Release 1.59.0

[jhnstn]

Release for Gutenberg Mobile 1.59.0

Related PRs

• Gutenberg: Mobile Release v1.59.0 WordPress/gutenberg#33913
• WPAndroid: Integrate gutenberg-mobile release 1.59.0 WordPress-Android#15142
• WPiOS: Integrate gutenberg-mobile release 1.59.0 WordPress-iOS#16988

Extra PRs that Landed After the Release Was Cut

No extra PRs yet. 🎉

Changes

• Fix UBE's Inaccessible "More" Toolbar Item on Android #3771
• [RNMobile] Parent PR: Add Setting to Set/Remove a Featured Image Directly from Image Block (iOS Only) #3449

Test plan

• Use the main WP apps to test the changes above.
• Smoke test the main WP apps for general writing flow.
• Test the Unsupported Block Editor on WP Apps (see steps).
• Sanity test suites for WP Apps should be completed for each platform.

Release Submission Checklist

• Verify Items from test plan have been completed
• Approve and run optional Android and iOS UI tests
• Check if RELEASE-NOTES.txt is updated with all the changes that made it to the release. Replace Unreleased section with the release version and create a new Unreleased section.
• Check if gutenberg/packages/react-native-editor/CHANGELOG.md is updated with all the changes that made it to the release. Replace ## Unreleased with the release version and create a new ## Unreleased.
• Bundle package of the release is updated.

[peril-wordpress-mobile]

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[dcalhoun]

Looks good so far. Left one comment regarding the release notes. We should also update the gutenberg ref to the latest commit in WordPress/gutenberg#33913.

[dcalhoun]

🟢 Writing Flow Checklist 1.59.0 (iOS)

• Device: iPhone SE (iOS 14.7.1)
• Build: 18.0 (18.0.0.0) from TestFlight.

General

• TC001 - Paste formatted text copied from website
• TC001 - Multiline components

Rich Text Format

• TC001 - Bold, Italic, strikethrough buttons
• TC002 - Alignment buttons
• TC003 - Alignment Split
• TC004 - Link button works without selection
• TC005 - Link button works with a selected word
• TC006 - Adding a link from a copied URL
• TC007 - Test format detection under the cursor
• TC008 - Test formatting doesn't remove leading or trailing whitespace

Splitting and merging

• TC001 - Merge after writing
• TC002 - Merge after selection
• TC003 - Merge after deleting text
• TC004 - Merge after deleting all
• TC005 - Merge multiple blocks
• TC006 - Splitting/merge list block

Undo / Redo - Test Cases

• TC001 - Undo/redo block actions
• TC002 - Undo/redo text
• TC003 - Undo/redo text format

[dcalhoun]

🟢 Release Note Changes 1.59.0 (iOS)

• Device: iPhone SE (iOS 14.7.1)
• Build: 18.0 (18.0.0.0) from TestFlight.

Changes

• Fix UBE's Inaccessible "More" Toolbar Item on Android
• Add Setting to Set/Remove a Featured Image Directly from Image Block (iOS Only)

[dcalhoun]

🟢 Unsupported Block Test Cases 1.59.0 (iOS)

• Device: iPhone SE (iOS 14.7.1)
• Build: 18.0 (18.0.0.0) from TestFlight.

• TC001 User can edit unsupported blocks on Simple WP.com sites
• TC002 User can discard edits to an unsupported block on Simple WP.com sites
• TC003 Editing unsupported blocks is allowed on Gutenberg-enabled Atomic sites
• 🟡 TC004 Editing unsupported blocks is disallowed on Classic-enabled Atomic sites (Skipped due to known issue: Editing unsupported blocks is not disallowed on Classic-enabled Atomic sites #3544)
• TC005 Editing unsupported blocks is enabled on self-hosted sites accessed via Jetpack
• TC006 Editing unsupported blocks is disallowed on self-hosted sites access via their own username and password

[jhnstn]

🟢 Writing Flow Checklist 1.59.0 (Android)

• Device: Pixel 5 , Android 11
• Build: 18.0 (18.0-rc-1) from WPAndroid releases.

General

• TC001 - Paste formatted text copied from website
• TC001 - Multiline components

Rich Text Format

• TC001 - Bold, Italic, strikethrough buttons
• TC002 - Alignment buttons
• TC003 - Alignment Split
• TC004 - Link button works without selection
• TC005 - Link button works with a selected word
• TC006 - Adding a link from a copied URL
• TC007 - Test format detection under the cursor
• TC008 - Test formatting doesn't remove leading or trailing whitespace

Splitting and merging

• TC001 - Merge after writing
• TC002 - Merge after selection
• TC003 - Merge after deleting text
• TC004 - Merge after deleting all
• TC005 - Merge multiple blocks
• TC006 - Splitting/merge list block

Undo / Redo - Test Cases

• TC001 - Undo/redo block actions
• TC002 - Undo/redo text
• TC003 - Undo/redo text format

[jhnstn]

🟢 Release Note Changes 1.59.0 (Android)

• Device: Pixel 5 , Android 11
• Build: 18.0 (18.0-rc-1) from WPAndroid releases.

Changes

• Fix UBE's Inaccessible "More" Toolbar Item on Android
• Add Setting to Set/Remove a Featured Image Directly from Image Block (iOS Only)

[jhnstn]

🟢 Unsupported Block Test Cases 1.59.0 (Android)

• Device: Pixel 5 , Android 11
• Build: 18.0 (18.0-rc-1) from WPAndroid releases.

• TC001 User can edit unsupported blocks on Simple WP.com sites
• TC002 User can discard edits to an unsupported block on Simple WP.com sites
• TC003 Editing unsupported blocks is allowed on Gutenberg-enabled Atomic sites
• 🟡 TC004 Editing unsupported blocks is disallowed on Classic-enabled Atomic sites (Skipped due to known issue: Editing unsupported blocks is not disallowed on Classic-enabled Atomic sites #3544)
• TC005 Editing unsupported blocks is enabled on self-hosted sites accessed via Jetpack
• TC006 Editing unsupported blocks is disallowed on self-hosted sites access via their own username and password

[antonis]

🟢 iOS Sanity testing (Test suite 3)

• Device: iPhone SE 2020, iOS 14.7.1
• Build: 18.0 (18.0-rc-1) from Testflight

Gallery - 2

• Gallery block - Insert image from device (failing) - TC006
• Gallery block - Insert image from device (cancel) - TC009

Gallery - 3

• Gallery block - Add Gallery Caption - TC003
• Gallery block - Add Gallery Image Caption - TC004
• Gallery block - Try adding same images from WP Media library and moving the images around - TC010

Gallery - 4

• Gallery block - Settings: Link to - TC012
• Gallery block - Settings: Column number - TC013
• Gallery block - Settings: Crop images - TC014

Columns - 2

• Columns - Max limit of Column number - steps
• Columns - Min limit of Column number - steps
• Columns - Removing Column with remove button - steps
• Columns - Removing the only one left Column with remove button - steps
• Columns - Changing alignment on Columns - steps
• Columns - Changing alignment on individual Columnn - steps
• Columns - Alignment attribute is properly passed when adding Column - steps
• Columns - Deep nesting is possible (iOS only)- steps

Columns - 3

• Columns - Check if Column placeholders is visible for the unselected state - steps
• Columns - Appearance in vertical device position (vertical layout) - steps
• Columns - Appearance in horizontal device position (horizontal layout) - steps
• Columns - Mover direction - steps
• Columns - Check if Column placeholder is render in nested structure - steps
• Columns - Unselected Column placeholder is streched to content in nested structure- steps

Columns - 4

• Columns - Check if in DarkMode all components gets proper colors - steps

MediaText - 3

• Media Text block - Insert video from device (failing) - TC001-v
• Media Text block - Close/Re-open post with an ongoing video upload - TC003-v

MediaText - 4

• Media Text block - Media & Text alignment - TC006
• Media Text block - Vertical alignment - TC007

Shortcode-1

• Shortcode block - Add a youtube link - steps

Cover - 2

• Cover - Add Video Background from WordPress Media library - TC005
• Cover - Replace media - TC006
• Cover - Gradient background is rendered properly - TC007
• Cover - Gradient overlay is rendered properly - TC008

Social Icons - 2

• The link sheet is opened automatically when adding new icon - TC004
• Ghost placeholder is visible when no icon is active - TC005
• Social icon forwarding to the link - TC006

Image - 2

• Image block - Switch to classic editor with an image block in page - TC006
• Image block - Border style setting - TC007
• Image block - Image size setting - TC008
• Image block - Link to setting - TC009

Story block - 1

• Story block - Verify is available in Block Picker - TC001
• Story block - Verify is not available in Block Picker- TC002
• Story block - Add media to empty Story block - TC003
• Story block - Add media to non-empty Story block - TC004
• Story block - Close/Re-open post with an ongoing Story upload - TC005

[mkevins]

🟢 Android Sanity testing (Test suite 4)

• Device: Pixel 3a, Android 11
• Build: 18.0 (18.0-rc-1)

DarkMode - 2

• Spacer block - Dark mode - TC004
• Buttons block - Dark mode - TC005
• Group - Dark mode - TC006
• Columns - Dark mode - TC007

Group - 2

• Group - Navigation up button works as expected - TC009
• Group - Navigation down works according to parent-first approach - TC010
• Group - Cross navigation between blocks works as expected - TC011
• Group - Ungroup button works as expected - TC012
• Group - Check if in DarkMode all components gets proper colors - TC013
• Group - Check if nested Placeholder block can be replaced - TC014

Spacer - 2

• Spacer block - Settings: Available height range is correct - TC004
• Spacer block - Settings: Height range extends if Spacer comes from the web is higher than 500px - TC005
• Spacer block - Spacer in horizontal layout works as expected - TC006

Buttons - 4

• Buttons block - Render custom text color - TC017
• Buttons block - Render custom background color - TC016
• Buttons block - Render gradient background color - TC018
• ⚠️ Buttons block - Check if selection / caret color matches font color - TC020

I encountered the known issue.

• Buttons block - The newly created Buttons has set background color to the theme-default color in preview - TC021

Buttons - 5

• Buttons block - Edit text styles - TC009
• Buttons block - Render theme colors - TC019
• Buttons block - Settings: Change Button border radius - TC015

Buttons - 7

• Buttons block - Link from the clipboard is automatically added into the empty URL field in link settings and button options - TC008
• Buttons block - Toolbar link button is active when Button has link - TC022

Editor Theme - 2

• Custom Gradients - Check that custom gradients load in the editor - TC004
• Offline Support - TC005

Color Settings - 2

• Pressing color swatch - TC004
• Customize gradient color - TC005
• Custom color picker - TC006