What’s new in Gutenberg? (29th March)

This release has a strong focus on developer APIs, introducing new and improved tools to extend and interact with the editor. On the user side, there are updates to shared blocks, font size UIUI User interface, accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility), mobile, stability, and many bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. fixes. 

2.5

• Add support for sharing nested blocks.
• Introduce a declarative approach to handling display of sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. content to the 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 APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. with PluginSidebar component and portals.
• Introduce menu item and related components to handle entry point for editor plugin operations, further extending capabilities and available tools in the Plugin API.
• Add block template validation and ability to reset a template.
• Add new abstracted data querying interface that provides better handling of declarative data needs and side effects. Introduces registerResolvers enhanced by withSelect.
• Add predefined sets of font sizes and corresponding UI controls.

Other Changes

• Improve block margin implementation in order to simplify work needed for nesting blocks.
• Don't show insertion point between blocks when a template is locked.
  
• Update shared 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. UI to better indicate that a block is reusable.
• Add support for transforms prioritization to the block API.
• Improve initial focus allocation within content structure popover for accessibility.
• Update post taxonomies wp.apiRequest to not depend on ajax specific implementation.
• Some visual refinements to the main block library inserter.
• Include custom classes in the block markup within the editor, matching the final render on the front-end.
• Improve display of block transformation options.
• Improve the accessibility of the MenuItemsToggle buttons and add a speak message for screen reader users to confirm when they switch editor mode.
• Clear selected block on canvas focus only if it is selected.
• Avoid styling meta-boxes inputs to look like 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/ UI.
• Use "perfect fourth" rule of typographic scale for heading display.
• Inherit color styling on metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.-boxes area.
• Increase width of meta-boxes area.
• Default to content-box box-sizing for the meta-box area.
• Improve handling of transformations (backticks for Code and dashes for Separator) when pressing enter.
• Expose combineReducer helper in data module.
• Make it possible to override the default class name generation logic.
• Remove edit-post styles from editor components.
• Ignore mid-word underscores when pasting markdown text.
• Add label element to the post title.
• Improve block mover labels for speech recognition software.
• Correct onChange handler in SelectControl component to support multi-value changes.
• Make MediaUpload component extensible.
• Improve display of color palette items (like white) by adding a subtle transparent inset shadow.
• Ignore "Disable visual editor" setting to address case where Classic block would not load for the user.
• Improve display of sidebar heights on mobile.
• Update blockSelection reducer to clear selection when removing the selected block.
• Show "no title" placeholder on the mobile sidebar when post title is empty.
  
• Address case where cancelling edits on a shared block not discarding unsaved changes that have been made to that block.
• Introduce new MenuGroup and MenuItem components and refactor for clarity.
• Improve the block inserter UI on mobile by displaying the post title in a headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. above the search bar. Extends as optional support for all popovers.
• Refactor media fetching to use the core data module. Shields from REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. specific nomenclature.
• Add a label and a role to the block appender to make it discoverable by text readers.
• Use up and down arrow icons for the meta boxes panels.
• Hide reusable block indicator from the inserter preview.
• Fix issue with embed placeholder breaking on reload.
• Fix error when collapsing categories panel.
• Fix case where inserting a block after removal inserts it at the top of the post.
• Fix issue with Button block text wrap.
• Fix bug with meta-boxes data collection that occasionally prevented them from showing.
• Fix meta-box configuration persistence to be per postType.
• Fix issue with multiple previews in Firefox by unsetting popup window upon close.
• Fix scroll bleed when displaying modal UI on mobile.
• Fix z-index issue with adminadmin (and super admin) bar quick links and content structure tooltip.
• Fix image href attribute matcher to not interfere with anchors inside the caption.
• Fix help text position on toggle control and range control.
• Fix centering of small videos.
• Fix timezone conflicts when setting global moment default timezone.
• Fix issue with getDocumentTitle and undefined titles.
• Prevent potential fatal error when registering shared block post type if a specific coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. user role has been removed.
• Avoid collecting meta-box information on non-Gutenberg screens.
• Update contrast checker to respect recent changes on Notice component.
• Rename isProvisionalBlock action property to selectPrevious in removeBlock and removeBlocks functions.
• Address issue with heartbeat dependency (only use when available).
• Allow calling functions passed as props in the Fill.
• Improve style handling and specificity of dashicon SVGs.
• Unify "citation" translatable strings for quotes and pullquotes.
• Clean up nomenclature inconsistencies in blocks and components modules.
• Correct documentation example for withDispatch.
• Dynamically pick JS/CSS build files for plugin ZIP generation.
• Copy improvements to documentation.
• Attempt to avoid cases where hosts block certain HTTP verbs on wp-api.js requests. This is part of similar issues being exposed by Gutenberg being the first Core WordPress feature that makes significant use of the REST API.
• Add a shim to override wp.apiRequest, allowing HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands./1.0 emulation.
• Update react-autosize-textarea package.
• Update @wordpress/hooks to v1.1.6.
• Use CustomTemplatedPathPlugin which was extracted and updated for Webpack 4.
• Use wordpress/es6 ESLint config.
• Added Gutenberg Hub to the resources.
• Properly detect NVM path on macOS using homebrew.
• Remove Cypress for E2E testing in favor of Puppeteer. Refactor all existing tests and integrations.

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