0.8.0 🐘

This one includes a few new blocks.

• New Categories Block (based on existing widget).
• New Text Columns Block (initial exploration of text-only multiple columns).
• New Video Block.
• New Shortcode Block.
• New Audio Block.
• Added resizing handlers to Image Block.
• Added direct image upload button to Image Block and Gallery Block.
• Give option to transform a block to Classic when it encounters problems.
• Give option to Overwrite changes on a block detected as invalid.
• Added “link to” option in galleries.
• Added support for custom taxonomies.
• Added post formats selector to post settings.
• Added keywords support (aliases) to various blocks to improve search discovery.
• Significant improvements to the way attributes are specified in the Block API and its clarity (handles defaults and types).
• Added Tooltip component displaying aria-labels from buttons.
• Removed stats tracking code (background).
• Updated design document.

Other changes:

• Capture and recover from block rendering runtime errors.
• Handle enter when focusing on outer boundary of a block.
• Reduce galleries json attributes data to a minimum.
• Added caption styles to the front-end for images and embeds.
• Added missing front-end alignment classes for table and cover-text blocks.
• Only reset blocks on initial load to prevent state fluctuations.
• Improve calculation of dirty state by making a diff against saved post.
• Improve visual weight of toolbar by reducing its silhouette.
• Improve rendering of galleries on the front-end.
• Improve Cover Image placeholder visual presentation.
• Improve front-end display of quotes.
• Improve responsive design of galleries on the front-end.
• Allow previewing new posts that are yet to be saved.
• Reset scrolling position within inserter when switching tabs.
• Refactor popover to render at root of document.
• Refactor withFocusReturn to handle accessibility better in more contexts.
• Prevent overlap between multi-selection and within-block selection.
• Clear save notices when triggering a new save.
• Disable “preview” button if post is not saveable.
• Renamed blocks.query to blocks.source for clarity and updated documentation.
• Rearrange block stylesheets to reflect display and editor styles.
• Use wordpress dependencies consistently.
• Added validation checks for specifying a block’s category.
• Fix problems with quote initialization and list transformation.
• Fix issue where Cover Image was being considered invalid after edits.
• Fix errors in editable coming from Table block commands.
• Fix error in latest posts block when date is not set for a post.
• Fix issue with active color in ColorPalette component.
• Prevent class=false serialization issue in covert-text.
• Treat range control value as numeric.
• Added warning when using Editable and passing non-array values.
• Show block switcher above link input.
• Updated rememo dependency.
• Start consuming from separate wordpress dependencies.
• Fix problem with inserting new galleries.
• Fix issue with embeds and missing captions.
• Added outreach section to docs.

We welcome all your feedback and contributions on the project repository, or ping us in #core-editor. Follow the “gutenberg” tag for past updates.

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