6.2.0 RC1

Enhancements

• Introduce Link Target support in Button block.
• Limit the maximum height of the HTML block.
• Show the preview button on mobile viewports.
• Remove nested block restrictions from the Cover and Media & Text blocks.
• A11y: Improving and standardize the block styles focus and active states.
• Always collapse block alignment toolbars.

Bug Fixes

• Fix using the Classic block in nested contexts.
• Fix lost nested blocks if the container block is missing.
• Fix pasting content into nested blocks.
• Fix race condition in the block moving animation causing blocks to overlap.
• A11y: Make the Table block accessible at high zoom levels.
• A11y: Change the font size picker markup to use select.
• A11y: Match the primary button disabled state to Core's color contrast.
• Fix the z-index of the block toolbars for blocks following wide aligned blocks.
• Hide the columns count control when the columns block placeholder is shown.
• Prevent the block movers from disappearing on middle breakpoints for full/wide blocks.
• Slimmer top/bottom spacing inside notices shown outside the editor canvas.
• Fix converting video shortcode into video blocks when file type sources are used.
• Localize the read more link in the latest posts block.
• Fix issue with inconsistent nesting appender.
• Fix styling of IconButton used in ButtonGroup components.
• Remove Change Permalinks button when permalink is not editable.
• Fix aspect ratio typo and recalculate padding in embed block.
• Ensure hour/minute fields are always shown left to right in RTL languages.
• Refactor the empty line padding in the RichText component. This fixes padding issues in the list block in Firefox.
• Improve the stability of the RichText placeholder.
• Add custom placeholder support for the button block.
• Show the image size labels on the block-based widget screen.

Documentation

• Clarify the block title and description conventions.
• Add RichText component documentation to the Block Editor Handbook.
• Improve the repository triage docs.
• Adds documentation for the PluginDocumentSettingPanel SlotFill.
• Tweaks and typos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 , 13, 14.

Divers

• Add a simple API to register block style variations on the server.
• Allow alternative blocks to be used to handle Grouping interactions.
• Fix Travis instability by waiting for MySQL availability before install the plugin.
• Continue the generic RichText component refactoring.
• Remove the usage of the editor store from the block editor module.
• Update the MilestoneIt Github action to read the plugin version from master.
• Refactor the post meta block attributes to use a generic custom sources mechanism.
• Expose position prop in DotTip component.
• Avoid docker containers automatic restart.
• Bump Lodash dependencies to 4.17.14.
• Fix the build command on Windows environments.
• Add allowedFormats and withoutInteractiveFormats props to the RichText component to control the available formats per RichText.
• Remove inappropriate executable permissions from core-data package files.
• ESLint Plugin: Exempt React hooks from no-unused-vars-before-return.
• Use React Portal based slots for the block toolbar.
• Use combineReducers utility from the data module instead of redux.
• Support hideLabelFromVision prop in all control components.
• Adds missing babel-jest and core-js dependencies to the scripts package.

Mobile

• Tapping on an empty editor area creates a new paragraph block.
• Fix video uploads when the connection is lost and restored.
• Track unsupported block list.
• Insert new block below the post title if the post title is selected.
• Run the mobile tests in the Gutenberg CI server.
• Replace use of deprecated componentWillReceiveProps in ImageEdit.
• Show placeholder when adding block from the post title.
• Blur post title any time another block is selected.
• Inserting block from the post title replaces empty blocks.
• Update Video caption placeholder color to match other placeholder text styles.
• Move the post title selection state to the store.

6.1.1

Bug Fixes

• Prevent automatic conversion of widgets to blocks when using the customizer.
• Fix missing block properties on block registration filters used for the deprecated versions.

6.1.0

Enhancements

• Introduce motion/animation when reordering/adding/removing blocks.
• Improve the Image block link settings and move it to the block toolbar.
• Use a snackbar notice when clicking “Copy all content”.
• Show REST API error messages as notices.
• Clarify the wording of the view link in the Permalink panel.
• Hide the “Copy all content” button if the post is empty.
• Hide the ungroup action when there are no inner blocks.
• Use admin schemes dependent focus state for primary buttons.
• Add support for the table cells scope attribute when pasting.

Experiments

• Introduce a new Customizer Panel to edit block-based widget areas.
• Add the block inspector to the widgets screen.
• Add a global inserter to the widgets screen.

Bug Fixes

• Show the pre-publish panel for contributors.
• Fix the save in progress state of the Publish/Update Button.
• Fix adding/removing columns from the table block when using header/footer sections.
• Fix Image block not preserving custom dimensions when opening the media library.
• Resize Image blocks properly when changing the width from the inspector.
• Fix php error that can potentially be triggered by gutenberg_is_block_editor.
• Fix error when using the “tag” block attribute source type.
• Fix chrome rendering bug happening when resizing images.
• Fix the data-block style selector to avoid affecting third-party components.
• Allow the columns layout options to wrap on small screens.
• Fix isShallowEqual edge case when the second argument is undefined.
• Prevent the disabled block switcher icon from becoming unreadable.
• Fix Group Block deprecation and any deprecation relying on hooks.
• A11y:
  • Make the top toolbar wrap at high zoom levels.
  • Fix the sticky notices at high zoom levels.

Performance

• Improve the performance of the i18n Tannin library.
• Track the block parent in the state to optimize hierarchy selectors.
• Add a cache key tracked in state to optimize the getBlock selector.

Documentation

• Document the plugin release tool.
• Document the use-cases of the dynamic blocks.
• Tweaks and typos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Various

• Introduce a PluginDocumentSettingPanel slot to allow third-party plugins to add panels to the document sidebar tab.
• Deploy the playground automatically to Github Pages. https://wordpress.github.io/gutenberg/
• Extract a generic RichText component to the @wordpress/rich-text package.
• Refactor the editor initialization to rely on a component.
• Remove unused internal asType utility.
• Fix react-no-unsafe-timeout ESlint rule when using variable assignment.
• Add support for watching block.json files when running “npm run dev”.
• Remove: experimental status from blockEditor.transformStyles.
• Upgrade PHPCS composer dependencies and use strict comparisons to align with the PHPCS guidelines.
• Fix a small console warning when running performance tests.

Mobile

• Correct the position of the block insertion indicator.
• Unify Editor and Layout components with the web component hierarchy.

6.1.0 RC1

Enhancements

• Introduce motion/animation when reordering/adding/removing blocks.
• Improve the Image block link settings and move it to the block toolbar.
• Use a snackbar notice when clicking “Copy all content”.
• Show REST API error messages as notices.
• Clarify the wording of the view link in the Permalink panel.
• Hide the “Copy all content” button if the post is empty.
• Hide the ungroup action when there are no inner blocks.
• Use admin schemes dependent focus state for primary buttons.
• Add support for the table cells scope attribute when pasting.

Experiments

• Introduce a new Customizer Panel to edit block-based widget areas.
• Add the block inspector to the widgets screen.
• Add a global inserter to the widgets screen.

Bug Fixes

• Show the pre-publish panel for contributors.
• Fix the save in progress state of the Publish/Update Button.
• Fix adding/removing columns from the table block when using header/footer sections.
• Fix Image block not preserving custom dimensions when opening the media library.
• Resize Image blocks properly when changing the width from the inspector.
• Fix php error that can potentially be triggered by gutenberg_is_block_editor.
• Fix error when using the “tag” block attribute source type.
• Fix chrome rendering bug happening when resizing images.
• Fix the data-block style selector to avoid affecting third-party components.
• Allow the columns layout options to wrap on small screens.
• Fix isShallowEqual edge case when the second argument is undefined.
• Prevent the disabled block switcher icon from becoming unreadable.
• Fix Group Block deprecation and any deprecation relying on hooks.
• A11y:
  • Make the top toolbar wrap at high zoom levels.
  • Fix the sticky notices at high zoom levels.

Performance

• Improve the performance of the i18n Tannin library.
• Track the block parent in the state to optimize hierarchy selectors.
• Add a cache key tracked in state to optimize the getBlock selector.

Documentation

• Document the plugin release tool.
• Document the use-cases of the dynamic blocks.
• Tweaks and typos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Various

• Introduce a PluginDocumentSettingPanel slot to allow third-party plugins to add panels to the document sidebar tab.
• Deploy the playground automatically to Github Pages. https://wordpress.github.io/gutenberg/
• Extract a generic RichText component to the @wordpress/rich-text package.
• Refactor the editor initialization to rely on a component.
• Remove unused internal asType utility.
• Fix react-no-unsafe-timeout ESlint rule when using variable assignment.
• Add support for watching block.json files when running “npm run dev”.
• Remove: experimental status from blockEditor.transformStyles.
• Upgrade PHPCS composer dependencies and use strict comparisons to align with the PHPCS guidelines.
• Fix a small console warning when running performance tests.

Mobile

• Correct the position of the block insertion indicator.
• Unify Editor and Layout components with the web component hierarchy.

6.0.0

Features

• Support choosing a pre-defined layout for the Columns block. 

Enhancements

• Add Snackbar notices support to the widgets screen.
• Add an inner container to the Group block to simplify theme styling.
• Avoid stacking successive MediaPlaceholder errors.
• Adjust the DatePicker margins.
• Update the Tag Cloud block copy when no terms are found.
• Add descriptive text and a link to documentation in embed blocks.
• Improve placeholder text phrasing for media blocks.
• Use classnames for the text alignments in the heading block.
• Make the inserter category icons grayscale.
• A11y: Make the modal overlay scrim darker.

Bug Fixes

• Fix warning messages triggered by the Group block icons.
• Fix horizontal scrollbar on full-wide blocks with nesting.
• A11y: 
  • Re-enable the menu item hover state on small screens.
  • Correct text zoom issue in the Content Structure popover.
• Fix the Popovers position in the widgets screen.
• Fix the behavior of the block toolbars in the widgets screen.
• Fix the editor in IE11 (use the CJS version of react-spring).
• Fix formatting of the validation error messages in the console.
• Fix breakage when the CPT doesn’t support title.

Various

• Document and simplify the multi-entrypoints support in the @wordpress/scripts package. 
• Create sub-registry automatically when using EditorProvider.
• Use classnames utility instead of concatenating classnames in the TabPanel component.
• Remove the default value for the required onRequestClose prop in the Modal component.
• Remove the editor package dependency from the media blocks.
• Fix the playground build script.
• Fix the Github action assigning milestones.
• Fix naming conventions for function containing CLI keyword.
• Fix the Travis build artifacts job to use a full npm install while building.
• Make Calendar block resilient to the editor module not being present.
• Ensure the Snackbar component is only used with a single action button.
• Remove SlotFillProvider and DropZoneProvider from the BlockEditorProvider.
• Add the initial version of the Block Registration RFC.
• Add popoverProps prop to the Dropdown component.
• Update Image Block's image classes with dimensions.
• Support registering custom grouping blocks.
• Fix h1 heading typo so h1 is same size as title.
• Remove the custom class support from the legacy widget block.

Documentation

• Prefer register_post_meta over register_meta.
• Add mention of Figma to the design contributing docs.
• Add supported attribute types for the Blocks API.
• Enhance the Annotations API documentation.
• Tweaks and typos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

Mobile

• Fix multiline Image block captions in iOS.
• Avoid unnecessary div elements in the content of Quote blocks.
• Update the default colors used in the RichText component.
• Fix pasting text on Post Title.
• Unify the web and mobile components hierarchy:
  • BlockPicker and Inserter.
  • BlockToolbar.
  • BlockMobileToolbar.
  • BlockListBlock.
  • BlockList.
• Add native component HTMLTextInput.
• Update the video player to open the URL by browser on Android.
• Re-enable the Video block on Android.

6.0.0 RC1

Features

• Support choosing a pre-defined layout for the Columns block. 

Enhancements

• Add Snackbar notices support to the widgets screen.
• Add an inner container to the Group block to simplify theme styling.
• Avoid stacking successive MediaPlaceholder errors.
• Adjust the DatePicker margins.
• Update the Tag Cloud block copy when no terms are found.
• Add descriptive text and a link to documentation in embed blocks.
• Improve placeholder text phrasing for media blocks.
• Use classnames for the text alignments in the heading block.
• Make the inserter category icons grayscale.
• A11y: Make the modal overlay scrim darker.

Bug Fixes

• Fix warning messages triggered by the Group block icons.
• Fix horizontal scrollbar on full-wide blocks with nesting.
• A11y: 
  • Re-enable the menu item hover state on small screens.
  • Correct text zoom issue in the Content Structure popover.
• Fix the Popovers position in the widgets screen.
• Fix the behavior of the block toolbars in the widgets screen.
• Fix the editor in IE11 (use the CJS version of react-spring).
• Fix formatting of the validation error messages in the console.
• Fix breakage when the CPT doesn’t support title.

Various

• Document and simplify the multi-entrypoints support in the @wordpress/scripts package. 
• Create sub-registry automatically when using EditorProvider.
• Use classnames utility instead of concatenating classnames in the TabPanel component.
• Remove the default value for the required onRequestClose prop in the Modal component.
• Remove the editor package dependency from the media blocks.
• Fix the playground build script.
• Fix the Github action assigning milestones.
• Fix naming conventions for function containing CLI keyword.
• Fix the Travis build artifacts job to use a full npm install while building.
• Make Calendar block resilient to the editor module not being present.
• Ensure the Snackbar component is only used with a single action button.
• Remove SlotFillProvider and DropZoneProvider from the BlockEditorProvider.
• Add the initial version of the Block Registration RFC.
• Add popoverProps prop to the Dropdown component.
• Update Image Block's image classes with dimensions.
• Support registering custom grouping blocks.
• Fix h1 heading typo so h1 is same size as title.
• Remove the custom class support from the legacy widget block.

Documentation

• Prefer register_post_meta over register_meta.
• Add mention of Figma to the design contributing docs.
• Add supported attribute types for the Blocks API.
• Enhance the Annotations API documentation.
• Tweaks and typos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

Mobile

• Fix multiline Image block captions in iOS.
• Avoid unnecessary div elements in the content of Quote blocks.
• Update the default colors used in the RichText component.
• Fix pasting text on Post Title.
• Unify the web and mobile components hierarchy:
  • BlockPicker and Inserter.
  • BlockToolbar.
  • BlockMobileToolbar.
  • BlockListBlock.
  • BlockList.
• Add native component HTMLTextInput.
• Update the video player to open the URL by browser on Android.
• Re-enable the Video block on Android.

5.9.2

Bug Fixes

• Fix Regression for blocks using InnerBlocks.Content from the editor package (support forwardRef components in the block serializer).

5.9.1

Bug Fixes

• Fix the issue where statics for deprecated components were not hoisted

5.9.0

Features

• Allow grouping/ungrouping blocks using the Group block.

Enhancements

• Improve the selection of inner blocks: Clickthrough selection.
• Introduce the snackbar notices and use them for the save success notices.
• Use consistent colors in the different menus items.
• Consolidate the different dropdown menus to use the DropdownMenu component.
• Expand the prefered-reduced-motion support to all the animations.
• Add a subtle animation to the snackbar notices and provide new React hooks for media queries.
• Redesign the Table block placeholder.
• Always show the side inserter on the last empty paragraph block.
• Widgets Screen:
  • Add the in progress state to the save button.
  • Add the RichText Format Library.
• Improve the Group and Ungroup icons.
• The Spacer block clears all the previous floated blocks.

Bug Fixes

• Focus the Button block’s input upon creation.
• Prevent Embed block crashes when used inside locked containers.
• Properly center the default appender placeholder.
• Correct default appender icon transition jump in Safari.
• Only apply appender margins when the appender is inside of a block.
• Avoid loading reusable blocks editor styles in the frontend.
• Correct position of the "Remove Featured Image" button on small screens.
• Allow the legacy widget block to render core widgets.
• A11y:
  • Fix wrong tab order in the data picker component.
  • Remove the access keyboard shortcuts from the Format Library.
• Bail early in createUpgradedEmbedBlock for invalid block types.
• Fix DateTimePicker styles when used outside the WordPress context.
• Prevent the Spacer block from being deselected when resized.
• Remove the word breaking from the Media & Text block.
• Keep the seconds value untouched when editing dates using the DateTimePicker component.
• Fix tooltips styles specificity.
• Fix php errors happening when calling get_current_screen.

Various

• Introduce useSelect and useDispatch hooks to the data module.
• Adding embedded performance tests to the repository.
• Support the full plugin release process in the automated release tool.
• Speed up the packages build tool script and the Gutenberg plugin build config.
• Extract media upload logic part into a new @wordpress/media-utils package.
• Introduce Milestone-It Github Action to auto-assign milestones to merged PRs.
• Move the transformStyles function to the block-editor package to use in the widgets screen.
• Allow plugin authors to override the default anchor attribute definition.
• Add overlayColor classname to cover blocks editor markup.
• Skip downloading chromium when building the plugin zip.
• Add an e2e test to check the heading colors feature.
• Lint the ESlint config file (meta).
• Fix i18n ESlint rules and use them in the Gutenberg setup.
• Fix error in the plugin release tool when switching branches.
• Remove unused stylesheet file.
• Improve the setup of the WordPress packages package.json files.
• Remove the use of popular plugins in e2e tests.
• Ignore linting files located in build folders by default.
• Add default file patterns for the lint command of @wordpress/scripts.
• Extract the ServerSideRender component to an independent package.
• Refactor the HoverArea component as a React Hook instead.
• Remove useless dependency from the @wordpress/edit-post package.
• Deprecate components/selectors and actions moved to the editor package.
• Update browserslist dependency.

Documentation

• Document the remaining APIs of the data module.
• Add an ESNext example to the i18n docs.
• Fix inline docs and add tests for color utils.
• Document missing MenuItem prop.
• Typos and tweaks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

Mobile

• Fix caret position when splitting text blocks.
• Fix the initial value of the “Open in New Tab” toggle.
• Fix Video block crash on drawing on Android.
• Fix caret position after inline paste.
• Focus the RichText component on block mount.
• Port KeyboardAvoidingView, KeyboardAwareFlatList and ReadableContentView to the @wordpress/components package.
• Fix press of Enter on post title.
• Move the native unit tests to the Gutenberg repository.
• Improve the styling of the Quote block.
• Share RichText line separator logic between web and native implementations.
• Fix Video block showing a black background when upload is in progress or upload has failed.
• Allow passing a style prop to the Icon component.
• Enable sound on the Video block.
• Start playback immediately after video goes full screen.
• Fix mobile quotes insertion and removal of empty lines.
• Move unselected block accessibility handling to block-holder.
• Make the More block ready-only.
• Fix crash when deleting all content of RichText based block.
• Fix for extra BR tag on Title field on Android.
• Open Video, Quote and More blocks to public.

5.9.0 RC1

Features

• Allow grouping/ungrouping blocks using the Group block.

Enhancements

• Improve the selection of inner blocks: Clickthrough selection.
• Introduce the snackbar notices and use them for the save success notices.
• Use consistent colors in the different menus items.
• Consolidate the different dropdown menus to use the DropdownMenu component.
• Expand the prefered-reduced-motion support to all the animations.
• Add a subtle animation to the snackbar notices and provide new React hooks for media queries.
• Redesign the Table block placeholder.
• Always show the side inserter on the last empty paragraph block.
• Widgets Screen:
  • Add the in progress state to the save button.
  • Add the RichText Format Library.
• Improve the Group and Ungroup icons.
• The Spacer block clears all the previous floated blocks.

Bug Fixes

• Focus the Button block’s input upon creation.
• Prevent Embed block crashes when used inside locked containers.
• Properly center the default appender placeholder.
• Correct default appender icon transition jump in Safari.
• Only apply appender margins when the appender is inside of a block.
• Avoid loading reusable blocks editor styles in the frontend.
• Correct position of the "Remove Featured Image" button on small screens.
• Allow the legacy widget block to render core widgets.
• A11y:
  • Fix wrong tab order in the data picker component.
  • Remove the access keyboard shortcuts from the Format Library.
• Bail early in createUpgradedEmbedBlock for invalid block types.
• Fix DateTimePicker styles when used outside the WordPress context.
• Prevent the Spacer block from being deselected when resized.
• Remove the word breaking from the Media & Text block.
• Keep the seconds value untouched when editing dates using the DateTimePicker component.
• Fix tooltips styles specificity.
• Fix php errors happening when calling get_current_screen.

Various

• Introduce useSelect and useDispatch hooks to the data module.
• Adding embedded performance tests to the repository.
• Support the full plugin release process in the automated release tool.
• Speed up the packages build tool script and the Gutenberg plugin build config.
• Extract media upload logic part into a new @wordpress/media-utils package.
• Introduce Milestone-It Github Action to auto-assign milestones to merged PRs.
• Move the transformStyles function to the block-editor package to use in the widgets screen.
• Allow plugin authors to override the default anchor attribute definition.
• Add overlayColor classname to cover blocks editor markup.
• Skip downloading chromium when building the plugin zip.
• Add an e2e test to check the heading colors feature.
• Lint the ESlint config file (meta).
• Fix i18n ESlint rules and use them in the Gutenberg setup.
• Fix error in the plugin release tool when switching branches.
• Remove unused stylesheet file.
• Improve the setup of the WordPress packages package.json files.
• Remove the use of popular plugins in e2e tests.
• Ignore linting files located in build folders by default.
• Add default file patterns for the lint command of @wordpress/scripts.
• Extract the ServerSideRender component to an independent package.
• Refactor the HoverArea component as a React Hook instead.
• Remove useless dependency from the @wordpress/edit-post package.
• Deprecate components/selectors and actions moved to the editor package.
• Update browserslist dependency.

Documentation

• Document the remaining APIs of the data module.
• Add an ESNext example to the i18n docs.
• Fix inline docs and add tests for color utils.
• Document missing MenuItem prop.
• Typos and tweaks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

Mobile

• Fix caret position when splitting text blocks.
• Fix the initial value of the “Open in New Tab” toggle.
• Fix Video block crash on drawing on Android.
• Fix caret position after inline paste.
• Focus the RichText component on block mount.
• Port KeyboardAvoidingView, KeyboardAwareFlatList and ReadableContentView to the @wordpress/components package.
• Fix press of Enter on post title.
• Move the native unit tests to the Gutenberg repository.
• Improve the styling of the Quote block.
• Share RichText line separator logic between web and native implementations.
• Fix Video block showing a black background when upload is in progress or upload has failed.
• Allow passing a style prop to the Icon component.
• Enable sound on the Video block.
• Start playback immediately after video goes full screen.
• Fix mobile quotes insertion and removal of empty lines.
• Move unselected block accessibility handling to block-holder.
• Make the More block ready-only.
• Fix crash when deleting all content of RichText based block.
• Fix for extra BR tag on Title field on Android.
• Open Video, Quote and More blocks to public.