What’s new in Gutenberg (4th October)

1.3 🦍:

• Add an opacity range slider to the cover image blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience..
• Offer the option to convert a single block to an HTML block when conflicting content is detected.
• Persist recently used blocks through sessions.
• Added support for pasting plain text markdown content and converting to blocks.
• The block inspector groups features and settings in expandable panels.
• Accessibility improvements to the color palette component.
• Added a “feedback” link in the GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ side menu.

Other changes:

• Use expandable panels for advanced block features (class name and anchor).
• Removed touch listeners from multi select.
• Added block descriptions to blocks that didn’t have them.
• Allow stored values to be updated with new defaults.
• Refactor image block to use withApiData and fix issues with .tiff images.
• Clean up non inline elements when pasting inline content.
• Remove unused code in BlockList component.
• Added “transform into” text to block switcher.
• Fixed sidebar overflow causing extra scrollbars.
• Fixed multi-select inside new scroll container.
• Fixed image block error with .tiff image.
• Fixed the content overflowing outside the verse block container.
• Fixed issues with sticky quick toolbar position.
• Fixed hitting enter when a block is selected creating a default block after selected block.
• Fixed teaser markup in demo content.
• Clean working directory before packaging pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party.
• Updated Webpack dependencies.
• Updated Jest and React.

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