0.7.0 🦋

• Hide placeholders on focus—reduces visual distractions while writing.
• Add PostAuthor dropdown to the UI.
• Add theme support for customized color palettes and a shared component (applies to cover text and button blocks).
• Add theme support for wide images.
• Report on missing headings in the document outline feature.
• Update block validation to make it less prone to over-eagerness with trivial changes (like whitespace and new lines).
• Attempt to create an embed block automatically when pasting URL on a single line.
• Save post before previewing.
• Improve operations with “lists”, enter on empty item creates new paragraph block, handling backspace, etc.

Other changes:

• Don’t serialize attributes that match default attributes.
• Order link suggestions by relevance.
• Order embeds for easier discoverability.
• Added “keywords” property for searching blocks with aliases.
• Added responsive styles for Table block in the front end.
• Set default list type to be unordered list.
• Improve accessibility of UrlInput component.
• Improve accessibility and keyboard interaction of DropdownMenu.
• Improve Popover component and use for PostVisibility.
• Added higher order component for managing spoken messages.
• Localize schema for WP API, avoiding initialization delay if schema is present.
• Do not expose editor.settings to block authors.
• Do not remove tables on pasting.
• Consolidate block server-side files with client ones in the same directory.
• Removed array of paragraphs structure from text block.
• Trim whitespace when searching for blocks.
• Document, test, and refactor DropdownMenu component.
• Use separate mousetrap instance per component instance.
• Add npm organization scope to WordPress dependencies.
• Expand utilities around fixture regeneration.
• Renamed “Text” block to “Paragraph”.
• Fix multi-selection “delete” functionality.
• Fix text color inline style.
• Fix issue caused by changes with React build process.
• Fix splitting editable without child nodes.
• Use addQueryArgs in oEmbed proxy url.
• Update dashicons with new icons.
• Clarify enqueuing block assets functions.
• Added code coverage information to docs.
• Document how to create new docs.
• Add example of add_theme_support in docs.
• Added opt-in mechanism for learning what blocks are being added to the content.

We welcome all your feedback and contributions on the project repository, or ping us in #core-editor. Follow the “gutenberg” tag for past updates.

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0.6.0 🐤

• Split paragraphs on enter—we have been exploring different behaviours here.
• Added grid layout option for latest posts with columns slider control.
• Show internal posts / pages results when creating links.
• Added “Cover Text” block with background, text color, and full-width options.
• Autosaving drafts.
• Added “Read More” block.
• Added color options to the button block.
• Added mechanism for validating and protecting blocks that may have suffered unrecognized edits.
• Add patterns plugin for text formatting shortcuts: create lists by adding * at the beginning of a text line, use # to create headings, and backticks for code.
• Implement initial support for Cmd/Ctrl+Z (undo) and Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Z (redo).
• Improve pasting experience from outside editors by transforming content before converting to blocks.
• Improve gallery creation flow by opening into “gallery” mode from placeholder.
• Added page attributes with menu order setting.
• Use two distinct icons for quote style variations.
• Created KeyboardShortcuts component to handle keyboard events.
• Add support for custom icons (non dashicons) on blocks.
• Initialize new posts with auto-draft to match behaviour of existing editor.
• Don’t display “save” button for published posts.
• Added ability to set a block as “use once” only (example: “read more” block).
• Hide gallery display settings in media modal.
• Simplify “cover image” markup and resolve conflict state in demo.
• Introduce PHP classes for interacting with block types.
• Announce block search results to assistive technologies.
• Reveal “continue writing” shortcuts on focus.
• Update document.title when the post title changes.
• Added focus styles to several elements in the UI.
• Added external-link component to handle links opening in new tabs or windows.
• Improve responsive video on embed previews.
• Improve “speak” messages for tag suggestions.
• Make sure newly created blocks are marked as valid.
• Preserve valid state during transformations.
• Allow tabbing away from table.
• Improve display of focused panel titles.
• Adjust padding and margins across various design elements for consistency and normalization.
• Fix pasting freeform content.
• Fix proper propagation of updated block attributes.
• Fix parsing and serialization of multi-paragraph pullquotes.
• Fix a case where toggling pending preview would consider post as saved.
• Fix positioning of block mover on full-width blocks.
• Fix line height regression in quote styles.
• Fix IE11 with polyfill for fetch method.
• Fix case where blocks are created with isTyping and it never clears.
• Fix block warning display in IE11.
• Polish inspector visual design.
• Prevent unhandled actions from returning new state reference.
• Prevent unintentionally clearing link input value.
• Added focus styles to switch toggle components.
• Avoid navigating outside the editor with arrow keys.
• Add short description to Verse block.
• Initialize demo content only for new demo posts.
• Improve insert link accessibility.
• Improve version compare checks for plugin compatibility.
• Clean up obsolete poststoshowattribute in LatestPosts block.
• Consolidate addQueryArgs usage.
• Add unit tests to inserter.
• Update fixtures with latest modifications and ensure all end in newlines.
• Added codecov for code coverage.
• Clean up JSDoc comments.
• Link to new docs within main readme.

We welcome all your feedback and contributions on the project repository, or ping us in #core-editor. Follow the “gutenberg” tag for past updates.

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0.5.0 🦀

• New tabs mode for the sidebar to switch between post settings and block inspector.
• Implement recent blocks display.
• Mobile implementation of block mover, settings, and delete actions.
• Search through all tabs on the inserter and hide tabs.
• New documentation app to serve all tutorials, faqs, docs, etc.
• Enable ability to add custom classes to blocks (via inspector).
• Add ability to drag-and-drop on image block placeholders to upload images.
• Add “table of contents” document outline for headings (with empty heading validation).
• Refactor tests to use Jest API.
• New block: Verse (intended for poetry, respecting whitespace).
• Avoid showing UI when typing and starting a new paragraph (text block).
• Display warning message when navigating away from the editor with unsaved changes.
• Use old editor as “freeform”.
• Improve PHP parser compatibility with different server configurations (“mbstring” extension and PCRE settings).
• Improve PostVisibility markup and accessibility.
• Add shortcuts to manage indents and levels in List block.
• Add alignment options to latest posts block.
• Add focus styles for quick tags buttons in text mode.
• Add way to report PHP parsing performance.
• Add labels and roles to UrlInput.
• Add ability to set custom placeholders for text and headings as attributes.
• Show error message when trashing action fails.
• Pass content to dynamic block render functions in PHP.
• Fix various z-index issues and clarify reasonings.
• Fix DropdownMenu arrows navigation and add missing aria-label.
• Update sandboxed iframe size calculations.
• Export inspector controls component under wp.blocks.
• Adjust Travis JS builds to improve task allocation.
• Fix warnings during tests.
• Fix caret jumping when switching formatting in Editable.
• Explicitly define prop-types as dependency.
• Update list of supported browsers for consistency with core.

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