What’s new in Gutenberg? (5th April)

This release introduces drag and drop capabilities for sorting blocks, various refinements to the 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. visual interface (including a label with block type identifier) and extensibility APIs, plus a lot of 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. Thanks to everyone who contributed for all the ongoing efforts!

2.6 🐉 💧

• Add drag and drop functionality to reorder blocks (in addition to arrow movers).
• Improve side UIUI User interface around nested groups and introduce a block name label on hover.
• Focus the block inspector automatically when a block is selected.
  
• Allow extending auto-completers via filters — this also exposes the "user" auto-complete to all RichText component instances, making it much easier to leverage for external blocks.
• Use debounced search request in user auto-complete mechanism improving the experience of mentioning in sites with more than 100 users.

Other changes

• Use custom serializer for texturize compatibility. This removes dependency on react-dom/server and integrates better with wptexturize expectations.
  
• Group advanced block settings (class name and anchor) in a panel.
• Move Post Types Data Fetching to the core-data module.
• Refactor DocumentOutline to use the data module.
• Improve performance of drag and drop by avoiding excessive re-rendering.
• Various UI improvements to controls and components in Block Inspector.
• Remove react-redux usage from the edit-post module, replacing it with the data module. Also improves performance on some block operations.
• Add role=menuitem to the More Options menu items.
• Renamed "Frequent" to "Suggested" in block inserter tab.
• Invert speak messages in block inspector button.
• Include only known terms in rendered Terms selector, fixing issue with occasional empty tags.
• Apply centering style to the theme style output.
• Avoid term request if term set is empty array.
• Provide createHigherOrderComponent helper to Element abstraction.
• Reset block selection when replacing with empty set.
• Prevent unnecessary state updates to edit-post preferences.
• Update 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. and Menu Item implementations to use ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. 16.3 context 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..
• Generalise and comment on DOMRect calculation and storage.
• Reopen sidebar when going to viewport sizes larger than medium.
• Widen dropzone indicator to match block width.
• Reset margin and padding values for gallery.
• More defensive checks when accessing capabilities and terms.
• Fix autosave condition while editing a post using the Text Mode editor.
• Fix block movers aria-label info on multi-select groups.
• Fix centered multiline labels in the block settings menu.
• Fix issue with Publish button caused by moment timezone configuration.
• Fix arrow movement inside search input in Inserter.
• Fix broken translation in FormTokenField placeholder.
  
• Fix issue with invalid string value passed to caption in Image block.
• Fix findDOMNode lint warning.
• Fix error when DOCKER is not defined.
• Fix Safari flashing a white screen just before the editor is loaded.
• Fix problem with meta-boxes toggling.
• Fix WordCounter error when loading 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.
• Fix clone function to allow cloning nested blocks.
• Fix issue with meta-boxes and file inputs.
• Fix issue with block more button when multi selected.
• Handle post ID and WP_Post objects passed to gutenberg_can_edit_post().
• Clear attribute and reset text back to default when cleared in the "More" block.
• Remove an invalidinvalid A resolution on the bug tracker (and generally common in software development, sometimes also notabug) that indicates the ticket is not a bug, is a support request, or is generally invalid. test case from isCurrentPostScheduled.
• Remove code transform for uppercase text in Tooltip component.
• Remove unused PrismJS dependency.
• Remove redundant z-index in block mover.
• Remove background color from paragraph and fixed contrast checker on transparent colors.
• Make block preview title translatable.
• Make the click-redirector responsive (handles clicking on the bottom area of the editor to focus on last field).
• Replace cases of bold font weight with weight 600.
• Various Sass code improvements.
• Add E2E test for splitting/merging paragraph blocks with Enter/Backspace.
• Add test to check CPT templates initialization in E2E tests.
• Add helpers to install/activate/deactivate and remove plugins in E2E tests.
• Re-incorporate Webpack devtool into development build for improved debugging.
• Add $HOME/.npm to Travis cache after addition of Puppeteer library.
• Improve MediaUpload docs.
• Rework all the extensibility related docs to add structure and clarity.
• Remove deprecations slated for 2.6.
• Upgrade React to version 16.3.0.
• Migrate to Webpack 4.

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