Released version 0.1.0 in the plugin directory last week. 🎉

• Added post category selector.
• Added column slider to Gallery block with dynamic rendering.
• Added drop-cap setting support for text blocks.
• Switched to one block per paragraph of text.
• Enabled publishing and saving in master.
• Updated block registration and API to use blockType definition.
• Added default block get/set methods.
• Open sidebar by default on desktop.
• Improved inserter positioning by calculating bounds.
• Multiple multi-selection fixes.
• Display block boundaries when moving mouse after editing.
• Add void block signature to the parser.
• Order blocks by relevance.
• Added placeholder content when post has no blocks.
• Added support for nested arrays in toolbar controls.
• Added “more” drawer to Freeform.
• Prevent saving if there’s no content to be saved.
• Added format selector to Freeform block.
• Fix escape key issues while editing links.
• Fix lifecycle call in Latest Posts block.
• Improvements to block mover while hovering.
• Fixed empty placeholder hover effects.
• Merge parsed attributes on top of default attributes.
• Extract inspector range control as reusuable component.
• Avoid downloading vendor JS files in plugin packaged version.
• Added withInstanceId higher order component.
• Improve translation string extraction.
• Updated placeholder titles for new post.
• Fix empty editables having paragraph tags.
• Fix IE11 error caused by library.
• Fix focus and blur events on Freeform.
• Fix for sticky toolbars when sidebar is open.
• Fix scrolling to image and gallery when inserting those blocks.
• Removed TinyMCE based parser.
• Consolidated visibility handling in specific functions.
• Document BlockControls as the proper way of handling controls.
• Gathered all documentation in storybook (still an experiment.)

Releasing version 0.2.0 today, which includes all the following changes:

• Include “paste” as default plugin in Editable.
• Extract block alignment controls as a reusable component.
• Added button to delete a block.
• Added button to open block settings in the inspector.
• New block: Custom HTML (to write your own HTML and preview it).
• New block: Cover Image (with text over image support).
• Rename “Freeform” block to “Classic Text”.
• Added support for pages and custom post types.
• Improve display of “saving” label while saving.
• Drop usage of controls property in favor of components in render.
• Add ability to select all blocks with ctrl/command+A.
• Automatically generate wrapper class for styling blocks.
• Avoid triggering multi-select on right click.
• Improve target of post previewing.
• Use imports instead of accessing the wp global.
• Add block alignment and proper placeholders to pullquote block.
• Wait for wp.api before loading the editor. (Interim solution.)
• Adding several reusable inspector controls.
• Design improvements to floats, switcher, and headings.
• Add width classes on figure wrapper when using captions in images.
• Add image alt attributes.
• Added html generation for photo type embeds.
• Make sure plugin is run on WP 4.8.
• Update revisions button to only show when there are revisions.
• Parsing fixes on do_blocks.
• Avoid being keyboard trapped on editor content.
• Don’t show block toolbars when pressing modifier keys.
• Fix overlapping controls in Button block.
• Fix post-title line height.
• Fix parsing void blocks.
• Fix splitting inline Editable instances with shift+enter.
• Fix transformation between text and list, and quote and list.
• Fix saving new posts by making post-type mandatory.
• Render popovers above all elements.
• Improvements to block deletion using backspace.
• Changing the way block outlines are rendered on hover.
• Updated PHP parser to handle shorthand block syntax, and fix newlines.
• Ability to cancel adding a link from link menu.
• Removed prototypes. They have served us well.

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

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• Added multi-block selection support.
• Added version one of Freeform block.
• Animate block controls only on first appear.
• Accessibility improvements for FormToggle component.
• Added tests for Dashicon, FormToggle, Button, Placeholder, Panel, IconButton, withFocusReturn, Toolbar,
• Style tweaks to toolbars and block elements.
• Adjust webpack build to avoid duplicated modules.
• Added basic revisions panel to the sidebar.
• Added utilities entry point including key codes.
• Prevent odd enter key behaviour in title.
• New ResponsiveImage component.
• Switched back to PEG parser.
• Renamed many API functions around block registration and handling to add clarity.
• New TokenField component.
• Updated height of inserter.
• Updated plugin generator to include all new build paths.
• EmbedBlock: now supports all WordPress oEmbeds.
• Documented all the selectors.
• More inline documentation.
• Documentation for running phpcs.
• Added new full-width dashicon.
• Use 100% width for iframe embeds and show examples in post_content.js.
• Show indication that the inserter can be scrolled for more blocks.
• Removed browser env from ESLint to avoid potential bugs.
• Initial version of “selection mode” toolbar.
• Avoid parsing empty blocks.
• Separated PHP code into files.
• And various smaller bug fixes.

In Progress (all)

• Exploring a decorator extensibility pattern.
• New GalleryBlock (almost there!).
• Plan for converting widgets to blocks.
• Discussions around validation of blocks and handling failed cases.

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

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• Added block insertion pointer and ability to insert a block after the currently selected block.
• Fix parsing of empty post content.
• Updated demo content to showcase more blocks.
• Added new categories for inserter and reorganized blocks.
• Show block UI back on text selection (after engaging in typing mode, which fades UI away).
• Update to button display in header area.
• Added post excerpt panel.
• Changes to how TinyMCE scripts are registered.
• Fixing various issues with dirty post handling and saving post title.
• Added trash post button to the sidebar.
• Display link boundaries only when block is focused.
• Added post date picker popover to the sidebar.
• Fix for post visibility when saving a post.
• Better handling and accessibility of disabled button states.
• Added full content tests fixtures.
• Added featured image panel to sidebar.
• Added discussion panel for comments and trackbacks.
• Rendering BlockControls directly in edit.
• Logic fix for loading minified moment.js package.
• Added refx for managing state side effects.
• Created withFocusReturn accessibility utility as higher order component.
• Fix flickering of block controls when moving a block down.
• Added tests for Button component.

In Progress (all)

• Adding a CoverImage block.
• Expanding on FreeformBlock.
• Adding block multi-selection.

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

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We’ll start making weekly posts here in the name of making the ongoing editor updates more visible outside of the Slack channel and the GitHub development stream. At the moment there are 13 blocks implemented in the project, and a few more being worked on by the team and contributors.

• Integrated ImageBlock with media gallery.
• Adjusted positioning of inserter menu.
• Adjusted focus behaviour when closing the inserter.
• Rendering selected block settings in the sidebar inspector (#731, #819).
• Created UI components for structuring the sidebar content.
• Updated documentation to mention how to package a zip file for the plugin.
• Extracted build script to separate file.
• Transforming a list block to a text block.
• Added a pending review toggle.
• New: Pre-formattedText.
• New: TableBlock.
• New: CodeBlock.
• Initial foundation for inferring post format based on the presence of single blocks.
• Tweaked block editing mode to dismiss selected styles when pressing a key (not modifiers).
• Moved block merge handlers to actions and added tests.
• Fix focus behaviour on ButtonBlock and specified limited formatting.
• Avoid unselecting a block when losing focus.
• Added caching for external JS resources and libraries.
• Added PostVisibility setting to the sidebar.
• Added placeholder text for QuoteBlock source field.
• Added focus styles for buttons.
• Added alignment options to EmbedBlock.
• Implemented indentation buttons for ListBlock.
• Disabled save button in release build (not ready for prime time yet!).

In Progress

• Show insertion point and implement inserting a block after currently selected block.
• Creating a GalleryBlock.
• Implementing a “recent posts” block using the REST API.
• Supporting all core oEmbeds in the EmbedBlock.
• Adding calendar popover for selecting a date.
• Better handling of “wide” media blocks.
• Exploring further testing of parsing and serialization of block’s data.
• Exploring using state structure for Editable component.
• Rendering block controls directly through the edit function.

We welcome all your feedback and contributions on the project repository, or ping us in #core-editor.

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