v2.0.0 – Jan 12, 2018

• Replace publish dropdown menu with a sidebar panel.
• Expand latest post blocks with more querying options — order by and category.
• Allow dragging multiple images to create a gallery.
•  Copy and Pasting:
  • Improve markdown pasting (allows lists to be interpreted).
  • Allow pasting copied images directly.
  • Pasting within lists and headings.
  • Improve handling of inline spans.
  • Allow copying a single block.
  • Make sure inline pasting mechanism does not take place if pasting shortcodes.
  • Preserve alignment classes during raw transformations (like pasting an old WordPress post).
  • Support shortcode synonyms.
• Allow continued writing when pressing down arrow at the end of a post.
• Mobile design: move block controls to the bottom of a block.
• Allow deleting reusable blocks globally.
• Display description and type on the sidebar. (Also replace BlockDescription component with a property.)
• New table of contents and document counts design.
• Add button to copy the full document quickly.

Design and editing experience

• Expand inserter to three columns and a wider container.
• Allow using down-arrow keys directly to navigate when searching a block in the inserter.
• Deselect images in Gallery block when losing focus.
• Include post title in document outline feature.
• Rework display of notices and address various issues with overlaps.
• Added keyboard shortcut to toggle editor mode. Also displays the relevant keyboard combination next to the menu item.
• Improve deleting empty paragraphs when backspacing into a block that has no mergefunction (example, deleting a paragraph after an image).
• Improve the way scroll-position is updated when moving a block.
• Show block transformations in ellipsis menu.
• Add drag and drop support for cover image.
• Allow transforming operations between Heading and Cover Image blocks.
• Add focus outline for blocks that don&;t have focusable fields.
• Allow both navigation orientations in NavigableContainer.
• Improve the behavior of focusing embed blocks.
• Unify UI of audio and video blocks.
• Show message on the inserter when no blocks are found.
• Show message when no saved blocks are available.
• Do not show the publish panel when updating / scheduling / submitting a post.
• Update quote style in front-end.
• Convert text columns to a div using grid layout.
• Update button block CSS and add class to link.
• Allow text in Button block to wrap.
• Prevent useOnce blocks from being inserted using the convenient blocks shortcut menu.
• Show correct symbol (⌘ or Ctrl) depending on system context.
• Rename "insert" to "add" in the UI.
• Clear block selection when opening sibling or bottom inserter.
• Always show the insertion point when the inserter is opened.
• Increase padding on "more options" block toggle.
• Rename "Classic Text" to "Classic".
• Improve display of dotted outline around reusable blocks.
• Updated messages around reusable blocks interactions.
  
• Align both the quote and the citation in the visual editor.
• Exit edit mode when unfocusing a reusable block.
• Set floated image width (when unresized) in % value. 

Components

• Add withState higher-order component.
• Initial introduction of wp.data module.
  • Restrict the state access to the module registering the reducer only.
• Refactor PostSchedule to make Calendar and Clock available as reusable components.
• Allow overwriting colors (defaults and theme provided) when consuming ColorPalette component.
• Switch orientation of popover component only if there is more space for the new position.
• New ImagePlaceholder reusable component that handles upload buttons and draggable areas for the block author.

Accessibility

• Add speak message when a category is added.
• Announce notices to assertive technologies with speak.
• Add aria-labels to Code and HTML blocks.
• Warn if multiple h1 headings are being used.
• Add speak message and make "block settings" button label dynamic.
• Make excerpt functionality more accessible.
• Add various headings around editor areas for screen-readers.
• Improve accessibility of menu items in the main ellipsis menu.
• Add missing tooltips to icon buttons.

Mobile

• Render toolbar always by the block on mobile.
• Improve performance of responsive calculations using matchMedia.
• Avoid shifts around toolbar and scrolling issues on mobile.
• Improve how the fixed-to-block toolbar looks on mobile. Change how the fixed position toolbars behave, making them sticky.
• Prevent Mobile Safari from zooming the entire page when you open the inserter.

Block API and Misc.

• Initial explorations to migrate to server-registered blocks as part of raising awareness of available blocks.
• Move supportHTML property into the general "support" object.
• Replace getLatestPosts usage with withAPIData HOC.
• Convert all filters for components to behave like HOCs (withFilters).
• Replace flowRight usage with compose for HOCs.
• Apply filters without function wrappers.
• Improve Tags/Categories response size by limiting the requested fields.
• Limit requested fields in category feature of "latest posts".
• Request only required post fields in latest posts.
• Replace getCategories usage with withAPIData component.
• Don&;t show fields that are not used in media modal when adding a featured image.
• Polish inserter tabs so the focus style isn&x27;t clipped.
• Make inspector controls available when categories are loading.
• Improve overlay over meta-boxes during save operations.
• Hide excerpts panel if not supported by the CPT.
• Hide Taxonomies panel if no taxonomy is available for the current CPT.
• Hide several other panels when the CPT doesn&x27;t support them.
• Use _.includes to find available taxonomies. Mitigates non-schema-conforming taxonomy registrations.
• Defer applying filters for component until it is about to be mounted.
• Prevent "Add New" dropdown from overriding other plugin functionality.
• Improve paragraph block description.
• Refactor to simplify block toolbar rendering.
• Add missing aligment classes to cover image.
• Add parent page dropdown to page attributes panel.
• Allow pressing ENTER to change Reusable Block name.
• Disable HTML mode for reusable blocks.
• Add support for the "advanced" meta-box location.
• Make sure super admins can publish in any site of the network.
• Rename theme support for wide images to align-wide.
• Move selectors and actions files to the store folder.
• Center arrows of popovers relative to their parent.
• Use fainter disabled state.
• Add breakpoint grid to latest posts block and update color of date.
• Move logic for auto-generating the block class name to BlockEdit.
• Respect the "enter_title_here" hook.
• Prevent meta-box hooks from running multiple times.
• Don&x27;t set font-family on pullquotes.
• Remove superfluous parentheses from include statements.
• Remove redundant CSS property updates.
• Use "columns-x" class only for grid layout in latest posts.
• Use flatMap for mapping toolbar controls for a small performance gain.
• Introduce jest matchers for console object.
• Updated various npm packages; update Jest. Update node-sass. Update WordPress packages.
• Switch TinyMCE to unpkg.
• Reorganize handbook docs navigation.
• Added FAQ section for meta-boxes compatibility.
• Added initial "templates" document.
• Add documentation about dynamic blocks.
• Updated "outreach" docs.
• Improve block-controls document.
• Display a hint that files need to be built.
• Add WordPress JSDoc ESLint configuration.
• Update licenses in package.json & composer.json to adhere to SPDX v3.0 specification.
• Add tests to cover REQUEST_POST_UPDATE_SUCCESS effect.
• Add tests for color palette component.
• Add tests for Editable.getSettings and adaptFormatter. 
• Use newly published jest-console package in test setup.
• Update info about test fixtures generation.
• Also style footer in quote blocks to ensure backwards compatibility.
• Add a PHPUnit Docker Container.

Bug Fixes

• Fix wrong "return to editor" link when comparing revisions
• Fix meta-box state detection in Safari.
• Fix error when pressing enter from a heading block.
• Fix error with merging lists into paragraphs.
• Fix revisions button target area.
• Remove duplicated styles.
• Fix z-index rebase issues.
• Fix tag name warning ordering in validation.
• Fix text encoding of titles in url-input.
• Fix endless loop in reusable blocks code.
• Fix edit button in Audio block using invalid buttonProps attribute.
• Fix block creation with falsey default attribute.
• Fix radio control checked property.
• Fix styling issues of blocks when they are used as part of a reusable block.
• Fix list wrapping issues.
• Fix problem when converting shortcodes due to sorting.
• Fix issue with time-picker not working.
• Fix hide advanced settings interaction in block menu.
• Fix issue with url input on images.
• Fix style regression in textual placeholder on cover image.
• Fix return type hint in gutenberg_get_rest_link().
• Fix bug when changing number of Latests Posts rapidly was leading to some numbers being defunct.
• Fix isInputField check and add tests.
• Fix unsetting block alignment flagging block as invalid.
• Fix CSS bleed from admin-specific gallery styles.
• Fix image handlers at the top from being unclickable.
• Fix unexpected keyboard navigations behaviour on some nodes.
• Fix inserter position for floated blocks.
• Fix bug on empty cover image placeholder used on a saved block.
• Fix errors when adding duplicate categories.
• Fix broken custom color bubble in ColorPalette.
• Remove visible commas from page order settings panel.

Originally posted at make.wordpress.org here.