What’s new in Gutenberg? (17th August)

The release this week introduces a few significant user experience improvements. The inserter has been tweaked to accommodate new icons for all coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. blocks (with core embeds showing the icon for the corresponding service), more visual breathing room, and better handling of searches with diacritics. The new icons aim to encourage people creating their own blocks to supply their own SVG—the hope is to make sure we can avoid multiple cases of duplicated icons diminishing the overall ability to quickly scan blocks.

The publishing flow has been updated to show the tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) input panel and post format selector before publishing. Previewing should also be a bit more robust in handling the new tab.

A new help modal—showing all available keyboard shortcuts—has also been added. Several shortcuts have been introduced: inserting a new 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. before / after the current block, toggling the inspector settings, removing a block, and showing said help menu.

Likewise, there are several 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, notably for IE11 users.

3.6 🥒

• Updated block inserter and library with new icons for all core blocks.
• Allow showing the 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 inspector controls when editing a block in HTML mode.
• Add new block keyboard shortcuts and consolidate their display in menus:
  • Insert Before / After block.
    • Option+Cmd+T (Mac) / Ctrl+Alt+T – Insert Before
    • Option+Cmd+Y (Mac) / Ctrl+Alt+Y – Insert After
  • Duplicating block.
    • Cmd+Shift+D / Ctrl+Shift+D
  • Toggling the inspector.
    • Cmd+shift+, / Ctrl+shift+,
  • Remove block keyboard shortcut
    • Ctrl+Alt+Backspace / Alt+Cmd+Backspace
• Add new keyboard shortcuts help modal documenting available shortcuts.
• Hide keyboard shortcuts on mobile screens.
• Open new window if prior preview window has been closed.
• Bring the preview tab to the front when clicking the preview button.
• Avoid changing the label of the “publish” button if an auto-save is being performed.
• Update the Block Inserter to allow searching for terms that contain diacritics.
• Take into account children blocks when handling disabled blocks.
• Offer chance to add and revise Tags and Post Format during pre-publish flow.
• Let menus grow based on the length of its elements.
• Add visual padding to menus.
  
• Avoid scrollbars on Audio block when shown full-width.
• Improve permalink UI and make it responsive.
• Change color of links in gallery block caption.
• Simplify the styling of the “Toggle publish panel” aria-region to avoid content jumps.
• Make active pill button look pressed.
• Make sure Latest Posts alignment class behaviour is consistent.
• Show drop-zone background when file is dragged.
• Reset active sidebar tab on initial load.
• Apply new checkbox CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. to radio buttons and fix border radius.
• Add a couple new dashicons for insert before / after block.
• Add styles for Spinner component (was relying on core before).
• Add styles for Notice component.
• Refactor template select field to use SelectControl.
• Correctly handle per_page=-1 in the queried data state.
• Create dummy context components for type switch.
• Add RegistryConsumer export to data module.
• Add has_blocks function to the repertoire.
• Add has_block function and unit tests.
  
• Introduce strip_dynamic_blocks() for excerpts.
• Fix issue with default appender placeholder on IE11.
• Fix issue with shortcodeShortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to insert a form or function generated by a plugin in a specific location on your site. block UIUI User interface on IE11.
• Fix tag input interface on IE11.
• Fix issue with custom element serializer on IE11.
• Fix issue with 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 overlapping the content on IE11.
  
• Fix invalidation case of custom block classes.
• Fix unhandled error dialog styling issue.
• Fix paragraph splits on reactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. native implementation.
• Fix code block style regression.
• Fix issue with code font-size on heading contexts.
• Fix case where crashed block would overlap with surrounding blocks.
• Fix issue with block styles on IE11.
• Fix the heading level buttons on IE11.
• Fix issues with drag and drop over text.
• Fix small bug with recent blocks hover style.
• Use argument swapping instead of named arguments for string placeholders.
• Pass the the search result object to props.onChange on UrlInput.
• Add localization context to occurrences of “More” string.
• Add a Heading block implementation for mobile app.
• Add the react-native entrypoint to all runtime packages.
• Move MoreMenu specific styling away from Popover CSS.
• Ensure meta box functions are available in editor context.
• Ensure the full content integration test is run.
• Remove client-side document title updates.
• Remove TinyMCE shim that was removed in WP 4.9.7.
• Remove the workaround for intermittent multiple-tab preview test failure.
• Remove Promise.resolve call that’s already handled by the JS runtime.
• Remove redundant event handlers from default block appender.
• Deprecate withContext HOC and remove its usage.
• Some localization & spelling fixes.
• Update docs for templateLock’s insert option.
• Extract Core Blocks to a block-library npm package.
• Add a license checker script.
• Allow access to the WordPress installation if DOCKER_ENV=localwpdev.
• Bring the handbook design up to date.

Deprecations removed with this version.

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