17.8.0 RC1

Changelog

Features

• Patterns: add bulk export patterns action. (58897)
• Template editor/inspector: show and select related patterns. (55091)

Layout

• Add toggle for grid types and stabilise Grid block variation. (59051 and 59116)
• Add support for column and row span in grid children. (58539)

Enhancements

• Patterns Page: Make category action button compact. (59203)
• Block Editor: Use hooks instead of HoC in 'SkipToSelectedBlock'. (59202)
• Font Library: Adds the ability to use generic() in font family names. (59103 and 59037)
• REST API Global Styles Revisions Controller: Return single revision only when it matches the parent id. (59049)
• CSS & Styling: Tweak link focus outline styles in HTML anchor and custom CSS. (59048)
• Data Views: Make 'All pages' view label consistent with template and patterns. (59009)
• Script Modules API: Script Modules add deregister option. (58830)

Custom Fields

• Block Bindings: Lock editing of blocks by default. (58787)
• Style engine: Rename at_rule to rules_groups and update test/docs. (58922)

Block Library

• Gallery: Set the 'defaultBlock' setting for inner blocks. (59168)
• Remove the navigation edit button because it leads to a useless screen. (59211)
• Set the 'defaultBlock' setting for Columns & List blocks. (59196)
• Update: Increase footnotes meta priority and separate footnotes meta registration. (58882)

Site Editor

• Editor: Hide template part and post content blocks in some site editor contexts. (58928)
• Tweak save hub button. (58917 and 59200)

Components

• CustomSelect: Adapt component for legacy props. (57902)
• Use Element.scrollIntoView() instead of dom-scroll-into-view. (59085)

Global Styles

• Global style changes: Refactor output for a more flexible UI and grouping. (59055)
• Style theme variations: Add property extraction and merge utils. (58803)

Bug Fixes

• Distraction Free Mode: fix ui toggling bugs. (59061)
• Layout: Refactor responsive logic for grid column spans. (59057)
• Interactivity API: Only add proxies to plain objects inside the store. (59039)
• Block Hooks: Fix in Navigation block. (59021)

List View

• Editor: Do not open list view by default on mobile. (59016)
• Create Block: Add missing viewScriptModule field. (59140)
• Ignore the 'twentytwentyfour' test theme dir created by wp-env. (59072)
• useEntityBlockEditor: Update 'content' type check. (59058)

Block Library

• Author, Author Bio, Author Name: Add a fallback for Author Archive Template. (55451)
• Fix Spacer orientation when inside a block with default flex layout. (58921)
• Fix WP 6.4/6.3 compat for navigation link variations. (59126)
• Interactivity API: Fix server side rendering for Search block. (59029)
• Navigation: Avoid using embedded record from fallback API. (59076)
• Pagination Numbers: Add data-wp-key to pagination numbers if enhanced pagination is enabled. (58189)
• Revert "Navigation: Refactor mobile overlay breakpoints to JS (#57520)". (59149)
• Spacer block: Fix null label in tooltip when horizontal layout. (58909)

Data Views

• DataViews: Add loading/no results message in grid view. (59002)
• DataViews: Correctly display featured image that don't have image sizes. (59111)
• DataViews: Fix pages list back path. (59201)
• DataViews: Fix patterns, templates and template parts pagination z-index. (58965)
• DataViews: Fix storybook. (58842)
• DataViews: Remove second reset filter button in filter dialog. (58960)
• Revert footer in pages list with DataViews. (59151)

Block Editor

• After Enter transform, skip other onEnter actions like splitting. (59064)
• Close link preview if collapsed selection when creating link. (58896)
• Editor: Limit spotlight mode to the editor. (58817)
• Fix incorrect useAnchor positioning when switching from virtual to rich text elements. (58900)
• Inserter: Don't select the closest block with 'disabled' editing mode. (58971)
• Inserter: Fix title condition for media tab previews. (58993)

Site Editor

• Fix navigation on mobile web. (59014)
• Fix: Don't render the Transform Into panel if there are no patterns. (59217)
• Fix: Logical error in filterPatterns on template-panel/hooks.js. (59218)
• Make command palette string transatables. (59133)
• Remove left margin on Status help text. (58775)

Patterns

• Allow editing of image block alt and title attributes in content only mode. (58998)
• Avoid showing block removal warning when deleting a pattern instance that has overrides. (59044)
• Block editor: Pass patterns selector as setting. (58661)
• Fix pattern categories on import. (58926)
• Site editor: Fix start patterns store selector. (58813)

Global Styles

• Fix console error in block preview. (59112)
• Revert "Use all the settings origins for a block that consumes paths with merge #55219" (58951 and 59101)
• Shadows: Don't assume that core provides default shadows. (58973)

Font Library

• Fixes installed font families not rendering in the editor or frontend. (59019)
• Font Libary: Add missing translation functions. (58104)
• Show error message when no fonts found to install. (58914)

Synced Patterns

• Fix missing source for binding attributes. (59194)
• Fix resetting individual blocks to empty optional values for Pattern Overrides. (59170)
• Fix upload button on overridden empty image block in patterns. (59169)

Design Tools

• Background image support: Fix issue with background position keyboard entry. (59050)
• Cover block: Clear the min height field when aspect ratio is set. (59191)
• Elements: Fix block instance element styles for links applying to buttons. (59114)

Components

• Modal: Add box-sizing reset style. (58905)
• ToolbarButton: Fix text centering for short labels. (59117)
• Upgrade Floating UI packages, fix nested iframe positioning bug. (58932)

Post Editor

• Editor: Fix 'useHideBlocksFromInserter' hook filename. (59150)
• Fix layout for non viewable post types. (58962)

Rich Text

• Fix link paste for internal paste. (59063)
• Revert "Rich text: Pad multiple spaces through en/em replacement". (58792)

Custom Fields

• Block Bindings: Add block context needed for bindings in PHP. (58554)
• Block Bindings: Fix disable bindings editing when source is undefined. (58961)

Accessibility

• Enter editing mode via Enter or Spacebar. (58795)
• Block Bindings > Image Block:Mark connected controls as 'readonly'. (59059)
• Details Block: Try double enter to escape inner blocks. (58903)
• Font Library: Replace infinite scroll by pagination. (58794)
• Global Styles: Remove menubar role and improve complementary area header semantics. (58740)

Block Editor

• Block Mover: Unify visual separator when show button label is on. (59158)
• Make the custom CSS validation error message accessible. (56690)
• Restore default border and focus style on image URL input field. (58505)

Performance

• Pattern Block: Batch replacing actions. (59075)
• Block Editor: Move StopEditingAsBlocksOnOutsideSelect to Root. (58412)

Documentation

• Add contributing guidlines around Component versioning. (58789)
• Clarify the performance reference commit and how to pick it. (58927)
• DataViews: Update documentation. (58847)
• Docs: Clarify the status of the wp-block-styles theme support, and its intent. (58915)
• Fix move interactivity schema to supports property instead of selectors property. (59166)
• Storybook: Show badges in sidebar. (58518)
• Theme docs: Update appearance-tools documentation to reflect opt-in for backgroundSize and aspectRatio. (59165)
• Update richtext.md. (59089)

Interactivity API

• Interactivity API: Fix WP version, update new store documentation. (59107)
• Interactivity API: Update documentation guide with new wp-interactivity directive implementation. (59018)
• Add interactivity property to block supports reference documentation. (59152)

Schemas

• Block JSON schema: Add viewScriptModule field. (59060)
• Block JSON schema: Update shadow definition. (58910)
• JSON schema: Update schema for background support. (59127)

Code Quality

• Create Block: Remove deprecated viewModule field. (59198)
• Editor: Remove the 'all' rendering mode. (58935)
• Editor: Unify the editor commands between post and site editors. (59005)
• Relocate 'ErrorBoundary' component unit test folders. (59031)
• Remove obsolete wp-env configuration from package.json (#58877). (58899)
• Design Tools > Elements: Make editor selector match theme.json and frontend. (59167)
• Global Styles: Update sprintf calls using _n. (59160)
• Block API: Revert "Block Hooks: Set ignoredHookedBlocks metada attr upon insertion". (58969)
• Editor > Rich Text: Remove inline toolbar preference. (58945)
• Style Variations: Remove preferred style variations legacy support. (58930)
• REST API > Template Revisions: Move from experimental to compat/6.4. (58920)

Block Editor

• Block-editor: Auto-register block commands. (59079)
• BlockSettingsMenu: Combine 'block-editor' store selectors. (59153)
• Clean up link control CSS. (58934)
• HeadingLevelDropdown: Remove unnecessary isPressed prop. (56636)
• Move 'ParentSelectorMenuItem' into a separate file. (59146)
• Remove 'BlockSettingsMenu' styles. (59147)

Components

• Add Higher Order Function to ignore Input Method Editor (IME) keydowns. (59081)
• Add lint rules for theme color CSS var usage. (59022)
• ColorPicker: Style without accessing InputControl internals. (59069)
• CustomSelectControl (v1 & v2): Fix errors in unit test setup. (59038)
• CustomSelectControl: Hard deprecate constrained width. (58974)

Post Editor

• DocumentBar: Fix browser warning error. (59193)
• DocumentBar: Simplify component, use framer for animation. (58656)
• Editor: Remove unused selector value from 'PostTitle'. (59204)
• Editor: Unify Mode Switcher component between post and site editor. (59100)

Interactivity API

• Refactor to use string instead of an object on wp-data-interactive. (59034)
• Remove data-wp-interactive object for core/router. (59030)
• Use data_wp_context helper in core blocks and remove data-wp-interactive object. (58943)

Site Editor

• Add stylelint rule to prevent theme CSS vars outside of wp-components. (59020)
• Don't memoize the canvas container title. (59000)
• Remove old patterns list code and styles. (58966)

Tools

• Remove reference to CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md in documentation. (59206)
• Remove repository specific Code of Conduct. (59027)
• env: Fix mariadb version to LTS. (59237)

Testing

• Components: Add sleep() before all Tab() to fix flaky tests. (59012)
• Components: Try fixing some flaky Composite and Tabs tests. (58968)
• Migrate change-detection to Playwright. (58767)
• Tabs: Fix flaky unit tests. (58629)
• Update test environment default theme versions to latest. (58955)

Build Tooling

• Add test:e2e:playwright:debug command to debug Playwright tests. (58808)
• Updating Storybook to v7.6.15 (latest). (59074)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @ajlende @alexstine @andrewhayward @andrewserong @brookewp @c4rl0sbr4v0 @chad1008 @ciampo @DAreRodz @derekblank @desrosj @draganescu @ellatrix @fabiankaegy @gaambo @glendaviesnz @jameskoster @janboddez @jasmussen @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanfra @kevin940726 @Mamaduka @MarieComet @matiasbenedetto @mirka @noisysocks @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @pbking @ramonjd @SantosGuillamot @scruffian @shreyash3087 @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @tyxla @youknowriad