gb 12.2.0 – Theme emulsion

Enhancements

Site Editor

Add Template List View. (36379)
Show theme, plugin or author in Added By column with appropriate icon or avatar. (36763)
Add success and error snackbars. (36808)
Implement “Add New”. (36592)
Use table layout. (36707)
Set the document title properly. (36805)
Add rename action. (36879)
Update delete template button. (36815)
Make Reusable blocks available in the Site Editor. (36511)
Remove the Styles link in Site Editor. (36637)
Update and align template descriptions. (36000)
Add icons to navigation sidebar items. (36893)
Allow editing custom template title. (36933)
Only render the site editor canvas when the global styles are loaded. (36643)
Remove extra border radius from the canvas. (37022)
Update navigation sidebar responsiveness. (36638)
Update resize handle styling in template part focus mode. (36410)

Global Styles

Add elements support to the typography panel. (36718)
Add the gradient palette editor. (36820)
Add transparency support to the colors panel. (36840)
Add read-only duotone palette. (36920)
Do not show default palette if theme opts-out. (36639)
Make user able to change all color palette origins. (36674) (36747) (36817)
Rename core origin key to default for presets. (36645)
Count all color palette origins on the palette counter. (36922)
Add appearanceTools flag in theme.json to opt-in into appearance UI controls. (36646)
Switch the borders panel to ToolsPanel for displaying UI. (33743)
Improve the design and copy of the color panels. (36959) (36994) (37015) (37016) (36921) (36963) (36622) (36965) (36819) (36748) (36940) (36684)
Schemas: Allow custom blocks in theme.json styles. (36411)

Block Editor

Improve the position of the block appenders and behavior. (36656) (36605)
Keyboard shortcuts: Double escape unselects all blocks. (36945)
Adjust order of theme blocks and reorder inserter items. (36719)
Block Editor List View: Use anchor elements instead of buttons. (35655)

Block Library

Block Library: Add the Comments Pagination block. (36872)
Comment Author Avatar block: Add spacing support. (36322)
Navigation block: Only show submenu options and Show arrow button when relevant. (36826)
Navigation block: Implement suitable fallback for Nav block on front end of site when no menu selected. (36849) (36724) (36850) (36854) (36740)
Navigation block: Rename navigationMenuId to ref. (36739)
Navigation block: Automatically generate navigation post title. (36760)
Template Part block: Remove color, spacing, layout options and reusable block conversion. (36571) (36918)
Gallery block: Turn on auto-migration of v1 Gallery blocks to v2 format when edited. (36191)
Update featured image placeholder graphic. (36712)
Post Featured Image: Move width and height controls into the Dimensions panel via SlotFill. (36540)

Components

Font Size Picker: Allow non-integers as simple CSS values and in hints. (36636)
Divider: Improve vertical and RTL support. (36579)
ItemGroup: Experimenting with chevron icon. (36654)
Toggle Group Control: Add tooltip. (36726)
Modal: Support ref forwarding. (36831)
ZStack: Support RTL layouts when applying offset. (36769)

Themes

Move the theme editor under tools for FSE themes. (36723)
Update the block theme folders to templates and parts. (36647)

Bug Fixes

Global Styles

Make the core color palette opt-in for themes with not theme.json. (36496)
Fix: Apply by slug on all origins. (36841)
Fix: Theme colors cannot override defaults. (36811)

Block Library

Cover block: Fix undo trap. (36807)
Navigation block: Add page list to navigation direct insert conditions. (36591)
Navigation block: Fix Nav block editing wrong entity on creation of new Menu. (36880)
Navigation block: Scale submenu icon. (36714) (36948)
Navigation block: Fix non existent menu handling. (36507)
Navigation block: Fix page list missing button styles when set to open on click. (36601)
Navigation block: Include cascading properties in deprecation. (36432)
Navigation block: Remove absorb toolbar prop. (36990)
Navigation block: Add accessible labelling to submenu buttons. (36631)
Navigation block: Fix space-between. (36441)
Template Part block: Fix slug generation when creating through the block placeholder. (36764)
Gallery block: Allow clicks within replace media placeholder state. (36804)
Gallery block: Fix stuck image size options loader. (36806)
Post Featured Image: Add a “Reset” button. (36572)
Post Title block: Fix render error when setting Page to homepage. (36786)
Query Pagination Next/Previous blocks: Remove text and link color support. (36954)

Site Editor

Stabilize theme export Rest API endpoint. (36559) (36908)
Template list view fixes. (36947) (36822) (36705)
Templates Rest API endpoint: Add missing ‘is_custom’ prop. (36911)
Templates Rest API endpoint: Add origin and author. (36896)
Validate the postType query argument. (36706)
Fix site editor region navigation. (36709)
Navigation Sidebar: Add aria-current=”page” to active navigation item. (36946)
Navigation Sidebar: Highlight “Site” in the navigation panel. (36762)
Navigation Sidebar: Show all templates and template parts on the site editor list screens. (36761)

Components

Color Picker: Re-instate debounce and controlled value to fix issue with gradient picker. (36941)
ColorPicker: Replace hardcoded “blue” with theme color. (36153)
Tools Panel: Fix race conditions caused by conditionally displayed ToolsPanelItems. (36588)
DateTimePicker: Set PM hours correctly. (36878)
LinkControl: Fix wordbreak for URLs. (36993)
Offset the parent iframe when computing Popover position. (36876)
ToolsPanel: Prevent tools panel menu increasing empty panel height. (36895)
Update destructive tertiary button styles, and template list. (36915)

Themes

Block Templates: Fix PHP notices on WP 5.8. (36964)
Don’t try and render unstable location if Nav block has ID. (36863)

Design Tools

Border panel: Update to display multiple palette origins. (36753)
Cover: Move BoxControlVisualizer in the markup to make it visible. (36635)
Fix duotone first render in Safari. (36754)

Icons

[Icons]: Fix Comment Author Name icon. (36738)
[Icons]: Fix property names for Comment Author Avatar icon. (36737)

Milaceanous

Block Styles: Add a separating margin to the default picker. (36976)
Block Styles: Check for existence of scroll container. (37010)
Data package: Update types and fix type error. (36190)
Writing Flow Multi-select: Ensure post title content editable after multi-select. (36843)
Insertion point bar: Hide onBlur and onMouseLeave. (36798)
Dependency Extraction Webpack Plugin: Make the plugin work when using optimizations.runtimeChunk = 'single'. (26214)
Fix document typo. (36776)
Prevent CleanWebpackPlugin webpack plugin from deleting webpack assets. (35986)
Hide the columns inserter in pattern previews. (36626)
Update theme.json version. (36917)
Multi-entity save: Only set site entity to pending if really saving. (36573)
Widgets Editor: Add CSS fix for wp_footer called multiple times. (36759)
Fix the templates REST API endpoint for the almost pretty permalink config. (36881)

Performance

Improve performance of wp_navigation lookup. (36891)

Experiments

Add __unstable-large size variant on InputControl SelectControl UnitControl. (35646)
Add experimental ConfirmDialog. (34153)

Documentation

Add brief information about blockGap to the theme.json how-to guide. (36558)
Add placeholder in URLInput documentation. (36799)
Block Supports: Update block supports documentation after typography reshaping. (36894)
Alphabetize the How to Guides section. (35904)
Fix broken link to @wordpress/stylelint-config. (36936)
Improvements on Create a Block Tutorial from Block Editor handbook. (36553)
Update history.md with description of the page. (36888)
Update Getting Started with info to stay informed. (36498)
Update Pattern block category and add documentation. (36144)
Various inline docblock corrections. (36793)
ToolsPanel: Update panel readme and stories. (36557)
Change .nvmrc and documentation for Node.js version (LTS to 14.18.1). (36744)

Code Quality

Blocks: Refactor generator-based actions to thunks. (36468)
Remove useless bubblesVirtually prop from BlockInspector. (37024)
Remove EditPostSettings context provider. (36949)
Report dependencies externalized with Dependency Extraction Plugin. (35106)
Comment Author Avatar block: Escape styles attribute. (36988)
Clarify i18n context for PostTemplateActions’s “New” label. (36679)
Data: Remove usage of deprecated register methods. (36344)

Global Styles

Move Global Styles code to lib/compat/wordpress-5.9 folder. (36978)
Rename gutenberg_ to wp_ for some functions that land in WordPress 5.9. (36913)
Update global styles public API. (36610)
Update the WP_Theme_JSON_Gutenberg class to be like the core one. (36973)
Update the WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver_Gutenberg class to be like the core one. (36974)
theme.json: Sort keys alphabetically. (36968)
Update function names for the public global styles API functions. (36907)

Block Library

Navigation: Remove outdated separate “Home” link styles. (36608)
Post Featured Image: Remove withNotices HOC. (36596)
[Comment Author Avatar]: Remove extraneous color link support flag. (36956)
Deprecate navigation areas. (36981) (36727)
Remove unstable max pages attribute from Nav block. (36877)
Remove reference to gutenberg_, swap with wp_. (36652)
Add plugin meta data to Nav Area block deprecation notice. (36777)

Testing

Reorganize end-to-end tests folders and files. (36734)
Scripts: Upgrade Puppeteer to v11. (36040)
Update template controller unit test now that author support is in WP core. (36987)
end-to-end Tests: Fix failing image end-to-end test by waiting for required element. (36982)
Remove block template resolution unit tests. (36855)