22.9.0 RC1

Changelog

Enhancements

Block Editor

• DOM: Prefer standard caretPositionFromPoint over deprecated caretRangeFromPoint. (76921)

Components

• Add EmptyState component to @wordpress/ui. (74719)
• Admin UI: Update Page background color. (76548)
• Button: hide focus outline on :Active for click feedback in forced-colors mode. (76833)
• Card: Use Text component for Title typography. (76642)
• InputControl: Add to @wordpress/ui. (76653)
• Snackbar: Use surface-width design token for max-width. (76592)
• Storybook: Make "introduction" top level. (76671)
• Tabs: Add runtime validation for tab/panel mismatches. (75170)
• Theme: Change default control cursor to pointer. (76762)
• ThemeProvider: Add cursor prop. (76410)
• UI/Dialog: Deprioritize close icon for initial focus. (76910)
• UI/Dialog: Expose initialFocus and finalFocus on Dialog.Popup. (76860)
• UI: Add AlertDialog primitive. (76847)
• UI: Update @base-ui/react from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0. (76603)

Data Layer

• Core Data: Remove offset param from stableKey, use pagination logic. (76808)

Block Library

• Block Supports: Add background gradient support that can combine with background images. (75859)
• Forms Block: Add hidden input field variation. (74131)
• Image/Site Logo: Hide crop toolbar when editMediaEntity is unavailable. (76626)
• Login/out block: Add button block class names to the submit button. (76746)

DataViews

• CollapsibleCard: Add HeaderDescription subcomponent. (76867)
• Improvements to dataviews infinite scroll. (74378)

Site Editor

• Site Editor > Pages: Move view configuration to the server. (76573)
• Site Editor > Patterns & Parts: Generate sidebar from view configuration. (76823)
• Site Editor > Patterns: Move configuration to the server. (76734)
• Site Editor > Quick Edit: Add form configuration to endpoint. (76953)
• Site Editor > Templates: Move configuration to the server. (76622)

Post Editor

• DataForm: Add compact configuration option to the datetime control. (76905)

Navigation Menus

• Site Editor v2: Add missing menu items to navigation leaf more menu. (76804)

Connectors

• Improve AI plugin button. (76759)

Collaboration

• Add backport for WP_ALLOW_COLLABORATION. (76716)

Guidelines

• Improvements to the UX. (76383)

Icon

• Icons: Enforce strict name validation in register method. (76079)

Commands

• Add sections to command palette and introduce Recently used functionality. (75691)

Bug Fixes

• wordpress/date: Recover WP timezone after third-party reload. (75831)

Block Library

• Icon: Fix center alignment in the editor for classic themes. (76878)
• Image block media placeholder: Remove duotone. (76721)
• Latest Comments: Fix v1 block deprecation. (76877)
• List Item: Disable edit as HTML support. (76897)
• Navigation: Avoid List View changing position when navigation block saves. (76659)
• Reduce specificity of nav link default padding so global styles apply. (76876)
• Show fallback label in MediaControl when filename is empty. (76888)
• Site Tagline: Fix block error when migrating deprecated textAlign attribute. (76821)

Connectors

• Boot: Fix black area below content when sidebar is taller than page content. (76764)
• Add Akismet as a default connector. (76828)
• Align client registration API with server. (76737)
• Fix button size. (76582)
• Replace plugin.slug with plugin.file. (76909)
• Support non-AI provider types and add JS extensibility end-to-end test. (76722)

Block Editor

• Block visibility badge: Use canvas iframe for viewport detection. (76889)
• Cross Origin Isolation: Remove img from the list of elements that get mutated. (76618)
• Fix locked content when switching to a different template without exiting 'Edit pattern'. (76710)
• Hide Additional CSS controls when block is inside contentOnly editing mode. (76512)
• Reset blockEditingModes on RESET_BLOCKS. (76529)
• Stop keeping stale controlled blocks after reset. (76591)

Components

• Admin UI: Fix Page Header not rendering with only actions and add stories. (76695)
• Button: Restore specificity of high-contrast mode focus ring. (76719)
• Card: Add overflow: Clip to root container. (76678)
• Fix Color Picker Angle Reset on Gradient Type Change. (76595)
• Storybook: Disable autodocs for Icon library. (76620)
• compose/useDialog: Add stopPropagation() to Escape handler. (76861)
• ui/CollapsibleCard: Do not animate focus ring. (76682)

Post Editor

• Fix: Create custom template modal content width. (76713)
• Reduce the added halo for selected block. (76619)
• Revisions: Add Meta fields diff panel to document sidebar. (76341)
• Revisions: Fix template revisions retrieval and sorting. (76760)
• Style Book: Fix missing styles for classic themes in stylebook route. (76843)

Collaboration

• RTC: Fix notes not syncing between collaborative editors. (76873)
• RTC: Fix stuck "Join" link in post list when lock expires. (76795)
• RTC: Restore on failed request with compaction update. (76872)

Client Side Media

• Build: Remove unused JXL WASM module from vips worker. (76639)
• Gate client-side media processing as plugin-only. (76700)
• vips: Ensure single instance. (76780)

CSS & Styling

• Metabox: Fix checkbox style in sidebar. (76718)

Data Layer

• Properly resolve getTemplateId for hybrid themes. (76532)

Site Editor

• Fix unsupported theme flash on direct URL navigation. (76465)

Accessibility

Components

• ComboboxControl: Fix accessible association of help text. (76761)
• RadioControl: Add role="radiogroup" to fieldset. (76745)
• ToggleGroupControl: Fix accessible association of help text. ([76740](https://github.com/WordPre...

22.8.2

Changelog

Bug Fixes

Build: detect version and generate asset.php for vendor scripts (76811)

22.8.1

Changelog

Bug Fixes

Collaboration

• RTC: Fix editor freeze when replacing code editor content. (76815)
• RTC: Remove stale wp_enable_real_time_collaboration option check. (76810)
• RTC: Fix RichTextData deserialization (76607)
• RTC: Change RTC option name (76643)
• RTC: Backport race condition fix (76649)
• RTC: Use activation hook to enable RTC by default (76736)
• RTC: Remove stale wp_enable_real_time_collaboration option check (76810)
• Preferences: Hide collaboration options when RTC is not enabled. (76819)

Post Editor

Enhancements

Collaboration

• Real Time Collaboration: Introduce filters for the polling intervals. (76518)
• RTC: Scroll to collaborator on click (76561)
• RTC: Increase polling intervals, increase polling on primary room only (76704)
• RTC: Use prepared queries instead of *_post_meta functions (76779)

Tests

Collaboration

• RTC: Add E2E "stress test" with complex interactions (76055)
• Fix navigation block rendering unit test (76685)
• Fix navigation block unit test and e2e test (76692)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@alecgeatches @shekharnwagh @t-hamano @peterwilsoncc @maxschmeling @chriszarate

22.8.0

Changelog

Features

Collaboration

• RTC: Add preference for collaborator notifications. (76460)

Enhancements

Components

• @wordpress/ui: Add Collapsible component. (76280)
• Add ExampleApplication story for ThemeProvider to better demonstrate component theme-ability.
  (76463)
• Add Link primitive to @wordpress/ui. (76013)
• Add primitive Text component to @wordpress/ui. (75870)
• Add styles for outside days in Calendar components. (76199)
• Admin UI: Add Storybook stories for Breadcrumbs and Page components. (76467)
• Adopt surface-width design tokens for Dialog, Notice, and Modal widths. (76494)
• Collapsible.Card: Make contents hidden until found. (76498)
• CollapsibleCard: Move trigger to the whole header. (76265)
• Editor: Polish real-time collaboration presence UI and move Avatar to editor package.
  (75652)
• Field.Label, Fieldset.Legend: Add visuallyHidden prop. (76052)
• Refactor admin-ui Page component to use @wordpress/theme tokens and @wordpress/ui layout primitive.
  (75963)
• Storybook: Change the default font. (76366)
• Storybook: Deduplicate injected package stylesheets. (76158)
• Theme package: Add surface width design tokens. (76047)
• Theme: Add no-token-fallback-values stylelint rule. (76415)
• Tooltip: Change default placement from bottom to top. (76131)
• UI Notice: Let description and actions span icon column at narrow widths. (76202)
• UI/Badge: Add border and neutral-strong background to none intent. (76356)
• @wordpress/ui: Add Card and CollapsibleCard components. (76252)
• CollapsibleCard: Add animations. (76378)
• ui/Card: Increase padding, align with legacy Card. (76368)
• Admin UI: Update font size for title and breadcrumbs to match. (76452)

Connectors

• Add AI Experiments plugin callout with install/activate functionality. (76379)
• Add connectors registry for extensibility. (76364)
• Add empty state when no connectors are registered. (76375)
• Add unregisterConnector and upsert support. (76541)
• Move plugin status computation to script module data. (76409)
• Sync PHP code with WordPress Core. (76443)
• Update page identifier to options-connectors. (76142)
• WP Admin: Update Connectors screen footer text for consistency. (76382)

Block Library

• Block Library: Improve the design of MediaControlPreview and MediaControl.
  (76430)
• Link Picker: Use Homepage badge instead of Page if Homepage. (75929)
• Navigation link: Add support to style current menu item via theme.json. (75736)
• Navigation: Allow creating new links in site editor sidebar List View. (75918)
• Post Date: Migrate to textAlign block support. (75856)
• Post Excerpt: Migrate to textAlign block support. (75860)
• Tabs: Disable anchor support on Tab Menu Item. (76442)
• Tabs: Restructure Tabs Menu and inner blocks. (75954)

DataViews

• Add border to sticky table headers. (76396)
• DataForm: Add customizable button text to panel modal. (76099)
• DataForm: Reduce panel's dialog min-width. (76345)
• DataViews Grid and Picker Grid: Add density option for gap between items. (75887)
• Improve storybook infinite scroll. (76566)

Post Editor

• Add Site Logo & Icon screen to Design panel. (76116)
• Editor: Show own presence in collaborative editing sessions. (76413)
• Fields: Add format field. (76308)
• Media: Add hooks and extension points for client-side media processing. (74913)

Collaboration

• RTC: Add collaborator selection highlighting in rich text. (76107)
• RTC: Allow filtering of SyncConnectionModal. (76554)
• RTC: Auto-register custom taxonomy rest_base values for CRDT sync. (75983)
• RTC: Do not sync role=local attributes. (76267)
• RTC: Implement disconnection debounce after initial connection. (76114)
• RTC: Implement front-end peer limits. (76565)
• RTC: Remove post list lock icon and replace user-specific lock text. (76322)
• Use V2 Yjs methods for HTTP Polling. (76304)
• Add a limit for the default provider. (76437)

Content Guidelines

• Rename route and use the right Notice component. (76427)

Block Editor

• Implement state UI for pseudo selectors on Global styles. (75627)
• Media: Use Document-Isolation-Policy for cross-origin isolation on Chromium 137+.
  (75991)
• Pattern Editing and Block Fields: Highlight selected block. (74841)
• Icons API: Support searching in labels. (75878)
• Media Upload Modal: Try an uploading state with popover in the footer. (76228)
• Set placeholder to featured image field. (76342)
• Add confirmation dialog before disconnecting/detaching. (75713)

Interactivity API

• Add client-side navigation block with interactive features. (76331)

Command Palette

• Add command palette trigger button to admin bar. (75757)

Bug Fixes

Post Editor

• Add isNavigationPostEditorKey symbol to fix menu display context. (76461)
• Allow Post Content to be edited when 'Show template' is active and Post content is nested in a Template Part.
  (76305)
• Client-side media processing: Try plumbing invalidation to the block-editor's mediaUpload onSuccess callback.
  (76173)
• Editor: Fix autosaves for draft and auto-draft posts. (76624)
• Fix: Document Bar: Back button flickers. (76320)
• Fix: QuickEdit: Consolidate how "Status > Scheduled" works. (76129)
• Navigation: Disable Mobile Menu in Isolated Editor or Site Editor Preview. (76203)
• Notes: Disable for in-editor revisions. (76180)
• Page Parent: Change the default value of 'fieldValue' state. (76354)
• Page/Post Content Focus Mode: Fix insertion into Post Content block. (76477)
• RTC: Place sync connection modal in front of popover. (76431)
• Revisions: Show changed block attributes in inspector sidebar. ([76550](https://github.c...

22.8.0 RC1

Changelog

Features

Collaboration

• RTC: Add preference for collaborator notifications. (76460)

Enhancements

Components

• @wordpress/ui: Add Collapsible component. (76280)
• Add ExampleApplication story for ThemeProvider to better demonstrate component theme-ability.
  (76463)
• Add Link primitive to @wordpress/ui. (76013)
• Add primitive Text component to @wordpress/ui. (75870)
• Add styles for outside days in Calendar components. (76199)
• Admin UI: Add Storybook stories for Breadcrumbs and Page components. (76467)
• Adopt surface-width design tokens for Dialog, Notice, and Modal widths. (76494)
• Collapsible.Card: Make contents hidden until found. (76498)
• CollapsibleCard: Move trigger to the whole header. (76265)
• Editor: Polish real-time collaboration presence UI and move Avatar to editor package.
  (75652)
• Field.Label, Fieldset.Legend: Add visuallyHidden prop. (76052)
• Refactor admin-ui Page component to use @wordpress/theme tokens and @wordpress/ui layout primitive.
  (75963)
• Storybook: Change the default font. (76366)
• Storybook: Deduplicate injected package stylesheets. (76158)
• Theme package: Add surface width design tokens. (76047)
• Theme: Add no-token-fallback-values stylelint rule. (76415)
• Tooltip: Change default placement from bottom to top. (76131)
• UI Notice: Let description and actions span icon column at narrow widths. (76202)
• UI/Badge: Add border and neutral-strong background to none intent. (76356)
• @wordpress/ui: Add Card and CollapsibleCard components. (76252)
• CollapsibleCard: Add animations. (76378)
• ui/Card: Increase padding, align with legacy Card. (76368)
• Admin UI: Update font size for title and breadcrumbs to match. (76452)

Connectors

• Add AI Experiments plugin callout with install/activate functionality. (76379)
• Add connectors registry for extensibility. (76364)
• Add empty state when no connectors are registered. (76375)
• Add unregisterConnector and upsert support. (76541)
• Move plugin status computation to script module data. (76409)
• Sync PHP code with WordPress Core. (76443)
• Update page identifier to options-connectors. (76142)
• WP Admin: Update Connectors screen footer text for consistency. (76382)

Block Library

• Block Library: Improve the design of MediaControlPreview and MediaControl.
  (76430)
• Link Picker: Use Homepage badge instead of Page if Homepage. (75929)
• Navigation link: Add support to style current menu item via theme.json. (75736)
• Navigation: Allow creating new links in site editor sidebar List View. (75918)
• Post Date: Migrate to textAlign block support. (75856)
• Post Excerpt: Migrate to textAlign block support. (75860)
• Tabs: Disable anchor support on Tab Menu Item. (76442)
• Tabs: Restructure Tabs Menu and inner blocks. (75954)

DataViews

• Add border to sticky table headers. (76396)
• DataForm: Add customizable button text to panel modal. (76099)
• DataForm: Reduce panel's dialog min-width. (76345)
• DataViews Grid and Picker Grid: Add density option for gap between items. (75887)
• Improve storybook infinite scroll. (76566)

Post Editor

• Add Site Logo & Icon screen to Design panel. (76116)
• Editor: Show own presence in collaborative editing sessions. (76413)
• Fields: Add format field. (76308)
• Media: Add hooks and extension points for client-side media processing. (74913)

Collaboration

• RTC: Add collaborator selection highlighting in rich text. (76107)
• RTC: Allow filtering of SyncConnectionModal. (76554)
• RTC: Auto-register custom taxonomy rest_base values for CRDT sync. (75983)
• RTC: Do not sync role=local attributes. (76267)
• RTC: Implement disconnection debounce after initial connection. (76114)
• RTC: Implement front-end peer limits. (76565)
• RTC: Remove post list lock icon and replace user-specific lock text. (76322)
• Use V2 Yjs methods for HTTP Polling. (76304)
• Add a limit for the default provider. (76437)

Content Guidelines

• Guidelines: Add actions for Import, Export and Revisions of guidelines. (76155)
• Rename route and use the right Notice component. (76427)

Block Editor

• Implement state UI for pseudo selectors on Global styles. (75627)
• Media: Use Document-Isolation-Policy for cross-origin isolation on Chromium 137+.
  (75991)
• Pattern Editing and Block Fields: Highlight selected block. (74841)
• Icons API: Support searching in labels. (75878)
• Media Upload Modal: Try an uploading state with popover in the footer. (76228)
• Set placeholder to featured image field. (76342)
• Add confirmation dialog before disconnecting/detaching. (75713)

Interactivity API

• Add client-side navigation block with interactive features. (76331)

Command Palette

• Add command palette trigger button to admin bar. (75757)

Bug Fixes

Post Editor

• Add isNavigationPostEditorKey symbol to fix menu display context. (76461)
• Allow Post Content to be edited when 'Show template' is active and Post content is nested in a Template Part.
  (76305)
• Client-side media processing: Try plumbing invalidation to the block-editor's mediaUpload onSuccess callback.
  (76173)
• Editor: Fix autosaves for draft and auto-draft posts. (76624)
• Fix: Document Bar: Back button flickers. (76320)
• Fix: QuickEdit: Consolidate how "Status > Scheduled" works. (76129)
• Navigation: Disable Mobile Menu in Isolated Editor or Site Editor Preview. (76203)
• Notes: Disable for in-editor revisions. (76180)
• Page Parent: Change the default value of 'fieldValue' state. (76354)
• Page/Post Content Focus Mode: Fix insertion into Post Content block. (76477)
• RTC: Place sync connection modal in front of popover. ([76431](https:/...

22.7.1

Changelog

Bug Fixes

• Fix script module dequeue race condition. (76170)
• Sync changes from wp_enqueue_global_styles() to Gutenberg override. (76127)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@adamsilverstein @westonruter

22.7.0

Changelog

Enhancements

• Add phpMyAdmin support to wp-env Playground runtime. (75532)
• Dialog: Add legacy z-index compatibility. (75874)
• Env: Improve help screen. (75783)
• InputLayout: Replace slot context with data attributes. (76011)
• Theme: Add design token fallback generation. (75586)
• Theme: Add design token for interactive non-link elements. (75697)
• UI: Add Notice component. (75981)
• Views: Add support for more overrides (all developer-defined config). (75971)

Block Library

• Button: Migrate to width block support. (74242)
• Make inspector style transform previews consistent with toolbar transforms. (75989)
• Playlist Block: Add WaveformPlayer visualization. (75203)
• Post Navigation Link : Migrate to Text-Align Block Support. (75557)
• Post Title : Migrate to Text-Align Block Support. (75629)
• Post Title: Add placeholder attribute. (76016)
• Query Title: Migrate to Text-Align Block Support. (75802)
• Site Tagline : Migrate to Text-Align Block Support. (75690)
• Site Title : Migrate to Text-Align Block Support. (75551)
• Tabs: Remove custom state styling. (75731)
• Unify block settings dropdown menu items across list views. (75979)

Connectors

• Add: Connectors screen and API. (75833)
• Connectors: Add _ai_ prefix to connector setting names. (75948)
• Connectors: Dynamically register providers from WP AI Client registry. (76014)
• Sync connector PHP behavior with Core backport changes. (75968)

Content Guidelines

• Content Guidelines: Add block guidelines management (76187)
• Content Guidelines: Add UX for site, copy, image, and additional guidelines (75420)
• Guidelines: Add actions for Import, Export and Revisions of guidelines (76155)

DataViews

• Adjust column spacing in table layout when no titleField is provided. (75410)
• Improve UI in list layout when we render only title and/or media fields. (76042)
• MediaEdit: Auto-fill columns based on minimum item width. (75509)
• DataViews: Remove menu divider again. (75893)
• DataViews: Minimize padding for primary action buttons. (75721)

Post Editor

• Center navigation preview content in preview pane. (75741)
• RTC: Add session activity notifications. (76065)

Block Editor

• Add previews for style variation transforms. (75889)
• Try enabling style variation transforms for blocks in contentOnly mode. (75761)

Site Editor

• QuickEdit: Rename status label and remove extra labels in popup. (75824)

Components

• Refactor ColorPicker to preserve hue/saturation at achromatic colors. (75493)
• ToggleGroupControl: Make unselected item color consistent across all variants. (75737)

Global Styles

• Block Supports: Define CSS vars for blocks based on feature selectors. (75226)

Bug Fixes

• Block editor: Force LTR direction in block HTML editing mode. (75904)
• Connectors: Avoid manual string concatenation. (75997)
• Connectors: Unhook Core callbacks in Gutenberg coexistence. (75935)
• DataViews: Fix search input losing characters during debounce when externally synced. (75810)
• Fix DataForm card summary vertical alignment. (75864)
• Fix: Set quality and strip metadata in client-side image resize. (76029)
• Fix: Suppress spinner output when using --json flag in wp-env. (75743)
• IconButton: Hide tooltip when truly disabled. (75754)
• Prevent non-reproducible Sass/CSS builds. (76098)
• Remove Core's full-page render interceptors for boot-based pages. (76036)
• Theme: Add build plugins to inject design token fallbacks. (75589)
• Theme: Remove global design tokens stylesheet. (75879)
• wp-build: Deregister script modules before re-registering. (75909)
• CI: Don't build release notes during plugin build workflow for WP Core sync (76398)

Collaboration

• Fix change-detection and new-post end-to-end tests after RTC enabled by default. (75751)
• RTC: Back off when the window loses focus. (75843)
• RTC: Bugfix: Fix casing of getPersistedCRDTDoc. (75922)
• RTC: Fix fallthrough for sync update switch statement. (76060)
• RTC: Fix stale CRDT document persisted on save. (75975)
• RTC: Fix syncing of emoji / surrogate pairs. (76049)
• RTC: Fix undefined array_first() call in sync storage. (75869)
• RTC: Prevent duplicate poll cycles. (76059)
• Real-time collaboration: Fix disconnect dialog on navigate. (75886)
• Real-time collaboration: Improve collaboration within the same rich text. (75703)
• Real-time collaboration: Remove ghost awareness state explicitly when refreshing. (75883)
• [Real-time Collaboration] Fix sync issue on refresh. (76017)
• Real-time collaboration: Improve disconnect dialog. (75970)
• RTC: Enable RTC by default (75739)

Block Library

• Block Support: Fix custom CSS not saved when style schema is not defined. (75797)
• Fix: Page List block: Editor-only div inside page links causes misalignment in Firefox. (75890)
• Fixes keyboard focus escaping the lightbox overlay when navigating a gallery with Tab/Shift+Tab. (75852)
• Image block: Fix lightbox srcset size. (76092)
• Image: Hide 'Set as featured image' for in-editor revisions. (76123)
• Navigation Link: Compare internal links by host instead of origin. (76015)
• Navigation Overlay Close: Set Close as default text, rather than using a placeholder. (75692)
• Navigation editing: Simplify edit/view buttons. (75819)
• Search block: Double-encodes apostrophes in the input value. (76023)
• Show transform dropdown previews on focus as well as hover. (75940)
• Use homeUrl instead of siteUrl for link badge evaluations. (75978)
• Navigation overlay: Prevent duplicate area registration. (75906)

Block Editor

• Avoid block removal when calling 'moveBlockToPosition'. ([75728](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenbe...

22.7.0 RC4

Changelog

Bug Fixes

Block Editor

• CI: Don't build release notes during plugin build workflow for WP Core sync (76398)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@ockham

22.7.0 RC3

Changelog

Bug Fixes

Block Editor

• Content Guidelines: Add block guidelines management (76187)
• Content Guidelines: Add UX for site, copy, image, and additional guidelines (75420)
• Guidelines: Add actions for Import, Export and Revisions of guidelines (76155)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aswasif007 @iamchughmayank

22.7.0 RC2

Changelog

Bug Fixes

Block Editor

• RTC: Enable RTC by default (75739)
• Interactivity: Fix crypto.randomUUID crash in non-secure contexts (76151)
• Client-side media processing: Try plumbing invalidation to the block-editor's mediaUpload onSuccess callback (76173)
• Client-side media processing: only use media upload provider when not in preview mode (76124)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@andrewserong @chriszarate @scruffian