Gutenberg 4.0 Changelog

New Features

• Add ability to change overlay color in Cover Image.
• Introduce new Font Size Picker with clear labels and size comparison.
• Introduce new RichText data structure to allow better manipulation of inline content.
• Add Pullquote style variation and color palette support.
• Add support for post locking when multiple authors interact with the editor.
• Add an alternative block appender when the container doesn’t support the default block (paragraph).
• Improve the UI and interactions around floats.
• Add option to skip PublishSidebar on publishing.
• Add support for shortcode embeds that enqueue scripts.
• Add a button to exit the Code Editor.
• Introduce a reusable ResizableBox component.
• Style nested <ul>s with circles instead of normal bullets.
• Show hierarchical terms sorted by name and allow them to be filterable through search. Hide the filter box if there are fewer than 8 terms.
• Improve messaging around invalid block detection.
• Use text color for links when a paragraph has a color applied.
• Allow extended usage of the controls API in resolvers within data layer.
• Ensure that a default block is inserted (and selected) when all other blocks are removed.
• Enhance the block parser to support multiple type, in accordance with JSON schema.
• Add a larger target area for resize drag handles.
• Add media button to classic block.
• Add control to toggle responsive mechanism on embed blocks.
• Update sidebar design to have a lighter feeling.
• Update resolvers in data layer to rely on controls instead of async generators.
• Set template validity on block reset.
• Remove dirty detection from Meta Boxes to reduce false positives of “unsaved changes”.
• Show “Publish: Immediately” for new drafts by inferring floating date.
• Add a slight transition to Full Screen mode.
• Improve spacing setup in Gallery Block.
• Remove additional side padding from blocks.
• Improve the reusable blocks “Export as JSON” link.
• Enforce a default block icon size to allow flex alignment and fix unaligned labels.
• Consider single unmodified default block as empty content.
• Only display URL input field when “Link To” is set for Image Block.
• Make backspace behavior consistent among Quote, Verse and Preformatted.
• Expose refresh method from Dropdown component.
• Omit style tags when pasting.
• Use best fitting embed aspect ratio if exact match doesn’t exist.
• Avoid dispatching undefined results in promise middleware.
• Change keyboard shortcut for removing a block to access + z.
• Replace the Full Screen mode “x” icon with a back arrow.
• Make drag handle visible on hover while in nested contexts.
• Pass the tab title to the TabPanel component for situations where it may need to be highlighted.
• Allow setting no alignment when a default alignment exists.
• Improve title and appender margin fix.
• Avoid focusing on the close button on modal and try a modal appear animation.
• Change the URL Input label to match Classic.
• Adjust media upload source for RichText.
• Handle edge cases in with-constrained-tabbing and add tests.
• Set a consistent input field width in media placeholders.
• Add a hover state to sidebar panel headers.
• Change settings title from “Writing” to “View”.
• Convert the “tools” menu group into internal plugin.
• Normalize data types and fix default implementation in parser.
• Cleanup CSS specificity issues on Button component for portability.
• Display error when attempting to embed URLs that can’t be embedded and don’t generate a fallback.
• Update some edit and save button labels and styles for consistency.
• Make “Manage Reusable Blocks” a link instead of an icon button.

Bug Fixes

• Fix issue with Enter and the Read More block.
• Fix menu item hover colors.
• Fix issue with editor styles and fullscreen mode.
• Fix popover link repositioning.
• Fix Space Block layout issues on small screens.
• Fix custom classNames for dynamic blocks.
• Fix spacing of post-publish close button in other languages.
• Fix Async Generator resolvers resolution.
• Fix issue with Spacer Block not being resizable when using unified toolbar and spotlight mode.
• Fix grammar.md manifest entry and update data docs.
• Fix issue with region focus on the header area on IE11.
• Fix reusable block broken button dimensions on IE11.
• Fix issues with dropping blocks after dragging when calculating new block index.
• Fix InnerBlock templates sync conditions to avoid a forced locking.
• Fix typo in @wordpress/api-fetch README.md.
• Fix regression with Button Block placeholder text.
• Fix dropzone issue in Edge (event.dataTransfer.types not being an array).
• Fix documentation for registerBlockStyle arguments and clarify getSaveElement filter.
• Fix raw transforms not working in Edge when pasting content.
• Fix a regression where wide images would cause horizontal scrollbars.
• Fix issue with gallery margin while typing a caption.
• Fix Block alignment CSS rules affecting nested blocks.
• Fix CSS issue with nested paragraph placeholder.
• Fix links in docs and add documentation for isPublishSidebarEnabled.
• Fix shortcode package dependencies.
• Fix overscroll issues locking scroll up on long pages.
• Fix reference to SVG component in docs.
• Fix Table Block header and body column misalignment.
• Fix an issue where inserting like breaks would throw an error.
• Fix regressions with placeholder text color (Cover Image, captions).
• Fix Editor Styles regression.
• Fix faulty Jed state after setLocaleData.
• Fix small line-height issue in editor style.
• Fix Pullquote margin regressions.
• Fix issues with File Block and new RichText structures.
• Fix Writing Flow E2E test.
• Fix issues with “tips” popup margins.
• Fix issue with mentions after rich text value merge.
• Fix clipping issue with Instagram embed.
• Fix ESNext example code.
• Fix usage of tabs / spaces in parser code.
• Fix Classic Block toolbar regression.
• Fix issues with Table Block alignments.
• Fix inserter misalignment regression.

Other Changes

• Minor i18n fixes after deprecations were removed.
• Rename parameter from mapStateToProps to mapSelectToProps in withSelect.
• Rename AccessibleSVG to SVG and make it work with React Native.
• Change createObjectUrl to createBlobURL.
• Clean up Sass variables, comments, reduce complexity.
• Move Classic Block to packages.
• Move HTML Block into the blocks library package.
• Move embed scripts into the body in preview documents.
• Ensure that the return value of apiFetch is always a valid Promise object in Firefox.
• Allow negative numbers in order field for Page Attributes.
• Make sure the demo page loads without marking itself as having changes.
• Refactor MediaUpload, MediaPlaceholder, and mediaUpload to support arrays with multiple supported types.
• Add new icons to dashicons package.
• Add link to “add_theme_support” docs.
• Remove glob and just include necessary files.
• Remove unused isButton prop.
• Remove Vine embed.
• Replace length check with RichText.isEmpty in Image Block.
• Replace TinyMCE function to decode entities with existing Gutenberg package.
• Extract the edit-post module as a reusable package.
• Pass editor initial settings as direct argument.
• Pass feature image ID to media upload component.
• Pass all available properties in the media object.
• Replace element-closest with registered vendor script.
• Add new handbook introduction and docs about “blocks as the interface”.
• Add utils to the wp-data script dependencies.
• Disable alternate diff drivers in setup script.
• Clarify RichText.Content readme docs.
• Document isDefault option for block styles.
• Update Panel component documentation.
• Update full post content test fixtures.
• Add ESLint rule about not allowing string literals in IDs.
• Add a test for the new Code → Preformatted transform and use snapshots.
• Add E2E test to visit demo page and verify errors.
• Add E2E tests for list creation.
• Update Redux to the latest version.

Mobile

• Add the React Native entry point to more packages.
• Need to define isRichTextValueEmpty for mobile.
• Have Travis run mobile tests that use the parent code.
• Wire onEnter to requestHTMLWithCursor command in RichText.