Today’s release continues to improve multiple areas of Gutenberg, its behaviours and tools. Most of the updates are around refining the experience and strengthening the API surface, but there’s also a couple new server rendered blocks added to the library. There are also multiple packages being extracted as the APIs mature. Many thanks again to all the contributors!

3.3 🥝

• Add “Convert to blocks” option in HTML block.
• Correct caret placement when merging to inline boundary.
• Move block switcher from header to multi-block toolbar for multiselection.
• Add new Archives block for displaying site archives.
• Add new Latest Comments block to widgets category.
• Add video block attributes for Autoplay, Controls, Loop, Muted.
• Remove HTML beautification and preserve whitespace on save.
• Formalize RichText children value abstraction.
• Allow transformation of image block to file block and vice-versa.
• Support preload attribute for Audio Block.
• Avoid popover refresh on Tip mount.
• Introduce “registry” concept to the Data Module.
• Convert successive shortcodes properly.
• Hide “Convert to Shared Block” button on Classic blocks.
• Update spacing in pre-publish panel titles.
• Use do_blocks to render core blocks content.
• Remove restoreContentAndSplit in RichText.
• Hide insertion point when it is not possible to insert the default block.
• Refactor block converters to share common UI functionality.
• Replace the apiRequest module with api-fetch module.
• Add audio/video settings title to settings panel.
• Normalize the behavior of BlockListBlock’s “Enter” key handling to insert the default block.
• Rename baseUrl entities property as baseURL in entities.
• Rename UrlInput component as URLInput.
• Give File block a low files transform priority.
• Make tooltips persist when hovering them.
• Optimise design of heading line heights.
• Add a filter(‘editor.FeaturedImage’) for the FeaturedImage component.
• Fix vertical arrow navigation skips in writing flow.
• Fix incorrect polyfill script handles.
• Fix template example so that it is correct.
• Fix exception error when saving a new shared block.
• Fix getInserterItems caching bug and add new test case.
• Fix issue with spacer block resizing and sibling inserter.
• Fix files configuration entry in package.json for wordpress/babel-preset-default.
• Fix config and regenerate updated docs.
• Fix dependency mistake in api-fetch.
• Fix metaboxes save request (parse: false).
• Fix issue with name field not being focused when a shared block is created.
• Fix box sizing for pseudo elements.
• Fix an error which occurs when assigning the URL of a Button block.
• Improve usage and documentation of the landmark region labels.
• Substitute the remaining uses of unfiltered_html capability and withAPIData.
• Remove the “Extended Settings” meta box wrapper.
• Remove NewBlock event handling from RichText.
• Remove legacy context API child context from Block API.
• Remove Text Columns block from insertion menus in preparation for Try outreach.
• Remove unused autocompleter backcompat case.
• Change label in Cover Image block for background opacity.
• Change the text label on Image block from “Source Type” to “Image Size”.
  
• Backup and restore global $post when preloading API data.
• Move packages repository into Gutenberg with its history.
• Enhance the deprecated module to log a message only once per session.
• Switch tests away from using enzyme (enzyme.shallow, enzyme.mount, etc). (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
• Unblock tests from being skipped. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
• Add basic test for shortcode transformation.
• Add e2e test for block icons.
• Add e2e tests for the NUX tips.
• Add e2e tests for shared blocks.
• Remove data-test attribute from UrlInputButton output.
• Deprecate id prop in favor of clientId.
  
• Rename MediaPlaceholder onSelectUrl prop as onSelectURL.
• Remove unnecessary default prop from test.
• Point the package entry to src directly for native mobile.
  
• Use clearer filenames for saved vendor scripts.
• Update local install instructions and add add more verbose instructions when node versions don’t match.
• Reorder package.json devDependencies alphabetically.
• Coding Guidelines: Prescribe specific camelCasing behaviors.
• Regenerate docs using docs:build command.
• Add documentation for ALLOWED_BLOCKS in Columns.
• Add link to support forum in plugin menu.
• Deprecate buildTermTree function in utilities.
• Deprecate property source in Block API.
• Deprecate uid in favor of clientId.
• Deprecate grouped inner blocks layouts.
• Improve eslint checks for deep imports.
• Improve IntelliSense support when using VS Code.
• Move the components module partially to the packages folder.
• Add the blocks module to the packages folder.
• Add wp-deprecated dependency to wp-element.
• Add @babel/runtime as a dependency to wordpress/components.
• Add @babel/runtime as a dependency for packages.
• Add a new compose package.
• Extract entities package.
• Extract viewport package.
• Extract @wordpress/nux package.
• Create new spec-parser package.
• Update Dashicons to latest build.
• Update test for babel-preset-default.
• Update code to work with Babel 7.
• Update package-lock.json with eslint-scope version 3.7.3.
  
• Update node-sass.

Deprecations removed with this version.

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