== Changelog ==
= 8.9.0 =
Features
Enable the block-based widgets screen. (24843), (24087)
Add character count to the info panel. (24823)
Latest Post Block: Allow adding links to featured images. (24548)
List block: Add color controls. (21387)
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Enhancements
Disable the tools menu while the code editor is enabled. (24923)
Add picture keyword to the Image block. (24755)
Adding a maximum height to the long blocks previews. (24493)
Add “read more” keyword to the More block. (24794)
Improve the UX of inactive widgets area on the widgets screen. (24790)
Trim whitespace from rendered widgets. (24789)
Block Directory: Explicitly close the inserter on block add. (24709)
Make strings translatable in block patterns. (24647)
Improve the UI of the custom gradient pickers. (23802)
Adds suggestions for categories and formats to link controls. (22600)
Clarify the font size control label. (24619)
Convert all px values in front-facing styles to relative (em) units. (24523)
Bug Fixes
Fix infinite loop in the Disabled component. (24935)
Fix wp-env start for non-english WordPress core sources. (24884)
Invalid HTML structure on the widgets screen. (24866)
Fix sidebar flickering caused by the block preview border. (24739)
Don’t use an offset when dragging using a draggable chip. (24707)
Fix Image alignment controls styles in the Latest posts block. (24655)
Improve the focus state of the tags control remove button. (24632)
Fix Crash after undoing with the top toolbar on. (24629)
Avoid double borders on the meta boxes panels. (24627)
Fix Inline text-color regex edge-case. (24621)
Fix inserter z-index. (24614)
Missing selected block highlighting in the list view. (24609)
Fix the Pullquote block text color after unsetting the main color. (24600)
Fix style specificity for Button blocks with outline style and background colors. (24599)
Remove references to $default-font from front-facing styles. (24567)
Center-align the block variations buttons. (24547)
Fix category select in QueryControls component. (24516)
Image Block: Prevent Alt and caption written during image upload from being discarded. (24471)
Correct the Unicode character used to represent the macOS Control key. (24452)
Fix undefined $block_type->supports PHP error. (24411)
Fix admin-theme colors in the editor canvas. (24408)
Limit the number of fetched tags to avoid infinite queries. (23841)
Fix error when inserting a tag with an apostrophe. (21693)
Fix the alignment of the trash post button. (24889)
Make legacy widgets support for non-class-based widgets. (24861) (24792)
Remove WP_Widget_Block from the legacy dropdown list. (24787)
Fix isSavingWidgetAreas selector. (24788)
Inserter: Update the search form placeholder text when changing tabs. (24697) (24802)
Avoid lossy HTML entities encoding by setting charset. (24645)
Embeds: Don’t transform into specialized embed block variation if it’s not registered. (24559)
Performance
Fix getBlocks selector performance issues causing typing lags on Gutenberg 8.8.0. (24835)
Preload widgets on the widgets screen. (24855)
Only request the required fields to populate the parent page list. (23637)
New APIs
Core Data: Implement _fields data reuse for entities. (19498)
Experiments
Site Editing: Blocks
Add Post Comment block. (24781)
Add Post Comment Date block. (24854)
Add Post Comment Author block. (24824)
Add Post Hierarchical Terms Block. (24091)
Adds icons and descriptions to Post blocks. (24603)
Make Site title block render a link. (24725)
Add heading level toolbar to the Site title block. (24758)
Site Editing: UI
Alert when trying to leave the Site Editor with unsaved changes. (24659) (24719)
Update Template Part Block Placeholder Button Styles. (24633)
Template Part block – add border states in the editor. (24498)
Global Styles and theme.json APIs:
Allow enabling/disabling custom colors from theme.json config. (24761) (24932)
Rename features.colors to features.color. (24933)
useEditorFeature: Take block context into account. (24416)
Navigation block and screen:
Add Post, Page, Category and Tag variations to Link. (24670)
Add block inspector to nav screen. (24669)
Add opt-in Navigation block rendering. (24503)
Support drag-and-drop for submenus of navigation blocks. (24479)
Fix invalid textarea markup. (24641)
Add unit tests for edit-navigation store. (24681)
Documentation
Document Cmponents
BlockInspector. (24929)
BlockMover. (24851)
BlockBreadcrumb. (24827)
Update tutorial Creating a block-based theme. (24736)
Correct BoxControl values in readme examples. (24717)
Add ToggleControl at related components section in FormToggle documentation. (24636)
Typos and tweaks: (24857), (24811), (24695), (24650), (24628).
Code Quality
Keep the default color CSS variables for npm package consumers. (24890)
Refactor components as functional components:
WordCount (24850)
BlockMover (24774)
UnsavedChangesWarning (24783)
Refactor and move drag and drop geometry code. (24715)
Only update state if we have a valid reference. (24496)
Add state for storing dragged block client ids to block-editor store. (24782)
Remove commented-out blank line. (24858)
Simplify gutenberg_widgets_init when $hook === ‘widgets.php’. (24793)
Refactor block drop event handlers into a single hook to support drag and drop in List View. (24649)
Move DOM utility functions from @wordpress/blocks to @wordpress/dom. (24618)
Fix React warning on text color formatter. (24686)
Build Tooling
Update package lock file. (24815)
Update the minimum version and the tested up to flag of the Gutenberg plugin. (24693)
Build: Make the watch rate slower to avoid using a lot of CPU while developing. (23998)
Fix Performance Tests on CI. (24925)
Add tests for slashing behavior. (24785)
Add permissions PHPUnit tests. (24784)
Update browserlist dependency. (24756)
Allow local Prettier configuration to take precedence in the recommended ESLint configuration. (24590)