5.0.2: Editor Performance and Bug Fixes

With 5.0 released to the world, attention is now placed on preparing the follow up minor releases. The first one, scheduled for December 19th, focuses on performance improvements — particularly around typing with many blocks present on the page — and 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.

The cumulated performance gains are around 330% faster for a post with 200 blocks. This might be even bigger for certain setups and 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 configurations — seeing the same test post be 540% faster with Yoast, for example.

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/ update can already be tested in the 4.7 plugin release and will be part of the upcoming 5.0.2 betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process..

Performance 💨

• Avoid re-rendering the current 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. if the previous or next block changes.
• Improve the RichText component performance.
  • 12547, 12384, 12402, 12480, 12737, 12460, 12386.
• Refactor components and improve the usage of selectors to reduce computations.
  • 12477, 12542, 11899, 11851, 12741.
• Improve the Inserter and Quick Inserter performance.
  • 12510, 12521.

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Fixes to 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.-box integration.
  • 12628, 12568.
• Fixes for RichText interactions.
  • 12390, 12166, 12524, 12154.
• Fix issue where items would be inserted at the top in Classic Block.
• Fix issues with Media & Text block resizing.
• Fix issue with undoing image selection on the Image Block.
• Fix visual overlap issue with default appender and block shortcut icons.
• Fix overflowing text content in the Facebook embed preview.
• Fix case when pasting content that includes a 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.) that is part of a transform and not matched ignores the content.
• Prevent unpublished or password protected reusable blocks from rendering in editor and front.
• Accessibility improvements to the font-size picker component.
• Allow converting unembeddable URLs to links or offer to retry embedding.
• Improve semantics and consistency of Undo, Redo, Content structure, and Block navigation tools in the top bar.
• Rename the NUX aria-label from Gutenberg tips to Editor tips.
• Add support for searching block categories from slash inserter.
• Set document title for preview loading stage.
• Rename functions to remove the gutenberg_ prefix.
• Allow the use of links in plugin group inside the editor more menu.
• Use the selected text as a label when formatting links.
• Add an action to set a category icon and correct documentation.
• Optimize the usage of moment-timezone to save some kilobytes in packages.

Tests

• Add new e2e tests for HTML block, block switcher, catch case of title revert during preview.
• Fix upload permissions error on inline tokens e2e test.

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