes the colors and font size options).
- Reworked color palette picker with a “clear” and a “custom color” option.
- Further improvements to inline pasting and fixing errant empty blocks.
- Added thumbnail size selector to image blocks.
- Added support for url input and align and edit buttons to audio block.
- Persist the state of the sidebar across page refresh.
- Persist state of sidebar panels on page refresh.
- Persist editor mode on page refresh.
- New withAPIData higher-order component for making it easier to manage data needs.
- Preserve unknown block and remove “freeform” comment delimiters (unrecognized HTML is handled without comment delimiters).
Other changes:
- Show “add new term” in hierarchical taxonomies (including categories).
- Show tooltip only after mouseover delay.
- Show post formats only if the post type supports them.
- Added align and edit buttons to video block.
- Preload data in withApiData to improve perceived performance.
- Improve accessibility of sidebar modes.
- Allow changing cover-image settings before uploading an image.
- Improve validation leniency around non-meaningful differences.
- Take into account capabilities for publishing action.
- Update author selector to show only users capable of authoring posts.
- Normalize pasted blockquote contents.
- Refactored featured image, page attributes to use withApiData
- Added a fix to avoid cloning nodes by passing pasted HTML string.
- Added a fix to avoid re-encoding on encoded posts.
- Fixed resetting the focus config when block already selected.
- Allowing adding of plain text after insert link at the end of a paragraph.
- Update to latest TinyMCE version.
- Show only users capable of authoring posts.
- Add submit for review to publish for contributor.
- Delete or backspace in an empty “classic text” block now removes it.
- Check for type in block transformations logic.
- Fixed drop-down menu issue on classic text.
- Added filter to allow post types to disable “edit in gutenberg” links.
- Made UrlInput and UrlInputButton available as reusable components.
- Use wordpress/a11y package instead of global.
- Added npm5 package-lock.
Originally posted at make.wordpress.org here.
