16.7.0 RC1

Changelog

Features

Typography

• Font Library: Add mime type validation for font uploads. (53986)
• Font Library: Font Collection backend. (54098)
• Font Library: Frontend [Stage 1]. (53884)

Patterns

• Allow import/export patterns as JSON files. (54337)

Block Editor

• Adds 'nofollow' setting to inline links (rich text only). (53945)
• Rename Group blocks in the Editor via Modal. (53735)

Enhancements

Core Data

• Add edits data to the useEntityRecord. (54167)

Components

• Add non-listbox functionality back to CircularOptionPicker. (54290)
• Added missing "middle" allowed tooltip position. (52147)
• BlockSettingsMenu: Ensure only one block settings menu is open at a time. (54083)
• Bundle the block copy handler within the BlockCanvas component. (54207)
• Bundle the block selection clearer hook into the BlockCanvas component. (54209)
• Ensure that 'Duotone Filter' color pickers have relevant labels. (54468)
• Export ProgressBar to allow it to be used. (54404)
• FormTokenField - add prop to allow saving of tokens onBlur. (53976)
• Refactoring BorderControl's unit tests. (54155)
• Remove unnecessary padding-right on the dismissible notice. (52240)
• Support controlling open/closed state for Dropdown and DropdownMenu. (54257)
• ToggleGroupControl: Rewrite backdrop animation with framer motion shared layout animations. (50278)
• ToolTip: Refactor using ariakit. (48440)
• Tooltip: Add placement prop to replace deprecated position. (54264)
• Tooltip: Add new hideOnClick prop. (54406)
• Tweak border control button to proper metrics and simpler action. (53998)
• Update FormTokenField styling for consistency and visibility. (54402)
• Update spacing sizes control metrics and icons. (54470)
• Update/form token field onblur. (54445)
• Popover: Update positionToPlacement types. (54101)
• SearchControl: Allow for 32px compact size, introduce option to change default size to 40px. (54548)

Block Library

• #39457: Image block keep image size on replacing image. (49982)
• Add __next40pxDefaultSize to featured image opacity control. (54389)
• Add aspect ratio to image placeholder. (54216)
• Allow using a button element for button blocks. (54206)
• Buttons Block: Show inserter if button have variations (#53498). (53783)
• Change dialogdescription for renaming group block. (54358)
• Footnotes: Add missing placeholder instructions text. (54056)
• Heading block: Add support for writingMode. (54351)
• Improved description for the post-terms core block. (47715)
• Make matrix position behave like valign. (54050)
• Navigation block: Add core/buttons to the allowed blocks. (53966)
• Remove unused prop from GroupPlaceHolder component. (51493)
• Template parts: Use the template actions component for template parts patterns. (54173)
• Text orientation: Rotate vertical text when the text is aligned (Upside down text). (53175)
• Update parent labels in page attributes panel and page list block. (54403)
• Use __next40pxDefaultSize on more UI. (54400)

Interactivity API

• Add timeout option to navigate(). (54474)
• Add manual Server Side Rendering (SSR) to the Interactivity API blocks. (54343)
• Ensure that the view scripts of core blocks have the wp-interactivity dependency. (54594)
• Image block: Revise lightbox UI to remove 'behaviors'. (53851)
• Image block: UI updates for the image lightbox (redo). (54509)
• Override unfinished navigate calls. (54201)
• Query Loop: Add design enhancements for the "enhanced pagination" setting. (54455)
• Query Loop: Allow "enhanced pagination" only with core blocks. (54347)

Patterns

• Add categories to user patterns, and allow filtering by these in site and post editor. (53835)
• Add editing of pattern categories to site editor. (54640)
• Add user categories to site editor sidebar navigation screen. (53837)
• Add user pattern categories to post editor inserter patterns tab. (53933)
• Apply white background to the preview as a fallback. (54534)
• Merge unsynced into inserter patterns tab and add paging and filtering. (54007)
• Update empty template part label. (53842)

Design Tools

• Add back tooltip to styles UI. (54574)
• Add block gap to Post Content block. (54282)
• Add block instance elements support for buttons and headings. (53667)
• Background Image block support: Add reset menu item. (54341)
• Block Supports: Add background image support to Group block. (53934)
• Columns: Adopt button and heading element colors. (54104)
• Update block styles UI. (54446)

Site Editor

• Copy: End the Templates page description in the Site Editor with a period. (54221)
• Edit Site: Update progress bar to determinate. (53399)
• Follow up visual tweaks to block-specific commands. (54427)
• Site editor sidebar: Abstracting footer so it can be used across details screens. (54082)
• [Page Inspector]: Add ability to switch templates. (51477)

Global Styles

• Rename settings & userSettings props to value & inheritedValue respectively in ImageSettingsPanel. (54593)
• Update Block specific CSS label to include additional instructions. (49626)

Block Editor

• Use gray color on link control advanced toggle. (54545)
• Verse: Exit on triple Enter. (53332)
• Block editor: hooks: Fix rules of hooks violations (2). (48943)

Typography

• Font Face: Backport from Core changeset 56500. (54218)
• Font Library: Changing the upload directory to wp-content/fonts. (54122)

Themes

• Theme Previews: Make the back button customizable. (54242)

Plugin

• Remove 'Footnotes' and 'Comments' from the non-dynamic block registration list. (54154)

Media

• Correct function name handleFileChange is replaced by wrong function name. (52250)

List View

• Allow Escape key to deselect blocks if blocks are selected. (48708)

Block API

• Deprecated get_file_path_from_theme method. (45831)

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Make the shortcuts provider optional. (54080)

Blob

• refactor(blob): Type URL parameter as optional. (49201)

New APIs

Components

• Revert "Export ProgressBar to allow it to be used". (54428)

Block API

• Stabilize Block Hooks feature. (54293)

Data Layer

• Data: Introduce countSelectorsByStatus redux metadata selector. (53767)

Framework

• Add useStateWithHistory hook and use to show a block editor with undo/redo. (54377)
• BlockEditor: Add BlockCanvas component = Iframe + BlockList + WritingFlow. (54149)
• Extract undo/redo as a separate package. (54292)

Bug Fixes

Components

• Add children back to toolbar item render for rendered components. (53314)
• Add missing useState import in Border Control documentation. (49476)
• Adjust input-style__focus mixin to proper focus size. (54398)
• DropdownMenu v2: Fix submenu chevron direction in RTL languages. (54036)
• Fix incorrect focus style size on InputControl. (54394)
• Make CircularOptionPicker focus styles resilient to button size changes. (54196)
• PaletteEdit: Fix padding in RTL mode. (54034)
• Popover: Set is-positioned class only after animation has finished. (54178)
• Storybook: Restore previous URL for the introduction documentation page. (54247)
• Storybook: Update doc param values for ConfirmDialog. (54130)
• Update borderFocus to ADMIN.theme. (54425)
• Use standard focus style on BorderControl. (54429)

Post Editor

• Adds animation state for DFM off to post editor header. (54244)
• Block Editor: Memoize the createPageEntity callback. (54580)
• Edit Post: Avoid fetching the edited template for non-viewable posts. (54158)
• Editor: Catch errors when creating terms. (53369)
• Fix layout when post content is root block. (54485)
• Make order of pinned items consistent. (53908)
• Prevent the list view shortcut from typing unexpected characters. (54078)
• Top Toolbar: Prevent the focus outline of the button from being cut off. (54172)
• Try using fallback layout instead of default in post editor. (54371)
• [Edit Post]: Toggle Distraction free mode mode based on compatibility. (54073)

Block Library

• Block Moving Mode: Prevent the block from being moved into itself. (54137)
• Fix navigation block submenu focus when closing menu with the ESC key. (54299)
• List Block: Fix numbering style to be applied correctly. (53301)
• Navigation Link: Restore tooltip. (54263)
• Post navigation link: Fix the writing mode setting on the front. (54053)
• PreviewOptions: Fix critical error when children not passed. (54284)
• Remove role attribute when set to null in data-wp-bind. (54608)
• [Commands]: Add group/ungroup commands only when eligible. (53988)

Patterns

• Command Palette: Fix duplicate Patterns command. (54133)
• Don't output root padding when editing patterns. (54373)
• Fix user pattern categories in site editor inserter. (54641)
• Remove pattern category as a variation for post terms block. (54532)
• StartPageOptions: Improve conditions to show modal only on a brand new page. (54245)

Block Editor

• Add keyboardReturn submit button back to LinkControl. (52620)
• Formats: Memoize link value passed to the LinkControl. (54603)
• List: Merge consecutive lists. (52995)
• Rich text: Fix useAnchor (remove nextElementSibling). (54013)
• Iframe: Adjust keydown event bubbling. (54565)

Site Editor

• Bump the z-index of the rename modal. (54277)
• Default template lookup should use slug, not the full permalink, in the site editor. (54599)
• Fix "Blog title" input border radius in Index / Home details panel. (54192)
• Hide ghost top toolbar. (54555)

Plugin

• Ensure font-face styles are printed in iframe editors. (54313)
• Font Face & Font Library: Load PHP files only if the main class does not exist. (54103)
• Gutenberg Plugin: Add hook to allow writing-mode as a safe CSS property. (54581)
• Update readme.txt "tested up to 6.3". (54072)

Typography

• Font Library: Ensure merged fontFace data is enconded as an array instead of an object. (54435)
• Font Library: Fix duplicate variants with different file types. (54490)
• Font Library: Setting wp_font_family custom post type as _builtin and not plublic. (54559)

Widgets Editor

• Edit Widgets: Fix broken layout. (54372)
• Edit Widgets: Fix invisible action area when the top toolbar is enabled. (54329)
• Fix top toolbar for the customizer widgets sidebar control. (54255)

Global Styles

• Font Library: Fix notification error for actions related to custom fonts. (54535)
• Prevent layout changes from saving the whole inherited settings object. (54500)

Block API

• Blocks: Fix incorrect placement for hooked blocks in the parent container. (54349)
• Pass correct content argument to enter transforms. (54108)

Rich Text

• Revert: Rich text: Copy tag name on internal paste. (54301)

Interactivity API

• Image: Fix block serialization test case to cover deprecation of behaviors. (54570)

Icons

• Fix React forwardRef warnings for TooltipAnchors. (54492)

History

• Fix extra undo/redo step when removing or replacing all blocks. (54457)

Synced Patterns

• Patterns: Apply layout and alignment to synced patterns in the editor. (54416)

npm Packages

• Workflow: Fix the issue with npm publishing for WP major version. (54088)

Media

• useMediaQuery: Avoid crashing on Safari < 14. (54023)

Nested / Inner Blocks

• Fix: InnerBlocks allowed blocks change with different sizes. (53943)

Layout

• Post Content: Ensure layout classnames are applied in readonly preview. (53864)

Document Settings

• Set the timezone correctly. (48083)

React i18n

• Fix: Invalid import in react-i18n documentation. (54308)

Accessibility

Block Library

• Comments form: Accessibility fixes for back-end. (54393)
• Navigation: Add ariaLabel block support. (54418)
• Table block: Fix semantic structure for screen readers on back-end. (54324)

Components

• Improve Notice component accessibility. (54498)
• Making Circular Option Picker a listbox. (52255)

Site Editor

• Clarify the "Entity" message of the snackbar. (54333)
• Use solid accent color selection in command palette. (54318)

Block Editor

• Update nofollow control label. (54184)

Performance

• Use median instead of average to stabilize First Block metric. (54157)
• improvement: Reduce the use of the _wp_array_get function. (51116)

Block Library

• Footnotes: Add block-level caching when parsing content for footnotes. (52577)
• Table of Contents: Use a custom store subscription for observing headings. (54094)
• getClientIdsOfDescendants: Support single 'clientId' as a argument. (54421)

Site Editor

• Edit site: Prevent enqueuing entire stylesheet in iframe. (54254)
• Fix first block locator's page reference. (54188)

Patterns

• Move mapping of values from core-data selector into consumers. (54576)

Block API

• Unnecessary JSON decoding in block parser. (54424)

Components

• Tooltip: Render tooltip markup in the DOM only when open. (54312)

Post Editor

• Editor: Memoize 'getNestedEditedPostProperty' selector helper. (54160)

Developer Experience

• Tests: Improve the environment setup. (54309)

Experiments

Interactivity API

• Remove wp_store from query block. (54359)

Documentation

• Add a documentation page to explain how to implement undo/redo in a third-party editor. (54546)
• Add the Commands Data page to Handbook. (53634)
• Bootstrap a documentation website tailored towards the usage of Gutenberg outside WordPress. (54375)
• Button: Undocument the focus prop. (54397)
• Docs: Add missing callout class. (54558)
• Docs: Add note about enqueueing assets in the iframe and trim whitespace. (54125)
• Docs: Consolidated design Reference with the main Design Contributions doc. (51065)
• Docs: Move Glossary page to Getting Started. (54120)
• Docs: Move the FAQ page to Getting Started. (54117)
• Docs: Overhaul the Development Environment section of the Block Editor Handbook. (54395)
• Docs: Remove Outreach doc from Getting Started section. (54314)
• Docs: Remove unneeded block theme docs. (51071)
• Fix bullet hierarchy. (47178)
• Fix createI18n package import location. (51328)
• Fix incorrect image src in Design Contributions doc. (54302)
• Fix: Broken links on ToolbarGroup documentation. (54229)
• Fix: Remove unrequired code from BorderControl documentation. (54348)
• Fix: Wrapped ref in quotes in theme.json documentation. (54591)
• Incorrect file extension?. (54134)
• Theme JSON schema: Fix "not allowed error" in settings property. (54521)
• Try: Allow multiple attribute to be a string in upload components. (53350)
• Update Commands documentation with examples and more context. (54441)
• Update the components changelog to mark the popover slot removal as a breaking change. (54022)
• Update versions in WP for 6.3.1. (54069)
• Updated Related Components Links. (49176)
• Updates Edit and Save code examples to have matching open/closing tags. (53915)
• [Docs: Getting Started / Block Development Environment] Updates on the text to improve clarity and preciseness. (54563)
• documentation - Contribution Triage: Formatted text and changed some titles and structure. (54258)
• documentation [Block Editor Handbook / Getting Started / Block Development Environment]: Fix links. (54571)

Code Quality

• Adds removal notice to view.js.mustache. (54105)
• Block editor: Remove __unstableElementContext and filter EditorStyles instead. (52888)
• Improving error messages and codes in jest-console, matcher.js. (53743)
• Indicate nested paths on __experimentalSaveSpecifiedEntityEdits. (54161)
• JS unit tests: Update popover matcher. (54168)
• Style engine: Sync doc changes from core. (54650)

Components

• Composite: Refactor to TypeScript. (54028)
• FocusableIframe: Refactor to TypeScript. (53979)
• IsolatedEventContainer to Typescript (just test file). (54316)
• Popover: Remove custom frame scroll/resize listeners. (54286)
• Revert FormTokenField - add prop to allow saving of tokens onBlur. (54444)
• Toolbar/ToolbarDropdownMenu Typescript Conversion. (54321)
• ToolbarGroup - Typescript. (54317)
• with-focus-outside: Convert to TypeScript. (53980)

Patterns

• Revert usePatternsState to return an array instead of object. (54582)
• Add missing dependency of @wordpress/patterns on @babel/runtime. (54118)
• Move category map creation out of useSelect. (54584)
• Remove experimental prefixes from patterns package. (54338)
• Site editor: Consolidate constants. (54484)

Post Editor

• Annotations: Run end-to-end tests with iframe. (54191)
• EditPostPreferencesModal: Refactor to remove snapshots for index.js. (54141)
• Extract WordPress specific styles from the BlockTools component. (54356)
• PageAttributesParent: A minor fixes for useSelect and useMemo hook usages. (54433)
• PostSyncStatus: Derive sync status inside the selector. (54159)

Block Library

• Heading: Remove unused 'aria-label'. (54223)
• Image Editor: Fix ESLint warnings and remove unnecessary dependencies. (53506)
• Pattern Category: Set 'publicly_queryable' to false. (54567)
• Post Terms: Fix a 'useSelect' warning in the 'usePostTerms' hook. (54068)

Interactivity API

• Prepare image lightbox for private version of the Interactivity API in 6 4. (54547)
• Remove gutenberg_should_block_use_interactivity_api and the old implementation of interactive blocks. (54297)
• Search block: Switch interactivity to the Interactivity API. (53343)

Site Editor

• Remove Tooltip workarounds added in the site and block editor. (54450)
• Revisions: Remove 'gutenberg' query param from revisions.php. (54166)

Rich Text

• RichText: Remove __unstableOnSplitMiddle. (54183)

Typography

• Fluid typography: Backporting Core @SInCE annotations. (54204)
• Font Face: Remove static instance in wp_print_font_faces(). (54228)

Block Editor

• Improve code commenting around focus mount behaviour of rich text Link UI. (54085)
• List e2e: Run all tests with iframe. (54181)

Layout

• Use override editor style API. (54466)

Plugin

• Require minimum WordPress 6.2. (53451)

Themes

• Iframe: Skip scoping styles. (46752)

Tools

Testing

• Button: Update test assertion to match test name. (54260)
• E2E: Do not run page actions in beforeEach hook when using fixme. (54065)
• Fix Font library unit tests. (54645)
• Font Library: Remove upload_mimes filter after uploading fonts. (54647)
• Migrate RichText end-to-end tests to Playwright. (53493)
• Perf Tests: Update base point to compare. (54111)
• Puppeteer tests: Try to fix failing tests related to notices in core. (54452)
• Remove accidental addition of perf test results (2). (54363)
• Remove accidental addition of perf test results. (54355)
• Update WPCS to v3.0, and fix all reported Coding Standards issues. (53866)
• Modal: Add more unit tests. (54569)
• end-to-end Test Utils: Add new fixtures for performance metrics. (52993)
• end-to-end Tests: Fix 'no-useless-not' ESLint warnings. (54652)
• package(e2e-test-utils): Update fixtures. (54128)
• wp-scripts: Add support for Playwright. (53108)

Build Tooling

• Backport tools: Filter PRs to be cherry picked by merged date. (54171)
• Changelog tool: Update Automated Testing label. (54070)
• Running npm run format:Php may result in an error. (54162)
• Scripts: Correctly resolve entry points when the directory is symlinked. (54212)
• Upgrade wp-prettier to v3.0.3. (54539)
• Update typescript-eslint to v6. (53975)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @andrewhayward: Making Circular Option Picker a listbox. (52255)
• @jamiemchale: Fix createI18n package import location. (51328)
• @johnhooks: refactor(blob): Type URL parameter as optional. (49201)
• @MericKarabulut: Improving error messages and codes in jest-console, matcher.js. (53743)
• @Piyush-Deshmukh: Fix: Wrapped ref in quotes in theme.json documentation. (54591)
• @Rajinsharwar: Editor: Catch errors when creating terms. (53369)
• @toolstack: Set the timezone correctly. (48083)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @alexstine @andrewhayward @andrewserong @annezazu @anomiex @anton-vlasenko @aristath @artemiomorales @atachibana @bangank36 @bfintal @bph @brookewp @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @chad1008 @chintu51 @ciampo @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @derekblank @draganescu @ediamin @ellatrix @fluiddot @gaambo @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @gvgvgvijayan @gziolo @hellofromtonya @jameskoster @jamiemchale @jffng @johnhooks @jordesign @jorgefilipecosta @joshuatf @jrtashjian @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @kevin940726 @kkoppenhaver @kmanijak @leewillis77 @luisherranz @madhusudhand @Mamaduka @margolisj @masteradhoc @matiasbenedetto @mburridge @mcsf @MericKarabulut @mhimon @michalczaplinski @mikachan @mikejolley @mokagio @ndiego @ntsekouras @Olein-jp @petitphp @Piyush-Deshmukh @Rajinsharwar @ramonjd @richtabor @SantosGuillamot @scruffian @spacedmonkey @stokesman @swissspidy @t-hamano @tellthemachines @thelovekesh @toolstack @torounit @tyxla @vcanales @walbo @WunderBart @youknowriad