Gutenberg - Version 2.2.0

Version Description

• Block Nesting is live! It comes with an experimental Columns block. (Note: converting a nested block into a reusable block is disabled on this first version.) Furthermore, this is not a specific implementation for columns alone any block author can take advantage of defining nested areas.
• Refined block insertion experience:
• Introduce block shortcuts on every empty paragraph block. This also temporarily disables the sibling inserter as we work on refining this interaction.
• Add trailing text area at the bottom of a post to continue writing.
• Preview saved blocks while hovering on the inserter. Allows users to quickly see what they are inserting before inserting.
• Enable triggering onChange events within RichText component on every keystroke. This was an enforced limitation that prevented saved post checks from being faithful.
• Rework undo levels to use history "buffer" and leverage the mechanism to aid in continuous syncing of RichText history records.
• Collapse the publish sidebar when making edits to a published post automatically.
• Improve writing flow by triggering isTyping mode as soon as the user clicks on the default text appender.
• Hide hover effects when typing.
• Add a confirmation message before reverting a published post to draft.
• When using the inserter, replace the selected block if it's empty.
• Display reusable blocks in the "recent blocks" tab.
• Make sure blue line indicators appear consistently when using dropzones.
• Ensure that hitting enter at the end of a paragraph creates an empty paragraph when using RichText.
• Ensure the block settings menu and the block movers are shown when the default block is selected and user is not typing.
• Deselect individual gallery images when clicking outside the block or selecting another image.
• Add support for setting a page template.
• Add support for individual image captions in galleries.
• Add support for saving a post with Cmd/Ctrl+S shortcuts. This is possible after these RichText changes.
• Support unwrapped paragraph text via native block deprecation mechanism. (Ensures paragraphs without p tags are correctly interpreted.) Also readdresses code that was applying autop selectively on the server for posts made with gutenberg as it is handled at the block level when needed.
• Add raw handling (pasting mechanism) for iframes (e.g. Google Maps).
• Allow WP to make images responsive via class.
• Drop focus/setFocus props in favor of isSelected prop.
• New PlainText component for raw content that is styled as editable text. Renamed Editable to RichText for extra clarity and separation.
• Add RawHTML component, drop support for HTML string block save.
• Absorb multiple-image uploads in generic image placeholder component and reuse it for galleries.
• Refactor Default Colors and the ColorPalette component. Moves the default colors to the frontend making the Editor script more reusable without the need of the server-side bootstraping.
• Reimplement block alignment as a common extension.
• Use block API functions in reusable block effects.
• Check for duplication in addGeneratedClassName.
• Assign default for all allowed blockTypes.
• Update ToggleControl to pass boolean onChange.
• Add withSafeTimeout higher-order component.
• Expose getEditedPostAttribute selector.
• Move selected block focus to BlockListBlock.
• Allow themes to disable custom color functionality across blocks.
• Added slug selector to data modules collection.
• Defer registration of all core blocks until editor loads. Generally useful for extensibility hooks.
• Add a subscribe function to the editor data module. Also, separate reducers into multiple stores to avoid unallowed access to the actions.
• Support multiple stores in data module for the redux dev tools.
• Expose registered selectors as functions.
• Remove Popover isOpen prop, render by presence.
• Fix issue with store persistence and switching to fixed toolbar.
• Fix issue with formatting toolbar hover.
• Fix block menu render when multi-selecting.
• Fix TinyMCE custom buttons width in Classic block.
• Fix sidebar tab admin theme regression.
• Fix center alignment on resized images.
• Fix some float issues.
• Fix type error when merging blocks.
• Fix regression when converting gallery from shortcode.
• Fix unset variable in meta-boxes functions.
• Fix code error in blocks-control.md.
• Fix loss of focus when navigating from multi-selection.
• Fix scrollbars on blank preview loading screen.
• Fix broken nested lists and Evernote test in pasting functionality.
• Fix lingering dropzone placeholder at the end of the editor.
• Fix Button block line break presentation.
• Fix lingering visual editor classes.
• Fix codepen embeds width.
• Fix merging blocks after nested blocks refactoring.
• Fix Cypress path checks to allow sub-directory.
• Fix error when pasting image inside caption.
• Fix some issues when pasting from Word.
• Fix bug when pasting content with custom styles in a paragraph block.
• Fix image caption select behaviour.
• Fix broken nested content caused by overly aggressive cache.
• Fix issue with comments and pingbacks being set to off on new posts.
• Fix regression with RichText placeholder whitespace.
• Fix incorrect directory to load text domain.
• Fix issue with quote to heading transformation.
• Fix focus transfer between citation and content.
• Fix gallery link attribute selector.
• Attempt to correct Slack's Markdown code block variant.
• Disable customClassName support on Classic block.
• Avoid autofocus behavior for blocks without focusable elements.
• Ignore focus if explicitOriginalTarget is not node (Firefox issue).
• Extract "edit-post" to its own module this is preparation work for the eventual template editor in v2 onwards.
• Remove redundant handling of inserter position, simplifying the implementation for nesting.
• Prioritize specific block handling over generic shortcode catch-all transform.
• Avoid running a full-parse when rendering a post, instead only intercepting dynamic blocks to handle their callbacks.
• Ensure string return value from render_callback.
• Avoid parameters in memoized selectors getDependants.
• Guard against falsey block container in WritingFlow.
• Refactor BlockList to use minimal block UIDs array.
• Pass selection start as UID in BlockList to prevent unnecessary rerenders.
• Refactor TableOfContents panel to separate component for performance improvements.
• Restore new post setup as non-dirtying change. This resolves an issue where saving a new post which has an empty title will set the title as "Auto Draft".
• Center spinner when images are loading in the gallery block.
• Use isTypingInBlock to avoid unnecessary block rerenders.
• Add the i18n messages to the built plugin.
• General design improvements to the full-post code editor. Also removes the dummy quicktag buttons that were non-functional.
• Only start multi selection from inside the content.
• Cache columns layouts configurations.
• General polish to the Classic block and some quote block style errors.
• Remove wrapper from image raw transform and added tests.
• Make sure reusable blocks models exist before initializing.
• Persist withFocusOutside event for async usage.
• Pass selected block UID as string on WritingFlow.
• Add label to range control.
• Remove throttling inputs on RichText.
• Replace global hover state with local component state. This reduces excesive dispatching of mouse events.
• Simplify Editor State initialization using a single action to fix undo/redo initialization.
• Access state paths directly in selector dependants for getBlock.
• Refactor insertion point to include rootUID and layout.
• Set new post status to draft in initialization.
• Strip comment demarcations in content filtering for the front-end after refactoring work.
• Improve presentation of List block.
• Optimize getMultiSelectedBlocks by returning shared array reference in empty multi-selection.
• Increase maximum number of recent blocks to nine in order to accommodate the current design.
• Avoid cases of rerendering when the previous or next block updates.
• Restore missing selectionStart props in BlockList.
• Improve edit and insert link label display.
• Extract copy and scroll-into-view logic to separate non-visual components in BlockList.
• Make sure that styles do not contain duplicates in development mode.
• Use trivial block count check to determine emptiness.
• Use proper labels provided by the rest API on taxonomies.
• Use menu order to order pages in the parent page dropdown.
• Persist link attribute to fix invalid galleries.
• Update the Dashicons component with new icons.
• Use correct label on Featured Image Panel.
• Small improvement to the meta-box partial page file.
• Delete unused global import in gutenberg_menu function.
• Improve serialize persistence action name.
• Improve logic around replacing the editor in PHP.
• Improve consistency of tooltips text.
• Improve sandbox component readme.
• Improve gutenberg_intercept_* functions.
• Improve "Add New" button logic.
• Revert updates giving Meta Boxes' #poststuff div a broader scope.
• Simplify "New Post" button logic.
• Simplify scripts registration.
• Replace focus with isSelected verification on hooks.
• Automate memoized selector setup clear.
• Consolidate module build JS, CSS, map inclusion.
• Remove unused code after WP 4.9.
• Update deprecated BlockDescription in Subhead.
• Add doc explaining the deprecated block API. (Handbook.)
• Add doc for Editable component (now RichText).
• Document block validation, clarify extensibility validation.
• JSDoc: prefer @return over @retuns.
• Integrate dependencies from WordPress packages. Brings wp-scriptsinto gutenberg.
• Move components in wp.blocks.InspectorControls to wp.components.
• Add lint:fix ESLint "fix" npm script.
• Add an eslint --fix Git precommit hook.
• Add reusable block render tests.
• Add tests for ContrastChecker component.
• Add more details about unit testing JavaScript code.
• Add mention to create-guten-block repo.
• Add partial test coverage to RichText component.
• Add first version of repository management doc.
• Assign preferred JSDoc tags and types.
• Assign edit-post global as wp.editPost.
• Assign explicit user for Docker WordPress install in tests.
• Mention installing docker-compose in local dev setup.
• Update refx to version 3.x.
• Update memize and rememo dependencies.
• Code is Poetry footer to main readme.